Yang Zhen's sense of smell is still sensitive. By the time we entered August, the Japanese army was indeed ready for battle. It's just that the sky is not beautiful, and the Songhua River has entered the flood season. Not to mention the torrential rain, the water potential of the Songhua River also rose sharply, which greatly hindered the movement of the troops, and only then did it be delayed.

As the Nomenhan region had gradually begun to ease, Umezu Mijiro, who had just been promoted to general ahead of schedule, had already dispatched troops. It is ready to completely wipe out the bandits who are entrenched in the territory of Luobei in the north, the entire territory of Fengshan County in the south, the west bank of the Songhua River in Suibin, and the east of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains in Foshan.

Nomenhan was beaten by the Soviet army, and the Kwantung Army, which gave the Soviet army's planes, tanks, and heavy artillery a solid lesson in what is called modern three-dimensional warfare, finally couldn't stand the huge cost of casualties and honestly lowered its head. The Kwantung Army, which had a whole and a half divisions and regiments disabled, recognized clearly what the gap was this time.

Umezu Mijiro was very smart, and the protracted battle of the Battle of Normenhan brought not only Yan zhòng casualties to the Kwantung Army, but also a huge consumption in materials that was difficult for the Kwantung Army and even the entire Japanese Empire to bear.

Even more unbearable for the Japanese than the infantry, which was expendable, was the heavy losses of the much more valuable multi-tank and well-trained vehicle crews. The huge loss of equally valuable aircraft and pilots of the air force, as well as the already depleted reserve of heavy artillery shells, which was already not rich after the loss of the secret warehouse in Qunce Mountain.

During the battle, the Kwantung Army was horrified to find that if they shot down one Soviet plane, the other side would increase by ten. For every tank destroyed, the opponent will add ten, or even hundreds. Even if it is a 70-millimeter infantry shell, the opponent will fire back dozens or even hundreds of 122-millimeter and 152-millimeter heavy artillery shells with much greater caliber and lethality. The disparity in firepower, which can almost be described as overwhelming, made almost every sortie of the Japanese army come and go.

The huge losses in the battle, especially the loss of technical equipment, made Umezu Mijiro keenly feel that he could not fight as early as the end of July.

The loss of infantry did not matter to him, but because of the limited production capacity, every tank, every aircraft, including the crew, was extremely precious to the Kwantung Army. was beaten by others in Nomenhan, although the Soviet army suffered more losses, but this also made the distressed hearts of the Japanese army almost bleed.

Japan's national strength is weak, and its foundation cannot be compared with those old European and American powers. At this rate of loss, even if Japan's arsenals produce more tanks and planes, they will not be able to add enough tanks to them.

Although he is much younger than Kenkichi Ueda, Umezu Yoshijiro has always considered things carefully and thoroughly, and has been extremely calm. In early August, he called the Tokyo base camp several times in response to the Battle of Normenhan, proposing a truce. Until the Shina incident is completely resolved, it is not advisable to start a full-scale war against the Soviet Union. At least for the time being, the Japanese army was not ready to fight against the Soviet Union for a long time.

Compared with Kenkichi Ueda, the Japanese army base camp paid more attention to the opinions of Umezu Mijiro. Under the tough attitude of General Umezu Yoshijiro, and because the 23rd Division that participated in the battle suffered more than half of the casualties, and the 7th Division, which was also carrying reinforcements, was also unable to fight again, it was finally forced to issue an armistice order on 13 August. And this result is a full month earlier than the history that Yang Zhen knows.

After the armistice in the Nomenhan area, Umezu Mijiro handed over the task of cleaning up the mess to the General Staff Headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and he personally flew to Jiamusi to deploy the liquidation of Yang Zhen's headquarters. A large number of troops and aviation and other technical arms were mobilized to rapidly deploy along the south bank of the Songhua River.

The north of the Songhua River is mountainous, and naturally there is no need for the empire's precious tanks. But the usefulness of the aircraft is still considerable. Umezu Mijiro transferred one-third of the army air force that had been gradually withdrawn from the Nomenhan area to Jiamusi and several field airfields in the surrounding area. In addition to reconnaissance planes and light bombers, Umezu Mijiro even transferred a whole team of Type 97 medium bombers.

The light weapon brought back from the 104th Division, although it was already broken and had a somewhat strange appearance, Umezu Yoshijiro, who had always attached great importance to intelligence work, keenly felt that the opponent should already have a large-scale arsenal. He deployed concentrated bombers to participate in the war in order to completely destroy the opponent's arsenal.

In fact, Umezu Mijiro knew that the opponent had at least part of the military production capacity long before the 104th Division reported. Because he finally found out the amount of equipment in the secret base of Qunce Mountain, which was kept secret by General Ueda Kenkichi.

When Umezu Mijiro learned how much supplies were stored there, Umezu Mijiro, who had always been modest in appearance, didn't care about any demeanor, and directly took the black pot for the defeat of the Normenhan War, and the former chief of staff Ryosuke Isoya, who had been removed, scolded Ueda Kenkichi for being a stupid donkey, and didn't even understand the reason why eggs can't be put in one basket.

It was not only his predecessor who was scolded in his mouth, but even when Ueda Kenkichi was in office, the staff officers of the Kwantung Army suffered with him. In his mouth, he can't even compare to a stupid donkey, and he is all starved of heart.

What made him even more angry was that Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, who commanded the Fourth Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Jiamusi, told him on his first day of office that the arsenal set up by the Kwantung Army in Jiamusi in preparation for the war against the Soviet Union had been successfully attacked by the opponent, and all the machines that had not had time to unload the trucks disappeared along with a large number of workers.

A large amount of military equipment as a secret reserve is not counted as a loss of raw materials, and Ueda Kenkichi is not enough to increase the strength of others, so he finally sent a large number of workers to the door. Did he really think that these people were all fools, and put ready-made machines and equipment and skilled workers in use?

The reason why Umezu Mijiro changed his original plan and made up his mind to exterminate this bandit was that although he already knew that his opponent had an arsenal, he did not expect that the other party would be able to form a productive force in such a short period of time, and that the more it dragged on, the more difficult it would be to exterminate this bandit, which had become a climate.

He forced an entire team of Type 97 bombers to be mobilized in order to find out the opponent's arsenal and completely destroy it from the air. If it was convenient, he didn't even mind using this squadron of medium bombers to plow the base area of his opponent when the heavy artillery shells in the Kwantung Army's reserves had already depleted the embers in the Battle of Normenhan.

In addition to a large number of aviation troops, Umezu Yoshijiro also mobilized two Japanese divisions and regiments that had just been formed, four mixed brigades and two independent brigades of the puppet Manchu Army, and a cavalry brigade of the Xing'an Army with the strongest combat effectiveness in the puppet Manchu army, and the Japanese puppet army together with a total of more than 60,000 troops As for the Fourth Division, which was originally stationed in Jiamusi, in view of the continuous defeats of the division's advance and suppression, and also caused heavy losses to other supporting troops, Umezu Yoshijiro was strongly persuaded by the new chief of staff, Lieutenant General Iimura. I didn't even think about using this unit that was called the broom star in the Kwantung Army because of repeated defeats and small losses, but it was wiped out with the subordinate troops.

It's just that Umezu Mijiro, who thinks he has made sufficient preparations, did not expect that this operation was full of ominous meaning from the beginning.

The first foreshadowing is that in order to ensure that the covering firepower is sufficient, Umezu Mijiro was pulled into the battlefield by him despite the opposition of Lieutenant General Iimura, who had just finished the bombing of Lanzhou and was transferred to Manchuria to rest and recuperate.

The ominous omen began with this flying twelfth team. The 12th World War Team, equipped with advanced bombers imported from Italy, had just moved to Jiamusi when it was hit by a torrential rain. As a result, everyone except for the Twelfth Fleet itself, which had seen it for a long time, was shocked by the fact that these advanced imported aircraft were actually destroyed by the heavy rain.

Finally repaired two planes, took off to reconnoiter Luobei, Heli, and Yuyuan, but they never came back. During the entire operation, this team suffered heavy battle losses and low attendance rate under the condition that the opponent's anti-aircraft firepower was weak, and it was even less than half of the Japanese army's already extremely backward Type 93.

The appearance of this advanced bomber in this battle, together with the equally clumsy appearance in the Kannai battlefield before, made the Japanese army, who had always been stingy, unable to bear 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 rainstorm, it was not only the Twelve teams that were unlucky. Due to the mobilization of a large number of aircraft to Jiamusi at the same time, the Jiamusi Airport, which is not large in size, far exceeds its capacity.

A large number of aircraft can only be parked in the open air temporarily because there is no hangel to park. After a rare heavy rainstorm in the Sanjiang area, which lasted for three full hours, mixed with hail, not only the Italian bombers of the 12th Air Force, which looked thick on the surface but were actually very fragile, suffered heavy losses, but even other air groups suffered heavy losses.

More than a dozen Type 97 light bombers and Type 98 reconnaissance planes were swept into the Songhua River by the flood caused by the torrential rain, and they were never seen again. Not to mention the mountains of gasoline and even bombs that had been piled up on the airport, most of them were swept away by the floodwaters. Even a few pilots who swore to live and die with the plane also went to the Dragon Lord as guests.

When the weather cleared up, the Japanese engineers were busy repairing the airfield that had been washed away by heavy rain, when a burst of long-range artillery fire from Jiangbei made their efforts go to waste, and the explosion caused by the explosion of gasoline and bombs piled up on the airfield sent half of the airfield into the sky.

In addition to the planes of the 12th Sentai that were too fragile and were temporarily transferred to other airfields, the planes mobilized by Umezu Mijiro to Jiamusi lost more than half of them in the flood before, and also carried the pilots with heavy casualties.

Umezu Mijiro, who had never thought that a bandit army would be able to fight heavy artillery from the north bank of the Songhua River to the south of the Jiamusi Castle Airport, could no longer be described as a thunderstorm after seeing the tragic situation at the airport. He clearly knew that the only artillery that could hit such a long distance was the 89-type 150-millimeter long-range cannon developed by the Japanese army itself with a range of more than 18,000 meters.

And this kind of artillery was just eased up in the battle in Normenhan not long ago, and under the great pressure of the front line, he transferred two guns to the 25th Division to block the bank of the Songhua River in Yilan. Except for Kuwabara Shiro who lost these two cannons, it is impossible for the opponent to have a cannon that hits so far.

There are Taisho four-year 150-millimeter howitzers that the army has begun to phase out in the secret warehouse of Gunce Mountain, which Umezu Mijiro knows. Moreover, the troops who participated in the operation of Qunce Mountain have repeatedly reported that they have been bombarded by 150-millimeter heavy artillery.

But the Taisho four-year 150-millimeter howitzer with a range of only about 8,000 meters will definitely not be able to hit this far, which Umezu Yoshijiro can be sure. In addition to the fact that the opponent obtained a new long-range artillery from the north of Heilongjiang, then the only possibility is that the opponent has captured the long-range cannon of the Kwantung Army.

In order to prepare for the ongoing negotiation lawsuit with the Soviet Union, after the Jiamusi airport was attacked by long-range artillery fire, Umezu Mijiro specially dispatched a large number of technicians from the Kwantung Army Artillery Command to conduct a careful investigation of the shelling site. Knowing that it was unlikely, Umezu Mijiro still hoped that the artillery used by the other side to shell the airfield was Soviet-made artillery.

In order to find out the real evidence of Jiangbei's support for the Anti-Japanese Alliance, so that we can cut off the external supply of the other side as much as possible during the negotiations. Senior General Umezu Mijiro did not think that the other side was already adjacent to Jiangbei, and did not want to find a way to get some weapons and equipment from the so-called fraternal party under one of their ancestors.

As long as they can grasp the real evidence, at least they can make some concessions under the pressure of the hateful polar bears in the negotiations. Even if they don't cut off the other party's external supply channels, they must not be so blatant.

However, the results of the appraisal surprised him, and those technicians, with the dignity of their samurai, assured that the artillery used by the other side to shell the airfield was the 89-type 150-millimeter cannon used by the Japanese Army itself. Judging from the fact that the two warheads at the shelling site were not inserted into the fuse and did not explode, the opponent was not proficient in the use of such a large-range artillery. Being able to hit the airport can only be described as "fluke" in two words.

General Umezu Mijiro, who got this report, almost vomited blood in anger. Can you still be so accurate by luck? Luckily, he painstakingly mobilized the aviation troops on the Jiamusi airport and sent nearly half of them to the western sky? If they are proficient, will they even send themselves, the commander of the Kwantung Army under the command of Jiamusi, to the west sky?

The enraged General Umezu Mijiro threw the report on the face of the person in charge of the appraisal team who came to report. In the face of the anger of Admiral Umezu Yoshijiro, the person in charge of the appraisal must have been shocked to tell Admiral Umezu Mijiro that if the other party can master the use of this artillery, with the accuracy and range of this artillery, there will be no problem in hitting his temporary headquarters.

The reason why the other side was able to hit the airfield, in addition to luck, is certain that there must have been correction personnel around the airfield who they secretly infiltrated to provide parameters for the shelling.

This answer made Umezu Mijiro, who was already furious to the extreme, even more angry because of the heavy losses of the air force, plus a chill in his back. If this result is true, the other side can actually send a small force to approach the Jiamusi airport under his heavily guarded nose and complete the guidance of artillery fire. If they infiltrate Jiamusi, won't they be in danger themselves?