At 8:30 a.m. on August 17, 1938, an emergency meeting was held in the conference room of the Japanese Headquarters in Shandong on Jinger Road and Weisan Road in Jinan.

This is the office of the former Shandong Postal Administration, which was the tallest and largest reinforced concrete building in the old commercial port area of Jinan at that time. The birth of the building has an important relationship with the opening of Jinan, after the opening of Jinan in 1904, foreigners began to set up postal business in Jinan, in July 1918, designed by the architect Charlie and Kang Wensai of Tianjin Foreign Architectural Office, the Swede Nazidun was mainly built in the commercial port through the second road, and was completed in 1919; In February 1920, the building opened for business, and in 1922, the third floor of the building was destroyed by fire, and in 1924 it was restored to two floors.

After the Japanese army occupied Jinan, the building was forcibly occupied by the Japanese Jinan Headquarters, and the post office was forced to move to Jinger Road and Weiliu Road.

This is a sturdy two-story building, the outer wall of the building is all paved with solid earthy marble, it seems that the entire exterior wall is very solid and simple, coupled with the long bricks inside, so that the thickness can reach half a meter, not to mention ordinary bullets, even mortars may be difficult to blow it up. There are offices in it, and even the walls of the offices are very thick, so it is not an exaggeration to say that this building is a fortress.

The guards at the gate were even more heavily guarded, and from time to time there were small cars and large carts entering and exiting from the gate, and the Japanese troops guarding the vehicles entering the gate had to be strictly checked, and never let go of the slightest flaw.

In the large unpretentious conference room on the second floor, a portrait of Emperor Showa of Japan, Hirohito, hangs on the wall, as if he was calmly watching the meeting below.

In front of a simple rectangular table made of square tables, seated in order of priority, the supreme commander of the Japanese army stationed in Shandong, the commander of the 43rd Army, Hosokawa Nakayasu, sat at the top, and the heads of each unit were in turn, including Squadron Leader Kimura who supported Xinhuayuan, Captain Kono who counterattacked the airfield and returned defeated, and Pilot Komiji of the Air Force.

Needless to say, the Japanese officers who have seen Hosokawa Nakayasu lose his temper know that Hosokawa Nakayasu is holding a fire in his belly, like a volcano, and the magma in his stomach is flowing wantonly, and he may burst out at any time.

Hosokawa Nakayasu said slowly: "On August 12, at 12 o'clock in the evening, Xinhuayuan was suddenly attacked by the Chinese army, and the soldiers of a squadron of the leader of the hill guarding Xinhuayuan were all killed. Thousands of Chinese prisoners of war were all rescued by the Chinese army, and the Chinese who guarded the prisoners of war disappeared one by one. What the hell is going on, can someone explain to me what the hell is going on? ”

Hosokawa Nakayasu was pounding the table desperately. His speech was characteristic, first in a slow voice, then in a voice that gradually increased in speed, faster and faster, and finally like a volcano, magma burst out, and all the energy of power was vented on each officer.

Of course, no one came forward to explain, everyone knew too much about Hosokawa Nakayasu's temper, and whoever came forward to explain would be reprimanded more severely, and he hated to be killed by Hosokawa Nakayasu.

After a tantrum throw, Hosokawa Nakayasu felt much better (of course, others would not feel better), and then pointed to Lieutenant Nakamura and said, "Captain Nakamura, you can talk about it." ”

Squadron Leader Nakamura had no choice but to stand up, bow his head and say, "My subordinates are incompetent, and when our squadron arrived, the Xiaoshan squadron was all shattered. We found that the fighting spirit of the Chinese troops was not only very tenacious and tactically proficient, but also equipped with some new weapons, which were submachine guns that had never been seen before. Looking at it that way, a magazine can shoot 30 rounds, which is not much worse than the firepower of a light machine gun. ”

Hosokawa Nakayasu forced his eyes into Squadron Leader Nakamura and said, "You just talk about how powerful these guns are, didn't you bring back a few?" ”

Squadron Leader Nakamura had no choice but to bow his head and say, "The subordinates are incompetent, these Chinese soldiers are too tough, even if they die, they will not leave these guns to us, and they will be taken away." ”

"Yaga!" Angry, Hosokawa Nakayasu scolded again, "It's just too incompetent, since you know that those submachine guns are powerful, you have to fight hard to get a few back, so that our technicians can study it, manufacture and surpass the Chinese." ”

Squadron Leader Nakamura regretted a little, these words really shouldn't be said, and there was no real thing when they were said, so how could other soldiers believe in themselves.

Hosokawa Nakayasu said slowly: "At about 2 o'clock in the evening of August 12, the Chinese army attacked the airfield again, and the four squadrons of the Taiming Wing guarding the airfield, including some ground crews, were all killed, and the airport was occupied by the Chinese army, but unfortunately, there were still 12 of our planes, which also became trophies of the Chinese army. Can someone explain to me why this is? Why the hell is that?? ”

Hosokawa Nakayasu's voice continued to grow louder and louder, and at the end, he raised the table to increase his already loud voice.

The hearts of the officers who listened to his reprimand were "pounding" non-stop, and those who had a slightly unhealthy heart would have already suffered a heart attack.

Hosokawa Nakayasu said to Captain Kono again, "Captain Kono, tell me?" ”

Captain Kono stood up, held his head high, and said, "That's right, after we received the order to seize the airfield, we immediately rushed to the airfield. At the airfield, we saw 12 planes still present at our airport, as well as 4 large Chinese transport planes. We are waiting for the air attack of the air force, and once the air attack is successful, we will use the results of the air attack to attack the airfield and annihilate the Chinese army.

However, it is a pity that the air raid was unsuccessful, and the enemy's main facilities and air force were not destroyed. What is even more terrible is that we were attacked by the heavy artillery of the Chinese army, that is, howitzers. I don't need to say anything about the power of the howitzer, its radius of destruction is close to 50 meters, which makes us suffer heavy casualties. Our infantry artillery is no match for howitzers at all, and after the loss of infantry artillery, our heavy machine guns and light machine guns cannot overwhelm the heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and submachine guns of the Chinese army. ”

When Captain Kono said this, it was as if it was someone else's fault, and he had no shortcomings at all.

Hosokawa Nakayasu was going to scold Kono, but after thinking about it, he really couldn't find a reason to scold him, so he had to say: "You guys have worked hard, but what I want is the result, what is the result, what is the result?" ”

Captain Kono had no choice but to say: "The subordinates were incompetent, did not recapture the airfield, and did not capture the personnel and weapons of the Chinese army. ”

Hosokawa Nakayasu ignored Captain Kono, and continued to reprimand all the officers: "General Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front, is very concerned about the war in Shandong, so he sent three squadrons of fighters from the Xuzhou base to attack Jinan Airport twice. Who can say, what the hell is going on, what the hell is going on? ”

Hosokawa Nakayasu lost his temper at the officers below again, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, most of them were in the army, and they didn't understand anything about the aviation at all, so they had to say to the small fog pilot of the aviation force: "Tell me, what the hell is going on." ”

Xiao Wu, the pilot who narrowly escaped his life from the air raid on Jinan Airport, had no choice but to stand up and said respectfully: "That's the case, with the fighting qualities and excellent tactics of our air force, we could have completely defeated the Chinese army, but I didn't expect that during the battle, the Chinese army sent out a kind of flying machine. It was this kind of flying machine that shot down our Japanese planes one after another. As for how to deal with this kind of flying machine, we don't have a good way to deal with it for the time being. ”

"So, tell me," Hosokawa said, looking into the eyes of the pilot of the mist, "how thick and long is it, and how fast is it flying?" ”

Xiao Wu had no choice but to say: "It is about more than three meters long and more than one meter thick, and if it flies, it has more than ten times the speed of our fighters, and it will also turn around, and wherever we run, it will follow wherever we go, it is simply terrible, and it can't be hidden." ”

In order to cover up his mistakes, Xiao Wu can only exaggerate the shape and speed of the air-to-air missile. No one else had ever seen an air-to-air missile, so they opened their eyes wide and pricked up their ears, listening carefully to Xiao Mist's description of the missile.

Hosokawa Nakayasu listened carefully to the pilot Xiaowu describing the shape of the missile as much as he could, and in his own mind, he used all his brain cells, thinking about what this thing was, and after thinking for a long time to no avail, he had to tilt his head and say to the staff officers: "Quickly report this news to General Terauchi Shouichi of the North China Front Army and the relevant technical departments, and it is said that the Chinese army has invented a new type of weapon." This time our defeat was caused by the inadequacy of our weapons, and I hope that we in Japan can make the best weapons to deal with the Chinese army......"

At this time, there was a sudden power outage, and although the power outage allowed for meetings, some technical documents and maps could not be seen clearly. Hosokawa Nakayasu had no choice but to say to everyone: "The meeting will be moved to a small conference room for the time being. ”

The small conference room was in the basement, where the house was quite large and there was no electric light, so I had to light a candle and continue the meeting.

After everyone sat down, Hosokawa Zhongyasu stood up and published his cliché again: "I don't believe it, with our excellent imperial army, even Han Fuyu's 100,000 regular didn't dare to let go of a single shot, so he was scared away, this little Fan Zhuxian dared to raise such a big wind." In just a few days, they attacked Xinhuayuan, and one of our squadrons was killed. They raided the airfield, and all the Taiming wings at the airfield were killed. In the air battle, we have already lost three squadrons of fighters, and even the supporting Kono Brigade has suffered heavy losses. This is simply too strange, too strange, and what is even more strange is that in the past few days, the Chinese army has begun to attack the Qihe, the south gate of Jinan, the eastern suburbs, the northern city, and the Jinpu line, what are they going to do, what are they going to do......"

Just when Hosokawa Nakayasu was grumbling, he twisted his head, and suddenly saw a flying machine with flames behind his butt flying towards him, Hosokawa Nakayasu thought that his eyes were spent, and he looked carefully, it was really good, a long flying machine was indeed flying towards his head.

"This ...... This...... What's going on, what's this......"