In Shanghai, the cannons on the banks of the Huangpu River roared and blood flowed like rivers.

The 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army defended the Japanese planes, tanks, and artillery with their flesh and blood, and fought bloody battles on the Songhu battlefield for more than two months.

With the announcement of the Tang Empire's support for China's war against Japan, the government was full of praise, looking forward to the early arrival of the Tang Army's first aircraft carrier battle group on the Songhu battlefield.

At this time, the news of the Tang Army's heavy damage to the Japanese Combined Fleet had been widely spread in Chinese mainland, so the Tang Army's participation in the war was boiling up and down the national capital, and those pro-Japanese elements suddenly reined in, and did not dare to preach that the Japanese army would win and the national army would be defeated, after all, the Tang Army's participation in the war made the Sino-Japanese war trend more delicate.

The Japanese base camp was in a panic, and the Japanese Navy was powerless to stop the first aircraft carrier battle group of the Tang Royal Navy from going to the Songhu battlefield. In order to prevent the Tang Army from landing in Taiwan, the Japanese army had already transferred the Ninth Division back to Taiwan for defense, so that there were less than 70,000 Japanese troops left on the Songhu battlefield, and in the face of the stubborn resistance of the Nationalist army, it seemed that it could not force the Nationalist Government to submit in a short time. If we wait until the arrival of the Tang Navy, the 70,000 Japanese troops will face a treacherous environment of being attacked on their backs, and it is not impossible that the entire army will be annihilated.

The cabinet of Inukai Yi recommended the immediate withdrawal of troops from Shanghai, but the Japanese military disagreed. Although the navy was devastated, the Japanese army remained intact. The Japanese Navy and Army have always been-for-tat, and at this time, Japanese War Minister Sadao Araki was the first to stand up against the withdrawal, saying that he would quickly defeat the Chinese army. Then occupy Shanghai to confront the Tang army.

The Japanese navy was defeated, and the generals naturally had no right to speak, and they all waited to see Sadao Araki's jokes with evil intentions. After all, without the support of the Navy, the Army can only be beaten passively.

Inukai's cabinet gave Sadao Araki ten days to evacuate if he was unable to defeat the Chinese army. Sadao Araki was not a reckless man, although he had a good face, he knew that even if he could not drive the Chinese army out of Shanghai in ten days, the Japanese army was not in danger. Just break into the Shanghai Public Concession.

It can be said that Sadao Araki made a small calculation in his heart, and if he won, he naturally increased the face of the Japanese Army. Even if you don't succeed, you can get out of it.

However, Sadao Araki has never dealt with Zhang Meng, if he carefully studies Zhang Meng's character. He wouldn't dare do that.

If Zhang Meng knew that the Japanese army might withdraw and take refuge in the public concession. He will definitely shout: "You little Japanese devil, do you think that Lao Tzu will not repair you when you enter the public concession?" ”

Sadao Araki wants to take advantage of the defeat of the Japanese Navy to strongly establish the liliang of the Japanese Army, not only to compete with the navy, but also to deter Shijie, otherwise all the great powers and countries will come to pinch Japan, and the Nationalist Government will recapture the three eastern provinces in one go, and the anti-Japanese Liliang will skyrocket, and he must deter Shili from all countries.

The Japanese army launched a fierce offensive on the Songhu battlefield. They wanted to defeat the Nationalist army before the Tang army intervened, forcing the Nationalist government to give in and sue for peace with Japan.

Originally, the Inukai Cabinet agreed to create a local war in Shanghai in order to force Britain, France, and the United States not to embarrass Japan on the issue of the puppet state of Manchukuo. However, with the crushing defeat of the Japanese navy, Britain, France, and the United States were no longer so jealous of Japan, and no longer looked at Japan's face on the Shanghai issue and the three northeastern provinces, which led to the fact that the Japanese army had to rely on its own liliang to win the jealousy of Britain, France, and the United States again.

The pressure on the national army was very great, they were outdated in equipment, and they suffered a great loss in fighting hard with the well-equipped Japanese army, and many soldiers shed blood and died.

But this problem was quickly resolved, and since the Tang-China alliance, the first batch of arms arrived directly at Longhua Airport through the transport planes of the Tang Army.

Watching the landing of large transport planes of the Tang Army, Jiang Guangnai saw such a huge plane for the first time, which was the TY-1 C military transport aircraft newly entered service with the Royal Air Force of the Tang Dynasty, nicknamed the Great Bustard.

As one of the largest birds in Shijie, the Great Bustard used it as a nickname for the transport aircraft of the Tang Army.

Zhang Meng took great pains to build Shijie's largest super wind tunnel group, which naturally had a purpose, and he could not only focus on the development of fighters when he attached importance to the development of aviation liliang, and knew that the huge role of military transport aircraft in the future in projecting troops and transporting supplies could often change the outcome of a battle and even the victory or defeat of a battle.

Datang took the lead in the field of aero engines to embark on the road of turboprop aero engines, although turboprop engines are currently only used to drive propellers, but in the process of mass production, researchers and engineers continue to improve their performance, it can be expected that in the near future, it will be able to drive jet aircraft, leading the Shijie aviation revolution.

The Tang Army has applied the high-power turboprop engine to the Raptor heavy carrier-based fighter and the Hellfire heavy carrier-based bomber, and has achieved success, and has obtained the high-thrust aero engine Jishu achievement that is currently incomparable with all other countries, and it can naturally be applied to transport aircraft and long-range bombers and other fields.

The Great Bustard transport aircraft was officially put into service with the Royal Air Force of the Tang Dynasty as its improved TY-1 C type, which proved that it was more advanced than the previous A and B types.

The Great Bustard transport aircraft A is designed and manufactured according to the relevant performance parameters of the Boeing 247 passenger aircraft, while the B model is based on the DC-3 aircraft of Douglas Airlines as a reference, both aircraft are the largest aircraft in the thirties, but each other has advantages and disadvantages, Datang Airlines will go to its dross to extract its essence, plus the super wind tunnel group can extract a large number of performance parameters from the wind tunnel shiyan of the whole aircraft, As a result, the final finalized TY-1C transport aircraft was able to completely surpass the Boeing 247 and DC-3 prototypes in terms of performance, and even when it was finalized, there was no trace of copycats, and it was a new type of transport aircraft.

The Great Bustard transport aircraft has a total length of 19.608 meters, a wingspan of 26.26 meters, a height of 5.18 meters, an empty weight of 8.23 tons, a maximum speed of 375 kilometers per hour, a cruising distance of 1930 kilometers, a designed crew of 6 people, and a cargo compartment that can accommodate about 4.5 tons of cargo.

Looking at the whole Shijie, the Great Bustard transport aircraft is undoubtedly a giant in the sky. Especially for Jiang Guangnai and his soldiers at Longhua Airport, this is the first time they have seen such a behemoth in their lives.

"There's such a big plane on Shijie?"

"Oh my God. This is more than ten times larger than our domestic aircraft! ”

"How the hell does this thing fly?"

Jiang Guangnai's subordinates were stunned for a moment, and then Li Jianyuan, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty to China, suddenly said proudly: "It's called the Great Bustard, and it can transport 10,000 catties of goods at a time and fly 4,000 miles." It is made by our Tang Empire. ”

Jiang Guangnai glanced at Li Jianyuan, not a feeling in his heart, the Tang Empire was simply a Chinese myth, he couldn't believe all this.

At this time, the first Great Bustard transport plane after landing turned left and right and finally entered the tarmac.

The hatch opened, Jiang Guangnai, Li Jianyuan and others hurriedly stepped forward, and the first Datang plane to arrive in China naturally had to cut the ribbon.

It's just that. The pilots who came down from above were not very happy, and one of them complained: "What a broken airport, the runway is too narrow." It took half a day to get to the place. ”

Longhua Airport is the only dual-use airport in Shanghai, which has often been changed in recent years, one for civilian and one for military, making most of the runways unusable. After the landing of the plane of the Don Army. I wanted to get to the tarmac, but I had to turn around for more than half an hour to get there.

You must know that although the Great Bustard transport plane has a range of 2,000 kilometers, it cannot fly directly to Shanghai, but it took more than 20 hours to reach Shanghai through Majuro Airport, Saipan Airport, and Hong Kong Airport.

Jiang Guangnai knows this very well, not to mention that people are sending weapons and equipment to the national army. Jiang Guangnai naturally didn't take it to heart, and he didn't dare to slack off. He was dignified, and a large army commander hurriedly stepped forward to make amends.

"Our domestic conditions are naturally not comparable to Datang, I really neglect everyone, please Haihan. Everyone has come from afar, our 19th Route Army has prepared a reception banquet for you, you can go take a shower and rest for a while. ”

"Don't be rude!" Li Jianyuan stopped the pilots from complaining, and hurriedly introduced them, and when they learned that the other party turned out to be a big military commander, several pilots were immediately a little embarrassed. One of the more lively pilots immediately laughed and said: "Just kidding, we are like thunder about the general's name, and the 19th Route Army is all good, but we all admire those who fight devils." ”

These words were very decent, and the officers and soldiers of the 19th Route who came to pick up the plane, including Jiang Guangnai, were very proud, and the two sides suddenly became ablaze, and the atmosphere became harmonious all of a sudden.

Later, Li Jianyuan and Jiang Guangnai visited the Great Bustard transport plane, and when they saw the boxes of weapons and ammunition in the cargo hold of the plane, Jiang Guangnai and his 19th Route officers and soldiers suddenly had green eyes.

A logistics soldier of the Tang Army explained: "This is the M1 submachine gun, the individual equipment of our Tang Army, with an effective firing range of 150 meters, and can use 30, 45, and 60 rounds of different magazines......"

"It's powerful, it's more loaded than our machine guns, it's just the individual equipment of the Tang Army, it's good that we can have a machine gun in a company."

"It's a pity that the effective range is too short, only 150 meters, you must know that the little devil's 38 big cover can reach 500 meters."

Several officers of the Nationalist Army seemed to pay only attention to the effective firing range, and the logistics officers of the Tang Army were immediately unhappy.

"How far can you kill with a rifle?"

"This ...... I can do a 100-meter headshot and hit the enemy's body within 200 meters, and as for the soldiers of our company, I can probably do a 40-meter headshot and hit the enemy's body at 80 meters. ”

The logistics soldier of the Tang Army suddenly snorted coldly and said: "This commander has the potential to be a sniper, but not every soldier can do it. Especially the war is about firepower and attrition, as the war goes on for a long time, more and more people die, and sometimes the new recruits who are replenished are even pulled into the battlefield after less than a month of training, and you can't expect their marksmanship to be much better. ”

Several officers of the Nineteenth Route Army nodded in approval of each other's words.

"Little brother is right, our 19th Route Army has died a lot of brothers, and the marksmanship of those recruits who have been newly added is really getting worse and worse, and we even flew up to the sky as soon as the recruit fired."

The logistics soldier of the Tang Army continued: "Therefore, it is impossible for everyone to be a sniper, most of the ordinary soldiers who are nervous on the battlefield are not able to aim accurately, and those who have really fought are clear, how can there be guns fired from a distance of four or five hundred meters on the battlefield, all of them are battles within 100 meters, so the effective range of the three or eight guns of the Japanese devils cannot be used for a farth, it is purely a waste of resources." Although the effective range of our M1 submachine gun is less than 150 meters, the accuracy within 50 meters is very high. ”

"Little brother, according to what you say, what is it, this is definitely the nemesis of the little devil!"

"That's right, our commander said, use this gun to deal with the little devils, and definitely take advantage of it!"

"By the way, brother, what sniper did you say? What does that mean? ”

"Snipers are like sharpshooters!"

"Brother, you know so much, maybe you're also a sniper!"

"I'm just a logistics soldier, my marksmanship is average, and I can hit a level of 80 rings at a distance of 100 meters, which is far from the snipers of our Tang Army."

A group of officers of the national army were stunned for a moment, they were just logistics soldiers, and their marksmanship was better than that of the regular soldiers of the national army.

"Then how far can you Tang Army snipers hit!"

The logistics soldier suddenly said with a fluttering eyebrow: "It depends on which sniper rifle is used, our ordinary snipers in the Tang Army can use the Zero sniper rifle to achieve a headshot within 400 meters and hit the flesh within 800 meters." ”

A group of national officers and soldiers were dumbfounded, none of them had heard of snipers, sniper rifles or anything, but it was really shocking to hear that ordinary snipers of the Tang Army could hit the head within 400 meters.

"That's just an ordinary sniper? Is there a better sniper? ”

"Of course, each platoon in our Datang Royal Army has one or two snipers, and each squad of the Marine Corps is equipped with snipers, they are just ordinary snipers, and most of our special forces are shooting elites, and their snipers can accurately hit the head 600 meters and kill the opponent within 1000 meters."

A group of officers of the national army were suddenly surprised, and their mouths opened into an O-shape, which was really shocking to them.

Even Jiang Guangnai, who was counting supplies with Li Jianyuan, couldn't help but prick up his ears and listen, if it wasn't for the Tang Army defeating the Japanese Combined Fleet first, he couldn't believe this fact. At this moment, his heart is even more complicated, China is not as good as a Tang Empire that has only been established for a few years, what is the problem? He couldn't help but feel emotional.

"How to learn the military rules, don't talk nonsense, hurry up and do your job!"

Li Jianyuan rolled his eyes, although he was also happy to see the envious expressions of a group of national officers and soldiers, and was proud of Datang, but he found that the logistics soldier seemed to be unable to hold the door, how to tell all the things about the special forces, and hurriedly reminded him.

The logistician also realized that he had said too much, and immediately grinned.

"I can't say it, if I say anything more, I will leak military secrets, and our commander should punish me for copying the secrecy regulations a thousand times."

Well, this is still a habitual offender, and everyone immediately rolled their eyes.

It's just that after laughing, many officers of the national army, including Jiang Guangnai, couldn't help but sigh, is this the gap? (To be continued......)