Compared with the relatively small Xi'an Field Airport, Hailong Airport, as one of the most important second-line permanent airports of the Kwantung Army, is better than Xi'an Airport because of its storage conditions and living conditions. Therefore, the army aviation bomber group parked here is relatively large.

After Xinjing became a battlefield, most of the fighter groups originally deployed around Xinjing were concentrated at Hailong Airport, except for the part around Siping Street. Before being attacked by enemy forces, Hailong Airport had become the airport with the largest number of combat aircraft stored by the Kwantung Army.

And because of the short legs, the combat range is limited, so it can only be said about the fighter group with Siping Street as the starting base. Almost all of the combat planes that used this as a starting point were bomber groups that were crucial to the bombing. In this case, the loss of being attacked by the enemy can be imagined.

After this battle, the entire army mobilized the air force to Manchuria, except for some bombers based at Fengtian Airport and Xi'an Airport, mainly the latest Baicai bombers, survived. The rest of the Type 97 heavy bomber group and the Italian-made bomber group, together with the Type 98 and Type 97 light bomber groups, can be said to have been completely wiped out.

What is even more severe is that after this battle, among the surviving air forces of the army, there were also considerable contradictions within themselves, and there was also a considerable sense of distrust between them. At present, the various air brigades that have retreated to the territory of Mukden and Fushun have rarely and unequivocally refused to continue fighting.

In addition, several air squadrons of some planes have suggested that at least the dozen or so troublemakers who do not know whether they are enemy planes or friendly planes will not fight in the air until they are destroyed. Because they don't know whether the planes that meet in the air are friends or foes.

After the war, the army aviation had only 30 Type 99 light bombers, as well as 100 Type 100 bombers and Type 97 bombers, which were no longer able to continue bombing missions. Just this morning, the base camp had already called and ordered all the remaining bomber groups to withdraw to Beiping to rest and stand by. In a word, the army aviation can no longer support it.

And his naval aviation, because the base was in Korea outside Manchuria, and because no naval aircraft had been captured in the anti-Japanese coalition, could not carry out a similar attack. In this air raid, more than 20 Type 96 bombers, Type 1 heavy bombers, and more than 40 Type Zero fighters were also lost.

Although the old-fashioned Type 96 ship battle, the number of losses is relatively large. However, the most critical forces of the southward operation, the Zero Battle and the Type 96 Heavy Bombing Group, were basically preserved. Although the losses cannot be said to be none, they are so light that they can almost be ignored compared to the cost of almost total destruction of the army.

And despite the cost, the Navy has also honed in the tactics of coordination between new bombers and new fighter groups. The most important thing is that the navy has further mastered the ability to accurately bomb fixed-point targets with this bombing. You know, the few breakthroughs that succeeded were made by naval bombers. With the stupid people in their army, they don't have that ability.

The Kwantung Army's plan to bring the navy in was clearly opposed. It was only under the coordination of the base camp that part of the aviation team was sent to participate in the battle. However, although this force was dispatched, the army's arrogant attitude made the navy very dissatisfied.

In particular, the mobilization of the Zero and the Heavy Bomber Group is like taking away the flesh and soul of the Navy from the Navy. There is not a single person in the entire naval aviation who is not angry at this order. These planes are the treasure of the navy to deal with the US and British air forces in the future. If the losses are too great this time, what will the Navy do to compete with the more powerful American and British air forces?

Although participating in this operation can allow naval aviation to familiarize itself with American-made fighters as much as possible. However, if the losses in the battle are too large, it will undoubtedly be a very unpleasant thing for the navy, which is now preparing for the southward movement with all its might. This is also the reason why the navy is withdrawing half of its forces halfway, and the navy does not want to lose too much for the sake of the army.

The failure to evacuate all of them was due to the orders of the base camp. Leaving half of it is already a face-saving experience for the Army. Why should you Kwantung Army let the Navy be the culprit of this injustice. Therefore, the navy is quite dissatisfied with this operation. Now that the Kwantung Army has failed to fight the tiger, he has been made half-paralyzed, and it is strange that he, a naval general, is unfortunate and mishare.

The most important thing is that at present, the army aviation is no longer able to support the operation, and the remaining strength is also ready to withdraw to the interior of China to recuperate. The naval aviation, which was brought in to act as a strong man, also reached the point where it could be withdrawn. The navy has no obligation, let alone should continue to do the thankless work for the navy for their army, and carry this black pot for them.

The gloating eyes of this Onishi Takijiro, if it were placed in normal times, would naturally offend the public wrath of the Kwantung Army. If you don't do it, you are in danger of being beaten. But at this time, the vast majority of people do not have time to entangle with him. It's just that I don't have the heart to quarrel with this alternative in the navy again. I can't cover my ass, where is there time to accompany him to talk nonsense?

In contrast to the gloating of Major General Takijiro Onishi, the other officer who attended the combat meeting as an observer, and among all the officers who attended the meeting, was the only one who was not a member of the Kwantung Army and the only Japanese paratrooper brigade commander at the level of brigade commander, although he did not express his position, in fact, it was not his turn to be an outsider to express his position. But the angry and abnormal look in his eyes revealed that he was quite unhappy at this time.

Don't blame this Dazuo for being angry, he really thinks that the Kwantung Army has gone too far. Faced by the enemy on all sides of Tongliao City, not a single army division was able to withstand the enemy's attack. However, he insisted on this situation, and airdropped the First Parachute Wing, which he painstakingly managed as a seed unit for the future army paratroopers, to Tongliao City, which was not suitable for paratrooper operations.

Although his 1st Parachute Wing is the seed unit of the entire Japanese Army paratroopers, its total strength is currently only about 700 people. One can imagine the role that 700 men can play in the face of tens of thousands of well-equipped enemy troops. But under the insistence of the Kwantung Army holding the chicken feathers of the base camp as an arrow, he could only reluctantly accept this combat order that he thought was not in line with the conventional at all.

As a result, he has always regarded the first paratrooper wing as a baby, and after being thrown to the Tongliao battlefield, he didn't even fight a single water, so he was cut off by the Kwantung Army in Tongliao City. And the Kwantung Army didn't even apologize, how could this not make him angry.

The base camp transferred the 1st Paratrooper Wing to Manchuria in order to gain actual combat experience and prepare for future operations in the south. It's not for the First Parachute Wing, these paratroopers who have been trained by their own painstaking management, to send them to death. But this paratrooper unit was regarded as a surprise soldier by the Kwantung Army and was directly buried in Tongliao City.

This loss, especially those who served as the seeds of the expansion of the preparation of paratroopers, was undoubtedly quite huge for the fledgling Japanese army paratroopers. For him, the brigade commander, it can only be described as painful. If it weren't for the commander of the Kwantung Army, he would even want to duel with the guy who sent his paratroopers to a dead end.

However, in addition to those senior staff officers who are accustomed to seeing generals, lieutenant generals, and major generals, and do not regard this senior staff officer who is not higher than them at all, the rest are at least a major general. Hardly anyone paid any attention to this angry Dazuo in his eyes.

Even if someone accidentally saw his angry and surprising eyes, they didn't see it. Everyone is waiting for the final decision made by General Mijiro Umezu. Although the general had not said a word since entering the conference room, he was just quietly listening to the quarrel between the two sides.

It's just that Senior General Umezu Mijiro didn't speak, which doesn't mean that Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe on the side will let him go because of his silence. This staff headquarters attached to the general staff, who came to supervise the battle of the Kwantung Army, was quite dissatisfied in the face of the current war situation that was almost erosive.

Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe believed that he and Major General Shinichi Tanaka risked offending the narrow-minded Minister of War and being kicked out of active service, and disobeyed the order to transfer two divisions to the Kwantung Army. There are also a large number of aviation units that have been transferred from the base camp at any cost and are now suffering heavy losses. It can be said that what should be done and what should not be done, the base camp and themselves have done it, but what about the good results?

The plan of bombing the embankment of the Songhua River and replacing the troops with water did not achieve the expected results at all under the frantic resistance of the enemy's ground-to-air firepower. The heavy price paid by the aviation, the few gaps that barely blew up, were plugged before they were enough to create a flood.

On the ground, the 23rd Division did not come out of the rescue, not to mention, but also completely put the 14th Division into it. The Seventh Division also inexplicably became an empty shelf, and none of the three wing commanders, along with the division commander and chief of staff, could come back alive. The strength of a division and regiment, and the remnants of the scattered troops withdrawn from the Alu Korqin Banner were less than one-tenth of what they were before departure.

Among the officers and men of the Seventh Division who fled back, only one of the adjutant level escaped from the Shaozo, who had only one arm left. All the officers of the rank of lieutenant combined, there are less than thirty people. The most important thing is why the 7th Division was defeated so quickly in the Alukorqin Banner, no one can say.

The only second lieutenant officer who had escaped from the front line of Balachrud had gone insane. The mouth is full of overwhelming walls of fire and the like, and if you talk nonsense, you can't ask anything else. When this old man, as the only witness to the First Battle of Balachrude, was sent to the Kwantung Army Headquarters before the Sixth Army Headquarters mysteriously lost contact.

Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto, who was originally going to be interrogated in person, only saw one side, so he directly had him secretly shot, and then reported him to death in battle. In Yoshimoto's opinion, this ensign has lost the thinking of a normal person and the dignity of an imperial officer. Death was a relief for him personally.

Although what Yoshimoto Sadaichi did made people feel a little like that, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe thought that he did it very well. Keeping this guy alive will distract the morale of the army. And this person is also dead alive, it is better to die than to live like this, and the family can get a little compensation.

The Seventh Division was almost completely wiped out, and its death was unknown. Now there is also a Sixth Army Headquarters, and a lieutenant general commander whose fate is unknown. No matter how greedy and rude that Lieutenant General Gu Shoufu was, and how annoying he was, he was the first commander of the empire.

Not to mention the commander at the army level, that is, the commander at the division and regiment level, there had never been a death or capture before last year. Even in the Russo-Japanese War, where huge sacrifices were made, such a situation did not occur. Whether the commander was captured or killed in action, it set a record for the Imperial Army since the Meiji Restoration.