After the end of the Chashan air battle, although the Tang army won the air battle and shot down a large number of Japanese invading fighters, the Tang army was also greatly shocked.

About five of the Tang Army's Raptor heavy carrier-based fighters were injured to varying degrees, all of which were caused by the Japanese Type 96 fighters, which was unimaginable before.

In the conference room of the aircraft carrier Tianwang, Li Haichen and others frowned after listening to the battle summary reports of Li Jianhui, Gao Zhihang, and others.

"So the Japanese Army's Type 96 fighter is much more powerful than we thought?"

"That's right, although our air force did not suffer losses this time, it also damaged several fighters, which shows that the Japanese pilots are well-trained, and the performance of their fighters has been greatly improved, and they will surely catch up with us in time."

"Fortunately, His Highness has already seen the opportunity, let's do it early, otherwise it will be even more difficult to deal with when the Japanese army is fully prepared."

Gao Zhihang nodded and said: "After all, the Japanese army is ahead of us in terms of pilot training, and they have trained pilots more than ten years earlier than us, and the number is very large, and it is reasonable for a group of Jishu skilled pilots to appear." Air combat depends on equipment, and secondly, it also depends on the experience and jishu of the pilots, we swept the Japanese Air Force before because our fighter performance was in an overwhelming advantage, and now this advantage is gradually weakening, and it is also the time to really test the skills of our pilots. ”

Zhao Changzhi said: "Having said that, but from a military point of view, victory is the key, our advanced war thinking and the use of new technology to control the enemy is the key to winning the war, otherwise we will not easily win in the last Tang-Japanese war." You must know that the founding time of my Tang Empire is too short. The foundation is unstable, it cannot withstand the defeat of any war, and it cannot even fight with the great powers. If we can't establish absolute hegemony as soon as possible, and wait until the other powers realize that the war power of the aircraft carrier battle group is competing to develop, then we will have no advantage at all, and the wealth of Datang makes all Shijie people red, and once we are weak, we will face unpredictable and catastrophic consequences. ”

Zhao Changzhi's words were sobering, and Li Haichen nodded in agreement: "That's right." I always thought that our planes would be more than ten years ahead of Shijie, and now it seems that even the Japanese planes are about to catch up with us. It seems that after this battle, I will have to propose to His Highness that we have more advanced fighters for our naval aviation. ”

When everyone heard this, their faces immediately turned happy. They all agreed.

That night, two divisions of the Japanese army launched a fierce attack on Chashan, with the roar of artillery and the flames soaring into the sky.

The Japanese army obviously wanted to capture Chashan in one go. Drove the Don army into the sea. Therefore, it was a decisive battle from the beginning, and it was a fierce attack at any cost.

The Tang Army had already made preparations to build strong fortifications, avoid a decisive battle with the Japanese army, and delay it as much as possible until dawn, so that the Tang Army's aircraft carriers and carrier-based planes could take off to assist in the operation.

It's just that the Tang Army knows that the Japanese army is not stupid. During the day, he suffered the loss of the Tang Army's planes, and naturally pressed everything at night.

In the face of the frantic attack of the Japanese army. The Tang army was also aroused to blood, and the firepower frantically poured down on the Japanese army, causing huge casualties to the Japanese army.

"It's been five hours, and you've only advanced one kilometer? You are simply a turtle, and the face of the Great Japanese Empire has been thrown to Mars by you. ”

Yamada Yujin jumped like thunder, he was in front of Okada Zhenxiong, but he swept away the landed Tang Army in one day, but now it seems that the Tang Army is much stronger than he imagined, and it is impossible to do it in one day.

"Be sure to break through the tea mountain before dawn, no matter what the cost."

"Your Excellency Division Commander, our casualties are too great, please allow us to rest for an hour!" A brigade commander pleads with Yushin Yamada.

Another brigade commander also said: "Your Excellency the division commander, the firepower configuration of the Tang Army is too strong, their individual soldiers are all automatic firepower, occupying the tea mountain and condescendingly, forcing our entire division and regiment to be unable to expand the formation, and can only rush up one squadron after another, this is undoubtedly adding fuel to the non-stop fire, even if we have more people, we can't go up, unless the Tang Army's ammunition runs out, I'm afraid that it will not be enough for one of our divisions to fill it up at that time." ”

Yujin Yamada sighed, he didn't know this result.

"Maybe we can let the 33rd Division take the lead for a while, maybe it will be smoother on their side."

The 17th Division and the 33rd Division jointly besieged Chashan, while the 11th Brigade was heavily damaged and did not enter the battle for the time being, and the 11th Division of Yamada Yujin suffered heavy losses, so some subordinates suggested postponing the strong attack and letting the 33rd Division go desperately with the Tang Army.

Yamada Yujin smiled bitterly: "We think like this, others also think like this, not only is the attack of our 17th Division not going well, but the 33rd Division is probably not much better than us." ”

What he said was true, the 33rd Division also suffered heavy losses, the storming of Chashan failed, and the Tang Army's individual firepower configuration was extremely strong, with a battle loss ratio of 1:19, even if the Japanese army was in the position of attacking, this loss was too huge.

Bang bang bang!

Suddenly, the foot of the tea mountain was full of light, as if it were day. Immediately after the overwhelming sound of gunfire, the main attack position of the fifteenth wave of the Japanese army was suddenly exposed, and more than 1,000 Japanese sneak attack troops secretly crawling forward in the northwest direction were discovered by the Tang army.

Countless grenades rained down on the Japanese army's lurking position, and in an instant, the earth and rocks were splashed, blood and flesh flew sideways, hundreds of Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded, and the rest retreated down the mountain in a crazy way, only to be swept by the flank machine gun fire of the Tang Army, and less than ten of the more than 1,000 Japanese troops who participated in the sneak attack finally ran down alive, to be exact, they rolled down the mountain at the first time.

"What was that? How to turn the night into day all at once. Yamada Yujin's face twitched, and he pointed to the day-like light that suddenly erupted in the direction of Chayama just now.

A cadre of Japanese generals all shook their heads and said that they did not know, some guessed that it was firelight, some guessed that it was searchlight, only the Tang officers and soldiers guarding the dark fort smiled proudly, just now they almost failed to withstand the attack of the Japanese army, when an experienced Tang Army squad leader looked at the darkness under the mountain, he suddenly had a sense of danger that only a soldier has, and he immediately reported his worry to the battalion headquarters.

In the Tang Army's battle sequence, because of Zhang Meng's special emphasis, any commander must patiently listen to the reports and opinions of front-line combatants, especially experienced veterans, whose keen intuition is often a rapidly changing fighter on the battlefield.

Therefore, when the Tang Army Battalion Headquarters received the report of this veteran squad leader, the battalion commander immediately got in touch with the naval aviation and transferred two seaplanes to release flares at Chashan, which exposed the Japanese troops lurking in the shadows at once, so that the nearby Tang Army could completely annihilate the latent Japanese troops, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

Yamada Yujin was so angry that he stomped his feet, such a strong attack at any cost was actually for the cover of the Japanese army lurking in the shadows. Now that he has lost all his previous achievements, he has lost his wife and broken his army, how not to make him angry.

Throughout the night, the Japanese army stormed Chashan at all costs, and thousands of casualties failed to achieve the tactical goal. Before dawn, the Japanese had to stop their attacks and carefully hide and defend, fearing that they would be heavily bombed by the Tang army's aircraft group.

In this way, during the day, the Don Army, with the support of naval aviation, launched an attack and captured the Japanese positions everywhere. At night, the Japanese took advantage of the fact that the Tang army planes could not support this opportunity to launch a counterattack, recapture the positions occupied by the Tang army, and tried to break through Chashan but failed.

For seven consecutive days, the Tang and Japanese armies repeatedly fought for a hundred miles around Chashan, and both sides suffered losses from each other, but the Japanese suffered greater casualties.

During these seven days, the Tang Army's supply fleet continued to transport the officers and men of the Tang Army's Marines and supply weapons to Chashan, consolidating the Tang Army's stronghold in Chashan, and increasing the Tang Army's strength on the island of Taiwan.

The Tang army finally seized the strategic support point for the operation on the island of Taiwan, which can be described as a small victory at the beginning, and the Japanese army saw that it could not attack Chashan for a long time, and also knew that it would not be possible to drive the Tang army out of the island of Taiwan in a short time, so they had to adopt other plans, turn the offensive into defense, and arrange a large number of defensive positions around Chashan, preparing to fight a war of attrition with the Tang army.

Zhang Meng, who was in the Daming Palace in Chang'an, was very happy to learn of the victory in the first battle of the Taiwan battlefield, and telegraphed Li Haichen and other officers and men of the Tang Army, army, navy, and air force to make persistent efforts to seize the island of Taiwan at an early date.

However, Zhang Meng's energy was quickly diverted, and at the same time as Tang and Japan were fighting for the island of Taiwan, the situation in Europe also changed abruptly, and a civil war broke out in Spain, and Hitler called Zhang Meng, hoping to jointly intervene in the Spanish civil war. (To be continued......)