The Chinese and American soldiers who adjusted their tactics once again had the upper hand, because most of the ambush troops this time were composed of veterans who had participated in the European war, and they had extremely rich combat experience, and in the face of the desperate and stubborn Japanese soldiers, they began to give full play to their superiority in firepower.

The battle continued until noon, when several Chinese planes flew over the battlefield and circled, and Yanagawa Heisuke, who was under siege, saw the appearance of these planes, and could not help but be distracted, and he immediately ordered all his troops to take cover. Unexpectedly, the Chinese planes immediately roared, and a string of machine-gun bullets fell straight on the Japanese position, causing the Japanese soldiers to roll over on their backs. Yanagawa Heisuke couldn't dodge and was hit by a bullet, and Datuǐ was bleeding profusely for a while.

Unable to care about the pain, Yanagawa narrowed his eyes and tried to identify whether they belonged to fighters or bombers. At this moment, someone in the trench suddenly cheered loudly, and Yanagawa Heisuke turned his head, only to see two lone planes flying from opposite directions. At this time, their posture in the air appeared to be vigorous and nimble, and their speed seemed to be fast, and in the blink of an eye, they passed over the position, and the red sun under the wings was clearly visible.

This was the first time in a few days that Japanese officers and men had seen their own planes, and many soldiers could not help but join in the cheers, and some of them even waved their arms excitedly, ignoring the rain of bullets and fires around them. I saw these two *** planes roaring towards the Chinese army aircraft fleet with an indescribable buzzing sound, and took the lead in making a "click" machine gun shè sound.

Since it was daytime, standing on the ground and looking up, they could only vaguely make out tiny bullet trails, and they went straight to the Chinese military plane in front. At such an instant, several planes of the Chinese army swung their wings and quickly turned to dodge, and the first blow of the *** plane did not hit an enemy plane. This made the Japanese soldiers watching the battle on the ground, including the seriously wounded Yanagawa Heisuke, couldn't help but sigh.

The two *** planes that were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers quickly pulled up, and in the eyes of the *** people who were in a desperate situation on the ground at this time, the speed and action of their pull-up looked more pleasing to the eye than those terrible opponents. The two *** planes maintained a tactical formation, keeping a close eye on a Chinese military plane trailing away, which was also trying to climb, and after finding that it was being targeted, it immediately changed to level flight and began to make a sharp turn. This trick was very effective, and the second shè attack of the *** aircraft missed again, and at this time, the rest of the Chinese military planes quickly adjusted their direction and flew head-on towards their own fighters flying with a "tail". At this time, the leading *** plane fired first, but the shè attack, which lasted for four or five seconds, did not let the Chinese plane break its wings in the air.

The psychological horses of the Japanese officers and men watching the battle on the ground were dealt another blow: the outflanked Chinese planes opened fire one after another. For a while, the sky was full of crisp and continuous machine gun gunfire, and the leading *** plane saw that the situation was not good, and quickly made a sideways rolling maneuver, but the reaction of the *** plane behind seemed to be half a beat slower, and immediately fell into the fierce rain of bullets and fires from the enemy. Soon, the *** plane pulled the black smoke straight to the ground like a bird with broken wings, and finally landed in the steep valley, turning into a huge flame with a loud bang.

Filled with resentment, Yanagawa Heisuke and the Japanese officers and soldiers watched as their planes fell into destruction.

Looking at the huā of flames blooming in the valley, Yanagawa Heisuke's heart carried an indelible sentimentality.

The terrible consequences of the army's self-reliance and conservatism after the Russo-Japanese War were completely violent.

The Chinese army plane began to chase after another *** plane, although it was at an absolute disadvantage, it did not flee for its life in embarrassment. Instead, he deftly began a juggling tumbling show in the air, like a stag trying to dodge in the middle of a hunter's encirclement. With his calm cào and his own skills, the pilot even found an opportunity to attack again and fired first, but instead of being able to kill the opponent, this blow was found by other Chinese planes to attack, and finally ended up with the same tragic fate as his companions.

This short and fierce air battle lasted less than 7 minutes.

Looking at the second *** plane that was shot and fell, Yanagawa Heisuke's heart also fell to the bottom. ,

The battle in the air ended like this, but the battle on the ground did not end there. Amid the terrified shouts of the Japanese soldiers, the Chinese planes swooped down and killed the Japanese soldiers on the ground with their machine guns. A barrage of bullets whistled from the air with light smoke, and the surrounding ground and rocks were suddenly covered with large clouds of dust and gravel and mud.

Despite hiding behind a rock beforehand, Yanagawa Heisuke was still unable to dodge the deadly sweep of the Chinese plane, accompanied by a piercing whistling sound, Yanagawa Heisuke felt that something hot had burrowed into his body, and then his body suddenly lost consciousness at this moment.

Yanagawa Heisuke was knocked to the ground by the impact of the bullet, he lay there on his back with his face to the sky, staring blankly at the planes that kept flying in the sky, as if he was still looking forward to the appearance of *** planes, but until the moment he stopped breathing, he was not able to see the appearance of *** planes again.

According to historical records, there was indeed an air battle in the sky above the ambush battlefield on this day, and both China and Japan dispatched planes to assist in the battle. Chinese planes took the Japanese troops by surprise and attacked the Japanese in the valley, inflicting many unexpected casualties on the Japanese troops.

As the battle lasted until the evening, the encirclement of the Chinese army gradually narrowed, and at this time a cold wind blew in the valley and a light rain fell in the sky.

MacArthur decisively ordered a general attack on the Japanese.

The officers and men of the "Rainbow Division" shouted loudly and rushed to the Japanese troops at the bottom of the valley, the sound of submachine guns, rifles and machine guns rang out, and the explosions of grenades came and went.

MacArthur, who was standing on the top of the mountain, saw a US official holding a "huā machine" submachine gun from the telescope, and slammed at a soldier who was already seriously injured and still tried to raise his gun at close range, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth couldn't help but get up.

After participating in the war with the squadron at the beginning, according to the combat experience of the Americans in Europe, once the German army or the Entente team was besieged by the enemy, the general trend was gone or reinforcements did not arrive, and the final result of the battle should be to obediently lay down their arms and surrender. But in the ancient land of Asia, they saw a different situation. The people were completely different from the soldiers of European countries, who fanatically believed in the god of bushido, and simply ignored the policy of "humane persuasion" of the Americans. They replied to the Americans with even more violent blows and dying struggles, even the wounded took up arms and fought to the death or committed suicide, and even *** soldiers pulled grenades and died with the Chinese army and American soldiers! After suffering many losses, the Americans had to accept the practice of their Chinese counterparts, that is, to completely kill the enemy in battle as the ultimate goal. As a result, there were tragic battles everywhere in the entire valley, and the officers and soldiers on both sides of the battle were killed and wounded, and the sound of guns and cannons in the jī battle gradually subsided until the second half of the night. More than 9,000 Japanese troops, including a major general's brigade commander, were all killed in the battle, and none of them survived.

The "Rainbow Division" won again and won a big victory.

After daybreak, the results of the battlefield cleanup soon came: the "Rainbow Division" killed more than 9,000 Japanese officers and men, destroyed dozens of cars, captured many field guns, dozens of light and heavy machine guns, and more than 6,000 rifles.

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After reading all the battle reports, Yang Shuoming's somewhat pale face flushed with a hint of red. He paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, he imagined the battlefield full of gunpowder smoke and the corpses of the *** soldiers, and his heart couldn't help but welled up with the slight pride and pride of the victor.

"*** people are not as strong as we think." Jiang Baili seemed to have seen through Yang Shuoming's mental activities, and said with a smile on the side.

"This time, the Army is doing a little better than the Navy." Yang Shuoming nodded and said.

The Chinese Navy has maintained *** coastal *** for several months, and the decisive battle between the main forces of the two navies has not appeared for a long time, for Yang Shuoming, this situation can be said to be unexpected.

Of course, the main fleet of the *** Navy is not without action, there have been several alarms of the infestation of *** capital ships in the southern coastal areas of China, and the main fleet of the Chinese Navy immediately went to capture the interception, but each time it did not find the opponent.

Unlike the long-awaited decisive battle between the capital ships of the two sides, which never broke out, the submarines of the two countries engaged in an unusually fierce competition underwater. In a series of naval battles that took place off the coast of both sides, the shadow of a submarine flashed. ,

Before the war, the navy had a total of 14 submarines, while the Chinese navy had 45 submarines, of which 32 were large combat submarines. Although the submarine force of the Chinese Navy was formed relatively late, because China attaches more importance to submarine tactics than China, the submarine force of the Chinese Navy has come from behind, and it has given great threat to the Chinese people at the beginning of the war.

After the war between the two sides, in order to disrupt the shipping routes of the inland sea and cut off the connection with the Asian continent and European countries, the submarine fleet command of the Chinese Navy decided to send submarines to secretly pass through the minefield laid by the Chinese people, break into the sea, and carry out a sabotage war codenamed "Hidden Dragon Bombarding the Sky".

In order to break through the mine position, the Chinese Navy made a lot of preparations very early. On the afternoon of April 12, 1921, three submarines of the First Boat Group of the Chinese Navy's submarine fleet quietly left the Dagukou Naval Base in Tianjin and headed for the Korean Strait. Over the next two days, three submarines from each of the second and third groups set off. On 2 May, nine submarines arrived at the entrance to the Korean Strait and began to smuggle their way across the strait at a speed of 3 knots in a mine array. After some efforts, all nine Chinese submarines safely passed through the minefield and arrived at the predetermined combat area.

On 4 May, three submarines of the 1st Boat Group entered attack positions. Shortly after sunset, the "Exocet 1" submarine took the lead in attacking a transport ship a few nautical miles north of Sado Island, sinking it with a single torpedo at a distance of less than 500 yards, setting the first record for this unit codenamed "Ghost of the Sea." In this expeditionary operation, the "Exocet 1" sank a total of 6 transport ships, with a total tonnage of 9,700 tons, which was the largest in the first group of ships. Subsequently, the "Exocet 2" also sank 4 large transport ships and 2 small boats with a total tonnage of 8,800 tons, and the "Exocet 3" sank 3 large ships and 7 small boats with a total tonnage of 7,400 tons.

The second group of boats operated across the Jiāo route from Korea to the Wakafjord and Noto Peninsula, where there were many boats. On 10 May, the Exocet 4 encountered the Japanese submarine Lu-11, which sank it with two torpedoes at a distance of 730 meters. Its total record is the sinking of 3 *** transport ships and 1 submarine with a total tonnage of 7600 tons. The "Exocet 5" sank the 5,782-ton "Mingguang Maru" and the 7,465-ton "Tsukiyama Maru", but unfortunately, the "Exocet 5" was unfortunately discovered and sunk by a patrolling *** warship on May 18. In addition, the "Exocet 6" in the group did not return home with success.

The third boat group was active on the east coast of North Korea. The "Exocet 7" submarine sank a *** transport ship outside the port of Incheon in the early morning of May 10, setting a record, it sank 2 large transport ships and several small boats in this operation, as well as a *** coastal defense ship with a total tonnage of 7,200 tons. The "Exocet 8" encountered hundreds of North Korean fishing boats and 2 *** transport ships in the designated waters, and its result was to sink these 2 transport ships and 1 gunboat, with a total tonnage of 5,600 tons. The record of the "Exocet 10" submarine is to sink 4 transport ships with a total tonnage of 6,887 tons.

After completing the mission, the boats arrived at the scheduled rendezvous site on June 13, but the "Exocet 5" was not seen for a long time. The commander, Colonel Veronze, decided to evacuate as soon as possible. On the night of the 13th, eight submarines passed through the Korean Strait by surface sailing under the cover of night and dense fog. On June 22, the submarines returned to Dagu Port without incident.

In order to alleviate the pressure on the homeland and retaliate against China, the Navy also sent submarines to attack China's coastal areas, but because the Navy did not pay enough attention to submarine tactics, the result was that the submarine was in a state of action, the "Bō-9" submarine sank in the sea off Qingdao, and the officers and men on board did not survive, and the "Lu-10" was found and injured by the coastal defense fleet of the Chinese Navy, and fled in embarrassment and ran aground on Okinawa Island. The whereabouts were also discovered by American merchant ships, and the Americans of good things told the Chinese Navy the news, and the Chinese Navy immediately sent a fleet carrying marines to fight in the Ryukyu Islands, and the attack of the squadron was very successful, and the Chinese marines destroyed a temporary naval base built on a small island in one fell swoop, and also killed 800 Japanese troops guarding the island. In just over a month, the islands of the Ryukyu Islands were occupied by the Chinese army one after another.

Compared with the major achievements of the Chinese Navy, the record of the Chinese Army is not inferior, after a fierce battle, the squadron finally took the Port of Arthur and the port of Dalian, and recovered this "first fortress in East Asia", by September, the Japanese troops in China were basically expelled, and the Chinese Army also invaded the Korean Peninsula, expelled the Japanese army to the south of the Datong River, and with the support of the Navy, captured Vladivostok. ,

So far, the main forces of the Japanese army, including the Kwantung Army, have basically been driven into Russia by the squadron after being heavily damaged, and they are in a state of division and isolation.

The current war situation can be said to be very favorable to China.

A staff officer stepped forward quickly and gave Yang Shuoming a copy of the statistics he had always wanted, Yang Shuoming took the document and only glanced at it, his face sank, and the rare good mood just now seemed to be blown away by the cold wind.

According to the preliminary statistics of these losses, the total number of casualties in the Chinese army has reached 170,000.

At present, nearly two-thirds of the officers and men who have lost in the war are battle-hardened soldiers who have been tested in the European war, and they are outstanding soldiers who have gone through the baptism of blood and fire and have a strong patriotic heart.

Jiang Baili noticed that Yang Shuoming's face had changed, and couldn't help but be very surprised, Yang Shuoming gave Jiang Baili the report in his hand, and Jiang Baili looked at it a few times, and he understood why Yang Shuoming's face had changed.

"Among these sacrificed soldiers, each of them is quite precious, and no one has the right to cost their lives, otherwise it will be the greatest crime against the Chinese nation!" Yang Shuoming said a sentence of extremely heavy self-reproach, which made Jiang Baili's back suddenly break out in a cold sweat.

"Hanzhi is right, although we have recovered the land and been humiliated, our strength has also been greatly weakened." Jiang Baili said, "Now for us, it is impossible to destroy *** in one fell swoop, it is better to end the war with victory and accumulate strength for the future." ”

"What Brother Baili said is extremely true, the road to a strong country cannot be completed in one day." Yang Shuoming's spirit returned to his usual calmness and calmness at this time, "And I think that the Western powers may not necessarily want to see *** being overly weakened by our country this time." ”

Hearing Yang Shuoming's words, Jiang Baili was stunned for a while, and then a trace of admiration flashed in his eyes.