readx; On February 4, before February 5, the Japanese army launched its first general offensive, and the battle expanded to the Jiangwan and Wusong lines. The 19th Route Army, which had been prepared for a long time www.biquge.info not only calmly responded to the battle, but also fought fiercely with powerful weapons and equipment, among which more than 2,000 people of the 19th Army of the Japanese army attacking the defensive position of the Jiangwan Army were surrounded and annihilated; the Wusong open-air fort (Zhao Heng not only moved his hands and feet, but also mixed in, turning the original open-air fort into a strong fortress), although it was attacked and indiscriminately bombed by dozens of Japanese 13-type ships, it could not be destroyed, and the Japanese army that wanted to land was miserable.

Originally, he thought that he could destroy the Chinese defenders who were defending here in one go with superior firepower, but he did not expect to be beaten back by the powerful firepower of the Chinese defenders, who had already been waiting for work, and the Japanese army was never able to land. After the general attack was crushed, the unlucky guy who commanded the operation, Shiozawa, was removed from his post and transferred back to his country, but unfortunately this guy did not jump the Huangpu River but cheekily returned home on a warship.

The unlucky Oni Shiozawa was succeeded by Vice Admiral Nomura, commander of the newly formed Third Fleet, appointed by Prince Tokumasa of Japan, and after the arrival of Nomura, the Japanese army began to reinforce the army. Shiozawa talked with him at that time, and after understanding him, he began to adjust his combat deployment.

In the reception room on the flagship, Major General Shiozawa, who looked a little wilted, stepped back from the left and right, and looked at the high-spirited Lieutenant General Nomura in front of him bitterly and said, "Your Excellency Lieutenant General has come from the mainland, can you take a rest first and learn more about the current situation tomorrow?" ”

Nomura glanced at the decadent Shiozawa in front of him and said, "No need, I didn't come here on the orders of the base camp. It's not good that Shiozawa-kun looks depressed now, you must know that going out like this will affect the morale of the soldiers. ”

Shiozawa smiled bitterly and said: "Your Excellency, I am now a general of the defeated army, and I have already buried the elite and loyal warriors of the empire twice, and His Royal Highness the Prince who is far away from the mainland can ask me by name to ask me not to go back to the homeland and jump directly into the Huangpu River......"

Nomura laughed when he heard this: "Haha, Shiozawa-kun, you have only fought two battles, and you have suffered losses because you don't know the situation of the enemy army in front of you, which is all to blame for those bastards of the intelligence department who did not pass on the information in time, which led to the current situation becoming like this." After all, you are too careful with your soldiers. ”

Nomura didn't wait for Shiozawa to open his mouth and continued: "Shiozawa-kun, don't take these words to heart, I'm just talking, in fact, His Royal Highness the Prince asked you to jump the Huangpu River probably because you were stunned by anger at that time, I believe that after a while, His Highness will be angry at all." By the way, Shiozawa will take over your command and all related positions from now on, and this is the appointment letter of the base camp, you can take a look. With that, Nomura handed a letter of appointment to Shiozawa for the base camp.

Shiozawa took the letter of appointment, hurriedly flipped through it and handed it back to Nomura, and with a sigh, he said, "Your Excellency Nomura, you really didn't come at the right time. ”

Nomura stepped forward and patted Shiozawa on the shoulder and said, "Let's go down and rest now, and return home tomorrow morning on the warship that picks up the wounded soldiers." Have a good rest, Shiozawa-kun. After speaking, he personally sorted out Shiozawa's appearance with his white-gloved hands, ignoring Shiozawa, who was about to stop talking, and turned around and motioned for the two guards he brought to send Shiozawa back to the ship's lounge.

Shiozawa saw that Nomura didn't want to take care of himself, so he had no choice but to follow the guards in front of him back to the ship's lounge to stay.

As early as 2 February, the Japanese cabinet decided that the Marines under the jurisdiction of the First Fleet alone would be too thin and would not be able to successfully complete the operational plan of occupying the three northeastern provinces while diverting the attention of the whole world from their base camps. At the same time, it deterred the government of Beiyang Chiang in Nanjing, forcing it to sign an alliance under the city.

Originally, the navy was unwilling to give its sphere of influence in Shanghai to the army in vain, and they demanded that naval aviation fighters be temporarily allowed to attack and harass the enemy before the army was in place. The operation began after obtaining permission from the base camp.

On 5 February, when he learned that the 19th Route Army had not only repelled several Japanese attacks and annihilated more than 1,000 or 2,000 people without a single casualty, but had also withstood several bombings and shot down several fighters, Jiang Zhicheng thought that things were not so simple. This defeat of the Japanese base camp was bound to make a big move, so he instructed: "If the Japanese army at or above the regimental level participates in the war, then our side should make another plan for a formal battle with it, and the planes and the army should make a coordinated battle plan to surprise the enemy by surprise." ”

On the same day, Chiang sent a telegram to Jiang Guangnai, Cai Tingkai, and Dai Ji of the 19th Route Headquarters on the proposed battle plan, and at the same time comforted all the officers and men of the 19th Route Army: "Brother and other fierce battles have been fighting hard for a week, and every time I think of the great sacrifice of the soldiers and the loyalty of their lives, I am saddened. And said, "If necessary, Zhi (Cheng) can personally command also." When the Air Force enters the war, the Army needs to communicate with it in a coordinated manner, so that it can coordinate its actions...... "At the same time, he did not know that things were very different from the original, and the war situation could turn into the largest local conflict."

At 9 o'clock on the morning of the 5th, he received an order from the Nanjing Supreme Commander's Department to fly nine planes (5 bomber planes and 4 fighter planes) of the 6th and 7th Squadrons of the Central Air Force, led by Shi Bangfan, the second brigade leader, from Nanjing's Minggong Palace Airport to Shanghai to participate in the war.

Most of the Japanese naval aviation units are equipped with three-type ship warfare, and their speed is basically more than 240 kilometers of biplane wooden fighters, and their weapons are only an air-cooled Vickers and a 7.7 mm heavy machine gun. On the contrary, dozens of planes were repeatedly destroyed by the ferocious air defense weapons of the air defense units of the 19th Route Army, which made the Japanese Navy Airlines, which was high-minded and domineering in the Chinese sky on weekdays, endure this breath.

After learning that Nanjing had sent fighter planes to support the 19th Route Army, Nomura ordered the fighters to take to the air to destroy Nanjing's small number of air forces, and the HNA, which had already been holding its breath, thought that the opportunity for revenge had come, and in line with the principle of finding your air force if I couldn't win the anti-aircraft fire on the ground anyway, the Japanese Navy quickly dispatched dozens of fighters to test the situation, trying to find the foothold of the Central Air Force and catch it all.

Just as the Central Air Force group passed through Kunshan, the oncoming Japanese Navy fighters rushed over with great momentum, and they directly entangled, and both sides were biplanes and soon became entangled. As early as before, under the command of Shi Bangfan, the second captain of the second group, the five bomber fighters in the group flew to Hongqiao Airport first, while the remaining fighters were entangled with the other side to prevent the Japanese fighters from getting one step closer to the bomber fighters.

A short air battle with the Japanese naval aviation. Neither side took advantage, and the Japanese were self-defense machine guns modified from heavy machine guns, firing aimlessly everywhere. The Japanese Navy planes, which had wasted a lot of ammunition and failed to hit any air targets, saw that they were running out of fuel at this time. Only then did he return to his aircraft carrier to replenish the fuel bombs. The Central Air Force also flew to Shanghai Hongqiao Airport after the other party left first, but they did not know that there was a Kawasaki 88 reconnaissance plane secretly trailing behind them.

At 11 o'clock, the Central Air Force fighters landed at Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport one after another, and were refueling and hanging bombs to prepare for a sortie to bomb the Japanese ships.

Huang Yuquan, the vice-captain who had just been married in the battle on the historical trajectory, would die in a crash due to mechanical failure, and several British seaplanes sent by Zhao Heng to patrol the sky at that time British SR-45 Prince (length: 42 meters, wingspan: 67 meters, height 17 meters, Maximum take-off weight: 15.65 tons, maximum speed: 579 km / h, range: 9205 km) The modified large air rescue aircraft stretched out its mechanical arm to grasp the twin wings of the crashed fighter, and flew away smoothly in front of the eyes of the Japanese air force. (Later, the Guangdong Air Force formed the 8th team of the mixed fleet, with Ding Jixu as the captain, and went north for reinforcements.) During the 128 Incident, 25 planes of the Central Air Force and 15 planes of the Guangdong Air Force participated in the war. ）

The sky was full of fighter jets flying and bullets flying indiscriminately, and the Japanese Navy, which was superior in numbers, constantly surrounded and beat a Central Air Force fighter, and because the speed was not high, the fighters were very easy to dodge, and at this time, eight heavily armored versions of the Hawker III fighters suddenly rushed out of the clouds and went straight to the Japanese fighters.