Just a Tang army's logistics soldiers are so powerful, in comparison, the training level of ** is much worse, which also reflects the strength of the Tang army's combat effectiveness from the other hand.

The first batch of weapons and equipment for the Tang army airlift to Shanghai were mainly m1 submachine guns, m2 heavy machine guns, 60mm mortars and 75mm infantry guns. This is the most needed weapon and equipment, and is given priority to supply to the 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army.

Jiang Jiang wanted to give this batch of weapons and equipment to his elite first army first, but the Tang Dynasty was very careful and he had no choice.

The first batch of Tang army equipment quickly armed the elite 119th Brigade of the 19th Route Army. Due to the tight war, the 119th Brigade retreated and temporarily rested. After only three days of familiarity with the equipment, it was then pulled to the front line and reopened to the battle.

The new Japanese commander, Shirakawa, learned from the failure of the frontal offense of the first three commanders, decided to land from Liuhe on the flank and attack the Songhu defenders on both sides. The 9th Division and other units of the Japanese army attacked Songhu on the front, and escorted the 11th Division into the Yangtze River estuary with the only remaining heavy patrol fleet that had just been defeated on the Pacific battlefield. He suddenly launched a landing attack from Liuhekou, Yanglinkou and Qiyakou, with the intention of encircling the rear route of the 19th Route Army.

The war was tense, so Jiang Guangnai immediately transferred the 119th Brigade to the front line of Liuyang River to provide reinforcements. The 119th Brigade, equipped with advanced weapons and equipment of the Tang army, increased its combat effectiveness sharply. The m1 submachine gun and m2 heavy machine gun were specially defeated by the Japanese 38th Rifle and ** machine gun. The 75-infantry gun equipped with it could also engage in a even-match artillery battle with the Japanese army.

The 119th Brigade's combat power surged for a while and the Japanese army's previous military deployment was blocked. The Japanese army was a little overwhelmed in the face of the new equipment of **. The three-day battle actually lost more than 2,000 people, and the flanking encirclement plan failed.

During these three days, the 19th Route Army continued to obtain more weapons and equipment from the Tang Dynasty. With the arrival of 18 Tang-made 155mm heavy howitzers, the firepower of the artillery brigade of the 19th Route Army suddenly became quite powerful, and it caused heavy damage to the Japanese army on the front battlefield of Songhu.

Liu Zhanxiong, the commander of the 119th Brigade, couldn't help but sigh and praised in an interview with a reporter from Central News Agency: "The equipment provided by the Tang army to us is extremely advanced and completely suppressed the Japanese firepower. The first time we defended the Japanese army head-on, we blocked an elite division of the Japanese army with the strength of a brigade. The Tang-style infantry artillery we equipped can actually have a even-match artillery battle with the Japanese artillery regiment. This was absolutely unthinkable before."

For the next seven days, the Japanese army continued to adjust their tactics, but they could not do anything to the 19th Route Army. Although the 19th Route Army began to equip the advanced Tang Dynasty weapons, they were not too used to it. The ammunition was consumed too much, and the current air transportation capacity of the Tang Empire was still very limited, which limited the ** counterattack power.

In the street battle in Songhu, the ** soldiers took advantage of the Tang-made M1 submachine gun. Their suppression advantage over the Japanese 38 gun was even more obvious. However, the Japanese army also had air and maritime advantages, so the two sides were evenly matched overall. One position was fought back and forth hundreds of times, most of which were the Japanese army seized the positions by aircraft advantages during the day, and at night, they regained the firepower advantage of Tang-made equipment, and the fronts of both sides were basically stabilized.

For **, they could afford to use it. They stabilized the Battle of Songhu and waited for the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group to arrive and gained the advantage of sea and air. ** would counterattack on the whole line.

For the Japanese army, they were completely collapsed, and even a draw meant that they had failed on the battlefield in the Songhu battlefield.

On April 18, during the passage of the Taiwan Strait, the Tang army dispatched a large number of carrier-based fighters and carrier-based bombers to launch an attack on important facilities such as Japanese bases and ports on the Penghu Islands.

This move was intended to test the Japanese army's defense. As expected, the Japanese army dispatched a large number of land-based fighter jets to intercept, and fierce air combat broke out again in Tang Ri.

As the Japanese Naval Air Force was wiped out, the Japanese Army Air Force became the last straw for the Japanese army. In order to prepare for combat against China, the Japanese army increased the production of combat aircraft in total, with a total of more than 1,000, but a large number of them were counterfeit goods. The equipped A-Term 3 and A-Term 4 fighters were both modeled after the fighter jets of the French Newport-Drager Aircraft Company. The prototype of the A-Term 3 Naka Mako-3 is Newport's subsequent Newport 24, but the Japanese were illegally pirated, and the later Nakajima A-Term 4 fighter (Naka Mako-4) belonged to the legal imitation of the Nid-29 authorized production.

As the Japanese's own fighter jet, Nakajima Jiuyi is the main force of the Japanese aviation army. In addition to equipting the 7.7mm machine gun and star engine designed and manufactured by the Japanese, it is very behind in other aspects of performance.

The various aircraft of Japanese Army Air Force are diverse, most of which are biplane screw fighters, and a small number of them have single-wing fixed landing gears. They represent the current mainstream metal-skinned fighters in the world that can be retracted and retracted landing gears.

It was too difficult to shoot down the thick-skinned Tang army fighter jets with a 7.7 mm caliber machine gun. The Japanese Army dispatched more than 500 aircraft to Taiwan to prevent the Tang army from suddenly attacking Taiwan. Regarding the detailed content of the battle report of the Tang army carrier-based aircraft, the Japanese Navy seemed to deliberately not tell the Japanese army, or had concealed it, causing the Japanese Army Air Force to dispatch more than 300 aircraft to fight more than 100 Tang army's Raptors. As a result, it was defeated in the battle over the Penghu Islands, losing 275 aircraft, and only 33 Japanese planes fled back to Taipei. A large number of elite Japanese pilots were killed, causing heavy losses to the Japanese Army Air Force.

This finally made the Japanese sober. The Tang army's aircraft were several levels ahead of the Japanese aircraft, and the two sides were not at the same level of strength. If the Japanese fighter was a boxing champion of 50 kilograms, then the Tang army fighter was a boxing champion of 100 kilograms, not a fight of strength. Obviously, the Japanese Army Aircraft was only eliminated by Ko. If the Japanese aviation pilots had relatively rich experience compared to the Tang army pilots before, then after the Pacific Majuro air battle, the Tang army pilots had accumulated a lot of practical experience, and had used the Japanese Navy aviation to understand the tactical actions of the Japanese aviation army. When the two sides met again, the Japanese Army Airlines naturally had to be beaten.

The Japanese Army Air Taiwan Theater Command immediately canceled the order to confront Tang army fighters head-on. The remaining less than 200 aircraft were not allowed to take the initiative to fight, but were on standby. Once the Tang army carried out landing operations, these aircraft would avoid Tang army aircraft and attack Tang army landing troops. This is the top priority.

However, the photos obtained by the Tang army's reconnaissance plane showed that the Japanese army strengthened the garrison forces in various regions of Taiwan, and it was no longer possible to raid Taiwan. Therefore, the Tang army received the order from Zhang Meng to temporarily cancel the plan to attack Taiwan and instead sweep the Japanese army in Shanghai first.

The Tang army seized air supremacy in the Taiwan Strait, allowing the Tang army aircraft carrier battle group to pass through the Taiwan Strait safely. Two days later, it appeared near the Zhoushan Islands southeast of the Yangtze River Estuary.

When news of the Tang army's aircraft carrier battle group reaching the Yangtze River estuary came out, the upper and lower levels were suddenly excited, and their morale was high, and they launched a fierce offensive against the Japanese army.

In order to preserve combat power, the Japanese Navy knew that it could not defeat the Tang army's aircraft carrier battle group, so he hurriedly drove away from the Yangtze River estuary and fled to Japan's mainland.

As a result, more than 60,000 elite Japanese troops were trapped on the battlefield in Songhu. The Japanese government was suddenly panicked. Army Minister Sadao Araki became a teenager overnight. If these 60,000 elite Japanese troops were wiped out, the attack on the Japanese army would be no less than that of the joint fleet.

The Inukai Tsubasa knew that Sadao Araki's last solution was to withdraw all the Japanese troops from the public concessions, but that would be too shameful. Japan was already extremely miserable at this moment. If there was another crushing defeat, the Japanese Empire's efforts and rise in the past few decades would be completely destroyed, and it became a third-rate military power in the world overnight, similar to Tsarist Russia after the Russo-Japanese War, which would be embarrassing to Mars.

The Inukai Yi's cabinet was eager to negotiate with the government, hoping that both sides would stop their troops and make peace. At the same time, it also hoped that Britain, France, the United States and other countries would intervene and mediate the Tang-Japanese War.

When Japan released the news of peace request, the National Government was very happy. The pro-Japanese factions advocated a ceasefire and peace talks. They had strong power, which made the National Government adopt it.

However, compared with the weakness of the National Government, the Tang Empire was much stronger.

After receiving the Japanese peace request from the Italian minister, Zhang Meng neither responded positively nor refused, but directly put it aside and continued to order the Tang army to launch military operations.

A discerning person could understand at a glance that Zhang Meng deliberately took this opportunity to delay, hoping to achieve greater results in the war against Japan. They shouted that Zhang Meng was too cunning and was a sinister strategist.

But Zhang Meng laughed at this. In the past, when the great powers and countries often adopted this deliberate procrastination strategy when they fought and talked with China. Now, Zhang Meng just used his own way to do it. These guys jumped out and called it insidious. It was really outrageous.

Zhang Meng didn't care. Everything was spoken by strength. This world was always within the range of cannons.

Fight! Fight hard!

Zhang Meng's order was directly transmitted to the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group. Li Haichen immediately made a comprehensive deployment and must wipe out the more than 60,000 Japanese troops in Shanghai. These Japanese were well-trained elite troops and would never allow them to return to Japan.

The 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army were forced to stop the attack, which made the Japanese army relieved and thought the war was over.

The Japanese government did not receive a response from Italy, nor did it know the idea of ​​the Tang Empire. In order to show sincerity, they strictly ordered the Japanese army not to actively send planes to attack the Tang Royal Navy, nor to attack the various units. They thought that a day or two might have a turnaround.

However, this was just wishful thinking from the Japanese, and the Tang army was stepping up tactical deployment.
Chapter completed!