The result of this surprise attack, on which the Tumei detachment had pinned high hopes, was unexpectedly scattered, and not only did it not achieve the expected results, but was counter-charged by the enemy, and the position that had been so hard to seize was recaptured by the expeditionary force.

Not to mention ordinary officers and soldiers in this battle, even Tu Meihao himself was wounded by shrapnel. Bleeding profusely, Tuo Meihao was rushed to the rear field hospital of the 18th Division for treatment, and he was forcibly transfused with 1000cc of plasma before he was lucky enough to save his life.

After waking up, Tuo Meihao looked at the green canvas tent top of the field hospital army, and then looked at the bandages wrapped around his body, and felt a mixed feeling in his heart.

He was a typical militarist, and in order to realize the so-called spirit of bushido, he had long since stopped taking his life seriously.

People who even value their own lives will naturally not take other people's lives seriously, so in battle, in addition to taking the lead, when the attack is blocked, he often orders his samurai to carry out a "Banzai charge" towards the place where the enemy's fire is most intense.

In the past, such attacks had been effective, but last night, he had encountered the most terrifying scene of his military career: a dozen steel monsters spitting out tongues of fire and crushing at them, followed by infantry with automatic weapons, the intensity of fire like a torrential rain. The officers and men of the Tumi detachment, who only relied on the spirit of bushido and flesh and blood, were crushed under the steel.

Tu Meihao was very annoyed in his heart, but all of this was to no avail, and now, lying on the hospital bed, he didn't even have the ability to commit suicide.

After thinking about it like this for a while, Tu Meihao fell asleep again. As soon as he fell asleep, he had a nightmare in which countless people rushed at him, and he brandished his sword to cut down those people, but they could not be killed.

He was impressed by the faces of those people, and yes, those people were the same people he had killed in China, Malaya, and Burma, and now they were coming at him......

Tong Meihao was in a cold sweat, and at this time he felt that someone patted his face, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was the division commander Mutaguchi Ryoya.

"Division Commander......" Tuo Meihao wanted to break free and stood up, but Mutaguchi Lian also came over and motioned for him to lie down.

"Tu Meijun, I already know about you. You are not facing an ordinary Chinese army, but a teaching brigade trained by the American Stilwell, who are superior to your troops in strength and equipment, and the Imperial Army is still glorious in defeat! ”

Tu Meihao nodded weakly, it was not that he couldn't accept this reality, but the reality was too disappointing.

"You don't need to say more, it was also my mistake to send you and your troops to break through, we didn't estimate in advance that the people of China would send such a large number of troops." Speaking of this, Mutaguchi Ren also sighed softly.

Then, he changed his tone and added, "But we are not without opportunities. Judging from the situation of the whole war, whether it was in the Pacific, or in China and the Indochina Peninsula, the imperial army was still in an offensive posture. The current defeat is only temporary, don't worry about the momentary defeat, cheer up, the victory belongs to the Great Japanese Empire! ”

"Long live the Emperor." Tu Meihao on the hospital bed said with all her might.

Mutaguchi Lianya smiled and nodded, "I still have something to do, you can recuperate here with peace of mind." With that, he turned and left with a group of officers.

An hour after visiting Tomihiro, Mutaguchi also made a decision at the military meeting of the division, and in view of the current crisis of the combat situation, it was decided to concentrate all his forces to storm the front line and start to break through the entire front.

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When the 18th Division decided to break through on all fronts, thousands of miles away in Suzhou, a new round of bombing was also started by the Sino-US joint bomber formation.

Now, with Suzhou and other places as the forward base, the bombing of the Sino-US joint bomber formation can easily fly to the Japanese mainland for bombing, and after that, the Japanese army also retaliated in a targeted manner, and the Japanese army aviation units stationed in Shanghai and the Japanese naval aviation units on the East China Sea formulated many plans to bomb Nanjing.

However, these bombings did not work very well, because the Chinese air force was fully capable of shouldering the task of air defense of the homeland, especially the capital Nanjing, and they would no longer need to defend the safety of their airspace in the tragic way of the death of pilots and Japanese planes as they did at the beginning of the war.

Dozens of bombers of the Japanese Air Force took off from Shanghai's Hongqiao airfield to carry out an indiscriminate bombing of Nanjing, but as soon as the planes flew over Suzhou, they were spotted by Chinese radar.

This new type of detection equipment is one of the projects of the Chinese 918 Project, but I did not expect the British to put into actual combat before this.

After the experience of the British, the pace of radar development also accelerated a lot, and in early 1942, the military radar made by the Chinese themselves was put into actual combat, and soon after, it began to be installed and used in important urban air bases such as Nanjing and Suzhou.

When they learned that the Japanese plane was about to fly, a shrill siren sounded over Suzhou Airport, and the pilots who were preparing for war dropped their work, grabbed the flight jackets around them, and ran towards the hangar like a desperate person.

Ten minutes later, dozens of warplanes took off into the sky and flew towards the sky.

Chinese and Japanese fighters fought in the skies over Suzhou, and with the advantage of quantity and quality, the Chinese air force quickly crushed the Japanese fighter group that served as an escort.

Without the escort of fighters, those bombers with weak defense capabilities were naturally like a cheetah against a bulky buffalo against agile fighters, and soon the bomber formation was scattered, some of them threw down indiscriminately and fled in a hurry, and some were torn to pieces by the fighters' cannons and fell into a burst of fireballs.

The retaliatory action of the air raid on Nanjing did not achieve the desired effect, and they did not even reach the edge of Nanjing, but lost so many elite fighters and bombers in vain, and a group of pilots were captured by the local Chinese soldiers and civilians after landing, and became prisoners.

In the face of such a serious defeat, Shunroku Hatata, commander of the East China Front of the Japanese Army, pinched the battle damage report in front of him and listened to the combat staff officer's report on the battle situation, and suddenly felt a sense of defeat rise in his heart.

The failure of the Japanese army's air raid plan was not only a failure of the air raid, but also showed that the Japanese army's current war in China had turned from an all-out offensive posture to a disadvantage.

Undoubtedly, this transformation was difficult for Shunroku Hata to accept, and it was difficult for all Japanese soldiers to accept.

He frowned, placed the battle damage report in front of him on the table, got up from his chair, and paced back and forth with his hands behind his back.

At present, they are helpless against the joint bombing of the Japanese mainland by China and the United States, and not only them, but even the air defense of Tokyo have no way, is the Great Japanese Empire about to decline like this?

Shunroku Hata is a high-ranking general, so he is naturally aware of the various war situations that are currently being waged. Although the semiconductor radio was full of news of the invincibility of the Imperial Army, the real situation was terrible. The Navy was defeated at Midway, several aircraft carriers were sunk by the Empire, and the Americans began to gradually reverse the defeat since 1941 and began a gradual counteroffensive.

Similarly, although in the Chinese war, both China and Japan maintained the existing calm because they were unable to destroy each other, he knew very well in his heart that a large number of troops under his command had been transferred to the Pacific theater, and the existing troops were difficult to launch an attack against the Chinese, and even a well-organized defense was difficult.

There was no way, the Empire's front was stretched too long, its forces were too dispersed, and in order to maintain the territory they had occupied, they had to maintain millions of troops on the Chinese battlefield.

Thinking of this, Shunroku Hata didn't wrinkle again when he stretched just now.

"Call back to Tokyo!" Shunroku Hata spoke, and the combat staff officer next to him immediately took out a pen and paper and prepared to take notes.

Shunroku Hata walked to the window, pressed his hands on the windowsill, and looked at the busy golden waterway of the Bund in Shanghai, "The East China Front Army has received instructions from the Tokyo base camp and has carried out retaliatory bombing against Suzhou, the advance base of the China Air Force, and the bombing was carried out indiscriminately, blowing up hundreds of enemy residents and dozens of houses, and the results of the battle were remarkable, especially in the hearts of the people of China, the fear of the imperial army was formed, and the purpose of the war was achieved. ”

Speaking of this, the staff officer on duty couldn't help but be stunned, he knew in his heart that he was originally going to bomb Nanjing, but it was intercepted in the sky over Suzhou, so some pilots dropped * in Suzhou, how did it get to the commander's mouth and become a bombing of Suzhou.

Shunroku Hata glared at him, "Why don't you remember?" ”

"Hayi!" After the staff officer stood upright, he continued to record.

Shunroku Hata continued: "But my bomber formation was intercepted by the Shina Air Force and the US Air Force, and several fighters were lost. Our department is working on a rescue plan to ensure that every warrior returns to their homeland! Commander of the East China Front of the Imperial Japanese Empire, Shunroku Hatata. ”

After a while, after confirming that there was nothing wrong with what he had recorded, Shunroku Hata returned the paper to him and said, "Take it and send it to the Tokyo base camp!" ”

The staff officer hesitated, but he leaned on his heels, and after saying "Ha Yi", he walked towards the confidential telecommunications room outside.

In the office, Shunroku Hata couldn't help but sigh, he naturally knew what the consequences would be if he falsely reported the results, but at the moment the Japanese needed a victory.