Chapter 138 Air Raid

Japan expressed its regret in a low-key manner about the strong protests of the German government. Japan is a naval power, but the army is second-rate compared to Germany. Germany's heavy machine guns and other weapons and equipment have not been popularized in the Japanese army. The Japanese army is still mainly rifles, and the light machine guns and artillery fire are not advanced. For the Qing New Army, their combat effectiveness is relatively strong, but for the German army, it seems insufficient. However, Germany's weakness is that their territory is far away from the Far East and cannot keep up during combat. This was fully reflected during World War I. At that time, Japan relied on the backward army's attack, which occupied Germany's sphere of influence in Shandong and took it for itself.

At this time, Japan obviously did not want to break up with Germany. They wanted to control the situation in China, and they also needed the cooperation of these great powers. If someone among them came out to make trouble, Japan's plan would likely go bankrupt. Therefore, the Japanese government immediately sent an envoy to express his sincere apology to Germany, saying that it was because it involved military secrets, so it did not notify Germany in time. It also claimed that after the situation in China was stable, the Japanese army immediately withdrew from Shandong and retreated to the Northeast to stabilize the Germans' sentiment. This move also worked quite well. The German troops in Shandong did not respond strongly except to strengthen their vigilance.

As for the Russians, the Japanese had already passed the rage. After intriguing bargaining, Japan promised that Russia had lost some of the interests that it lost during the Russo-Japanese War in the Northeast, and transferred the coal mining rights in several places such as Heilongjiang, Jilin and other places, and the railway construction rights, forcing Russia to collude with it, agreeing that the Qing emperor move the capital to Changchun, and the so-called Manchu Empire under the joint protection of Japan and Russia, was exactly the same as the Manchu Kingdom that Japan forced Puyi to establish in history. It was just that Puyi was only six years old at this time, and the people in power were Empress Dowager Longyu and Zaifeng and others.

The Chinese people were very indignant about the fact that the great powers wanted to dominate China's destiny, but they could do nothing. People from all over the country expressed their strong protests against Japan and Russia through newspapers and other media, but after talking nonsense, these two countries ignored it. In this world where the strong prey on the weak, there is no other factor that can influence others' ideas except strength.

On November 1, anti-Japanese demonstrations broke out on the streets of Shanghai, with as many as 10,000 people chanting slogans of Japanese devils getting out of China at Shilifang, Nanshi City and other places, and denounced the despicable actions of the Japanese.

The crowds in the march also shouted the slogans of overthrowing Yuan Shikai and the Qing emperor, venting their strong indignation for the two lackeys colluding with Japan and the ugly behavior of the Japanese selling their national sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Subsequently, large-scale demonstrations occurred in more than 30 cities including Nanjing, Guangzhou, Wuhan, etc. The demonstrators held up slogans and walked in the streets and alleys, calling on the Chinese people to unite and resist the invasion of imperialists such as Japan and North China, and calling on young people to actively join the army and defend national security. Representative figures from organizers from all over the country made generous speeches, conveying patriotic ideas to the people in a fierce manner, and calling on them to use practical actions to resist the invasion of Japanese imperialism.

All regions suddenly attracted a new climax of enlistment. The number of young people who signed up for the army in major cities increased dramatically, reaching more than ten times that of usual. Among these passionate young people, including young students from Tsinghua University, Peking University and domestic universities, Zhenhua Technical School even organized demonstrations in Shanghai for all teachers and students to participate in the demonstration activities.

There was a wave of donating money and materials in various places. The masses spontaneously organized themselves to donate materials and money to local armies such as Zhenguo Army to help the army expand its scale of purchasing weapons and equipment.

The wave of protests across the country took over, and marching people began to take to the streets in major cities such as Beijing and Tianjin in the north, but they were then forcibly suppressed by Yuan Shikai and the Japanese.

The Japanese continued to maintain their hypocritical face, claiming that the purpose of the Japanese army coming to China was to help China stabilize the situation, which was not the invasion that the world said. However, they used their guns and cannons to ruthlessly shoot the marchers in Zibo, Dezhou and other places in Shandong, creating the horrific Texas tragedy.

On November 2, more than 100 teachers and students from a school in Texas took to the streets and shouted the slogan of overthrowing Japanese imperialism. When they arrived at the entrance of a Japanese military camp in Texas, they were violently fired by machine guns set up by the Japanese army at the door, killing more than 30 teachers and students on the spot and injured more than 50 others.

This move ushered in a slander and demonstrations in the country to denounce Japanese imperialism. Since then, it has become even more intense. There have been incidents such as boycotting Japanese goods and smashing Japanese shops and factories run by Japanese people. Of course, there are also some people who are excessivelyhave. Several incidents of killing Japanese merchants and ordinary people have also occurred one after another, but they were eventually controlled.

The Japanese government issued an announcement on November 3, claiming that the outbreak of anti-Japanese demonstrations in China was an anti-Japanese act planned by the Nanjing Military Government and Li Tiancheng. It was an incident that seriously slandered the image of the Japanese. The Japanese government wanted to severely punish the Nanjing Military Government.

After adding this new excuse, the Japanese fleet's actions into the Shanghai waters became even more blatant. On November 4, more than 20 warships from the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet suddenly appeared on the East China Sea, preparing to sail into the inland river from the estuary of the Yangtze River and launch artillery bombardment on Shanghai.

Li Tiancheng believed that a strong response must be given to Japan's serious provocation. Li Tiancheng then convened an emergency military meeting and formulated a strike plan against the Japanese Corps in Shandong and the Navy fleet.

In the early morning of November 4th, the sun had just poked its head out of the clouds and poured a scorching glow on the earth.

On a mountain position on the Japanese defense line in Yucheng, Shandong, there is a Japanese brigade of about 600 troops stationed here. They are all stationed in the mountains and use a main peak at an altitude of 300 meters to conduct reconnaissance and monitoring the frontier activities of Jinan to prevent the Zhenguo Army from launching a sudden attack.

After the Japanese army established a post on this main peak, the vast area in the frontier of Jinan was under the surveillance of the Japanese army, and all actions on the surrounding flat land were clearly visible. It was almost impossible for the Zhenguo Army to launch an attack quietly.

But early in the morning of that day, two majestic figures suddenly appeared over the hidden mountains and forests, which were the Zhenguo Army's Flying Eagle One and Flying Eagle Two helicopters.

"Keep hidden from the Chinese plane." The Japanese sentry standing on the peak and observing with their sight glasses immediately issued a strong warning, and then sounded the alarm.

The Japanese troops stationed here were immediately alert, running around, and began to run in panic in various places. At the same time, they also moved out the ugly simple anti-aircraft cannons they invented and aimed at the sky.

At around 6:15, two helicopters broke into the Japanese position from a high altitude.

"Boom boom boom" The Japanese army's crappy anti-aircraft guns began to fire several shells at high altitude, but none of them could reach the height of a helicopter. The shells fell from the air and fell into the ground and exploded. One of them fell to a position and killed three Japanese soldiers.

"Hahaha, this kind of anti-aircraft gun has indeed played a role. If the enemy dares to enter low altitude and fire, it will not cause major casualties to our army. Their helicopters are just like this. When they encounter our Great Japanese Empire's army, they can only hide in the clouds." The Japanese magistrate stood in a bunker worth more than ten meters high, looking out to the sky through the window and found that two helicopters were just shuttled into the clouds and did not dare to fly into the low altitude. He immediately said with a smile.

"This is enough to show that the soldiers of our Great Japanese Empire are amazing. This little invention of the Chinese can only be used to deal with those unstoppable Qing soldiers and bandits, and it is useless to deal with the Japanese Imperial Army." A non-commissioned officer flattered him in a timely manner.

"If you have sex, come down. The timid Chinese people are like heroes hiding in the clouds." A team of Japanese soldiers ran to a mountain without restraint, raised their guns and shot several times, and waved their rifles in their hands excitedly and shouted loudly.

"Little Japan, don't be too happy too early." After shuttled back and forth at an altitude of two thousand meters and observing the firepower of the so-called anti-aircraft artillery of the Japanese army, platoon leader Luo Shaobin found that the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery was not too threatening at all. The density and accuracy of these anti-aircraft artillery were very low, and they could hardly hit the target of flying at high speed. Suddenly, a sharp look flashed in his eyes, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

When Luo Shaobin first discovered that the Japanese army was firing fires into the sky, he was really surprised. Now that the army of various countries has not yet appeared, the Japanese should not have such strength. Therefore, Luo Shaobin, who had planned to enter the combat state, decided to suspend the combat plan and let the helicopters hover at a high altitude to test the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery fire. In the end, he found that it did not meet the requirements of modern anti-aircraft artillery, which was a hundred thousand miles away. So he felt relieved and ordered the continued implementation of the combat plan, but to ensure safety, the helicopter kept flying at a height of 500 meters.

"Chinese people, get out of here and fight against the Imperial Japanese Army."

"The cowardly Chinese, come down and die."

The Japanese soldiers were still shouting below, as if the two helicopters of the Zhenguo Army had been frightened by their so-called anti-aircraft artillery fire and did not dare to come down to fight. Some of the Japanese soldiers hiding in the bunker also ran out to watch the fun.

"Bang" While a Japanese soldier standing on the rock roaring at the ghost above the sky was dancing excitedly, he suddenly saw a strong flame bursting out beside him. It was a ball of fire with hot and high temperature. The extremely dazzling light gradually expanded in his fearful pupils. Then the ruthless flames swept the Japanese soldier into the hot wave of fire. The excited ghost roar in his mouth was immediately replaced by a terrified scream, but he only screamed a few times and lost his intuition. The high temperature of the flame as high as hundreds of degrees in the center made him completely suffocate in just a few seconds, lost consciousness, and was ruthlessly swallowed by the flame...

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