mixed in the war

Some time ago, the [***] squadron won frequently. The main reason was that the Air Force could always drop the bombs on the enemy's head accurately at the exact time and at the exact place.In the battle of Nanchang, the Japanese lost three divisions and a strategic heavy artillery brigade, as well as hundreds of armored vehicles and tanks in this way; There was not much loss in soldiers, but in the end, he encountered the Chinese Air Force when he was retreating; and the Battle of Inner Mongolia, if Fu Zuoyi did not have the help of the Chinese Air Force, it would be impossible to easily defeat Naozaburo Okabe and establish his strategy in one fell swoop Advantage.

But not now.

Terauchi Shouyi has been beaten a lot, and finally discovered the weakness of the Chinese Air Force: less!

No matter how capable and dominant it is, the Chinese Air Force has far fewer aircraft than their Japanese aircraft.Although the Japanese air force is currently taking care of the Siberia battlefield, which is where the real money is spent, but the Chinese battlefield is so big, how can it take care of the Chinese Air Force's small aircraft?And as long as the Chinese Air Force is not there to make trouble, the Imperial Japanese Army will still be afraid of the soft Chinese Army?Fortunately, he, Kenji Doihara and the others were so desperate that they insisted on destroying the Chinese Air Force and winning air supremacy in one fell swoop. As a result, the Imperial Air Force suffered heavy losses and even lost two battleships...

After regaining his senses in this way, Terauchi Shouichi finally used his general-level ingenuity to send bombers to bomb Yucheng, Changsha, Yichang, Zhuzhou and other places. advantage.Now, his four divisions are fighting the Chinese on two battlefields.Among them, in the Vietnam battlefield, the three divisions of Haruki Hyakutake, Shozo Kawabe, and Kumayoshi Harada attacked Du Yuming's army, which had a huge advantage and was likely to take Guangxi in one fell swoop.As for the Guangdong battlefield, although facing the onslaught of the four armies of Xu Tingyao's 35th Army, he seems to have only one 5th Division that has just been supplemented and formed in his hand to fight against, but he still has two cards hidden, that is Yantian Ding Qi's Taiwan brigade and Takeshi Sakurada's guards mixed brigade... just wait for the opponent to enter the city of Guangzhou, and the new forces of these two brigades will suddenly burst out and annihilate the opponent under the city of Guangzhou.

This is war!This is the battle fought by the Imperial Japanese Army!

Imagining the situation where he would decide Guangdong and Guangxi in the First World War, Terauchi Shouichi seemed to have rediscovered the scenery he had when he led troops to sweep North China.

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And when Shouyi commanded troops in the temple to wreak havoc in Guangdong and Guangxi, and Bai Chongxi, Qin Wei, and Xu Tingyao failed frequently to deal with each other, Shanxi in the north, [***] also encountered big troubles. [

Hu Zongnan never thought that Yoshio Shinozuka would dare to take the initiative to attack him.In his view, Yoshio Shinozuka's first army is 1 to 6 people, and they are still guarding various places to guard against Yan Xishan and Wei Lihuang, as well as Fu Zuoyi, who is the most restless in the north, facing his own army of more than 20 troops The oppression can only be passively defended, waiting for support.But the fact happened that it was beyond his expectation.Yoshio Shinozuka not only attacked, but also stopped in Taiyuan. He sent the chief of staff, Takashi Tanaka, to Datong to deal with Fu Zuoyi. Then, as the commander of the 1st Army, he gathered a division and two reading brigades With a large force, they brazenly launched an attack on the 1st Army who had just walked out of Lan County... That's right, it was the 1st Army!Shinozuka Yoshio is the commander of the Japanese First Army, and what he attacked was the First Army of the Nationalist Army, the army that Lao Jiang started at the beginning, the party army of the Whampoa Military Academy, the direct line of the Central Army, and the core of the army. Core!

1st Army vs. 1st Army!

First battle!

Li Tiejun, commander of the 1st Division of the 1st Army of the Nationalist Revolutionary Army, was beaten up all over his head by Yoshio Shinozuka. He lost more than half of his troops and retreated in a panic.And Li Tiejun's retreat caused fluctuations in the front of the entire 1st Army of the Nationalist Army.I didn't expect the enemy to take the initiative to attack, but this time I was at a loss and retreated in a row.After much difficulty, under the leadership of the army commander Tao Zhiyue, he barely stabilized his position.And just when Tao Zhiyue was desperate to launch a counterattack, Shinozuka Yoshio turned around and killed Kong Lingxun's 80th Army in the south.Knowing what had happened to the 80st Army, the 1th Army had been prepared for a long time, but faced with Yoshio Shinozuka's onslaught, it still seemed a little difficult.When Dong Zhao's 16th Army from Lishi rushed to support it, the new 27th Division, which had encountered the enemy head-on, had suffered a disastrous defeat. Division commander Wang Jun, deputy division commander Liang Xixian, and chief of staff Chen Wenqi were all killed and martyred.

Hu Zongnan was dizzy from Shinozuka Yoshio's brutal punch.The originally menacing offensive was suddenly thwarted.Influenced by Hu Zongnan, Yan Xishan, who originally wanted to take advantage of the situation and send troops to gain some advantage, immediately retreated to Linfen after hearing the news.However, although Yan Xishan withdrew back very disrespectfully, Hu Zongnan could not.His goal is Taiyuan, which is still a hundred and eighty miles away from Taiyuan. If he is beaten back like this, it doesn’t matter if he loses face. The key is to lose Chiang Kai-shek’s people. This problem is worse than losing half an army and one Teachers are much more serious.Moreover, he also clearly judged that the reason why Shinozuka Yoshio dared to take the initiative to attack was not because he believed in his military strength, but on the contrary. The opponent probably felt that the defense would be more difficult, so he wanted to use the Japanese army in the field battle. Powerful field capabilities knock it back.Because this can not only deter the enemy, show the momentum of the Japanese army, improve morale, but also have more room for maneuver, so as not to fall into the situation of defensive battle.After all, this time he, Mr. Hu, not only brought half of the group army, but also a heavy artillery division.Defending the city under the bombardment of heavy artillery, even with the strength of the Japanese army, is different from seeking death.

Therefore, after Hu Zongnan stabilized the military situation, he ignored Yoshio Shinozuka, and each army formed an iron cylinder formation to support each other, and continued to march slowly towards Taiyuan firmly.But at this time, new news arrived: Hayao Tada led the 110th Division and the 15th Brigade directly under him, as well as the 12th and 6th Brigades of the Japanese 10th Army Iida Sadagu in Shandong. The regiment gathered together, together with Zhang Lanfeng, Liu Yanfeng and the 24th Division of the Han Annihilation and Puppet Army, they came straight to Shanxi.

"General, what are we doing here?"

Over an unknown mountain range in Guizhou.

A small formation of more than a dozen "Hellcats" was heading south in a straight line at a relatively normal speed.And in the center of these dozen "Hellcats" is a Soviet-made tb-3 Tupolev bomber.Robert Sandel was reluctant and unskilled to watch the Chinese pilot beside him operate the Soviet-made bomber, but he could only do it like an apprentice, and couldn't help but to Chennault standing behind them. complained.

"We're going to support Guangxi." Chennault shrugged.The Chinese are very loyal. After he brought the group of "Hellcats" back from the United States, he immediately gave half of them to him and the American Volunteer Air Force led by him.The battle over Guangzhou was fought with Liu Zhesheng's "Vulture" brigade, which was named "Flying Tigers" by Qin Wei.The results of that battle were quite fruitful, but it was a pity that the fight was not happy at all.Qin Wei, who was always afraid that he would not be able to kill the enemy, actually asked them to accept as soon as they were good, and let go of most of the Zero Forms.Well now, the bombers and transport planes left in Guangxi were forced to dare not take off by these "survival" Zeros, and could only watch the army desperately.As for Qin Wei, after many telegrams with the Military Commission in Yucheng, with the Aviation General Headquarters, and with Chairman Jiang, he finally transferred their "Flying Tigers" back.In order to avoid the surveillance of the Japanese army, they could only fly over the mountains in batches.

As for him, the captain of the Flying Tigers, he didn't need to come here, but Qin Wei asked him to come here.This made him extremely depressed.Because Qin Wei asked him not to lead his team to fight the Japanese aviation, but to leave China again to urge the United States to quickly transport the remaining "Hellcat" fighter jets to China.

"The Japanese suddenly appeared everywhere like crazy. Without us, the sky above Yucheng would be dangerous." Robert Sandel said again.He was originally an Air Force member of the U.S. Army, but he was called to China by Chennault because of the good salary here.As a result, he found that he was really popular in China.Not only do you earn more tickets, but you can always enjoy the treatment of a hero... Especially during the days in Yucheng, that is a treat.It's a pity that he was ordered by the commander-in-chief of the Air Force, so he could only say goodbye to the gentle village there.

"Yucheng is not in great danger, and there may be trouble in other places." Zhang Xiao was flying the tb-3, and when he heard the two Yankees not talking, he looked at the various instruments of the plane and interjected casually. [***] Most of the pilots are of very high standard, and he who was sent to cooperate with Chennault in the mission can speak English very well.

"The Japanese bombed Yucheng once while we were away." Sandel was very dissatisfied with Zhang Xiao's statement, "Now that we are leaving, how can they not be in danger?"

"There are also two 'Hellcat' squadrons in Yucheng, and there are thousands of anti-aircraft guns around, and these anti-aircraft guns have been modified. It is said that the accuracy is greatly improved than before, and even the British guys chase them all day long. The Ministry of National Defense wants to buy technology... The bombing last time was only due to negligence and there were no fighter jets to fight against. Now with such protection, how can it be possible to be injured again? I am quite worried about those places in Changsha It's..." Zhang Xiao replied. [

"What you said makes sense." Chennault patted Zhang Xiao on the shoulder, "It's a pity that we have too few fighter jets, otherwise we wouldn't be in such trouble. I hope I can take the remaining 'Hellcats' this time." Pull them all back."

"You will succeed, General." Zhang Xiao said with a smile: "Because Commander Qin will definitely not allow the 'Sky Guardian' he obtained so hard to be detained forever, he has always been very resourceful... by the way , I heard that this batch of planes has actually been shipped to Hawaii, isn't it?"

"Yes, it's a pity that those guys stopped again because they heard that there was a big war in China." Chennault sighed: "And my first stop is there."

"I believe you can..."

"General, a telegram from Guilin." A man's head popped out of the back cabin, "Chief Qin ordered: Land at Guiyang Airport, replenish fuel, and turn to Zhuzhou!... Get ready for battle!"