Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 2390 The Importance of Air Command

While the third Wuhan battle was in full swing, an air-to-ground battle was taking place in the WLCB area of ​​Inner Mongolia.The two warring parties, in the air, are the First Fighter Division and the Third and Sixth Long-range Aviation Divisions under the Chinese Air Force General Headquarters;

Inner Mongolia's special terrain has actually already determined the outcome of this confrontation.However, because Hu Li and Zhang Zizhong's troops are attacking HHHT, Yoshio and Yano Masao have sent no fewer than ten telegrams for help to Umezu Yoshijiro and Okamura Neiji last month. Umezu Yoshijiro and Okamura Neiji still had no choice but to bite the bullet and drill into the trap.

In the Xuzhou air battle, the Japanese air force suffered a major defeat. After the relevant battle reports were sent to Okamura Neiji and Umezu Yoshijiro, the two of them realized that it was unrealistic to solve the Inner Mongolia issue before the Soviet Union and the Far East.Both of them were decisive people. After weighing the balance, they made the following decision. The Inner Mongolia Raiders continued, but the Far Eastern Army no longer served as the main force, and the main force was taken by the North China Front Army. Instead, take the Eastern Front to attack Soviet Russia.The original goal of the Inner Mongolia Raiders set by the two was complete control, but now the goal has changed to maintain the status quo, and then attack Outer Mongolia after stabilizing the current front.

The mobilization of Japanese troops failed to hide the truth from Hu Li. After calculations by Hu Li and Jiang Tiezhang, they believed that with the support of the air force and the troops of Zhang Zizhong and Fu Zuoyi, it could be resolved before the Far East Expeditionary Force entered Mongolia. Regarding the Inner Mongolia issue, he contacted Zhang Zizhong and Fu Zuoyi and decided to take the initiative to launch an attack.Among the three Chinese armies in the Northwest region, the Northwest Group Army (formerly the Northwest Army of the Xuebing Army—the Army Group) adopts the strategy of all the people as soldiers, and is the most terrifying in scale at present; while Fu Zuoyi belongs to the land, although the size of the army is not as large as the Northwest Army, but Its degree of regularization is higher than that, and because it has been firmly in control of parts of Suiyuan and Chahar, it can be regarded as a relatively stable development, and it can be regarded as a nail that has successfully embedded in the hinterland of the Japanese army; The Fu Zuoyi Ministry is different. In the era of the Nationalist Government, although the Ministry was able to obtain some supplies from the Xuebing Army through the Northwest Army Corps, most of them needed to be self-sufficient, so its development path was a bit like that of the Communist Party. It mainly fights guerrillas, so the loss of its soldiers is also the largest.Although the number of soldiers is small, but because they are all experienced veterans, their unit combat effectiveness is the highest among the three troops.No, after receiving supplies from Chongqing, the Ministry immediately rose to prominence and became Neji Okamura's confidant.

Marching on the prairie is unobstructed, and beyond a certain scale, it is impossible to hide their whereabouts.Therefore, since Zhang Zizhong entered Inner Mongolia, his whereabouts have been controlled by the Japanese army.At that time, Neiji Okamura judged their intentions, but because the Chinese fighter planes never stopped their nuisance, he couldn't send a large army to intercept them.It wasn't until Zhang Zizhong and Hu Li joined forces and began to attack Sifang that he realized the danger of their union, and then he could only be led away by the nose.

After Japan introduced 88mm anti-aircraft guns from Germany, its independent production has now scaled up. Therefore, both the Far East Army and the North China Front Army are equipped with a large number of such high-efficiency anti-aircraft guns.The Japanese still have some cleverness. They can't make land and air combat vehicles similar to the Xuebing Army, so they install 88mm anti-aircraft guns on army cards or armored vehicles. Therefore, such strange things appear in the more elite Japanese troops. In the strict queue, there are always some strange-looking trucks or armored vehicles.

A large number of actual combats have proved the high efficiency of the German 88mm anti-aircraft gun. However, just like the contest between the shield and the spear, the spear has always been the favored side. Chinese fighters still have a strong position in the contest with the Japanese ground air defense forces. firm dominant position.Moreover, the aerial fortress can carry out horizontal bombing at an altitude of 8000 meters, which is exactly the upper limit of the air defense of the 88mm anti-aircraft gun.Therefore, although the 88mm anti-aircraft guns have caused considerable trouble to the pilots of the Chinese Air Force, it is impossible to affect the direction of the battle.

Zhou Zhirou was in charge of providing air support to the Far East Expeditionary Force. He cleverly divided the air force directly under the Air Force Headquarters into several groups. Each group was equipped with certain fighters and bombers, and each group took off at a certain time interval. The continuity of the bombing was guaranteed.

As far as the ghost soldiers of the North China Front Army and the Far East Army were concerned, the previous batch of Chinese fighter planes were still hovering over their heads, and the next batch of Chinese fighter planes appeared in their field of vision again, as if endlessly. Naturally, it was a heavy blow to their morale.After being trained by Okamura Ningji, the North China Front Army has grown into the elite of the Japanese army stationed in China, and its combat effectiveness is no less than that of the standing divisions at the beginning of the invasion of China.However, in this kind of asymmetrical battle, the Japanese army had the embarrassment that they had nowhere to use them, and most of the time they could only dodge and escape but had no resistance. No matter how high their combat effectiveness was, it was useless.

This air-to-ground battle lasted from ten o'clock in the morning to more than three o'clock in the afternoon. In the end, after all the 88mm anti-aircraft guns were destroyed, the Japanese army had to disperse and evacuate. With their evacuation, the Mongolian army was destroyed. It has become an unchangeable fact.

At around nine o'clock in the evening, Neji Okamura, in Huai'an County, west of Zhangjiakou, saw the first batch of troops withdrawing and witnessed the distraught scene of his subordinates. This is the evil result of losing air supremacy! Stupid Lieutenant Tojo!"

Before the Xuzhou air battle, although the Japanese air forces did not have an advantage in China, they were still able to meet the Chinese Air Force's long-range raid forces in a targeted manner, and they could also provide limited air support to the ground forces.What now?Taking the North China Front Army as an example, all its fighter planes add up to less than a hundred. Not to mention going to Inner Mongolia to provide support for ground troops, even helping the local garrison to guard the local airspace has become a problem.Prior to this, Okamura Ningji had been vigorously transforming the ground forces.According to his estimation, if another battle of the scale of the Battle of Changsha happened again, the North China Front Army would definitely be able to draw with a comparable number of Xuebing Army.He has put too much effort into reforming the North China Front Army, so naturally he has high hopes for it.But in one day, he suddenly discovered that because he had completely lost the air supremacy, no matter how powerful the ground troops were, they were just the fate of cannon fodder. Tiao Yingji feels resentful? !
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