Feng Dafei didn't expect that after he led the Eighth Route Army Aviation Brigade to destroy the aircraft carrier formations of the Longxiang and Fengxiang of the Yueben Navy, he flapped his wings and left, but the whole of the Yueben Navy blew up.

At this time, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, the former commander of the Chinese fleet of the Navy, had been dismissed from his post on 25 April and transferred to the post of commander of the Yokosuka Castle Commandery. This culprit of the invasion of China once offered advice to the military department and clamored that "if he wants to put China to death, the most important thing is to control Shanghai and Nanjing." During the Battle of Songhu, he sat at the headquarters of the Marine Corps of the Shanghai Army, commanded 6,000 marines to attack frantically, mobilized naval aviation to bomb indiscriminately, and then commanded the Third Fleet of the Japanese Navy to cooperate with the army to attack Nanjing.

Like Hasegawa Kiyoshi, the new commander of the Chinese fleet of the Navy, Vice Admiral Shiro Kawako, a native of Iwate Prefecture, was born in 1883, graduated from the Naval Academy and the Naval University, participated in the Russo-Japanese War, and was a war criminal and the main culprit who strongly advocated the expansion of the war of aggression against China. The difference is that this and Kawakoshiro is known as the first sinologist of the Navy, holding the ancient books "Analects" and "Mencius" all day long, reading non-stop, sometimes splashing ink, practicing calligraphy, is a mouth full of benevolence and morality, a belly of male thieves and prostitutes, both want to be a bitch and want to set up a memorial arch guy. No, it should be said that he is a guy who is full of mouths and is determined to kill. No, under his command, the Third Fleet of the Yue Army marched along the west of the Jiangxi to attack Wuhan, and the souls, corpses, and blood stains on the Yangtze River were all caused by this old devil.

In the early hours of this morning, the Chinese fleet air force of the Chinese side of the Navy, on the orders of Admiral Shunroku Hata, went to bomb Wuhan, and Shiro Kawaguro made a special trip to the naval air force airfield in Shanghai to see him off.

Standing on the bridge of the ship, watching the fighter planes row into the sky, and Kawakoshiro felt a burst of pride in his heart, this is the naval aviation of the Great Empire led by him, you see the majestic posture of the fighter plane when it takes off, it is just like the swift vulture in the desert above northern China, as long as they start to pounce downward over Wuhan, they will definitely be able to catch the prey.

The excited Kagawa Koshiro, after taking the opportunity to return to the headquarters in Shanghai, could not calm down for a long time, simply spread the rice paper, picked up the brush, studied the ink, hung the wrist to move the pen, and wrote down the four words "Wuyun long", looked at it carefully, the pen is hidden, the bone rhyme is full, and it is indeed written well.

After thinking about it, Kagawa Koshiro felt that the blind pursuit of military exploits might not be conducive to maintaining his state of mind, so he spread rice paper and wrote down in a small Kaigong pen, "Mo Chun, spring clothes are completed, five or six champions, six or seven children, bathing in Yi, dancing in the wind, and returning with a song."

After writing, Kagawa Koshiro put down his pen, shook his head and recited again, "Mo Chun, spring clothes are completed, five or six champions, six or seven children, bathing, dancing, singing and returning", muttered a few words in a low voice "The Way of the Master", "The Way of the Master", then he washed his hands and wiped his face, sat down at the desk, and called the staff officer on duty, telling him to keep abreast of the situation in Wuhan and report at any time. At the same time, he asked him to call and urge the chief of staff, Major General Inoue Narumi, to come to the office immediately.

Kagawa Koshiro said that he wanted the staff officers on duty to pay attention to the situation in Wuhan, but in fact, his key meaning was in the latter sentence, which was to urge the chief of staff, Major General Inoue Narumi, to come to the office. Why is this so? Because this Rear Admiral Inoue Narumi is a little different from Kagawa Koshiro, he has similar political views to Mitsumasa Yonechi and Yamamoto Isoroku of the Navy, and is a well-known treaty faction in the Navy. These people were not in favor of expanding the scale of the war of aggression against China, and were particularly opposed to forming an alliance with Germany and Italy. Today, the naval aviation made an attack on Wuhan, and it was originally scheduled that Inoue Narumi accompanied him and Shiro Kawaguru to see off the air force, but I don't know why he didn't go. Kazukawa Koshiro felt the need to bring him to the office for a good talk, even though it was still early in the morning, and it was still time to go back to sleep.

In fact, Kazukawa Koshiro's worries about Inoue Narumi are superfluous. Inoue Chengmei was historically called "Zhao Kuo of the Story" within the army, which means that he is just a guy who talks on paper, mainly because he is not good at commanding combat and often loses fighters. However, this man has historically consistently opposed an alliance with Germany and Italy, and a war with Britain and the United States. Even if the order is so, it does not affect his execution of the order and the performance of his military duties. Historically, when the bombing of Chongqing was carried out, the battle plan and battlefield commander was Inoue Narumi, and the naval aviation was basically used. He called the bombing of Chongqing, a city with a concentration of civilians, a "transoceanic crit."

After a short time, Inoue Narumi walked in with a blushing face and reported to Kagawa Koshiro that the reason why he could not go with the commander to see off the naval air fighter formation was because a major incident occurred during the night, and 20 officers and men of the Marine Corps did not return to the unit at night. Judging from the method of killing, it should have been done by Chinese agents.

As soon as Kagawa Furushiro heard it, his demeanor, cultivation, and mentality were all gone, and he stood up with a "whew", and opened his mouth to say Baga, and after Baga was over, he asked Inoue Narumi to urge the gendarmerie to quickly capture the murderer.

As soon as he finished speaking, the staff officer on duty sent a telephone record.

When Shiro Kagawa took the record, it was a report from the Central China Dispatch Command, which said that the air force and the Chinese Air Force were in a fierce battle in Wuhan, and that the support formations were arriving on the battlefield one after another, and asked the Chinese fleet to be on high alert and prepare for reinforcements.

After reading the report, Kazukawa Koshiro felt a little strange, such a tight sneak attack plan should be nine out of ten, so it may fall into a fierce battle?

Thinking about it, Kazukawa Koshiro still immediately asked Inoue Narumi to give orders to the Longxiang aircraft carrier team and the Shanghai Naval Aviation Airfield, wait for the order, and be ready to send follow-up reinforcements at any time.

After Inoue Narumi went to convey the order, Shiro Kazukawa sat at his desk and thought, this group of ambitious and talented guys in the army is purely not enough to succeed and more than to lose, with so many planes and warships to cooperate, they can't take a single Wuhan. Look at what battles the army fought, except for the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of North China at the beginning of the war, which were a bit decent, the next battles were not bullshit, just look at the urns that were transported back to the mainland by ships, you can see how incompetent these army generals are.

The strange thing is that there are no other orders from the Central China Dispatch Army Command in the future, and I don't know what the hell is going on. Kazukawa Koshiro couldn't help but call and ask, only to learn that the air battle was fierce, the casualties were heavy, and what was needed was fighter reinforcements, not bombers. In this way, as much as possible, the fighters of the army aviation will be transferred to carry out the mission.

At this time, although Kazukawa Kushiro no longer bothered about sending additional fighters to reinforce him, he began to worry about the safety of the attack planes of the naval aviation he sent, and he didn't even bother to eat the breakfast served by the guards.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters finally issued another notice, but this report made Kazukawa Kushiro even more upset, and the staff officer on duty who grabbed the report crackled and slapped him. Because the report said that the bombing of Wuhan achieved great results, but due to the desperate and stubborn resistance of the Chinese Air Force, the imperial army lost 55 fighters. General Shunroku Hata has ordered the army and naval aviation to withdraw from the battle and sent a large number of warplanes to respond.

When Inoue Narumi came in, Lieutenant General Shiro Kagawa had a red face like a monkey's buttocks, and he was pulling the collar of the staff officer on duty and slapping him.

Inoue Narumi stepped forward to pull away from Kazukawa Koshiro, ordered the unlucky staff officer on duty to go down, and then said to Kagawa Koshiro: "Your Excellency Commander, don't worry too much, the attack planes we sent are all the latest Type 96, with a large range and high speed, and it is impossible for the Shina Air Force to cause us much loss." I estimate that the damage was mainly caused by the old aircraft of the Army Aviation imported from Europe and the United States. ”

When Shiro Kagawa heard Inoue Narumi say this, his face twisted, and he said in a mocking tone: "Inoue-kun, is your brain dizzy?" Do you still think that the aircraft of the Chinese Air Force are very backward? Let me tell you, the real fighters of the Chinese Air Force were exhausted at the time of the Battle of Songhu, and now our fighters are fighting with Soviet aircraft. The Soviets were ostensibly neutral, but in fact they wanted us to lose the war. It seems that we have to suggest to the base camp that a new fighter be developed and put into production as soon as possible. ”

Inoue Narumi picked up on this, saying that the Chinese are getting smarter and smarter and will use international forces to help fight. There were American pilots in the Eighth Route Army Air Force, and the French and Soviets in Chiang Kai-shek's Air Force. If this continues, won't it be said that this empire is at war with the whole world? It can be seen that the fundamental way to solve the problem is not to develop new fighters, but to negotiate with the Chinese as soon as possible and end the war as soon as possible. Otherwise, with the strength of one country, it will not be able to confront the whole world at all.

As soon as Shiro Kagawa heard that Inoue Narumi was like this again, he was annoyed, slapped the table, and a word of Baga came out of his mouth. Then he scolded Inoue Narumi, as chief of staff of the Chinese fleet and chief of staff of the Third Fleet, for not thinking about how to speed up the Wuhan strategic battle into the city and repay His Majesty the Emperor for his divine kindness, but instead peddling the fallacy of not expanding the scale of the war, which is simply a great bad conscience.

When Shiro Kawakoshi was scolding him here, the staff officer on duty ran in again with a panicked look, and shouted "The aircraft carrier team requests tactical guidance!" ”

When Shiro Kawakawa heard this, he couldn't care about scolding Inoue Narumi anymore, so he snatched the telegram with his hand, and when he looked at it, he saw only two sentences on it: "The Dragon Xiang was hit by sixteen bombs, and asked for urgent tactical guidance." ”

Shiro Kagawa gasped, his eyes turned into dead fish eyes, and his hand holding the newspaper fluttered and trembled.

Before Kawakoshiro could react, another staff officer on duty rushed in with a telegram, just looking at the sweat on the staff officer's face, and Kawakoshiro knew that it was bad news. Sure enough, the telegram was sent from the aircraft carrier Fengxiang, and the content was almost exactly the same as that of the Longxiang. Immediately afterward, telegrams from cruisers and destroyers for help also arrived, and Shiro Kawakoshiro saw that his eyes were dark, and he sat on the ground with his buttocks.

It's still Inoue Narumi who has a measure, and the dog blood spray who was scolded by Kazukawa Koshiro just now, and he kept shouting Haiyi, and now when he sees that the situation is urgent, he continues to make a decision, and he stepped forward and pulled Kazukawa Koshiro up, and pulled him to the chair and helped him sit down.

Kagawakoshiro is a veteran navy who participated in the Russo-Russian War, and knows what sixteen bombs in the hull of an aircraft carrier mean. At this time, he couldn't care about scolding Inoue Narumi anymore, and he couldn't care about scolding the army stupid people, so he settled down, and Kawakoshiro immediately asked Inoue Narumi to convey the order: "1. Order all the fighters at the navy's Shanghai airfield to take off and reinforce the Longxiang aircraft carrier formation. 2. Order the aircraft carrier formations of the Akagi and Kaga to immediately sail to the area where the accident occurred and launch a rescue operation. All the carrier-based aircraft on the two aircraft carriers took off to reinforce the Longxiang aircraft carrier formation, search for the Chinese air force that had attacked them, and be sure to destroy them all. 3. Orders are made to ensure the safety of the carrier-based aircraft returning from Wuhan to land at Shanghai Airport. 4. Immediately report to General Shunroku Hata, asking him to order all the warplanes of the Central China Dispatch Army to take to the air to intercept the Chinese air force formation that is secretly attacking the aircraft carrier Longchamp. No matter where it is found, it must be resolutely eradicated. ”

After giving the order, Kazukawa Kushiro couldn't sit still anymore and immediately drove to the airport, where he wanted to personally see what was going on with the Ryuchamp aircraft carrier team.

By the time Kawakoshiro arrived over the Otsuyo, a large number of planes from the Japanese army had arrived, and it didn't take long to find the sinking fleet.

Looking at the tragic appearance of the aircraft carriers Longxiang and Fengxiang, two cruisers and four destroyers, which were about to sink completely, and then looking at the corpses, blood stains and sailors struggling to wait for rescue floating on the sea, Shiro Kagawa on the plane burst into tears, holding his sword and muttering to himself: "The world's first aircraft carrier sank in my hands, Anamerasu, you manifest your spirit!" ”

Amaterasu may have fallen asleep at this time, as if he couldn't hear the call of Shiro Kawako. Kagawakoshiro had no choice but to order the carrier-based aircraft and the shore-based aircraft of the naval aviation to expand the search area, and be sure to catch up with the sneak attacker and annihilate it. Then he kept urging the aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga to speed up and arrive quickly to carry out rescue.

After giving the order, Kazukawa Koshiro hung his head and ordered the landline to return, and he wanted to rush back and report to the base camp and ask for punishment.

After receiving the report from the fleet command on the Chinese side, the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, Shunroku Hata, was taken aback, how could this be possible, it was clear that the main force of the Chinese Air Force had just fought fiercely with the imperial fighters in Wuhan, where would they have the strength to bomb the aircraft carrier squadron again!

However, the Chinese fleet command will not lie about the military situation, and the Longxiang aircraft carrier squadron must have been attacked by the Chinese air force, and the losses were very large. Otherwise, this guy would not have been so angry and asked Central China to send all the planes to take off to find, intercept, and destroy the Chinese air force formation that was sneaking up. If this is the case, it will be the most humiliating event in the history of the Navy.

Thinking of this, a thought suddenly popped into his heart, this incident came at the right time, he was worried about the failure of the sneak attack on Wuhan, the huge losses, and the inability to explain to the base camp. God help me!

As a result, Shunroku Hata issued an order to dispatch the Central China Dispatch Army Flying Group to take off all fighters to search for and intercept the Chinese air force formation that had attacked the aircraft carrier Longchamp, and to destroy it as soon as it was discovered.

After giving the order, Shunroku Hahata called the fleet headquarters on the Chinese side, asking them to immediately report the specific losses of the aircraft carrier squadron Longchamp. After making the call, Shunroku Hata sat down and personally drafted a telegram to the base camp, saying that the aircraft carrier squadron was attacked by the Chinese Air Force in the sea east of Shanghai and suffered heavy losses. As for the losses in the air battle in Wuhan, Shunroku Hata brushed it over and only said that although the losses were slightly larger, the losses of the Chinese Air Force were even greater.

In this way, before Kagawa Koshiro had time to report to the base camp, Shunroku Hata's report first came to the hands of the chief of the general staff and the prime minister.

After sending the telegram, Shunroku Hata began to think about the situation of the Wuhan Raiders. Who knows that when the brain is messed up, you can't think about anything. Shunroku Hata simply pulled a chair and sat down, calling the adjutant to make tea, thinking while drinking.

With this thought, Shunroku Hata came up with a problem, because he thought of the question of who was sneaking up on the aircraft carrier formation of the Ryuchamp.

At the moment there are two aviation units that are the most suspicious, one is the volunteer team of the Soviets, and the other is the air force of the Eighth Route Army.

Although the participation of the Soviet Air Force volunteers in the war was a top secret, it was no longer a secret that they fought every day. After the destruction of Taipei's Songshan airport, Chinese newspapers reported that the Chinese Air Force had successfully attacked under the command of foreigners. All the senior generals of the Yue army know who this foreigner is. The ambassador to the Soviet Union also made a special meeting with the Soviet Foreign Ministry to lodge a protest against this. As a result, the Soviets only said that all the actions of the Soviet Union did not violate international law, and the ambassador of Xiao Yuben was so angry that he almost vomited blood on the spot.

In Shunroku Hata's view, since the Soviets' volunteer team could sneak attack Matsuyama airfield, they could sneak attack the aircraft carrier formation. However, in order to implement it, Shunroku Hata also ordered Sun Su, the flying group of the Dispatch Army, to find out whether there were Soviet volunteers in the air battle in Wuhan. As a result, the flight group soon reported that in the Wuhan air battle, all the aircraft used by the Chinese Air Force were Il-15 and Il-16 aircraft of the Soviet Air Force, and half of the planes were piloted by the Soviets themselves.

In this way, the possibility of a sneak attack on the aircraft carrier fleet by the Soviet volunteers was basically ruled out. The rest is the Eighth Route Army Air Force.

As soon as he thought of the Eighth Route Army Air Force, Shunroku Hata remembered Liu Yimin and his instructor.

Shunroku Hata is not Shouichi Terauchi, and he does not have such a deep study of Liu Yimin and his instructor. He just felt strange that when the Wuhan Raiders began, Liu Yimin's instructor obviously arrived near Bengbu on Jinpu Road, and obviously withdrew to the direction of Wuhan. But the battle has been carried out at this time, why hasn't Liu Yimin's main mentor been found yet?

Originally, Junroku Hata also doubted whether Tutor Liu Yimin had played another trick to break out of the shell and sneak back to Shandong, but after analysis, she ruled out this idea, because if Tutor Liu Yimin slipped back to Shandong, then the main force of the imperial army was launching a strategic battle in Wuhan, and it was the best time for Liu Yimin to make waves, and he would definitely fight a big fight. Now the situation in Shandong is stable, although there are Tu Ba Lu who keep attacking and harassing the imperial army, but it is all the work of Tu Ba Lu, and it is by no means Liu Yimin's tutor. It was also based on this analysis that Shunroku Hata decided to draw troops from North China, disguise the Fifth Division, and join the Central Plains battlefield.

Now, as soon as something happened to the Longxiang aircraft carrier team, Junroku Hata immediately remembered Liu Yimin's mentor. He repeatedly pondered why the Eighth Route Army Air Force appeared at this time, and why did it sneak attack the Imperial Army airfield and then the aircraft carrier formation as soon as it appeared? You must know that although the Eighth Route Army and Chiang Kai-shek's regular army belong to the same [***] team, the difference between them is big. Under normal circumstances, it would have been impossible for Chiang Kai-shek to mobilize the Eighth Route Army Air Force. There must be an article in this.

After drinking two pots of tea, Shunroku Hata finally figured out that the reason why the Eighth Route Army Air Force appeared on the battlefield in Wuhan at this time and attacked desperately at this time was because the main force of Liu Yimin's instructor was on the battlefield in Wuhan. Either he is hiding near Wuhan and preparing to hold on to it for the last time. Either he disguised himself as Chiang Kai-shek's other troops, and was bombed by planes in the battle with the Imperial Army, [***] so he had to risk sending an air force to rescue them in order to save their elite troops. Only this reason can explain why the imperial army suffered so many casualties on the battlefield in Wuhan, why the squadron was so tenacious, and why the tactics became more and more sophisticated.

After figuring out this truth, Shunroku Hata felt relaxed, since Liu Yimin was here, then he couldn't run away. What happens if you lose some planes? And what if you lose two light aircraft carriers? The industrial level of the Great Empire is not something that the Chinese can imagine, there are more planes and more warships! As long as we concentrate all our efforts on capturing Wuhan and eliminating the main force of the Chinese [***] team, this war will be over.

When he returned to the headquarters, all the fighters and reconnaissance planes of the Central China Army had already taken to the air, and the sky was full of shadows of the planes, which made the [***] team and the common people muttered in their hearts, what kind of nerves did the little devil have, so many planes were flying in the sky, why didn't they drop bombs? Could it be that the devil plane is wandering around blindly in the sky?

The telegram from the Chinese fleet command to the base camp had not yet been sent, and the telegram from the base camp questioning the damage to the Longxiang aircraft carrier formation had arrived. After a little pondering, the Chinese fleet command knew that it must be Admiral Shunliu Hata who had smashed black bricks behind his back again, but he no longer had the energy and mood to take care of this, and the top priority was to call back to the base camp as soon as possible, and he had to figure out how to write this telegram, otherwise, it was very likely that the sinking of the Longxiang aircraft carrier squadron would sweep him to the bottom of the sea.

After telling Inoue Narumi to truthfully report the losses of the Ryuchamp aircraft carrier squadron, Shiro Kazukawa sat down and personally drafted a secret message to Emperor Hirohito, looking up and saying, "Today is the darkest day in the life of the minister, and it is also the day with the heaviest losses in the history of the Navy." ”

In the secret telegram, Shiro Kagawa put on a weeping face, stated to the emperor the measures he had taken since taking office and the fighter planes he had obtained, described the destruction of the aircraft carrier squadron as the result of a conspiracy by China, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and France, and asked His Majesty the Emperor to allow him to apologize and wash away the shame of the navy. At the same time, he told the emperor that he was confident that he would lead the Chinese fleet to assist the army in the task of occupying Wuhan and even Canton.

Speaking of which, Kazukawa Koshiro is nothing more than not having the courage to cut his abdomen and wanting to pick up a life.

Kagawa Koshiro is 55 years old, he is old and refined, he would rather learn from the unlucky Terauchi Shouichi than the incompetent Itagaki, everyone has their own ambitions, and it is expected that the emperor has no choice.

As he wrote, Shiro Kagawa shook in front of his eyes, and his eyes were full of the emperor's gloomy eyes and the smiling face of Lu Xiang Sugi Moto. There was no way, so Kazukawa Koshiro had to find a small paper cutter, cut his fingers, and dripped a few drops of blood on the manuscript paper. After dripping, I remembered that this was a telegram draft, and the manuscript paper could not be sent, and His Majesty the Emperor could not see it after the blood was shed. Kagawa Koshiro had no choice but to smile bitterly and shouted that the staff officer took it and sent it.

The Chinese side knew that the news that the aircraft carrier squadron Longxiang had been sunk by our army was later than that of the Chinese army.

After Feng Dafei led the team north, in order to avoid being discovered by the army, he kept flying at a high altitude. The plane flew for more than two hours, and it felt that it was almost in Shandong, so Feng Dafei ordered the formation to turn around, leave the sea and fly to Shandong. At the same time, he ordered a telegram to Zhou Zhirou in Wuhan: "Our unit arrived at the sea of Dajiyang east of Shanghai at 9 o'clock this morning, discovered the aircraft carrier squadron of the Japanese army, and launched an attack to completely annihilate the enemy. Sinking aircraft carriers Longxiang and Fengxiang, destroying 32 carrier-based aircraft, two water reconnaissance planes, two cruisers and four destroyers. There is no damage in our department, and we are moving in the direction of Shaanxi. ”

The telegram to the Central Committee was basically the same as the telegram to Zhou Zhirou, except that it reported a flight to Shandong.

The telegram to Liu Yimin was simple, explaining that it was about to arrive, and the plane was disguised as a plane, so please indicate the location of the airport and use smoke to navigate.

As soon as these telegrams were issued, they caused a shock.

The plane finally flew away from Wuhan, leaving a city full of cries, blood and tears, the garrison was busy fighting fires and saving people, and Mrs. Jiang and Mrs. Sun also went to the hospital to comfort the injured people.

Chiang Kai-shek was in a very bad mood, with a blue face, no matter who it was, a wrong word might attract a scolding of "Niang Xipi". Everyone knows that Chiang Kai-shek was angry at the heavy losses of the air force, because although the victory was won, it was also a tragic victory, and for China, which was in turmoil, this loss was too great.

At this time, Zhou Zhirou drove to the Military Commission. As soon as he entered the gate, Zhou Zhirou jumped out of the car and went straight to Chiang Kai-shek's office.

Chiang Kai-shek, who was standing by the window, found Zhou Zhirou, saw his panicked energy, thought that something was wrong, and was about to scold Niang Xipi again, Zhou Zhirou shouted "Great victory, great victory of our army" and ran in.

(To be continued)