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Since the Japanese army adopted an attacking posture, they did not expect to defend themselves and the fortifications were very simple to repair. Now they drank the bitter wine they brewed by themselves, and their arrogance had to be compensated for at the cost of blood.

"How could the Empire lose to the Chinese in this regard?" Sato Hei also looked at the air and flew around, spreading the plane of death, murmured: "A bombing of such a force must be followed by the charge of infantry."

Sato Hiraki seemed to wake up suddenly and roared at the officers and staff around him, "The impact of the Chinese army is near, why are you idiots standing here? Go and organize the troops and prepare to resist."

Before he finished speaking, a few explosions that were close to him drowned out his voice. Because the Japanese command was awkward and the first wave of bombing was not effective, the bomber adjusted his position and posture and attacked the target again. A fighter also came to join in the fun, dived down, and the bullets swept over like raindrops...

The war in Qingdao became more and more intense. The Chinese army launched a counterattack from the outside. The Japanese army in Weihe suffered heavy losses and were forced to retreat and defend, and requested to increase troops.

At this time, the situation on the European battlefield was becoming increasingly unfavorable to Britain and France, and their resentment towards the Japanese was increasing day by day, and they even hoped that China would teach a lesson to the selfish little Japanese.

On August 2, 1914, the German army sent troops to the neutral country Luxembourg to obtain the railway network of Luxembourg. On August 3, the German army undeclared war against Belgium. The right-wing German army quickly invaded Belgium. By August 9, the German army successfully captured the entire territory of Belgium and expelled the French troops in Belgium back to France.

At this time, several main armies of the French army mechanically launched an attack on the German left wing in accordance with the scheduled "Plan 17". However, the initial battles showed that the "Plan 17" was very bad and even less suitable for the situation on the battlefield.

In Green, the 1st and 2nd French Army were overwhelmed in the defense line of the German army in Salborg and Morange. After occupying Belgium, the right-wing German army divided into five routes to attack northern France on August 21. Nearly one million troops of its five armies were inserted into France from Belgium like a waving sickle.

In order to defeat France as soon as possible, the German team used new tactics. The armored troops, three armored divisions, hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles were invincible. In the air, hundreds of aircraft were bombarded indiscriminately, and the British and French coalition forces were defeated and retreated in panic.

On August 23, the German army captured Namur. On August 30, the vanguard of the German Cluke Army had advanced to a distance of only fifteen miles from Paris. The efforts made by the main French army commanded by Xia Fei to stop the German right wing had failed. The Parisians were panicked, and the French government moved to Bordeaux.

On August 29, the second wave of Japanese army troops landed in Laoshan Bay, and the leather boots finally landed. The Chinese team immediately began a clear mobilization and assembly, and a decisive battle was about to begin.

In the command center, the staff came and went, the phone rang continuously, and the latest reconnaissance information was sent to Jiang Zuobin.

"Let the artillery perform final calibration and confirm the bombardment target."

"Call the bomber troops and order the First Battalion to take off immediately."

"Telephone contact with Commander Qiu and order them to go on time."

"The counterattack troops have all entered the starting position? Very good, tell them to fight fiercely and rush fiercely."

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The orders were conveyed one by one, and the tension before the war made everyone look grim and walk like the wind.

Jiang Zuobin looked at his watch and nodded slightly.

When fighting against a rabbit, you must do your best. Aircraft, airship, tank, and submarine will be used in this battle, and the Japanese army will be wiped out with thunder. This is Beijing's request, hoping to use this to awaken the Japanese and put the war on the track of political settlement.

The delay in the war is an unbearable burden for Japan, and for China, it is also a resistance to development.

Submarines are indeed powerful weapons to defeat enemies, but they have to rely on them to achieve absolute victory, which is somewhat delusional. Before the aircraft is further developed and posed a fatal threat to warships, the Chinese government did not want to show off completely with Japan.

A loss-winning outcome is not what the Chinese government hopes to get. A relatively stable development environment is what China needs most now.

Sato Hiraki, who retreated and received reinforcements, did not know that the mobile corps of the Chinese team had been dispatched and penetrated from his right wing, and had already broken through the thin line of defense of the Japanese army. Under the cover of the Second Bomber Battalion, it was advancing towards the rear of the Japanese army. An armored division and two infantry divisions formed an unstoppable torrent, about to cut off the retreat of the more than 30,000 Japanese troops.

Qiujx leaned his head towards the tank and breathed the fresh air hard. The tank looked majestic, but it was really a disaster inside. The space was small, the air was dirty, and it was trembling. This was the tank in the early stage, so how could it change at once?

As the commander of the armored division, Qiujx is full of confidence in victory. She is one of the few senior officers who have seen the air-tank-arcade coordinated combat exercise, and is the only female general in the National Defense Forces.

She believes that under the impact of this power, unless there are complete and solid fortifications and deep digging trenches, it will be unstoppable. The Japanese army has no ideological preparations in this regard, and no corresponding material preparations. If they lose air superiority, they will lose their eyes and ears. If they know themselves but do not know their opponents, it would be better if they don’t fight such a war.

Why is the Japanese so vicious and treating New China as the Qing Dynasty during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895? This is an unforgivable mistake.

Yes, the overall quality of the Chinese team is not as good as that of the Japanese army, and there is a gap in combat effectiveness. The most important thing is the lack of practical experience. However, the new tactics, the use of new equipment, and the re-invigorating of spiritual will have completely made up for these shortcomings. Moreover, after years of training, the Chinese team's combat effectiveness has also been greatly improved. With the advantage of numbers, it is not easy for the Japanese to defeat the Chinese team easily.

Just when Japan was in turmoil over fiscal issues, China was not idle. Although it had brought huge amounts of foreign debt, it was definitely worth it.

A commander army parked next to the tank, and the staff waved to her vigorously in the car.

"Guys, stop for a moment, I'm going to go down." Qiujx turned his head and shouted into the tank like a man.

"Sir, go slowly!" The captain had long been accustomed to the life in the car and the attitude of the commander, and said goodbye to Qiujx with a smile.

"Let me go slowly, you have to hurry up." Qiujx smiled and patted the hard shell of the tank, saying, "Go to the beach and press the Japanese into meat paste."

"Yes, sir. I will be satisfied with it." The leader of the car replied loudly.

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For the Japanese army, whose soldiers and materials are mostly transported by sea, once the umbilical cord of life is cut off, the fate of the army is destined to be in danger.

In order to maintain the situation and ensure supply; in order to deal with the elusive attacks of China's underwater killer submarines. Faced with the continuous loss of our own ships, the Japanese command could only increase the warships and strengthen the escort force to carry out the Qingdao war.

On September 3, 1914, the Bohai Sea was turbulent and the sea breeze was howling. The escort transport team coming from Japan was sailing towards the southwest against the strong wind and waves.

Japanese Navy Colonel Sato Yoshimiya stood on the bridge of the Armored Cruiser "Kuri" with bloodshot eyes constantly scanning the sea, and her heart felt like she was under a heavy burden, as if she felt an increasingly serious crisis was approaching.

Escorting the fleet is really a heavy responsibility and dangerous job. The heavy losses of the transportation team always flash in front of his eyes, and the howling of the "wolf pack" seems to echo in his ears.

Sato Yoshimizu commanded the "Kurakami", and later went to urge the escorts to occupy their positions in the alert curtain, and then approached the ship where the captain of the transport team was located to exchange opinions on the course. He knew that the more the escort transport team sailed eastward, the greater the possibility of being attacked.

While working, Sato Yoshimiya was also thinking about a question: Do the crew of the transport ship know that their escort may not be able to repel the enemy's attack due to lack of anti-submarine warfare equipment?

"Who can believe that we are some bodyguards who do not match their names!" Sato murmured a few times, then fell into deep thought. On this dark seabed, how many pairs of "evil wolf" eyes are peeping at us? On this surging sea surface, can a torpedo explosion occur every minute?

Hurry, hasty, and underestimate the enemy. As a conscientious soldier, Sato commented on this military operation in this way. It is obvious that senior officials of the Japanese government, especially the military leaders, lack understanding of China's secret development in recent years, and their combat power of submarines is insufficient.

However, Sato came to a pessimistic conclusion based on Japan's geographical characteristics. Even if it occupied most of Qingdao or Shandong, if China does not surrender and continues to fight with Japan, Japan, which lacks resources and relies heavily on overseas material supplements, will fall into an unsustainable situation.

Sato's worries are not redundant. This escort fleet has long fallen into the eyes of Chinese submarines. The v103 boat has been tracking the escort transport team and constantly reporting the situation to the shore command center, which has continuously forwarded the received situation to other submarines.

Up to now, at least three submarines have approached Japan's escort fleet, and the dinner is about to begin.

At 3:50 pm, the V103 boat first launched an attack, and fired four torpedoes at the silhouettes of a long list of overlapping ships at a distance of about one nautical mile. Two minutes later, the 10,000-ton transport ship "Kyoyamamaru" and the 3,000-ton "Koyamamaru" exploded, and fell into a thick smoke and fire.

Sato Yoshimizu commanded the escort warship to chase him like lightning, and dropped several deep-water bombs like venting anger at the diving place of the V103 boat.

A violent explosion followed by a loud blast, a tall water column rose from the stern of the cruiser "Kurakura", and then an orange-yellow flame rushed out of the water. The sailors on the "Kurakura" cheered on the deck, all thinking that they had injured a submarine.

In fact, due to the large explosion depth of the deep-water bomb, the V103 submarine was fatally injured. It luckily escaped the pursuit of the Japanese ship, and successfully went around to the other side of the escort fleet and attacked the transport ship "Tagua Maru" of the outer column.

Accompanied by the huge explosion and dazzling sparks, the 6,400-ton Tsubaki Maru began to tilt slowly and sink. Looking from the periscope, the "Tsubaki Maru" was panicked, and the submarine V103 quickly dived and escaped from this place of right and wrong.

The attack had catastrophic consequences for the Japanese because the Tamakawa Maru was carrying a large number of Japanese troops, which were reinforcements to the troops of the 6th Division, which landed from Longkou, which was now surrounded.

The sea was full of Japanese officers and soldiers struggling to call for help. "Tagua Maru" raised his tail and quickly plunged into the undulating sea.

Sato Yoshimi looked at all this in pain, ordering warships to step up their guards and search for submarines; and ordering other ships to launch rescue. He did not know that this order would cause greater losses to the fleet, and it delayed two hours due to the rescue, causing more submarines to surround. Moreover, as dusk fell, the submarine's attack would be more hidden and more unpredictable.

This time, the "wolf pack" attack achieved great results. A total of five submarines participated in the battle, all of which entered the attack, launched a total of twenty torpedoes, sunk nine transport ships, and the total tonnage reached 47,883 tons, and injured three. The Chinese Navy lost the submarine V99, and V103 was slightly injured.

The Chinese submarine forces not only used to attack with torpedoes, but also adopted new tactics to carry out mine laying operations on the main channel of Japanese ships. The sea transportation line of Japan's attack on Qingdao troops was almost unsustainable.

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On September 18, the Chinese team launched a sudden and fierce counterattack, and the tanks appeared on the battlefield of counterattack and invasion.

At around 7:30 in the morning, in the eyes of the Japanese army, more than a dozen moving "black spots" suddenly appeared on the distant horizon. These "black spots" were by no means straggler lines that they were already familiar with.

The "black dot" gradually approached, and the Japanese soldiers vaguely heard a strange roar, which was faintly mixed with the sound of steel. Soon, they could see clearly that they were black "steel monsters". The strange roar and the sound of steel colliding became louder and louder, and the earth was trembling constantly.

Looking at these "steel monsters" that they had never seen before, the Japanese soldiers were shocked. In a panic, they picked up machine guns and rifles and fired fiercely at these monsters. However, the machine gun bullets that were powerful in the past were either bounced back or slipped down from these monsters.

The "steel monsters" seemed to roar forward without any concern and drove forward, with the tracks clanging. They drove past the muddy craters like flat ground, overwhelming the barbed wire that had blocked countless infantry, crossing the trenches, crushing the Japanese fortifications to pieces.

At the same time, they fired violently with machine guns and artillery, like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, killing Japanese corpses everywhere. The Japanese soldiers only resisted this sudden "steel monster" for a moment, and their fighting will completely collapsed. They threw down their guns, turned around and ran back and fled.

The counterattack was a complete victory, and the mobile forces achieved a flank breakthrough like a sharp blade, cutting off the retreat of the Japanese army landing in Longkou, tightening the noose with the friendly forces in front of them, and attacking fiercely.

In the air, planes bombarded and scattered, and on the ground, the "steel monsters" crushed and slaughtered, and the speed of the battle situation suddenly turned sharply and shocked the world.

The sudden change in the battle situation not only surprised the great powers who were concerned about the war, but also caught the Japanese army off guard. Under the storm of the China National Team, more than 20,000 Japanese troops landed in Longkou were not only completely damaged by the China National Team's mobile corps, but also cut off the retreat route and fell into a heavy siege. The Japanese troops landed in Laoshan Bay were also stubbornly blocked and progressed slowly.

Five days, only five days. When the Japanese government was at a loss and was quarreling in a row, under the attack of the Chinese team's absolute advantage, more than 20,000 Japanese troops were finally wiped out in a depression twenty kilometers away from the Longkou coast.

Then, the mobile corps turned towards Qingdao, surrounding the Japanese army that was attacking Qingdao, and another large encirclement and annihilation seemed to have begun again.

The news of victory quickly spread throughout China and to the ears of ministers from various countries. The combat effectiveness of the Chinese team was re-estimated, and the trends of the Chinese government were even more eye-catching.

"In this five-day counterattack, the Chinese army used new weapons such as tanks and aircraft. Although the troops were far more than the Japanese army, and because they were local operations, they had many favorable conditions. However, since modern times, this victory has been unprecedented, and the morale boosted by the people is extremely high..."

"From the current perspective, the Japanese army's tactics have become outdated, and there is a gap between the Chinese army in terms of weapon equipment. Under the three-dimensional attack of the Chinese team, the so-called tenacious Bushido spirit will also be wiped out."

"The decisive battle between spiritual and material factors is the material factor that prevails this time. Although the Japanese government is even more clamoring, what do they use to continue to support this war that is about to turn into a protracted war?"

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The international situation continued to change. The German team relied on fighter jets to completely control air supremacy and approached Paris with the rapid advancement of the armored division. However, the attempt to encircle and annihilate the main force of the British and French coalition forces was not realized, and the German team's offensive momentum was temporarily paused because the supply line was too long, waiting for the assembly of the supply maintenance convoy and the heavy artillery team.

The British and French troops were given a breather and regrouped their troops and arranged defense lines. Moreover, the French government moved to Bordeaux issued a statement saying that it would never surrender and would fight Germany to the end. This made the German government's quick decision strategy basically bankrupt.

The first time the tank appeared on the battlefield was indeed very powerful, but it also had its insurmountable shortcomings. For example, the ability to cross the trench is poor, it is prone to mechanical failures, and requires a lot of logistical support, etc. The British and French coalition forces dug a large number of wide trenches to deal with tank assaults, and used the two captured tanks to start emergency imitation.

Although the German army failed to force the French government to surrender, they still took the initiative on the battlefield. The General Staff formulated a new offensive plan to run towards the sea, preparing to cut off the ties between Britain and France and force France to surrender.
Chapter completed!