Chapter 516 Coordinated Operations of Land, Sea and Air

Jinzhou, South Manchurian Headquarters of the Kwantung Army.

Okamura leaned back in his chair wearily, listening with his eyes closed as Tamura Yoshitomi reported to him on the latest progress of the troops under the various armies.

Although the aviation units of the Kwantung Army did their best to entangle the vast majority of the Chinese Air Force's strength, forcing the Chinese Air Force's strategic bomber group not to dare to enter Liaodong Bay, and also forcing the Mustang aircraft group not to carry heavy aerial bombs to carry out air raids, the rockets carried by the Mustang fighters still caused great damage to the railways, highways, bridges, and other facilities in the South Manchurian region.

Therefore, it was impossible for the mechanized heavy equipment of the Kwantung Army to reach the Jinzhou theater until the engineers repaired these military installations, but fortunately, the five infantry divisions transferred from Liaodong had already crossed the Liao River and were less than 100 kilometers away from Jinzhou, which greatly alleviated the crisis in Jinzhou.

Judging from the current situation, it is basically impossible for the squadron to quickly occupy Jinzhou.

Moreover, intelligence showed that the squadron that was moving north along the railway, highway and coastline had already shown signs of shrinking to the south, and it was obvious that the front-line commander of the squadron had also realized that the tactical intention of taking advantage of the situation to occupy Jinzhou and divide and encircle the Kwantung Army in the western and eastern Liaodong regions was no longer possible, so he wisely switched to tactical defense.

"Tamura-kun, what do you think the Shina Army will do next?" Okamura Ninji asked suddenly.

Tamura Yoshitomi said: "If the front-line commander of the Zhina Army is smart enough, he should withdraw from Jinzhou Bay as soon as possible, otherwise, just wait for our heavy army groups on the east and west to return and form a pincer offensive, and the Chinese will definitely lose even if they gather more than one million sharp troops of the entire Fourth Field Army in Jinzhou Bay." ”

Okamura Ninji nodded silently, when the war rises to a large-scale mechanical duel, the two sides compete for industrial manufacturing capacity and resource reserves, with the current situation, the industrial manufacturing capacity of Japan's northeast base plus the assistance of Russia's Far East industrial base is undoubtedly far stronger than China's Burmese industrial base, even if due to the intervention of the United States, China's leading position in industrial manufacturing technology, but it is not enough to make up for the gap in industrial scale between the two sides.

Therefore, as long as there are no major accidents, the Kwantung Army will surely achieve the final victory, and the best result of the squadron can only be to withdraw part of the army, and the worst result is - the entire army will be destroyed!

"Tamura-kun, I want to take a break, and if there is nothing particularly important, please don't wake me up." Okamura Ninji suddenly groaned tiredly, and then waved his hand weakly to Tamura Yoshitomi, who bowed his head and whispered, and then turned around and exited Okamura Ninji's office.

Speaking of which, Okamura Ningji hasn't closed his eyes much in the past few days, and he can see that in a few days, there will be another big battle in Jinzhou Bay, and such a decisive battle is unimaginable without his direct command, so if Okamura Ningji doesn't take advantage of this limited gap to rest for a while, then he will definitely be exhausted.

However, unfortunately, Okamura Ninji is destined to be a toiling life as a cow and a horse.

After lying on the chair for less than five minutes, Yoshitomi Tamura walked into the office with a hurried pace, and immediately retracted his feet and said, "Your Excellency Marshal, something is wrong!" ”

Okamura Ninji suddenly woke up and said, "Tamura-kun, what's wrong?" ”

"Manchuria." Tamura Yoshitomi lowered his head and muttered, "I just received an urgent report from the headquarters, four hours ago, Manchuria was attacked by the China Airborne Division, and now the situation is unknown, and it is likely to have been lost!" ”

"What? Manchuria lost!? "Although the battle report of the Kwantung Army Headquarters did not use definite words, how could Okamura Ninji not guess the result with Okamura Ninji's old spicy?

I'm afraid Manchuria is not possible, but it has already been lost!

Thinking of the extremely bad chain reaction brought about by the loss of Manchuria, Okamura Ninji suddenly felt a burst of rapid fire, coupled with the overwork for several days, he suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood, and immediately fainted with black eyes.

"Your Excellency, Marshal!" Tamura Yoshitomi was shocked, hurriedly stepped forward to help Okamura Ninji, and then turned around and shouted hoarsely, "Guard officer, hurry, quickly call the military doctor to ......"

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Okamura Ningji was in a hurry and fainted on the spot, but the atmosphere in the Siye Command of Tianjin Station was warm.

Manchuria has been recovered, and Siye has firmly occupied the strategic initiative, and now it is no longer Siye who should be anxious and race against time, but the Kwantung Army! Of course, there is still a variable in the war situation in the northeast, and this variable is whether the 8th Army can hold the landing ground in Jinzhou Bay.

If the 8th Army could not hold the landing ground, then Siye would still not be able to crack the turtle shell that Okamura Ninji had painstakingly managed in South Manchuria, and only wait for the weather to warm up next year or the Kwantung Army to come back and mobilize heavy troops to go north.

If the 8th Army can hold the land field and pin down the Kwantung Army's heavy forces in South Manchuria, then before the Kwantung Army can reopen the Trans-Siberian Railway and resume crude oil imports, their planes, tanks, and trucks will have been turned into scrap metal due to fuel depletion, and this strategic decisive battle will become no suspense.

In the combat hall, hundreds of high-ranking generals and operational staff officers were enthusiastically discussing the situation in Jinzhou Bay, talking about their respective opinions, and they were eager to replace General Li as the commander of the Eighth Group Army and command the troops with their lifelong studies to win this strategic decisive battle that can be called "can decide the fate of modern China"!

Mr. Zuo strode up to Yue Weihan with a piece of telegram and reported: "General seat, Li Yu's conclusion is out. ”

All the voices in the entire battle hall suddenly stopped, and everyone pricked up their ears, all wanting to hear what Mr. Li's conclusion was?

Even Yue Weihan was a little impatient to know Mr. Li's conclusion, the idea of a long-distance large-scale airborne landing in Manchuria was put forward by Mr. Li, and before reporting this idea to the headquarters, Mr. Li was afraid that he had already foreseen the inevitable arrival of the Kwantung Army's crazy counterattack, so what effective countermeasures did he have?

Yue Weihan by no means believed that Mr. Li's conclusion was to abandon the Jinzhou Bay landing field.

Sure enough, General Zuo paused, and then said: "Li Yu's conclusion is that the 8th Group Army is fully capable of holding the Jinzhou Bay landing ground, but the premise is that the air force, navy, and army aviation units must be under the unified command of the 8th Group Army. ”

"Army, Navy and Air Coordinated Operations Plan!?" Yue Weihan was suddenly awe-struck when he heard this, the unborn military genius is indeed the unborn military genius, only after three months of intensive study in the crash course of the army general in Yangon, Mr. Li actually mastered the magic of mechanized warfare, and put forward the concept of land, sea and air coordinated operations, which can be called the forefront of the times!

Compared with the blank faces of those senior generals and operational staff officers in the combat hall, Yue Weihan, who traveled from later generations, knows very well the power of land, sea and air coordinated operations, which is definitely not a simple superposition of 1+1+1=3, but a multiplication of power of 1+1+1>3 or even 1+1+1>5.

To use an easy-to-understand analogy, the modern army, which is also highly mechanized, and an army that has mastered the ability of the army, navy, and air force to coordinate operations to fight an army that does not know how to coordinate operations by land, sea, and air force, is like a Mongolian cavalry that has mastered the "wolf pack tactics" to fight the enemy cavalry that does not understand the "wolf pack tactics", and the advantage will definitely be overwhelming.

However, the system of coordinated operations of the army, navy, and air force cannot be established by saying that it can be established, and the quality of commanders at all levels, especially the officers at the grassroots level, and the training of ordinary soldiers are of great importance; at least you must know how to read maps and read coordinates, and the key thing is especially that you must build a huge and highly efficient communication network, so that the orders of the supreme commander can be directly issued to the infantry companies and even infantry platoons at the forefront, and in turn, the infantry at the front can directly call for fire support from the artillery, air force, and even the navy.

Yue Weihan did not think that General Li would have the ability to turn the Eighth Group Army into a modern army with the ability to coordinate operations with land, sea, and air forces overnight, but it was entirely possible to make the Eighth Army have the most primitive and most basic land, sea, and air coordinated combat capabilities through hard work, and more importantly, even the most primitive and most primitive army, sea, and air force coordinated operations were enough for the Kwantung Army to drink a pot.

"Pass my ......order," Yue Weihan sank slightly, and then ordered without hesitation, "In addition to leaving the necessary communication personnel and communication equipment behind by all group armies and divisions, the rest of the communication personnel and equipment will be urgently airlifted to Tanggu Airport and sent to Jinzhou Bay by the navy, and we must ensure that every infantry company of the 8th Group Army is equipped with a high-power radio station, and each infantry squad must be equipped with a 5W wireless walkie-talkie!" ”

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Jinzhou, Kwantung Army General Hospital.

Okamura Ninji just woke up from a coma, but Tamura Yoshitomi received several bad news in a row, which made him also in a dilemma, report to Okamura Ninji, in case it causes his condition to deteriorate, this is a fatal blow to the Kwantung Army, but don't report it, Tamura Yoshifu is really worried about causing Okamura Ninji to make a fatal miscalculation in strategy, and he is really at a loss.

It was Okamura Ninji who saw the abnormality from the look on Yoshitomi Tamura's face, and finally knew the reason after questioning.

During the more than 10 hours that Okamura was hospitalized, the oil refineries and oil depots in Lushun and Yingkou, as well as more than a dozen war-ready warehouses in Mukden and Xinjing, were attacked by Chinese agents at the same time.

It is clear that the attack by Chinese agents was deliberate! Its purpose is to exacerbate the oil shortage of the Kwantung Army!

After listening to Tamura Yoshitomi's report, Okamura Ninji was silent for a long time, and only after a long time did he say quietly: "It seems that my Kwantung Army can only seek a quick battle with the Shina Army. ”