The words of politicians have historically been unreliable, and whoever believes is a fool.

Zhang Zhizhong, the forward commander, submitted the following report to the Nanjing Military Commission: Annihilating more than 12,000 Japanese troops, including more than 7,600 in the active navy and army, and more than 5,000 volunteers formed by overseas Japanese, while Huaxia's own losses were extremely heavy, with 15,000 army casualties.

In addition, the casualties of the people were more than 7,600.

Lao Jiang and others saw this data, they really liked and saddened, during the 918 Incident, thousands of Japanese troops could occupy Shenyang, tens of thousands of Japanese troops could annex the three eastern provinces, and during the Battle of the Great Wall, hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops could not defeat tens of thousands of elite Japanese troops.

It's really incompetent, losing power and humiliating the country.

Now that he has finally raised his eyebrows, with only fifty or sixty thousand Huaxia troops, he was able to annihilate more than 10,000 Japanese troops, although it was a bit of luck, but it is beyond reproach that Huaxia has achieved a great victory, well, at least a complete victory in the stage.

It seems that the victory of the Anti-Japanese War is not too far away.

When this internal war report reached Major General Liu, he was also excited, history has changed, so he generously took out the ocean and legal currency, invited all the officers and soldiers in Wuhu Airport to drink, and threatened not to get drunk or return, but before the reception officially began, he was invited to drink tea by the military police in Nanjing.

Someone had to go to the confinement room to sober up.

To put the casualties of this battle to a small extent, Nanjing also has a hard time, one hopes that the Sino-Japanese war will be stopped, and it will not continue to expand, even if it really needs Huaxia to sacrifice a little national interests in exchange for peace between China and Japan, Lao Jiang and others are willing to do this, Huaxia is too weak.

Second, it is to give each other a step down, hoping that the hatred between China and Japan will not get deeper and deeper.

In the end, it is to give yourself a face, because only by saying that the enemy's losses are small, can you highlight that Huaxia's losses are small, and believe it or not depends on the IQ, anyway, the common people don't understand.

In general, in this battle to recover the Japanese concession, both China and Japan suffered heavy losses, but neither side was willing to break it.

Therefore, the Japanese army simply became a little more shameless, claiming that in the battle of Hongkou (where the Japanese army in Shanghai was located), the Japanese army had only more than 2,000 soldiers, plus more than 1,000 volunteers, and was besieged by more than 100,000 enemy troops until they ran out of ammunition and food, and had to accept the peace proposal of Britain and the United States.

The reason for the defeat at Hongkou was that Major General Okawa Neichuan Seven neglected his duty and even abandoned his troops privately and got drunk at a geisha house in Yokohama, while Vice Admiral Tanigawa Kiyoshi liked the navy too much and set up his headquarters on the aircraft carrier Longchamp, resulting in the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai being leaderless on the night of August 20.

Therefore, when the Chinese army launched a surprise attack, thousands of Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai were actually commanded by a Zhongzuo on the spot, and in the end, in order to cover the breakthrough of his subordinates and the safety of thousands of wounded, he had to stay behind the palace in person, and accepted the peace agreement of the Chinese army for the safety of women and children.

When he saw the report of the Japanese army, Liu Yicheng was also angry.

The Japanese devil's lies are simply unassailable, are these data wrong?

That's right.

Because the Japanese army was talking about the "Hongkou Battle", because on the eve of "the devil broke through bravely", there was indeed only this person.

It may be a translation error, translating "Hongkou Battle" into "Hongkou Battle".

Well, people who don't know the truth still think that the Japanese army only lost more than 3,000 people in the eight or nine days from August 13 to 21, and more than 100,000 Chinese soldiers attacked for nearly 10 days, and were bombed by Japanese planes and warships in turn, and the real losses must definitely be increased by one zero.

In the aftermath, whether it was the Chinese or the Japanese, it was absolutely impossible to find the data on the battles before 20 August, or to paraphrase the original words of a certain general, "we did not engage in battle on the 13th," or to give a large explanation of the air battle in Nanjing and the movement of Chinese and Japanese troops.

Well, many people still think that the battle in Hongkou, Shanghai, has been fought for nearly 10 days, and the enemy and us have lost 10 to 1.

Saliva is saliva after all, and it can't kill people.

With the end of the Hongkou War, the morale of the people of the whole China was boosted, and even the soldiers and civilians of the War of Resistance in North China were excited.

So far, the war in North China has been repeated.

The Hongkou victory led to the Chinese government's inexplicable expectations for "peace".

Since the July 7 Incident, Chiang Kai-shek and other dignitaries in Nanjing have summoned European and American ambassadors to China on several occasions, such as British Ambassador to China Jackson Hueson, American Ambassador Jensen, German Ambassador Todman, Italian Ambassador Collet, Soviet Ambassador Pogmolov, and French Ambassador Nazia, hoping that they would represent the great powers and come forward to mediate or intervene in the war between China and Japan.

However, the Japanese Government is extremely arrogant and has publicly declared that it "does not welcome the mediation of any third country."

On July 26, 1937, Ambassador Todman told Chiang Kai-shek that "although Germany is willing to mediate, Japan has declared that it will not accept the intervention of a third country, so mediation will not be effective."

When Lao Chiang had no choice but to tell Ambassador Todman that if the Sino-Japanese war continued to develop, it would inevitably lead to a fundamental change in China's Sino-Soviet relations.

Lao Chiang had the intention of coercing Germany to mediate.

On July 28, Hitler instructed Dixon, the German ambassador to Japan, to solemnly warn the Japanese government that "I hope Japan will not escalate the Sino-Japanese conflict into war."

In the face of Germany's warning, the Japanese government resorted to the word "procrastination."

The Japanese reaffirmed each other's "Anti-Comintern Pact" and clarified their value to Germany, while at the same time accelerating their aggression against China, and also hinting to the Germans that the "Sino-Japanese conflict" would end soon, no more than three months.

Because the combat goal of the Japanese army was to defeat the Central Army of Lao Chiang in Nanjing.

In their view, as long as the Central Army was defeated, the bigwigs of the Nanking government, for the sake of their own rule and stability, had no choice but to compromise with Japanese imperialism, and even if the Soviet Red Army wanted to intervene, it would be too late.

When Shanghai Hongkou was recovered by the Chinese army, and the first phase of the Battle of Songhu ended, Germany realized that something was wrong, because the so-called Sino-Japanese conflict had already turned into a Sino-Japanese war, and it was a long-term war.

While Berlin was hesitating, another international event broke out.

On the afternoon of 21 August, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui and Soviet Ambassador to China Bogomolov signed the Sino-Soviet "Non-Aggression Pact" to make preliminary preparations for the Soviet Union's Chinese Volunteers to participate in the war.

In the same treaty, it was stipulated that "war shall be repudiated as a means of settling international disputes" and "it is agreed not to commit any form of aggression against one or more other States, either alone or in alliance with one or more other States".

"If one of the two Contracting Parties is invaded by one or more third Contracting Parties, the Contracting Parties agree that they shall not provide any assistance, directly or indirectly, to the third Contracting State, and shall not carry out any action or conclude any agreement for the entire duration of the conflict, so that the aggressor may use it to the detriment of the aggressor Contracting State (i.e., China and the Soviet Union shall not make peace with Japan and Germany on the way)."

The signing of this treaty was a great shock to both the German military and political circles.

It was an extremely heavy blow to the German Foreign Office, which caused many neutral doves in Germany to be greatly shaken, and Berlin quickly reacted by temporarily halting the supply of German arms to China and demanding that the foreign ministry adopt a clear pro-Japanese position.

Lao Chiang and others tried to explain to Berlin through diplomatic channels.

At the same time, due to the outbreak of war, Japan was in urgent need of economic benefits, and economic frictions with European and American countries intensified.

Even Germany's traditional trade in China was under attack from Japanese merchants, so the Germans fine-tuned their position and instructed German arms suppliers that they could continue to supply arms to China, but they would have to be transported by Danish cargo ships and transit through a British company in Singapore.

The Japanese devils, who are already crazy, how can they give up so well.

On the contrary, they accelerated the pace of landing in Shanghai, and even a lot of materials that were ready to be thrown into North China were also thrown into the Shanghai area.

Among the troops originally scheduled to land on 23 August, a standing division and a Taiwan brigade were temporarily added, and the Japanese naval fleet stationed in the Songhu area was also strengthened to a certain extent, and the modification of the existing Japanese fighters also accelerated the process on the timetable.

The Huaxia army also did not sleep.

Zhang Zhizhong's Ninth Group Army, Zhang Fakui's Eighth Group Army, Gu Zhutong's Fifth Group Army, Liu Jianxu's Tenth Group Army, and Chen Cheng's 15th Group Army have all accelerated their rest and reinforcements.

On 22 August, the Japanese reconnaissance planes that took off from Taiwan and aircraft carriers were unprecedentedly strengthened in terms of the number of sorties and the depth of their penetrations into the interior.

The only good news is that the air defense radar on Tiantai Mountain has been successfully placed.

The radar station's guards, numbering more than 50 people, and seven or eight other technical maintenance personnel, sent a telegram to the Nanjing headquarters every 15 minutes unless there were special circumstances.

At the same time, Major General Liu took the ant robot to comprehensively upgrade the existing Leopard fighters, and more than 200 Leopard II fighters shipped from the West Sichuan Aircraft Factory were gradually equipped with front-line troops.

Someone also secretly brought in fifty Flying Bear II bombers from western Sichuan.

After mixing with the original bomber group, there were nearly 100 medium bombers, and the ultimate target was the Japanese aircraft carrier.

The Flying Bear II bomber, derived from the Flying Bear II transport aircraft, has been redesigned by Willy Messerschmidt and has greatly improved various performance parameters.

Compared with the German Stuka dive bomber, the aircraft is not inferior, and through the help of Falkenhausen, even Stukka's active pilots were invited to conduct emergency training for the Chinese pilots, and it is said that the effect is still very good.

The Flying Bear II bomber, with a standard crew of 2 people, is 3.2 meters high, 12.8 meters long, has a wingspan of 15.2 meters, has an empty weight of 3.8 tons, and a maximum take-off weight of 6.8 tons, is equipped with two star engines, with a power output of 2×1200 horsepower, a maximum level flight speed of 536 km, a cruising speed of 276 km, a flight radius of 2800 km, a theoretical ceiling of 1200 meters, a climb rate of 6 meters per second, equipped with six 12.7 mm machine guns, and 2×750 kg of aerial bombs can be lifted in the lower part of the wing.

Compared to the propeller era, the Flying Bear II was a high-altitude and high-speed bomber.

When the bomb was not planted, it was also customary to let it work part-time as a high-altitude reconnaissance plane, so there were 16 Flying Bear reconnaissance planes at Wuhu Airport, which rose about every two hours to reconnoiter the southeast of Zhejiang and the northeast of Shanghai.

At dawn on August 23, the Japanese launched a landing operation.

Led by battleships such as Mutsu and Nagato, the combined fleet of the Japanese army carried out large-scale artillery bombardment of the Chinese positions in the Songhu area, such as Shishilin, Chuanshakou, and Zhanghuabang, and did its best to clear the obstacles and light and dark fortifications for the army's landing beachhead.

Subsequently, more than 100 Type 96 warships were taken off from a dry aircraft carrier to provide necessary air cover for the more than 200 Type 96 land attack planes that took off from Japan's Kyushu, Korea's Jeju, and Taiwan's Songshan airfields, so that the land attack aircraft group could launch an attack on the landing's deep and important points.

With the indiscriminate bombardment of Japanese naval guns and enemy aircraft, it marked the second stage of the Battle of Songhu - the full-scale landing of the Japanese army in Songhu, which kicked off, and in the face of many 300 mm and 400 mm naval guns, the Chinese Army had no power to fight back.

Only the Air Force can still think of something.