And let the Kwantung Army and Umezu Mijiro who have always bullied the soft and afraid of the hard. The reason for adjusting the current active offensive to a passive defensive tactic is only part of the reason for the shortage of troops and materials. In the final analysis, it is the strong combat effectiveness and tenacious fighting style that Yang Zhen's department has shown since its appearance.

Umezu Mijiro has been a must-see for every battle report since the first phase of the purge began. He accurately judged from the previous battle situation sent back from the front that although the number of this force was not as large as that of the government army in Guannai and the *** guerrillas.

However, both the equipment and the training were far superior to any army the empire had encountered on the battlefield of China. The level of coordinated combat of its infantry and artillery, and the coordination of various branches of the armed forces have reached the point of extreme proficiency. At least not inferior to the most elite of the government of China, but also the best equipped all-German teaching corps.

Whether it is in attack or passive defense, its technical and tactical level has reached a fairly high level. He is especially good at mountain warfare and uses mines. Although there is still a certain gap compared with the standing divisions of the Japanese army, this gap is rapidly narrowing.

The firmness of its will to fight, especially its vigorous spirit of taking the initiative to attack, is far from being comparable to that of the government army in Guannechina. Under the condition that the casualty rate of the troops reached 70 percent, it was still possible to maintain the stability of the troops and not collapse. This is not inferior even to the Imperial Army, which has always been known to be stubborn.

It was for this reason that Umezu Yoshijiro acquiesced to Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada to intensify the firepower of the troops of the 4th Division north to the mouth of the Hasugawa River to a perverted level. Even some heavy artillery was mobilized from the newly replenished Muling Heavy Artillery Wing and the Dongning Heavy Artillery Wing.

In Umezu Yoshijiro's view, in order to exterminate this anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese armed force now, the Kwantung Army must mobilize at least three or four standing divisions and regiments to strengthen heavy artillery, combat vehicles, and aviation. And the Kwantung Army, which is already overstretched at present, is precisely unable to take these troops.

When this unit was still weak, General Ueda Kenkichi failed to do his best, but instead gave his opponent a chance to grow stronger. Now, for the Kwantung Army, which has lost the best opportunity to exterminate it, it will probably take a lot of energy and troops to exterminate this anti-Manchu army, which has become the largest and most well-trained anti-Manchurian force in all of Manchuria.

Umezu Mijiro, who finally figured out the number of weapons in the secret warehouse of Qunzai Mountain that Kenkichi Ueda had lost, secretly scolded his predecessor for the first time in his heart. If he hadn't lost Qunce Mountain, the largest secret warehouse of the Kwantung Army, in a daze, why would the Kwantung Army be so passive now. Even the shells did not dare to shoot openly.

And the opponent, after obtaining this rather large number of troops, has developed in strength to the point that no army can be underestimated. A force of tens of thousands of people has hundreds of wild mountain guns and hundreds of mortars. There are even 150-mm howitzers, you must know that the government army in Kannai does not have this level of equipment. The Chinese government army has only 48 German-made 150-mm howitzers.

Just as Umezu Mijiro was about to further explain his plan to Yamashita Fumi, an urgent telegram from Jiamusi, which should not have been from the air force that had been ordered to send planes to Jiamusi to pick up Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, made Umezu Mijiro petrify instantly.

Yamashita Fengfumi looked at Umezu Mijiro and was silent for a long time after reading the telegram, but his face was extremely pale, and he knew that this was probably something big again. After he received the telegram, he learned that the plane sent by Umezu Mijiro had encountered a sudden blow from the opponent's anti-aircraft fire during the take-off of Jiamusi.

The plane was shot down on the spot after being selected to pick up Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, and Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, along with the chief of staff of the 4th Division, were all killed in the explosion of the plane. And the fighters that served as cover were shot down as many as six.

Looking at the report sent by the air force, Umezu Mijiro was silent for a long time, and he and Yamashita Fengfumi looked at each other and smiled bitterly. The first army commander to die on the battlefield since the formation of the Japanese army finally appeared, although he had not yet officially taken office.

However, compared to Yamashita Fengfumi's feeling of sadness because of the death of Sawada Shigeru, Umezu Mijiro was extremely annoyed after learning that his plan failed, and secretly sighed that he still underestimated the strongest opponent he had encountered on the battlefield since he was in the army. Compared with the death of Shigeru Sawada, he was more worried about whether his opponent's next starvation tactics would be effective after obtaining a large amount of supplies hoarded in Jiamusi.

As the youngest general in the Japanese army except for the imperial family, Umezu Mijiro was able to go from a poor peasant family to the point where he is today, and he is not a simple figure at the top of the army university. In fact, since he was a child, he was evaluated by school teachers as smart, and not ordinarily smart. He always knows what he wants, what his opponents want.

He didn't simply give the order to send only one plane to venture to Jiamusi, which was now under heavy artillery fire, to pick up Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada. Because he knows that sending a single plane, for Jiamusi, which is not a large urban area, the distance between the enemy and us in a straight line is already extremely close, and it can be said that under the situation that the other party is fighting under the nose of the other party, the most important thing is that the Japanese army in Jiamusi City has no depth to rely on, which is too conspicuous and too dangerous.

When the opponent is faced with a single aircraft, he can calmly arrange an anti-aircraft fire network. Even organizing heavy machine-gun anti-aircraft fire made it possible to shoot down the plane, which most likely already had no cover. Although he Umezu Mijiro had never worked in the army aviation, his deputy chief of staff, Major General Saburo Nato, was an authentic aviation officer.

Under Saburo Endo's construction, Umezu Mijiro ordered all the bombers that could be dispatched by the Kwantung Army's air force stationed in North Manchuria, and bombed all the quartermaster warehouses in Jiamusi and the assembly area of the puppet Manchurian recruits, destroying all the materials captured by the opponent while also covering the plane that received Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada.

It's just that the hundreds of planes that had gathered at Jiamusi Airport earlier were blown up by the opponent's night attack on the airport, and all the aircrew members were killed and wounded. Coupled with the time constraints, there was no time for the air forces stationed in South Manchuria and West Manchuria to assemble, and the number of planes that the Kwantung Army could take off to participate in the bombing was really limited.

Even the fighters and reconnaissance planes that temporarily replaced the bombers with bombs were counted and there were only about 30 planes. And more than two dozen of them are fighters that have been temporarily rerouted.

In addition to the four Type 97 bombers that took off from Harbin Airport, only six of them survived before, and they were called horse manure eggs by the Army Aviation because of their poor quality, which means that the Italian BR 20 bombers are bright on the outside and terrible on the inside.

There is no way, the aviation of the Kwantung Army is now at its weakest. Not counting the hundreds of planes lost in the Battle of Nomenhan, the shelling of the Jiamusi airfield alone, the night raid, and the sudden flood at the end of August, brought a blow that was close to devastating to the air force of the Kwantung Army.

The plane is barely a trivial matter, and it can be somewhat supplemented. After all, the Japanese army, which has its own fairly strong aviation industry and can manufacture most of its own aircraft, can afford to lose hundreds of aircraft in a battle as long as it is not a long-term attrition. Although the speed of replenishment may be a little slower, there are still replenishments, isn't it?

Compared with the loss of aircraft, the most distressing thing for the Kwantung Army was an air battle, two attacks, which almost swept away those excellent pilots of the Kwantung Army. With the same slow replenishment of pilots, the Kwantung Army can now be said to be short of both man and machine. In desperation, it is not the job of the profession to use fighter planes to hang bombs to carry out bombing.

When Jiamusi Airport was attacked twice, because the opponent had no air force, and the fighter teams were hardly dispatched, the losses of pilots and planes were the lightest. At present, only fighter units can send a large number of aircraft into battle, although ground attacks have always been a bit of a side hustle for them.

How much Jiamusi has now, as the commander of the Kwantung Army, he still knows. The ammunition was not enough, but the winter clothes and a large amount of food that were reserved there for the entire Northeast Manchurian garrison were strategic materials urgently needed by the opponent. And only if these materials do not fall into the hands of the other side, can their next blockade plan be effective. Whether the bombing would cause civilian casualties was out of his mind.

Not only did some Umezu Mijiro who jumped over the wall not consider the casualties caused by this kind of bombing to civilians, but even Umezu Mijiro had in mind the idea of indiscriminately bombing the areas occupied by the opponent, killing and injuring the people in the areas under his control, and undermining the morale of the other side as a whole, as well as undermining the people's morale and weakening its subsequent development potential.

Umezu Mijiro wants to take out Sawada Shigeru and stew Yang Zhen's seized materials with a spoonful at the same time. But whether this idea can be implemented depends on whether Yang Zhen gives him this opportunity.

Regarding the idea that Umezu Mijiro, who lost it and couldn't let you get it, mobilize aviation to blow up the lost materials, Yang Zhen had already made a mental preparation.

Considering that he had no air superiority, after the first brigade entered Jiamusi and generally controlled the situation, the first thing Yang Zhen did was to immediately rush the materials from the various warehouses in the city out of the city. But it would be so easy to transport all of these supplies out of the city at once.

Fortunately, due to transportation, most of the warehouses of the Japanese army were concentrated along the railway, except for ammunition depots. More than 20,000 rescued laborers, as well as more than 20,000 puppet Manchu recruits captured in the north of Jiamusi City, used the captured trains, and before the Japanese planes arrived, several munitions depots had been roughly removed, except for one.

It's just that things are a little too hasty, and the materials that were moved out of the city can't find a proper place to settle for a while, and they can't all be transported across the river in a short time. These supplies can only be stored in a relatively secluded area along the railway line after they are transported out of the city. All of a sudden, outside Jiamusi City, as long as there is vegetation on both sides of the railway line, there are piles of military supplies such as winter clothes, gasoline barrels, ammunition boxes, and medical equipment.

Yang Zhen, who had already been mentally prepared, took the lead, plus there was plenty of labor. The most important thing is that the Jiamusi airport has fallen, and the Japanese planes participating in the air raid can only take off from Harbin, Mudanjiang and other areas, which in disguise has bought Yang Zhen a lot of time. and the temporary change of fighter pilots was not skilled in ground attack, and most of the bombs were off target, so that Umezu Mijiro's idea of letting Yang Zhen return empty-handed was ultimately frustrated.

However, although the losses of materials in the bombing were not large, only eighty percent of the loaded warehouses that had been rushed out were blown up. However, the residents of Jiamusi suffered many casualties in the indiscriminate and indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese army. Eighty percent of the bombs that were thrown off the rails ended up in residential areas.

The reason for such huge casualties to the people of Jiamusi is not only the entire Jiamusi, except for the place where the Japanese army is stationed by the air-raid shelter. Not to mention bomb shelters. Except for his own house, there is no place to cover even when a gap comes. At this time, the Chinese people were very unfamiliar with airplanes, especially the people of Jiamusi, who had never been bombed. That is, they did not know how to protect themselves from enemy air raids, nor did they know how to dodge Japanese planes.

Looking at the people who were killed and injured by the bombing, Yang Zhen was helpless even if he was filled with righteous indignation. When Wang Guangyu trapped Sawada Shigeru in the headquarters of the Fourth Division, in order to prevent the Japanese army from retaliating against the air attack, and also to avoid hurting innocent people in the fierce battle between the two sides. Yang Zhen had planned to temporarily move the Jiamusi situation out of the city for one to two days in the shortest possible time.

At least after solving the problem by himself, the rest of the Fourth Division, which was already a trapped beast and could only rely on the resistance of the Fourth Division, returned to the city. It's a pity that Yang Zhen's mouth is about to wear off, except for a very few people, most of them are still stranded in the city.

Under the condition that the people in the city were quite uncooperative, and their own air defense firepower was limited, Yang Zhen was very worried about whether the people of Jiamusi would bring any casualties. In order to ensure the safety of the people in the city, Yang Zhen could only deploy air defense troops in the city as much as possible to try to stop the Japanese air raids.

The power of the twelve anti-aircraft reinforced and six 20-mm anti-aircraft guns that could barely be put together was really limited. Although these improvised air defense units fought hard several times, the people in the city still suffered heavy casualties in the face of the wanton and indiscriminate bombing of Japanese planes.

In just one morning, although Yang Zhen's air defense unit shot down and damaged six Japanese planes, it failed to stop the fanatical soldiers of the Japanese air force from attacking indiscriminately like crazy. Under the almost frantic attack of the Japanese pilots, more than 140 civilians in the city were killed and more than 70 wounded.

On the contrary, because Yang Zhen's department had never thought of any air cover, and because he had received strict air defense training, the casualties were not large. Only about 50 people were killed or wounded in Japanese air raids.

Looking at the number of civilian casualties in the Japanese bombardment on the report, Yang Zhen's face turned pale. Although he was angry at the huge casualties caused by the Japanese army to the civilians and the seemingly indiscriminate air raid tactics, Yang Zhen did not lose his mind because of this. He knew that the more he got to this situation, the more calm he had to be.