Historically, after the Japanese landed in Longkou Town, they once collected thousands of mules, horses, and vehicles and hundreds of strong men to help the Japanese army pull supplies. However, this time, because the Wehrmacht had evacuated all the residents in advance, the Japanese received almost no help. Fortunately, for the Japanese, this is not a problem.

"But it's really a pity..."At this time, the Japanese army had already requisitioned a house in Longkou Town as a temporary headquarters, and standing in the headquarters, Kamio Mitsutomi let out a long sigh.

"Your Excellency still regrets?" Seeing Kamio Mitsutomi's face full of regret, one of his officers, who was directing the soldiers to arrange the headquarters, stopped what he was doing and asked softly.

"yes." Mitsumi Kamio nodded. "I thought that those Chinese would not retreat too far even if they would withdraw from the dragon's mouth, so that we could directly get the support of the navy in the battle, who would have thought that ......... It's not that easy..."

"Your Excellency, why should you worry," the officer chuckled. Even without the support of the navy, we can't win the battle, and the left and right are just some Chinese..."

Hearing his subordinates say this, Kamio Mitsutomi shook his head lightly and didn't say anything more.

He knew very well that his subordinates were from the Young Zhuang faction, and their ideas were very radical, even if they were afraid of what they said, it would be difficult to listen to them, since this was the case, it was better not to say anything.

Unlike his subordinates, he still knows a little about the current situation of the Chinese army. Especially in terms of equipment, these are difficult to hide, so Kamio Mitsutomi knows quite clearly.

"Although I don't want to admit it, at least the Chinese have surpassed the empire in terms of army equipment. Especially on artillery. Some time ago, the Reich's intelligence organizations in China had figured out the equipment of the Chinese, and almost every infantry division was equipped with a large number of artillery, and even purchased a large number of heavy artillery from Germany before the war. In this respect alone, China already has a considerable advantage over the Empire..."

Kamio Mitsutomi never thought that he would lose, after all, if he only has equipment and no training, even if the equipment is good, it is useless, which the Qing army has done the best proof in the Sino-Japanese War.

According to the information he obtained, many units of the Chinese army had been transformed from local miscellaneous troops into regular troops, and the same was true of the troops assembled in Shandong this time. Only a small number of people who were transformed from the Kuomintang Army and the Beiyang Army had outstanding combat effectiveness.

As for machine guns or something?

At this time, Japan did not pay attention to the role of machine guns, so he never thought about it...

According to Mitsutomi Kamio's thoughts. If the Chinese can form a defensive line in Longkou or a slightly farther area to resist, then he can strike at it with the help of naval heavy artillery. In this way, even if the Chinese army has an advantage in heavy firepower, it is useless, and considering that many of the Chinese army are miscellaneous units. After being attacked by the fleet, it is really difficult to say how long they will be able to hold out under the charge of the army, and maybe they will not rush forward as they did during the First Sino-Japanese War. A large number of soldiers had already begun to flee―――――― and by the time of the Sino-Japanese War, Mitsutomi Kamio had already served as the chief of staff of the intelligence of the 2nd Army. Participated in the formulation of the Japanese army's landing plan on the Jinzhou Peninsula and the Lushun operation plan, and was promoted to Zhongzuo after the war, and attached military attache to the Qing Legation.

It's a pity that reality won't be so easy after all...

"So, let's first see how the combat effectiveness of the Chinese is..."

Thinking of this, Kamio Mitsutomi looked at a point on the map, which was a small town called Linglong Town, not very far from Zhaoyuan County, according to the intelligence of the Black Dragon Society and the army itself. From Lujia Village to Linglong Town, where the Chinese army's defense line is located...

Nature. It is impossible for Cai Yi and Jiang Baili to arrange a defensive line only there, in fact, in all the places where the Japanese army may land, both of them have already arranged a defensive line. After all, no one could guarantee that they would actually land at Longkou, even though it was the most suitable place. However, now, after confirming that the Japanese army had begun to land in Longkou in large numbers, Cai Ye and Jiang Baili had concentrated a considerable part of their forces in Linglong Town―――――― they did not think of taking the initiative to attack, after all, this time the Japanese dispatched ten battleships and a large number of armored cruisers and battle cruisers.

Although they brought a lot of heavy artillery this time, it was impossible to compare with those on the battleships, so it was impossible for Cai Yi and Jiang Baili to fight the Japanese within the range of the navy's strike.

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"Defend and counterattack..."Standing in the headquarters located in the defense line of Linglong Town, Cai Ye faced Liu Guangyuan and the others. The advantage of the Japanese was mainly the well-trained soldiers and the floating batteries (warships) at sea, while our advantage was the advantage of location and equipment. If we fight the Japanese within the range of those batteries, even if we win, our losses will not be small, so we have to play to our advantages and beat them here first..."

"100,000 people......... This is a big meal..."Hearing Cai Yi's words, Liu Guangyuan smiled slightly.

"Yes..."Cai Yi nodded slightly. But it's not easy to eat..."

Speaking of this, Cai Ye looked at a point on the map.

If they can't clean up the fleet at sea, no matter how hard they fight on land, they won't be able to eat each other. Unless they can take the initiative to break into the encirclement and let Cai Ye and them have a big encirclement......... But he didn't think Kamio Mitsutomi would be so stupid...

Moreover, many of the 150,000 people assembled in Shandong were reorganized from the local army, and although the equipment was good, the combat effectiveness was ......... Moreover, the Japanese have just come ashore, and it is the time when the sharpness is at its peak, so it is best to find a way to frustrate the other party's sharpness at the moment.

While it's best to let them bang their heads in front of the defense line and break the bloodstream, there's another way to go...

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With the Japanese landing in Longkou Bay, almost all the people in the Far East focused their eyes on this area, wanting to see what the final outcome of this war between China and Japan would be after 20 years.

In the end, it was the Japanese who continued the glory of the Sino-Japanese War. Or maybe the Chinese can be ashamed.

However, on the whole, there are still more optimistic about the Japanese, after all, the Japanese have proven themselves in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. And there is also the largest fleet in the Far East. In comparison, although the Chinese army has also made considerable progress, it is still much worse than the Japanese.

There are many expressions of this even in the two countries.

For example, in Japan, almost all Japanese people have great confidence in their own country, thinking that they can continue the glory of the Sino-Japanese War, and once again step on the corpse of this old country to climb to the top, and some Japanese ronin are even more enthusiastic.

Compared to...

"I'm afraid I'm going to lose again this time..."

In a teahouse somewhere. Looking at the newspaper on the table, a middle-aged man who was fairly clean sighed.

"Yes..."Hearing the middle-aged man's words, several people at the same table with him also sighed.

Halfway through. One of them suddenly shouted loudly. "If you want me to say, since those Japanese want Qingdao, then simply give Qingdao to them, so it's better than ceding land and paying compensation after defeat."

Almost everyone else at the table nodded. Others inside the teahouse. Either they were indifferent to it, or they agreed, and although some people looked unhappy, they didn't stand up and say anything.

This is probably the general idea of the people in China at this time, and a large part of the people think that this matter has nothing to do with them. The rest of the people are also pessimistic, there is no way, after all, the number of abuses is too much, and some newspapers also list comparisons with each other. This directly leads many people to think that since the Japanese want Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay, they simply give them these two places...

That's the case. Even if you lose the place, it is much stronger than the compensation for the land after defeat.

Not only them, but also many members of the National Assembly have this attitude. Friends were shocked to think that the war had started lightly, but now the Japanese were standing with Britain and France and other powers, and it was not a good thing to offend them.

"Besides, the Japanese government has made it very clear that it will only take over temporarily, and it will be returned to our country when the war is over..."

"And the war is together, I don't know how much military spending will be spent, now is the time when the country is in ruins, and at this time, it is not a cart before the horse to invest limited funds in the war..."

Zero zero always means one thing anyway, that is, disagree...

Yan Shao can be said to have a headache in this regard, and he has some envy for the Japanese for the first time, after all, people support this war almost the whole country, but what about their own side? It was obviously an anti-aggression war to protect the family and defend the country, but there were still so many people who opposed it, which really made him a little puzzled.

However, he never thought of bowing his head, after all, no one else knew better than him the horror of letting the Japanese in. What's more, he doesn't intend to leave himself with a stigma of 'losing the country and humiliating power'.

At the same time as there was a lot of discussion in China, in Dongjiaomin Lane, some people also asked Zhu Erdian about his views on this war, and wanted to ask him which side he thought would win in this war.

But Zhu Erdian replied. "Actually, I'm curious..."

Although on the surface, the Japanese seem to have a great advantage, Zhu Erdian always felt that this war did not seem to be so simple...

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On the sea surface of Longkou Bay, the seaplane carrier 'Wakamiya Maru' is anchored steadily in the water.

Originally a British-flagged merchant ship 'Rainbowton' (registered tonnage of 4,421 tons), the ship was captured on January 12, 1905 by the Japanese Navy's No. 78 mine boat in the western waters of Okishima Island in the Tsushima Strait for transporting war contraband. On February 14, the military named it the 'Okinoshima Maru'. After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the ship was not returned to the British, but was confiscated by the Japanese Navy by the Japanese Navy by the 'Capture Judgment Center' established by Japan and used as a naval transport ship. On September 1, 1905, it was renamed 'Wakamiya Maru'. On March 22, 1907, the Japanese Navy temporarily leased it to the Nippon Yusen Shipping Company for civilian mail ship.

On March 9, 1912, the ship was requisitioned by the Japanese Navy and officially returned on the 22nd of that month. This was followed by a refit at the Sasebo Naval Yard to enlarge the second hatch and make it a naval transport ship with the task of transporting turrets.

1910 American pilot Eugene? Erie flew a 'Curtis' plane and took off successfully from the converted light cruiser 'Birmingham'. In January of the following year, on the rear main deck of the armored cruiser "Pennsylvania", he used the tail hook to hook the brake cable, and completed the landing of the plane smoothly and safely. These two events greatly stimulated the rapidly expanding Japanese Navy. The naval authorities reacted immediately by establishing the 'Naval Aviation Research Committee' in 1912 (Meiji 45) to study the use of aircraft. At the same time, a seaplane base was established in Yokosuka's Obihama and seaplanes were introduced for training.

By the autumn of 1914, the Japanese Navy conducted a small-scale exercise. One of the subjects of the exercise was the study of the role of aircraft in new combat conditions. At this time, a warship was needed to take on the task of carrying a seaplane. The Japanese Navy chose the naval transport ship 'Wakanomiya Maru'.

On the 'Wakamiya Maru', dozens of sailors were busy placing a seaplane on the sea. Just no matter how you look at it. The sailors on the ship were all in a hurry.

No way, who called 'Wakamiya Maru' completely improvised modifications, in fact, until before the Sarajevo incident. The Japanese have not yet refitted it, and the ship was refitted from August 16 when it was urgently towed into the Yokosuka shipyard, and the crew on board are all novices, not to mention that it is not acting at the moment. It's actual combat. Although there were no enemies, the men were still in a hurry to operate the crane.

When the plane was placed on the water, it was so suspended that the wing was shattered.

Thankfully, the plane was safely placed on the water, and the rest didn't seem to matter much to them.

"Sue Captain Tokugawa, he and his plane are ready to sort..."

Standing in the bridge, seeing that the plane was smoothly placed on the water, the captain whispered to his subordinates.

"Yes!"

Soon. The crew of the Wakanomiya Maru saw that the Falman Type 1912 seaplane, piloted by Captain Tokugawa, was slowly starting. And eventually gradually flew into the sky.

Piloting the seaplane, Captain Tokugawa slowly flew in the direction of Linglong Town.

Although this was not his first flight mission, it was clear that actual combat was undoubtedly much more interesting than a normal training mission, so although flying in the sky was not a particularly comfortable thing to do, a smile appeared on his face (the cockpit of the aircraft had not yet been enclosed).

His mission is simple, which is to reconnoiter the enemy forces in the direction of Linglong Town.

In fact, before this, Kamio Mitsutomi had already sent a lot of small troops to carry out reconnaissance missions on the front line of the national defense forces in Linglong Town. But just as air reconnaissance cannot completely replace army reconnaissance, reconnaissance on land cannot replace aerial reconnaissance either.

What's more, in such a technologically backward era, reconnaissance from the air is undoubtedly extremely efficient, which is also one of the reasons why Mitsutomi Kamio will contact the people of the navy and ask them to send the planes out.

They weren't very worried about the fate of the plane, because in this era, the plane was still very safe―――――― unless he fell to the ground by himself, but neither Mitsutomi Kamio nor Yuzaburo Kato seemed to know one thing, so it was just before, not now...

Times are always advancing...

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Just as Captain Tokugawa was flying in the Falman 1912 seaplane in the direction of Linglong Town, in a temporary airfield near Linglong Town, a fighter plane gradually flew into the sky under the guidance of the ground control tower.

'Winged Fire Serpent', that's what this fighter is modeled on.

The Winged Fire Serpent, i.e., the Winged Sutra, is one of the twenty-eight Nakshatras, and the sixth of the Seven Nakshatras in the South.

As far as the name is concerned, the name 'Winged Fire Serpent' is undoubtedly very suitable for fighters, after all, each other's attributes are very suitable. In fact, the 'Winged Fire Snake' fighter is also the first domestic fighter that has been finalized...

Of course, this is not to say that there are no more in front of him, but those can only be regarded as aircraft, and cannot be called fighters, so strictly speaking, only such aircraft can be called fighters, and not only domestic, but also the world's first real fighters.

And the task of Lu Yu, the pilot of this plane, is also very simple, that is, to fly around Longkou Town to see what the Japanese troops are doing there.

On the surface, this seemed to be a very simple reconnaissance mission, and Lu Yu didn't pay much attention to it at first. It's just that he flew in the direction of Longkou Town with a relaxed expression―――――― unlike Tokugawa who just came, Lu Yu had already flown here many times, so he didn't even deliberately look at the direction. It has already accurately flown in the direction of Longkou Bay.

But on the way to the flight, he spotted the Falman 1912 seaplane that Tokugawa was flying.

"What a coincidence..."Looking at the opponent in front of him, Lu Yu suddenly became excited.

As a fighter pilot, from the very beginning of his service, he was told that his mission was to shoot down all enemy air targets. Because of this, he was very tired of being sent to carry out this kind of mission, but there was no way, who called the military order like a mountain.

But now, after seeing the target in front of me. But he felt that it seemed like his lucky day.

"So, let's have fun..."

As soon as he pulled the joystick, Lu Yu, who was still flying at high altitude. Suddenly, he swooped down towards Tokugawa, which was still flying at a low and medium altitude.

At this time, Tokugawa also found a target from the air, but he didn't know what this enemy wanted to do? At present, except for the 'winged fire snake' equipped by the Wehrmacht, there is no aircraft in the world that is equipped with air combat equipment, and some air force pilots even use pistols to fight when they encounter each other. He naturally couldn't think of what Lu Yu, who was swooping towards him, wanted to do.

And that's it. I also want his little life...

After determining the target, Lu Yu drove the plane and swooped down from a high altitude, and the machine gun located under the nose of the plane was also aimed at the opponent who did not know anything.

At the same time, Tokugawa was piloting the plane while making an internationally popular greeting gesture and a middle finger to his peers.

I didn't know what Lu Yu's plane was equipped with, and in Tokugawa's opinion, this colleague of his wanted to harass him―――――― he didn't feel that the plane above his head was swooping down from a high altitude. I want to die with myself, which would be too crazy.

So Tokugawa was like many pilots of this era. He gestures and verbally attacks his peers, and of course, if they are close enough, he doesn't mind using the pistol pinned to his waist.

It's just that just when Tokugawa thought that his next Chinese counterpart would slow down and fly with him, and then learn to attack with gestures or words like himself, the plane piloted by Lu Yu suddenly spit out two tongues of fire and swept straight towards the Falmont 1912 piloted by Tokugawa...

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"Bastard!" With a pull of the joystick, Tokugawa flew to the flank, dodging Lu Yu's attack.

At the same time, sitting in the cabin, Lu Yu also pulled down the nose of the plane with some regret and stopped the dive. "Isn't there enough experience..."

In the process of diving, although the machine gun bullet was fired at Tokugawa, the ammunition did not hit the Falman 1912 in Tokugawa's position, but narrowly passed by the flank of the aircraft.

The plane above his head actually had such strong firepower, which naturally made Tokugawa frightened, and seeing that the target did not work, Lu Yu also felt regretful.

No way, after all, this is the first time to fight, and some accidents will inevitably happen.

During training, he tried this kind of attack, but it was obvious that during training, he could not really attack the target with live ammunition, so there was an accident in actual combat.

"Hell, how could that plane have such strong firepower..."After dodging the first wave of attacks, thinking back to the firepower that Lu Yu showed just now, Tokugawa was suddenly shocked and a little incredulous.

After all, no aircraft in this era has such firepower as the 'Winged Fire Snake'―――――― which is two heavy machine guns.

And after coming back to his senses, Tokugawa also clearly judged that he was not the opponent of the other party at all, and he didn't even need to be reminded by others, Tokugawa had already begun to return in the direction of Longkou Town.

Since he couldn't beat it, he naturally had to go home, and he didn't think that his bulky seaplane would be the opponent of the other party.

However, behind his back, Lu Yu did not let Tokugawa go.

Piloting the 'Winged Fire Serpent' to continue the pursuit, although Tokugawa continued to maneuver, but the maneuverability of the seaplane could not be compared with the fighter after all, but after a while, the plane was already full of holes.

In the cabin, Tokugawa barely controlled the plane, trying to force the plane to the ground.

However, the next rain of bullets completely ended his efforts... (To be continued......)