With the downing of a Japanese plane over Taiwan, the Japanese army in the Ryukyus stopped air reinforcements to the Japanese army in Taipei, and the air supremacy over Taiwan completely fell into the hands of the Tang army.

The sky was clear, and it was a good weather, but for the Japanese troops in Taipei, such weather was their nightmare, and the bombers and fighters of the Tang Army were unscrupulous, bombing the Japanese positions indiscriminately, causing huge casualties to the Japanese soldiers.

At this time, there were less than 5,000 Japanese troops in Taipei, and most of them were wounded, and less than 2,000 people were really able to participate in the battle.

"Boom, boom!"

One after another aerial bombs fell, exploding violently on the Japanese position, the earth and rocks were splashed, and the smoke and dust were all over the sky, and the Japanese soldiers clung to the sandbags in the trenches to prevent themselves from being blown out by the explosion waves, and soon the whole person was buried in the sand.

In the sky, the planes of the Tang Army were circling and roaring, and the Tang Army attack troops on the ground were also ready for a general attack, and they wanted to completely wipe out the Japanese army in Taipei and liberate Taiwan with a thunderous force.

"Knock knock!"

The four heavy howitzer regiments of the Tang Army, located under the mountainside, concentrated 216 155-mm heavy howitzers to carry out saturation shelling of the Japanese positions in Taipei.

In an instant, the earthquake trembled, the mountains shook, and the large-caliber grenades carried the power of destroying the world, combing the Japanese positions over and over again.

At the same time, the Tang Army Marines concentrated 100 Tiger King main battle tanks to attack under the cover of artillery fire, and the shock units of the Tang Army followed up to break through the Japanese defense line in one fell swoop.

At this time, the Japanese army had already lost its resistance in the face of the armored forces of the Tang Army. Their firepower was suppressed, the deployed defensive mines were cleared one by one by the Don Army because there was no follow-up replacement, and the anti-tank obstacles were destroyed by the heavy artillery fire of the Don Army.

When the artillery fire of the Don army began to extend. One by one, the Japanese drilled out of the dirt, and before they could assemble in time, the armored tanks of the Don Army broke through their defensive lines.

The remnants of the machine gun bunker were destroyed by the 88 mm tank guns of the King Tiger main battle tank, and the scattered Japanese troops on the periphery were also strafed by the vehicle-mounted M2 heavy machine guns.

Although it was already the second Tang-Japanese war. But in the eyes of the Japanese army, they did not recognize that the Tang army was stronger than them at all, and they always considered themselves the most powerful army unit in Shijie. Therefore, in front of the Tang Army, the Japanese troops who wanted to save face would never compromise and surrender, they could not smash the iron-hulled chariots of the Tang Army, nor could they fight with the heavy machine guns of the Tang Army. I simply hid in the underground tunnel and couldn't get out. Waiting to kill the soldiers of the Tang Army who rushed to attack.

However, they were disappointed, and the Tang soldiers were not stupid enough to rush into the tunnel to fight the bayonets with the Japanese soldiers, and they immediately called in the Spitfire team for support. When the fire dragons rushed into the underground tunnels of the Japanese army, the Japanese army suddenly despaired, and a miserable scream came out, and the Japanese soldiers who could not stand the taste of being burned suddenly rushed out of the tunnel, and the Tang soldiers who had already been guarding outside the tunnel suddenly opened fire, beating them into a hornet's nest.

This day was the most tragic. The Japanese army is a trapped beast, and the Tang army is a zuihou blow. The fire battle between the two sides continued until midnight, from the Japanese trench position outside the city to the Japanese headquarters in the city, and in the street battles of every inch of land and blood, the Tang Army stepped on the corpses and blood of countless Japanese soldiers.

In such a tragic battle, the Tang army suffered less than 100 casualties, all of which were inadvertently caused by the cold guns of the Japanese army hiding in nearby houses, and only a small part of them were really injured on the battlefield, which shows how terrifying the Tang army's combat effectiveness is, which is also the rich reward brought by the Tang army's continuous route of elite soldiers.

After sending a telegram to the Japanese army headquarters, Okada committed suicide by disembowelment in front of the statue of the emperor, and then the Tang army broke through the Japanese headquarters, lowered the Japanese army's plaster flag, and raised the Tang army's blue eagle battle flag.

The news of Taiwan's liberation suddenly spread throughout Shijie, and not only the Tang people celebrated, but also the Chinese people were excited. The morale of the National Revolutionary Army, which was fighting with the Japanese army on the battlefield in North China, was greatly increased, and it was absolutely unimaginable that the Japanese army, which had been defeated and retreated by the Japanese army, was able to stubbornly resist the Japanese army's attack at this time, stabilize the battle line, and even fight one or two counter-charges to regain some lost ground.

Of course, this is also because the Japanese army knew that the morale of Taiwan was a little low after it was lost, and at the same time, the National Revolutionary Army on the front line successively supplemented the advanced Tang weapons and equipment aided by the Tang Empire, most of which suppressed the firepower of the Japanese army, the M1 submachine gun was specialized in the Japanese army's 38 rifle, the King Tiger tank could smash the Japanese tank with one shot, and the M2 heavy machine gun of 50 caliber was to suppress the firepower of the Japanese army's Type 97 heavy machine gun. In the past, the National Revolutionary Army had never imagined that their artillery would be able to counterattack, and now with the heavy howitzers aided by the Tang Dynasty, they could even engage in an evenly matched artillery battle with the Japanese army, which was absolutely unimaginable before.

However, if the armies of other countries were equipped with such powerful Tang weapons and equipment, the Japanese army would have already been beaten to the point of crying and calling for mother, but it is a pity that the fighting quality of the National Revolutionary Army is too poor, except for a few Whampoa Central Army, which can be regarded as a table, the other troops are all adapted from the former landlord armies, warlord troops, security regiments, and even bandits, so that they can grab guns and make do with the common people, and it is very difficult to really go to the battlefield to fight with the Japanese army, so it is considered to be burning high incense to be able to draw with the Japanese army.

The Japanese army originally destroyed China in three months, but unfortunately it fought for half a year in the North China battlefield alone, and originally Jihua landed in Shanghai and quickly captured Nanjing to force the Kuomintang to surrender, but unfortunately because of the loss of Taiwan, the Tang Navy reached the mouth of the Yangtze River and had to give up.

In the face of the military pressure of the Tang Empire, Japan had to adjust its operational policy and prepare for all-round defense, which made the Japanese army weaken its offensive actions in the North China battlefield.

However, Japan has an abacus, that is, with the help of the alliance with France, taking advantage of France's declaration of war on Germany and Italy, Japan also declared war on Germany and Italy, thus forcing France to completely tear its face with the Tang Empire, and even pushed Britain to the opposite side of the Tang Empire in advance, which is a small victory.

On November 23, 1937, the edict of declaration of war drafted by Shangshu Province of the Tang Empire was officially announced to the world with the consent of Zhang Meng, and on this day, the Tang Empire declared war on Britain and France at the same time. The next day, Britain and France declared war on the Tang Empire.

Three days later, the Chinese government in Nanjing, after weighing the pros and cons, declared war on Britain and France. The reason why the Nationalist Government made this decision was that, on the one hand, there was an alliance treaty between China and Tang and an agreement to jointly fight against Japan, and on the other hand, the Nationalist Government had been trying to negotiate with the powers of various countries to abolish a series of unequal treaties and recover concessions, etc., but they were all rejected by Britain and France.

With China's declaration of war on Britain and France, it marked the formal formation of the two major military blocs in the Second Shijie War, with the Tang Empire, China, Germany, and Italy as one camp and Britain, France, and Japan as the one camp, and a never-ending all-out war began. (To be continued......)