The moonlight was bright and lively in the capital, but the headquarters of the Zhili Army outside Tianjin had an indescribable coldness.

After the Tianchangjie offensive, the situation in Europe changed greatly, and the two countries declared war on each other, so that as long as the staff officers with a little brains and the officers who had fought fiercely on the front line could perceive that the war against China could not be completely won, as long as the Lucia army withdrew, then the China Army, which had as many as 75 or even 80 divisions, could completely crush the China Army, which had only 39 divisions and was not yet formed. If you can choose wisely, it is best for you to negotiate peace with the government of China while the troops are outside the city, so as to end the war with dignity. It's just that although the idea is good, the Katsura Taro cabinet and the Choshu domain, which have been unable to ride the tiger, can only fight the war, otherwise the final result will be that the chaebol will come to power, and the emperor and the Choshu domain will completely lose power, which neither the imperial family nor the Choshu clan can accept.

On the day that Lu Guo declared war on the independence country, the cabinet of Katsura Taro, feeling that the war in Europe was about to break out, sent an urgent telegram to the ambassadors abroad, expressing to British Foreign Secretary Gray and Russian Foreign Minister Sazonov their willingness to join the war and work with their allies to resist the independence and Austrian alliance. At the same time, the Japanese navy also began to mobilize, preparing to sail into the vicinity of Qingdao to block and destroy the German East Asian fleet and contribute to Britain and Russia.

In addition to actual actions, Japan made significant concessions on the demarcation line between the spheres of influence in Inner and Outer Mongolia and the demarcation line between the spheres of influence in North and South Manchukuo after the Russian army captured Mukden, in order to use this to stabilize the Tsar and enable the Russian army to help contain the forces of China when it captured Beijing. In addition to diplomatic mediation, the headquarters of the Manchurian Army was secretly moved to Tianjin. The regular divisions of the Japanese army in the Liaodong area were also secretly transferred, but because there were China airships in the sky, these actions were done extremely secretly.

With the Chinese army attacking the Lucian army again. In a small hidden room of the Naoli Dispatch Army Headquarters, under the dim kerosene lamp, several people were talking about the current war in China in a thorough and comprehensive manner.

"Your Excellency, after the occupation of Beijing, if the people of China continue to resist, how many troops can we be loyal to the Emperor of Manchuria?" Prince Zaihito, who was dressed in full costume, asked with concern. He is a general from the royal family. Since the beginning of the previous year, he has been a military senator and has not been directly involved in the war, but the war in China is becoming more and more critical. It was because he had to come to Tianjin to investigate the battlefield situation on behalf of the royal family.

In response to Zairen's concern, Marshal Oyama Iwa, the commander of the Shina Dispatch Army, had his eyes closed and his face was calm, and just when Prince Zaihito thought that he was asleep and wanted to cough, Dashan Iwa opened his eyes. He said in a hoarse voice, "Your Highness." The present China is unconquerable. The Manchurian Emperor was just a brick thrown into the flood and could not do anything at all, and he had no appeal in China. There may be an army that is loyal to him for other reasons, but what kind of combat power can such an army have? They will be like the Huai army back then. ”

Prince Jaehito was not too surprised by Marshal Dashanyan's answer, but the young lieutenant officer beside Jaein was very surprised, but out of etiquette, he did not speak.

"And what about the Empire?" Prince Jaehito's gaze wandered, and he was a qualified soldier. It has long been seen that the Chinese army is stronger than expected, especially since their ammunition is not as low as previously speculated.

There was another long silence. Dashan Yan said: "I can only hope that the Lucia army and the Chinese army can fight for a longer time, but this is impossible. After declaring war on the Independence Nation, it was impossible for Lucia to abandon Europe for the sake of the Far East, willingly or not. Today the Shina army has launched an attack on Lucia, and I believe that the battle will soon be over, and the Shina will soon draw troops from outside the pass into the pass......

Before the Northeast Army of the China Army enters the customs, we must occupy Beijing, and if we cannot occupy Beijing, we must also strive for peace talks with the China government, even if the Manchurian Emperor is handed over to the China government to deal with, we should also strive for peace talks. ”

Marshal Yama, who is brave and resolute, actually thinks like this in his heart, this time not only the lieutenant, but also Prince Zaihito is also speechless about this, "Your Excellency, if you do this, the empire's rights and interests in Manchuria will be lost......"

"Your Highness, if you don't do this, North Korea will also lose." Dashan Rock rudely interrupted Jae-in's speech. "Shina has awakened, apart from the navy, what else can we use to deter Shina? Ten years may not be possible with the financial resources and resources of Eschina, but in twenty years the navy of China will definitely surpass the imperial ......"

"Your Excellency, a filthy and lazy people like China are deeply servile, and even if they awaken, they are only a few, and these few will soon fall into infighting. There were many struggles between the Yang and Yu clans of the Fuxing Society, and the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Fuxing Society was endless, and the power of the branch has always been internal friction rather than external expansion...

The Yang family also does not attach importance to the navy, and up to now, the navy has not purchased warships or built their own warships......"

Finally couldn't help it, the lieutenant next to the prince finally corrected some of Dashanyan's statements, but he seemed to be talking to the air, Marshal Dashanyan just closed his eyes at this time, and he was wandering outside, while Prince Zairen was thinking about something that no one knew, and he didn't even reprimand him for being rude.

The young man spat out what he was thinking, and when he found that others had no reaction to his words, his face turned red and white, and he was immediately extremely embarrassed. Fortunately, Prince Zairen, who was next to him and finished thinking about the matter, said again: "Your Excellency, it is impossible to negotiate peace with China alone, if there is peace negotiation, it is necessary to wait for Lucia and Britain to end the war in Europe, so that there can be a peace treaty beneficial to the empire." ”

Prince Jaein didn't react when he finished talking about Dashan Yan this time, and when he listened closely, he found that the marshal seemed to be asleep, and he was snoring slightly. Seeing this scene, Prince Jaehito had no choice but to stand up with the lieutenant beside him, bow and go out. As soon as the two of them went out, under the kerosene lamp, Da Shanyan, who was full of silver hair and drooping old age, opened his eyes, and suddenly sang a Japanese song from the time of the war.

At the same time that Dashanyan was singing the song, Yang Rui, who had finished discussing with Xie Zhangtai, Yu Huizu and others, happened to walk out of the inner study, he looked at Bei Shou who was anxiously waiting and smiled, and then decisively said: "Give an order!" The day after tomorrow. That is, 17 June was the base point for landing on Taiwan, and within three hours, the whole army began to carry out the final part of the Wanli Plan. ”

"Yes!" Pei Shoutong suddenly saluted solemnly, and he was a little silent when he shouted 'yes'. His eyes were full of tears.

He was so excited Yang Rui didn't see it, he only looked up at the map of China hanging on the wall of the living room, and he vowed to make up for those broken places, and there were no less.

The General Staff had already moved to the Summer Palace, and after Yang Rui signed the official order, Pei Shoutong drove out of the city overnight to the headquarters, just over an hour after he was racing wildly. Lei Ao, the current chief of staff of the General Staff Headquarters, Xu Jingxi, the second deputy chief of the General Staff, Zhu Luhe, director of the General Logistics Department, Fan Guo, director of the General Political Department, and several other senior staff officers have all gathered.

Under the bright lights. After reading Yang Rui's order, Bei Shoutong opened the safe where the Wanli battle plan was placed with Leo in front of everyone, and with the unsealing and reading of the battle plan, everyone present rejoiced. Leo looked at the group of students in front of him who were starting to go crazy, slapped the table and said loudly, "Generals. Be calm! Now what we have to do is sign the order and issue it. Over the next three days, you have to reconcile with all sorts of unexpected events. I need your best efforts and dedication to ensure the success of the whole project! This is related to the fate of a nation and a country! ”

"Yes, sir!" Coincidentally, everyone in the war room responded loudly.

"Excellent! Do it right away. Leo glanced at everyone, and suddenly felt a little reluctant, at the end of this month, he was going to leave here, and maybe never come back, thinking of this army that he had built with Yang. His eyes suddenly darkened. It's just that most of the excited staff officers didn't see Leo's gloomy eyes, only Bei Shoutong smiled at him. Then I got busy.

Under the full moon, a top-secret telegram was sent from Wanshou Mountain in the Summer Palace, and within a few hours, from the Deng Zilong aircraft carrier command tower in the Philippines to the general headquarters of the volunteers in the depths of the dense forests in the interior of North Korea, countless faces were excited, and the long-dusty battle plan began to be unsealed and started.

"Sir, we heard something very unusual late last night: in the middle of the night, Beijing sent a large number of radio messages, which is rare in normal times, they are usually sent during the day, and they are not so dense." With a slight smile, Colonel Gewin of the British MI5 came to the headquarters of the Japanese Naoli Dispatch Army early in the morning, and looked at the staff officer of the headquarters who met him, Koichiro Tachibana. "I think the Chinese will make big moves in the next few days."

"Can you decipher those radio messages?" Koichiro Tachibana said with concern. The Chinese army used radios, which made eavesdropping convenient, but it was difficult to decipher the messages, and he hoped his allies would be able to do so.

"It's not possible this time." Colonel Gavin shook his head, "They changed the code again, and of course, even if they don't, it's hard for us to decipher. ”

"That's right." Tachibana Koichiro's expression was a little solemn, changing the original password, sending a large number of dense messages late at night, no matter how you look at it, this is all the Chinese army organizing a large-scale attack, but unfortunately he can't decipher it.

"Yes. That's it. May God bless you all. Colonel Gavant looked at the disappointed Japanese and was also a little helpless. Chinese intelligence has had a deep connection with MI5 from the beginning, but it is now a completely unfamiliar and mysterious organization, making it impossible to speculate.

Colonel Gewinter left soon after greeting, he still had a lot to do, especially the sudden disappearance of the German East Asian Fleet yesterday, which was a major event that shook Whitehall, and once these armored cruisers carried out sabotage tactics, then the shipping of the Reich would be greatly damaged, which was unacceptable to both the Admiralty and Downing Street.

With enough respect for the British, Colonel Gaiwinter's information soon reached the chief of staff, Yusaku Uehara, and after many deliberations, in order to prevent a sudden attack by the Shina Army when the Empire was massing forces, Yusaku Uehara decided to conduct aerial reconnaissance again - although each aerial reconnaissance plane was shot down by the hateful blue planes of the Chinese family, this time the Imperial Provisional Military Balloon Research Society obviously had a complete countermeasure.

An hour later, four biplanes flew up in the Japanese barracks on the east side of the old dragon train battle, and these planes were not all towed, but three were propulsed. That is, the three aircraft did not have a propeller in the nose, and a Hatch Chase machine gun was mounted in the nose of the aircraft. Because the propeller is in the rear, the pilot can shoot at the target directly in front of him during the flight. This is much better than installing a machine gun in the rear of the aircraft.

As soon as the new gadgets of the Japanese were in the sky, the airship floating in the air saw it, and after the order came and went. The Baaxing Army plane, which had routinely come up to sweep the Japanese, was startled when it saw the Japanese propulsion plane, but the pilot could not escape under the watchful eye on the ground, so he had to fly the plane towards the sun and to a high place according to the fighter training course.

Three propulsion planes escorted a towed plane for reconnaissance, which was a good calculation by Captain Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, the captain of the Japanese air team, since his own plane was repeatedly wrecked in the Liaodong battlefield and did not return. He turned to the military attachés of the legations in various countries to find a new type of fighter that could defeat the Chinese planes, and finally the emperor lived up to his painstaking efforts and obtained several Bulstor planes from Britain with excellent performance. And after arriving in Japan, it was improved, and Captain Tokugawa also made several propulsion planes.

The 80-horsepower, nine-cylinder Earth God rotary piston engine was more powerful than any previous Japanese aircraft, and with its 540-kilogram fuselage, the Bulstor could reach a maximum speed of 152 km/h. However, after converting it into a propulsion aircraft. The performance of the aircraft immediately decreased. The operation is also inflexible. But even so, these propulsion planes still amazed everyone in the Japanese observation group on the ground.

"Oh! God, it's a miracle. Donald, the most active Far Eastern Times reporter, was the first to shout, he had never seen an airplane with a propeller in the middle of the plane.

"This time the Japanese are going to win." Looking at the Chinese planes flying far away, even the pro-China journalist Morrison felt that this time it would be a victory for the Japanese. Not to mention the style of the aircraft, just four to one, the Chinese aircraft are at a disadvantage.

The attention of the crowd on the ground and the retreat of the Shina plane made Tokugawa Yoshitoshi and several Japanese pilots in mid-air very proud, and after a few clumsy tails in the air. Three propulsion planes protected the towed aircraft and began to photograph and reconnoiter the Shina trench below.

Just when the Japanese were complacent, the blue plane flying high in the air suddenly dived down from a high place. Like a meteor, the plane passed by several Japanese planes at high speed, and the pilot in the back seat began to shoot at the moment when the two sides staggered, but the machine guns could not control it at high speed, and the bullets were completely empty.

The Japanese were taken aback by the dive and shooting of the Shina plane, a tactic they had never played before, after all, the wooden plane and its canvas wings could not withstand the tremendous force of a high-speed dive, and if they were to dive like this, the plane would surely fall apart in the air.

Seeing that the Shina plane miraculously pulled up from a low place and flew high again, as if it was still preparing for another high-altitude dive, Captain Tokugawa Yoshitoshi hurriedly gestured to the other two propulsion planes, signaling that if the Shina plane dived again, his own nose should fire at the Shina man.

When the Japanese plane was preparing for the next dive attack, the blue plane, which had already flown high, suddenly jumped down with a pilot, which immediately caused countless people to scream in horror.

"Are the Chinese crazy?" Donald exclaimed, clutching his top hat, not at all realizing that he was starting to worry about the annoying Chinese, in fact, if it wasn't for the Chinese plane, he still liked it.

"Oh......" The other reporters who were following the air battle next to him called out again - just when everyone thought that Chinese was going to commit suicide, a large white umbrella suddenly rose from the pilot who jumped off, and as the big umbrella opened, his fall speed immediately slowed down, and finally landed peacefully behind the trench of the Chinese army.

"The Japanese are going to be unlucky again!" British Army Colonel Blaile said to the people around him while holding the binoculars. Although he did not know what the Chinese in the sky were going to do, he was sure that the Chinese planes would implement new tactics.

With Bai Laile's guess, the next high-altitude dive of the Chinese plane began, and as the plane descended rapidly, the Hatch Chase machine gun in the bow of the three Japanese planes facing it began to fire furiously, because there were no tracer bullets, no one knew whether those bullets had hit the Chinese plane, just when people were still worried about whether the Chinese plane under the rain of bullets would fall, only to see another meteor dive, but unlike the last time, this time the Chinese plane and the Japanese were very close, or rather, The Chinese plane was aimed at the Japanese.

In a flash of lightning, the swooping plane swept past the flank of a Japanese plane, and with this brief interlacing, the wing of the Japanese plane suddenly snapped. Then it swirled and fell straight down.

"Oh my God! It's a ramming tactic! A journalist familiar with naval tactics shouted, "It's crazy, it's terrible!" ”

The reporter is still exclaiming. Countless shouts and gunshots rang out on the other side of the battlefield, four against one in the air, and their own plane actually crashed into a Japanese plane in the air, and the soldiers were suddenly excited like chicken blood, what is this? Is this simply a bayonet fight in the air! Of course, the plane did not have bayonets, only wings.

"What a miracle!" Colonel Bailler looked at the Chinese plane that had been pulled up again from a low altitude and began to marvel. He couldn't understand why the Chinese plane had survived such a collision and still remained unscathed, could it be made of steel.

The colonel marveled at it, and the plane swooped down from a high altitude again. This time, the Japanese plane, which had mustered up all its courage, fired and headed upwards, but the difference in altitude made it impossible for the Japanese to determine the distance and location of the impact, and just like the last time the meteor crossed, the wing of another Japanese plane was broken. It may be that this impact was lighter than the previous one. The wings of the plane did not break immediately, but just as the pilot wanted to control the plane to fly towards his own trench, the plane suddenly fell apart in the air, and the pilot fell straight down with a scream.

"Good! Good! "The shouts of tens of thousands of people in the Baath trenches were heard far and wide, because the officers did not allow the soldiers to shoot, so they had to take off their helmets and beat them with bayonets, and the trenches boiled, and the cheers and knocks rang out.

All eyes are on it. Once again, the stabbing plane stubbornly pulled up from close to the ground, and the shouting crowd could not understand it. But Colonel Baille, who was looking forward to the telescope, saw very clearly that after two collisions, the operation of the Chinese plane was obviously not as agile as before, but even so, the plane was still pulled high, ready for the next dive.

The Chinese planes pulled up, and the Japanese planes that had already suffered losses twice were also pulled up, and in the violent roar of the engines, the remaining three planes in the air all flew higher and higher, but after all, the strange Chinese planes flew higher, but at this time the Japanese no longer gave it a chance to dive, and several planes just circled in the air. Originally, if they were all towed planes, it would be difficult for them to collide with each other unless they were intentional on both sides, but the propulsion planes were too inflexible, and after a few circles, the Chinese planes that found the hole dived again and hit the last Japanese propulsion plane.

Only this time, perhaps because the dive distance was too short, or the operation was inconvenient, the Chinese plane could not be as perfect as the previous two kills, after the violent engine roar, the two planes in the air collided together, the wings of both sides broke suddenly, and then fell rapidly.

The heroes in the sky actually fell, and the soldiers of the Revival Army who were beating their helmets vigorously were all stunned, but just as everyone's hearts fell straight down, a large umbrella like a white cloud suddenly opened in the air.

"Good! Good! Good! Good! Seeing his own people come back to life, the hysterical shouting rang out again, and this time louder than ever.

Of the five planes in the sky, two of them were killed and one was lost, and the Japanese on this original British reconnaissance plane had no intention of reconnoitring again after encountering such a fierce air battle.

The soldiers in the trench pointed to the fleeing plane and cursed, and Tao Dayong, the front-line commander who was also attracted by the wonderful air battle, put down his binoculars and suddenly scolded: "Quick! Damn, I know how to watch the excitement, save people! ”

Before Tao Dayong could finish speaking, the Japanese side was full of guns and artillery, and their target was the pilot of the Fuxing Army who was still drifting in the air - the last impact was too reluctant, and there was no way to control the landing point after the plane collided, so the place where the pilot fell was over the handover of the two armies. It was good in the air before, but once the altitude was reduced, the Japanese army would not let go of the Shina people who killed their three flying planes.

Tao Dayong scolded his mother is actually not too late, as soon as the Japanese side fired the artillery, the revival army responded immediately, and in order to snatch people back, while the infantry attacked, the newly pulled 150 howitzers in the rear also began to bombard the Japanese trenches, and the entire Yangcun defense line of more than 200,000 soldiers terminated the truce because of a pilot, and began to fiercely attack. (To be continued......)