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Chapter 1447 Let's take a look at the meteor shower

The 26th year of the Republic of China, November 20, 1937. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Just after midnight, at the major airports in Songhu, a **B1 mosquito bomber took off one after another and flew towards Pudong. All Mosquito bombers have been given a new design, and among the many instruments in the cockpit, there are not only various information feedback from the fighter itself, but also equipped with three small electronic screens, which can feed back information within a range of 10 kilometers to 200 meters around the fighter. Because the Southwest Air Force fighters are uniformly installed with identification codes, the color fed back on the electronic screen is bright green, and those that are not inside the identification system are red spots.

These three electronic screens respectively display the situation of friend and foe at different distances: first, the range of 10 kilometers, which is suitable for long-distance detection of opponents; the second is a one-kilometer range, which is suitable for air engagement in a small area; The third is the range of 200 meters around the fuselage to avoid collisions with friendly aircraft during night battles, and to make evasive actions in time.

All the information is captured by the ground radar, fed back to the command center, and then processed by the large computer in the command center, and the analyzed signals are transmitted to each fighter by the radio transmission tower, which can be regarded as the most advanced design of this era.

At 0:5 a.m., on the line of the Yangtze River estuary and Hangzhou Bay, 380 203mm fortress guns, all of which had been in place, raised their muzzles one after another, and skillfully aimed at the Pudong line in accordance with the enemy's artillery positions, airfields, and other important targets that had already been determined by the S3 high-altitude reconnaissance plane. Later, they will launch the first wave of strikes, 203mm caliber cannon shells equipped with rocket installations, with a range of up to 35 kilometers, and the two flanks cooperate with each other, which can already completely cover the enemy positions in Pudong. And due to the super defense of the fortress artillery group, the counterattack of the enemy's 150mm heavy cannon will not cause any damage to the fortress artillery, even if the defense of the fortress is damaged, it is enough to simply strengthen it, compared to the huge gain, such a payment is nothing at all.

A total of 400 150mm heavy cannons of the five heavy cannon regiments of the Second Artillery Corps were dismantled and camouflaged, and on their respective gun positions, the muzzles of the guns were aimed in the direction of Pudong, waiting for the fortress guns to take the lead in shelling, and if the enemy's 150mm heavy cannons counterattacked, the Second Artillery Corps would mercilessly carry out precise strikes on the enemy's exposed gun positions and completely destroy the combat capability of the enemy troops in Pudong.

Many friends may wonder why the An Jiajun has such a strong strength, why is it only now that it has launched a fatal blow to the enemy army on the front line of Pudong?

In fact, it is very simple, fighting a war is fighting logistics, and the major arsenals in the southwest are already quite difficult to produce and transport a large number of 203mm caliber fortress guns in a short period of time, and the production and delivery of artillery shells have naturally become a big problem. At the same time, the cost of various types of heavy cannon shells of 203mm caliber is as high as $127 a piece, but this cost is already a lot cheaper than the United States' $238, calculated with the maximum rate of fire of one minute and one round of sustained rate of fire of two minutes, if you hit 10,000 rounds in one go, more than one million dollars will be lost, if you add aerial bombs and 150mm caliber cannon bombs, a big war will easily cost 5 million US dollars, which is equivalent to 35 million legal currency that has begun to depreciate.

The reason why it is necessary to use artillery to cover Pudong first is to facilitate the bombing of the B1 bomber group, you must know that at this time, there are no satellites for precise positioning, and the aerial bombing depends on the pilots and bombardiers to aim with their eyes, and in the movie "Tiger and Tiger", it is also specially trained to accurately drop bombs, and if there is no ground artillery guidance, in the dark night, the aerial bombs may even be thrown into the vast sea.

At midnight, the shelling officially began as the bomber group flew over the city of Shanghai.

"Boom-"

The earth-shattering sound of bombing came one after another, and the entire Pudong was quickly illuminated transparently by the flames set off by an earth-shattering explosion.

You must know that a 203mm caliber long-range jujube nuclear bomb equipped with rocket devices, the inside is filled with high-energy explosives developed by the Syrian Gunpowder Research Institute, after the projectile explosion, it can produce 25041 pieces of 3.12g heavy killing fragments, and the dense killing radius of personnel has reached an astonishing 55 meters, in this range, all objects will be torn into pieces, even within 150 meters, if you don't pay attention to dodge, you may be injured by the flying shrapnel, and its power is so powerful that it is jaw-dropping.

Before the attack of the fortress artillery, the enemy troops were located at Waigaoqiao south of the Huangpu River.

On the 22-meter-high lookout platform built by the steel frame structure, two enemy sentries are using binoculars, vigilantly observing the movement on the other side of the Huangpu River, although the lens is pitch black, but no one dares to be careless, since the Yanghang first-line fortress group was erected, the enemy troops in Pudong have felt heavy pressure, especially after the photo of the fortress cannon with a caliber of up to 300mm was published in the newspaper, all the devils felt a stone in their hearts, and they couldn't breathe.

This is still an era of giant ship cannons, the larger the caliber of the cannon can be built, the stronger the industrial strength of the other party, the emergence of the 300mm heavy cannon, which proves that the opponent has a killer weapon to deal with himself, especially worse, due to the strict blockade of the fortress group by the other party, the reporter simply interviewed a few designated locations, and the others simply do not know anything, from the aerial feedback photos of the reconnaissance aircraft, the Yangtze River estuary and Hangzhou Bay line, black pressure and pressure, the barrel obliquely pointed to the sky like a forest, It's hard to imagine what a terrible situation you would face if all of these fortresses were 300mm guns.

"Look, what's that?" Sentinel Sheng Nei Min also suddenly saw a bright light from the telescope, and immediately alerted his companions.

At this time, the partner had already put down the telescope in his hand and stared blankly at the sky.

Sheng Neimin also saw that there was no response, put down the telescope a little strangely, and raised his head with his partner's gaze, with a look of horror in his eyes - he saw an overwhelming meteor flying towards Pudong.

Before the two of them thought that they should call the police in time, they were hit by a huge cannonball that fell, and with a "boom" sound, flames dozens of meters high were splashed, and the lookout was smashed in an instant, mixed with countless steel fragments, shooting in all directions, set up not far from the lookout A barracks that can accommodate more than 100 people, was instantly covered by the flames and air waves set off by the artillery fire, and the violent shock wave was mixed with sharp shrapnel, knocking down the house at once, and killing all living beings.

The two squads of enemy soldiers who were resting went to see Amaterasu in their sleep.

At this time, dense large-caliber shells had already covered the entire Pudong.

One bomb after another was like hail, falling to the ground, and where it hit, the enemy troops within 150 meters immediately lost their combat effectiveness - either they were blown to pieces on the spot, or they were shocked to seven holes and bled out, only a few lucky ones were only dizzy by the huge air waves and sounds!

The enemy's airfield, port, artillery positions, barracks, and all suspicious facilities in Pudong were all covered by merciless artillery fire.

Awakened by the sound of the explosion, the devil cried wolf, ran in all directions, dodging the bombs that fell everywhere. Many of the enemy airfields that had survived due to errors in the accuracy of the shelling due to the distance was too far away, the pilots rushed out of the resting houses and ran to their beloved fighters, ready to take off to avoid the artillery fire, but before they could run in front of the planes, they were horrified to find that it was too late.

The overwhelming B1 bomber swooped down at an altitude of 1,000 meters.

Because it is night, there is no need to worry about being captured by the enemy's ground air defense artillery, so the bombing altitude of the fighters is low, the cluster is large and the target is small, and the use of surface cover bombing, first the enemy's airfield runway was destroyed by aerial bombs, and then one after another enemy fighters of all kinds were hit by the falling 250 kilograms of aerial bombs, and the explosion power affected all the fighters within the range, all of which became piles of wood chips and alloy fragments, especially mixed with a large number of napalm bombs in the middle. The hope of letting a certain country pick up the mess and get some engine parts is gone, and one airport after another has been reduced to a sea of terrifying fire.

The pilots in some places, with great effort, finally drove the fighter plane to reluctantly take off, but the bombers of the other side actually shot furious bullets from both wings, so that the fighters that could not be avoided in a straight line were helpless, and the 12.7 caliber aviation machine gun bullets were fierce, and the method of feeding ammunition with cartridges was adopted, and the amount of ammunition that could be carried and used was extremely large, and the rain of bullets during the shooting was almost endless, and it did not take long for the enemy fighters to be beaten into a sieve and exploded in the air.

Many of the enemy's fortifications and fortifications in the rear, apparently not as well built as the first-line fortresses, were cut off under this wave of blows.

250 kg of aerial bombs, which can penetrate about 1.5 meters of civil fortifications and 1 meter of reinforced concrete structures, many fortresses that are not up to standard construction, were quickly broken through the roof, just rushed to the inside of the air defense, anti-artillery, enemy soldiers who thought they were safe, all were torn into meat sauce, especially napalm, which became a nightmare for the enemy - a soldier who was lucky enough to return to a certain country and was strictly ordered to seal his mouth later recalled:

After being awakened by the deafening explosion, I rushed out of the barracks without even wearing pants, and after running less than two hundred meters, the building behind me was hit, and the entire squadron of comrades, just because they wanted to put on their clothes and pick up their guns, became a pile of dust after a delay of dozens of seconds. I was terrified and thought that there was an anti-aircraft fortress near the barracks that had been built for less than a month, so I strode towards the fortress, but before I arrived, I saw that the whole fortress had been covered by a fire that had reached a height of several tens of feet. As a result, when I went to the fort the next day, I saw that all the people inside were roasted, and all of them exuded a rich aroma, very similar to the fragrance of the traditional Chinese dish called Hua Chicken, and after that, I began to maintain the habit of eating vegetarian, because whenever I smell the aroma of meat, I will think of those comrades who have been roasted.

And many of the fortresses that were designed to meet the standards, many enemy soldiers were not spared.

Because the napalm burns against the surface of the fortress, the oxygen in the vicinity is consumed, and the inside of the fortress is isolated from the air due to the burning of the appearance, and people will suffocate once they do not inhale oxygen for a long time, and they will die after a certain time, and the napalm will burn for more than an hour, you can imagine how miserable the people in the fortress died!

The bombing of the B1 bomber group has been continuing, but the 150mm cannon has not had a chance to move, because the enemy's 150mm cannon group has not appeared for a long time, and the enemy's airfield and fighters have all been destroyed in the first wave of attacks, and there are no valuable targets for the time being.

Later, the 203mm fortress guns also stopped shelling, but due to the continuous bombardment of the bombers, the momentum did not appear to be much weaker, and the sky-high fire reflected the whole Pudong as if it were a hell of death.

In the Shanghai concession, the French Consul General in Shanghai and the general director of the Board of Directors, Mérieux, the American Fan Keling, the general director of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, the American Fei Xinton, the president of the Ministry of Industry, and the British manager of Jardine's Foreign Company, vice president of the Ministry of Industry, Kai Ziwei, were awakened by the huge sound of cannons, and they came to the bedroom window one after another, looking at the sky covered by dense meteors, and the entire Pudong line had turned into a sea of fire.

After being informed and requested by US Ambassador to a certain country, Greugh, US Ambassador to China Jensen, French Ambassador Nazia, Chargé d'Affaires of the British Embassy in China, and naval commanders of the United States, Britain, France, Italy, and the Netherlands in Shanghai gathered in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the US Consulate and watched all this in horror after the mouth of the Yangtze River was dredged.

He Wu glared, pointed in the direction of Pudong, and said fearfully:

"Oh my God, such a dense large-caliber artillery coverage has only been seen in my memory during the last European war. In today's China, a big war can already concentrate four or five hundred heavy artillery pieces of more than 200 mm caliber to carry out artillery strikes, which is something that even the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Greece and other countries cannot do in Europe...... In addition, the Chinese Air Force, which was able to carry out bombing missions at night, must have mastered the safe take-off and landing at night and was able to distinguish the course and the sharp weapons of the enemy, and I heard that the German government and the Chinese government of Nanjing cooperated closely, and if Germany had mastered this advanced technology, the whole of Britain would be directly under the cover of the German bombers. No, I must immediately pray to the country, do not overstimulate the Chinese, and at the same time, we must master this advanced technology, otherwise the British Empire will be in an extremely dangerous situation. ”

French Ambassador Nazia also looked like earth: "When I read the newspaper some time ago, I thought it was the Chinese who were suspicious, and with their backward industrial production, how could they suddenly produce so many large-caliber heavy artillery?" Their trick is nothing more than installing the cannons purchased from Germany into one fortress after another, and it is estimated that there will be no more than ten heavy guns of 200mm caliber or more. Now it seems that from the very beginning I was very wrong, and now the entire Yangtze River, Huangpu River, and concession area are directly under the artillery attack of the Chinese, and in the future, our warships will no longer be able to enter and exit the Yangtze and Huangpu rivers without any worries! ”

The commander of the French Navy thought further: "With such a strong industrial production capacity for the Chinese, the collapse of a certain country is a matter of time, and now we have to worry about whether China will conclude an alliance with Germany?" China's official population is 470 million, but according to the latest surveys, the total population has actually exceeded 600 million, and as long as industry develops, its war potential is almost endless, and we must prevent the Chinese government from completely turning to Germany. Therefore, it is necessary for us to stand on the side of the victors and put pressure on a certain country to stop this terrible war! ”

U.S. Ambassador to China Jensen's face was cloudy.

Since the start of the Sino-Japanese war, the US consortium has provided a large amount of loans to a certain country for the purchase of weapons and equipment, strategic materials, production lines, and advanced technology; due to a large increase in orders, the unemployment rate in the United States has now shown a downward trend, and the declining trend of the resurgence of the economic crisis since this year has been effectively controlled. In order to suppress China and prolong the war, the US government has clearly ordered that all states must prohibit all forms of demonstrations and demonstrations, and the military and police will take all means to prevent any attempt to disrupt public order.

At the same time, in order to control China's military development and make it easier for a certain country to plunder wealth from the war and use it to purchase American industrial products, the US diplomatic department has repeatedly issued statements that it understands the practice of a certain government in order to expand the living space of the nation and will not intervene in the war between China and Japan, and at the same time warns Britain and France to abide by the "neutral" position, in short, to prohibit the delivery of oil, steel, rubber, grain and other strategic materials to China. Britain was originally going to impose sanctions on a certain country for violating the League of Nations Covenant and the Nine-Power Pact, but instead continued to blockade China.

But in this case, the squadron has developed such a terrible military force with its own efforts alone, especially this kind of night navigation technology, which even the United States, which is proud of the world in science and technology, has not yet been studied, which makes Jensen feel unacceptable for a while.

Seeing that everyone was frightened, the British naval commander hurriedly comforted: "There is no need to worry that the Chinese will have a big impact on the world situation, their navy can only be called the Jiang army, no, the Jiang army is not counted, because they can't even effectively control the Yangtze River, let alone go to the sea to be majestic!" But from now on, all countries must increase the blockade of China, our French friends, don't just think about getting rich, you should think about what terrible consequences will occur if the strengthened Chinese join the German side! Your colonial system will collapse completely! ”

The French ambassador Nazia nodded again and again, and decided to wait and report to the governor of the French colony of Annam, Julis. Breville sent a telegram to completely freeze China's imports and exports through French Annan from now on, and will not unfreeze until the Sino-Japanese war is in a "balance of power." Otherwise, not a single grain of rice, a drop of oil, or a single screw will be allowed to flow into China. If China defeats a country too quickly, the international order that the powers have worked so hard to maintain will be in chaos, and the entire Versailles and Washington system will collapse.

"Then do we still want to discuss forcing the Nanjing government to let the Shanghai garrison withdraw its troops?" Chargé d'Affaires of the British Embassy in Beijing, He Wu, asked.

Jensen pointed to the red-burned sky in the direction of Pudong: "It's all like this, is it realistic?" I estimate that tomorrow the ** team will drive into the north bank of Suzhou Creek. The enemy forces on the front line of Songhu are over, and what we have to think about in the future is how to get along with the Chinese government, which has suddenly become stronger. ”

In Yangjing Town, more than 200 meters away from the bank of the Huangpu River, in a reinforced concrete bunker, Xu Ziliang watched the sky full of meteors flying in the air and landing on the boundary controlled by the enemy army in the Pudong area.

An Yi watched the meteors fall one by one on the fortress group that the enemy army had been operating for a long time in Pudong, and for a while the poetry was full of excitement, and read:

"The east wind blooms thousands of trees at night, and blows down, and the stars are like rain. BMW carved cars are full of fragrance. The sound of the phoenix flute moves, the light of the jade pot turns, and the fish and dragon dance all night......"