Some time ago, the Chinese army won frequent victories, and the main reason for this was that the air force was always able to accurately drop bombs on the enemy's head at the right time and in the right place. Battle of Nanchang, this is how the Japanese lost three divisions and a strategic heavy artillery brigade, as well as hundreds of armored vehicles and tanks; In the Battle of Changsha, although Anan Weiji was overwhelmed by Xue Yue's "Heavenly Furnace Tactics", the loss of soldiers was not much, but he encountered the Chinese Air Force again when he retreated; There is also the battle of Inner Mongolia, if Fu Zuoyi did not have the help of the Chinese Air Force, it would be impossible to easily defeat Okabe Naosaburo and establish his strategic superiority in one fell swoop.

But not anymore.

Terauchi Shouichi was beaten a lot, and finally discovered the weakness of the Chinese Air Force: less!

No matter how capable of fighting and how dominant they are, the Chinese Air Force has far fewer planes than their Japanese planes. Although the Japanese air force is currently also taking care of the Siberian battlefield, which is where the real money is burned, but the Chinese battlefield is so big, where can the Chinese Air Force take care of the planes? And as long as there is no Chinese Air Force mischievous there, will the Imperial Japanese Army still be afraid of the Chinese Army? Thanks to him, Kenji Dohihara and others who had been fighting hard before, they had to think about destroying the Chinese Air Force and gaining air supremacy in one fell swoop, but as a result, the Imperial Air Force suffered heavy losses and lost two battleships......

After coming back to his senses in this way, Terauchi Shouichi finally gave full play to his general-level ingenuity and sent bombers to bomb Chongqing, Changsha, Yichang, Zhuzhou and other places, and indeed succeeded in transferring away the biggest threat and luckily gained an advantage on the battlefield. Now, he has four divisions under his command, fighting the Chinese on two battlefields. Among them, in the Vietnamese battlefield, the three divisions of Hyakutake Harukichi, Kawabe Shozo, and Harada Kumayoshi attacked Du Yuming's army, which had a great advantage. There is a great tendency to win Guangxi in one fell swoop. As for the Guangdong battlefield, although facing the onslaught of the four armies of Xu Tingyao's 35th Group Army, it seems that he has only one newly replenished 5th Division in his hand to fight against, but he still has two hole cards, that is, Yantian Dingqi's Taiwan Brigade and Sakurada Takeshi's Guards Mixed Brigade...... Just waiting for the other side to enter the city of Guangzhou, the fresh forces of these two brigades will suddenly kill and annihilate the other party under the city of Guangzhou.

This is war! It was the battle fought by the Imperial Japanese Army!

Imagining the situation of his own war between the two Guangzhou, Terauchi Shouichi seems to have found the scenery when he led his troops to sweep North China again.

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And just when the troops under the command of Shouichi in the temple were raging in Liangguang, Bai Zhenxi, Qin Wei and Xu Tingyao had no way to deal with it and lost frequently. In Shanxi, in the north, the national army was also in big trouble.

Hu Zongnan didn't expect Yoshio Shinozuka to dare to take the initiative to attack him. In his opinion, Shinozuka Yoshio's 1st Army, which is 50,000 or 60,000 men, is still guarding against Yan Xishan and Wei Lihuang, as well as Fu Zuoyi, who is the most restless in the north. In the face of the oppression of his more than 200,000 troops, he could only passively defend. I'm waiting for support. But the truth was not what he expected. Yoshio Shinozuka not only attacked. Moreover, even Taiyuan did not stop, and sent the chief of staff Tanaka Takayoshi to Datong to deal with Fu Zuoyi, and then, as the commander of the 1st Army, concentrated the strength of one division and two independent brigades, and brazenly launched an attack on the 1st Army that had just come out of Lanxian...... That's right, it's the 1st Army! Yoshio Shinozuka was the commander of Japan's 1st Army. And what he attacked was the 1st Army of the National Revolutionary Army, the army that Lao Chiang started with, and the party army of the Whampoa Military Academy. The descendant of the Central Army, the core of the core!

1st Army vs. 1st Army!

First Battle!

Li Tiejun, commander of the 1st Division of the 1st Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was beaten by Yoshio Shinozuka and lost more than half of his troops, and retreated in panic. And Li Tiejun's retreat caused fluctuations in the front of the entire 1st Army of the National Revolutionary Army. I didn't expect the enemy to take the initiative to attack, but this time I was caught off guard and retreated in defeat. Finally, under the leadership of the army commander Tao Zhiyue, he barely stabilized his position. And just when Tao Zhiyue was angry and wanted to launch a counterattack, Yoshio Shinozuka turned around and killed Kong Lingsui's 80th Army to the south. The 80th Army had been prepared for it because it knew what happened to the 1st Army, but it still looked a little difficult in the face of Yoshio Shinozuka's onslaught. By the time Dong Zhao's 16th Army from Lishi rushed over to support, its new 27th Division, which had encountered the enemy head-on, had already suffered a heavy defeat, and division commander Wang Jun, deputy division commander Liang Xixian, and chief of staff Chen Wenqi were all killed and martyred.

Hu Zongnan was dizzy and dizzy by Yoshio Shinozuka's punch. The originally aggressive offensive was suddenly a setback. Under the influence of Hu Zongnan, Yan Xishan, who wanted to take advantage of the situation to send troops to take advantage of the situation, heard the news and immediately retreated back to Linfen. However, although Yan Xishan withdrew very unjustly, Hu Zongnan could not withdraw. His goal is Taiyuan, and now there are still 180 miles away from Taiyuan, if he is beaten back like this, it doesn't matter if he loses face, the key is to lose Chiang Kai-shek's people, this problem is much more serious than the loss of half an army and one division. And he also clearly judged that the reason why Yoshio Shinozuka dared to take the initiative was not because he relied on his strong army, but on the contrary, the other party should have felt that the defense would be more difficult, so he wanted to use the strong field ability of the Japanese army to repel it in the field. Because this can not only deter the enemy, show the momentum of the Japanese army, and improve morale, but also have more room for maneuver, so as not to fall into a situation of defensive and death battle. After all, he Hu not only came with most of the group army this time, but also brought a heavy artillery division. Defending the city under heavy artillery bombardment, even with the strength of the Japanese army, is tantamount to seeking a dead end.

Therefore, after Hu Zongnan stabilized the military situation, he no longer paid attention to Yoshio Shinozuka, and the armies put on an iron cylinder formation that coordinated with each other, and continued to march slowly towards Taiyuan firmly. But at this time, new news arrived: Tada Jun gathered the 110th Division, the 15th Brigade and the 6th and 10th Brigades of the Iida Sadagu Division of the Japanese 12th Army in Shandong, together with the traitor puppet army Zhang Lanfeng, Liu Yanfeng's division and the traitor puppet 24th Division, and went straight to Shanxi with great momentum.

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"General, what the hell are we doing here?"

Over an unknown mountain range in Guizhou.

A small formation of more than a dozen "Hellcats" is heading south in a straight line at a relatively usual pace. And in the center of these dozen "Hellcats" is a Soviet-made TB-3 Tupolev bomber. Robert. Sandel was reluctant and unskilled to watch the Chinese pilot next to him operate the Soviet-made bomber, but he could only fight like an apprentice, and couldn't help but complain to Chennault standing behind the two.

"Let's go to support Guangxi." Chennault shrugged his shoulders. The Chinese are very righteous. After he brought back this group of "Hellcats" from the United States, he immediately divided half of them and handed them over to him and the American volunteer air force he led. The battle over Guangzhou was fought by his fighter brigade, which Qin Wei named the "Flying Tigers", together with Liu Zhesheng's "Vulture" brigade. The results of that battle were quite fruitful, but unfortunately the fight was not happy at all. Qin Wei, who had always been afraid that he would not be able to kill the enemy, actually asked them to accept it when they saw it, and let go of most of the zeros. Well, now the bombers and transport planes that remained in Guangxi were forced by these "cat's mouth" Zeros to dare not take off, and could only watch the army desperately. As for Qin Wei, after following the Military Commission in Chongqing, the Aviation General Headquarters, and Chairman Chiang, he finally transferred their "Flying Tigers" back. And in order to avoid the surveillance of the Japanese army. They could only fly over the mountains in batches.

As for him, the captain of the Flying Tigers, he didn't need to come here, but Qin Wei asked him to come over. This made him extremely depressed. Because Qin Wei called him not to let him lead a team to fight the Japanese air force, but to let him leave China again to urge the United States to transport the remaining "Hellcat" fighters to China as soon as possible.

"The Japanese are suddenly everywhere like crazy. Without us, the skies over Chongqing would be dangerous. "Robert. Sandel said again. He was originally a U.S. Army Air Force. Because there is a lot of treatment here. He was summoned by Chennault to China. As a result, he found that he was really popular in China. Not only do you earn more tickets, but you always get the treatment of a hero...... Especially in Chongqing, that's called a treat. It's a pity that he was ordered by the commander-in-chief of the Air Force, and he could only say goodbye to the gentle villagers there.

"Chongqing won't be in much danger, and there may be trouble elsewhere." Zhang Xiao was driving the TB-3 when he heard two Yankees talking. He glanced at the plane's instruments and interjected casually. Most of the pilots of the Nationalist Army were of a very high standard, and he spoke English very well when he was sent to accompany Chennault on his mission.

"The Japanese have already bombed Chongqing once while we were away." Sandel was very dissatisfied with Zhang Xiao's statement. "Now that we're leaving, how can they not be dangerous?"

"There are also two squadrons of 'Hellcat' in Chongqing, and there are thousands of anti-aircraft guns around, and these anti-aircraft guns are all modified, and it is said that the accuracy is much higher than before, and even the British are chasing the Ministry of Defense all day long to buy technical skills...... The last time it was bombed, it was just because of a moment of negligence, and there was no fighter to fight against. Now with such protection, how can it still be damaged? I'm quite worried about the ...... in those places in Changsha," Zhang Xiao replied.

"You have a point." Chennault patted Zhang Xiao on the shoulder, "It's a pity that we have too few fighters, otherwise it would definitely not be as troublesome as it is now." Hopefully I'll be able to pull all the remaining 'Hellcats' back this time. ”

"You're going to make it, General." Zhang Xiao said with a smile: "Because Chief Qin will definitely not allow the 'Sky Guardian' he worked so hard to get to be detained all the time, he has always been very methodical...... By the way, I heard that this batch of planes actually made its way to Hawaii, right? ”

"Yes, it's a pity that because I heard that there was a big war in China, those guys stopped again." Chennault sighed, "And my first stop was there." ”

"I'm sure you'll ......"

"General, a telegram from Guilin." A person's head suddenly popped out of the rear cabin, "Chief Qin ordered: land at Guiyang Airport, refill fuel, and turn to Zhuzhou!" …… Get ready for battle! (To be continued......)