If someone asks, what is the hardest battle? Basically all military commanders will say: block; If someone asks the commander what order is the most difficult to give, he will tell you: still block!

Blocking, in many cases, means that you don't see victory, but buy time for others to win at the cost of your life! But now the most painful thing for the commander is that the blocking is buying time and space for the retreat of other troops - victory is not known in which distant future!

The weather in the south of the Yangtze River in November has already begun to turn cooler, and the autumn weather is high and cool, which is suitable for air force operations. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, Lin Jun, who was a Jiangnan man in his previous life, was very worried, because he knew that Jiangnan at this time often had the worst weather conditions for the defenders - dense fog often formed at night in the water network area and water environment, and the Japanese army who was about to land on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay could take advantage of this bad natural phenomenon!

On the night of November 5, Lin Jun stayed at the headquarters all night without rest, and he was waiting for the weather report from ahead.

"Andre, go to a rest meeting, your body will be unbearable." In the second half of the night, Vuginskaya, who walked into the headquarters, said to her husband.

"It's okay, have all the comrades gone to rest?"

Hearing her husband's answer, Vuginskaya was a little helpless, "The flight crew has rushed to sleep, and Sergeant Major Vasily and the comrades of the ground crew are still checking the plane. ”

"Kaya, you go to sleep too, there may be a wounded for you to deal with tomorrow."

"What about you?" Vuginskaya knew there would be a tough battle tomorrow and that there was a high chance of casualties among the air crew, and yesterday afternoon her husband had asked her to check the medical equipment again. As the best surgeon in the air force, Vuginskaya and the other doctors from the Colonel's Airfield Hospital will be ready for battle.

"I'm waiting for a call, I'll rest later."

Lin Jun had already had his marching bed moved to the headquarters.

Seeing that her husband had no intention of sleeping at all, Vukinskaya could only go back to the dormitory, and just as he was about to leave, one of the telephones in the headquarters rang.

Lin Jun's expression after answering the phone was not very good-looking, and his wife asked him what was wrong?

"There is a thick fog in Hangzhou Bay, the sky doesn't help me!" The most feared thing still happened, and Lin Jun could only have a long talk.

The defenders had to defend 80 kilometers on the northern shore of Hangzhou Bay, and in the dense fog it was impossible to determine the exact location of the Japanese landing in advance, and long-range firepower would become like a blind man and a blind horse. The Japanese army can use the cover of dense fog to land covertly, and the Japanese army is a master of night warfare, and fighting in foggy conditions will not be affected much, and the combat effectiveness of the defending *** army in such weather can only be known to God. Although before the dense fog dissipates, the Japanese carrier-based aviation can only be a bystander, like Lin Jun, and the Japanese ship-based artillery cannot pose a substantial threat to the defenders' positions, but before the dense fog dissipates, the landing Japanese troops may have gained a foothold on the beachhead, and when the fire support is in place, the *** army defending the beachhead will definitely be bombarded with overwhelming firepower.

Shanghai is surrounded by plains, the defenders have no geographical advantage to rely on, in the terrain of a horse and a flat river to land the superior forces of the Japanese army to fight, it is difficult to say how long it can be held, I only hope that the two divisions and a brigade of the *** brothers can buy more time.

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At dawn, under the cover of dense fog, the Japanese army began to land at the same time on the beaches of Quangongting, Jinshanwei, and Caojing Town, taking a large number of small airboats, sampans, and rubber boats. The visibility of the most foggy area on the river was less than 50 meters, and although the defenders could hear the sound of the engines of the Japanese ships marching to the berth and the sound of the small motorboats sailing through the dense fog, they could not see at all, and the artillery behind them could not shoot because they did not have specific coordinates.

After receiving the order to stubbornly defend the north shore of Hangzhou Bay yesterday, the 62nd and 63rd Divisions and the 45 th Independent Brigade reinforced, on the basis of the positions they had built some time ago, and built fortifications in depth by surprise in areas that were easy to land on the coastal line.

The Japanese troops who had just landed ran headlong into the dense firepower of the defenders -- there was an open terrain of more than 100 meters on the beachhead, and the defenders built their first-line positions at a distance of 100 meters from the tide line, so that they could only suffer heavy casualties to the enemy when the Japanese troops had just landed and had not yet gained a firm foothold, and this distance was the minimum safe distance that needed to be reserved for artillery support in the rear of the advantage.

Fierce battles unfolded at the same time on more than a dozen beachheads, and the Japanese troops who had just landed on the beachhead were hit in batches, unable to build an effective beachhead, and the defenders also had their own troubles: because the width of the beachhead that needed to be defended was too large, the forces were too scattered, and the Japanese troops who landed in many places did not even encounter resistance -- these areas were not defended by troops at all, and the poor traffic situation made it impossible for the reserves to reach the direction of the main Japanese attack in time after dawn.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the dense fog in Hangzhou Bay slowly dissipated, and only then did the soldiers guarding the position see clearly what they were about to face -- the sea in the distance was full of various Japanese ships, rubber boats and all kinds of small boats were like dense ants covering the river.

The defenders here can see the situation on the sea clearly, and the Japanese warships in the sea are also beginning to be able to determine the specific location of the defenders. At the moment when the *** artillery began to shell the Japanese ships, the Japanese warships on the sea also began to violently shell the positions of the defenders.

Whistling shells crossed the sea and exploded in the positions of the defenders, kicking up smoke and dust that obscured the sky.

On the sea 25 kilometers away from the Caojing position, two giant ships slowly raised their huge gun muzzles -- these were the "Haruna" and "Kirishima" of the Japanese Kongo-class high-speed battleships (the Japanese division method, which can also be said to be the battle patrol), and the Chinese defenders' positions would receive the bombardment of 356-mm guns for the first time.

The Japanese army has always been reluctant to dispatch its own battleships, and in the past, at most, they would "stroll" around the waters off China, and even in order to save the service life of the main gun barrel, they used special breeched guns in peacetime training. This time, the dispatch of two newly renovated high-speed battleships to support the landing was also the consequence of being forced by the opponent to be in a hurry, otherwise the Japanese Navy would never have sent the precious battleships to support the army's operations.

The Japanese troops who were attacking the beachhead and were hit by the defenders' firepower heard the huge whistling sound of the high-speed train passing by, and a huge explosion appeared in the middle of the *** position, and the ground near the shelling area was trembling, and the Japanese infantry basically never saw the scene of the battleship shelling by huge guns, and many people were stunned, and even fell on the ground and forgot what they should do.

The well-constructed positions were vulnerable in the face of the battleship guns, and 15 salvos from 16 356-mm guns in 10 minutes completely destroyed the deep positions purchased by the 62nd Division along the Caojing coast, and 240 high-explosive shells completely plowed the two-kilometer-wide position once. The two battalions of the 62nd Division, which were defending the position, decisively withdrew from the first-line position and retreated to the reserve position after the artillery bombardment of the battleships began: it was unlikely that the first-line beachhead would be recaptured, but it was better than being completely destroyed by the terrible shelling, and staying in the shelled area at this time was tantamount to a completely unnecessary death.

The order is to defend to the death, but to defend is not to wait to be cannon fodder in the position -- holding back the Japanese army is the first priority.

After the shelling began to extend, the Japanese troops who had been pressed on the beachhead took the opportunity to occupy the first-line position full of huge craters.

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After receiving the news that the weather was gradually clearing up ahead, the planes of the air force, which had already been in combat readiness at the Daxiao Factory, took off in batches to surprise the Japanese landing ships and beachheads. Lin Jun expects that the Japanese carrier-based aircraft will also support the landing force at this time, but the number will not be too much, because the biggest purpose of the Japanese carrier-based aircraft is to destroy themselves, so they will let the bombers attack first, and only send a squadron of Yi-16 fighters to carry auxiliary fuel tanks to escort, and the other 25 fighters that can still fight will be delayed by 30 minutes with 8 **** of the five major units of the Chinese Air Force.

It basically takes more than half an hour for the Japanese carrier-based planes to appear over the combat area after receiving the appearance of Soviet planes, and the appearance of their own fresh forces can cover the retreat of the bombers and fight a decisive battle with the enemy with their own escort fighters that have arrived in advance.

Before the attack, the leader of the bomber group, Kidalinsky, had received a clear order from Lin Jun: only attack the landing ships and the Japanese troops on the beachhead, and never risk going deep into the sea to attack the Japanese warships, and return immediately after dropping bombs at one time. The fighters escorting the escort also received strict orders not to take part in strafing the ground and to be prepared for a dogfight with the enemy fighters.

At a quarter past nine o'clock in the morning, Hangzhou Bay is ahead.

The bombers flew at an altitude of 3,000 meters, and Kidalinsky could already see the dense Japanese landing ships on the sea, while the two sides were fighting fiercely on the beachhead, and smoke and dust were everywhere.

"All note, I am the bomber group leader Kidalinsky, according to the plan, the first squadron bombed the ships on the sea, the second squadron bombed the Jinshanwei direction to land the Japanese army, and the third and fourth squadrons bombed the Japanese troops on the Caojing beachhead."

A "Understood" answer came from the headphones.

42 bombers began to disperse in squadrons, each pounced on its own target.

The commander of the escort fighters was the captain of the fighter group, Kurchumov, and the pressure on the escort squadron was extremely high, and they would encounter the Japanese planes in the first wave, but they did not know how many Japanese planes would be dispatched. Originally, there was no need for a team captain to take on this position, but Kurchumov volunteered to take on the heavy responsibility.

After the dense fog cleared, the visibility in the air of Hangzhou Bay exceeded 20 kilometers, and Kurchumov, who was on standby at an altitude of 4,000 meters, could even see the Japanese battleships that were leaving Hangzhou Bay dozens of kilometers away. However, Comrade Andrei strictly forbade himself to attack the Japanese capital ships, and the task of the escort formation was only to serve as a guard over the theater of operations to prevent a sneak attack by the Japanese fighters.

"Enemy aircraft found, in the direction of two o'clock, at a distance of eight thousand, at a height of 1000, with a number of 20!" A call from the team came over the headset.

The Japanese planes in the distance were clearly divided into two groups, presumably a mixed formation of attack aircraft and fighters, and were bombarding the defenders' positions.

"Throw away the auxiliary fuel tanks, scatter the enemy aircraft formation, leave the enemy bombers alone, and solve the fighters as quickly as possible!"

Kurchumov knew very well that his own troops were insufficient, and that his bombers on bombing missions had limited self-defense capabilities, and that once he only cared about attacking Japanese bombers, he would inevitably pose a huge threat to the safety of his own bombers.

The 12 I-16s rushed straight toward the Japanese aircraft formation in an attack formation, and the Japanese fighters over there had already spotted the Soviet aircraft formation flying over, and more than a dozen fighters broke away from the ground to attack the Soviet bombing formation.

Kurchumov is a relatively old-school pilot, who usually prefers the highly maneuverable I-15, but now he is glad that the commander's arrangement -- leading the faster I-16: the Japanese fighter planes approaching at high speed are obviously the latest 96 ship battles, if it is the I-15 that escorts and the Japanese planes do not fight with him, then the bomber formation will inevitably suffer huge losses.

The short distance of a few kilometers flashed by, and more than two dozen fighters on both sides became entangled in an instant.

This group of Japanese planes took off from the "Kaga" to carry out ground support missions, led by the captain of the attack aircraft group, Captain Koyama Hayashiji, and when they discovered China (because they were all blue sky and white sun marks, although the Japanese army knew that the air power of the Nanjing side was dominated by Soviet aircraft, they still called their opponents the Chinese Air Force according to custom. After the huge group, he decisively ordered the attack aircraft formation to return immediately, and let the fighter squadron led by Captain Jiro Ono attack attack the Chinese bomber formation -- this was a decision that killed multiple birds with one stone, which could not only destroy the opponent's bombers, but also attract the attention of the enemy fighters, and his own Type 96 attack aircraft formation could return home safely.

Ono and Kurchumov had the same goal, which was to hold off their opponents and deal with them - they didn't know that their support fighter formations would arrive in the airspace in half an hour.

The 1st Squadron of Bombers led by Porunin approached the assembly area of the Japanese landing ships at an altitude of 1,500 meters, and because of the threat of Japanese fighters, he ordered all the bombers to fly in the direction of land immediately after concentrating on the bombs, not seeking any chance of hits, but only to disrupt the Japanese landing operations.

A total of 96 bombs, large and small, were dropped by 12 SB-2s, and the exploding water splashed in the middle of the Japanese ships and stirred up a column of water dozens of meters high, and the Japanese small motorboat and sampan near the landing site were completely overturned, while several transport ships with relatively bad luck were directly hit by the bombs, and billowing smoke came out.

The "Yamama Maru" was a transport ship with a displacement of more than 4,000 tons, and it was in the process of changing ships at the time of the bombing of the Porunin, and the more than 1,000 soldiers of the 6th Division did not have time to change to small boats. A 500-kilogram explosive bomb directly hit the middle of the hull of the "Yamaga Maru," and the Japanese troops on the ship who were densely waiting to get on the boat were blown to pieces, and the damage caused by this bombshell was not only that-the middle hull of the "Yamaga Maru" had been blown up, and the sea water roared into the hull! Captain Shoji Ohara, who was overturned on the bridge by the huge vibration caused by the bomb explosion, got up and sadly found that his ship was about to sink.

The first bomber squadron did not achieve much success, the "Yayamama Maru" was the only transport ship that was directly hit by 500 kg of explosive bombs, and the other 23 500 kg bombs only overturned and killed some Japanese troops in small boats, and those 100 kg blasting bombs could not completely sink the Japanese transport ships.

Although the results of the battle were not large, the goal of the Soviet army had been achieved: the Japanese troops landed along the Caojing line last night and could not return to normal until at least half a day later.

After dropping bombs, the SB-2 bombers of the 1st Squadron turned the nose, pushed the throttle to the maximum, and left the battlefield at the fastest speed to return to Nanjing. And at the moment when these SB-2s landed, the bombers of several other squadrons also basically finished dropping bombs, and increased their horsepower to rush back -- and then handed over to the fighters' comrades.

Kidalinsky counted the number of planes after assembling the formation, because the Japanese fighters were entangled in the escort formation, not a single bomber was lost, and behind them was the Japanese landing field that was bombed to a thousand holes, and the defenders could breathe a sigh of relief for the time being on several beachheads with air support.

Unlike the bomber formation, which did not lose a single one, the escort fighters had already suffered losses in the battle, two Yi 16 were hit by Japanese planes, and only one parachute appeared in the air, fortunately, the lower part of this parachute was still in the control area of the defenders.

Kurchumov did not have time or could not care about the losses of his formation: the two sides were evenly matched, the Japanese pilots were quite skilled, and the air battle was temporarily a draw.

At the moment of the attack, Kurchumov shot down a 96 ship battle with the long-range advantage of the aerial guns, but the formation of the two sides was completely disrupted and they had to fight separately.

A 96 ship was biting the tail of Kurchumov's plane to the death, and dense machine-gun bullets hit the fuselage of Kurchumov's plane several times.

"It's not the way to go on like this!"

Kurchumov rolled sideways in an S-shape, aimed at the depth of the land, and added the throttle to the maximum.

"You're kind of following!" Kurchumov, who has always been known for his good temper, could not help but start scolding.

The I-16-3 had a speed advantage over the 96 warships, and the Japanese lost their psychological advantage when they fought over land. If the devil stops pursuing, then Kurchumov who turns back can kill again, and if the Japanese machine pursues and does not catch up for a while and a half, he can get rid of the disadvantage of being bitten by the tail when he gets away from the Yi 16.

The Japanese chose to pursue, which is exactly what Kurchumov wanted to see.

After the distance between the two sides was stretched to 500 meters, the I-16 hurriedly reflexed, and the Japanese aircraft in the rear hurriedly made the same action, Kurchumov did not wait for you to come, the action was just average, and the control stick was cut to the inside of the Japanese plane's route. It's a dangerous move, and if you're not careful, you'll fall into a spiral, but Kurchumov is a daring man and does it cleanly.

The back of the 96 ship battle appeared in front of Kurchumov's eyes, basically relying on prediction rather than aiming, and the I-16 fired a four-barreled salvo, and several scattering 20-mm shells hit the Japanese plane. A few rounds were enough, and the fragile fuselage mechanism of the 96 ship battle collapsed in this way, and the aircraft under the high-load maneuver disintegrated in the air, and the front and rear fuselages separated and fell straight down.

"You're fighting with Lao Tzu! Look for death! Kurchumov turned the nose of the plane and returned to the melee airspace.

As soon as I looked at the situation in the air, the fighters of both sides were fighting inextricably, and planes were constantly falling. There was no time to take a closer look, two kilometers away an Il-16 was chasing a Japanese plane, and its course was 90 degrees to Kurchumov.

With a push of the lever, Kurchumov rushed at a 45-degree angle.

Jiro Ono was being chased and beaten by an I-16, but its squadron leader was not in vain, dodging several shots from the rear I-16 and being unscathed. I was thinking about how to get rid of this life-urging ghost in the back, when suddenly there were traces of tracer bullets on the side of the cabin.

"Suffered!" Ono Jiro knew that an enemy plane was shooting at himself from the flank.

Sasha, who pursued Jiro Ono, was a veteran of the 96 ship battle in front, and he was almost reversed by it several times.

"Lao Tzu can't knock you down!"

At this time, the next Yi-16 swooped down from above, and a salvo hit the Japanese plane in front of him and exploded in a volley, and Sasha reflexively swung the joystick to avoid the scattered fragments of the Japanese plane, and saw clearly the personal logo of the Yi-16 from the afterglow -- a soaring Chinese dragon: this is Comrade Andrei's landline, and of course it is the captain Kurchumov who is driving it now.

A relatively strange scene appeared in the air battle: the Japanese planes did not want to go to land to fight, and the Soviet fighters did not penetrate into the sky over Hangzhou Bay until they had to, and both sides were waiting for their backups.

After 20 minutes of dogfighting, there were still 4 Japanese planes left, and 6 Soviet fighters! The two sides each assembled in the sky above their "superior side" -- and unconsciously returned to their respective positions in the melee.

The fuel was enough for a small time and space battle, and the ammunition was still average, but Kurchumov painfully found that he had lost six planes.

Six I-16s began to circle over the defenders, and the Japanese planes at sea were doing the same.

"I'm Kurchumov, did anyone see their own people parachuting?!"

"Captain, I saw one, it's on my own people's territory." The conversation was Sasha, and no one else saw it.

"Five good comrades!"

"All pay attention, the backup will arrive in 10 minutes at most, deal with those small Japanese planes, if they run, don't pursue, follow me!" Now that you have the advantage, when will you not be able to do it now?!

3 minutes later, except for one 96 ship battle that chose to retreat, the other three Japanese planes became the toys of the Dragon King, and the Yi 16 in the air was still six.

"Captain, a group of enemy aircraft was found at three o'clock, at a distance of 10 kilometers, at an altitude of four thousand, and the number exceeded 50!" Sasha's call came from the headset.

At this time, reports of the latest situation in the air were found one after another:

"Unknown aircraft were found in the direction of nine o'clock, the number is about 15, the distance is 8 kilometers, and the altitude is 4500."

"Captain, our reinforcements have arrived, just behind at six o'clock 8 kilometers away, at an altitude of 4000!"

"At nine o'clock, it should be the friendly troops flying from Hangzhou, immediately retreat to the land, and prepare to form again with the support troops!"

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