When the cheers subsided, Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and pointed to the hatch, and immediately two people ran over to pull it up.

Silence returned to the cabin.

Xiang Xiaoqiang asked the two machine gunners:

"How many bullets were knocked out?"

The bomber was also excited, and he picked up the remaining short chain, looked at it briefly, and replied:

"Report to the captain, more than eighty rounds have been shot, and there are less than twenty left."

Only two long point shots were fired, and more than eighty rounds were fired in a few seconds, which shows the astonishing rate of fire of this gun.

"Good!" Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and complimented, "Brothers, everyone forgot to cheer twice for the two Heavy brothers!" ”

Suddenly, there was another cheer in the cabin, and the two machine gunners received several heavy slaps on the shoulders.

……

Xiang Xiaoqiang instructed them to load the "woodpecker" and bullets back, and then sat on the seat, leaned against the bulkhead, let out a long breath, and wiped a handful of sweat.

He stared at the dark night sky outside the porthole, and suddenly a thought came to him, and he suddenly broke out in a sweat. He patted his head, and before he had time to think about it, he turned to the brethren and said:

"You say, if Qinglu's plane flies to the territory of Little Japan, will Little Japan fight?"

Du Ziteng, a member of the East Factory, said:

"Surely not. The two of them are allies, just like we are with the UK. At most, let them leave, and if there is no gas, they will be left to refuel. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang continued:

"That Japanese pilot obviously doesn't understand Chinese, how did he know that we were a plane of the Ming Dynasty, not a plane of the Qing Dynasty?"

"I saw the sign on the plane."

"What sign?"

"Then you still need to ask, Vermilion Bird Emblem, our Ming Empress's ......"

Speaking of this, Du Ziteng suddenly closed his mouth, as if he suddenly remembered something, looked at the faces on the left and right, and suddenly, everyone reacted, shouting together:

"yes, the Suzaku insignia on our plane!"

"He must have seen it!"

"That's right, he obviously saw the Vermilion Bird emblem and hit it!"

"What does Little Japan want to do?"

……

Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded:

"Yes, I said that when the Japanese pilot first approached us, his neck was so long that his eyes were about to pop out, and then he hurried to report something! He knew then that we were the Ming Queen's landline! Tell me, what is the plan for little Japan? ”

Everyone was stunned, and immediately analyzed it. Finally, we focus on one obvious possibility:

When the Japanese pilots were expelling the plane that had invaded the airspace, they discovered that it was the Ming Dynasty empress's plane and immediately reported it to their superiors. Although Japan was allied with the Qing Dynasty, it still had a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty on the surface. So they drove the plane to the side of the Qing Dynasty and let the Qing Dynasty shoot it down.

Du Ziteng's analysis is more profound. Ever since Japan won the Sino-Qing War and received 100 million taels of indemnity from the Qing Dynasty, its military strength and ambitions have greatly expanded, and it has always coveted the territory of the East Asian continent. But no matter which side of the Ming and Qing dynasties it is, it is enough to deal with it now, so it has been supporting the Qing Dynasty for decades, constantly instigating the Qing Dynasty to invade the Southern Ming Dynasty, trying to provoke a war between the two sides, and it can take advantage of the fire to rob. Maybe it was because both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties saw through Japan's thoughts, maybe it was luck, maybe it was some other reason, since the small-scale Jianghuai War after the First Sino-Japanese War, there has been no war between the Ming and Qing dynasties for decades.

This time, Little Japan's intentions are obvious, not hesitating to tear their faces, but also to drive the Ming Dynasty's empress to the Qing Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty Empress will either be killed or captured alive, no matter what, this matter is enough for the Ming and Qing Dynasties to fight.

Obviously, the Japanese thought that the Empress of the Ming Dynasty was in the plane. What are you going to do? Obviously, it was to secretly inspect the Dongjiang Fleet.

……

Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded, very satisfied with his analysis.

However, there was a problem, from the time the Japanese pilot discovered the Suzaku emblem to the time he received the Japanese side's turn order, it was only ten minutes in between. How did they make such a big decision in such a short period of time?

Looking at Xiao Qiang's subordinates, a few of them had doubts on their faces, probably thinking of this question.

However, none of his subordinates could answer this question, only Xiang Xiaoqiang understood. He knew that in such a short period of time, the Japanese troops stationed in Korea did not have time to report to the country. The one who makes decisions and gives orders in a hurry may be a certain staff officer, a certain Dazuo, or even just a Zhongzuo.

This matter cannot be set with the thinking of the Ming Dynasty, nor can it be set with the thinking of the Qing Dynasty, or even Britain, France, the United States, Russia, and Germany...... and other normal countries to set the mentality.

When a normal country encounters such a thing, it must first let the plane land, control it, and then report it to the country, and then the cabinet or the top level of the government will hold an emergency meeting, and within more than ten hours, no plan can be studied.

But Japan is an abnormal country, and it is necessary to think about it in an abnormal way.

Xiang Xiaoqiang came from later generations, he has watched the entire World War II and the entire Pacific War, and has seen a large number of declassified materials and military historians' analysis. He knew better than anyone else at this time what kind of monster the Japanese Army was.

The Japanese Army has a tradition of "going down and going up". Their middle- and lower-ranking officers (i.e., below the ranks) are accustomed to making their own decisions on their own, and especially like to make their own decisions without hiding from the top. It may be strange to outsiders that this is too contradictory to the high obedience of the Japanese army. But the Japanese Army is such a freak full of contradictions. This army is a doctoral student in tactics, but a schoolboy in strategy. It can play quite beautiful battles, even battles, but when it comes to strategic decisions, it always seems to be very brainless. Many major policy decisions that can affect Japan's national fortunes are often made by a group of junior staff officers without concealing the government or even the military department.

For example, the September 18 incident was a fait accompli made by a group of staff officers of the Kwantung Army in hiding from China. Of course, this time I was lucky, and the fruit was eaten in my mouth. However, due to the extreme expansion of self-confidence caused by this time, a few years later, the so-called "Shina Incident", they found that no matter how wide their mouths opened, they could not bite the whole "fruit". On the contrary, it dragged the whole country of Japan into the quagmire and opened the prelude to the final "100 million jade pieces".

Xiang Xiaoqiang saw a joke in later generations, during the bombing of Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek said irritably: "Niang Xipi, I am also annoyed by the bombing of them, or I will negotiate with them?" But who to talk to? The emperor didn't take matters into account, and the prime minister changed like a marquee, and he didn't even have a person to negotiate. At this time, the staff next to him said, "Chairman, if you want to negotiate with the Japanese, you need to find three people." Jiang asked, "Which three?" The staff said, "Dazuo, Zhongzuo and Shaozuo." ”

……

Xiang Xiaoqiang knew very well in his heart that in the past ten minutes, the person who made this important decision was a certain big Zuo, Zhong Zuo or Shao Zuo of the Japanese Army Aviation Unit stationed in North Korea.

Like the Ming Dynasty, Japan did not have an air force alone, but divided its air force into the army and navy, which was called army aviation and naval aviation. The people at the Pyongyang airport are none other than those unruly and middle- and lower-ranking officers of the Japanese Army, who are accustomed to "getting down to the top."

If it was a general who received the report, it would definitely have to be reported to the country. But there can be no generals at an airfield. The only one who receives the report will be a "Zuo". It is these "Zuo" styles that make such bold decisions.

But Xiang Xiaoqiang had to admit that the "Zuo" who made this decision was indeed very clever this time. If the Ming Dynasty empress's plane landed in North Korea, it would be no good for the Japanese side at all, it could only be a hot potato, and it would not even be easy to detain it, so it could only be sent out of the country as a gift.

If it falls into the hands of the Qing Dynasty, there will be a good show. Regardless of whether the Qing Dynasty wants to fight with the Ming Dynasty now, it is definitely impossible to send the Ming Dynasty empress back. So whether the Ming Dynasty wants to fight or not, when it encounters this kind of thing, according to the consistent strategy of dealing with the Qing Dynasty, it can only be one word, fight.

Japan will certainly fan the flames on the sidelines and try its best to make the war bigger, bigger, and all-round. When both sides were exhausted from fighting, Japan's recuperated army made a big move to take advantage of the fire to loot, and even if it could not eat the whole of China, it could sign an alliance with one side and get a piece of mainland territory that had been coveted for a long time. At least in the usual style of the Qing Dynasty, it is certain that land will be exchanged for peace.

This is a further analysis made by Xiang Xiaoqiang on the basis of Du Ziteng.

However, people are not as good as heaven, and the Japanese would never have thought that the empress of the Ming Dynasty was not sitting on the queen's plane, but a heavily armed commando.