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Since the Japanese army took an offensive posture and did not think of defense at all, the fortifications were built very simply. Now he is drinking the bitter wine he brews himself, and his arrogance will be compensated for with the price of blood.

"How could the empire lose to the Chinese in this regard?" Sato Taira also looked at the planes flying around in the air, spreading death, and muttered, "Such a strong bombardment must be followed by an infantry charge-"

Sato Taira also seemed to come to his senses all of a sudden, and roared at the officers and staff officers around him, "The impact of the Shina army is imminent, what are you fools still standing here doing, go and organize the troops and prepare to resist." ”

Before he could finish speaking, a few nearby explosions drowned out his voice. Due to the awkward position of the Japanese command, the first wave of bombing was not effective, and the bombers readjusted their orientation and attitude and launched another attack on the target. A fighter jet also came to join in the fun, swooping down, bullets raining down......

The battle in Qingdao became more and more intense, and the Chinese army launched a counteroffensive from the periphery, and the Japanese troops at Weihe suffered heavy losses and were forced to retreat and hold on, and asked for additional troops.

At this time, the situation in the European theater was becoming more and more unfavorable to Britain and France, and their resentment against the Japanese was also increasing day by day, and they even hoped that China would teach the selfish little Japan a hard lesson.

On August 2, 1914, the Germans sent troops to neutral Luxembourg to gain access to Luxembourg's railway network. On 3 August, the Germans declared war on Belgium. The Germans on the right flank quickly invaded Belgium, and by 9 August, the Germans had successfully captured all of Belgium and expelled the French troops from Belgium back to France.

At this time, several main army groups of the French army mechanically launched an offensive on the left flank of the German army in accordance with the predetermined "Plan No. 17". However, the initial battles showed that "Plan No. 17" was very bad and even more unsuitable for the situation on the battlefield.

At Greene, the French 1st and 2nd Armies were overwhelmed by the attack on the German lines at Saarburg and Morange. After occupying Belgium, the right-wing German army attacked northern France on 21 August in five directions, and nearly one million men and horses of its five armies penetrated obliquely from Belgium into France like a wielding sickle.

In order to achieve the goal of defeating France as soon as possible, the German army used new tactics. The armored forces, three armored divisions, hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles are invincible. In the air, hundreds of planes bombed indiscriminately, and the British and French forces were crushed and retreated in panic.

On 23 August, the Germans captured Namur, and on 30 August, the vanguard of the German Army Group Kluk had advanced to a distance of only 15 miles from Paris, and the main French forces under the command of Chauffeur had failed in their efforts to hold back the German right flank. The Parisians panicked, and the French government moved to Bordeaux.

On 29 August, the second wave of the Japanese army rushed to land at Laoshan Bay, and the leather boots finally landed, and the Chinese troops immediately began to move and assemble with a clear purpose, and the decisive battle was about to begin.

In the headquarters, staff officers came and went, the phones rang non-stop, and the latest reconnaissance information was constantly sent to Jiang Zuobin.

"Let the artillery make the final calibration, confirm the bombardment target."

"Call the bomber unit and order the 1st Group to take off immediately."

"Then make a telegram contact with Division Commander Qiu and order them to go out on time."

"The counteroffensive forces all went into the starting positions? Very good, tell them to fight hard and rush fiercely. ”

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One order after another was conveyed, and the tension before the big battle made everyone's faces grim and walk like the wind.

Jiang Zuobin looked at his watch and nodded slightly.

The lion fights the rabbit and will do its best, and the planes, airships, tanks, and submarines will all be used in this battle to wipe out this Japanese army with a thunderous force. This is Beijing's request, hoping to wake up little Japan and bring the war onto the track of a political settlement.

The delay of the war is an unbearable burden for Japan, and for China, it is not an obstacle to development.

The submarine is indeed a sharp weapon for controlling the enemy, but it is a bit wishful thinking to rely on it to achieve absolute victory. Until the aircraft are further developed and pose a mortal threat to warships, the Chinese government does not want a complete showdown with Japan.

A lose-lose outcome is also not what the Chinese government wants. A relatively stable development environment is what China needs most.

Satodaira, who had retreated and received reinforcements, did not know that the mobile corps of the Chinese army had been dispatched, inserted diagonally from his right flank, had broken through the thin defense line of the Japanese army, and under the cover of the second bomber group, it was advancing to the rear of the Japanese army, one armored division and two infantry divisions, forming an unstoppable torrent, which was about to cut off the retreat of the more than 30,000 Japanese troops.

Autumn JX poked his head into the tank, breathing hard in the fresh air. The tank looks majestic, but it's a sinful thing inside. The space is cramped, the air is dirty, and the dustpan is trembling, which is what the tank looked like in the early days, how can it change all at once.

As the commander of the armored division, Qiu JX is full of confidence in victory, she is one of the few senior officers who has seen the air-tank infantry joint combat exercise, and she is the only female general in the Wehrmacht.

She believed that under the impact of such power, it would be impossible to stop unless there were complete and strong fortifications, deep trenches. The Japanese army had no ideological preparation in this regard, let alone corresponding material preparations, and lost air supremacy, which was equivalent to losing eyes and ears. Knowing oneself but not knowing the other, such a war is not fought.

It is an unforgivable mistake for the Japanese to regard New China as the Qing State during the First Sino-Japanese War.

Yes, the overall quality of the Chinese army is not as good as that of the Japanese army, there is also a gap in combat effectiveness, and the most important thing is the lack of actual combat experience. But new tactics, the use of new equipment, and the recasting of the spiritual will completely made up for these shortcomings. Moreover, after several years of training, the combat strength of the Chinese army has also been greatly improved, and with the superiority in numbers, it is not easy for the Japanese to easily defeat the Chinese army.

At a time when Japan was in turmoil over financial issues, China was not idle, and despite the huge amount of foreign debt, it was definitely worth it.

A commander stopped next to the tank, and the staff officer waved to her from the car.

"Guys, stop, I'm going down." Like a man, Qiu JX turned his head and shouted at the inside of the tank.

"Sir, you go slowly!" The commander has long been accustomed to the life in the car and the attitude of the chief, and said goodbye to Qiu JX with a smile.

"I'll go slowly, you have to hurry." Qiu JX smiled and patted the hard shell of the tank and said, "Go to the beach and crush the little devils into pulp." ”

"Yes, sir. Pressed into a meat puree, this is enjoyable. The captain replied loudly.

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For the Japanese army, where most of its soldiers and materials were transported by sea, once the umbilical cord of life was cut, the fate of the army was doomed to be more than lucky.

In order to maintain the war situation and ensure supply; In order to deal with China's underwater killer - the elusive attack of submarines. In the face of the continuous loss of their own ships, the Japanese command could only increase the number of warships to strengthen the escort force in order to carry on the battle in Qingdao.

On September 3, 1914, the Bohai Sea was rough and the sea wind was howling, and the convoy from the Japanese mainland was sailing in a southwestern direction against the fierce wind and waves.

Japanese Navy Commander Shosui Sato stood on the bridge of the armored cruiser Kasuga, his bloodshot eyes constantly scanning the sea, as if he were weighing on a thousand pounds of heavy burden, as if he felt that an increasingly serious crisis was imminent.

Escorting a fleet is a very responsible and dangerous task. The heavy losses of the convoy always flashed before his eyes, and the howl of the "wolves" seemed to echo in his ears.

Shosui Sato commanded the "Kasuga", and for a while he went to urge the frigates to take their positions in the cordon, and then approached the ship where the captain of the convoy was to exchange views on the course. He knew that the more the convoy sailed eastward, the more likely it was to be attacked.

While working, Shosui Sato was also thinking about a question: did the crew of the transport ship know that their escort team might not be able to repel the enemy's attack due to the lack of anti-submarine warfare equipment?

"Who can believe that we are some bodyguards who do not live up to their name!" Sato muttered a few words to himself, and then fell into deep thought, how many pairs of "evil wolf" eyes are snooping on us in this dark seabed? In this rough sea, is it possible for a torpedo to explode every minute?

Hasty, hasty, and underestimating the enemy, Sato, as a conscientious soldier, commented on this military operation. Obviously, the high-ranking figures of the Japanese Government, especially the top military officials, lack understanding of China's secret developments in recent years and underestimate the combat power of submarines.

Sato, however, drew a pessimistic conclusion from Japan's geopolitical characteristics. Even if it occupies most of Qingdao or Shandong, if China does not give in and continues to fight with Japan, Japan will find itself in an unsustainable situation due to its lack of resources and heavy dependence on overseas supplies.

Sato's worries are not unfounded, this escort fleet has long fallen into the eyes of Chinese submarines, and the V103 boat has been tracking the escort convoy and constantly reporting the situation to the shore command, which is constantly forwarding the information received to other submarines.

By now, at least three submarines had approached the Japanese convoy, and the dinner was about to begin.

At 3:50 p.m., the V103 boat launched the first attack, firing four torpedoes in a volley from the silhouette of a long line of overlapping ships at a distance of about one nautical mile, and two minutes later, the 10,000-ton transport ship "Kyoyama Maru" and the 3,000-ton "Hatoyama Maru" exploded, plunging into a thick smoke and flames.

Shomizu Sato commanded the escort warship to pursue it at lightning speed, and dropped several depth charges in anger at the place where the V103 boat dived.

Violent explosions rang out one after another, and a tall column of water rose from behind the stern of the cruiser "Kasuga", and then orange-yellow flames burst out of the water. The sailors on the "Kasuga" cheered from the deck, believing that they had damaged a submarine.

In fact, because the depth of the depth charges was too great and failed to fatally injure the submarine V103, it narrowly escaped the pursuit of the Japanese ships and successfully circled the other side of the escort fleet to attack the transport ship "Tamagawa Maru" in the outer column.

With the sound of a huge explosion and dazzling sparks, the 6,400-ton Tamagawa Maru began to slowly tilt and sink, and from the periscope, the "Tamagawa Maru" was in a panic, and the V103 submarine quickly dived and escaped from this place of right and wrong.

The attack had disastrous consequences for the Japanese, as the "Tamagawa Maru" was carrying a large number of Japanese land forces to reinforce the troops of the 6th Division, which had landed from Longguchi, which was now surrounded.

The sea was full of Japanese officers and soldiers struggling to call for help, and the "Tamagawa Maru" quickly plunged into the undulating sea with its tail cocked.

Sato Shosui watched all this painfully, while ordering the warships to tighten their guard and search for submarines; While ordering other ships to carry out rescue. Unaware that this order would lead to greater losses to the fleet, the two-hour delay due to the rescue caused more submarines to surround him. Moreover, dusk has fallen, and the attack of submarines will be more stealthy and more unguardable.

This "wolf pack" attack achieved great results, with a total of five submarines participating in the attack, all of which entered the attack, firing a total of 20 torpedoes, sinking nine transport ships, with a total tonnage of 47,883 tons, and damaging three of them. The Chinese Navy lost the submarine V99, and the V103 was slightly damaged.

The Chinese submarine forces did not only attack with torpedoes, but they also adopted new tactics and mine-laying operations on the main shipping lanes of Japanese ships, and the sea transportation lines of the Japanese attack on the Qingdao forces were almost untenable.

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On 18 September, the Chinese army launched a sudden and fierce counteroffensive, and tanks appeared on the battlefield to counter the aggression.

At about 7:30 a.m., in the eyes of the Japanese troops, more than a dozen moving "black spots" suddenly appeared on the distant horizon, and these "black spots" were by no means the skirmishers they were already familiar with.

The "black dot" gradually approached, and the Japanese soldiers vaguely heard a strange roar, which was faintly mixed with the sound of steel crashing. Soon, they could already see that they were black "steel monsters", the strange roar and the crash of steel were getting louder and louder, and the earth was constantly shaking.

Looking at these never-before-seen "steel monsters", the Japanese soldiers were stunned. In a panic, they cocked their machine guns and rifles and fired fiercely at the monsters. But the machine-gun bullets that used to be so powerful were either bounced back or slipped off these monsters.

The "Iron Monster" rumbled forward seemingly unconcerned, roaring forward, its tracks clanging. They drove through the muddy craters, overwhelmed the barbed wire that had held countless infantry, crossed the trenches, and crushed the Japanese fortifications to pieces.

At the same time, they fired fiercely with machine guns and artillery, like autumn wind sweeping away leaves, and the corpses of Japanese soldiers were scattered all over the field. In the face of this sudden "steel monster", the Japanese soldiers only resisted for a moment, and then their will to fight completely collapsed, and they threw down their guns one after another, turned around and fled in all directions.

The counteroffensive was a complete victory, and the mobile forces made a flank breakthrough like a sharp blade, cutting off the retreat of the Japanese troops who landed at Longkou, and tightened the noose with the friendly forces in front of them, and fiercely flanked them.

In the air, planes were bombing and strafing, and on the ground were "steel monsters" crushing and slaughtering, and the speed at which the tide of battle took a turn for the worse was astonishing to the world.

The sudden change in the tide of the war not only surprised the interested powers, but also caught the Japanese by surprise. The more than 20,000 Japanese troops who landed at Longkou were not only completely destroyed by heavy weapons under the stormy blows of the Chinese army, but also cut off the retreat route by the mobile corps of the Chinese army and fell into a heavy encirclement; The Japanese troops who landed at Laoshan Bay were also stubbornly resisted, and their progress was slow.

Five days, only five days. It was also when the Japanese government was at a loss and quarreled. Under the blows of land and air firepower, in which the Chinese army had absolute superiority, and under the attacks of the Chinese army in waves, more than 20,000 Japanese troops were finally annihilated in a depression 20 kilometers from the coast of Longkou.

Subsequently, the mobile corps moved towards Qingdao and outflanked the Japanese troops who were attacking Qingdao, and another great encirclement seemed to have begun.

The news of the victory quickly spread throughout the land of China and reached the ears of the ministers of various countries, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army was reestimated, and the movements of the Chinese government became even more noticeable.

"In this five-day counterattack, the Chinese army used tanks, planes and other new weapons, although the number of troops was far more than the Japanese, and because it was a local battle, there were many favorable conditions. But since modern times, this victory has been unprecedented, and the morale of the people has been unusually high......"

"Judging from the current situation, the tactics of the Japanese army have become outdated, and there is also a gap between them and the Chinese army in terms of weaponry, and under the three-dimensional attack of the Chinese army, the so-called tenacious bushido spirit will also be wiped out."

"In the decisive battle between spiritual factors and material factors, this time it is the material factors that prevail, although the Japanese government is clamoring even more, but what will they do to continue to support this war that is about to turn into a protracted war?"

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The international situation continued to change, and the German army, relying on fighter jets, took full control of the air and approached Paris with the rapid advance of armored divisions. However, the attempt to outflank the main Anglo-French forces did not materialize, and the momentum of the German offensive was temporarily halted by the long supply lines, waiting for the build-up of supply convoys and heavy artillery.

The British and French armies were given a respite to regroup their forces and lay out their defensive lines. Moreover, the French government, which had moved to Bordeaux, issued a statement saying that it would not give in and would fight Germany to the end. This has left the German government's quick-fix strategy largely bankrupt.

The first time the tank appeared on the battlefield, it was indeed very powerful, but it also had its shortcomings that were difficult to overcome. For example, the ability to cross trenches is poor, mechanical failures are prone to occur, and a lot of logistics support is required. The Anglo-French forces dug a large number of wide trenches to deal with the assault of the tanks, and using the two captured tanks, they began to carry out emergency imitations.

Although the Germans failed to force the French government to surrender, they still held the initiative on the battlefield. The General Staff also developed a new offensive plan to the sea, preparing to cut off the links between Britain and France and force France to surrender.

Faced with the precarious situation in Europe and the Japanese army entangled in the Far East, Britain and France reached the limit of their patience. But they were afraid that Japan would throw itself into the Allies. Therefore, secretly supporting China and turning the bull's head of the Japanese in the direction they hoped for became the choice of Britain and France. (To be continued.) )