Zhang Runnong kicked away the slag at his feet, this ruin was caused by his artillery regiment, seeing the collapsed houses and mountains of corpses, Zhang Runnong was in a very bad mood, and the two buddies didn't know how to comfort him, so they could only try to change the topic.

"Our nearly 100,000 troops are crowded on a small peninsula, what are the plans of the group army headquarters and the general staff, if we can't end the war against Japan as soon as possible, our country's logistical pressure and economic pressure will be very great!" Jiang Fangzhen said that he has a strategic mind, and he is the smartest among these people.

Cai Songpo: "You care so much, we are just the head of the regiment, we will do whatever the above says!" Could it be that President Lu and the General Staff are fools, I estimate that there will be a big battle soon, and there are more than 100,000 Japanese troops gathered on the front line, I guess they want to make a spoonful of stew! ”

"When is this war a head, if the war happens on our land, the dead are our citizens, and our soldiers must not die of shame!" Zhang Runnong said.

"I said Runnong, don't be endless, why are your feelings so rich? Our soldiers are killing machines, and the Japanese are now burning, killing and looting on our land, aren't there more than 500,000 Japanese troops in the Northeast? Cai Songpo said and suddenly pushed Zhang Runnong away, and when they passed a half-collapsed house, a katana suddenly stretched out from behind the wall to Zhang Runnong, Cai Songpo was quick and pushed Runnong away, but he was stabbed in the ribs.

Jiang Fangzhen quickly pulled out his pistol and fired three shots at the Japanese man who ran out from behind the wall screaming and holding a katana. Zhang Runnong reacted at this time, stepped forward to hug Jiang Fangzhen, who was squatting on the ground in pain, and several soldiers around him quickly entered a state of alert, and two soldiers entered the house to investigate.

"Runnong, war is your life and death, and you can't be merciful. The Japanese are beasts, so you should kill pigs! Cai Songpo, who was covering the wound, grinned and said to Runnong, although he spoke intermittently and his face was pale, but looking at the wound and his spirit, he should be fine, and he still has the leisure to enlighten Runnong!

It was Akasaka Hato, who attacked them, and his house was hit by a shell. When his wife and children were hit in the bedroom where they were hiding, and his family died, Akasaka endured his grief and survived the ruins, just to find an opportunity to take revenge on the hateful Shina people.

After sending Cai Songpo to the field hospital, Zhang Runnong didn't say a word, his face was very ugly, and he finally understood what war was and what he should do as a soldier. Yes. Soldiers are killing machines, machines without feelings, while the Japanese are beasts, and there is no need to be merciful in killing animals. Zhang Runnong, who went from one extreme to the other, later became a butcher feared by all enemies, and the troops he led also became a feared butcher army.

The Japanese were bleeding at the front line of Makien, and the battle lasted for six hours, and the time was already about 3:30 p.m., and the troops on the front line were replaced by another reserve. The losses were not great, but the soldiers were exhausted. The consumption of ammunition is also very high. In the face of the Japanese soldiers who were not afraid of death, the spirit of the Marine Corps soldiers suffered a great torture, and some people did not even dare to kill a chicken, let alone slaughter nearly 10,000 living people in half a day!

The marines from Dongxiang to the capital slowly moved in the direction of Muyuan, but there were still a certain number of soldiers left in the original defense line, and the Japanese army could not attack the main position for a long time. Will definitely find a way to detour from both sides.

In order to cope with the high intensity of the fighting on the front line, the group army ordered the First Army and the Second Army to take over the defense of the Marines on both sides of the pasture, and the two divisions of the Marine Corps continued to bear the greatest pressure as the main defensive forces of the position.

As night fell, Utsunomiya ordered the attack to be halted. The troops temporarily retreated to rest and recuperate, gathering strength and waiting for the next day. In the one-day battle on the 29th, the Japanese launched five large-scale attacks, invested more than 45,000 troops, and suffered more than 28,000 casualties in front of the defensive positions of the marines. The 2nd and 3rd Marine Divisions suffered a total of 763 casualties, most of whom were wounded by Japanese artillery fire.

With the charge of the Japanese infantry, the Japanese artillery did not stop shelling, even when the Japanese infantry approached the enemy position, they did their best to suppress the defensive positions of the marines, which also caused the marines to suffer a lot of casualties. The Marine artillery was also constantly suppressing the Japanese artillery and providing support for the infantry, but the Japanese artillery expanded the position area and scattered the artillery after learning the lesson, which increased the difficulty of the Marine artillery.

Of course, Lu Liang would not let his army and marines simply use infantry tactics, his own soldiers were incomparably precious, and every dead or wounded was a loss for the country. At the same time as the fierce fighting ahead, more than 2,000 engineering units are working intensively on the construction of excavators, road rollers, and other construction machinery 10 kilometers southwest of Kagoshima, which will become a front-line field airfield for the war against Japan, and a construction site 10 miles away is a grounding ground for airships.

The requirements for the site used to moor the airship are not high, and it is sufficient to be flat and large enough, but the requirements for field airfields are relatively strict, and the engineering troops must complete the construction of field airfields in the shortest possible time, so that the air force can have suitable places for taking off and landing.

It was not only the Air Force that made its debut, but also the first armored unit of the Zhenguo Army. Air Force planes, spare parts, ammunition, and fuel shipped from the port of Shanghai are already sailing on the sea on transport ships, while the 1st Armored Brigade of the Army is expected to arrive in Kagoshima on the evening of the 30th from the port of Ningbo.

The motorized Marine Corps, the First and Second Armies of the Army, the Armored Brigade, and the Air Force are all arms that consume huge amounts of materials, and ammunition, food, oil, spare parts, etc., require the transport fleet to run non-stop all the time. The supply of these troops exhausted the logistics, production and transportation departments of the Chinese state, and it was simply impossible to supply more troops.

This also requires the end of the war against Japan as soon as possible, and the reason for the passive defense of the Zhenguo Army in Kyushu is to use Kagoshima to attract Japanese troops to the greatest extent, and to achieve tactical encirclement, and to fight a war of annihilation, so that the Japanese top brass will lose the will to continue to resist.

Since the front line can only supply about 100,000 troops for combat, the General Staff Department's plan is only to occupy Japan's Kyushu Island, and it will not open up more landing grounds. With China's current national strength and military strength, it is unable to support a war of annihilation, and taking advantage of the victory in land and naval battles to obtain the greatest benefits is Lu Liang's ultimate plan, Japan is a mortal enemy of China, but it is not yet capable of destroying the country. Therefore, it is the most cost-effective strategy to lock down Japan so that it will exhaust its national strength and trap it at home.

According to the plan, after occupying Kyushu Island, Hua Guo would take advantage of Japan's exhaustion of national strength and the main force dragging its strength in the northeast to negotiate with it to strive for the greatest benefits. After the war, the island of Kyushu was used as a base to blockade Japan so that it could not develop, and when China became strong, it was believed that those places would lose Japan's assistance and would not have much ability to resist.

On June 30, the Japanese army continued to attack the main position of Makien, and Utsunomiya received information that there were enemy fortifications on the left and right sides of Makien, and that the division of troops would lead to a weakening of the offensive strength of the main position, and that it would be difficult to produce results without artillery support. Therefore, Utsunomiya continued to concentrate his forces on the Makien front line, and began to attack with heavy troops from five o'clock in the morning.

The potholed battlefield is like the surface of the moon, the corpses and blood on the battlefield are enough to make the strongest people lose the courage to live, death has become the most common thing here, and the Japanese soldiers no longer even dodge the flying bullets, and charge straight forward. They struggled to cross numerous craters, and the luckiest Japanese soldier fell more than a dozen meters in front of the enemy position.

In the rear, the first ten airships of the airship group attached to the Air Force arrived at the mooring ground in the south of Kagoshima, which were modified for use as bombing airships.

At ten o'clock in the morning of the 30th, a large number of flying objects appeared over the battlefield, casting a huge shadow on the ground, and everyone in the Japanese army, including Utsunomiya, briefly lost consciousness in front of the airship. It is not that no one among them has ever seen an airship, but it has never seen such a huge airship, and perhaps such a weapon in Europe and the United States would not be too surprising, but in relatively backward Japan, such a weapon is enough to collapse.

However, after the first bombs on the airship fell on the heads of the Japanese army, the attacking Japanese army collapsed instantly, and if it were not for the efforts of the 14th Division of Utsunomiya to maintain it, perhaps the Kyushu garrison of nearly 80,000 people would have collapsed directly. The Japanese had nothing to do with the bomb-dropping airship, and the bullets fired from the guns could not reach the airship, and Utsunomiya had to lie down in the fortifications to avoid the bombs, and could not get up to maintain the troops until the airship left.

Although the appearance of the airship did not cause much substantial damage to the Japanese army, it had a huge impact on the morale of the Japanese army, before the Japanese soldiers thought that as long as they charged desperately, there would always be a day to defeat the enemy, but the appearance of the airship made them feel that their efforts were useless, and the infantry on the ground could not threaten the enemy in the air in any case! (To be continued.) )