Rebirth of the National Marshal

The troops on the front line have been waiting for reinforcements for who knows how long. For them, the Ministry of Military Affairs has given them only one answer, that is, there are not many reinforcements left. However, if they are not given more reinforcements up to now, the losses on the battlefield will be enough to destroy this infantry division. They now have less than two-thirds of their original troops left, but they have only been fighting for less than two days. At this rate, they will have basically nothing left of their troops in a week.

Saying that it will take a week is already very optimistic. In fact, according to the current rate of loss, it is estimated that it will only take a few days.

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"Hurry up and find someone to repair the telephone line, or go and ask what happened on the front line. The sound of this heavy artillery is definitely not ordinary artillery. I think it's their heavy artillery brigade, but according to our intelligence, there should be no heavy artillery brigade on the Battle of Shanghai. Could it be that something else happened on the front line, or have the Japanese warships come in again? Let's go and see what's going on. Otherwise, our losses will be great. These damn Japanese devils specifically blew up our telephone lines, and now all contact with the front line is cut off." Lu Jiasheng was very familiar with all the sounds on the front line. This sound had never appeared before.

"Division Commander, our scouts have come back to report that we have spotted Japanese destroyers in the Yangtze River. The artillery sounds just now were all 127mm artillery fired by those destroyers." After about ten minutes, the investigators here had received the intelligence. After sacrificing two scouts, they finally figured out what was going on. It turned out that the Japanese navy was coming again.

During the last battle, the Japanese navy had already joined the war, but because of the bombers here, all their warships withdrew from the Yangtze River waterway, because it was too dangerous here. The Japanese navy believed that sacrificing for some humble Japanese army was a very shameful act, and they were all noble navy and should not sacrifice for this.

In fact, the Japanese Navy was unwilling to come in this time because they knew how powerful the Chinese Air Force was. If they hadn't run fast last time, they would have suffered heavy losses here. A 500-kilogram bomb dropped on any warship except a battleship would be very fatal. Battleships are relatively thick-skinned and have no effect on such things. However, if they were hit too many times, the battleships would be finished.

The main reason why the Japanese Navy joined the war this time was because Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko stepped in. You may not give face to others, but if you don't give face to His Royal Highness the Prince, your life will be difficult in the future.

The Japanese Navy sent out three destroyers. If you want to let those heavy cruisers and battleships in, then don't mention this matter. Even if you are His Royal Highness, we dare not let them in. What if the Chinese carry out another aerial bombing? Will you reimburse the lost warships? Not to mention that you are a Prince, even His Majesty the Emperor dare not mention this matter.

The development of the navy is completely different from that of the army. For the army, it is very easy to quickly form an army as long as you have weapons and ammunition in your arsenal. As for the population, Japan is not very developed. However, the navy is completely different. It takes at least two years for a warship to be designed and manufactured, and then from debugging to arranging personnel for actual service.

Ordinary destroyers are slightly better, but if it is a heavy cruiser weighing tens of thousands of tons, it will require at least several hundred crew members, and training the crew is a very difficult problem.

The Japanese Navy also stated its own requirements. As long as you can be sure that the Chinese Air Force has no combat aircraft, or more precisely, no Stuka bombers, then our warships can enter the Yangtze River and go to where you want us to go and support your battle there.

When Prince Higashikuni Yasuhiko heard this, he was dumbfounded. How could he be sure of such a thing? We don't know how many planes the enemy has. Although we have air superiority now, as long as a dozen bombers fly out, it may pose a threat to the warship.

So the navy rejected your request. The navy still remembers the last situation clearly. They were happily bombarding the Chinese army on land, but suddenly more than a dozen Stuka bombers appeared in the sky. They will probably never forget the screaming sound of the planes, and they will also not forget the dozens of meters high water column caused by the 500-kilogram large bomb that fell and exploded.

If the Chinese pilots' skills had not been so poor, they would have suffered heavy losses that time. Even so, a heavy cruiser was damaged and a destroyer was sunk. Although the losses were not great, they had no idea how many such bombers the Chinese Air Force still had. The war had been going on for so long that even if the Chinese had bombers, they would have almost all been used up. But they still managed to get so many bombers, and it looked like their bombers were heading straight for the seaside.

After investigation by some spies from the Japanese Mei Agency, it was found that these bombers were all reserved for the navy. Although a lot of air support had been called for in the previous war on land, the top leaders of the party and the country did not send out these planes, in order to send them out when the Japanese navy was discovered.

The Japanese Navy went crazy when they heard the news. They never thought that there were such talents in the Chinese army. They actually saw a future direction and wanted to use bombers to deal with the navy. You know, this tactic is still not very popular in the world and there is not much market. There are also some people in their Imperial Navy who are studying such tactics, but so far there is no practical method. They didn't expect that there were such people in the Chinese army who had already researched it and almost used them as test subjects.