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Chapter 706: The Japanese Army¡¯s Fierce Reaction (Part 2)

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    On May 15, the Japanese Provisional Aviation Corps of the North China Front launched an all-round bombing of Lanzhou!

    In fact, this is not the first time that Lanzhou City has been bombed by the Japanese army. As early as December 1937, the Kisarazu Land Air Force of the Japanese Navy carried out a major bombing of Lanzhou City.

    At that time, the Little Devils dispatched 11 heavy bombers, taking off from Nanyuan Airport in Peiping, led by Major Sugaji, the captain of the 1st Battalion of the Air Force, and headed straight to Lanzhou.

    In order to conceal its intentions, its flight route avoided the main transportation line from Xi'an to Lanzhou, passing through Wutai in Shanxi on the North Road, Jiaxian in northern Shaanxi, and Yinchuan in Ningxia, then turned left and flew to Lanzhou through the air above Jingyuan.

    At that time, the N-15 and N-16 fighter jets stationed at Lanzhou Airport took off to fight, and the anti-aircraft artillery troops on the ground also fired in the air. In a hurry, these 11 enemy planes dropped all 200 kilograms of bombs at once and returned. Among them were  More than 10 bombs were dropped on Kong Xingdun Airport east of Lanzhou.

    When these enemy planes returned, they passed through Security and Taiyuan, and finally all landed at Nanyuan Airport.

    After that, the 12th Heavy Bomber Group of the Japanese Army and Air Force Harada Uichiro Harada and Osanoki Bomber Group stationed in Baotou also used 5 Italian Fiat aircraft to take off at dawn on November 15, 1938. They bombed Lanzhou again, but were intercepted by Chinese Air Force fighter jets.  and anti-aircraft artillery attacks.

    The troops planning to bomb Lanzhou this time moved from Peiping to Yuncheng, Shanxi Province in early May. However, the mobilization of Japanese aviation units has been discovered by China's reconnaissance department.

    ¡°Then the Nationalist Government dispatched a group of c§¢ Soviet light bombers and suddenly bombed the Japanese aircraft parked at Yuncheng Airport!

    But the real losses of the Japanese army this time were not large, because there were many fake planes made of wooden boards by the Japanese army at the airport, which were used to deceive Chinese ground reconnaissance personnel and aerial reconnaissance and bombing.

    On May 17, all teams of the Japanese North China Aviation Corps were concentrated. On that day, the Aviation Corps issued an initial combat order to attack Lanzhou Airport.

    The landmarks of the Loess Plateau in northwest China are not very obvious and difficult to identify from the air.  In order to familiarize its troops with the terrain in this area in advance and prevent them from getting lost, the Japanese army specially designated some squadron leaders with strong piloting capabilities to fly the aircraft of the 16th and 18th Independent Reconnaissance Squadrons to familiarize themselves with the route from Yuncheng to Lanzhou.

    In order to conceal the bombing attempt and suppress the Chinese air force bases south and west of Yuncheng, the Japanese bombed Luoyang, Xi'an, Pingliang and other places northwest of Baoji before bombing Lanzhou to confuse the bombing targets.

    However, the Japanese plan to bomb Lanzhou failed because before their fleet approached Lanzhou City, they were intercepted by the Chinese Air Force.

    After three consecutive bombing failures, the Japanese aviation force had to summarize the bombing of Lanzhou. When summarizing the reasons for these bombing failures, it was believed that in addition to choosing a bombing entry direction, it was easy to be attacked by fighter jets, and the formation was disordered and easy to be attacked.  In addition to being shot down and other tactical reasons, there are several other issues worth noting!

    First, using current heavy bombers to carry out long-distance bombing in formation under normal weather conditions without direct cover from fighter jets will not only make it difficult to complete the mission, both tactically and operationally, but will also cause great damage.

    Second, if the bombing of important targets is carried out under favorable weather conditions during the day, the opponent will be able to better utilize its fighter jets and anti-aircraft guns.

    Third, in the Lanzhou area, China¡¯s air power can be exerted not only due to favorable meteorological conditions, but also because this area is the central base of the Soviet Volunteer Air Force. It has the determination and a steady stream of manpower and equipment to defend the area.  Is it necessary for the Japanese army to engage in a war of attrition with limited long-range bombing aviation at this moment?

    Based on the bombing force's repeated defeats in Lanzhou, the Japanese base camp finally decided to stop bombing Lanzhou, but continued to carry out other places in the northwest as usual.

    "The Nationalist Government was also quite surprised by the Japanese army's reaction!

    In the view of Lao Jiang and others, the Japanese army was completely stimulated and did not act according to common sense at all!

    Although they caught the Japs off guard in Nanchang, the tactical effect was average. The Chinese side of the counterattack in Nanchang not only failed to achieve the strategic goal of capturing Nanchang City, but also suffered a loss of troops and numerous casualties. It was a loss-making deal no matter how you look at it.

    However, the little devil seemed to have been greatly stimulated and reacted quickly. Both land and air forces were dispatched one after another, just like a wild beast with exploded hair.

    Even Chiang Kai-shek and others suspected that if the Japanese warships were not able to land, they would probably send all the warships ashore to fight!

    oldWhat Jiang didn't know was that the Japanese army reacted so violently because they were frightened by their own speculation.

    With the local counterattack of the Chinese army, the Japanese base camp has realized the danger. If the will of the Chinese government and army to resist cannot be completely destroyed, the final trend of this war will be indefinite attrition and tug-of-war.

    And such a war is not what the Japanese government and base camp want to see, because Japan simply cannot afford the consumption!

    Although in terms of national strength, Japan is indeed much stronger than China. After all, with the accumulation of nearly half a century during the Meiji Restoration, Japan is much stronger than the poor and weak China in every aspect. Therefore, they can  Victory in local battles.

    But after all, China has a vast territory, rich resources, and strategic depth. Even Japan cannot occupy them all in a short time. Once the Chinese government is determined to fight with them, Japan will be trapped in the quagmire of war indefinitely.

    Once such a situation is formed, Japan's economy will inevitably decline due to the war, which is what the Japanese government does not want to see.

    In fact, Japan¡¯s economy has reached an unsustainable point at this time. Even though the whole country is tightening its belt, it is still difficult to ensure the supply of frontline troops.

    So there was an embarrassing situation where people in Japan were hungry and frontline troops couldn't eat enough.

    Therefore, after seeing signs of partial counterattack by the Chinese army, the first reaction of the Japanese government and military was to stop this trend of the Chinese army and completely destroy their will to resist.

    This is not because the Japanese army's reaction was too fierce, but because the Chinese and the Chinese army have grown so fast that their enemies have felt the danger.

    In fact, this is indeed the case. As the front line extends, the Japanese troops on the front line become more dispersed and their morale continues to decline.

    "The heavy war consumption and the abnormal development of the military industry have put Japan's economy and finance into increasingly difficult situations.

    The development of guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines and the expansion of anti-Japanese base areas increasingly posed a serious threat to the Japanese army.

    Faced with the situation that the war has become protracted, the Japanese invaders also began to change their strategy of invading China.  Militarily, the Japanese army basically stopped strategic attacks on frontal battlefields and gradually focused its attention on attacking and destroying the armed forces behind enemy lines.

    Politically, it changed to a policy that focused on political inducement and supplemented by military strikes, in an attempt to induce the Kuomintang government to compromise and surrender.  Wang Jingwei, the leader of the pro-Japanese faction of the Kuomintang and the executive director of the National Government, openly surrendered to the enemy. It was precisely because Japan induced Japan to surrender that the Kuomintang camp was severely shaken and divided.

    Therefore, behind the fierce reaction of the Japanese army is a lot of helplessness. If the Chinese army cannot stop this trend before it shows signs of local counterattack, then it is conceivable that on such a long front, the Chinese army will have too many counterattacks.  opportunity.

    By then, once this kind of local counterattack becomes the norm, it will inevitably cause the Japanese Imperial Army to run around!

    However, what the Japanese army did not know was that China had spent five thousand years in war, especially in the two thousand years after entering feudal society. China was at war almost all the time, and even once the nation was in danger.

    But no matter whether it was the Five Husbands who disrupted China or the various troubled times that followed, China was able to get up at its lowest point and trample under its feet the bastards who bullied them. The resilience of the Chinese nation is extremely rare among all nations in the world.

    The Japanese army may seem menacing at the moment, but in fact it is at the end of its battle, and the Chinese army will seize the opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the Japanese army.

    In fact, a huge storm is brewing in Lunan, Shandong at this time!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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