The pilot selected by this air force is indeed quite skilled. Although the Type 98 direct reconnaissance plane, which has the capability of short-distance take-off and landing at front-line airstrips, is only an old-fashioned reconnaissance plane, its low-altitude performance and maneuverability are still quite good. The position of the observer in the back seat, barely squeezing into two people is still possible.

At this time when fleeing for your life is the first, don't care about the demeanor of a general. Although this Type 98 direct reconnaissance plane, which is also a liaison plane and a reconnaissance plane, has only two seats, the back seat is relatively spacious because it needs to be equipped with some reconnaissance equipment. Although it was a little crowded to squeeze two people, it was much better than losing your life.

Although the speed of this Type 98 direct reconnaissance plane is slow, its low-altitude performance is quite good. The most important thing is its unique wing design, which makes it possible to take off and land on flat ground in the field. Although this kind of aircraft is no longer engaged in front-line reconnaissance work, its excellent short-range take-off and landing performance has become the first choice for the Japanese army to evacuate personnel when necessary and to carry out tactical liaison in the current war situation.

This time, they braved enemy fire to fly to the combat zone, and the only place to choose was a narrow street in a village. Therefore, this kind of take-off and landing distance is very short, but because it is a reconnaissance aircraft, it has a relatively large range of aircraft, and it has become the first choice for rescuing the former lieutenant general.

In fact, this is not the first time that this kind of aircraft has performed such a mission, so the pilots are still very skilled. Although there was no navigation at night, this unarmed reconnaissance plane evaded ground fire under the skillful control of the pilot, but it also accurately landed in the encircled Tiger Wolf Village.

But the plane that risked landing in Tiger Wolf Village, after picking up the object to be picked up, never returned to the designated general to land in Yantai and joined up with the military headquarters of Yoshio last month so that they could return to China together. completely disappeared in the vast Jilu border area, the sea and sky.

And after this plane took off, it lost contact, and no one knew which direction the plane flew to. There is no record of the downfall of the anti-Japanese side, and there is no record of the return of the plane from the Japanese army. It is an unsolved mystery where the plane, which flew with the commander of the 9th Division and the chief of staff, went.

It wasn't until decades later that the battlefield changed dramatically. From an obscure small fish port, it has been built into a new large port in northern China. During a time when the channel was dredged, a Japanese plane of World War II that had been corroded by seawater was salvaged in the deep sea area of Bohai Bay east of Qikou.

From the three remains that were still almost intact in the cabin, as well as the names on the sabers they carried, people discovered that this plane was the same plane that disappeared in the border area of Hebei and Shandong after it took off from Tiger Wolf Village decades ago. When the plane was inspected, people found a Type 99 rifle bullet used by the Japanese army on the oil circuit of the engine.

That is to say, the plane, when it took off, I don't know who fired a shot at the engine. Shortly after takeoff, the plane was plunged into the Bohai Bay because the oil circuit could not supply fuel, and the engine stopped working. As for who exactly hit this bullet, it has really become a permanent mystery.

In the battlefield of Tiger Wolf Village at that time, among the three troops that participated in the battle. Although the Bohai Naval Region is full of Japanese weapons, they are all Type 38 rifles and crooked handles. Even though some Type 92 heavy machine guns are all 77 calibers, they are not compatible with this Type 99 rifle cartridge. The anti-coalition forces that participated in the war did not have a single Japanese-style light weapon from top to bottom.

Of the two teams that participated in the battle, only the Type 99 rifle and Type 99 light machine gun used by the 9th Division used this kind of bullet. Who exactly fired this bullet, it is estimated that no one other than the person concerned will be able to answer. However, judging from the situation in Tiger Wolf Village at that time, it should have been fired by a Japanese soldier out of anger.

As for saying that the Japanese army at that time in Tiger Wolf Village was angry, it was not without reason. When the battle situation was already extremely unfavorable and the remnants of the Japanese troops trapped in Tiger Wolf Village were already in a situation where they had no ammunition, no provisions, and even no drinking water, the division commander and the division chief of staff had to take the lead in slipping away first, which undoubtedly made the remaining Japanese officers and soldiers below very angry.

Moreover, the Japanese army's airdrop operation, which fell into the Tiger Wolf Village with only 20,000 rounds of ammunition, also deepened the anger of these Japanese remnants. To be honest, according to the Japanese army's standards for the use of ammunition, if it is used sparingly, it will be enough for the Japanese army to use it for a while.

But the key issue is the remnants of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army in Tiger Wolf Village, which is the key division of the Japanese army as the so-called defense circle of defense. Under the painstaking repair of the base camp, the equipment can be described as extremely sophisticated. The whole division is equipped with all Type 99 rifles, Type 99 light machine guns, plus the latest Type 1 heavy machine guns, and all of them use Type 99 7.7 mm bullets.

The only successful airdrop of the Japanese army fell into the hands of the remnants of the 9th Division, but all the 38-type bullets fell into the hands of the remnants. It stands to reason that with the Japanese army's prime, there should not be such a low-level mistake. But the problem is that the time is too tight to transfer ammunition from other directions, and the navy, which participated in the first batch of airdrops, has only six or five caliber ammunition there.

At the same time, the Navy did not know exactly what kind of ammunition the 9th Division was using. The Army currently has two types of seven-seven-caliber ammunition and one six-five-caliber ammunition. These three calibers of ammunition are heavily equipped and used. Moreover, the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield has always been dominated by 65 caliber plus 92 machine gun shells.

In addition to the Jinan military station, there is also a part of the reserve. There are no such bullets in the entire theater of operations in Shandong. Coupled with the gap between the army and the navy, the navy did not know what kind of ammunition the Ninth Division was equipped with. You can only airdrop whatever ammunition you have at hand.

Originally, because of the lack of food and water, the limited medicine and bandages were consumed, the wounded could only be hastily bandaged with leggings, and even the seriously wounded could only die of pain, and the morale of the Ninth Division was extremely low. After receiving this kind of ammunition that could not be used at all, morale was even lowered.

At this time, it is not surprising that some angry soldiers, who were abandoning their division commanders, fired such a shot. However, whether the plane was shot down by its own men or by the troops of the Bohai Naval Region using Japanese weapons on the spot, it is impossible to find out the final reason.

In fact, everyone is only interested in this aircraft, after all, as a defeated country, the Japanese army basically did not retain the aircraft of World War II. Although this Type 98 direct reconnaissance plane has very little fuselage skin that has been corroded by seawater. But the engine and the large frame are quite intact.

As for who fired the bullet from the plane, no one wants to study it. After all, this was a few decades ago, and although it was a big deal at the time, it was only a trivial matter during the entire Second World War. What is more worth studying is, who has the patience to specialize in this shot, who actually fired it?

And after the commander and chief of staff of the 9th Division took the plane that came to meet them and was the first to evacuate. The Ninth Division of the Tiger Wolf Village Front, the only morale that it had had had completely collapsed. In the subsequent offensive launched by the Bohai Naval Region, the resistance of the rest of the 9th Division dropped directly to dispensable. An hour and a half after the two flew away, the gunfire on the front line of Tiger Wolf Village had completely fallen.

After the final settlement of the remnants of the Ninth Division on the front line of Tiger Wolf Village, the troops of the Bohai Naval Region, which suffered heavy casualties, although they sent a brigade to quickly move south, joined up with some local armed forces left north of the Yellow River in northern Lubei. Although the regiment taken away by Du Kaishan has been returned to the establishment.

However, the excessive casualties made it impossible for the only brigade in the Bohai Naval Region to have sustained combat capability for at least a short time before it was replenished. The reinforced regiment of the Anti-Japanese Union, which accompanied the brigade to the south, cooperated with Tao Jingfei's troops to the southeast and deployed on the north bank of the Yellow River to go on the defensive.

With the withdrawal of the two Japanese divisions of the Dezhou and Jinpu lines to the south of the Yellow River. The remnants of the 115th Division and the 9th Division were completely surrounded and annihilated. So far, the sound of guns and cannons has completely ended on the entire Jilu border battlefield. In the entire Jilu Border Theater, the Anti-Japanese Union and the North China troops had advanced to the banks of the Yellow River and confronted the Japanese troops on the south bank of the Yellow River across the Yellow River.

At this moment, after the Yellow River burst its embankment at Huayuankou in 38 years, the embankment in Henan was destroyed many times. In order to ensure the safety of the communication line and curb the harassment and counterattack of the squadrons in central and northern Anhui to eastern Henan, the Japanese also broke the embankment east of Huayuankou many times.

Originally, after the Huayuankou incident, there were still 20 percent of the Yellow River's old course. The magnificent embankments that have been built on both sides of the river for thousands of years are now only a few trickles. The original mighty river can no longer be seen. At this moment, the old course of the Yellow River has long been impossible to become the natural barrier that the North China Front Army expects.

Although at the beginning of this battle, the North China Front, which suffered a big loss in the anti-Japanese alliance last year, in order to cope with the situation, it was Okamura Ninji who left a backup hand for himself. Let the Yellow River become a natural barrier again to ensure the safety of central Shandong and eastern Henan and northern Anhui.

Regardless of the fact that it was a busy time for farming, he ordered Yudong to forcibly recruit a large number of people and desperately plug the gap at the location where the embankment broke that year. Especially in the east of Huayuankou in 42, it was opened by the Japanese army. It was Okamura Ninji who, when the atmosphere was tense before the war, instructed him to stop it in the shortest possible time at any cost.

At this time, if you want to let at least part of the Yellow River flow and return to its old ways, it is not that Okamura Ninji has any kindness at this time. At this time, he tried to put the Yellow River into its old course, just to re-form a natural barrier in depth in eastern Henan and northern Shandong. As long as the old course of the Yellow River can be re-watered, it can contain the natural blockade line of the enemy's tank offensive in the Lubei Plain.

Only the thousand-meter gap accumulated by years of destruction is so easy to plug there. Moreover, to the west of Huayuankou, it is still in the control area of the First War Zone. In addition, the continuous shelling of the first war zone on the other side of the garden mouth, as well as the lack of effort from the recruited people. The personnel sent by Wang Pseudo worked together on the materials needed for the plugging.

The command organs of the Japanese army at all levels, which were overwhelmed by the war, were unable to supervise them. The battle on this side has been completed, and the plan to return the Yellow River to its original path is far from a shadow. Its progress is indescribably slow, and it can be said that the speed of emergency repairs is slower than that of a snail.

However, after the war, the Japanese army forcibly recruited tens of thousands of people from eastern Henan, plus thousands of puppet troops in eastern Henan to make every effort to repair them. Finally, within two months, all the gaps east of Huayuankou were blocked, so that there was some water in the old channel of the Yellow River, which was barely half a barrier.

But that was two months after the fierce battle, and at least for the time being, the North China Front was helpless to defend the south bank of the Yellow River, which had been emptied. In addition to the 65th Division, there is only one main force of the 48th Division, which has not yet arrived on the battlefield, which can be used.