It can be said that from the beginning of the defeat of the Songhu battlefield, the Nanjing government was completely panicked, and Chiang Kai-shek finally made up his mind to move the capital to Wuhan at this time, but Nanjing, as the capital of a country, could not be said to withdraw without firing a shot, so he could only fight with the Japanese in Nanjing.

None of these generals of the Central Army are stupid, everyone can see that Nanjing is a dead land, and no one dares to accept this order from Lao Jiang, these people are either veterans of the party-state or the Whampoa family, even if they do not have the merit of "guarding the national capital", they will not worry about their future careers. Therefore, when Chiang Kai-shek went to great lengths to find a capable man among his many "students", it was inappropriate to point it to anyone.

Tang Shengzhi used to be a warlord in Hunan, when the Northern Expeditionary Army came, he defected and became a hero, at this time he was a second-class general of the National Army, his military rank was quite high, but he could only serve in any idle position in the Military Commission, he always hoped to have a chance to regain control of the army, although he was helpless to defend Nanjing, but in order to be able to increase his official rank, he boasted in front of Lao Jiang: "Swear to defend Nanjing City to the death." ”

It doesn't matter at this moment, Chiang Kai-shek was immediately "moved", he didn't expect Tang Shengzhi to come forward at this critical moment, and when he was about to appoint him as the commander of the Nanjing garrison, Tan Xiaolin also came to grab the post of commander of the Nanjing garrison, making Tang Shengzhi so angry that he was angry.

Lao Jiang finally waited for the general he wanted, and he also knew that the battle in Nanjing was very difficult, Tang Shengzhi dared to promise casually without thinking about it, and it was unreliable, Tan Xiaolin was different, although she was a woman, and officers at all levels of the Central Army also questioned her before the Shangsonghu battlefield, but the 6th Group Army rolled down in the blood and fire of Shanghai a few times, and no one dared to despise this female general who was not high-minded, and her military command ability was undoubted. In addition, another reason why Chiang Kai-shek trusted Tan Xiaolin more was that without Dongfang Yunming's acquiescence and support, Tan Xiaolin would never have taken the initiative to pick up the mess in Nanjing.

As the task of garrisoning Nanjing fell on Tan Xiaolin's shoulders, the top echelons of the entire Chinese army also carried out a large-scale "reshuffle" at the same time, and Chiang Kai-shek newly established the East China Theater Theater, conferred the post of commander of the theater and the rank of army general, and also conferred the post of vice chairman of the "Wartime Supreme Military Committee" on Dongfang Yunming, and promoted Dongfang Yunming's military rank to the rank of first-class general of the Air Force of the National Revolutionary Army.

In accordance with the suggestions of Soong Ching-ling and Li Jishen, Dongfang Yunming also announced the abolition of the name of the Southwest Democratic United Army in order to better integrate the anti-Japanese armed forces throughout the country, and all the original units of the Southwest Army were merged into the National Revolutionary Army and were all subject to the command of the Supreme Military Commission in wartime, and the air defense units under the Air Defense Committee organized by Soong Meiling, Zhou Zhirou, and others were merged into the Air Force, and the Air Defense Committee was abolished, Soong Meiling no longer held any position in the army, and Zhou Zhirou was reappointed as deputy commander-in-chief of the Air Force.

The Southwest Special Administrative Region was abolished at the same time as the Southwest Army, and the Southwest Special Administrative Region was abolished and replaced by the Southwest Administrative Office, with Li Jishen, director of the Executive Office, and the Southwest Administrative Office having jurisdiction over the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Myanmar, and Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Ningxia regions were also subordinate to the Northwest Administrative Bureau, with Yang Hucheng, director of the administrative office, and Ma Zhongying, deputy director. In addition, in accordance with the principle of regional ethnic autonomy as stipulated in the resolution of the Executive Yuan, the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Xinjiang Autonomous Region were established, with the 9th Panchen Lama Erdeni Quji Nyima and Sheng Shicai serving as chief officials respectively. However, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Ninth Panchen Lama is inclined to the southwest office, and the orders of the central government can not be heard, only the words of Dongfang Yunming, Li Jishen, Song Qingling, and Ye Gongjian will work, not to mention Sheng Shicai, he wants to be his "king of Xinjiang" with all his heart, whether it is Nanjing, Yan'an, or Chengdu, he will not listen to anything that does not suit his appetite. The former Foreign Affairs Department of the Southwest Special Administrative Region was merged into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, and Soong Ching-ling concurrently served as Vice President of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

This large-scale change in China's military and political organs has certainly brought a lot of confusion and trouble, but it should be said that it is quite beneficial to the long-term future of the anti-Japanese national united front; according to the original pattern, the Southwest Army is well-equipped, well-trained, and has strong combat effectiveness, but its geographical location is in the rear, and it is necessary to go to the front line through long-distance transportation by railway and the Yangtze River, and it is also necessary to guard against the Central Army's red eyes and black those advanced weapons and equipment, and the Central Army and various local warlords are also guarding against the Southwest Army in every way. I'm afraid that such a tiger and wolf army will occupy their own territory and not leave.

The major reshuffle of the military and political leaders made Tan Xiaolin, the commander of the East China Theater who was born in the Southwest Army, have no worries about the future, and let go of his hands and feet to slowly dig a hole for the Japanese army that invaded Nanjing.

The original 6th Group Army of the Southwest Army fought the Songhu battlefield, the casualties reached 50% (most of the lightly wounded), after Nanjing's rest, the return of the lightly wounded, and the transfer of the Army Aviation Brigade, the number was almost only 30,000, and the next fierce battle, in order to ensure the basic combat effectiveness of the troops, Tan Xiaolin decided not to replenish new recruits to the group army for the time being, but to reduce the group army to the army, the number approved by the Military Commission - the 78th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, Yang Hanyu, the original deputy commander of the group army and commander of the 28th Army, was reappointed as the commander of the 78th Army, and Liu Yuanxuan, the former commander of the 68th Division of the Southwest Army, was promoted to the deputy commander of the 78th Army. In addition, Sun Liren, acting commander of the 22nd Group Army (formerly the 8th Group Army in Southwest China), was appointed as deputy commander of the East China Theater.

As for the chief of staff of the theater, General Zhang Zhizhong, this is really a big surprise, and Lao Jiang really can't hold it on his face, so many second-level generals and first-class generals of the Central Army dare not serve as the military chief of the theater, and as a result, the chief and deputy military commanders of the theater are all topped by the Southwest Army, and the image of the Southwest Army has once again risen to a higher height in the minds of the people of Nanjing, and the Central Army has almost become a cowardly and cowardly representative, Zhang Zhizhong, as the chief of education of the Central Military Academy, whether it is for the spirit of Whampoa or for the face of President Chiang, He chose to come forward, just as he could also learn the strategy and tactics of the Southwest Army.

The little devils did not stop their aggression because of the changes in China's military and political organs, but accelerated the pace of advancing to Nanjing by taking advantage of the relocation of the capital and chaos, and the air contest between the two sides kicked off the tragic Battle of Nanjing.

Since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, the whole country has carried out a general mobilization, and the standing airports in Nanjing, Hangzhou, Hefei and other places lacked radar systems, and the air force has been rapidly replenishing and building. The Battle of Songhu ended, and the ground radar system in East China was basically completed, so at this time, the little devil always felt that something was wrong, every time a large group of aircraft attacked Nanjing, the Chinese Air Force would have several ZQ-4 echelons waiting to intercept on the halfway, and the Japanese Army launched five large-scale air raids on Nanjing from Shanghai, but none of them succeeded, but was shot down more than 20 97 heavy explosions and more than 30 96 land attacks.

The successive failures once made Matsui Ishine suspect that there was an internal ghost in the Chinese Dispatch Army Command, and asked Kenji Dohihara's secret service to assist in the investigation, and Tohihara was from North China and assigned Tanaka Takayoshi as the head of the Shanghai Special High School to investigate the matter with full authority. However, Takayoshi Tanaka is the inner ghost of the plum blossom internal guard lurking in the special high school, not to mention that there are no intelligence personnel in the headquarters of the Chinese dispatch army, even if there is, Takayoshi Tanaka's investigation will inevitably be fruitless......

In the end, it was the Japanese Navy that gave Matsui Ishine the correct answer: the Chinese used the "radio wave detector" at the airport. This answer was deduced by the commander of the Kisarazu Air Force of the Japanese Navy stationed in Shanghai, Calais Zhinan, those generals of the Japanese army are more rigid than one another, the navy is a little better than the army, at least there are long-term generals like Yamamoto Isoroku, and Kalai Daisa of the Kisarazu Air Force is also a well-informed and forward-thinking officer, he prefers those novelty things in Western countries, radar is one of them, but in Japanese, the name of radar is "radio wave detector", Matsushita Electric Company also has research on this thing, but the Japanese military top brass is not interested in this kind of new thing that is not very reliable, and Matsushita Electric has to bear all the development costs by itself, and the progress is slow, and it is impossible to come up with samples that can convince the military to pay for it.

At first, Calait-Chennan did not think that it was a problem with radar, and the army failed several air raids, which caused the navy to ridicule, and the Japanese Navy's supreme commander in China, Vice Admiral Shizue Tsuda, instructed the Kisarazu Air Force to show the army a group of turtles what efficiency is, and Calait-Chenan did not think much about it, and sent more than 40 twin-engine land-based bombers, and more than 20 zero-combat escort aircraft attacked Nanjing, but were intercepted by more than 100 fighters of the Chinese Air Force, not only ZQ-4, but also the lighter and more agile ZQ-3.

The two Chinese Air Force fighters have a clear division of labor, the ZQ-4 first dives down from a high altitude, regardless of the escort Zero, and directly attacks the clumsy bombers, and when the Zero fleet begins to attack the ZQ-4, the ZQ-3 kills from the side and clears the tail for the ZQ-4 echelon. Seeing that the situation was not good, Calais quickly ordered the bombers to drop their ammunition and return at full speed, and the pilots of the 20 Zeros used all their resources to protect the bomber group and withdraw to Shanghai.

After this battle, Calais Daisa linked several previous interceptions of the Army Air Force with the encounters of the Naval Aviation, and concluded that the Chinese must have some new type of detection equipment that can identify large groups of aircraft in the air outside the range of visual observation, not because the spies leaked intelligence, because the Army and Navy are two completely independent systems, even Admiral Matsui Ishone, there is no way to know the movements of the Kisarazu Air Force, but the Chinese fighters are as accurate as ever blocking the route.

Calais reported his speculation to Shizue Tsuda, but was reprimanded by Tsuda, believing that he was shirking responsibility. Calais had no choice but to simply cross the headquarters of the Chinese detachment and report to the commander of the Combined Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto.

Yamamoto took this very seriously, and immediately sent someone to consult with a professor from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and a technician from Matsushita Electric Corporation. These technicians, who were proficient in electrical and electronics, told Yamamoto almost with certainty: "The Chinese have radio detectors that can sound the alarm after the imperial army's planes take off." ”

Although Calais Zhinan received a fairly positive reply from these technicians, he still held the mentality of verification and arranged a feint.

According to those in Tokyo, these places should be the blind spots of the "radio wave detectors", and the Zero will be scattered into a single number of planes that will pass through these places and will basically not be discovered, and after the Zero arrives near Nanjing, a dense formation composed of 30 Type 96 land attacks will take off from the Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai, disguised as a posture for another air attack on Nanjing.

Sure enough, several Zeros did not meet the interception of the Chinese Air Force, and the Japanese pilots could clearly see the general situation of the Colonel Airport and the Jinling Airport, the two standing airfields were in a state of second-level combat readiness every daytime, and there was an arc-shaped metal mesh on the top of the tallest tower of the airport that was constantly rotating, and after the bomber echelon of Hongqiao completed the marshalling in the air, the combat readiness level of the two airfields was almost simultaneously "two to one", and within 10 minutes, the pilots ran from the standby area to the front of their respective planes, and the ground and air crews quickly completed the handover. Within 20 minutes, the first flight squadron to take off completed the formation at an altitude of 4,000 meters......

These 8 Zeros are the latest Zero Combat 21 type, which have been replaced with 1050 horsepower Rong 13 engines and short-wave radios, and the fighters in the formation can talk to each other.

"Air 31st Division, I am Gao Zhihang of the Theater Command, please answer ...... when you hear it" Liu Cuigang's headset came from Gao Zhihang's call.

"I'm Liu Cuigang, please speak!"

"Listen, the little devils have discovered our radar, there must be scattered reconnaissance planes near the airport, and your unit will immediately abandon the original interception mission and search for the scattered enemy reconnaissance planes near the airport."

"Understood, the task is changed, search for and shoot down possible enemy aircraft in the vicinity of the airfield."

Gao Zhihang added: "Be careful, there is a chance that you can hover over our territory for a long time and stand by for a long time. ”

"Got it." Liu Cuigang immediately issued an order to the troops, "The whole division should pay attention to the change of mission, with the Colonel Airport as the center, within 120 kilometers to the east, 80 kilometers to the north, 50 kilometers to the west, and at an altitude of less than 3,000 meters, pay attention to searching for lurking enemy planes, and be very careful, the enemy planes may be Zero ......."

The entire 31 fighters of the 150 Aviation Division dispersed at once, searching in groups of two or three.

After 20 minutes, nothing was found for the units. Le Yiqin of the 104th Aviation Regiment is in charge of the search in the east, this direction is the area where enemy planes are most likely to appear, he applied to the division commander Liu Cuigang to extend the search distance: "Division commander, we have encountered the zero type without a radio station, we dare not go deep alone, this time the enemy plane should be the latest model that we have never encountered, maybe the flight speed is faster than the original, I think we should extend the search to the east, at least 100 kilometers, and focus on the search valley and other radar blind spots." ”

"Agreed, you extend the search first, I'll send others over to support, pay attention to safety, don't break into the airspace controlled by the devils......"

The 104th Aviation Regiment has a total of 50 ZQ-3s, so that as soon as it is extended, the distance between the groups will be even greater, Le Yiqin looked at the ravines and ravines below, and said to Lin He of the wingman: "Xiaolin, I'll go to the valley below to have a look, you are on alert at 2000 and keep in touch." ”

"Yes!" Lin He said that he had just graduated from the aviation school and was still a second lieutenant.

As soon as he entered the valley, he saw a Japanese Zero fighter coated with red plaster less than 800 meters in front of him, and the fighter was flying eastward along the valley at a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour. Le Yiqin reflexively pressed the cannon button, and his plane was approaching the target at a 40-degree depression angle and a speed of 602 kilometers per hour.

Le Yiqin grabbed the shooting window of less than 3 seconds, and a 20mm armor-piercing tracer bullet knocked off half of the left wing of the target Zero, and the Japanese pilot who lost his balance crashed into the side of the hill before he could correct his flight attitude - flying in the valley is so dangerous, and he will hit the mountain if he is not careful.

"I killed a Zero ...... in the valley"

Before Le Yiqin could finish speaking, Lin He immediately raised the alarm: "Commander, there are two planes behind your ass!" "You can't blame Lin He for sounding the alarm too late, it's really too complicated to see.

Le Yiqin was taken aback, he had just won the 14th enemy plane, the valley was too small for him to make any maneuvers, at this time he either pulled the plane up, or flew out along the valley, or he parachuted and let the plane crash into the hillside.

It is impossible to pull up, and when encountering the zero type at low altitude, the most taboo thing is to climb in front of it, because its climbing rate is obviously faster than yours, and at this time, Lin He is in a situation of fighting alone, so he must fly all the way along the valley.

Lin He's plane was never able to suppress the two Zeros, and the blue dagger logo sprayed on the nose of the Le Yiqin plane (the ace logo of the Chinese Air Force) made him the target of the two Devil Zeros that they refused to let go no matter what.

Lin He quickly called the other planes in the group, but due to the terrain restrictions, there was no response, only Liu Cuigang, who had just arrived, received his call at an altitude of 5,000 meters. In desperation, Liu Cuigang could only play a yellow signal flare, handed over the command to the deputy division commander Chen Ruitian, and dived down to help Le Yiqin relieve the siege.

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