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Twenty-three days of the Korean War, this is a flying tank!

Despite heavy casualties, the Japanese offensive continued,

The first trench of the "wooded position" had already been captured by the surging Japanese troops. Dozens of moving assault guns are still rumbling. Their massive, bulky bodies, exposed to flares, were undoubtedly the best targets for China's No. 3 heavy assault guns, which were fighting and retreating. After each firing of more than 60 88mm cannons, there will be a few more burning wreckage of chariots on the battlefield! However, such losses were not enough to stop the frantic Japanese offensive, and thousands of Japanese soldiers carried rifles with bayonets, and a submachine gun that appeared on the battlefield for the first time, and rushed forward with a plate load.

Soon the Chinese assault guns retreated to the rear of the reserve positions and stopped their wheels, because there was already no way back. Not far behind him was the low and dilapidated Yunshan city wall, and a battalion of 150mm self-propelled guns lined up under the city wall, desperately firing to provide fire support for the front line.

However, at this time, the Japanese armored assault column had also reached the end of a strong crossbow, and less than 30 of the more than 100 assault combat vehicles invested were still rushing forward, and the rest had all turned into a pile of burning wreckage! The commander of the Japanese mecha corps, General Yoshida, who was watching the battle from behind, saw that his eyes were about to bleed! But in one day, under the blows of the air and ground fire of the Chinese, his mecha army has lost nearly 400 combat vehicles of various models! The losses of the infantry were already too numerous to be counted. And the genuine armored division of the Chinese has not yet appeared, just a water-injected panzergrenadier division is fighting with itself!

At this time, a signal flare fired by the Japanese front enemy command to indicate a retreat was raised on the battlefield. The remaining twenty or so assault tanks covered the two or three thousand infantry and slowly retreated to the trench they had just captured, which would become the launching position of the next wave of the Japanese offensive. After paying an unimaginable price, they finally made a little breakthrough.

"Air raids! Air raid! Hide ...... quickly."

The Japanese army, which had just retreated to a new starting position, had not had time to catch their breath when the Chinese air force launched a night tactical air attack! Countless flares fell from the sky, illuminating the entire battlefield as if it were daylight. Strings of flares were fired over the Japanese from the 81.2 heights and the second line of defense of the "woods position".

"Le Tou, find the target, there is a Japanese armored cluster at 6 o'clock below." Lieutenant Colonel Le Yiqin's headphones came from the reconnaissance mission

The voice of the F-110 pilot.

"Did you see it clearly? It's dark down there, but it's not our own tank. "Le Yiqin is flying a single-seat, twin-engine A-5 Thunderbolt anti-tank attack aircraft! The squadron of attack aircraft under his command contained 16 of these latest anti-tank attack aircraft.

This A-5 anti-tank attack aircraft has two 1700 hp aircraft

M anti-tank guns! Such an aircraft was developed for only one purpose, and that was anti-tank. The imaginary enemy of this amazingly powerful anti-tank attack aircraft was a powerful German armored group! The only 1st Strike Aviation Regiment of the Wehrmacht Air Force, equipped with A-5 Thunderbolt attack aircraft, is also deployed at the Karaganda Air Base in the Kazakh region of the Central Asian Dominion, ready to intervene in a possible 'Russo-German war'

It was not until the beginning of December that he was secretly transferred to the Andong Army Air Base in Liaoning Province. However, it has been hidden by the Wehrmacht Air Force and has not appeared until tonight, when it was sent to the battlefield to replace the A-4 dive bombers to clean up the Japanese armored forces.

"Letou, just put your heart in your stomach, it's not a day or two that we're serving as a night scout." drive

The F-110 is Lieutenant Zhou Zhiguo. Ever since flying this twin-engine heavy fighter, he has become a night pilot. It's not night reconnaissance, night escort is simply hanging bombs to carry out night bombing missions, and it has long been refined into a pair of fiery eyes that can see through the night sky.

Guided by the signal flares of the ground forces, he quickly spotted the Japanese armored clusters on the ground, and then a series of flares went down. The Japanese soldiers below seemed to know that something was wrong, so they hurriedly found smoke bombs and threw them around the big assault vehicles, and used their rifles, light machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns to shoot desperately into the air. At this moment, the roar of the rumbling engines was already heard in the sky, and more than a dozen ugly-looking twin-engine planes came out of the night sky, rushed to a low altitude, and shuttled through the fire net formed by the Japanese ground firepower. Those small-caliber rifle machine gun bullets hit the fuselage of these planes and only burst out a series of sparks, and not even much paint was rubbed off!

'Boom! Rumble! Boom......'

Another thing happened that made these Japanese soldiers unbelievable, the planes hovering in the sky actually began to fire! The Chinese actually put artillery on the planes, and now there are more than a dozen aircraft with artillery guns firing wildly above the heads of the Japanese armored clusters! Strings of cannonballs with orange tailflames whizzed towards the thin top armor of the Zero or Type 97 assault vehicles, and the 50mm armor-piercing shells looked like canning openers, effortlessly priing open the tops of the Japanese tanks and turning them into piles of burning steel wreckage.

'We are being shelled by the Chinese planes!' The Shina planes are firing like my tank, oh my God, is this the end of the Japanese armored forces?' The commander of the 1st Tank Division, who commanded operations on the front line, Lieutenant General Toshimoto Hoshino, was already sweating profusely. He grabbed the phone and called the commander of the mecha army, Yoshida Pi, and his voice was full of despair: "Your Excellency, we are finished!" We're done...... The people of China are firing at us from the air, what should we do? What to do!'

Yoshida had already witnessed the disaster through his binoculars, but he didn't know what to do. Please keep in mind that the Japanese army aviation does not have the ability to fight at night at all, otherwise the large and medium-sized cities in Japan would not have been set on fire by Chinese planes every night! The small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns equipped with the mecha army do not seem to have much effect on such low-flying Chinese planes, and none of them have been shot down for half a day. Just when Yoshida was racking his brains and didn't know what to do, the chief of staff on the side, Masafuku Terada, had already screamed.

"Your Excellency! Oh no, it's ...... on the highway Our armored clusters are still on the march! There are also thousands of tanks and armored vehicles on the march!!

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On the road leading south of the Qingchuan River to Yunshan, the car lights flashed, and the convoy composed of tanks, assault fighting vehicles, and armored vehicles and trucks stretched for more than ten kilometers, and on the slopes and fields on both sides of the road, countless Japanese infantry surged forward like a torrent.

Suddenly, there was a soft buzz in the sky, a terrible whistle, and the entire convoy immediately turned off its lights, and all the torches in the hands of the infantry in the mountains were extinguished, and the whole land was dark again. The sound of the airplane engine grew louder and louder from far and near, and finally it seemed to hover overhead! Suddenly, a flare lit up in mid-air, illuminating the Japanese convoy that was still moving cautiously on the road below! Then more flares fell, drifting across the sky, illuminating the ground through.

A burst of "dong dong" cannon sound came from mid-air, and dozens of dark red fires fell from the sky, sweeping over the Japanese convoy crowded on the road, and a series of explosions sounded, and more than a dozen burning fireballs suddenly appeared on the road.

"Anti-aircraft guns! Fire! Hurry up! ”

With the Japanese command, the anti-aircraft machine guns of the vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft guns accompanying the convoy immediately reacted and began to spray fire into the air, and the beams of more than a dozen searchlights also swam around in the air, looking for the shadow of the Chinese plane. Soon, a plane with two engines, ugly shape, and a long barrel sticking out from under the belly was locked by searchlights. Countless tiny rays of light rushed towards the plane at a blistering speed. But what happened next stunned the tens of thousands of Japanese who were looking up to watch the battle.

Instead of being shot down by the dense anti-aircraft fire, the Chinese plane shuttled back and forth in the stream of fire, firing non-stop at the Japanese vehicles below, setting fire to the Japanese tanks one after another.

"Oh my God! This is a flying tank! The people of China have given wings to the tank, what should we do now! I don't know who suddenly shouted loudly, shouting out the hearts of tens of thousands of stunned Japanese officers and soldiers on the battlefield.

What to do! The tanks of the people of China can actually fly! How could the people of China have such a terrifying weapon! Fighting such an enemy, could the Japanese Empire still have any hope of victory? Could it be that Amaterasu has abandoned her descendants, and the end of the Japanese Empire is approaching?

The shelling from the air lasted about half an hour, and by the time the "flying tanks" slapped their butts and left, the roads were filled with the wreckage of various vehicles still burning, and the hillsides and the wilderness were full of infantry with desperate expressions on their faces.

"The tanks of the Chinese will fly! I can't fly as a stand-up. On the side of the road, an elderly soldier sat on the ground with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, looked at the burning chariot fixedly, and muttered with a wry smile. For the sake of the empire, for the sake of the emperor, I can do without my wife and children, and I can also do without my life, but I can't fly, how can I die with the tanks flying in the sky? Emperor, what should I do? ”

In the South Pacific, the Nagato, the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

Japanese Emperor Hirohito was woken up in his sleep by Empress Michiko. His Majesty the Emperor, who had abandoned his country and fled, was now aboard the largest battleship of the Japanese Navy. On December 12, the same day that the Korean Campaign began, he boarded the warship from the port of Yokohama to leave his empire and his subjects and embark on the southern tour. These days, he has been feeling guilty and self-blame in his heart, and at the same time, he has some faint expectations. Perhaps the situation is not so bad, and the more than 1.5 million imperial soldiers of the Korean army will be able to defeat the murderous Chinese invaders, so that they can quietly return home as if nothing had happened.

If only nothing had happened! Without the Battle of Shandong in 1927, the 9.18 War from 1930 to 31, and the so-called "rise of China", Japan was still dominating the East, and it would not have become the "last emperor" itself, just like in a dream.

In the past two days, as soon as Emperor Hirohito closes his eyes, he will have some bizarre dreams. For example, China is still mired in the quagmire of civil war, Japan won the 9.18 war, and gradually encroached on the land of North China, and finally launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, occupying Nanjing, the capital of China, and slaughtering a full 300,000 people! Hey, why is the capital of China in my dream Nanjing, not Wuhan? By the way, the Chinese ruler in the dream seems to be Jiang Jshi, not Luo Yiqun's uncle and nephew. However, these dreams are really beautiful, but unfortunately they are not true!

When the dream was disturbed and Emperor Hirohito reluctantly opened his eyes, he heard the eager voice of Empress Michiko. The emperor's heart sank, and it looked like there was bad news coming again! Before the Empress could sit up, she said in a loud voice, "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Prince Zaihito of the military department sent an urgent telegram. Say that the mecha army of the North Korean army was defeated by the Chinese in Unsan! The squadron used thousands of bombers to bomb the mecha army in this battle, and also invested a kind of flying tank to attack the mecha army's marching column at night and destroy hundreds of combat vehicles! Moreover, the navy also discovered that the huge Chinese fleet was heading for the west coast of the Korean Peninsula, and the Chinese were about to land in the rear of the Korean army! ”

"What! So fast! "The news of the defeat of the Emperor was mentally prepared for a long time, but the Korean army, which numbered more than 1.5 million people, was defeated by the Chinese in just a few days, and the result was even worse than Hirohito expected! Such a result shows that China's military strength is far stronger than imagined, while Japan's resistance is weaker than imagined, and what is more troublesome is that the "relocation plan" that preserved the vitality of the Japanese Empire is likely to have no time to be implemented! What's even more terrifying is that there seem to be more than 600,000 terrible squadrons in Australia! Will they allow the Japanese Empire to start anew there?

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty! Please hurry up and order the Korean army to completely shrink and buy time for the relocation plan. Rushing into the Emperor's chamber was Minister of the Interior Koichi Kido, who, seeing Emperor Hirohito sitting there dumbfounded, seemed to be stupid, and loudly made his suggestion. In fact, this suggestion was also attached to the end of the telegram by Prince Kanin Miyakihito, the chief of the Japanese Army General Staff, and the old prince asked the emperor for advice after his guidance to the Korean army was rejected.

The Emperor stood up and walked around the cabin in his pajamas, as if he were making some of the most difficult decisions.

"What about the North Korean army, what did the North Korean army say? Is there a countermeasure? Hirohito stopped and looked at Kido Road.

"Marshal Okamura still wants to fight on his back, and now he is drawing troops to prepare for another attack."

"Are you sure?" Hirohito asked.

"The military department believed that there was no chance of victory, and had already issued an order for a general contraction, but Marshal Okamura refused to carry it out on the grounds that the military department should not interfere with the command of the front."

"Oh, that's right." Hirohito now somewhat understands that this is the case, it turns out that there is a serious disagreement between the military headquarters and the North Korean army on the next stage of military deployment, the military department wants to use delaying tactics to buy time for the relocation plan or German "intervention", while the commander of the North Korean army, Okamura Ninji, wants to fight to the death! Even if it is a fish to the death, this Okamura seems to be too unable to perceive the holy will!

"I need an experienced military senator by my side, so let Marshal Okamura Ninji take on this important task." Emperor Hirohito's words were a little angry, and it seemed that Okamura would have small shoes to wear in the future.

"Your Majesty" heard Hirohito's decision, Kido Koichi was also stunned, and Prince Zaihito of the Idle Yuan Palace only intended to interfere with Okamura's command, and did not mean to change generals in battle. Besides, the Korean campaign has been fought to this extent, who is willing to be this commander?

"What's wrong?" Hirohito saw the hesitation on Kido's face, and asked calmly, "Why don't you go and pass the decree?" ”

"Your Majesty." Kido glanced at Hirohito's gloomy face, gritted his teeth and asked, "If the military department asks for a successor to the commander of the Korean army?"

"Let the current military counselor, General Sugiyama Moto, go to North Korea, General Sugiyama is resolute and tenacious, and he will definitely be able to be the commander of this army."

Emperor Hirohito thought about it for a moment and gave the errand of the hapless commander of the Korean Army to the current army director of education and military counselor, General Sugiyama Moto.

At the same time, he also gave the military headquarters the order of delaying the offensive of the Chinese army with all its might, delaying the fall of Korea, and winning time for the preparation of the local war of resistance. In this decree, Hirohito also demanded that the Japanese army and navy do everything possible to inflict heavy damage on the invading squadron, and if necessary, use the kamikaze planes originally planned to defend the Japanese mainland to launch a surprise attack, and strive to annihilate the invading Chinese fleet, and the secret storage of sarin gas can also be sent to Korea immediately

Subsequently, he instructed Kido to send a secret telegram to Yosuke Matsuoka, the envoy in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg, instructing him to propose an armistice for the cession of the "new state of Japan." In the name of the emperor, the Empress of Russia can also be invited to mediate the Sino-Japanese War, and the Empress can be promised a rich reward after the completion of the matter.

Finally, the emperor gave instructions to Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe, who was left behind in Japan, to speed up the "relocation plan" and to transfer important people from the Japanese mainland as soon as possible. If you are moving too far to New Japan, you can use the Pacific islands that are closer to the Japanese mainland as a transit point. In short, be prepared for the worst, move as many people as possible from the Japanese mainland, and save a little more seeds for the future revival of the Japanese Empire!