"I really believe in the taste of puffer fish in my hometown!" Shinichi Watari picked up the cold rice in the iron box with a spoon and put it in his mouth to taste like chewing wax. Although the previous meal was cooked, it happened that two enemy planes passed overhead, causing them to jump in a flurry of chickens and dogs, and fled from side to side, delaying the time to eat, and the rice transported from the wooden barrel also became cold, but it was still not frozen, and it could still be eaten, but the taste was a little bit worse.

He was different from some poor families and ordinary soldiers, Watari Shinichi's family was wealthy, but under the baptism of Japanese bushido, the culture of loyalty to the emperor, Watari Shinichi also signed up for the army and became one of the glorious emperor samurai. When the army was sent to the Republic of China, Shinichi Watari and his troops received a grand farewell ceremony, and at that moment, Shinichi Watari seemed to be able to see his future full of honor. It's just that after coming to the Republic of China, Shinichi Watari was quickly assigned to the Central China Theater.

Watari Shinichi did not catch up with the smoothest time in the war against China, and as soon as he came, he encountered the Battle of Wuhan, which was very tenacious in the resistance of the Central Army of the Chiang Department, in this battle, the Japanese army paid more than 100,000 casualties, and directly killed tens of thousands. When I first came to the Republic of China, there were not as many people killed in the war as there are now, and there will be a grand mourning ceremony for the dead soldiers in the army, but now, this kind of ceremony is somewhat situational, and even in some troops, it is no longer held, or postponed indefinitely.

Thinking of this, Watari Shinichi couldn't help but wonder a little in his heart, could it be that His Majesty the Emperor didn't pay attention to these samurai who opened up territory for him?

"I also reminisce about the fishing port in Kobe, every time I wait for my father to return with a full load, enjoy the moist sea breeze, and smell the fragrance of the grass, but looking at this situation, I am afraid that I will not be able to go back in the past year or two." The squad leader passed by with a saber on his shoulder, watched his subordinates eat, did not show as harsh as other officers, and said with a smile on his face.

"Your Excellency Haruki!" Under the strict hierarchy in the Japanese army, the soldiers hurriedly got up.

"Okay, hurry up and eat, I received a notice from the squadron leader just now, and after eating, I immediately gathered at the Land Temple and urged the people to repair the fortifications." Captain Haruki waved his hand.

"Yes, Lord Haruki!" Dozens of Japanese soldiers responded. Compared to the other officers, their squad leader is very easy to talk to, and he is not strict with them.

Gotta get it

A Japanese soldier in a military overcoat galloped at a gallop.

"Squadron Leader Kuroda has an order, all the soldiers of the Haruki squad are gathered and waiting for the order!" The soldiers on the horse shouted loudly, although the communication conditions of the Japanese army were more than a little stronger than that of the national * army, but until the war has been fought, the original supply of communication equipment is somewhat insufficient, and it has been consumed a lot in the war.

Rushing

The Japanese soldiers showed extremely high quality at this time, and after hearing the order, they hurriedly shaved some cold and hard rice into their mouths, and the iron bowls they carried with them did not have time to be cleaned, so they immediately lined up and assembled. Marching and fighting, this is nothing.

Soon, a squadron of more than 130 people remained, and the squadron that was not yet in force was assembled. The squadron leader had a dark face, and without explaining anything to the squad leaders, he rode on a tall horse and led everyone to the northwest.

Wakubun Shinichi remembered the direction of the brigade headquarters, and was in such a hurry to lean on the brigade headquarters, could something have happened?

Gotta get it

The cavalry of the brigade advanced rapidly on the embankment of the river not far away, and the situation was also in a hurry. Watari Shinyi was in a heart, even as a small soldier, he didn't know anything about the above arrangement, but based on the experience of being a soldier for more than a year, Watari Shinichi could guess that it was probably not good news. Usually when the troops are in a hurry, they are either attacking, or they are running away from the enemy in the brigade to avoid the enemy's edge, or they are rushing to the friendly positions and rushing to support. Looking at the captain's face, I am afraid that the situation is mostly the third one.

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When the Chunmu squadron also went up to the embankment, looking at the frozen river, the ice slag under their feet was very slippery, and several colleagues had already fallen to the ground and sat on the ground, and some of them had accidentally fallen into a rolling gourd.

However, before they had time to laugh at their colleagues who were rolling on the ground, a screech of shells whistled by, although the artillery group was not directed at them, but it made the faces of all the Japanese troops present throb, and the appearance of such an artillery group in the enemy army was not only something that their soldiers could not deal with, but also their brigade, which could not bear it. The entire brigade also has only two Type 92 infantry guns and light and heavy machine guns for firepower, a small number of grenadiers, and if you are lucky, there may be a few artillery pieces at your disposal, but at the moment, the enemy is using a heavy artillery group!

"Quick, speed up!" On the contrary, when the main force of the enemy army appears, they must speed up to the designated area and wait for orders, and put them into the battlefield at any time. This is the Japanese army, during the Anti-Japanese War, the Republic of China encountered an army that dared to fight and never avoided war. Although their bodies are not strong, they have a strong heart that is not inferior to Britain and the United States and other powers, and even surpassed.

The Japanese army is well-trained, able to fight, and dare to fight, but at this time in East Asia, it has also grown up another force, and after several years of war, this army is not much worse than the Japanese army in terms of weapons.

Dozens of miles away from a small forest on the periphery of Mule River Village, there was a swarthy cannon with a hole in the row, which was not an independent heavy artillery regiment that Jiang Li was additionally equipped with for the 13th Army, but a heavy artillery battalion mixed with the 2nd Armored Brigade, more than a dozen 105MM howitzers were opened, and shell boxes were placed next to them, and wooden lids were opened.

"Bomb me hard, let the little devils in the south know that defeating Lao Jiang's Central Army is not a skill. The guys that Lao Jiang doesn't have in his hands, we have them in the Northwest Army, open up the little devils, and let them see the power of the heavy artillery of the Northwest Army! Song Dafei of the heavy artillery battalion was born with a loud voice, roaring loudly while the soldiers were reloading.

"Quick, get the shells down!" At this time, not far from the artillery group, on the military trucks produced in Lanzhou, soldiers up and down continued to carry heavy shell boxes to the artillery position. The infantry corps, which is responsible for protecting the artillery, is also checking the machine rifle and installing the bullet chain, and everything is busy in a tense and orderly manner.

The cannonball hit the Mule River Village, which was not too far from the river embankment, and the whole Mule River Village trembled in sight with the naked eye.

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One after another, the adobe houses in Mule River Village were not directly hit, because the adobe walls supported by wooden sticks for a long time also collapsed under the huge shock wave.

"Yaga, damn it, incompetent!" At this time, the captain of the Japanese army was furious, and it was not only Tian Junliu who got the news that the 13th Army had been equipped with an independent heavy artillery regiment. In fact, there were other Japanese agents who found him, the most front-line combat unit, and also borrowed a telegram from the brigade headquarters and sent it to the Central China Front Headquarters, and the Japanese army captain was also one of the insiders, but he didn't know why in this situation, the rear had no intention of increasing troops, did he really expect a detachment on the front line to block the main force of the Northwest Army with hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles? No, not even a division can do it!

"Go, immediately drive those damned Chinese civilians to the front, and see if the artillery of the Northwest Army is really ruthless to the point of ignoring anything!" At this time, there was no way, and the only thing the captain could do was to think of this order, but fortunately, the rear had promised to send some aviation troops to support, and he could not strengthen the enemy at the moment, so he could only count on the soft-hearted support of the Northwest Army for a while.

"Our army is back, everyone flee!"

At this time, the Japanese position was also in chaos, and the fierce artillery bombardment brought great shock to people's hearts, and at the same time, the Japanese dogs jumped under the wall in a hurry, and hit the idea on the people who were driven over to repair the fortifications.

And at the moment when the artillery fired, these people, who were forcibly driven by the Japanese army to repair the fortifications, began to agitate. A small number have begun to flee into the distance.

"The Northwest Army, it's the Northwest Army that has come back, we have been saved! Iron Egg, quick, let's run away! A middle-aged man wearing straw sandals, only a thin jacket on his body, and his face was blue from the cold, greeted a young man of sixteen or seventeen, and fled out.

"Stop, if you don't stand again, the Imperial Army is going to shoot!" At this time, the second devil who acted as a translator lifted the hem of his robe and yelled loudly. But at this time, how could the people still pay attention to the truth of this two devils.

It's just that the speed of the Japanese soldiers is far faster than that of the two devils, and in front of the well-trained Japanese army, these unarmed people are too much worse after all.

Da-da-da

As the Japanese machine guns rang out, there was also a scream. Crowds of civilians were swept to the ground by machine guns, and only a dozen or so fled a little farther away, stumbling through the snow and ice.

"Iron egg, lie down!" The middle-aged man in extremely simple clothes pushed down the young man in front of him, but in the sound of the Japanese machine-gun, the middle-aged man's body was collectively bitten by something a few times, his body trembled a few times, and then he fell down softly.

"Third uncle!" The young man who was called the iron egg, the eyes that were originally panicked and godless, tears welled up. Looking at the middle-aged man who fell, Tie Dan suddenly felt that half of the sky above his head was about to fall, since his parents died when he was a child, he has been brought up by the third uncle's family, the year before last, due to the invasion of the Japanese army, the third uncle was also ruined, leaving their uncle and nephew to depend on each other in this troubled world, but Tie Dan did not expect that the third uncle, who had been sheltering him from the wind and rain, also fell on the battlefield at this time.

"Iron, iron eggs, live, live!" The middle-aged man tried to half-raise his neck, the corners of his mouth twitched twice in pain, the voice was very subtle under the gun, and Tie Dan wanted to come over and listen, but the middle-aged man's eyes had dimmed, and his face was pressed against the cold snow slag.

"Ahh But in this troubled world, he is not the only one who is in a bleak situation. A large number of people fell in pools of blood, and in the vast and cold ice and snow, patches of bright red blood stained the ground mottled.

The people who were blocked by the Japanese army in the encirclement looked at the fallen family members, relatives and friends, and wept silently one by one.

"These goddamn bastards!" At this time, the planes of both sides in the sky rushed to this airspace where war broke out in the first place almost at the same time.

At this time, Zuo Qing, who was piloting the Tenglong fighter, saw the extremely worrying scene below, and his eyes turned red when he landed.

"These bastards, one day, we will fight the little devils and pay them all these blood debts!"

The angry voices of the pilots inside the communicator seemed to make the air a little colder. I watched the Japanese army drive them like livestock.

"Shut up! The blood feud between us and the Japanese will inevitably not end until the other side completely falls, so that the devils know the consequences of angering the Northwest Army! Go and get the little devil's plane down, right now, now! Zuo Qing roared inside the communicator.

airplanes

6 Dragons and 11 Dragons, each in a compact formation, pushed the lever abruptly, and the engine roared violently in the rapid climb.

"Bastard, the fighters of the China Army are really not under the zero battle!" At this time, several Japanese cutting-edge Zero Battles appeared over the Mule River, as well as the Type 95 fighters that were already relatively backward, and several Navy Type 97 fighters. After seeing the combination of the flying dragon and the dragon, Dengshi's complexion changed. As soon as they came into contact, both the Wyvern and the Tamron had already shown a climb rate that was better than that of Zero. At a time when the attention of all countries in the world was still focused on biplanes, the Northwest Air Force had already developed its own lower monoplane fighters, and the painstaking efforts in the lower monoplanes in the past few years were not something that the Japanese army could catch up with in a short period of time.

In terms of the performance of the fighters alone, the Northwest Air Force has stabilized the Japanese army. In another more important field, the Northwest Air Force's major breakthrough in the field of oil refining made it unnecessary for the Northwest to import high-quality aviation gasoline from Britain and the United States at this time, and the high-octane aviation gasoline produced by itself was compared with the aviation gasoline used by Japanese fighters. Even if it is two fighters with the same performance, the fighters in the northwest are better than the Japanese planes when they use better fuel.

Under the baptism of war, most of the combat planes in the northwest have been replaced by the Feilong series fighters and some Tenglong fighters, at least the number of zero battles on the Japanese army's army aviation at this time is far from enough, especially in the case of the air raid on Wuhan this time, the Japanese army's combat aircraft losses are not small. In order to prevent another air raid by the Northwest Air Force, the Japanese army had to once again transfer some planes from other places to the airfields around Wuhan, which directly affected the number of Japanese fighters appearing over Luohezhuang. (To be continued.) )