Chapter 727: Falling from the Sky
The temporary 1st Division of the New Fourth Army rushed to Wuhu with more than 100 soldiers of the New Fourth Army, who were "supervising the army". Wuhu has always been known as Wutou and Chuwei, and it is also one of the four major rice cities in the south of the Yangtze River. In the late Qing Dynasty, Wuhu was opened up as a treaty port, thus entering a period of rapid development, and rapidly developed from the original rice market to an important economic city on the Yangtze River. Wuhu has always been an important town in the Yangtze River basin in southern China, whether it is downstream or upstream, Wuhu is an important stronghold for the Yangtze River.
In 1938, the Japanese army captured Wuhu with almost no resistance from the Guofu army, and in order to control the Yangtze River basin and control the richest Jiangnan region, Wuhu carried out a focused defense. At the same time, the Japanese also committed heinous crimes in Wuhu.
After the arrogant leader of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, Sadao Nakajima, invaded and occupied Wuhu, he engraved on a large stone tablet erected above the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall on the southern slope of Zheshan Mountain, "The martial arts have been long hauled," and even arrogantly published a poem in the newspaper, "Hit the stone with a sword, and drink the water of the Yangtze River to exhaust the horse." Our army's 100,000 battle robes are red, full of the blood of the sons and daughters of Jiangnan. ”
During the Japanese air raid on Wuhu, Japanese planes carried out air raids on Wuhu in turn, and the prosperous streets and roads from the Wanli Airport to the station, wharf, and commercial center, such as Shili Long Street and Jihe Street, were bombed into ruins, killing and injuring countless innocent people. According to incomplete statistics, more than 300 shops and houses were reduced to ashes, and a British merchant and passenger ship "Dehe" moored on the Wuhu River was also sunk. It is said that there were more than 1,000 casualties on board, most of them women and children who had returned to Guangdong, and more than 100 were admitted to one hospital alone, including more than 80 seriously injured. After the Japanese army occupied Jiangcheng, it also carried out six bombings in the urban area, dropping more than 48 bombs, killing more than 1,290 people and wounding more than 2,780 people. The city was full of gunsmoke, the fire burned for more than 20 days, the flesh and blood were flying, the corpses were everywhere, and Jiangcheng became a dead city and a ghost city.
In his book, British correspondent Tian Bolie in China revealed: In the first week of occupation of Wuhu, the Japanese army indiscriminately slaughtered civilians and wantonly looted and destroyed houses, surpassing any other incident that China has experienced in the past 20 years. In the early days of their occupation of Wuhu, the Japanese army slaughtered more than 10,000 unarmed citizens in the city alone, including monks and nuns.
Against the Japanese martyrs, the Japanese army was even more ferocious and did everything they could. The Japanese army captured Zhang Liuzhi, a farmer, in Zhang Village, Xigeng, forced him to admit that he was the New Fourth Army, tied him to a tree, and let the wolf dog bite him alive. In Meishan, a group of 8 guerrillas of the New Fourth Army were captured by the Japanese army on a wooden boat on the Exi River and buried 7 people alive in a pit, leaving a company commander of the New Fourth Army who was taken to the Japanese headquarters to be tortured, and was killed by disemboweling his heart and liver. A 20-year-old guerrilla in Xing Village, Shangxing, Eqiao, was captured by the Japanese army and thrown into a boiling porridge pot and boiled to death.
Until Japan surrendered in 1945, Wuhu was taken over by the KMT regime, and I don't know how many innocent souls were buried in the land and rivers of Wuhu. Qi Yuan was not particularly aware of these facts, and his hatred for the Japanese was not as real as his father's. This comes from the age of growth and the difference in individual abilities. Qi Yiming's growth era is considered to be the era of China's rapid growth, from the childhood when he bought a chicken leg with sauce a week and felt very luxurious, to the KFC was a fashionable restaurant in junior high school, to Qi Yiming's work, he can afford to buy a BMW, and can travel to five or six countries a year. But even so, Qi Yiming was still able to deeply understand the suffering that China endured back then from the inheritance of education, and in the social environment, he consciously hated Japan, and did not forget that humiliating history.
And Qi Yuan itself is another story, first of all, Qi Yuan almost never went to a serious public school, and his high IQ allowed him to get a doctorate at the age of eleven or twelve, and he spent most of his time teaching himself. Obviously, in the literature and history category, Qi Yuan chooses to understand more than immerse himself in it, which is also very different from Qi Yiming. Qi Yuan is an amazingly rational person, and it is difficult to shake his mind by something. Moreover, Qi Yuan himself is a powerful Red Police hero template, and his psychic ability, super energy wave, and super physique all give him a pride and conceit that ordinary people don't have. In addition, he has a good father and has tens of millions of male soldiers. Therefore, for the existence that is far from being comparable to his own ability, Qi Yuan is not very enthusiastic about it.
Although his hatred for the Japanese army was formalized rather than spontaneous, Qi Yuan did not hesitate to launch any strong attacks against the Japanese army. Before the Provisional 1st Division entered Wuhu and had just arrived at Huolonggang Town in the south of Wuhu, Qi Yuan had already launched the Wheel King and began to carry out a clearing operation against the Japanese troops stationed in Wuhu.
This time, Qi Yuan did not sit in the Wheel King, and the highly artificial intelligence Wheel King was completely able to fight on his own. In fact, the Runner King is planning to launch a "tungsten rod" directly into Wuhu in the low orbit of the earth, which is also the "God's Staff" space-based kinetic energy weapon researched by the American demon in Qi Yiming's mother plane. It is roughly as powerful as a nuclear weapon, but without the problem of nuclear radiation. Or, the Wheel King plans to launch a super heavy neutron cannon at Wuhu and use the fast neutron stream to directly kill all life forms in Wuhu.
Of course, Qi Yuan could not let this kind of weapon of mass destruction kill the Chinese residents of Wuhu as well, although he is a guy who is cold by nature and cares about no one, but he knows the basic morality and bottom line, and the biggest reason why human beings maintain these things is that it can prevent human beings from destroying themselves. Even if he was arrogant, he didn't think it was something to praise for the complete destruction of a city in his country with the strength of a warrior.
Although the Wheel King was forced to choose some more "troublesome" combat methods, he was at least able to concentrate his firepower on the Japanese army, rather than the ordinary people of Wuhu. The Wheel King flew down directly from the space-based orbit, its strong armored shell is not afraid of the high heat generated when passing through the atmosphere, in fact, this special material from the extraterrestrial, specifically considering the characteristics of spacecraft often entering and leaving the atmosphere, so the material has extremely strong heat resistance, and even has a certain self-healing ability.
When he was about to approach the ground, the Runner turned on his Iron Wing Thruster, which originally came from the Rocket Angel propulsion system played a greater role in the Wheel King, like a swooping down Condor, the Runner King had a 125mm electromagnetic cannon in one hand and a 23mm six-barreled Gatling gun in the other, and launched an attack on the completely unresponsive Japanese camp.