Half an hour ago, the red telephone rang urgently.
In Mikawahara, a long convoy of armored vehicles, trucks, and horse-drawn carriages formed a long black dragon, marching on the dirt road between the fields.
The 1st Division's heavy strike regiment is actually a heavy mechanized unit composed of tanks and armored vehicles.
The regiment is the size of two ordinary regiments, with more than 8,000 soldiers and more than 600 tanks and armored vehicles.
It is a powerful and elite force that the Kansai Corps is proud of. It is one of the two armored forces that the Kansai Group has devoted its efforts to building and is known as the "Kansai's Fierce Tiger Shield."
The Japanese have always liked to use exaggerated words to describe famous people and things.
Although he was in command of the mechanized troops, Major General Takahashi Heiwei, deputy division commander and commander of the heavy strike regiment, liked to ride on a tall horse and move slowly with the team.
Although he had not yet received the order to start the war, Takahashi could no longer hold back. The heavy strike regiment was supposed to be an invincible force charging at the front. Today, as the deputy division commander, he ordered the heavy strike regiment to set off early and head towards the border of Honshu territory several hours earlier than scheduled.
Following beside him, also riding a tall horse, was the Chief of Staff Kameda Eiichiro.
In the jeep, which was deliberately kept slightly behind the two superiors, were the couple Asaba Nagamasa and Asaba Yoshiko.
Asaba Nagamasa was a big businessman in Kyoto. He once worked in the Northern Territory as the official merchant of the Lord of Yagido, helping Prime Minister Yamamoto Yu to collect intelligence in the Northern Territory.
However, its intelligence system has completely failed. Except for some spies who are still lurking deep in the sky, most of the intelligence teams have been gradually eliminated by the Security Council of the Principality of Montenegro as the Principality of Montenegro controlled most of the Northern Territory.
Even Shengjing is now completely controlled by the people of Zhongzhou.
The Asaba couple had to return home.
Fortunately, Prime Minister Yamamoto Yu's failure in the Northern Region was a systemic failure, so Asaba Nagamasa was not blamed.
But when Prime Minister Ashikaga successfully fled to Oku-etsu, Asaba Nagamasa was almost executed because Prime Minister Yamamoto suspected that Asaba Nagamasa might be involved in the escape of former Prime Minister Ashikaga. When former Prime Minister Ashikaga's son Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and his wife were released and expelled to the Northern Region, it was Asaba Nagamasa who mediated and said that he could help the kingdom's operations in the Northern Region. In the end, it didn't work.
Looking at it now, it has become the cause of the collusion between Prince of Kurosan Castle and former Prime Minister Ashikaga.
But Political Commissar Asano was indeed a powerful figure, and after many people pleaded for him, he was eventually released.
Now it can be considered that he has redeemed himself, because Asaba Nagamasa and his wife have a very good relationship with the Ishii family of Honshu, and Asaba Yoshiko is the goddaughter of the wife of the head of the Ishii family. Therefore, Asaba Nagamasa took the initiative to volunteer to persuade the Ishii family not to resist and make the Honshu Division unconditionally accept the reorganization of the Kansai Army.
Takahashi Beiwei always looked down upon businessmen. He glanced at the couple in the jeep and snorted again.
"General!" Chief of Staff Kameda pointed to the distant sky from his horse beside him, "Is that a fighter plane of the Montenegrins?"
The sky is clear and blue, and faintly, there seem to be some small black dots moving in the distant sky.
Takahashi Bei picked up the telescope hanging on his chest and looked in that direction. He snorted, "It's those annoying flies. Pass the order, spread out and be alert!"
After many dealings with the Montenegrin Air Force, we gradually became less afraid of them.
Especially for armored units, their bombing is not very effective. As long as the vehicles and personnel are dispersed, they will attack from a long distance and carry few ammunition, so they will withdraw after one round of attack.
Afterwards, the Montenegrin Air Force never harassed the positions of the Japanese armored forces again, probably because the distance was too far, the cost was too high, and the effect was too low.
Takahashi Heiwei gritted his teeth. Now that his own wing had left the main camp to attack Honshu, they were much closer to the Nakasu air force base in the south, so they were able to smell the scent of these nasty things.
The jeep of Asaba Nagamasa and his wife suddenly made a sharp turn and left the group and drove away into the distance.
Asaba Nagamasa was over seventy years old, but he was still strong and healthy. He was the driver himself and was steering the car hard.
Japanese tanks are generally small, have weak firepower and move slowly. Their advantage is that they have thick shells and are not very afraid of bomb attacks. But this is not the case with jeeps. If they are hit by bomb fragments, the couple may die.
The jeep left the team far behind and ran madly in the dry rice fields.
Asaba Yoshiko looked at her husband's desire to survive with a helpless look on her face, then turned to look at the black spots that were gradually approaching.
When I first met the Prince of Black Mountain Castle, did I ever think that this young man would have such potential
Unfortunately, Governor Zhang died, and the connection between him and the other side was cut off.
I don’t know where Erika is now.
The jeep suddenly got stuck and stopped. Asaba Nagamasa got out of the car hurriedly. "Let's hide over there!" Then he ran to a ditch under the ridge of the field.
In fact, since the armored unit is such a big target, the Montenegrin aircraft should not care about a jeep running far away and chase it to bomb it.
But it's better to be safe than sorry.
Asaba Yoshiko followed her husband and ran into the ditch, taking one step deep and one step shallow. Just as she lay down, the fighter planes of the Principality of Montenegro roared over.
"No, this plane is so big!" Asaba Nagamasa popped his head out of the ditch and looked at the Montenegrin fighter plane that was diving towards the armored convoy.
Before he finished speaking, the Montenegrin fighter planes had dived to a height of about one hundred meters, and bombs immediately rained down like raindrops.
Amidst the loud noise of "boom boom boom".
The tanks that were dispersing and avoiding the bomb immediately lay down as long as they were within the range of the bomb explosion. Some of them directly emitted thick black smoke, and some even caught fire after the explosion. It was probably the shrapnel that detonated the tank's fuel tank.
Asaba Nagamasa was stunned.
Under the bombing of these heavy aircraft and the strafing of machine guns, our tanks were like paper lakes.
Is it an aircraft specifically designed to deal with tanks
Asaba Nagamasa immediately realized this keenly.
Not far away, Takahashi Heibei, who was leisurely riding a tall horse in the fields, was shocked to see his own tanks and armored vehicles torn to pieces by the bombing of Montenegrin planes. His mind went blank.
Although he was riding alone in the rice field and was an obvious target, no planes flew over. Even the senior commanders and pilots of the Montenegrin Air Force thought it was not worth wasting any bombs.
…
The moment Yamamoto Yu hung up the phone, Lu Ming picked up a piece of paper on the table, which was densely covered with the brief parameters of the fighter plane.
The Destroyer 1 heavy attack aircraft has an empty weight of 4.8 tons, a take-off load of 6.5 tons, a length of 11.6 meters, a wingspan of 14.6 meters, and a height of 4.2 meters.
Driven by a single-piston three-blade propeller, it has a tandem two-seat closed cockpit and a liquid-cooled Everlasting III engine with a maximum power of 1,500 kilowatts.
Maximum speed: 420 kilometers per hour, maximum range: 810 kilometers.
Weapon system: twin 25mm cannons in the wings, 12.7mm revolving machine gun (rear cockpit).
The maximum bomb load is 800 kg, and the main bomb type is the Principality's "Armor Crusher" low-altitude armor-piercing projectile.
Lu Ming then handed the paper to a military officer beside him and said with a smile, "Let's wait and see the results of the battle."
Sanmai Company has naturally not been idle in recent years, and has made great progress in aircraft model improvements, special material experiments, engine research and development, etc.
Moreover, the new aircraft factory invested by Jiuzhou Group is already operating well in Montenegro. Jiuzhou Aircraft Manufacturing Company will form a healthy competition with Sanmai Company.
Even though the boss behind both of them is actually Lu Ming.
In addition, under the new circumstances, a confidential project department of Huaxia Technology's weapons laboratory in the East China Sea has also moved to Montenegro.
The main projects are the research and development of various aerial bombs and rockets, and there is also close cooperation with the Montenegrin Academy of Ordnance Science in the research and development of infantry weapons.
However, at the current stage of technological development, the steel torrent is naturally still the top priority.
The sudden emergence of the Air Force would be great if it could mislead potential powerful enemies and make them think that the Air Force could solve everything.
However, Jiuzhou Heavy Industries, a subsidiary of Jiuzhou Group, has also entered the fast lane in the research and development of tanks and various powerful artillery.
As for the investment in the aircraft industry, Sanmai has now entered the harvest stage. It has received a large number of orders, mainly from the Eastern Alliance, some autonomous provinces, and even from the imperial capital.
The Destroyer 1 heavy attack aircraft was developed based on Lu Ming's ideas. It is a ground attack aircraft. Of course, it can also fight against enemy fighter jets.
The Principality has temporarily ordered fifty of this type of attack aircraft, and will purchase the rest in large quantities after waiting for improved models. These fifty aircraft will serve as a trial run to establish a reputation, and when the improved models become popular, they will be sold back.
As of now, the three major allies, Ren Zhonglin, Qi Huaide and Han Renwang, all have the intention to purchase aircraft.
More than 30 early-model attack aircraft and bombers equipped by the Montenegrin Air Force will be sold to them, and their own air force will be equipped with the latest models.
The current situation in the Northern Territory is that they roughly occupy more than one-third of the territory's population.
In addition, there were four allied regimes: Ren Zhonglin, Qi Huaide, Han Renwang, and Miao Baifeng. However, Miao Baifeng only ruled a few areas around Anshan City and could not be compared with the other three regimes.
Han Renwang rose to prominence with the support of the Principality of Montenegro as the Principality of Montenegro wiped out Ma Quanyou's tribe on the grassland and the White Sea Kingdom split from the northern border by Chen Xingchang.
There were three major warlords: Ren Zhonglin, Qi Huaide and Han Renwang. Ren Zhonglin roughly occupied an entire province and was the most powerful.
Qi Huaide and Han Renwang, together they control one province, and their strengths are similar.
In the far northwest, there are still remnants of the An family, and in the far north, Liu Bangchang is still lingering.
The campaign to suppress bandits in the Baihai Sea is nearing its end. Once it is over, we will then sort out all the relationships involved.
Thinking about it, Lu Ming smiled and said, "Our Legion of Destruction is already on its way back, right?"
The biggest drawback of the Destroyer heavy attack aircraft is its insufficient endurance, with a maximum range of 810 kilometers.
The actual safe combat radius needs to take into account various unexpected situations, as well as the margin left in the fuel tank. Therefore, basically in conventional operations, 300 kilometers is considered as the combat radius, except for extreme situations.
This heavy attack aircraft, taking off from Naishan Airport, can only reach the southern part of the three territories in Gyeonggi Province and the southern part of the two southernmost territories in Kansai.
In the future, when we enter the era of air combat, it will be a powerful weapon to cooperate with the infantry to attack enemy positions, rather than long-range bombing.
In fact, for today's raid, even though Japan did not have an air force, we still dispatched fighter jets for escort. Every military operation of the air force, while achieving results, is more importantly a coordinated exercise, which is of great benefit to the growth of our own air force and maintaining a leading combat concept.
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Yamamoto Yu listened to the report from the red telephone with a gloomy face, slowly put the phone away, and remained silent for a long time.
He suddenly turned to look at Taro Ishii, and the fierce look in his eyes made Taro Ishii's heart jump.
"Taro, our Tiger Shield was bombed by the new aircraft of the Black Mountain Principality before it even entered Honshu, causing heavy losses."
Taro Ishii's heart was even more shocked, but he looked directly into Yamamoto's eyes without avoiding them.
Yamamoto Yu was silent for a long time, and finally waved his hand: "You have worked hard, go back!"
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as if they had been pardoned.
…
At the same time, in the unknown rice field area of Sanheyuan, the fleet of aircraft of the Black Mountain Principality had left.
There was a mess everywhere, with tanks belching smoke and all kinds of screams.
The convoy of trucks carrying ammunition was blown to pieces.
Asaba Nagamasa and Asaba Yoshiko climbed out of the ditch covered in mud. Looking at the tragic scene, they looked at each other.
As if they had telepathic connection, they all walked towards the intact jeep and returned to Kyoto. If they stayed here, Takahashi Heibei might get furious and take his anger out on them and their husbands.
But their hearts were filled with horror.
The Prince of Black Mountain seemed to have countless new weapons of war in his pocket. Every time he took out a new toy, it was chilling.
It is obvious that he will dominate the Northern Territory and become the king of the Northern Territory.
If I had known this would happen, when I first made friends with the Prince of Black Mountain Castle, he was just a small division commander. What if I had changed my strategy and become his real friend
Asaba Nagamasa sighed inwardly and started the car.