Chapter 241: Assault on the Airport (1)
Umezu Mijiro, the headquarters of the Japanese Kwantung Army, learned that the encirclement and suppression forces of the four routes were blocked by the Chinese people, among which the wing sent by the fourth division Tuan was ambushed by the Chinese in the area of Luobei, so that the troops had to withdraw to rest, and the encirclement and suppression troops of the first division of Tuan were attacked by the Chinese in the areas of Yangjiadian, Keshan, and Baiquan, and the support troops of Xing'an Dong Province were also attacked by the anti-Manchu armed forces in China, and these armed attacks on the Tuan tribe and the company established by the Japanese, The encirclement and suppression troops sent by the Heihe fortress and the armed forces of China were deadlocked in the area of the Xun River, and one of the wings of Tanisoo's 29th Division Tuan was completely destroyed by the fire of the Chinese people, which made Umezu Mijiro very angry.
When Umezu Mijiro learned that the encirclement and suppression army was not as invincible as before, but encountered the continuous resistance of the Shina people, which made the losses of the troops heavier and heavier, Umezu Yoshijiro, who had always been modest in appearance, could not care about any demeanor, and directly pointed to the head of Isomura Takeryo, the second section chief of the intelligence chief staff, and scolded: "Where did so many people come from in the Sino-Japanese Resistance League, and what are you doing in the intelligence department." ”
It was not only Isomura Takeliang who was scolded, but even the staff officers of the Kwantung Army Headquarters suffered with it, and in his mouth he couldn't even compare to a stupid donkey, and they all came home without heart.
What made him even more angry was that Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, who commanded the 4th Division Tuan of the Japanese Army stationed in Jiamusi, told him on his first day of taking office that the 4th Division Tuan had become strong and strong after rigorous training, and he could serve Umezu Mijiro at any time, but in less than a few months, the soldiers of the 4th Division Tuan had already changed batch after batch, and first two wings were wiped out. Umezu Yoshijiro found that the 4th Division Tuan was a bottomless pit, and he decided to replenish the Koreans and Taiwanese, who had just arrived by boat, and the Japanese youth to supplement the other troops.
Let Umezu Mijiro change the original plan. The reason why he made up his mind to exterminate this group of bandits as soon as possible was because according to the observation and discovery of the intelligence department, the Shina people actually had their own arsenal, and they also developed the so-called base area, and before Umezu Mijiro did not pay attention to this group of Shina people at all, and only regarded them as the whetstone of the Imperial Army recruits, but he did not expect that the other party could form a strong combat effectiveness in such a short period of time, comparable to the warriors of the Empire, and destroy various resource gathering companies of the Empire everywhere. Bullying the expatriates of the pioneer group, killing tens of thousands of imperial expatriates in just a few months, for this reason, the Tokyo base camp sent several warning letters in a row, on the one hand, ordering Umezu Mijiro to appease the residents of the island who had migrated to the island, and on the other hand, strictly ordering Umezu Mijiro to eliminate this group of bandits who had caused serious losses to the empire in the shortest possible time, which made Umezu Mijiro know that the more it dragged on, I am afraid that this bandit that has become a climate will be more difficult to exterminate. Tuo will also give the empire a support, not to mention that with the rise of this bandit, there are now terrorist incidents everywhere in the entire Manchukuo, with an average of dozens of killings of imperial residents and imperial soldiers every day.
Against public opinion, he transferred a whole number of Tuan-97 bombers from the 2nd Air Army and sent them to the airfield in Qiqihar, just to support the troops of the encirclement and suppression to attack the Chinese people, and to completely destroy and attack the confidence of the Chinese people from the air. He doesn't even mind consuming a lot of bombs and gasoline if it's convenient. Use this large bomber team to plow the base area of the opponent.
It's just that Umezu Mijiro, who thinks he has made enough preparations, didn't expect it. This operation was full of ominous meaning from the beginning, and the various departments were successively blocked by attacks, and even the repeated bombing by the imperial planes did not disintegrate the combat effectiveness of the Chinese people, but made this group of Maludas actually more and more courageous, and their leader Meng Qingshan was as difficult as they were.
The ominous omen began with the 12th Squadron of the Flying Regiment. The 12th Squadron, equipped with advanced bombers imported from Italy, had just transferred to Qiqihar when it was hit by a blizzard. As a result, everyone except for the 12th Squadron itself, which had seen it for a long time, was shocked by the fact that the wings of the fuselage were frozen by the blizzard, and several of them crashed.
The rest of the planes narrowly escaped the blizzard and arrived in Qiqihar safely. took off to reconnoiter Dedu, Nahe, Longzhen, and Wuyun, but never returned. During the entire operation, this squadron suffered heavy battle losses and low attendance under the condition that the opponent's anti-aircraft firepower was weak, and it was inferior to half of the Japanese army's already extremely backward Type 93.
The performance of this advanced bomber in this battle, along with the equally clumsy performance of the previous Kannai battlefield, made the Japanese army, who had always been stingy, unable to endure it any longer. These advanced bombers, which were imported at low prices from the so-called allies by the Japanese army, were all disposed of and decommissioned after the war.
Of course, the encounter of the Twelve Sentai was only one of the ominous encounters that had occurred before the battle had even begun. Affected by this blizzard, it was not only the 12th Squadron that was unlucky. Due to the mobilization of a large number of planes to Qiqihar at the same time, the Qiqihar airport, which was not large in scale, far exceeded its capacity, and the Japanese Kwantung Army had built airfields in Nahe and Longzhen, but they were all destroyed by the Anti-Japanese Union.
A large number of planes were unable to participate in the war because of the blizzard, so they had to stop at the airport and wait for the blizzard to stop.
In the confrontation with the Japanese army for more than half a month, China and Japan have invested a large number of troops, and the Anti-Japanese Federation has won several battles under the personal command of the commanders and fighters of various departments, but the Japanese army has dispatched a large number of planes to bomb the various units of the Anti-Japanese Federation, so that the Anti-Japanese Federation has turned from a counteroffensive to a passive defense, so that the Anti-Japanese Federation has to hide in the deep mountains and old forests to attack and harass the Japanese army, in order to combat the arrogance of the little devils, destroy the military bases of the devils, relieve the worries in the air, and support the various units fighting in the front. Meng Qingshan, commander-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese Federation, decided to select an elite unit to infiltrate Qiqihar and destroy the Qiqihar airfield and destroy the enemy's military facilities.
This group of people can be said to be the essence of the Anti-United Nations, everyone has unique skills, two-thirds of them can speak Japanese, some of these people are literate and hyphenated, some are excellent in martial arts, some are like gods, some are explosives, thieves and even grave diggers, after several months of strict military training, although they are not as good as the special combat teams of later generations, but they are not stronger than the special combat teams of the little devils, more than 30 pieces of body armor captured by the Third Military Region last time were sent to the headquarters, Meng Qingshan was very surprised to see this group of black body armor, He didn't know that there was body armor now, so Meng Qingshan deliberately tried it, and found that the so-called body armor can indeed be bulletproof, but it can only resist a few shots, otherwise this battle will not be able to fight, and the cost of this body armor is expensive, Yang Jingyu and others were very surprised to see the bulletproof clothes, and suggested that Meng Qingshan send a self-defense to the people at the headquarters, Meng Qingshan refused on the spot that good steel should be used on the blade, and the people at the headquarters rarely went to the battlefield to give them a waste of resources, so Meng Qingshan made a decision and directly distributed it to the special combat team.
Qiqihar Airport does have high practical value, with strong throughput capacity and large capacity. In 1938, this airfield was not only an air force preparing to attack the Soviet air base and killing the anti-Japanese forces in the northeast, but also a rear to support the Japanese army in fighting the Soviet army at Nomenkan. There is a shortage of water in the Nomenkan area. There, the daily water and some military supplies of the Japanese army were airlifted by Qiqihar Airport.
According to the information obtained by the underground party comrades who broke into Qiqihar, the runway of Qiqihar's airport is in a circular shape. The length and width are more than 2,400 meters. The aircraft can take off in any wind direction. The construction of airport drainage facilities has a very strong practical value, no matter how much rainwater there is, it can be discharged immediately to ensure that the aircraft can take off and land at any time. Hangars -- then called aircraft forts scattered around the airport, connected by semi-underground passages, this is the largest and best airfield of the Japanese army, which was known as the first in Asia in the thirties and forties of the last century, and the Japanese Kwantung Army took Qiqihar as its military base, stationed the ground troops such as the 136 Brigade Tuan of Major General Naojiro Dotani and two mixed brigades of the puppet army, and also built 10 airfields, and invested a large number of air forces. (To be continued......)