In the early morning, Okamura Neiji, who was still awake, finally received the news he had been waiting for.
The attendant carefully knocked on the door and entered Okamura Neiji's office. He stood at attention and lowered his head to Okamura Neiji who looked up under the desk lamp. The corner of his mouth twitched slightly and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, the plane that attacked Taiyuan has returned."
Neji Okamura asked expressionlessly: "Where's Commander Aoi, why doesn't he come and report to me in person?"
The attendant straightened his waist again and lowered his head lower: "The air raid force led by Commander Aoi only flew back seven planes. According to the pilot's report, the plane piloted by Commander Aoi has been shot down by Xie Baoqing. Commander Aoi should He has already sacrificed his life for his country.”
Okamura Ningji shouted and stood up: "Where are they? Bring them here."
The attendant responded cheerfully, turned around, turned on the office light, and shouted out the door: "Your Excellency, the Commander, orders you to come in."
The seven pilots waiting outside the door walked into Okamura Neji's office anxiously, and lined up in front of the desk, with their heads lowered and not daring to speak, like their dead father.
Neji Okamura walked out from behind his desk with a face as deep as the bottom of a pot, and glanced at the seven pilots.
Seven people, two of whom were injured, were brought here with only simple bandages. The injured did not even have time to remove the bullet fragments from their bodies.
Okamura Ning scanned the seven people one by one, pointed at the highest-ranking Lieutenant Colonel among the seven with a dark face, and said: "You answer, what's going on? Only seven of you flew back out of 200 planes."
Lieutenant Colonel looked up at Neji Okamura and said fearfully: "Xie Baoqing's anti-aircraft firepower is too powerful. He seems to have expected that we would attack Taiyuan. He has deployed a large number of anti-aircraft firepower and searchlights around Taiyuan. It should be still There are radar vehicles. Our aircraft group has fallen into their encirclement. Their anti-aircraft guns and large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns are everywhere in front, back, left, and right. The intensity of the firepower is like an iron wall, and we cannot break through at all..."
Okamura Neji stared closely at Lieutenant Colonel's face without showing a trace of expression, but his heart was already filled with stormy waves.
Xie Baoqing's guess that he would go to air raid Taiyuan would not surprise him. Xie Baoqing wiped out his 6th Tank Brigade, and his first target of revenge would definitely be Taiyuan.
He just wants to crush Xie Baoqing with his numerical advantage. Don't you have a few planes? Didn't you capture a few anti-aircraft guns? Let me see how you deal with the intensive bombing of my 200 planes.
For such an important strategic location as Niangziguan, the Japanese army only deployed two anti-aircraft guns.
Of course, the vulnerability of the Japanese army's air defense firepower is also related to the lack of air power of the Chinese army. Now there are only a few aircraft in the hands of the Flying Tigers, Chongqing Flying Training Corps and Xie Baoqing in China, which is not as many as Zhang Zuolin's Northeast Army.
Zhang Zuolin purchased more than 160 fighter jets abroad, some of which were even antiques from the First World War, but the number was large enough.
Facing the Chinese Air Force, the Japanese army has no need to deploy too many air defense weapons.
Therefore, Okamura Neji also took it for granted that Xie Tian would not have many anti-aircraft weapons in his hands.
Okamura Neji never thought that the air defense weapons produced by Xie Tian were multi-functional. Take the quadruple anti-aircraft cannon as an example. The quadruple anti-aircraft cannon can be used as an anti-aircraft weapon or as a combat anti-aircraft cannon. Mount it on a vehicle and transform it into an assault vehicle.
Okamura Neiji would never have thought that the weapons and equipment currently produced by Xie Tian were products of this era, and in terms of equipment performance, they had already crushed the current weapons and equipment of the Japanese army.
There were so many things that Okamura Neji didn't expect. What he least expected was that the opponent he was facing was not from this era at all. Otherwise, he might have given up struggling long ago.
But it's too late to say anything now. Information asymmetry will lead to misjudgments and strategic decision-making errors.
The Sixth Tank Brigade was destroyed and no one survived. Those Japanese soldiers who were alive were burned to death in Jianjia Ridge by Fu Zuoyi, and no telegram was even sent back.
Until now, Okamura Neiji didn't know that Xie Tian already had a large-scale armored force, and he still couldn't figure out how Xie Baoqing used to annihilate the 6th Tank Brigade.
If he had known that the 6th Tank Brigade was annihilated in a head-to-head encounter with Xie Baoqing's tank division, perhaps he would not have launched this retaliatory action, at least he would not have chosen Taiyuan as the target of revenge.
Wouldn't it be better to conduct an air raid on the soft persimmon Datong?
Even if it were an air raid on Jingxing and Pingxingguan, it would not suffer such heavy damage.
After listening to the pilot's report with a dark face, Okamura Neiji asked the two injured pilots a few more questions. He already clearly understood the reason for the failure of the air raid. He weakly pushed back a few people, closed the door, turned off the lights, and left again. After returning to his desk, he sat down and sat there until dawn.
In the eyes of Neji Okamura, this Xie Baoqing was like a hedgehog covered in thorns. He couldn't be killed or beaten, and he was so damn disgusting that he couldn't even eat it.
Now Neji Okamura's last hope is that Yoshiko Kawashima can successfully assassinate Xie Baoqing, otherwise the outcome waiting for him may not be as simple as being dismissed from his post and investigated.
Little did Okamura Neji know that Yoshiko Kawashima had been tied up and imprisoned in a dungeon by Xie Tian, and was being used as a meat ticket to bargain with Chongqing for a ransom.
The war is all about resources, and gold is worth thousands of taels of gold when the guns are fired. Xie Tian can't maintain his absolute advantage over the Japanese army no matter how hard he tries to make money.
Seeing with their own eyes the powerful anti-aircraft firepower of Xie Baoqing's troops, Chief He, Chief He and others bumped heads and made a decisive decision to bring a batch of anti-aircraft weapons back to Chongqing no matter what to relieve the disturbance in Chongqing.
But this is only their decision, and they still need to ask the old man for approval.
This Xie Baoqing's appetite is too big. Kawashima Yoshiko's matter has not been settled yet, and the anti-aircraft weapons may be hit again.
After coming down from the rooftop, there was no need to continue the wine table. Everyone made tea in the living room. Director He tested Xie Tian's attitude. Sure enough, the matter of Yoshiko Kawashima and the matter of anti-aircraft weapons were two different things and should be discussed separately.
Xie Tian spread his hands with a grimace on his face: "Director He, colleagues, you have also seen that my expenses here are really too high. For the sake of the great cause of the Anti-Japanese War, we hope that the rear will give us more support."
General He brought the people of Chongqing to talk about the matter, but Xie Tian simply kidnapped the cause of the war of resistance, and bluntly described Chongqing as the rear.
Compared with the forefront of Shanxi, Hebei, and Luyu, Chongqing was indeed considered the rear area. In addition to regular air raids, the Japanese army was basically unable to move westward. The battle line was too long.
