Chapter 360: Post-War Aftermath

By the time Li Mingfeng withdrew to the front line of Jianping, it indicated that the large-scale battle of this battle had basically ended. After two and a half months of hard fighting, the Anti-Japanese Federation suffered more than 200,000 casualties, almost half of the casualties of the entire combat unit, and set a record for the highest casualties since the reorganization. and lost more than 300 tanks and 276 combat aircraft.

In the major battlefields of Northeast China, Northern Shanxi, Suidong, Rehe, and Chaxi, not counting the advance army, the troops participating in the war against the United Nations alone completely annihilated nine divisions and regiments of the Japanese army, basically annihilated three, and inflicted heavy losses on four divisions and regiments, with a total of nearly 300,000 enemies. Annihilated the Japanese army stationed in Mongolia, the Kwantung Army and most of the North China Front.

Completely recover the area north of the Great Wall in Shanxi, most of Suiyuan and the entire Rehe. In the northeast, he advanced the entire front to the Siping line, liberated Xinjing, the core of the Kwantung Army's rule in the northeast, destroyed most of the military industry of the Japanese army in South Manchuria, and compressed the Kwantung Army to the territory of the former Liaoning Province.

In the northeast battlefield, although the final victory of Siping was not achieved, most of the combat objectives were basically achieved. Although it paid a heavy price, the whole army suffered heavy casualties, and lost more than half of the tanks and aircraft, but in the end, a straight line with the Kannai battlefield was opened. It has laid a good foundation for making full use of the abundant human resources in the future.

The advance army on the battlefield of Chasharan also paid the price of one-third of the casualties, basically captured the entire southern Chasan, and recovered Zhangjiakou, an important town in northern Saibei, and opened up a direct line between the base area outside the Guanxi and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. The two independent mixed brigades of the Japanese army were completely annihilated, basically annihilating one division and inflicting heavy losses on one division.

After the war, although the Eastern Hebei Military Region and the Central Hebei Military Region could not be restored for the time being, the Pingxi and Pingbei base areas were all restored. Even the two main base areas of Pingxi and Beiyue have been expanded to a certain extent. The most crucial thing is to train a number of troops and commanders who are suitable for modern warfare through this battle.

During the battle, the Jizhong Military Region selected a group of capable personnel and attached a group of armed forces. Taking advantage of the overall situation of the Japanese army's retreat to Baoding during the campaign, it returned to the base area in central Hebei, and through hard work, it regained part of the guerrilla zone and restored part of the grassroots political power. It didn't reach its heyday, but it was a good start.

After the end of this war, not only the Japanese North China Front suffered the greatest blow since its formation, but also lost its offensive capability for a long time, and even reached the point where it was unable to protect itself. The Kwantung Army also suffered heavy losses, with more than half of its troops being encircled or heavily damaged.

And the biggest loss for the Kwantung Army was not the loss of troops, but the heavy damage suffered by the military industry of South Manchuria. In particular, the Mukden Arsenal, which was responsible for most of the ammunition supply for the entire Japanese army invading China, was forced to stop production, and even endangered the ammunition supply of the entire Japanese army invading China.

At the same time, the impact of this war was not only limited to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the armed forces behind enemy lines in North China, and the Japanese army inside and outside the Guan. After the end of the battlefield in northern Shanxi, the armored cavalry cluster of the Anti-Union has entered a new situation in Shanxi. and the tremendous changes that have taken place in the entire Chinese battlefield caused by this war. In addition to being stunned, Chongqing also had a strong sense of crisis.

After looking at the military commanders, the Second War Zone, and the Eighth Theater of Operations, the use of troops and equipment invested by the Anti-Japanese Federation in the Northern Shanxi Battlefield, as well as the strategies and tactics used in the Northern Shanxi Battlefield, the most important thing is the report on the equipment invested. The first person in Chongqing, while scolding the Americans and the British for not being the same thing, also felt a chill at the back of his neck.

Is this still the dirt road of the past? If Yan'an's army had such strong combat effectiveness and such good equipment, would the world of China still be its own? Niang Xipi, is it too much for the United States and Britain to do this? With so much equipment given to Yan'an, who is the legitimate government of China?

As for the tactics used in this battle, he didn't take it too seriously. But he really couldn't accept the equipment invested by the Anti-United Nations, and a large number of British and American-made tanks and planes appeared. Niang Xipi, the legitimate government of China, ordered equipment from the Americans as if it was killing them.

Half a year has passed since Pearl Harbor, and the Americans have only given more than sixty planes that they themselves do not want, tens of thousands of rifles. The British gave only a pile of rags they had captured on the battlefields of North Africa, plus third-hand goods bought from the Americans before them. Those tattered Italian-made machine guns and artillery, not to mention not many bullets, many rifles did not even have bolts.

When I got there, I didn't give the rifle guns, but I gave so many tanks and planes. The first person in Chongqing did not believe that the British-made crusader tanks and British-made fighter-bombers that the Anti-Japanese Federation had put into the battlefield were all bought by the poor Yan'an side at a great price.

Not to mention Yan'an, there is no strength to buy it at all. Even if there is, the British, who are currently too busy to take care of themselves, will not sell it. Those weapons and equipment must have been supported by the British. And the Americans, who even gave them B-17 bombers. Don't they know that those bombers can bomb not only Japan, but also Chongqing and the entire rear?

When the Americans mobilized these bombers to pass through the rear, didn't they say that they would go to the Soviet Union through China? Why did these bombers appear in the northeast of China? And will appear on the battlefield of northern Jin? Is he really an American whose intelligence services are all blind, or doesn't know their planes?

As for what the United States and Britain have repeatedly said that those tanks, light bombers and other equipment were given to the Soviets, and as for whether the Soviets were transferred to the Northeast, they do not know, and at the same time they are not able to manage it, the first person in China at the moment does not believe it at all. He thinks that the United States and Britain are playing with him as a child.

It's just that in the case of asking for help, although I scolded Niang Xipi 10,000 times in my heart. But all he can do is to keep protesting strongly to the United States and Britain through the embassies in the United States and Britain. Protest against the two countries transferring weapons and equipment that should have been provided to Chongqing to other countries outside the Anti-Japanese Federation. They have also continued to make serious representations to the US and British military delegations in China.

It has been repeatedly emphasized that they are the legitimate government of China, and only they are eligible to receive aid from the United States and Britain. This move by the United States and Britain is suspected of provoking a civil war in China. As for whether the United States and Britain will eventually stop giving aid to that aspect, it is not up to him to decide.

However, although the protest in Chongqing did not make the United States and Britain stop aiding the Anti-Japanese Union. However, it is also obvious that the aid policies of the United States and Britain have also been affected considerably. When the Americans provided aid, they did not conjure up other supplies. However, some changes have been made in the performance of the weapons and equipment aided.

And the problem is best manifested in the assistance of countering joint combat aircraft. In addition to ensuring the strategic bombers bombed by Japan, the overall performance of the tactical aircraft of the Counter Alliance, especially the assistance of fighters, has always remained second-rate.

After the P51 Mustang and P47 Thunderbolt fighters entered service, they always refused to help the Anti-Japanese Union, the two most powerful piston fighters in the entire World War II. First, it only offered British-made Hurricane fighters that had fallen behind in the European theater and had basically withdrawn from the front-line combat units of the British army.

After the Hurricane fighters provided by the British were no longer able to confront the latest fighters of the Japanese Army Air Force, which had gradually transferred their main combat units to the Chinese battlefield. The Americans, who took over the main aid, still only supplied the second-rate P-40 and P-39 fighters.

The Anti-Union has used almost all the P40 fighter models, from the earliest A model to the last N model. In terms of the number of equipment, it even surpassed the US military to a certain extent. Because compared with the P-40 fighter, the Soviet army preferred the P-39 fighter, which was equipped with a 37-mm gun and had anti-tank capabilities.

Because of the performance of the P-39 fighter, it has become increasingly unable to cope with the situation in the Asian theater. In coordination with the Anti-Japanese Union, the P-39 fighters were exchanged with the Soviets for a batch of A-20 attack planes to meet their own needs for tactical attack aircraft before the imitation of the Il-2 was put into production.

As a result, although the Americans provided a large number of P-39 fighters to the Anti-Japanese Union, the number of P-49 fighters equipped in the troops was far inferior to that of the P-40 fighters. After the U.S. military replaced the P-51 fighter, it simply transferred all the P-40s it had eliminated to the Anti-United Nations and Chongqing.

By the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, except for a few imitations of Soviet pull fighters, the fighter units of the Anti-Japanese Union were mainly American-made P-40 fighters and British-made Hurricane fighters, which were second-rate fighters by the end of World War II and were simply unable to confront Japan's new fighters.

With this hand, the Americans allowed the anti-United Nations air force to fight against the Japanese fighters with the new Falcon, Zhong Kui, Feiyan, and Hurricane fighters on the battlefield for air supremacy, and they could only fly the fighters with backward performance to meet them. The generational difference in the performance of the aircraft caused considerable losses in the combat of the anti-United Nations air force.

Especially because the Feiyan fighters with liquid-cooled engines could not live up to the expectations of the Japanese army in the humid and stuffy Southeast Asian battlefield, and all of them were transferred to the South Manchurian battlefield. In the confrontation with this only liquid-cooled fighter of the Japanese army, the P40 fighters and Hurricane fighters of the Anti-United Air Force paid a great price.

After the appearance of the Hurricane, the P-40 fighter looked even more old, and Long Zhong was not an opponent. Even the latest N-type is no match for these two enemy aircraft. In the struggle for air supremacy, the anti-United Nations fighter units suffered huge losses. For a period of time in the first half of '44, the ratio of battle losses between the two sides has reached a point that is unacceptable to the air force.

In the face of the backward performance of fighter planes and the fact that they were increasingly unable to compete with the new Japanese aircraft, the Americans always refused to provide new fighters. In desperation, Yang Zhen used 500 M-4 tanks to exchange 200 La-5FN and 100 La-7 fighters from the Soviet Union for barely competing with the two new fighters with excellent performance of the Japanese army.

The Americans have always refused to provide P-51 long-range fighters, which also made it impossible for the Anti-Japanese Union to provide effective long-range escort for the bombers when bombing Japan. Even the Yak-9 long-range fighter provided by the Soviets could barely meet the needs. These things that the United States has done in providing combat planes have made the Anti-United Nations appear very passive in the course of operations.

Compared with better fighters, the Americans have gone even further than medium-range bombers and attack aircraft. The aircraft provided are mainly A-20 attack aircraft with short range and British-made Blenheim bombers, and are not B25 and B26 medium-range bombers with long range. Only a batch of engines was given to replace the Soviet-made medium bomber engines that had reached the end of their service life in the Anti-Coalition.

The Americans have never been able to meet their needs in the number of A-20 attack planes, and the anti-United Nations is in extreme need of tactical support aircraft. Medium bombers were still refused, and a number of SBD dive bombers that had been replaced by the Navy were provided, as well as Army models of A24 dive bombers that were not needed by the Army.