Chapter 497 razed to the ground

Tanggu, headquarters of the 3rd Army in Siye.

A large mō sand table was placed in the center of the battle hall, and next to the mō sand table was a starry cluster.

The Ministry of Intelligence has just reported an extremely unfavorable news, the Japanese armored group in the Far East is massing on a large scale, and depending on the situation, it will move south in ten days and a half, however, the 3rd Army's siege of Beiping and Tianjin is not smooth, mainly because the air force and heavy artillery groups cannot bomb unscrupulously.

The atmosphere in the battle hall was obviously a little solemn, so quiet that a pin could be heard.

After a long time, Liu Yi broke the silence and looked around at everyone: "Let's talk about it, everyone." ”

Liu Tiezhu, commander of the special operations division, who had just been promoted to lieutenant general, said: "Commander, let's go to the special operations division." ”

In order to be able to recover Beiping as completely as possible, Yue Weihan also spared no expense, and transferred all the two killer airborne divisions and special operations divisions of Siye into the establishment of the 3rd Group Army.

The Japanese army in North China was not the Japanese army in Nanyang, let alone the Japanese army in Central China.

Although these are all old combat vehicles eliminated by the Kwantung Army and the Far Eastern Army, they are still more than enough to deal with the special operations divisions that are airborne behind enemy lines and fighting alone.

"No, it's too risky." Song Renping, political commissar of the group army, expressed opposition.

The Special Operations Division and the Airborne Division are the two sharp knives of the four fields, and they must not be sacrificed in vain.

"Otherwise, simply bypass Tianjin and Beiping and directly counterattack the four eastern provinces." Li Yùlong slammed the knot and said, "Have a needle-point confrontation with the Kwantung Army of the dog day, and fight a decisive battle of the mechanized heavy army group in the Northeast Plain, and see whose armored cluster assault is more powerful and whose heavy artillery cluster firepower is more fierce?" ”

Liu Yi shook his head with a wry smile when he heard this, the desire to directly counterattack the four eastern provinces is good, the question is, is it feasible?

As far as the two industrial countries are concerned, what they are fighting for is the logistical support capability of both sides, especially the great showdown between mechanized heavy army groups, which has extremely high requirements for logistical support, and the four fields and seven major group armies are gathered in the four eastern provinces, and they are not inferior to the Japanese army in terms of strength and equipment, and the navy and air force occupy an overwhelming advantage, but they are at an absolute disadvantage in logistics support.

With the Japanese troops in Beiping and Tianjin watching, the logistics support channel of Siye is full of dangers!

Once Siye fell into a confrontation with the Kwantung Army and the Far East Army, and the Japanese troops in Beiping and Tianjin suddenly attacked, there would definitely be a big problem in the logistics support channel of Siye, and it would be a catastrophe.

While he was talking, Chief of Staff Lu Xiufeng strode in and immediately reported: "Commander, the commander, bomb Beiping!" ”

"Bomb Beiping!?" Including Liu Yi, the faces of the senior generals in the battle hall all changed greatly, and immediately one by one, they turned their heads to look at Liu Yi, Liu Yi smashed his fist on the edge of the mō sand table, and then said viciously, "Order, concentrate all the heavy artillery and bombers, and blow up Beiping!" ”

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Outside Beijing, the position of the 3rd Division of Siye Heavy Artillery.

At night, a swarthy cannon is quietly lurking in the artemisia grass or jungle, and next to each cannon is full of ** artillerymen with grim expressions.

After the second reorganization of the four fields, each group army was organized into one heavy artillery division.

Each heavy artillery division has 3 heavy artillery regiments, 1 mechanized infantry regiment and 1 automobile regiment, in addition to the direct troops of the division headquarters, a heavy artillery division has about 10,000 people; Each heavy artillery regiment has four heavy artillery battalions, which are armed with a total of 48 mén 155 mm field heavy howitzers.

Just after midnight, the artillery that had been waiting for a long time suddenly began to move.

In the sound of the "Kuku" of the hinge rotary machine, the cannon barrel that was originally hidden in the middle of the grass or woods began to rise slowly, and in less than a moment, more than 100 slender cannon barrels have been pointed high into the dark night sky, like a giant spear piercing the sky, along the direction of the cannon barrel, about ten miles away is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties - Beiping!

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Shanghai, Hongqiao Airport.

After intensive repairs by sappers, Hongqiao Airport has been fully restored.

With the continuous northward movement of Siye, coupled with the fact that the Japanese army in Central China has been completely wiped out, and the air force of the Japanese army in Nanyang has also existed in name only, so the main force of the Siye Air Force has also gone out from Burma and Taiwan to Shanghai and Qingdao, of which the Qingdao airfield in the front line is the base of the Mustang fighters, and the Hongqiao airfield in the rear has become the base of the bombers.

More than a year has passed since the formation of the first aviation squadron in Shino.

Over the past year or so, the Siye Air Force has not only not been defeated in the brutal air battle, but has become stronger and stronger in actual combat; up to now, the Siye has been organized into eight aviation divisions, with more than 1,800 P-51 Mustang fighters, more than 40 B-17 Flying Fortress strategic bombers, and more than 700 DC-3 transport planes, which is already an extremely powerful air force.

In particular, Yue Weihan brought two more production lines of B-17 Flying Fortress bombers from the United States, and in time, China's strategic air force will also thrive, but the price paid is also extremely high, and 12 former Soviet scientists engaged in the research of the T-43 tank were sent to the United States to assist American scientists in the development of the M-26 heavy tank.

The Americans obviously did not intend to bet all their bets on helicopter gunships, so after obtaining the key technology of helicopter gunships, the United States did not abandon the research and development program of the M-26 heavy tank, and the original intention of the M-26 heavy tank was to compete with the German Tiger and Leopard series tanks.

Compared with the vigorous growth of the Chinese Air Force, the Japanese air force is declining.

Although the base camp of the Japanese army has increased its investment in the army, and all the aircraft produced by the major aircraft factories have been put into service with the army, and the output is also quite expensive, in the previous 12 months, Japan actually produced more than 4,000 aircraft of various types, but unfortunately, the war damage is more, so the scale of the Japanese air force is actually shrinking.

The reason for this phenomenon is, first, that the technology of the Japanese fighters has seriously lagged behind.

Another is that a large number of skilled mechanics have been conscripted into the army, and the level of craftsmanship in various aircraft factories has seriously declined.

Until now, the pillar of the Japanese air force has always been a zero fighter, but the Chinese Air Force's P-51 Mustang fighter has been upgraded from the "A" type to the "D" type, if it were not for the fact that ** was busy recovering Beiping and Tianjin, and establishing the Great Wall defense chain to resist the Japanese army outside the Guan, I am afraid that the Japanese mainland would have been bombed indiscriminately by the Chinese Air Force.

However, even so, the Japanese air force has basically lost air supremacy in the East Asian theater.

Just after midnight, the originally dark Hongqiao Airport suddenly became brightly lit, and a huge B-17 Aerial Fortress strategic bomber slowly drove out of the hangar under the traction of the tractor, and then the ground service vehicles drove under the belly of the aircraft, and the ground staff wearing eye-catching uniforms began to check the condition of the aircraft and fill the fuel.

At 2 a.m., all 43 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers were ready for action.

At four o'clock in the morning, the green signal lights on the four runways were lit at the same time, and then the four B-17s slowly drove into the runway under the guidance of the ground crew, and the next moment, a huge engine roar suddenly sounded on the airport, and the four B-17 Flying Fortresses taxied away on the runway for a while, and then raised their heads and rushed into the night sky.

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Beiping, Iron Lion Hutong.

The former site of Duan Qirui's reign has now become the headquarters of the North China Front.

Whether it is the commander of the North China Front, General Shunliu Hatata, or the chief of staff of the North China Front, Lieutenant General Takamori Takashi, they did not realize that ** was about to bomb Beiping on a large scale, this was not because Shunroku Hata or Takashi were careless, but they did not think that ** would risk bombing Beiping at the risk of burning all stones.

In any case, Beiping is the ancient capital of China's six dynasties.

In particular, the magnificent Forbidden City is the ultimate in oriental civil engineering and architectural art, and Hatatake Shunroku never thinks that the Chinese have the courage to raze such a magnificent imperial city to the ground, not to mention, there are not only Japanese garrisons and Japanese military families in Beiping City, in fact, there are more than 100,000 Chinese living in the city.

At six o'clock in the morning, Shunroku Hata suddenly woke up from a nightmare.

In his sleep, Shunroku Hata dreamed that a huge bomb fell on his head, and in the sound of a huge explosion, he saw that his entire body was torn into countless pieces by Qi, and then he woke up from his sleep, sat on the chuáng and calmed down, Shunroku Hata no longer had a trace of sleep, and immediately put on his coat and moved out of the bedroom and into the office.

With Róu's somewhat stiff face, Shunroku Hata picked up a top-secret document on the table again.

According to the latest order of the Japanese base camp, the formation of the Far Eastern Front has been officially abolished, all units have been reassigned to the formation of the Kwantung Army, and the commander of the Far Eastern Front, Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro, has been promoted to general and appointed commander of the Kwantung Army.

Within half a month, the Kwantung Army will mobilize at least 50 infantry divisions, 12 tank divisions, and 18 field heavy artillery brigades to enter "South Manchuria", and then wait for the opportunity, and once the decisive battle is ripe, the Kwantung Army will cross the Shanhai Pass and enter North China in order to seek a strategic decisive battle with China's most sharp Fourth Field Army.

The so-called timing is actually the moment when the Siberian cold snap moves south.

Because the Japanese air force has basically lost air supremacy in the East Asian theater, under the threat of the Chinese Air Force, the armored cluster of the Kwantung Army will not be able to swagger south, and only when the cold current in Siberia goes south, the Chinese Air Force will not be able to rise into the air because of the bad weather, and the armored cluster of the Kwantung Army will have a chance to go south.

According to the predictions of domestic meteorologists, within ten to half a month, East Asia will usher in continuous bad weather, and it will last for at least four weeks, four weeks is not a long time, but it is not short, with absolute strength and armored cluster superiority, the Kwantung Army still has a great chance to inflict heavy damage on the main force of Siye.

As long as the main force of Shiye was severely damaged, the Kwantung Army had a chance to regain control of the area north of the Yangtze River.

As long as control of the area north of the Yangtze River is regained, the threat of the Chinese air force will be greatly reduced, and although Chinese fighters taking off from the airfields south of the Yangtze River can still cover Kyushu, Shikoku, the Korean Peninsula, and the whole of North China, they will no longer pose much of a threat to the heavy industrial base in China and Manchuria.

Then, all the Japanese had to do was to stabilize the defensive line and wait for a counterattack.

Okamura Ninji was still quite capable, and he actually persuaded Hitler.

In six months, 200 ME-262 spray planes and two production lines of ME-262 spray shè planes that Germany had provided to Japan would be transported to Manchuria by rail, and then the Japanese air force would completely get rid of the current embarrassing situation and regain air supremacy in the Chinese battlefield.

We must admit that this battle plan drawn up by the Japanese army base camp is still quite pragmatic, and as long as there are no major mistakes in decision-making and no serious casualties, it is really possible for the Japanese army to turn defeat into victory; in the final analysis, Japan's current industrial scale is still much stronger than China's, although the quality is slightly worse, but this is not a decision.

Moreover, since the contradictions between Japan and Russia have been resolved, Japan will be able to obtain advanced technology from Germany and rich resources from Russia, and China may not be able to win purely by fighting for industry; if it seizes air supremacy on the battlefield again, Japanese bombers can bomb Burma, but Chinese bombers cannot bomb Japan's industrial bases, and the chances of winning will be even greater.

Of course, all this is just a beautiful blueprint that stays on the plan, and in order to realize this plan, the Japanese army must survive the most difficult period in front of them.

However, Shunroku Hata believes that it will not be a problem for the Japanese army to survive this time.

After all, it's only been half a month, no matter how difficult it is, how difficult can it be? Could it be that in half a month, the ** team can still make a decision to win? Although the Japanese army in North China had lost control of the vast countryside in North China, its strength still maintained a huge scale of nearly 500,000 troops, of which the garrison in Beiping amounted to more than 100,000.

Shunroku Hata was thinking about it when a shrill air defense siren suddenly sounded outside the headquarters.

"What's going on?" Shunroku Hata frowned and picked up the microphone, "Pick up the Air Defense Command for me." ”

Without waiting for the Air Defense Command to reply, Lieutenant General Takashi Takamori, chief of staff of the North China Front, had already strode in, and immediately retracted his feet and said: "Your Excellency, the Sixth Air Defense Early Warning Group reports that a large number of Chinese bombers are flying towards Beiping, and the Chinese Air Force is likely to carry out a large-scale bombing of Beiping, so please quickly avoid the underground headquarters." ”

"What did you say?" Shunroku Hata said in disbelief, "Large-scale bombing of Beiping? ”

"Hello." Takashi Takamori suddenly lowered his head, and when he said a few more words, the white sè window paper in Toshiroku Hata's office suddenly became colorful, and the faces of the two old devils suddenly changed greatly.

Artillery swarm! Field heavy artillery group!

In addition to dispatching the strategic air force to carry out large-scale bombing, the ** heavy artillery group gathered outside the city of Beiping actually had to carry out large-scale artillery bombardment of Beiping! What are the Chinese trying to do? Do they really intend to raze Beiping, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties left to them by their ancestors? Crazy, the Chinese must be crazy!