Chapter 51: A-Class War Criminal Terayama Toshiichi (Giving New Year's Greetings)

  The fighter jet soared to the end of the airport runway with a large angle of ascent, then quickly rushed into the clouds. Sun Yixuan's superb driving skills surprised everyone. Sun Yixuan flew the 97-style fighter jet in a circle above Yangcheng Airport, saw that the oil gauge showed that all fuel tanks were full, and couldn't help but smile. Since he had started playing, he might as well play it to the fullest!

  The plane flew its last circle at Yangcheng Airport and then turned its head, flying straight towards Xuzhou.

  The loud roar of the huge plane caused a commotion in Xuzhou City, and the piercing air raid sirens had already sounded from the 97-style fighter jets as they entered Xuzhou City. All children and elderly people left their homes and frantically ran to nearby air-raid shelters.

  At this time, the commander of the North China Front Army, Teshima Sakae, was anxiously waiting for something in Xuzhou's command post, two days after sending out planes and still having no news from Yangcheng. The 25 planes and transport teams sent out seemed to have vanished into thin air, such an extraordinary thing, as a general of the army, he had almost never encountered before.

  "Report to the General, we've lost contact with Yangcheng Airport! We can't get in touch with Major Qingteng Yimutu. Their wireless signal has vanished into thin air." A communications soldier rushed anxiously to Temple's side, as a wireless radio operator, this was the first time he had encountered such a sudden loss of signal.

  "Bang!" Shou Yi slapped the table heavily in the temple, furious: "Twenty-five of the Empire's most advanced fighter planes, more than thirty German high-caliber artillery pieces just disappeared like this? Who can give me a perfect explanation? Looking around Xuzhou, do you still dare to say that our army has completely occupied this place?"

  Inside the combat room, apart from Terayama Toshiichi and the radio operator, there were over a dozen people standing solemnly in front of the table, with the lowest rank being lieutenant commander. Over a dozen young officers stood motionless in the combat room, their faces gloomy, knowing that if they made even the slightest mistake, not only would they lose their command, but also their lives, all with just one word from Terayama Toshiichi.

  Terauchi Hisaichi took a deep breath and looked at the dozen or so young commanders in front of him, asking: "Who among you is most familiar with the defensive forces around Yang City? I want to understand all the situations around and even inside Yang City." As an army general, Terauchi Hisaichi knew that knowing oneself and knowing one's enemy would lead to victory in every battle. In his heart, he had already sensed a sinister force spreading.

  "Hai! General, we once had over two thousand men buried in this small city of Yangcheng!" said a man wearing the rank badge of a Da Xiao.

  "Continue!" Temple Saito looked at the major who was speaking, and such a big thing happened in Yang City, how could he not know anything about it? As the commander-in-chief of the North China Military Region, he didn't even know that something so big had happened, and he couldn't help but feel a little ashamed.

  The major continued: "Yangcheng is a town with great strategic significance, and our arsenal was established in this small town. Because the town runs through the Tianjin-Pukou Railway, the arsenal can play a vital role in supporting our front line from here. Headquarters attaches great importance to this city, and when we implemented the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Plan in the Great Japanese Empire, we dispatched an elite brigade led by General Qingteng Yimutu to garrison the town. The town has played a huge role in supporting our firepower on the front line, and for a long time, the main force of the Eighth Route Army, guerrilla troops, and the National Army have maintained a vigilant attitude towards Yangcheng, and Yangcheng has always been a town that the Chinese want to move but dare not. The major pointed to the place marked as the first line of heaven and continued: "When our army was ordered to build an airport in Yangcheng, the general headquarters increased the strength of General Qingteng Yimutu by one brigade to speed up the construction of the airport, which is the Yoshida Brigade!"

  "Unfortunately, the Yoshida detachment was ambushed by Chinese armed forces while supporting Yangcheng, and at the same time, the ammunition depot of Aofeng Yimutu also encountered an ambush by Chinese armed forces. The entire battle took the lives of over 2,000 people from the Yoshida detachment, with not a single survivor!" The major said, lowering his head.

  "Hakka, why didn't anyone report it? Why are you telling me about such an important thing only now?" The anger in Jiinai's heart was burning fiercely.

  "Hai, Commander Ichirou Kobayashi had questioned Aoi Itou before, but HQ issued a special order, making Aoi Itou responsible for completing the construction of Yangcheng Airport within two months and exempting him from all previous mistakes due to dereliction of duty. HQ has always regarded the construction of Yangcheng Airport as the top priority, and the annihilation of the Yoshida Unit was just that."

  "Headquarters......" Shūichi Kōka repeated the two words in his mind, as a general of the army, he had the right to know any decision made by headquarters, but this matter, he didn't have any news at all, thinking about it made him somewhat annoyed. "Order the scout troops to go to Yang City and find out what caused the radio station of Sei Tōmoku to be interrupted, report back to me immediately if anything happens!"

  "Roger!" A commander turned and walked out of the combat room.

  "Wooooo...". The piercing air raid siren echoed through the skies of Xuzhou. All the garrison troops in Xuzhou City seemed somewhat panicked and at a loss.

  "What's going on? Why did the air raid siren suddenly go off?" Temple Saito furrowed his brow as he heard the ear-piercing alarm. More than a dozen commanders looked out the window in confusion, since the Japanese army occupied Xuzhou, the air raid sirens had always been controlled by the Japanese. The military airport in Xuzhou had long been abandoned, and all anti-aircraft guns and planes had been relocated to Yangcheng. Although it was still unknown whether these planes had arrived at Yangcheng, at least there shouldn't be any Japanese planes appearing in the skies above Xuzhou.

  Terauchi Isamu drew a Browning pistol from his waist and was the first to leave the combat room. Several commanding officers followed immediately after, walking out behind him.

  Outside the command post, almost all machine guns were aimed at the sky, and all Japanese soldiers were looking for targets. The air raid warning was still ringing, but after a few seconds, the roar of the plane had already covered up the air raid warning, and the 97 fighter plane driven by Shan Yixuan flew low over the command post of the devils, all the devils looked at the whizzing plane, the familiar Japanese plane made them hesitant to shoot or not.

  Terauchi Jūichi adjusted the hat that had been blown askew by the passing plane, his brow furrowed in distaste. Looking at the familiar Imperial 97 fighter, Terauchi wondered what this meant. Weren't these the 97s sent to Yang City by Headquarters? How rude!

  The plane turned its head in the air and immediately accelerated again, diving down. Shan Yixuan looked at the Japanese holding machine guns but not daring to shoot, and had already guessed the enemy's concerns. Looking at the several Japanese military officers wearing large sergeant uniforms on the ground, Shan Yixuan couldn't help but wipe his eyes, damn it, Terauchi Jirō? This notorious killer made Shan Yixuan take a breath of cold air. This Japanese Class-A war criminal was actually staring at him so brazenly. Originally wanting to give the Japanese army a surprise, Shan Yixuan missed an excellent shooting opportunity due to his astonishment, and flew low over Terauchi Jirō's head again, this time he believed it, absolutely not mistaken or dizzy, he was absolutely the invasion leader Terauchi Jirō with Chinese blood on his hands.

  Recalling the Temple Suiichi he saw in history books, the executioner of Japan's invasion of China, a Class A war criminal in the Middle East court, Shan Yixuan felt some excitement and even more anger. The plane turned around again, and Shan Yixuan loaded bullets into the two machine guns, coldly saying: "I hope to end your life before the Battle of Xuzhou!" Temple Suiichi's appearance made Shan Yixuan full of doubts, his appearance hinted at the impending war, also the most tragic war in Chinese history, the Battle of Xuzhou. Shan Yixuan clearly remembered that the leaders of the main belligerents of the Battle of Xuzhou were Li Zongren, the commander-in-chief of China's Fifth War Zone, and Temple Suiichi, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese North China Front Army.

  That historically suspenseless war was won, but the Chinese war zone suffered 200,000 casualties as a result. In comparison with the Japanese army, the number of casualties on the Japanese side was significantly lower than that of China. The advanced weapons decided the fate of many Chinese compatriots.

  The fighter plane made two or three low-altitude passes without firing, which caused Terui and his soldiers to relax their vigilance. They thought it was either one of their own people playing a joke on them again or the plane had malfunctioned and couldn't land. At the moment when everyone's guns were put down, the fighter plane's stunning action shocked everyone. The aircraft cannon with 1000 rounds of powerful ammunition swept towards the Japanese army on the ground. When the devils who had just put down their machine guns raised their guns to shoot at the sky again, the caliber of the aircraft cannon did not give them a chance to counterattack. The roaring sound of the plane's engine and the "dada" crazy sound of the aircraft cannon made many Japanese soldiers fall into the blood pool every time it dived.

  Sitting on the plane, Wonhyuk finally felt the thrill of hunting in the air, a feeling that he had never experienced before and couldn't experience on land.

  "General, retreat! This is not our own people!" A major picked up a crooked handle from the ground, shooting and shouting at the same time.

  The sudden change of the fighter plane caught all the Japanese troops off guard, and Terui Toshiharu did not expect the machine guns on the plane to fire until he was escorted into a concrete-walled combat room, with cold sweat still hanging on his face. Due to the importance of Yangcun Airport, all the high-altitude cannons in Xuzhou were transported to Yangcun Airport, and the main reason for the Japanese devils' panic was that they had lost the protection of the anti-aircraft guns.

  "Hakka, hakka! What's going on?" Temple Suiyi pointed frantically at the window outside where the Type 97 fighter plane was still roaring. The imperial aircraft used to attack enemies had become a boss attacking its own people. The prestigious North China Military Command was being attacked by a single plane and didn't even have room to fight back.