Just the logistics soldiers of the Tang Army are so powerful, and the training level of the National Army is much worse in comparison, which also reflects the strength of the Tang Army's combat effectiveness on the other hand.

The first batch of weapons and equipment airlifted to Shanghai by the Tang Army were mainly M1 submachine guns, M2 heavy machine guns, 60-mm mortars and 75-mm infantry guns, which were the weapons and equipment most needed by the Nationalist Army, and were preferentially supplied to the 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army.

Lao Jiang wanted to give priority to his elite first army with this batch of weapons and equipment, but Datang was keeping an eye on it, and he had no choice.

The first batch of Tang Army equipment quickly armed the elite 119 Brigade of the 19th Route Army, due to the tense war, the 119 Brigade was retreated to temporarily rest, only three days to familiarize itself with the equipment, and then was pulled to the front line to return to the battle.

The new commander of the Japanese army, Shirakawa, learned the lessons of the failure of the previous three commanders in the frontal attack, and decided to land on the Liuhe River from the flank, and flank the Songhu defenders on both sides. The Japanese 9th Division and other units attacked Songhu head-on, escorted the 11th Division into the mouth of the Yangtze River with the only remaining heavy patrol fleet of the Combined Fleet, which had just suffered a crushing defeat in the Pacific Theater, and suddenly launched a landing attack from Liuhekou, Yanglinkou, and Qiyakou, intending to outflank the rear of the 19th Route Army.

The battle was tense, and Jiang Guangnai immediately transferred the 119th Brigade to the front line of the Liuyang River for reinforcements. The combat effectiveness of the 119th Brigade, which was equipped with advanced weapons and equipment of the Tang Army, skyrocketed, and the M1 submachine gun and M2 heavy machine gun were designed to defeat the Japanese army's 38 rifle and 89 machine gun, and the 75 infantry gun equipped with it could also engage in an evenly matched artillery battle with the Japanese army.

The combat effectiveness of the 119th Brigade skyrocketed, which disrupted the previous military deployment of the Japanese army for a time, and the landing on the Liuyang River was blocked. The Japanese army was a little overwhelmed by the new equipment of the national army, and lost more than 2,000 people in three days of fighting, so that the flank outflanking Jihua failed.

During these three days. The 19th Route Army continued to obtain more weapons and equipment from the Tang Dynasty, and with the arrival of 18 155-mm heavy howitzers made in the Tang Dynasty, the firepower of the artillery brigade of the 19th Route Army suddenly became quite powerful, and the Japanese army was inflicted heavy losses on the frontal battlefield of Songhu.

Liu Zhanxiong, commander of the 119th Brigade, couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and praised in an interview with a reporter from the Central News Agency: "The equipment provided to us by the Tang Army is extremely advanced, and it completely suppresses the firepower of the Japanese army. For the first time, we defended the Japanese army head-on, and we were able to block an elite division of the Japanese army with the strength of a brigade, and the Tang-made infantry artillery we were equipped with could also have an evenly matched artillery battle with the Japanese artillery regiment. This was unthinkable before. ”

In the following seven days, the Japanese army continued to adjust their tactics, but they could not help the 19th Route Army. Although the 19th Route Army began to be equipped with advanced weapons made by the Tang Dynasty. But it is not too accustomed to it, the ammunition consumption is too large, and the current air transportation capacity of the Tang Empire is still very limited, which limits the counterattack of the national army.

In the street battle in Songhu. The soldiers of the national army took advantage of the Tang-made M1 submachine guns. The suppressive advantage over the Japanese army's 38 guns became even more obvious. However, the Japanese army still had air superiority and sea superiority, so the two sides were evenly matched on the whole, and a position was fought back and forth hundreds of times, most of which were seized by the Japanese army during the day with the superiority of aircraft, and at night the Nationalist army recaptured it with the firepower advantage of Tang-made equipment, and the positions of the two sides were basically stabilized.

For the national army, they can afford it. stabilized the battle in Songhu, only waiting for the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group to arrive and seize the sea and air superiority. The Nationalist army counterattacked on all fronts.

For the Japanese army, they completely collapsed, and even a draw meant that they lost on the Songhu battlefield.

On 18 April, when the First Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire passed through the Taiwan Strait, the Tang Army dispatched a large number of carrier-based fighters and carrier-based bombers to attack the Japanese bases, ports, and other important facilities on the Penghu Islands.

This move was intended to test the defense of the Japanese army, and sure enough, the Japanese army dispatched a large number of land-based fighters to intercept it, and a fierce air battle broke out again between Tang and Japan.

Due to the annihilation of the Japanese naval aviation, in this way, the Japanese army aviation has become a lifeline for the Japanese army, in order to prepare for the war against China, the Japanese army increased the scale of production of combat aircraft, a total of more than 1,000 in service, but a large number of copycats. The prototype of the A-3 NakajimaKo-3 is the successor to the Newport 17 Newport 24, but the devil is an illegal and pirated version, and the later Nakajima-4 fighter (NakajimaKo-4) is a legal imitation of the authorized NiD-29.

As the Japanese own fighter, the Nakajima 9-1 was the main force of the Japanese air force, except for the 7.7 mm machine gun and star engine designed and manufactured by the Japanese themselves, which were worthy of pride, the performance was very backward in all other aspects.

There are all kinds of aircraft of the Japanese Army Airlines, most of which are biplane screw fighters, and a small number of them are on the monoplane fixed landing gear, which means that the current Shijie mainstream lower wing retractable landing gear metal skin fighters do not have any at all.

It was too difficult to shoot down the thick-skinned Tang fighters with a 7.7 mm machine gun, and the Japanese Army stationed more than 500 planes in Taiwan to prevent the Tang Army from suddenly attacking Taiwan. As for the details of the battle report of the Tang Army's carrier-based aircraft, the Japanese Navy seems to have deliberately failed to tell the Japanese Army, or concealed it, so that the Japanese Army Air Force dispatched more than 300 planes in one go to meet more than 100 Tang Army's Raptor warships, and as a result, it was defeated in a battle over the Penghu Islands, losing 275 planes, only 33 Japanese planes fled back to Taipei, and a large number of Japanese elite pilots were killed, causing heavy losses to the Japanese Army Air Force.

This finally sobered up the Japanese, the planes of the Tang Army were several grades ahead of the Japanese planes, and the two sides were not of the same Liliang level at all. If the Japanese fighter is a 50-kilogram boxing champion, then the Tang Army fighter is a 100-kilogram boxing champion, not a liliang-level fight, obviously the Japanese army aviation can only be knocked out. If it is said that the pilots of the Japanese air force were relatively more experienced than the pilots of the Tang Army before, then after the Majuro air battle in the Pacific, the pilots of the Tang Army have accumulated a great deal of actual combat experience, and they have already thoroughly understood the tactical movements of the Japanese air force with the help of the Japanese naval aviation.

The Taiwan Theater Command of the Japanese Army Aviation immediately canceled the order to engage the Tang fighters head-on, and the remaining less than 200 planes were not allowed to take the initiative to fight, but were on standby; once the Tang Army carried out a landing operation, these planes would avoid the Tang planes to attack the Tang Army's landing force, and this was the most important thing.

However, aerial photographs taken by the Tang Army's reconnaissance planes show that the Japanese army has strengthened the garrison of various regions of Taiwan, and it is no longer possible to raid Taiwan. Therefore, the Tang army received Zhang Meng's order to temporarily cancel the attack on Jihua in Taiwan, and instead swept away the Japanese army in Shanghai first.

The Tang Army seized air supremacy over the Taiwan Strait, allowing the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group to safely pass through the Taiwan Strait, and two days later appeared near the Zhoushan Islands southeast of the Yangtze River estuary.

When the news of the arrival of the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group at the mouth of the Yangtze River came out, the whole national army was immediately excited, its morale was high, and it launched a fierce offensive against the Japanese army.

In order to preserve its combat strength, the Japanese Navy knew that it could not defeat the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group, so it hurriedly sailed away from the mouth of the Yangtze River and fled to the Japanese mainland.

As a result, more than 60,000 Japanese elites were trapped on the Songhu battlefield, and the Japanese government suddenly panicked, and the Minister of War Sadao Araki aged more than ten years overnight, and if these 60,000 Japanese elites were annihilated, then the blow to the Japanese Army would be no less than that of the Combined Fleet.

Inukai Takeshi's cabinet knew that Sadao Araki's method was to withdraw all the Japanese troops from the public concession, but that would be too embarrassing, Japan at this moment was already extremely miserable, and if there was another fiasco, the Japanese Empire's efforts in the past few decades would be completely wasted, and it would become a third-rate military power overnight, similar to Tsarist Russia after the Russo-Japanese War, and it would be a shame to throw it on Mars.

The Inu-Yogi cabinet was anxious to negotiate with the government, hoping that the two sides would strike troops and make peace, and at the same time, they also hoped that Britain, France, the United States, and other countries would intervene to mediate the Sino-Japanese war.

When Japan released the news of the peace, the Nationalist Government was very happy, and those pro-Japanese factions advocated an armistice and peace, and they had a powerful shili, so that the Nationalist Government had to adopt it.

However, compared with the weakness of the Nationalist Government, the Tang Empire was much stronger.

After Zhang Meng received Japan's desire for peace forwarded by the Italian minister on his behalf, he neither responded positively nor refused, but directly shelved it and continued to order the Tang army to launch military operations.

A discerning person can understand at a glance that Zhang Meng is deliberately taking this opportunity to delay in order to achieve greater results in the war against Japan. They shouted that Zhang Meng was too cunning and a sinister strategist.

But Zhang Meng laughed at this, in the past, the great powers and countries often adopted this kind of deliberate delaying strategy when they were fighting and talking with China, but now Zhang Meng is just using the other way to repay the other, and these guys jump out and shout insidious, which is really unreasonable.

Zhang Meng doesn't care, everything depends on strength to speak, this shijie is always within the range of the cannon to be qualified to speak.

Beat! Hit hard!

Zhang Meng's order was directly transmitted to the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group, and Li Haichen immediately made a full deployment, making sure to annihilate the more than 60,000 Japanese troops in Shanghai, these devils are well-trained elite troops, and they will never be allowed to return to Japan.

The 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army were forced to stop the offensive, which made the Japanese relieved that the war was over.

In order to show their sincerity, they strictly ordered the Japanese army not to take the initiative to send planes to attack the Tang Royal Navy, nor to attack various departments of the national army, thinking that they might have a turnaround in a day or two.

However, this was just wishful thinking on the part of the Japanese, and the Tang Army was stepping up its tactical deployment.

At dawn the next day, groups of carrier-based planes took off one after another on the aircraft carriers and escort aircraft carriers of the Tang Army, and flew in formation to the Xiangshang Sea. (To be continued......)