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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 219 The power of air-ground coordination

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    Turning our attention back to China, the Allied Powers' intervention in the situation in Russia began with the Czech Legion's rebellion on February 20, 1918, and entered Japan when the Chinese and Japanese armies launched military operations against the Far East and Siberia. Of course, society  The Siberian Provisional Self-Government established by the revolutionaries and Mensheviks in Ufa also gained momentum after Kolchak led the White Guards and the Czech Army to capture the important Ural town of Kazan!

    For a time, rebellions broke out all over Russia, and the Soviet Russian government fell into unprecedented internal and external troubles. However, no matter how bad the situation was, the members of the Soviet Central Committee did not regret rejecting the Germans' harsh and unreasonable armistice conditions.

    In the words of Comrade Joseph, if we accepted the German conditions, we would be spurned and abandoned by the Russian people. Now that we have rejected the enemy, that means that we will continue to receive the support of the people. The people, and only the people are invincible.  Invincible power!

    In the first week of March 1918, the situation in Russia continued to develop in depth.

    On the eastern front of the Far East, on March 1, 1918, Zhang Zuoxiang's 17th Division, the vanguard of the Eastern Route Army of the Chinese Participating Army, launched an attack with the strength of one brigade of Zhang Zhijiang's 49th Mixed Brigade, with the cooperation of air and ground, and successfully conquered both sides.  The city!  They wiped out 3,000 local defenders and captured more than 2,000 prisoners, with no more than 200 casualties.

    On the same day in Vladivostok, the Japanese 12th Division after landing launched an attack on the Soviet garrison defending the second-line position and the central station in Vladivostok. Due to the lack of heavy artillery, Shibagoro's 12th Division faced a permanent barrage of reinforced concrete.  The preparations for the fortifications are progressing slowly. The Russians' Vladivostok Fortress defenses have a complete system. If the number of local Russian defenders had not been less than one brigade and there were no reinforcements, the 12th Division would still have been in trouble.  Blood flow.

    Although they were outnumbered, the Russians refused to retreat. Firstly, the Shuangchengzi behind them had been surrounded and cut off by the Chinese army. Secondly, the hatred between Japan and Russia was not ordinary, and they could be regarded as red-blooded.

    Although the 12th Division finally occupied almost two-thirds of the city of Vladivostok by the evening of that day after paying a heavy price, the Russian army with less than 1,500 people left in the core position of the Central Station was determined to fight to the death.  After the surrender, division commander Shibagoro once again received a condolence telegram from Fujii Yukitsuki of the 7th Division.

    Shibagoro, who was driven crazy by the almost mocking tone in Fujii's telegram, ordered the 48th Infantry Regiment to launch a meat-bomb charge. The Russian army had at least 20 Maxims in the core position. To say that the Twelfth Division was at this time  All the heavy artillery of the regiment's fortress artillery wing has been landed. Can't you just use the big artillery to blast it?  But Fujii didn't know what he was thinking. He couldn't wait for the cannon to be in place and ordered the 48th Infantry Regiment to conduct a meat-bomb charge!

    As a result, things took an unexpected turn. During the whole day's attack, the 12th Brigade of the 12th Division, which was the forward, had already disabled its own 14th Infantry Regiment, and the 24th Infantry Regiment of the 24th Brigade.  The team also suffered more than half casualties. At this time, the 48th Regiment, which was the reserve team of the brigade, launched a full-scale charge.

    However, the rumble of aircraft engines came from overhead. It turned out that the Chinese combat troops had successfully conquered Shuangchengzi. After learning that the Japanese army was in a bitter battle in Vladivostok, they sent their own aviation fleet to Vladivostok sooner or later to assist in the battle.

    Things got serious now, because it was almost dusk. The Chinese participating army air force's 3 dh4 reconnaissance bomber squadrons and 36 fighters were accompanied by 2 Handley Page 0/400 heavy bomber formations of 24 aircraft. In total,  When a black mass of 60 fighter planes appeared in the sky above Vladivostok, there was a problem with the air-ground coordination with the 12th Division. In fact, 60 Chinese bombers bombed the core positions of the Russian army in one wave, dropping nearly a hundred tons of aerial bombs.  .

    How can the destructive power of an aerial bomb weighing 250 kilograms dropped from a high altitude be comparable to that of a 75mm mountain artillery grenade weighing less than 7 kilograms?  The core position of the Russian army was bombed beyond recognition and turned into a river of blood. The 48th Infantry Regiment of the 12th Brigade of the Japanese 12th Division, which rushed to the position, also suffered heavy casualties!

    Almost all of the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 48th Regiment, which was at the forefront, was killed along with the Russian troops on the position. The two infantry brigades that followed also suffered one-third of their casualties. In just ten minutes, 3,800 people died.  The 48th Infantry Regiment suffered more than half of its casualties, and they were supported by nearly 1,500 remnants of the Russian army on the position.

    This is the first time that the Japanese army in the Far East has witnessed the tremendous power of air strikes. In the last Sun-Default War, mankind's first aircraft appeared only two years ago. In the European War that began in 1914, the aircraft were just small ones at the beginning.  Both sides used it for reconnaissance and artillery calibration, and later quickly developed into air combat and ground attacks.

    The Japanese Air Force bought a few aircraft from France and Italy for research and imitation. There was no large-scale production equipment and application before 1918. Although the Chinese only dispatched 2 light bomber squadrons today, they happened to encounter  A once-in-a-lifetime Japanese army's hand-to-hand bomb attack rushed to the Russian army's position and achieved unexpected kills.??Effect!

    Of course, if you want to say that Wang Geng arranged for the air force in Suifenhe to deliberately bomb the Japanese by mistake, that is not true. After all, at least in Siberia and the Far East, Wang Geng was still happy to let the Japanese serve as the punitive force to deal with Soviet Russia.  of the guerrillas, this was purely an accidental bombing. At most, the aerial reconnaissance was not detailed enough. In addition, it was getting late. At least half of the pilots of the aviation force stationed in Suifenhe had not completed their night flight training courses, so they looked at the sun quickly.  When I came down the mountain, I thought about throwing bombs at the Russian position and leaving!

    Anyway, it¡¯s a war zone down there and there¡¯s no squadron!

    Not to mention the grievance between the 12th Division and their division commander Shiba Goro, the Chinese Participating Army Air Force rushed to help out at dusk or it was the Japanese Minister in Beijing Lin Quansuke and Wang Geng who asked for help, Shiba Goro was killed  Fujii of the 7th Division went crazy due to the crowds, but Lin Quansuke in Beijing did not go crazy. The Chinese ** team launched an air-ground coordinated offensive in Shuangchengzi at noon that day and wiped out the local defenders in one fell swoop, showing the huge power of aircraft bombing.

    Lin Quanzhu cried and asked Wang Geng for air support. He knew that with the arrogance of the Japanese army division commanders, they would never ask for tactical guidance from the Japanese military headquarters or Chinese friendly forces.  What's more, the Twelfth Division in the direction of Vladivostok only faced a Russian army of less than one brigade, and the strength ratio was 4:1. If this battle was fought by 6,000 people, the Twelfth Division would ask for tactical guidance.

    Then Shibagoro will never mess around again!  Originally, because of Aizuban's background, he was already not favored by big shots in the military. If the war really broke down, Shibagoro might even be ordered to commit seppuku!

    Not to mention, the kid¡¯s intelligence-gathering ability is not very strong. Let¡¯s just say that this Chai Goro, when he was stationed in the Qing Dynasty as the military attache of the embassy, ??he dressed up as a Chinese citizen and wandered around the suburbs of Beijing for half a month.  At that time, surveying and mapping produced a one-fifty-thousandth military map of the suburbs of Beijing.

    As for the War Supervisor Wang Geng, he is a bold guy with a high level of skill. He has been using the intelligence channels of the little Japs in the past year to get information. As long as he wants the things in the Banxi Mansion and the Kanto Prefecture Super High School,  He went directly to Lin Quanzhu. Of course, the Japanese minister did not help for free. Wang Geng also responded to the information from the Americans and communicated privately with Lin Quanzhu from time to time.

    As a result, this time Lin Quanzhu and Wang Geng wanted to provide air support to the 12th Division. An unexpected combination of circumstances caused heavy casualties to the 12th Division, and they were still suffering unspeakably. They knocked out their front teeth and swallowed them in their stomachs.  !

    "Wang Sangyour aviation teamcan't really tell the difference between the Japanese army and the Russian army? Shibagoro's 12th Division asked you to drop bombs that wiped out half of the regiment! This is  How will I explain to others in the future?" Lin Quanzhu complained to Wang Geng with a sad face afterwards.

    "I can't tell the difference. Looking at it from an altitude of 500 meters, everyone is just an ant. If you can tell the Japanese and Russian troops from coming, my pilots must be gods. I am also very sorry that accidental damage occurred. After all, we are here to help."  Rather than adding to the chaos, I would say the key is that you have to hand over the radio code of the Japanese frontline to me, otherwise we will be unable to coordinate in the future and we will end up with nothing!" Wang Geng replied leisurely.

    On March 1, 1918, the 49th Brigade of the 17th Division of the Chinese Communist Army regained Shuangchengzi. On the same day, the Japanese 12th Division captured Vladivostok. However, Zhang Zhijiang's 49th Brigade took a train from Shuangchengzi.  The city drove directly into Vladivostok, and the Japanese army did not even have time to clean the battlefield at this moment.

    "According to the command from the top, the 49th Mixed Brigade of the 17th Division of the Participating Army is here to hand over the defense of Vladivostok to your army!" Zhang Zhijiang, the brigade commander who rushed to Vladivostok without stopping, led Zhang Zuoxiang to strengthen his division's armored regiment and his own  The brigade belonged to an armored battalion, and it appeared at the gate of the headquarters of the Vladivostok Expeditionary Force when the lights were on.

    This guy gave a casual salute to Chai Wulang, the commander of the 12th Division opposite, and said carelessly.
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