The situation made Kato Yuzaburo feel that something was wrong, the defeat of Mitsutomi Kamio's small forces, and the disappearance of Tokugawa's plane seemed to be a separate incident, but together, he had a sense of foreboding, as if something was wrong.

"But what's going on..."

Finding a chair and sitting down, Yuzaburo Kato was a little puzzled.

Seeing Kato like this, standing next to him, some of the other officers were also confused. They don't know what Yuzaburo Kato is bothering about, although what happened to the army and the missing seaplane is indeed a bit annoying, but no matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem to be so strict, after all, it's just a small loss...

And for this idea of his subordinates, Yuzaburo Kato, who was thinking hard there, didn't even have the heart to explain.

However, by the second day, he finally knew the whereabouts of Tokugawa's Falman 1912―――――― he was destroyed.

Naturally, it is not easy for the Japanese to find out this by themselves. Although the site of the crash of the Tokugawa plane is not particularly far from the town of Longkou, it is still quite a distance away.

The reason why Yuzaburo Kato and others would know about it is entirely because this matter has been reported. In the newspapers, the Wehrmacht made a great deal of hype about this small air battle, along with the victories on the ground, which, although it was really insignificant, was the first air battle in the Far East anyway, and it ended in a Chinese victory.

The pilot in charge of piloting the 'Winged Fire Serpent' was even more because of this victory. And it was commended by the Ministry of Defense. This also made many of Lu Yu's colleagues envious, after all, what he was dealing with at that time was just a seaplane, and it was any fighter pilot. Even the worst of all pilots can be easily cleaned up.

No way, after all, the difference between the models of the two sides is too big, and the same is true in terms of performance and so on.

However, the Ministry of Defense was not stupid enough to publicize the mystery of it, after all, the existence of the 'shooting coordinator' is one of many classified technologies, and it is one of the more important ones, if the Japanese know that China already has aircraft specially used for air combat. It was easy to put the Japanese on guard, so the Ministry of Defense did not reveal much other than publicizing its own victory in the newspapers.

And because of this. Although they were very annoyed, the Japanese did not know exactly how their seaplane was destroyed, and there was still a lot of speculation in private.

The victory of the National Defense Forces in Shandong has also greatly boosted the morale of the people. Although these battles are really insignificant. But in any case, it is much better to win than to lose. Even a crushing victory is better than a crushing defeat, because in any case, it is a victory. What's more, although the scale of these victories is a little smaller, the losses themselves are not very large.

There is no way, at this time, the Wehrmacht may be slightly worse than those standing divisions in Japan in terms of training, but the superiority in equipment can easily make up for this gap, and even a large part of it can be exceeded.

Mortars are not to be mentioned, because the Wehrmacht is also equipped with only a few main divisions. But the light machine gun was equipped with almost all the Wehrmacht, with the Madsen light machine gun that every squad had and the grenades that he carried with him. Even if it is just an ordinary infantry unit, it is several times or even more than ten times stronger than the Japanese army in terms of firepower―――――― which is definitely not a joke.

In any case, with these small victories, although there are still great doubts in the hearts of the people, after all, they will no longer speak out against them as they did in the past. On the contrary, many enthusiastic young students came out to support the government's anti-aggression war in Shandong.

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The wharf in Longkou Town is not very large, and the 100,000 army wants to unload them all, including all kinds of equipment and supplies, it is definitely not a small project, so it has been busy for a long time, and Kamio Mitsutomi has only unloaded most of the army from the ship.

According to the general situation, Kamio Mitsutomi will at least wait for all his troops to land, and then launch an attack, whether it is a tentative attack or a general attack.

But because of those small defeats a few days ago, Kamio Mitsutomi also had a few chances in his heart, and he was anxious to figure out some of the situation. Therefore, when some of the landing force had not yet landed, Guangchen had already ordered some of the troops who had been rested to launch a tentative attack on the Wehrmacht on the front line of Linglong Town, in order to find out how effective the Wehrmacht was.

At the same time, in order to find out this situation, although Kamio Mitsutomi did not personally follow, he still sent a few trustworthy adjutants and some cameramen to take pictures of the battle scene for his own viewing―――――― he didn't think that with some tentative attacks, he could break down the defense line of the Wehrmacht on the front line of Linglong Town, he just wanted to see what was going on with the 'overwhelming firepower' in the mouths of those small troops...

It's just that what he didn't expect was that even if nothing else, the troops who launched the tentative attack this time actually ran into a bloody battle on the front line, and the thousands of casualties made him frown for a while, and the super firepower seen from the photos also made Kamio Mitsutomi completely dispel the idea of winning in a short period of time, but fought steadily, not far from the defense line of Linglong Town, and also dug up the offensive, and took out the 240mm heavy howitzers and other artillery that were originally used to deal with the Qingdao fortress.

On the other hand, Cai Ye and Jiang Baili were not worried about beating too hard, and finally beat these Japanese away. After all, the price of their dispatch to Shandong this time is not small, and it is definitely not such a small casualty that will retreat.

At the same time, the Japanese did not know why the Tokugawa plane crashed, and thought it was just an accident, and restarted aerial reconnaissance the next day, just out of prudence, so this time the Japanese sent three planes at once, but as a result...

It's like the plane that has crashed in Tokugawa. All three were also shot down by Wehrmacht fighters. No way, the difference between a seaplane and a fighter before is almost like the difference between a herbivore and a carnivore. It could even be bigger.

Although the Falman 1912 owned by the Japanese can be regarded as a new model of seaplane, its performance is good in all aspects. But a seaplane is a seaplane after all, and it can't be compared with a fighter after all, whether it is altitude, speed or maneuverability, not to mention that the Wehrmacht's secret weapon, the 'Shooting Coordinator', is now equipped on the Winged Fire Snake...

How can a seaplane, which has only a pistol, be an opponent of a fighter?

Of course, after being instructed by the government. Lu Yu and other pilots also knew the importance of the 'shooting coordinator' and fighter jets, so these days, Japanese planes that ran to the skies of the Wehrmacht to carry out reconnaissance missions. Hardly any of them made it back to Longkou alive.

One of the pilots was so powerful that he almost flew back to Longkou Town, but was eventually destroyed by fighter jets in mid-air.

This also leads to the fact that there is not even a single eyewitness in the current Japanese army. Because the witnesses have all been dealt with. And wait until the Japanese find out about the troops. By the time the decision was made to cancel aerial reconnaissance, there were very few usable planes left in their hands.

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Moored in Longkou Bay, many sailors gossiped on deck or did something else, as if what happened on land had little to do with them―――――― and in a way it was, after all, everyone knew how ironclad the relationship between the Japanese army and navy was.

Of course, this is not to say that the Navy really doesn't care about things on land, in fact, they still care a lot, but at the same time. But he didn't forget to ridicule the 'horse manure' of the army.

Perhaps for them, the Army's scandal is not a bad thing, but it can bring them some fun. Let them gloat over the times.

At least at this time, on the decks of ships such as Settsu, there were quite a few naval officers and sailors there chatting with each other or mocking the Army's recent encounters. Even when they saw officers passing by, these people never kept their mouths shut, and those officers passed by as if they hadn't seen anything, and there was even a smile on the corner of their mouths, so that others could see that they were actually in the same mood as the sailors on the deck.

I have to say that the classic relationship between the Japanese army and navy really makes onlookers a little confused.

"But ........." Sitting on the deck, seeing that the seniors were still there laughing at the army's 'horse manure', a recruit who had just joined the navy not long ago and had not yet been thoroughly trained by the navy hesitated. After all, they are all members of the imperial army, and they are also fighting for the empire, so they are laughed at......... Not very well..."

Although his words were reasonable, it was clear that his predecessors did not share his ideas.

The better-tempered ones didn't say anything, and the worse ones simply said nothing. "It doesn't matter if they lose, it's better to be alive, anyway, with our navy, there will be absolutely no problem with the empire and His Majesty the Emperor..."

"That's right—" The other man spoke, but his attitude was noticeably worse. You speak for the Army like this, why don't you go to the Army..."

Just as speaking for the Navy in the Army is easy to be hostile to the Navy, speaking for the Army in the Navy is obviously not a good idea, and soon the recruit is in an embarrassment under the pressure of his seniors...

But it was at this time that the sky gradually got dark.

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After dark, the warships in the bay were also lit up―――――― which is not surprising, after all, there was no air force in this era, and the Japanese did not need to worry about this light attracting local air attacks. In fact, before the Germans drove the airboat over the heads of the British, the so-called air raid for the people of this era was at most a grenade thrown down by an airplane pilot.

Can a grenade hurt a battleship of twenty or thirty thousand tons? This obviously can't be ...

Not to mention a battleship, even the most ordinary destroyer, it is difficult for the grenade to cause too much damage to it.

Coupled with the fact that at this time, according to intelligence, China's navy was almost entirely concentrated in the south, and they did not need to worry about the threat of the Chinese from the sea at all. Naturally, there is no need to control the lights or anything.

And in his own cabin, reading some information that had only recently arrived, Yuzaburo Kato had a hint of foreboding about this war.

Since the landing to the present. Yuzaburo Kato has almost never heard a single piece of good news. First of all, Mitsutomi Kamio's ground offensive was declared a failure, and then almost all of the navy's seaplanes disappeared or crashed for unknown reasons, and it has been more or less a while since he came to China, but Yuzaburo Kato has not even heard a single piece of good news.

Although his colleagues and subordinates were unimpressed and even gloated about the defeat of the Army, Yuzaburo Kato could not do so, because he was well aware of the importance of this war for the Empire...

As a navy, he certainly wanted to see the defeat of the Army. But as a Japanese, he prayed for victory.

It's just that he doesn't have a clue about how to help the army.

The Wehrmacht on land has now almost all withdrawn from the range of naval guns. Although these steel behemoths under his command are powerful, they can't drive to land after all.

There is no way to go to the south to clean up the navy that Yan Shao is hiding, but it is limited to the restrictions of this war limited to Shandong―――――― this restriction is a joke for both Yan Shao and the Japanese, as long as they want to. It can be violated at any time. Even if the British have any dissatisfaction with this. There's nothing they can do about it.

But at the moment, the war has just begun, and although the Japanese have suffered some losses, they have not yet reached the point where they have to do this, so...

It's better to maintain the status quo...

It's just that for some reason, looking at the information in his hand, the ominous premonition of Kato Yuzaburo's alarm clock is getting stronger and stronger. After looking at the information again, after a moment of silence, Yuzaburo Kato said half-jokingly. "First on land. Then it's in the sky, and then it's on the sea..."

Speaking of which. Yuzaburo Kato was suddenly slightly stunned. It was as if he had thought of something, but in the end he shook his head, thinking that he was probably confused. Because whether it is the intelligence of the Black Dragon Society or other agencies, the main force of the Chinese Navy is concentrated in Shanghai and Fuzhou, and if they go north, it is impossible to hide from the Black Dragon Society and other intelligence agencies.

What's more, even if they really go north, there is nothing they can do with the fleet in the hands of Kato Yuzaburo.

Indeed, the combat effectiveness of the three dreadnoughts in the hands of the Chinese Navy is indeed strong, but the two battle cruisers in the hands of Kato Yuzaburo are not inferior at all, especially compared with the two ships of 'Fengyang' and 'Yunyang'.

Plus countless armored cruisers, cruisers and destroyers, as well as two quasi-dreadnoughts and eight pre-dreadnoughts. If the other party really comes, he can keep it so that the other party will not come back.

As for sneak attacks or something...

Although Yuzaburo Kato has never worried about threats at sea, he still carefully arranged for the Second Fleet to cruise outside the bay, so even if there is anything, he has enough time to prepare, and Kato Yuzaburo is full of confidence in this...

In this way, after reading the information, Yuzaburo Kato lay down on the bed and rested.

Although he really wants to help the army win this victory, but at the moment they are purely playing the role of soy sauce, even if they want to help, they are powerless, not to mention that the army may not appreciate it, Kato Yuzaburo is very clear about this, since this is the case, it is better to take a good rest first...

Maybe it's because of the fatigue of the past few days, Yuzaburo Kato quickly fell asleep after lying in bed, and outside, time is passing little by little...

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In a small space, several naval officers were gathering together, all with their watches on their wrists, and they were also intently watching the time of their watches.

It was already past four o'clock, four forty-seven to be exact, and there were only thirteen minutes left until five o'clock.

"Captain, it's already getting dark," one of the officers asked softly after a dead silence.

"I'll take a look..."Hearing the words of his subordinates, the armistice stepped aside, raised the periscope, and checked the situation in the bay. Just as the officer had just said, it was indeed already dark. Naturally, he saw not only the sky, but also the ships anchored in the bay...

"Thirteen minutes left...", glancing at his watch again, the officer who spoke first continued, and the faces of the others turned stern at the hearing of this.

At this time, it was not only the people on this boat who were looking at their watches, but also the people on several other submarines. Even Yan Shao, who was far away in Beijing, came to the conference room in his clothes after being woken up by Ileno and Katarina, where Fu Xiuming, Li Liang and others had been waiting for a long time.

Obviously, this time is very important even for them...

"It's getting dark, it's a good time to do it..."After reading the time on the watch, the captain covered his watch with his sleeve and said to his subordinates. Order, let's get ready, and we'll do it as soon as the time comes..."

"Understood!" Several officers replied loudly, not in the slightest concern about the sonar, in fact they really did not need to worry, and seeing the spirit of his subordinates, the captain also nodded in satisfaction.

"Whether you can succeed next depends on luck..." (To be continued......