This circle is a bit big, a hundred kilometers a day march, or on foot!

Obviously, the army can't do it so fast, and 80 kilometers a day should be possible, because in many sources, 70 kilometers is the maximum speed of the army marching on foot.

However, the speed of 100 kilometers cannot be said to be completely impossible, after all, the army has lost all its heavy equipment, and under the escape for its life, it will inevitably run very fast.

"In terms of the direction of the army's escape, it is not realistic for them to go west, south, and north, which is basically tantamount to asking for a dead end, so they may flee in the direction of the east and southeast, and their destination is not very sure, they can go to the Laizhou line to join the other Japanese army, or they can go directly to Longkou or Yantai." Liu Wenhong analyzed it and then suggested: "We can let the First Army and the Second Army also keep advancing, the First Army will advance to the Laizhou line according to the original route, and the Second Army will continue to march to the southeast defense line. ”

"That's right, Shandong is our territory in China, and it is not so easy for the army to hide it when the morning dawns." Other staff officers agreed.

"Hmmm! That's how it goes. Xia Jun agreed.

…… The next day, all the reconnaissance planes of the East China Air Force were dispatched and began to search in the circle on the map, and at the same time, the scouts were also scattered to various areas to conduct reconnaissance.

At about 6:30 in the morning, the scouts who rushed to Pingdu overnight found traces of the Yue army in Pingdu.

Upon receiving this news, the command immediately asked the reconnaissance plane to conduct a key reconnaissance in the Pingdu area.

Pingdu is just south of Laizhou, the distance is only about 45 kilometers, and there is a small mountainous area in the middle.

However, it was precisely because of this mountainous area that the Second Army was blocked just south of the mountainous area, while the First Army, after a night's march, was blocked on the front line of Laizhou and formed a confrontation with the Yue Army.

The army dug trenches on the front line of Laizhou, apparently trying to hold on to this place.

Pingdu's reconnaissance planes increased suddenly, and soon under the reconnaissance of many reconnaissance planes, 20,000 troops on the march were discovered in an area 12 kilometers west of Pingdu.

Shenwei Guangchen almost fled to Pingdu with 20,000 troops, and Buddha Xiaoshi was lucky for a while, thinking that he had escaped the pursuit of the Zhina.

However, it didn't take long for the reconnaissance planes of the East China Army to appear over them again, which made Kamio Mitsutomi frown, these planes were so annoying, they were as endless as flies.

However, Kamio Mitsuchen did not think that this could threaten him, and soon he might sneak into the mountains north of Pingdu, as a spy in Shandong, he knew the terrain of Shandong very well, even better than the Chinese.

At this moment, the bomber formation was speeding towards the 20,000 Japanese troops.

Many pilots were a little depressed, and yesterday the command headquarters asked them to hang up torpedoes and heavy bombs, but early in the morning, they were asked to unload them and continue to load ordinary bombs.

But what excites them is that the mission is here again.

At 7:15, the mosquito-like sound sounded again in the ears of the fleeing soldiers, hearing this sound, many of the soldiers looked at the sky, but more of them were indifferent, in their minds, this should be the reconnaissance plane of the Zhina.

However, many soldiers of the Yue Army soon heard the abnormality, because the roar became louder and louder, and it was very loud and loud that Weifang was bombed yesterday.

Sure enough, some of the officers of the Japanese army took binoculars and looked at the sky behind them, and immediately shouted in horror, because they saw the black bomber group again.

"Spread out, spread out!" Kamio Mitsutomi immediately shouted, at this time, the army was marching to an open area, and there was no place to hide at all, so they could only be dispersed as much as possible to reduce losses.

The 20,000 troops were running around in the field like headless flies, and the bomber group arrived in a blink of an eye, and the bombs were dropped one by one from the planes.

Boom Boom Boom Boom ...... The sound of explosions was incessant, and the smoke of gunpowder rose on the ground, and the ground was violently shaken, and many Japanese troops were engulfed in the blast area.

The first batch of bombers was about a hundred or more, mainly Heavy Hammer 2, and the bombs dropped were only more than a hundred tons. Only more than 1,000 soldiers were killed on the spot, but more than 3,000 were injured.

When the bombers returned after dropping their bombs, Mitsutomi Kamio immediately gathered his troops and continued to speed up the march. Those who can't walk, Kamio Mitsutomi has no heart to care, just like last night, directly abandoned in the field and left them to fend for themselves.

The army was very tired after a night's march, but they had to speed up.

Many soldiers began to complain about why Shenwei Mitsutomi ran away, isn't it good to fight to the death with the people of China in Weifang? It is said that the Imperial Army is undefeated.

Now it's okay, the heavy equipment is gone, and it was chased and killed by the bombers of the Chinese people, and he directly lost the ability to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese people, and now he can only run.

Less than ten minutes after the army continued to assemble, the roar of diesel engines suddenly sounded in the sky, and because the diesel engines worked roughly, the sound was much louder than that of gasoline engines.

The marching army did not survive, but the speed of dispersal was significantly faster than last time.

This time it was a real group of bombers, and four hundred heavy hammer 3 roared in, and soon flew above the heads of the Yue army, and the bombs were dropped like flowing water.

Some of the soldiers were running wildly in the field, and some of them were lying on the ground in resignation, and these monsters flying in the sky made all the soldiers feel powerless.

A group of peasants in the distance were stunned at this time, they saw a group of strange birds flying in the sky, and then threw a lot of eggs at the soldiers on the ground, as soon as these eggs were dropped, they immediately exploded, and the ground shook so that they felt unstable, and those little Dongyang were blown down to a large extent, and even some limbs could be blown up and flew in the air.

These peasants hurriedly threw away their hoes and ran all the way into the distance in panic, this place is too dangerous, it is better to hide and go home!

When the bomber group flew away, the old guy Kamio Mitsutomi was really lucky, and he hadn't been killed by the bomb yet, and there were no minor injuries.

Mitsutomi Kamio gathered his troops again, let them count them below, and found that more than 1,500 people were killed by the explosion, and the number of wounded was much less, only more than 2,000, because many soldiers were lying on the ground and were not injured by shrapnel.

This made Kamio Mitsutomi look gloomy, and when they hit the road again, the troops had been reduced to more than 15,000 people.

The marching force became cautious, forming a long line, and if they found the bomber group coming again, they could immediately disperse to the left and right.

From time to time, the wounded could not hold on and fell behind, and no one went to support them, and everyone was very tired, except for those officers who were riding horses, but those officers would not let their horses out.

After walking for ten minutes, the roar of the engine sounded behind him.

The army was like a frightened bird, and many soldiers panicked again and quickly dispersed to both sides.

But soon, the army calmed down.

It was not a bomber group that came, but ten reconnaissance aircraft.

However, this time these reconnaissance planes were very strange, these ten reconnaissance planes were divided into two teams, lined up in a parallel line, and then flew over the Yue army, flying all the way along their long line.

These 10 reconnaissance planes quickly swept over, and some of the Japanese soldiers even picked up their rifles and fired at the reconnaissance planes in the sky, but these reconnaissance planes flew relatively high, and none of them returned home.

In the past, these reconnaissance planes would not normally fly like this, and why they suddenly made such a strange move, Kamio Mitsutomi and those military officers felt inexplicable.

Some officers speculated that the Shina might have estimated their strength.

This speculation has aroused universal acceptance.

However, within a few minutes, ten more planes came behind them, and these ten planes were strange, biplanes with a layer of metal wrapped in them.

Again, as with the previous reconnaissance planes, the five planes were in a row, and the two rows formed a parallel line.

This time, the army was not afraid, and many soldiers of the army did not pay attention to the ten planes at all, but continued to bury their heads in the road.

However, when these ten strange planes flew to the tail of the army, they suddenly directly suppressed and swooped down from the sky.

Two rows of planes formed a parallel line, sandwiching the marching army in the middle.

"Dada......"

The sound of machine guns rang out suddenly, and I saw that the ten planes suddenly opened fire, and the soldiers of the Japanese army who were caught in the 'long line' between two rows of planes were suddenly swept down.

The plane flew along the long line formed by the Japanese army, and the machine guns on the plane continued to fire. Everywhere they passed, the army was either killed or wounded!

Those ten planes are Junkers' strike planes!

It is covered with a layer of aluminum metal, and the aircraft is equipped with a machine gun on each side, which can be used for low-altitude strike missions.

The Yue army in the back was suddenly attacked by machine guns, and the Yue army in front did not react at all, and the plane flew to the side and was immediately swept down by machine guns.

The ten Junkers fighters flew very low, only about twenty meters high.

The machine gun shooters above frantically strafed the troops below, sweeping wherever there were more people, and only a few points where there were few people.

It is not easy to come out to carry out a mission, there are only so many bullets, so it is natural to pursue maximum damage, anyway, the army below has no air defense means, and the time is not urgent.

Ten Junkers strike planes flew by, and in the sound of machine guns, the soldiers below died tragically, and when they looked back, there were corpses lying on the ground on the road behind.

It was just a split second, and the speed of the plane was too fast.

The army in front finally discovered the problem and scattered in horror.

As soon as the troops in front dispersed, the ten Junkers fighters also changed their formation and began to act on their own. Wherever there are many people, they fly wherever they go, and the bullets are swept wherever they fly, and the machine guns on both sides are firing.

The shooters on the plane went crazy, cheered up their spirits, and swept at the army below.

The army was in a big mess, and under the blow of twenty machine guns, the army below fled in all directions in terror, this was simply a nightmare road!

(To be continued)