The Type 96 ship explosion was a cutting-edge torpedo attack aircraft on a Japanese aircraft carrier.

The fighter has a wingspan of 15.0 meters, a total length of 10.2 meters, a height of 4.4 meters, an engine power of 700 horsepower, a crew of 3 fighters, an empty weight of 1.9 tons, can be loaded with 1.7 tons of fuel ammunition, a maximum speed of 277 kilometers, a minimum speed of 92.6 kilometers, an altitude of 7000 meters, a maximum range of 1580 kilometers, equipped with two 7.7 mm machine guns, carrying a 500 kg bomb, or the latest torpedo.

Anyone who knows about naval equipment knows that these dozens of white waves are dozens of torpedoes.

Not to mention the thin-skinned transport ships, even battleships and aircraft carriers, which are known for their thick skins, cannot withstand the blows of a few torpedoes, and once they face a close-range attack of dozens of torpedoes, most of them will be dead and dead.

The Japanese soldiers on the transport ship were all frightened.

Ignoring the malice of the sea, they jumped off the warship and fell into the sea as if they were dumplings in boiling water.

Unfortunately, it was still late, and dozens of torpedoes quickly hit the transport ship.

In less than ten minutes, the transport ship of nearly 10,000 tons sank to the bottom of the sea, and the large whirlpool formed by it, along with the soldiers who were desperately paddling away from it, were also pulled into hell.

Seeing the sinking of the transport ship, the pilots on both sides breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as the other party doesn't get it, it's the biggest good thing, just shoot it off, but like the Japanese devils are so vicious, they will kill their own nearly 2,000 lives, and the Chinese soldiers still can't do it, but the Japanese fighters themselves are willing to do this, and they naturally have nothing to say.

The damned are also dead.

The enemy and our fighters both calculated that it would be difficult to eat each other, so they performed a stunt "very friendly" with each other.

The fighter plane was like a fan fanning a mosquito, flapping its wings, and then like a medieval knight, it flew out of a "big figure 8", indicating to the other party that its flying skills were very good.

Nanjing was out of humanitarian considerations, and contacted the Japanese consul general in Shanghai, Okamoto Jimasa, asking the other side to quickly rescue the Japanese soldiers who had fallen into the water, and Huaxia promised not to launch an attack during the rescue period.

Then something strange happened.

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Japanese army units continued to face each other with guns and bayonets in the Wusongkou area, and fought bloody battles to the death for the final victory, while in the areas of the Hangzhou Bay and Pudong landings, the Chinese and Japanese navies worked together to actively rescue the wounded and survivors who were shipwrecked at sea.

There are many Chinese soldiers who do not understand this, since everyone is an enemy, why do they still help each other to save people, in their opinion, "only dead Japanese devils are good devils".

The ordinary officers in Huaxia couldn't explain it, so they had to say it according to their own understanding.

"Tut, look at how many Japanese devils have died in the past few days? If there are not 10,000, there are 8 or 9,000, if the Japanese devils sue us in The Hague Tribunal and say that we are engaged in a massacre, then how will we get it? ”

The real situation, although not in the middle, is not far away.

In the landing operation on 29 August, the total number of Japanese casualties was more than 10,000, and almost all the newly transported equipment fell into the sea, except for those who were hastily transported away by the warships, and finally about 35,000 Japanese troops were sheltered by their accomplices on land.

This landing operation not only did not play a positive role in the trapped Japanese army, but on the contrary, it plunged the 70,000 or 80,000 Japanese troops in Wusongkou into deep despair.

Fortunately, the Chinese artillery once again exhausted the heavy artillery shells during the bold early morning shelling, which can be regarded as a consolation prize in misfortune.

However, for the Japanese army, the most painful thing was not the loss of soldiers, but the sinking of three large transport ships, which was really heartbreaking.

Because Japan is an island country, for them, warships are the lifeline, once there is a problem of damage, it is equivalent to asking for their old lives, but for submarines is hated to the bone, and they are afraid of it, and this fight is a painful lesson.

The patrol line of the Japanese ships retreated again.

However, China's efforts to help the Japanese rescue the wounded and survivors in carrying forward the humanitarian spirit have been greatly appreciated by the societies of Europe and the United States.

They believed that China was worthy of being a kind and civilized ancient country, and that it was the ideal place for the spread of modern Western civilization, so they called on all governments to mediate for the Sino-Japanese war, and that such a civilized country should not be invaded by some barbarians.

At the beginning of September 1937, Britain, France, the United States, the Soviet Union, Germany, and other European and American powers once again issued a warning to the Japanese government, demanding that they immediately stop all military conflicts with the Chinese authorities, and that no matter what contradictions they have, they can be resolved peacefully.

The cunning of the Japanese army is well known to the world.

On the one hand, they were in a position of coy, hypocrisy and snakes with the foreign powers, and on the other hand, under the guise of peace, they secretly and continuously replenished the Japanese troops in the Wusongkou area.

During the more than ten days of fighting, Huaxia itself suffered heavy losses.

All kinds of new fighters were almost completely lost, and if it were not for the urgent transfer of nearly 100 fighters from western Sichuan, I am afraid that the Japanese army would have seen the truth long ago.

However, what makes the Chinese military and civilians most distressed is that our senior pilots have lost more than half of their lives, and they have basically lost the possibility of fighting again, and as for the foreign pilots recruited from the United States, they still need a certain buffer time before they can take up their posts.

Therefore, the Nanjing Nationalist Government had no choice but to seconded some senior pilots to powerful factions (warlords) in various localities to defend air supremacy over Songhu.

In addition to the serious damage to the combat strength of the air force, many German armor divisions that charged at the front line have long been completely damaged.

In the past 20 days of fighting, the total number of casualties of our army exceeded more than 60,000.

As for the central part of Zhang Zhi, which was the first to participate in the war, he was even more exhausted, and the officers and soldiers of the department had already undergone three large-scale replenishments, if it were not for Zhang Fakui, Gu Zhutong, Chen Cheng and other main forces, who came up in time, more than 100,000 elite Japanese troops would have already broken through the defense line of Wusongkou and approached the downtown area of Shanghai.

At the same time, the successive large-scale bloody battles made Lao Jiang, He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi and others realize a fatal problem.

That is, since 1931, although China has been secretly preparing for war, it is still not ready, whether it is the air force, navy, or army, it seems too hasty, even a little pale, especially in pilot training, aircraft reserves, and military production and other things.

The inferior shells of the Jinling Arsenal almost didn't rush out of Lao Jiang's heart attack.

Later, on August 23, the tragic consequences of the decisive battle between the Chinese and Japanese air forces scared Lao Jiang even more.

Fortunately, the Japanese devils are also afraid of beating wolves with hemp sticks, and they can't figure out the true bottom fire of Huaxia for a while, and they don't dare to press their old roots at one time, otherwise it will be difficult to say the evolution of the Songhu war.

On August 30, 1937, in view of the further setback of the Battle of Shanghai, Japan's wartime cabinet unanimously approved the "Outline for the Implementation of the General Mobilization of the National Spirit."

The outline ordered "all of Japan and its colonies, such as the Ryukyus, Korea, Taiwan, and the puppet state of Manchukuo, to move into a wartime system," and decided to conscript millions of troops again, and to make China bow its noble head and surrender to the Japanese Empire.

On August 31, the Japanese army headquarters officially ordered the formation of the North China Operational Front.

The commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in North China was General Terauchi Shouyi, and the front army had two armies, including the First Army (Commander Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji), which had the 6th, 14th, and 20th Divisions, and the 2nd Army (Commander Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo), which had the 4th, 16th, and 108th Divisions under its jurisdiction.

In addition, there are a number of units directly under the jurisdiction of the front army, such as the 5th and 109th Divisions, the mixed brigades of the Chinese garrison in Tun, and the Provisional Aviation Flying Corps.

At the beginning of the establishment of the North China Front Army in the base camp of the Japanese army, the combat mission was clearly issued, that is, to occupy and consolidate Pingjin and nearby important areas, and to annihilate the main force of the Huaxia Army in central Hebei, so that the Japanese army could quickly occupy North China and other places, and the operational area of the front army included Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan, as well as parts of Suiyuan, Chahar, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, and other provinces.

On September 5, Japanese Prime Minister Fumima Konoe believed that the Imperial Army had suffered repeated setbacks in the past two months of fighting because the Japanese Empire was too benevolent, so he issued a statement that he would "abandon the previous policy of non-expansion and take comprehensive and severe military action against China."

At the same time, the Japanese wartime government believed that in order to force the Nationalist Government in Nanjing to surrender, it was necessary to strengthen the Japanese army's operations in Central China, and that the center of operations in the future would be shifted from North China to Central China.

In order to ensure victory in Central China, the Japanese army immediately formed the second echelon of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, consisting of the 13th, 16th and 101st Divisions, and the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, with a total strength of more than 100,000.

The "declaration of war" of the Japanese devils shocked the whole world.

Britain, France, the United States, the Soviet Union and other Western powers had no choice but to declare that mediation had failed, but they condemned the Japanese army's military action, but since China and Japan did not declare war, they had to acquiesce to the Japanese to continue to buy strategic materials such as rubber, steel, oil, and aircraft engines, which were in short supply.

With the arrival of large-scale reinforcements from the Japanese army, Nanjing was overwhelmed.

The Nanjing Military Commission organized the elite troops sent from various places, such as Liao Lei's (Gui Department's) 19th Group Army and other units, into in-depth defense units, and Xue Yue's 19th Group Army into a mobile corps in the Songhu battlefield.

It is worth mentioning that Commander Liu's anti-Japanese advance group.

Because of their small number, except for the occasional transfer of technical troops, the rest were included in the reserve corps in Nanjing by Lao Chiang, but the aircraft and artillery produced in western Sichuan are completely famous, even in Europe and the United States and other places, they are also famous.

The Flying Leopard (Leopard II) and the Flying Bear fighters, not to mention the interest of Britain, France, the United States and other countries, even Germany was surprised, even if they got the earliest design drawings.

Therefore, Ambassador to China Todman secretly expressed on several occasions that he hoped to get the prototypes of these two fighters, and Berlin would sell a batch of submarines to Huaxia at a low price, which was an upgraded version of the Japanese transport ship that attacked on August 29, the Type II.C submarine.

Type II.C submarines, compared with Type II.B submarines, are not advanced to anything, in addition to the displacement increased by a few tons, that is, the power of the electric motor has increased by dozens of horsepower, the underwater speed has reached 7.5 knots, especially the underwater endurance has reached 56 nautical miles.

Whether it's attacking or retreating, it's a lot safer.

Lao Jiang and others had already tasted the sweetness of submarine warfare, so they naturally responded to their requests, and sent a flying leopard and a flying bear each to the fart, so the Germans immediately sent it back to Berlin through ocean-going submarines, and the reward was 16 Type II.C submarines and the German submarine tactical instructors secretly sent.

With the spread of militarism in Japan, especially after entering the wartime system in August 1937, their thirst for wealth reached a terrifying level, and they almost openly robbed them as pirates.

In September 1937, Japan's trade war with the United States reached a new stage.

In order to make high profits, Japanese businessmen went so far as to label Japan's exports as "Made in the USA" and dump all kinds of Japanese-made products into overseas markets in Latin America and other places.

What's even more immoral is that the Japanese still know that they can't eat alone.

They even colluded with German businessmen to distribute "private label business" together, without taking the United States of America into account at all.

The reason why Japan engages in "OEM business" is that it hopes to establish a new "trade order."

One is to break the trade policy of Colombia, Argentina and Brazil, which maintain a balance in imports and exports to Japan.

The second is to level the reputation of products from the United States and other European and American countries.

Because these Japanese goods that flood the Latin American market are, in general, some inferior goods, when they are labeled in the United States, because of the lower labor costs in Japan, the price is naturally lower than that of American goods, so the profit is a little greater.

What's worse is that the locals still think that these inferior products are from the United States.