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Chapter 1430 All-round air combat

Nanxiang, Guyi Garden, Anjia Army Headquarters. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

An Yi was paying attention to the situation of the AB26 bomber group carrying a large number of 200-kilogram high-explosive armor-piercing shells that were forcing the Japanese warship group, and suddenly got the latest information on the air battle in Hangzhou, and blurted out:

"It's definitely American! Fuck, the Americans even sold their own good things to *** people, aren't they afraid that *** people will backlash, and in the end this uncontrollable force will be used against themselves? ”

Lin Fei asked in surprise, "Commander, what do you mean...... This new bomber was produced by the Americans? ”

An Yi nodded: "At present, except for the long-range bombers we have, only the Americans are studying this thing...... According to US intelligence, as early as February 34, the Boeing Company developed a prototype of a four-engine bomber named XBLR-1 and XB-15 by the military, and designed it on 18 June 34 and manufactured a prototype Model 299 on 16 August 34. The aircraft had a crew of nine people, including a co-pilot, bombardier, pilot/wireless telegrapher, and five gunners, and had five 12.7 mm machine guns, while the internal bomb bay could hold eight 272 kg bombs for a maximum load of 2,176 kg. The first flight was successful in Seattle on July 28, 35, and the military named it YB-17, which refers to the use of the Air Force's spare funds to purchase these aircraft, rather than the normal appropriation.

The Air Force originally planned to order 220 planes, but because of its confidence in this new type of bomber, Boeing produced 300 in one go, but the military only placed an order for 65 planes, and finally reduced it to only 13 planes, and the remaining 287 planes were all placed in hangars, which squeezed out a large amount of Boeing's research and development funds and caused the entire company to struggle. I estimate that this time Boeing quietly reached an agreement with *** and sold all the 283 bombers to *** people...... Really *** egg, I don't know which grandson discovered this tactic of bomber swarm combat, *** people actually used it against us. ”

"Won't it?" Lin Fei opened his mouth wide and asked in disbelief: "The Americans are willing to sell such a good bomber to *** people?" ”

"Okay!? Without actual combat proven, who knows which fighter is good and which is bad? ”

An Yi shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Now the U.S. economy is in a terrible economic crisis, and the national economy has seen negative growth for several months.

"Moreover, I heard that in several previous tests, the YB-17 had major accidents, the most serious one was a major accident that crashed and caught fire during takeoff at Wright Airport in October 35, and all the crew members were killed, and the Air Force pilots and Boeing test pilots who participated in the test were all finished, leading the Air Force top brass to think that there were too many potential safety hazards of this four-engine bomber, and equipping this kind of aircraft was a serious irresponsibility for the lives of Air Force officers and men. So it turned to the Glass DB-1 twin-engine bomber developed by Douglas Aircraft Company, which was a military version of the B-18.

"The B-18 is much slower than the YB-17, and the flight range is short, the bomb load is small, and the defensive weapons are weak, and the only positive advantage is that the cost is only half of the YB-17, because its basic design is derived from the DC-2 passenger aircraft, and the design risk seems to be much smaller, so the US Air Force ordered 300 in one go, and the YB-17 was completely thrown into the cold palace."

(Note: There is a list of test aircraft imported by the Navy in May 1937, including the YB-17, so in the case of repeated setbacks, the Japanese army will try to import them.) The reason why the real history did not have this procurement case is related to the fact that the Japanese army fought too smoothly on the battlefield in China. ）

"So what now? This kind of bomber has thick skin and strong firepower, once it adopts a targeted formation combat method, it is like a turtle shell, it is difficult to break ......" Lin Fei shook his head worriedly.

"Fear comes from the unknown, and now that you know what type of aircraft it is, it's not too difficult to deal with it. The external armor of this heavy bomber is extremely thick, but it is not invulnerable, our 20mm cannon is enough to deal with it, of course, the 7.62 caliber aviation machine gun converted from the general-purpose machine gun can no longer meet the needs of today's air combat, we have to look for a more powerful aviation machine gun...... Alas, after this air battle, our A26 weapon system must be transformed, and the new models in the future must also adopt a completely new weapon system, and the Mosquito fighter and A27 fighter that have been finalized must be reheated and redesigned and modified according to the changes in the weapon system...... Dog's day, the original *** aircraft is too flexible, the skin is very thin, and it will be finished if you can't shoot a few shots, our air combat weapons are enough, but now the Yankees haven't even figured out the situation and sold their good baby to Xiao ***, so we have to follow the upgrade, and life is difficult! An Yi scolded and scolded.

Seeing An Yi's disapproving look, the original panic of a group of generals in the war room was swept away, and they settled down and settled down.

An Yi is indeed not without a target, and to deal with this new air combat mode, An Yi, who is a pilot himself, has his own considerations.

Since the firepower is not strong enough, the 7.62 caliber aviation machine gun has been changed to a 12.7 caliber one, and all of them have been replaced with bullet chains or cartridge belts to feed ammunition, which greatly increases the bomb carrying capacity of the fighter, and the machine gun in the nose has also been changed from 20mm to 23mm, so that the lethality is at least doubled...... Well, you have to increase the firepower, if the firepower of two machine guns is not enough, you can install four, or even six or eight, and if you don't have enough one cannon in the nose, you can install two, three, or even four.

With Tesla's research last month on the research of large coils sent to the sky, now Syria has made a lot of progress in the research of rockets, saying that it is not necessarily possible to install high-power rocket launchers, install fighters, and use rockets to penetrate armor with terrifying armor to deal with the Japanese army's four-shot bomber formation, is it not yet hand-to-hand? Anyway, now that there are frequent breakthroughs in engine research, next time we will adopt air-cooled engines with higher horsepower, learn from the Americans' fighter development ideas, increase the armor thickness of fighters, increase the flight speed of fighters, and confront the small air force by vigorously improving the survivability of air combat.

Thinking of this, An Yi hurriedly recorded his fighter development ideas with paper and pen, and then asked Shen Fengdao to send this telegram defined as top secret to Syria through a special secret code, and Gong Qian handed it over to a special person to tackle the subject. As long as there is Tesla, a Frankenstein, and Ding Molan, a strange woman who is known as the heir of Tesla, it is possible to solve any problem..... Perhaps this new model will be named A28.

Just when An Yi was thinking about it, the air defense siren, which had just stopped, sounded poignantly again.

An Yi, who woke up from a sweet dream, glanced at Lin Fei, and his eyes showed horror: The fierce battle on the front line of Hangzhou is in full swing, and according to the calculation of the time in the air, the huge mixed fighter group of the Japanese army is no longer enough to support large-scale continuous battles.

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Hangzhou Bay.

The huge and heart-pounding warship group cruises in the waters of the southeast of Hangzhou Bay and the northeast of Ningbo Port.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, the AB26 bomber formation of the Southwest Air Force flew over the sea of Hangzhou Bay in the shape of a "man" and, under the guidance of the reconnaissance plane, quickly pounced on the Japanese warships.

At an altitude of 9,000 meters, Lieutenant Colonel Ye Fei, the leader of the 6th Squadron of the 2nd Regiment of the Southwest Air Force, who had already taken over from Lieutenant Mu Chun on the alert duty, gave a heavy tone about the situation of the Japanese fleet:

"The first line of the Hangzhou Bay Navy fleet, with four aircraft carriers, four battleships, twelve cruisers, 20 destroyers, and a number of gunboats and supply ships, the anti-aircraft fire is extremely powerful, our S3 reconnaissance plane in order to find out the density of the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery fire, dived to an altitude of 1,000 meters and was hit by a dense rain of bullets fired by the ship, and the second lieutenant Zhao Zhiyun, who piloted the fighter, died heroically.

"Through this test, we found that the arrangement of the air defense formation of the Japanese warship group is extremely reasonable, and the entire airspace can be *** in a short time, unless we are willing to pay a heavy price, we can only use high-altitude bombing to complete the task. Moreover, on the two aircraft carriers in the Japanese ship group, there are more than 40 Mitsubishi Type 96 shipboard fighters of the *** Navy that have just been raised from the hangar below, which are extremely threatening to our side. Therefore, I suggest that the current situation is that the enemy is strong and we are weak, and our side should take the preservation of strength as the first priority and cancel this combat mission! ”

The mood of all the officers and men of the Air Force who participated in the bombing was heavy. When the group of planes took off, they already knew the news that the air battle in Hangzhou was unfavorable and that 30 fighters of our army had fallen, and a trace of tragic feelings rose in everyone's hearts.

Although there had been a successful sneak attack on the main fleet of the Japanese army on the front line of Haizhou Bay and the brilliant achievement of blowing up and sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga, it was a record achieved when the sky was thick and the Japanese fleet was caught off guard. Today, the sky is cloudless, and the Japanese sea surface ships can find the direction of the fighter attack from a distance, and judging from the situation of the close cooperation of the navy, army and air force in carrying out the mission, they must have anticipated the possible air attack of the southwest air force and prevented it.

"Attention to all the bombers, they are now starting to descend in altitude, and when they reach an altitude of 6,000 meters, they will fly over the Japanese battleship group and drop bombs at high altitude. Note that at present, the situation of the enemy and us in the Songhu area has shown that the enemy is strong and we are weak, if our fighters are exhausted early, then who will defend this land in the future? Everyone, carry out the order, I will be responsible for the problem! ”

Major General Zhang Pu, commander of the 2nd Air Regiment, who served as the commander-in-chief of the bombing, issued a loud order.

The Japanese warship group on the sea surface of Hangzhou Bay immediately sounded the air defense battle alarm at the moment when the trail of the bomber formation appeared in the northern sky, and all the antiaircraft artillery muzzles pointed diagonally to the sky, and the decks of the Canglong aircraft carrier, which was completed ahead of schedule on 29 July this year, and the old-fashioned "Longxiang" aircraft carrier, which was capable of docking 48 fighters, quickly became busy, and the Mitsubishi Type 96 fighter planes sailed onto the runway one after another and flew into the sky.

The bomber group did not have the slightest intention of lowering the altitude, and began to drop bombs in unison with the anti-aircraft guns of surface ships roaring in unison.

The magazines of each bomber were automatically opened, and 10 high-explosive armor-piercing shells weighing 200 kilograms were dropped like hailstones, and after they were thrown, they continued to fly toward the southern sky without the slightest intention of slowing down to watch the results of the battle, until they broke away from the airspace of the battle and got rid of the Japanese Type 96 shipboard fighters that were trailing, and then turned to fly westward.

Sixty bombers, in one breath dropped 600 high-explosive armor-piercing shells in the same sea area, even if most of the bombs were thrown off, but there was always a blind cat touching the dead mouse, two small destroyers were directly hit at the bridge position, the terrifying penetration ability of the 200-kilogram armor-piercing projectile was fully displayed, directly biting through the thick armor of the ship and penetrating into the interior of the ship, and a violent explosion immediately occurred, triggering the detonation of the ammunition compartment, and the continuous explosion directly tore the hull in half, and then slowly sank in the fire and smoke.

There was a battleship and two cruisers, each of which was hit on the deck, pierced a large hole, and ignited a raging fire, but due to the poor landing point, and the armor of the battleship and the cruiser, which was far from comparable to that of the destroyer, did not deal a fatal blow to the ship. On the contrary, there were four gunboats and supply ships, although they were not directly hit, but the bombs fell too close to the ship, and the ship's own tonnage was too small, and the huge waves tens of meters high set off, capsizing these unlucky ships at once.

After a wave of attacks, the sea was densely packed with sailors who jumped into the sea, and a large number of search and rescue boats were quickly dispatched to rescue the devil's sailors to nearby ships.

Just when the bomber formation of the An Jiajun was attacking the Japanese warships, more than 400 fighters of the army aviation unit at Pudong Airport, divided into dozens of formations, suddenly rose into the air and killed the hinterland of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui.

At this time, the Anjia Army Air Force had been emptied, and the major airports were empty, and there were no extra fighters to meet the Japanese fighter group.

The Japanese fighters in Pudong can be described as varied, including the American Curtiss XP-40 fighter, and the Italian CR.32 biplane fighter, as well as some newly purchased fighter prototypes from European and American countries, such as the "***" 300 and K5054 prototypes, "Hurricane" sample aircraft, etc., plus the Japanese army's KI27 Nakajima Jiuqi, KI43 Hayabusa fighters and Mitsubishi 92 and 97 heavy explosive fighters, forming a huge combat cluster, with the airfield in Pudong as the center, Swept inland.

At Kunshan Airport, when the roar of the heavy motors of enemy planes and the screaming of bombs falling were heard in the sky, the people in Kunshan County, who had not yet had time to move, were so frightened that they ran in all directions, helplessly looking for a place to hide, and the airport was also in chaos, which was a rather tragic situation -- the Japanese fighters were like a group of thieves with no one in their eyes, flying over the airport without any hindrance along the way, and while evading, they circled and dropped bombs under the condition that the ground anti-aircraft artillery fire roared in unison.

Although from time to time Japanese fighters were hit by the barrage fired by the quadruple machine guns of the air defense artillery trucks on the ground, the antiaircraft machine guns of the air defense positions, and the barrage fired by the antiaircraft guns, and fell to the ground with a whimper, making violent explosions, the bombs dropped by the Japanese fighters also hit the airport command center, oil depots, ammunition depots, runways, pilots' resting houses, and other buildings.

Seeing that the Japanese fighter group had successfully destroyed the airfield, it began to carry out precise attacks on various air defense positions, using bombs and low-altitude flying strafing to clear all the anti-aircraft artillery fire on the ground, and at the same time beating the Chinese and civilians running around on their backs.

Major General Lu Gengchen, commander of the Third Regiment of the Southwest Air Force, had just rushed out of the airport command center when a blazing heat wave came from behind him, and the houses full of antennas had fallen into a sea of fire.

Major General Lu Gengchen lay on the grass, motionless, listening to the splashing bullets, "poof" falling around, wanting to cry without tears. At this moment, the majestic major general of the Southwest Air Force felt as if he had turned into a wooden man, unaware of the danger and death threats splashing around him. He witnessed one after another *** fighter roaring in, diving, strafing, aviation machine guns spitting tongues of fire, then pulling up the nose, then diving, and then strafing...... Cycle.

The anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine-gun positions on the ground were quickly lost under the close cooperation of Japanese fighters and bombers, and under the high-density blows of bombs and aerial machine-gun bullets. The 20 air defense quadruple combat vehicles equipped with the 3rd Regiment of the Southwest Air Force also ignited a raging fire after killing three Japanese fighters, turning them into piles of scrap copper and rotten iron.

Lu Gengchen raised his head in a depressed mood, with his keen eyesight, he could almost see the triumphant ugly face of the *** pilot in the cockpit of the plane.

This battle is really embarrassing!

The devils flew around in the sky, roaring and raging, and the lives of the robes and the people were torn alive in front of Lu Gengchen's eyes, as a flight general of the Southwest Air Force who had flown for more than 2,000 hours, he could only hide in the grass in a daze. Once an eagle loses its wings, it may be like a hen pecking in a manure pit, which is sad and lamentable!

Of course, this is not or cannot be counted as anyone's fault, because things in the world are often like this, although you are full of enthusiasm and ambition to serve the country, but fate has put you in an embarrassing situation of helplessness and powerlessness. There is nothing wrong with the 3rd Air Force Regiment being dispatched to meet the Japanese fighter group today, but the fault lies in the fact that the Southwest Air Force still has too few troops at hand to take care of it everywhere.

The first batch of Japanese planes achieved their operational objectives, and after the bombing and strafing, the ammunition was basically exhausted, and they began to return one after another, and the entire Kunshan airport was in flames everywhere, the ground anti-aircraft fire was lost, and many important buildings were completely destroyed. The only good thing is that the runway is not very badly damaged. Lu Gengchen looked up at the blue sky, worried, he knew that this was the last chance, once the second batch of Japanese fighters arrived, not only would the airport not be able to be safeguarded, but even if the fighters of the third regiment of our army returned home, they would not be able to land.

As early as when the alarm sounded, Major General Lu Gengchen asked the Southwest Air Force to return the fighters as soon as possible, and the headquarters had already agreed, but because the airport command center had been destroyed by the first wave of bombing by the Japanese army, although Regiment Commander Lu looked through the autumn water, he did not know where the three fighter squadrons of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Air Force Regiment had flown now and when they would arrive at Kunshan Airport.

Just when Lu Gengchen was anxious, there was a slight and imperceptible motor oscillation in the air, as if there was telepathy, Lu Gengchen's heart contracted violently, and then he opened his mouth and breathed heavily, and the blood around his body instantly boiled. That's right, the ears won't deceive themselves, it's the A26 fighter group that has returned, Lu Gengchen jumped up, waved his hands, and staggered to the runway. This situation is very similar to the drowning man who grabbed the canban one by one, which is not only a life-saving canban, but also a speedboat of revenge, which will carry him to pour out all the hatred and anger of an Anjia army and air force officer to *** people.

After about a minute or two, the silver A26 fighter jet made an emergency landing on the ground with a bump, followed by more than 20 fighter jets painted with the flying fox logo landing on the runway. The airport personnel rushed up and used the surviving refueling trucks and ammunition trucks to fill up the fighters one by one, and then filled them with ammunition.

Lu Gengchen rushed forward, stepped on the A26 fighter that landed first, pulled the original pilot off the cockpit, sat in it himself, and then roared "go", with a roar of the engine, the A26 fighter began to slide quickly towards the runway, braving the billowing smoke rising from the airport, flapping its wings into the air.

The pilots of the 3rd Air Regiment, seeing that the regiment commander had personally gone into battle this time, couldn't help but be in good spirits, and quickly closed the cockpit and stumbled after Lu Gengchen to take off.

At this time, the second attack wave of Japanese fighters arrived over Kunshan Airport, and the airport was immediately filled with a terrifying and heavy humming sound from *** fighters.

The unexpected appearance of the A26 fighter group disrupted the attack formation of the Japanese group, so that the bombers who could have calmly dropped bombs and strafed them threw their bombs into the paddy fields outside the airfield.

Now that Lu Gengchen has put on his wings, he is no longer a silent wood, or an old hen pecking in a manure pit, all his spiritual power is supported by the powerful material power of the A26 fighter. You must know that only having spiritual strength cannot resist the attack of Japanese fighters, so when Lu Gengchen indulged this A26 fighter jet full of bullets and hatred into a whirring noise, he took the lead, not only did he not have the slightest loneliness and timidity in his heart, but had a sense of majesty like a tiger entering a flock or a cat and mouse.

In fact, it was indeed a duel between the tiger and the flock.

Because the mixed group of Japanese troops returning to the country reported to its command through radio waves that the Kunshan airfield had lost its ability to resist and the runway had been destroyed, it was only necessary to send a bomber group to deal with the aftermath and completely destroy the airfield.

Therefore, when Regiment Commander Lu piloted the fighter plane to quickly approach the Japanese bomber, and effortlessly caught the huge fuselage of the Japanese bomber, and even could clearly see the panicked ugly face of the devil pilot from the cockpit, an indescribable pleasure of revenge rose in his heart.

In the first round of the confrontation, it took less than five minutes, and the aviation machine gun of Regiment Commander Lu was like a whip violently whipping the Japanese fighters, and soon two Mitsubishi Type 97 heavy bombers dragged the billowing smoke and planted them on the ground one after another, one spun and fell into the sparkling puppet lake, where a huge column of water splashed on the surface of the lake, and the other plane hit a residential building in Kunshan County, exploded and caught fire, and fell apart.

The rest of the A26 fighters, outflanked by, like fast falcons, quickly caught up and surrounded the bulky *** bomber group. Artillery rumbled in the sky, dragging long tracer cannons and aviation machine-gun bullets, shaking everywhere. The Japanese bombers threw away all their bombs in a panic, tried to make their way faster, and fought with the only tower machine gun, but this still did not help them escape the impending catastrophe.

The athletes of the Southwest Air Force, piloting the extremely powerful A26 fighters, forced them from behind, the whistling aviation machine gun bullets and machine gun shells, like flying death, tightly grabbed the soulless *** people, and the Japanese bombers were like broken pieces of wood, splashing out, exploding in the air, catching fire, and falling apart.

It took less than a quarter of an hour before and after this battle, and the heavy bombers were shot down nine and many damaged, and the Japanese paid a heavy price.

However, not all airports have the good fortune of Kunshan Airport.

In this wave of blows, the newly completed Songjiang Airport, Jiading Airport and Taicang engine rooms have suffered heavy damage and have become unusable. Suzhou Airport, Wuxi Airport, Changshu Airport, and Jiaxing Airport suffered serious blows, while Qingpu Airport was built by using paddy fields to lay slag, masonry, and coal ash because of its proximity to Dianshan Lake, and the new airport was built by using paddy fields to lay slag, masonry, and coal ash.

The worst is still Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport, the entire airport was bombed everywhere to see huge craters up to several meters deep, all the equipment has been scrapped, and it can no longer be put into use.

Precisely because almost all airfields were attacked, the AB26 bomber group of the Southwest Air Force did not return to the departure airfield after performing its mission, but went to Nanchang Airfield to temporarily evade the attack of enemy aircraft.

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In the city of Nanjing, the atmosphere became extremely tense as the air defense sirens suddenly sounded.

Instead of following the Jiangnan Group's arrangement to evacuate, but thinking of the capital Nanjing, the refugees in the Songhu area who decided the future of their families according to the situation, had just stopped to catch their breath when they suddenly heard the terrible air defense siren, and in horror, they cried again for their fathers and mothers, dragged their children and daughters, and ran out of the city without their lives.

Wang Jingwei's car drove slowly through the streets of Nanjing, honking its horn incessantly amid the terrible sound of air defense sirens and the constant collision of refugees in the surrounding area.

In the carriage, Wang Jingwei waved his hand a little distraught, and the secretary Liu Shoujiang pulled the window glass knowingly.

Wang Jingwei poked his head out of the car window and saw the dirty, tired and panicked faces of the refugees who were helping the old and the young, and then saw the injured and sick refugees lying on the side of the street covered with flies and maggots, a white and tender face like a woman turned red, and muttered in his mouth:

"Who doesn't feel moved when they see this tragic scene of thousands of people dying and being displaced? If the people are so innocent and suffer so much, can't China and Japan coexist peacefully except for war? ”

Liu Shoujiang didn't know what Wang Jingwei meant by this, and smiled and complimented: "The chairman cares about the well-being of the people, and he is really a model for officials in the world. In Shoujiang's memory, this seems to be the first time that the air defense alarm has been sounded in Nanjing since the start of the war, which is already a great achievement compared to the national strength of China and Japan! (Note: Wang Jingwei has always held the post of chairman of the Central Political Council, so Liu Shoujiang calls him chairman.) ）

Wang Jingwei was in a heavy mood and sighed again and again: "Sad, sad! Now China and Japan are like two chess pieces, involuntarily, being constantly caught and killed by others, both defeats are injured, hateful and annoying! ”

Liu Shoujiang asked with some puzzlement: "Chairman, if it is said that China is the most powerful, it is still possible, but it is a great power itself, with the third most powerful navy in the world, who can indulge them?" ”

Wang Jingwei leaned on the back seat: "Obviously, Americans, can only be Americans!" The Americans not only provided *** with oil, rubber, steel and weapons technology, but seeing that *** was no longer working, and the Sino-Japanese war was about to end, they quickly sold their most advanced fighters to ***, and they were afraid that the world would be too peaceful, and their orders would be gone. Only when the whole world is constantly fighting wars can the capitalists of the United States reap the benefits of a steady stream of energy, and can the United States take advantage of the advantages of international factories to quickly extricate itself from the quagmire of economic crisis and continue to consolidate its position as the number one industrial power.

"Shoujiang, I don't know if you've thought about it, since 918, *** has plundered so much gold and silver from China, why are you still so poor, so where is all that wealth now?"

Liu Shoujiang's heart moved, and he replied in Wang Jingwei's tone: "Chairman, could it be the United States?"

Wang Jingwei nodded appreciatively: "That's right, now all the gold and silver are in the vaults of major banks in the United States, converted into urgently needed oil, steel, rubber and other materials, as well as all kinds of advanced technology, to fight with our China, and then continue to use the looted things to buy from the American chaebols." Therefore, when China and Japan go to war, in fact, it is the sinister and cunning Americans who will profit in the end! ”

It was the first time for Liu Shoujiang to hear such a novel point of view, and he was a little unacceptable for a while. Wang Jingwei said: "Therefore, my friends in ***, I hope that we can give up resistance and jointly build a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, and China and Japan will join hands to deal with the exploitation and oppression of the white race." ”

"Huh!?"

Liu Shoujiang suddenly understood, it turned out that Wang Jingwei was looking for an excuse to surrender!

However, now that Chiang Kai-shek's army is strong and strong, is Wang Jingwei sure that he will be able to convince Chiang Kai-shek? Perhaps today's air raids can find a reason for Wang Jingwei's surrender theory! Now Liu Shoujiang and Wang Jingwei are in a relationship of both glory and loss, so seeing Wang Jingwei's expectant gaze, Liu Shoujiang had to smile and say: "The chairman has a high opinion, every word is beautiful, and it points to the essence of the incident, Shoujiang admires it!" ”

Wang Jingwei closed his eyes proudly and stopped talking, but Liu Shoujiang's heart was disturbed. If Wang Jingwei insists on surrendering, what should he do? Do you want to be a traitor?

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In the airspace southeast of Nanjing, a huge Japanese aircraft group composed of fighters, bombers, and reconnaissance planes flew over Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China.

The A25 and A26 fighter groups of the Third Brigade of the Central Air Force, the Fourth Brigade of the Huai'an Airport, and the Fifth Brigade of the Xuzhou Airport stationed at the Nanjing Airport were already in full array under the radar warning, and as soon as the two sides met, a fierce air battle broke out in the airspace over the Qinhuai River southeast of Nanjing.

This is completely a fierce battle of wits and courage, chasing and fleeing, rolling left and right, rushing up and down, killing the wind and clouds, and the sky and the earth change color!

The people of Nanjing, whether they had fled here or had been living here, would let out a huge cheer when they saw the plane painted with the plaster flag whimpering and falling, and on the contrary, if the fighter plane painted with blue sky and white sun and red fell, they would let out a burst of lamentation.

A *** pilot parachuted in time and landed safely, but only ten minutes later, he was surrounded by angry Chinese people who rushed to hear the news, hoeed sticks, and died on the spot.

The air battle was very fierce, and one of the Japanese fighters was shot, dragged a long smoke and crashed into the city of Nanjing, but was quickly hit by the anti-aircraft artillery deployed around the city of Nanjing, and the volley shattered and disintegrated.

At this time, the officers and men of the Central Air Force remembered that the air defense brigade of the Southwest Air Force was arranged outside Nanjing, and they woke up from a dream and quickly retreated to the airspace of Nanjing, but the Japanese fighter group may have smelled the smell of danger, or perhaps they ran out of fuel and ammunition, so they turned around and turned back.

In this battle, the Central Air Force lost 18 A25 fighters, 5 A26 fighters, all the pilots who parachuted were rescued, and the Japanese losses were almost twice that of the Chinese Air Force, including seven Curtiss XP-40 fighters, 12 KI27 Nakajima 97 fighters, 9 Mitsubishi 92 heavy crit fighters, 4 97 heavy crit fighters, and six KI43 Hayabusa fighters.

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In the airspace of Wuhu, a Southwest Airlines passenger plane flying from Nanjing to Syria was discovered by a Japanese flying squadron, and Kuroda Shaozo, who led the team, personally followed and followed for several minutes, and finally determined that it was a Southwest Airlines passenger plane owned by An Jiajun, the enemy's sworn enemy of the empire.

According to international conventions, civil airliners flying along normal routes should be protected, and no belligerent party should attack them.

Unfortunately, war is an extraordinary act in extraordinary times, and the Yamato people love war precisely because they are unwilling to stick to convention. As soon as Kuroda saw the slender silver-white fuselage of the Southwest Airlines AN5 airliner, he felt an irrepressible crime surging in his heart.

At this time, in the entire land south of the Yangtze River, the air forces of China and Japan were receiving fire and fighting everywhere, and the war passion of the devil pilots was surging, and there was no rationality at all, and the eyes of the Japanese pilots flashed with the fierce fire of the machine guns, so for the devil officers, the war itself was the law, and all international conventions were invalid.

As a result, Kuroda Shaozo resolutely gave the order to attack, two heavily armed *** fighters pounced, Kuroda Shaozo personally opened fire, and the first string of dense bullets rained down, obliquely cutting off one of the wings of this civil airliner manufactured by the Syrian Aircraft Factory that can accommodate 28 passengers. Half a minute later, the accurate aviation machine gun knocked out the tail of the passenger plane again, blowing two large holes in the cabin. The devilish pilot had hoped to watch contentedly as the airliner whirled in pain, dragging a long stretch of black smoke and falling obliquely, but the airliner did not catch fire, explode or be shattered, it just stumbled and made an emergency landing on a river beach and survived.

This scene made Kuroda even more angry. One of the greatest weaknesses of the Yamato nation is that they are too inferior, and they say at every turn: Please judge yourself to His Majesty the Emperor! It's like it's a great honor to let someone die. Now the fact that the passenger plane does not want to die, this fact makes Kuroda Shaozo feel very insulted and his self-esteem is very hurt, so several *** planes show their skills together, and beat the Chinese passengers who tried to escape from the cabin to pieces, and the passenger plane was blown to pieces.

Just when Kuroda Shaozo was laughing loudly at the microphone, the group of planes rushing to the front line at Nanchang Airport arrived at the right time, and when they saw the burning passenger planes on the ground, they understood everything, and the commander of the Seventh Air Regiment, Major General Gan Buchan, angrily reprimanded "brute", and then led three squadrons of forty fighters to pounce on the Japanese fighter group.

In order to ensure endurance, the Japanese army in this formation is equipped with all KI43 Hayabusa fighters.

During the battle, the 7th Air Force Regiment firmly grasped the operational principles of the Falcon fighters summed up by Major General Liu Ziyun, commander of the 6th Air Regiment, in North China, and adopted the tactics of hit-and-run, rapid diving, and constant interspersing; finally, at the cost of 12 fighters, it completely annihilated the 22 Hayabusa fighters that came at the cost of its own 12 fighters, thus avenging the 30 passengers and crew members on the passenger plane.

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Today, for Feng Yuxiang, commander of the Third Theater of Operations, it can be described as a life of nine deaths.

In the theater headquarters in Suzhou, Feng Yuxiang was very shocked when he heard that the war had suddenly broken out in Hangzhou, and immediately took his entourage and marched towards Hangzhou City by highway.

Feng Yuxiang had no choice but to evacuate with his entourage to the melon field to take refuge, an enemy plane flew at a low altitude, and even the pilot and the machine gun on the plane could see very clearly, but the enemy plane did not strafe and bomb, and flew away after circling a few times.

The car continued to move forward, and on the road, six Japanese fighters followed Feng Yuxiang's car to circle and bomb, and Feng Yuxiang was desperate and ordered the driver to drive forward with guns and bullets.

"If the enemy plane drops bombs, it will be difficult to avoid it, and I should shout long live the Chinese nation, although I have been martyred, I will leave this magnificent slogan as the last cry of our nation to pray for liberation." General Feng said to his entourage.

It really seems to be blessed by God and Buddha, under the frantic bombing of the Japanese fighter group, Feng Yuxiang was unscathed, and soon came to a place twenty-five kilometers away from Jiaxing County. At this time, the Japanese fighter group was moving to bomb Jiaxing Airport, and the Japanese fighters shuttling back and forth frequently stared at Feng Yuxiang's car.

The result was that although Feng Yuxiang was very reluctant, the car still stopped and stopped, and Feng Yuxiang was constantly helped up or dragged down from the car, lying down in the ditch next to the road and in the mud pond on the ridge, making his whole body and face dirty. However, the Japanese fighters kept coming, and as soon as this one flew away, another one flew over there, constantly hovering overhead, so Feng Yuxiang's car could not arrive in Jiaxing, let alone Hangzhou.

Feng Yuxiang was very angry, he was not used to being dragged around, and there were strings of machine-gun bullets, forcing him to lie on the ground and put his face against the cold wet dirt that smelled of pig dung, which was very uncomfortable.

What's more, Feng Yuxiang's dignity couldn't bear this humiliation, so he was furious and shouted: "I don't want to ride in the car!" Feng Yuxiang said angrily: "I walk by myself, and the revolutionary soldiers can't let the devil see the joke!" ”

Therefore, the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission and the commander-in-chief of the Third Theater of Operations, who regarded death as his home, stood up from the ground with a single hand, took great strides amid the whistling of enemy planes, and walked on the long road leading to the urban area of Jiaxing. Later, he learned through the phone that dozens of Japanese fighters bombed indiscriminately during the day, and his theater headquarters in Suzhou had been completely destroyed!