All this happened, Okamura Neji didn't even get the news.
This is not because Colonel Ishida deliberately concealed the information, but because Colonel Ishida has the same habits as most Japanese commanders...
After a defeat that is considered a great shame and humiliation, they often choose not to report it, but wait until they win the battle with a full-out final blow, and then report it to their superiors.
They believe that this way they will not lose their honor or affect their promotion.
But needless to say what the result was, this time Colonel Ishida failed to save his face as he hoped.
On the contrary, his last act of madness cost the North China Front all the capital it had accumulated... Fighter planes flew into the sky one after another. When they saw the "special bombs" flying in the air, they became accustomed to intercepting them, and then
There is no more.
Even if they escaped the bombing of the "special bomb", what was waiting for them ahead was the impact of the Eighth Route Army's "Hawker 81".
This was completely unexpected by the Japanese pilots.
Because the Japanese once thought that fighting the "Hawker 81" was a "zero battle" mission, and they only needed to intercept the "special bomb".
Without psychological preparation... To be precise, the Japanese pilots responded to the challenge in a state of panic.
The reason is that they can't help but make such conjectures:
If the Eighth Route Army's "Hawker 81" appears in front of them, does that mean the "Zero War" has been destroyed?
If the "Zero War" has been destroyed, then are their backward models still opponents?
What new trump card does "Hawker 81" have that can actually defeat "Zero War"?
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The most unsightly thing about air combat is the psychological burden. As a result, one after another Japanese fighter jets were beaten down by the "Hawker 81".
Half an hour later, Okamura Neiji was still leaning on a chair at the Taiyuan headquarters, squinting his eyes, listening to music and waiting for good news from the front line. However, Shinozuka Yoshio hurried to Okamura Neiji and reported:
"Your Majesty... General, our army and air force have been defeated!"
Okamura Neiji opened his eyes, turned around and asked Shinozuka Yoshio: "What did you say? What kind of defeat? Air Force!"
"Yes!" Yoshio Shinozuka stood up and lowered his head.
"Where is our 'zero war'?" Okamura Neiji asked: "Don't we have a 'zero war'? How could we be defeated?!"
Okamura Neiji believes that as long as the "Zero War" brigade is in charge of this battle, the Imperial Air Force will be in an invincible position, and this cannot be changed.
However, Yoshio Shinozuka reported with difficulty: "General, this is a 'special bomb'. The Eighth Route Army... changed the 'special bomb' to explode in the air."
"Air explosion?" Okamura Neji couldn't help being surprised.
"Yes!" Yoshio Shinozuka added: "I don't know what means the Eighth Route Army used. When our fighter planes approached the 'special bomb', they could actually sense it, and then exploded in the air. Many fighter planes were blown to pieces or destroyed.
Failure and crash, including...including the 'Zero War' brigade!"
Neji Okamura's eyelids twitched suddenly, and then he suddenly stood up and took the battle report from Yoshio Shinozuka's hand. He saw it read: "In the 'Zero War', 32 aircraft were damaged, 26 were missing, and 4 survived."
27 Type 97 aircraft were damaged in battle, 36 were missing, and 7 survived. Type 98 aircraft..."
Seeing this, Okamura Neji couldn't stand it anymore.
He knew that the so-called "missing" was just a self-comforting way of reporting. In fact, they were not "missing", but were blown up to pieces, or the commander mistook the battle report to prevent it from being too ugly.
The "missing" fighter planes will appear again in the future...
Okamura Neiji slapped the battle report on the table, gritted his teeth and asked: "Where is Ishida? Pick up Ishida from the Air Force!"
Yoshio Shinozuka stood up and replied: "Colonel Ishida has committed suicide!"
Colonel Ishida knew that he could not escape death, so he chose a way that he thought was more honorable to end his life... If he had to wait for an order from his superiors, such as removing him from his post and then sending him to a military court, and finally shooting or
There is no honor in dying in prison. It would be better to end up wearing the uniform of a colonel while all this is still happening.
So, Colonel Ishida put his own gun to his temple and pulled the trigger.
Okamura Neji gritted his teeth and said nothing.
He has always disliked this so-called atonement method of imperial soldiers.
Can committing suicide clear oneself of all responsibilities?
That's just a way of deceiving himself and others. The mess he left behind is all left to the living people, and the person responsible can't be found!
But after thinking about it, Okamura Neji sighed again.
Could it be that I am not one of the persons responsible for this failure?
Ishida committed suicide, and his responsibility is gone.
Does the responsibility for the failure lie solely on yourself?
How is he going to explain it to Tokyo?
These thoughts just flashed through Okamura Neiji's mind. His long career in intelligence and command made Okamura Neiji know what was most important at this time.
He immediately ordered: "Stop all offensives immediately, and the heavy artillery unit will evacuate immediately..."
But as soon as he saw Yoshio Shinozuka's expression, Okamura Neji realized something and asked: "The heavy artillery regiment was also bombed?"
"Yes!" Yoshio Shinozuka replied: "The heavy artillery regiment... only twelve artillery pieces survived, and more than half of them were damaged!"
Okamura Neiji could only itch with hatred. What was going on with this "special bomb" of the Eighth Route Army? It could blow up both planes and heavy artillery!
In fact, this is not difficult to understand.
The Eighth Route Army's "high-fire" weapons equipped with proximity fuzes were actually incapable of blowing up aircraft.
The reason why the plane can be blown up is because the plane actively approaches it and wants to intercept it.
Therefore, it is not that it wants to blow up the plane, but that the plane is flying up to seek death.
Bombing "heavy artillery positions" is its main business, so what about "Zero War", "Nine-Six", "Nine-Seven" styles... they are all taken away by the way.
Okamura Neiji was wise enough to withdraw his troops as soon as he saw that the situation was not right, thus avoiding possible greater losses.
Wang Xuexin had already set up pocket formations on the Yuncheng defense line and was waiting for the Japanese to infiltrate.
As a result, just when a large group of Japanese soldiers were about to sneak in, they retreated at the critical moment. This can not but be said to be a pity for this victory.
But this was something he knew before the war... Wang Xuexin could have waited for a large group of Japanese soldiers to get in before launching an offensive, but that would have caused losses to Yuncheng and the people.
As the saying goes, there are gains and losses, and nothing is perfect.
What Wang Xuexin didn't know was that while he was still feeling sorry for not being able to encircle and annihilate a large group of Japanese soldiers, his victory in the battle was a sensation at home and abroad.