At first, it was impossible to be 100% sure whether the enemy forces on the ground had anti-aircraft weapons, and the pilots were very cautious in maneuvering the gunboats, not daring to drop the altitude too low.

At the same time, the entire aircraft also maintained a high circling speed, and once it was attacked by anti-aircraft fire, it immediately accelerated to disengage in the tangential direction.

This decision must have been reasonable, and it could be said that it was irresponsible to himself and his comrades to act rashly - it was thanks to the fact that Yiluan Si had taken the mound during the infiltration, otherwise the two well-concealed Erlikon 20mm anti-aircraft guns would have been enough to make the huge and bulky Type 32 seaplanes more auspicious.

For the four gunners on this plane, this feeling of seeing everyone and raining down death on the enemy is probably a wonderful memory that will never be forgotten for a lifetime.

The roar of engines, the roar of guns, the screams of the wounded...... Sounds mingled through the slaughterhouse-like camp.

The Resistance's formation, which had barely regrouped for more than a quarter of an hour, was shattered, and the panicked soldiers were rushing to the wolves.

Occasionally, the bold and tenacious Japanese fought back into the sky, but such a move was undoubtedly self-defeating, and they were immediately knocked down by a barrage of bullets falling from the sky.

"Hurry, hurry! Why isn't it okay yet? Grinding is dead! The gunner, who was operating the main gun, saw a group of enemy soldiers on the ground who were rushing to the ground, and urged them to reload quickly.

Since he had just finished firing a box of shells, the loader could only go to pick up another box, which was naturally much slower.

But at this moment, the plane shuddered slightly, and several small holes suddenly appeared on the side.

The gunners in the cabin were immediately surprised, but before they could react, a series of small holes were added.

Fragments of the crumbling aluminum alloy skin and brass bullets scattered in all directions, cutting a thin blood streak on the gunner's arm.

"Dog's day! Machine guns! The machine gunner, who was operating the aviation machine gun, shouted.

He swung the 12.8mm aviation machine gun back and forth, trying to find the anti-aircraft machine gun on the ground that was firing at the plane.

Pull the latch to withdraw the empty cartridge case, push the bullet into the chamber, and close the gun latch!

When the shells were finally reloaded, the painted gunners were furious and fired in retaliation at the Vickers heavy machine gun, which was firing desperately.

"Boom-" The 80mm anti-explosive bomb exploded a cloud of smoke and dust, instantly engulfing those figures.

In the blink of an eye, one of the figures could be seen rolling on the ground twice and no longer moving.

At the same time, the main force of the Yiluan Division had already withdrawn from this place, and they quickly left along the mountain path to the north, calmly getting out.

They fired two green flares into the sky, signaling that they had left safely.

This stronghold, which has been built with a lot of effort and resources, has been destroyed.

Houses, buildings, stables, and storehouses either collapsed or were in flames, and as far as the eye could see, corpses of various forms were everywhere.

Puffs of black smoke rose and seemed to obscure the entire valley, so much so that most of the light from the sun, which had leapt above the horizon, was blocked.

"Look at it, green." The navigator patted the driver on the shoulder, pointed to the window on the right and said, "They withdrew." ”

The former nodded, looked back towards the cabin and shouted, "It's done, call it a day and go home!" ”

That's it? It's not fun.

The gunners, who were in the middle of the fight, were quite dissatisfied and couldn't help but complain.

The large four-engine plane circled around at low altitude for another time, and then turned around and slowly climbed to altitude and flew towards the place where it had come.

About half an hour later, six twin-engine bombers from the 20th Light Bombardment Detachment of the Air Force also flew over the area.

The billowing black smoke into the sky became the best indicator, and the six bombers swept by in a neat two-pin-shaped formation at a constant speed. The door of the bomb compartment opened, and eight 100kg aerial bombs neatly stacked on the bomb hangers fell one after the other.

The small propeller at the head of the projectile rotates rapidly under the action of air flow, and a screw rod connected to it gradually rotates out with rotation, and after all of them are unscrewed, the firing pin that was originally blocked by the screw will return to its position, and the fuse will now enter the state of readiness.

"Boom, boom, boom—"

Six bombers dropped a total of 36 anti-explosive bombs and 12 incendiary bombs, all but two of which were detonated.

From the bombardier's point of view, fires flickered in the valley shrouded in black-and-gray smoke below.

In a flash, it was an ordinary anti-explosive bomb; What continues to flicker is the burning bomb - the thermite reacts with a dazzling white light and a lot of heat, and the temperature of nearly 3,000 degrees is enough to melt steel!

The corpses were incompletely cremated, and became a mass of charcoal;

The barrel of the rifle was twisted and deformed by the scorching, and the wooden body and butt were on fire;

The primer of the bullet was detonated by the high temperature, crackling like a firecracker;

The stains of blood on the ground and pools of blood also quickly evaporated, and the water vapor was filled.

At this point, this camp, which might have become a thorn in the side of the Ming army, no longer existed, and was completely wiped out from the face of the earth.

In the afternoon, the border of Aichi Prefecture.

The sun is warm, the grass grows and the warbler flies, this is a good day, and being in the hills makes people feel extremely relaxed and leisurely.

Although the distance in a straight line is only twelve miles, it is obviously impossible to walk in a straight line in the actual process, and it took half a day to finally arrive at the predetermined meeting place in the bumpy mountains.

The fears of a massive tailgating did not happen, and where did the resistance, which was divided internally and fragmented by fierce attacks from all sides, have the strength to pursue this elite squad?

From the initial purpose, the first marine regiment to carry out the task of receiving is a trip in vain, but it does not seem to be absolute......

"Report, the outpost reports, there is a local patrol of soldiers and horses ahead."

The discovery of the leading soldiers made Cai Zhichen a little puzzled, the so-called "local soldiers and horses" refers to the army of the feudal towns in Hyogo, Wakayama, Fukui, Aichi and other places, such as Aichi and Wakayama, which is the Anongtsu domain.

Just as Cai Zhichen was struggling with whether to walk over or take a long detour, news came from front of him - he had seen the first Marine Regiment that had come to meet him, and they were questioning each other with the patrol of dozens of people.

Aha?

After hesitating for a few seconds, he ordered the whole team to detour south to Erli Road so as not to be discovered by the patrol.

It is not to cover up the fact that "the ground forces of the Ming Army have crossed the line", but to avoid the exposure of the special operations unit of the Yiluan Division.

Since they were occupied by the Americans in the partition frenzy of that year, they were naturally indispensable to the army of the feudal towns here.

To this day, apart from nominally not being able to directly command the forces of the feudal towns, the actual status of the U.S. military is not much different from that of the colonial Philippines.

Such profound influence and control, this is what sets it apart from other powers.

Compared with the mentality of Britain, France, Italy, Russia and other countries, the United States can be said to be quite concerned about this place.

Politically speaking, whether it is the Philippines or Japan, although the economic benefits are poor and even cannot make ends meet, they are very important for projecting influence.

Militarily speaking, especially after the end of the European War, the US Navy, which regards the Ming Navy as the biggest imaginary enemy, naturally does not dare to ignore it. This small piece of land in Japan seems to be lonely and meaningless, and the deployment of troops can only be a battle of trapped beasts, but if you think about it carefully, the submarines deployed here can pose enough threat to the adversary.

The U.S. Navy's Asiatic Fleet, despite its average size and quality, is independent of the Pacific Fleet. In peacetime, it is the vanguard of safeguarding its interests in Asia, and in wartime, it is the first line of defense to delay, block, and harass the Ming Navy.

Ishikawa Prefecture, just north of the island of Honshu, is home to the Asian Fleet with five submarines; In Wakayama Prefecture, six more submarines were deployed.

According to the plan, once war breaks out between the two sides, the submarines will leave the port and set sail immediately.

Since then, the sea has been wide and the sea has jumped to the ground, and with today's technical conditions, it is extremely difficult to accurately search for submarines in the vast sea.

And the submarine is a deadly ocean assassin - even if it is a battleship with rough skin and thick flesh, it has to obediently return to port for overhaul after a few torpedoes.

This means that the Ming Navy has to face the underwater threat as soon as it leaves its doorstep, and it has to be cautious, and it is likely that several ships will be sunk without paying attention.

Without this Japanese colony, the nearest base of US submarines is also in the Philippines, which can only threaten the Nanyang Fleet of the Ming Navy when war breaks out; But now more than a dozen submarines deployed in Ishikawa and Wakayama can still threaten the Toyo Fleet.

At a time when the clouds of war are looming, the political significance is rapidly declining, and the military significance is rising sharply, and even though the other powers have withdrawn from their respective forces with interest, the United States is still not happy.

While the tired Yiluan Division began to make a detour to avoid these dozens of people, the officers and men of the 1st Marine Regiment in front of them were arguing with these guys.

Zhou Changfeng specially changed his rank card to a lieutenant, and then came to the place where the two sides confronted each other.

"It's been a quarter of an hour, hasn't the other party been cowardly?"

"These guys are just fake tigers, and it's all backed by those Americans." Fan Qijin replied nonchalantly.

About forty soldiers of the Anongtsu domain lined up, led by three Americans in addition to the Japanese lieutenant.

“…… I strongly protest against your unwarranted use of force across borders, which will escalate to the diplomatic level, and diplomats will severely denounce this violation! ”

A bearded U.S. captain gushed out at the officers and men of the 1st Landing Regiment for having crossed the demarcation line and for the planes flying over to bomb them.

The bombing was real, everyone saw it. But the so-called crossing of the demarcation line is clearly nonsense, and there is no such thing as a national border in this mountain, and there is no natural demarcation line such as creeks and rivers, and God knows if there is a transgression.

The Ming soldiers present did not take this combination of "foreign devils and two devils" in their eyes at all, neither with a straight face nor anger, and laughed and groaned as if watching a play.

Immediately following the perimeter wind were two Type 37 heavy machine guns, one on the left and one on the right, placed in the center like an exhibit.

The muzzle of the black hole was pointed at the dozens of people, and under the light shining through the dense treetop foliage, the surface of the delicately blue-treated gun body showed a beautiful dark blue luster.

The arrival of the two big guys made the atmosphere at the scene stagnant, and it was inevitable that anyone would be hairy when they were pointed at the gun, not to mention the heavy machine gun that had been hung with a bullet chain.

Zhou Changfeng felt that this should be named "heavy machine gun negotiations", which could be summarized as the category of convincing people with reason.

Leisurely, he slowly sat down on the big stone next to him, and asked with a smile: "Hey, don't talk about any diplomatic protests, it's useless, didn't you have a precedent in this matter?" Who allowed you to let the rebels cross the border? ”

The bearded captain immediately denied it, "No, we never allowed it. ”

"Then why are they over there?"

"No one found out, it may be a secret infiltration across the line."

"Oh, why don't you drive them away?"

Every word you say and I say, every question and answer, but the battle between the two sides is very different, and they have lost a lot in momentum, and they are not reasonable.

Gradually, the captain began to mess around.

"In any case, you can't cross the line on a large scale without prior notice! The consequences are severe, you know? ”

"Well, you know, what you're saying is true."

Zhou Changfeng didn't bother to pay attention to him, so he casually said a few perfunctory words from time to time.

After waiting for more than a quarter of an hour, the officers and men of the Yiluan Division, who had returned from a long way across the border, finally joined up with the task force of the 1st Marine Regiment.

Although the operation was taken by surprise and went fairly smoothly, casualties were inevitable.

Fortunately, their own cooperation and support are in place, so that the Yiluan Division has sufficient time to take away the remains or the wounded.

Since several people were seriously injured and needed to be operated on as soon as possible, Zhou Changfeng simply ordered to rest on the spot for the night, and at the same time let the accompanying military doctors perform the operation on the spot.

If not, I am afraid that a few new names will be added to the list of the dead, and the military department will have to send a few more obituaries of martyrdom.

Cai Zhichen, who was tired, had bloodshot eyes, and sat on the stone smoking to refresh himself.

Zhou Changfeng, who came slowly, threw a piece of chocolate to him, and then crossed his waist and commented: "The last volley battle was relatively conventional and not worth mentioning, but this time it is indeed an unconventional battle, and it is bound to be a strong stroke." ”

Although the opponent is very stretched, it is not worth boasting about, but after all, the first air-ground coordinated special operation in history is groundbreaking, and its significance is enough to go down in the history of warfare.

The Americans in the colony were extremely angry about this, and the next day they sent a note to the Ming representative in Osaka, expressing their strong dissatisfaction and protest, and they looked like they wanted to make trouble until the end of the day.

The reason why the latter came to Japan to take up a post was purely because he failed in the officialdom game in the previous two years, but he was optimistic by nature, so he simply took this period as a public vacation.

But he didn't bother to go toe-to-toe with these stupid Americans, so he used the housekeeping skill of a Ming official - playing Tai Chi.

The first day was a question and a question – oops? And this???

The next day was pretending to be surprised - oops! Is there such a thing?!

The third day was filled with anger and righteous indignation—well, this is intolerable!

On the fourth day, there was helplessness and helplessness - alas, this matter was extraordinary, and there was nothing the official could do, so go directly to the court.

After considering various aspects, it was initially decided to use yellow characters on a red background as the national flag, rather than abstract symbolization, so as to highlight (fit) the characteristics of the worldview - Chinese civilization has not been Westernized in some aspects.

Engraved fonts, now made two.

(End of chapter)