Chapter 650 Qingchuan Riverside (I)

The wind and the sun are beautiful, and the sky is clear. Visibility is excellent and the sea is as calm as a mirror.

This is the northern part of the Yellow Sea, in the West Korean Gulf, and there are two planes flying from west to east in the clear blue sky.

These are two "Wazan" aircraft, belonging to the Imperial Japanese Navy, with the Japanese Navy's sunburst flag painted on the wings and tail.

The "Vazin" aircraft is a propeller-mounted propulsion aircraft, made in France, nominally a fighter, but in fact its "sex" ability has fallen behind, and at present it can basically only serve as a reconnaissance aircraft, this kind of aircraft is a two-seat light aircraft, the rear seat is the pilot, and the front seat is the machine gunner.

At present, the two "Wazan" planes of the Japanese Navy are seaplanes equipped with pontoons, and on one of the planes is a naval officer, none other than Captain Takano Isoroku of the Japanese Navy, who is sitting in the machine gunner position of the "Wazan" plane in front of him, and is fiddling with the compass and map in his hand.

Gao Ye 56 left Dalian Port in the early hours of this morning, but he did not fly in the air at the beginning, because the range of the "Wazan" seaplane was limited. In order to cross the sea to reach the coast of Korea, Koya 56 first left the port of Dalian on a Japanese merchant ship, and after the Japanese merchant ship left Dalian, it sailed eastward, and when it sailed to the ocean near the ocean island in the eastern part of the Changsan Islands, the two "Wazan" planes were hoisted to the sea by the ship's crane, and from then on, Koya 56 was able to fly directly to the northern coast of Korea.

Takano had never touched an airplane before, nor had he seriously studied air tactics, and like many Japanese naval officers, he had thought that it would always be heavy warships, battleships, and battle cruisers equipped with large-caliber naval guns that would dominate the seas, and that these giant ships on the sea should be the direction of the navy's development, but just yesterday morning, the Chinese Air Force overwhelmed it. The victory of the Japanese Navy taught a lesson, and Takano suddenly woke up to the fact that with the rapid development of military technology, the future naval war is likely to no longer be a plane war, perhaps, the aircraft will be a decisive strategic force on the stage of naval warfare, and the future naval war is likely to be a three-dimensional war.

It is precisely for this reason that when the "Governor of the Kwantung Prefecture" Fukushima Yasumasa sent him back to Japan to report the details of the sinking of the submarine to the relevant departments, Takano 56 decided to take this opportunity to experience the "sexual" ability of the plane for himself, and he also decided that once he returned to Japan, he would immediately relay the amazing performance of the Chinese Air Force assault force to the naval bigwigs, and remind the navy top brass with cruel facts that times have changed.

According to Takano Fifty-six's plan. He is ready to suggest that the Japanese Navy's top brass revise the naval armaments program, reduce the funds for the construction of warships, and allocate special funds to strengthen the building of naval aviation; although it is true that the Japanese Navy attaches more importance to aviation technology than the Japanese Army, compared with the Chinese Air Force, this strength of the Japanese naval aviation is not worth mentioning at all. In terms of the number of planes, the Japanese naval aviation was far behind the Chinese air force, as evidenced by the outcome of the Lushun air campaign, in the air battle, the Japanese naval aviation was completely suppressed, failed to shoot down a single Chinese air force plane, and the Chinese air force lost several fighters and bombers were basically the result of ground anti-aircraft fire, or simply the mechanical failure of the aircraft.

Sitting in the front seat of the "Wazan" seaplane, Takaya Isoroku carefully studied the map, because of the lack of suitable navigation equipment, the pilot of the plane could only rely on the compass to roughly fly to the predetermined airspace, as for where it was flying now, the pilot could not say at all, unless there were islands on the sea. Even Takano Fifty-six, the Navy Major, didn't know where he was.

Now Kono Isoroku can only roughly estimate his current position by relying on the time and direction of flight, and he thinks that he is probably in the northern part of West Korea Gulf, not too far from the coast of North Korea, but on the other hand, just a few minutes ago, the pilot in the back seat told him that the plane's fuel tanks are almost bottoming out, and if they 'get lost' too far, they will have to make a forced landing on the surface of the sea.

Takano was convinced that his calculations before the plane took off were accurate, and if the plane was too far away, then he could not be blamed, but only the gale, which blew the two planes off course, otherwise they might have seen the land on the west coast of Korea a long time ago.

Just as Takano Fifty-six picked up the binoculars and looked east to look at the land, the pilot sitting in the back seat of the plane patted him on the shoulder.

Takano turned his head to look at the back seat, only to see the driver raise his hand and point to the northwest.

Takano Fifty-six turned his head to look in the northwest direction, and immediately saw a small black dot, which didn't need any further hints, he also understood that it should be a plane, and it was flying towards this direction.

Is it a Japanese plane? After yesterday's battle, the Japanese navy and army aviation units in the Luda leased area suffered heavy losses, and there were only a few planes left that could fly, and Takano 56 brought two of them with him on his trip to Korea this time, and as for the remaining Japanese planes, they had to be used for aerial reconnaissance missions in defensive operations. It is impossible to fly to such a long distance, and as for the Japanese troops stationed in Korea, there are no planes at all at the moment.

Well, the unidentified plane is most likely a plane of the Chinese Air Force, and it looks like there is only one, it seems to be a reconnaissance aircraft.

At this time, another "Wazan" seaplane, which was responsible for escorting the 56-seater plane in Koya, immediately flew in the northwest direction and tried to intercept the unidentified plane.

Without any hesitation, Takano Isoroku immediately gave an order to the pilot of his "Wazan" plane, asking him to continue flying in the east without paying attention to the unidentified plane, he knew very well that his current mission was to return to Japan safely, not to fight the Chinese Air Force, as long as the escort "Wazan" plane could buy him a few minutes, then he would be able to get rid of the pursuit.

A few minutes later, Takano 56 looked back, and in the lens of the telescope, he saw the "Wazan" plane in charge of escorting the escort dragging black smoke towards the sea, and it was obvious that the unidentified plane was a plane of the Chinese Air Force, and it shot down Takano 56's escort fighter.

"On the construction of the Air Force. The Japanese Empire is far behind. ”

Fifty-six Takano sighed and turned his head to look to the east, and finally, he saw a thin black line on the distant horizon, which was the western coast of Korea.

Ten minutes later, the "Wazan" plane in which Koya 56 was flying finally arrived at the western coast of North Korea, but it did not land immediately, because the pilot still needed ground markers to determine the position.

Soon, Takano Fifty-six relied on the mouth of a large river to determine its location.

That big river is the Cheongchon River in the northern part of North Korea, and now the "Wazan" plane is flying over the mouth of the Cheongchon River. And the fuel has run out and must be landed.

Takano 56 decided to land on the surface of the Qingchuan River, and after choosing a small village by the river, the "Wazan" seaplane steadily descended in altitude under the roar of the engine, and finally landed on the river, and used the last few drops of gasoline in the fuel tank to drive the propeller to continue to rotate at high speed, and docked the plane to the beach by the river.

Before the plane's engine stopped roaring, several people wearing earthy yellow 'color' military uniforms ran out of the small village by the river, which was the 'color' of the Japanese Army's military uniform, and judging from the military caps, those people who were rushing towards the river were soldiers of the Japanese Army.

"Soga! In the end, the Imperial Korean garrison saw six roads and listened to all directions. ”

Fifty-six Takano watched the Japanese soldiers with rifles approaching, and his nervousness was relieved at once, he knew that Japan had already built a strategic railway from the southern ports of Korea to the Yalu River, which meandered along the plains and hilly areas of the west coast of Korea, and extended all the way to China, and connected with the so-called "South Manchurian Railway" in Shenyang. The Japanese Army troops stationed in Korea could quickly 'advance' into China along the railway, and along this railway, there were also some road guards.

However, Takano Isoroku was obviously a little too happy, and by the time he jumped off the plane, the "Japanese Army soldiers" had already come to him, and they unceremoniously '' their rifles, and smashed Takano Isoroku on the beach with a slam on the butt.

"Yaga!"

Takano Fifty-six jumped up angrily, although the Japanese Navy and the Japanese Army have never dealt with each other very much, but no army soldier has ever dared to beat the Navy Major, he is indeed a little annoyed, he does not understand why these army soldiers smashed him as soon as they met.

But as soon as Takano stood up, he was smashed over by the butt of a rifle, and at the same time, the pilot of the plane was dragged off the plane by two "Japanese army soldiers" and pressed against the beach. Beat him to "whoop" and "messy".

Just as Takano was pondering whether to 'touch' the pistol on his waist, he overheard the conversation between the "Japanese Army soldiers."

"Gurgling, gurgling."

"Gurgling, purring...... Smida! ”

This is not Japanese, this is Korean, and it is spoken very fluently, which is definitely not something that can be done by the cultural qualities of Japanese soldiers.

There is only one explanation: these people were not Japanese soldiers at all, they were Koreans in disguise.

Takano Fifty-six was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously pulled out the pistol on his belt, but before he could stretch out his hand, he was held down by several "Japanese Army soldiers", and then his hands were tied behind his back, and the pistol was also taken away by a soldier.

A few minutes later, an officer entered the house, also wearing an army uniform, and judging from his rank, he was a captain, but Takano 56 knew that this so-called "Japanese captain" was also a North Korean pretend.

Surprisingly, this "Japanese captain" can speak Japanese fluently, and as soon as he opens his mouth, he gives a very deterrent warning.

"Now that you have been captured by the Goryeo Independence Army, if you don't cooperate, we will shoot you immediately!"

Kono Fifty-six was very surprised, "Goryeo Independent Army", this term he had heard before, when the Chinese supported the Korean anti-Japanese elements to launch an uprising, the Koreans formed the "Goryeo Independence Army" to conduct guerrilla warfare with the Japanese colonial army on the Korean Peninsula, but later because of the end of the "Northeast Asian crisis", this "Goryeo Independent Army" was disbanded, some fighters went to Nanyang to work as coolies, others "missing", according to the analysis of Japanese intelligence agencies, those "whereabouts unknown" of Independence Army fighters are likely to operate within China.

Now, under the banner of the "Goryeo Independence Army," some people are taking military action against Japan, which is obviously worrying, and what worries Kono Isoroku even more is that this is the mouth of the Cheongchon River, and there is a city not far upstream, Anju, which is a railway junction, and once the anti-Japanese elements take control of the Anju railway station, the plan of the main force of the Japanese Korean garrison to reinforce South Manchuria will be seriously disrupted.