The Chinese and American soldiers who had adjusted their tactics once again had the upper hand, because most of the ambush troops were composed of veterans who had participated in European wars and had extremely rich combat experience, and in the face of the desperate and stubborn resistance of the Chinese 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 positions of the Japanese army, causing the soldiers to roll over on their backs. Yanagawa Heisuke couldn't dodge and was hit by a bullet, bleeding profusely in his thigh 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 the past few days that the officers and men had seen the figure of their own plane, 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 rushing towards the Chinese convoy with an indescribably beautiful buzzing sound, and they were the first to fire "click" machine gun fire.

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 this moment, several planes of the Chinese army swung their wings and quickly turned to dodge, but the first shot of the plane did not hit an enemy plane. This made the soldiers of the Japanese army watching the battle on the ground, including Yanagawa Heisuke, who was seriously injured, couldn't help but sigh.

The two planes, which were absolutely inferior in numbers, quickly pulled up, and in the eyes of the people who were in a desperate situation on the ground at this time, their speed and movement seemed to be more pleasing to the eye than those of those terrible opponents. The two planes maintained a tactical formation, keeping a close eye on a Chinese plane, which was also trying to climb, but when they found themselves targeted, they immediately changed to level flight and began to make a sharp turn. This move was very effective, and the second shot of the plane failed again, and at this time, the rest of the Chinese planes quickly adjusted their direction and flew head-on towards their own fighter plane flying with a "tail." At this time, the leading plane opened fire first, but the firing that lasted for four or five seconds did not cause the Chinese plane to fold its wings in the air.

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

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

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

The bad consequences of the army's self-reliance and conservatism after the victory in the Russo-Russian War have been thoroughly exposed in this war with China.

The Chinese plane began to chase after the other plane, and 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 skills and his own skills, the pilot even found an opportunity to attack again, and fired first again, but instead of being able to kill the opponent, this blow was found by other Chinese planes to attack, and in the end he only ended up with the same miserable fate as his companions.

This short but intense air battle lasted less than seven 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 soldiers, the Chinese planes swooped down and killed the soldiers on the ground with their machine guns. A barrage of bullets whistled down from the air, sending large clouds of dust and debris to the surrounding ground and rocks.

Despite hiding behind a rock beforehand, Yanagawa Heisuke was unable to dodge the deadly strafing of the Chinese plane, accompanied by a piercing whistling sound, Yanagawa Heisuke felt something hot burrow 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, and he lay there on his back with his face facing the sky, staring blankly at the planes that kept flying in the sky, as if he was still looking forward to the appearance of the plane, but until the moment he stopped breathing, he was not able to see the plane again.

According to historical records, there was indeed an air battle in the sky above the ambush battlefield on this day, and both sides dispatched planes to assist in the battle. Chinese planes took the Syrian army by surprise and attacked the Yue army in the valley, causing the Japanese army to suffer many unexpected casualties.

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 army.

The officers and men of the "Rainbow Division" shouted loudly and rushed to the army 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 hill, saw through the binoculars a U.S. [***] officer holding a "flower machine" submachine gun, shooting fiercely at a soldier who was already seriously injured and still trying to raise his gun to shoot, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

After participating in the war with the Chinese [***] team at the beginning, according to the Americans' combat experience in Europe, once the German army or the Entente [***] team was besieged by the enemy, the general trend was gone or reinforcements were not available, 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. He was completely different from the soldiers of European countries, who fanatically believed in the spirit of bushido and completely ignored the Americans' policy of "humane persuasion." They replied that the Americans were shooting more violently and dying hard, and even the wounded took up arms and fought to the death or committed suicide, and even some 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 fierce battles everywhere in the valley, and the officers and men of both sides were killed and wounded, and the sound of guns and cannons in the fierce battle gradually subsided until the second half of the night. More than 9,000 soldiers, including a major general and brigade commander, were all killed in the battle, and none of them survived.

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

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

Chengde, summer resort.

After reading all the battle reports, Yang Shuoming's somewhat pale face flushed with a hint of red tide. He paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, imagining a battlefield full of smoke and the corpses of his own soldiers, and his heart could not help but feel a slight pride and pride of the victor.

"I am 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 performance of the Army is better than that of the Navy." Yang Shuoming nodded and said.

The Chinese navy's blockade of the coast of Yueben had been maintained for several months, and the decisive battle between the main forces of the two navies had not yet taken place, which could be said to be a surprise to Yang Shuoming.

Of course, the main fleet of the Chinese Navy was not completely inactive, and there were several alarms in the southern coastal areas of China about the appearance of the main ships of the Chinese Navy, and the main fleet of the Chinese Navy immediately went to capture and intercept the attack, but each time it failed to find an 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 extremely 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 two sides engaged in the war, the Chinese 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 attached more importance to submarine tactics than the Chinese Navy, the submarine force of the Chinese Navy came from behind and posed a great threat to the Yue himself at the very beginning of the war.

After the two sides went to war, in order to sabotage the shipping routes of the Inland Sea and cut off the ties between the Submarine Fleet and 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 Submarine Commander himself and break into the Inland Sea to carry out a sabotage campaign 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 in a mine array at a speed of three knots. 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 the attack position. Shortly after that, the "Exocet-1" submarine took the lead in attacking a transport ship a few nautical miles north of Sado Island, sinking it with only one 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 six transport ships with a total tonnage of 9,700 tons, the largest of the first group. 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 waters of the second group of boats straddled the lines of communication from Korea to the Wakafjord and Noto Peninsulas, where there were many boats. On 10 May, the "Exocet 4" submarine encountered the "Lu-11" submarine, and the Exocet 4 sank it with two torpedoes at a distance of 730 meters. Its total record was the sinking of 3 transport ships and 1 submarine with a total tonnage of 7,600 tons. The "Exocet 5" sank two transport ships, the 5,782-ton "Meiguang Maru" and the 7,465-ton "Tsukiyama Maru," but unfortunately, the "Exocet 5" was unfortunately discovered and sunk by the patrolling warship on 18 May. 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 Flying Fish 7 submarine sank a transport ship off the port of Incheon in the early morning of May 10, setting a record for the first time, sinking two large transport ships and several small boats, 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 two transport ships in designated waters, and its result was that it sank two transport ships and one gunboat, with a total tonnage of 5,600 tons. The "Exocet 10" submarine sank four transport ships with a total tonnage of 6,887 tons.

After completing the mission, the boats arrived at the scheduled rendezvous site on 13 June, 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 13 July, eight submarines sailed through the Korean Strait on surface under the cover of night and dense fog. On 22 June, the submarines returned to Dagu Port without incident.

In order to ease the pressure on the mainland and retaliate against China, the navy also sent submarines to attack China's coastal areas, but because the navy did not attach enough importance to submarine tactics, the submarine was in a state of action one after another, with the "Bo-9" submarine struck a mine off the coast of Qingdao and sank, and none of the officers and men on board survived, and the "Lu-10" was discovered and damaged by the coastal defense fleet of the Chinese navy, and fled in embarrassment, ran aground on Okinawa Island, and its whereabouts were also discovered by US merchant shipsThe Americans revealed this news to the Chinese Navy, and the Chinese Navy immediately sent a fleet of marines to fight in the Ryukyu Islands, and the attack of the Chinese [***] team 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 guards on 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 Chinese Army's record is not inferior, after fierce hard fighting, the Chinese [***] team finally captured the Port of Arthur and Dalian, and recovered this "East Asia's first fortress", by September, the Chinese army in China was basically expelled, and the Chinese Army also invaded the Korean Peninsula, expelled the army to the south of the Datong River, and with the support of the navy, captured Vladivostok.

So far, the main forces of the Yue Army, including the Kwantung Army, have basically been driven into Russia by the Central [***] team 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 surprised, Yang Shuoming handed the report in his hand to Jiang Baili, and Jiang Baili looked at it a few times, and he understood why Yang Shuoming's face changed.

"Among these sacrificed soldiers, each of them is quite precious, and no one has the right to waste 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 the capital in one fell swoop, it is better to take advantage of the victory to end the war 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 expression returned to his usual calmness and calmness at this time, "And I think that the Western powers may not necessarily want to see this book 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.

(To be continued)