"Nani? It must be an illusion, an absolute illusion! ”

Lieutenant General Yuzuhara Wanzo is inspecting the defense of Jiaozhou Bay, after all, the 9th Division has provoked a conflict, which is likely to trigger a military conflict. As soon as the chief of staff sent the telegram from Tokyo, he saw an unprecedentedly terrifying continuous and violent explosion in the garrison position of the Jimo Fifth Division across the sea of Jiaozhou Bay.

The chief of staff, Ishihara Daisa, said loudly: "Your Excellency, the commander of the division, it is the China that has attacked, and the China people have already declared war on the empire eight minutes ago!" ”

Yuzuhara Wanzo shook his head and said: "It is impossible for the Shina attack to cause such terrible destructive power, you look at that explosion, to achieve this effect, I can see hundreds of giant cannons in a salvo." It is impossible for the people of China to have so many cannons, and they don't have time to arrange so many cannons without being noticed. ”

The cannon is infinitely powerful, and if it is used in a land battle, the blow to the resisting side is simply devastating. But fortunately, the giant cannon also has a very obvious shortcoming, that is, it is unusually heavy, and it can only be used as a train cannon to maneuver, and the weight of dozens of tons makes the general terrain cannon even more inaccessible, and the ground cannot withstand such a terrifying force.

Ishihara Daisa was surprised: "Could it be that the ammunition depot of the Fifth Division was detonated?" ”

Yuzuhara Wanzang frowned and said, "Chief of Staff Ishihara, immediately call to inquire and verify the situation!" ”

It is said that this side would never have dreamed that due to the lack of large-scale hydraulic presses in China, not to mention the large-scale manufacture of giant artillery, it is difficult to form a large-scale production of even heavy artillery, after all, the artillery produced by the limited hydraulic press must first meet the needs of naval guns. With Wu Di, a large army division that crossed over, it was natural that rocket artillery immediately came to mind. But who would have thought that rocket artillery was not uncommon in later generations, known as the simple process, but in this era, it is absolutely the right high-precision manufacturing.

Li Huo, an expert in military artillery, was originally preparing to develop a 24-barreled 150-mm rocket launcher, and he also learned about the design and some principles of historical rocket artillery. The range of rocket artillery that can be manufactured is less than five kilometers. After deliberation and decision, the production of too precise could not be guaranteed, so the caliber of the rocket was expanded, and the 300 mm rocket was directly launched, not to mention that it was very effective, and the caliber of the weapon became larger, and the precise requirements were not so meticulous, so that it could shoot more than 10 kilometers and meet the requirements of battlefield operations.

At the instigation of Wu's enemy's large army division, Li Bufan decided to completely annihilate the 5th and 9th divisions of the troops stationed outside the cave at the first time with lightning speed, and originally included the 6th Division in the death list, but the 6th Division was stationed in Jiaozhou Bay, because of the right of way and the concession, there was a peripheral distance, and the range of rocket artillery was limited, so it had to be abandoned.

As a result, under the argument of the naked weapons theory of the Wu enemy's army division, a full 27 rocket artillery pieces were directly arranged on the periphery of the Fifth and Ninth Divisions, and one salvo was equivalent to firing 322 huge artillery shells of nearly 300 mm at a time.

Originally, Li Bufan resolutely disagreed, because China's manufacturing power can make dozens of such rockets in a month, and just two attacks like this directly consumed seventy percent of the ammunition in stock, and the rocket artillery was almost like an ornament. However, the reason for Wu's enemy's army division was very simple, that is, to drive Yue himself into the sea as quickly as possible, to avoid the war in China itself as much as possible, and to avoid casualties among the civilians of Zai Cheng as much as possible.

Due to the incompetence of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the concession and fear of the book in the early Republic of China caused the general fear of the [***] side in this era. In order to strengthen the determination of the Chinese people to resist the war to the end, it is necessary to win one or two huge victories in the shortest possible time, and establish confidence that the military and the people will definitely win the war of resistance.

Even the Yugoslav Army did not prepare much heavy artillery, but more equipped with some mortars, so they rushed to Yantai and Jimo to confront the troops of the Yue Army.

Since they did not expect that the Chinese side would possess such a terrifying weapon of mass destruction as rocket artillery, the Fifth and Ninth Divisions of the Chinese Army completely became two tragedies. The two divisions were devastated by an unprecedented burst of rocket artillery groups, followed by a coordinated advance attack by tank and infantry troops.

Fortunately, the army has a good tradition, that is, the fortifications of the garrison are well repaired, so that the command headquarters of the army at the wing level is not from the blow of destruction. After the terrible artillery bombardment of the Ninth Division, the direct troops rushed to the route, escaped two or three thousand people, and after being attacked, they fled to the port of Yantai, desperately sent people to resist the combined attack of tanks and infantry, and fled more than 1,000 people to Port Arthur. The Fifth Division was even more miserable, because it was on the coast of Jiaozhou Bay, and there were no decent mountain fortifications on the side at all, and only a few hundred people escaped

In the blink of an eye, two of the three main divisions in Shandong were almost annihilated by the formation, which was like a bolt from the blue for the Japanese Ben, who had just declared war on the political axe of Nanjing, China. Retired old marshals Aritomo Yamaprefecture and Heihachiro Togo both appeared.

Yasuya Uchida, the acting prime minister, was directly at a loss for what to do.

It was said that the veteran of the army, Shan County, roared like thunder: "Impossible. The Fifth and Ninth Divisions were the most elite divisions in the Empire, and they were definitely not something that a weak Chinese army could defeat. Hit by hundreds of cannons? Impossible. This and shameless shirking of responsibility is simply the scum of the military and the shame of the empire! ”

Heihachiro Togo also sneered: "Hundreds of giant cannons? What country in the world wouldn't want to use a giant cannon for an army? But the heaviness of the cannon was a formidable obstacle. Do you know how much manpower and material resources are required to move the cannon? Joke. I think it may have been caused by the use of airships to drop giant bombs, after all, it is impossible for so many people to lie at the same time. ”

"But the report says that many people have seen a large number of shells with flames flying towards their positions"

"Sophistry! This is nothing more than a quibble for them to be paralyzed and careless and not pay attention to the airship bombing. ”

There was chaos and controversy at the top of the cabinet, and no one believed that the Chinese Nanjing political axe was capable of equipping a large number of huge artillery to the troops, but the huge losses were real, which filled the entire top level with anger and urgency.

"Report, Navy emergency telegram, my seafood patrol warship in Taiwan was bombed by China planes, heavy losses"

"Nani?" Heihachiro Togo jumped up, and he was not calm at all because he was a little gloating about the huge losses of the army or a little sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox. Of course, this is also a bolt from the blue for the top of the Navy.

Immediately after that, unfavorable news from the Navy came one after another.

First of all, the nine destroyers cruising on the Yangtze River were bombed and all sunk.

Secondly, the navy in Shanghai was heavily shelled by the fortress guns built in Shanghai, China, and suffered heavy losses.

The sharp cannon shells whistled, like the piercing and sharp whistling of the locomotive's sudden brakes, and the garrison of the warship stationed at the mouth of the Huangpu River in Shanghai fell into a sea of flames, and his [***] ships anchored in the east of the Yueben Navy fled in panic to avoid being affected, while the [***] ships outside the internal test could only pray for God's blessing, and the officers and men on the warship fled directly from the warship, watching this scene from a distance.

"Boom!" A 406-mm fortress cannon shell hit an old-fashioned light cruiser, and in an instant the entire warship was blown to pieces, and the steel parts of the warship flew all over the sky, turning the surrounding hundreds of meters into a steel storm.

The power of the giant cannon made the officers and men of various countries anchored on the warships in Shanghai look like dirt.

"Oh God. This is a 16-inch cannon, and I am finished. ”

"It's terrible, it's incredible that the Chinese can build such a terrifying cannon."

"I have to pay the price for their stupidity and brutality, and their massacre of civilians has completely angered the leaders of the Nanking political axe. You must know that the Chinese Li Ke experienced the Somme and the Battle of Verdun. ”

"Damn, I don't want to stay in this horrible place, it's a goddamn hell."

The officers and men of various countries and the people of overseas China were all terrified, but the Nanking political axe declared war on Yue, and the people of Shanghai continued to shout earth-shattering cheers when they saw that the warships of the Yueben Navy, which had done all kinds of evil, were destroyed and attacked.

Compared with the evasion and fear of the naval officers and men of various countries, but the reporters of various countries in Shanghai frantically rushed to the Huangpu River to shoot the scene of the shelling, because the war broke out too suddenly, many reporters were not prepared, which will definitely become the media revelations, can make them famous overnight.

Unfortunately, the war was short-lived, and the warships that were supposed to stop in the harbor were even more immobile, and they were completely destroyed after just a few rounds of shelling. Despite this, the power of the fortress built by the Nanjing political axe in Shanghai was vividly displayed.

After the shelling ended, the warships of various countries fled frantically overseas, they did not want to stay in this terrible place for a second, let alone use their old warships to test the power of the Chinese fortress guns.

The shelling of the Shanghai fortress artillery seemed to announce to the whole world the roar of China, the lion of the East, and also announced the coming of a great war of unprecedented scale in East Asia to the troops and expatriates of various countries in Shanghai with iron and blood.

Shanghai's communication was far more convenient than Shandong's, and countless radio waves were spreading the news frantically, and the whole world was shocked by this war, and was also stunned, because in Europe and the United States, the most important thing for the Nanjing political axe to do was to unify the whole country with the Northern Expedition, rather than to challenge the first power in Asia, because no one thought that China would win.

However, the war has inevitably begun

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