Chapter 226: The War Escalates
Yi Xuan picked up the phone, and the other side didn't speak for a long time, only a vague breathing sound could be heard, this is because Yi Xuan's hearing has evolved a lot beyond ordinary people, otherwise it would be difficult for ordinary people to hear that someone is breathing, after all, this voice is too small.
It's just that the person on the other side didn't speak for a long time, so Yi Xuan had to ask: "I'm Yi Xuan, who are you?" But the other side still didn't speak, which made Yi Xuan angry: "Don't speak, what are you calling, is it fun?" After speaking, he hung up the phone angrily.
In fact, on the other end of the phone, in a quiet room with a lake view, a figure like a hollow valley Youlan sat there, as if after sighing, he silently put down the phone, if Gong Shao was here, he would definitely recognize that this figure was his pure and beautiful cousin.
"Can't you put it down?" A voice came from the shadows behind her, the only shadow in the entire room, and a tall figure was hidden inside, revealing only a silhouette, unable to see what he was wearing and his face for.
"There's nothing I can't put down, I just think this person still needs to be investigated, I was a little impulsive just now!" Gong Shao's cousin Fei'er was still sitting there, looking at the lake outside the window and not looking back.
"Huh!" The figure hidden in the corner smiled, noncommittal to Fei'er's words, and the room between the two fell silent again.
At present, the Taiwan Strait has lost its former tranquility, and from time to time various planes fly in formations over the sea, and even the sea is blocked by warships that enter from time to time.
After several decades of development, whether it is the air force or navy, it can be said that it is not much worse than the United States in terms of quality and quantity, especially since it is at the doorstep of the country, with the support of land-based missiles and aircraft, and it is basically not afraid of the Americans coming in.
In fact, this operation to liberate Taiwan has been deduced countless times on the sand table of the Chinese military, from the various landing plans in the early years, to the prevention of the intervention of the United States and Japan for a period of time, to the extent that it is basically in the first island chain without fear of any enemy.
It can be said that it is also a portrayal of the development of China's national strength.
Now, on the second day of the war, not only has the coastal and airspace over the island of Taiwan been completely blocked by China, but there was only one sneak attack supported by Japan, and a large air battle was launched after being discovered by China.
In an air war on the island of Taiwan, even if Japan's aircraft performance is slightly better than that of China at the level of third-generation aircraft, more than 100 planes were lost at that time in the battle of hundreds of planes, and of course China itself had dozens of planes that could not avoid losses, but this battle alone can be said to have knocked out half of Japan's air force strength.
Although Japan also has hundreds of fighters of all kinds, in fact, it is impossible for each country to send all its planes to fight, after all, some of them must also be responsible for territorial defense.
Because Japan is not only facing China, but also in its north, the Russian fighter planes of the northern giant bear have always appeared in its northern airspace.
This air battle can be described as the first large-scale air battle in the world after the Korean War, and the process and result of this air war also surprised everyone.
From the beginning when the Western media were unanimously optimistic that the Japanese Air Force would be able to make the Chinese Air Force pay a heavy price, to the whole process when the Japanese Air Force had to withdraw from the battlefield and flee in embarrassment, it can be described as a series of twists and turns.
Both the television media and various online media have reported and reprinted this air battle, especially the air battle videos uploaded by some Taiwanese netizens have made many people addicted.
It's just that the reversal of things is also very fast, because more and more Japanese fighters in the video are falling, and the truth of the facts can no longer be concealed, and the Western media have no choice but to continue broadcasting sourly.
Now is the age of information, and a lot of information is no longer as it used to be, the military does not say it, it is difficult to know when it is outside, and various videos broadcast on the Internet have already explained the losses of the Japanese Air Force in the skies over Taiwan.
Japanese netizens were dumbfounded on the spot, although they knew that Huaguo had also lost dozens of planes, but it was more than a hundred planes, and this was only the first battle, if the fight with Huaguo continued, how many people would be killed or injured?
Although there are still many extreme right-wing militants in Japanese society who are bent on restoring the imperial glory of Japan during World War II, more Japanese people are more concerned about their own lives and the safety of their lives after experiencing economic growth and regression, and it is simply inconceivable that so many planes can be lost in a single battle.
Originally, when they heard about Japan's intervention, they thought that it would be solved after a few deaths, just like the US invasion of Iraq, but when the news of the loss of more than 100 planes was everywhere, many people felt a sense of collapse.
At first, some military families were worried that they did not want the government to continue to participate in the fighting, but this sentiment quickly spread and soon led to anti-war sentiment across the country, with many people taking to the streets to protest the government's involvement in a war that had nothing to do with them.
But over the years, the children and grandchildren of war criminals who were not tried in World War II have grown stronger, and the desire to restore the glory of the empire is also very strong.
For a while, on the street outside the government, the two factions of the crowd quickly clashed, so that all the police could not be sustained, and some troops had to be mobilized to disperse the two factions.
But things didn't stop there, and as more and more people realized that if Japan really got involved in this war, it would not only be about economic losses, but also human losses.
Japan is not like the United States, Japan and China are too close, now it is only an air war, what if China lands in Japan in the future? Some people simply can't imagine it.
Of course, these are all thoughts of anti-war people, but more extreme right-wingers, after seeing that they have lost so many planes, although they are very disbelieving, but the belligerent mood is increasing day by day, and every day on various social forums, those right-wingers are even clamoring to attack the mainland of China, as they did in the past.
Of course, the ideas of both sides cannot affect the current Japanese prime minister, and he has now regretted this operation a little, although he also wants to defeat Huaguo and restore the glory of the past, which is what his grandfather has always explained to him before his death.
But the current China is no longer the China of the past, and if it weren't for the repeated assurances of the Americans, he would not want to sneak attack the Chinese air force because of this matter.
As a result, the sneak attack was not successful, and it was apparently discovered by Hua Guo in advance, and there was no second Pearl Harbor incident that the military generals had assured him of at the beginning.
For a while, it can be described as a dilemma, because on the second day after the end of the air war, the number of sorties of warplanes that appeared over Taiwan not only did not decrease, but the number of sorties increased by several hundred, and the army had already landed.
Half of the six most important cities in the north, center, and south of Taiwan have been controlled by the Chinese army, and from the landing to the present, it can be said that the resistance of Taiwan's army is very small, although there are some diehards who have attacked, but under the suppression of the Chinese army, it is basically like an egg hitting a stone, and it is soon drowned by the torrent of steel.
Even in places that have not yet been occupied, all kinds of desertion and surrender are becoming more and more common, and all kinds of intelligence show that if the Americans have not intervened, Taiwan will not be able to hold out for two days, that is, from the beginning of the battle to the third day, Taiwan will basically fall completely.
On the one hand, he scolded these Taiwanese for being so useless that they couldn't even hold up for a week, and on the other hand, he scolded the United States, an ally, and patted his chest in advance to assure that now that a day has passed, where is their aircraft carrier battle group? Why hasn't it arrived yet? The Japanese prime minister has a bad premonition more and more, but now that he has intervened, although he cannot continue to send so many fighters to raid, but his original sphere of influence must also be guarded, otherwise Huaguo's convenient retaliation may come immediately.
Together with the Japanese prime minister, the current leader of Taiwan, who is now hiding in a bunker, not only did not intervene in time, but also did not send a plane to pick her up, so that now the land, sea and air are blocked, and she can't leave if she wants to. Thinking of Huaguo's methods for war criminals, I was a little chilled for a while.
After hearing about the situation of the Japanese Air Force, there was a sense of despair, obviously the Japanese were sent to delay the progress of the Chinese army, but obviously it did not achieve the effect, but let the Chinese army advance more quickly on the island, and now there are fewer and fewer troops that can be contacted, I don't know when this bunker will be discovered, looking at the staff who are still busy in front of her, she suddenly feels how lonely she is?
However, the leaders of Japan and Taiwan received news from the US military that night that their state-of-the-art stealth warship was only two hours away from the island of Taiwan, and now the Chinese military has not found out, let them hold on, and they will immediately launch a counterattack against the Chinese army.
After receiving this news, both the Taiwan leader in the bunker and the Japanese prime minister who was hiding in the prime minister's office and suffering greatly felt that God had really begun to favor them, and the Americans had finally arrived.