Europe has calmed down for the time being, but the root cause of the war has not been eliminated, and a major war may break out, so European countries have stepped up their own military development. And in the East, war is also about to break out.

In November 1935, the pro-Japanese faction Wang Jingwei was assassinated, causing the pro-Japanese faction to lose power within the Chinese government. The rapid fall of Northeast China made the Nanjing government realize that the Japanese ambition was not only to invade and occupy Northeast China, but also that the whole of China was the target of the Japanese.

The Nanjing government also had illusions about Japan on the issue of North China, hoping that through the establishment of a semi-independent government of the Nanjing government, the Japanese government would ease its expansion into North China. At the same time, the Nanking government was also vigorously developing its military power, because it was obviously impossible to hope that Japan would stop in the northeast.

Fortunately, at this time, there was the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex to vigorously support the Nanjing government in weapons and equipment, and the Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd. not only produced a large number of M30 transport aircraft, and then produced M30 bombers and gunboat aircraft, followed by training attack aircraft, and at the end of 1935, due to the war between Sweden and Germany, and the Nanjing government stood on the opposite side of Germany, Dragon Soul Ordnance exported the technology of Weilong jet fighters and M40 large transport aircraft and bombers to China. Production of these high-tech aviation weapons in Chongqing.

This gave the Japanese a very bad premonition, if China was allowed to continue to develop like this, then sooner or later Japan's dream of occupying China would come to naught! The Japanese Empire had to seize the opportunity of the Nanking government, which had not yet grown stronger, to quickly send troops to attack from North and East China at the same time.

Of course, the Japanese were also taking risks at this time, because the Nanjing government was already equipped with a lot of advanced weapons at this time. In China, the propeller trainer attack aircraft, which was named Chujiaoyi, has been equipped with more than 600 units. The M30 bomber was armed with 200 units. The M40 bomber is equipped with 100 aircraft, the Weilong jet fighter is equipped with 150 aircraft, plus some combat aircraft purchased by the Nanjing government from various countries before, the entire Chinese army has more than 1,500 combat aircraft, and in terms of air power, it is not only not weaker than Japan, but also much stronger than Japan. Because the number of combat aircraft in Japan is not small, though. But it's much behind in terms of technology and performance! This means that in a war, it will be very difficult for the Japanese army to gain air supremacy, and a war of aggression without air supremacy is doomed to be impossible to succeed!

On the one hand, the Nanjing Government held negotiations with the Japanese Government to delay the pace of Japanese aggression as much as possible so as to vigorously develop its own military strength. However, in January 1936, Japan's Hirota Three Principles were proposed, shattering the illusions of the Nanjing government. Chiang and his staff finally understood that there was no end to the Japanese aggression. On the issue of North China, the Nanjing government can no longer back down, and there will be a big war between China and Japan!

At the national defense meeting later, Chiang explained the last moment raised at the conference: First, if someone forces us to sign a contract to recognize the puppet state and other damaging territorial masters, it will be the time when we cannot tolerate it, and we will finally fight to the death. Second, after the congress, if territorial sovereignty is violated again, the infringement cannot be ruled out by exhausting political and diplomatic methods. It is to endanger the fundamental survival of our country and nation, and this is when we cannot tolerate it. We must make the last sacrifice.

In July 1936, Japan began to increase its troops in North China, which caused the negotiations between China and Japan to adjust relations tend to break down.

Sure enough, Japan was conducting diplomatic negotiations at the same time. Military threats were carried out again. After the Beihai incident, under the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese, Japan sent nine ships to the Beihai port and twice attempted armed landings. The Sino-Japanese war is already on the way!

Immediately after that, Japan invaded Suiyuan, and the Suiyuan War broke out. Meantime. The Japanese Navy landed in Qingdao, and the Sino-Japanese War finally broke out. At this time, the Nanjing government had to mobilize troops to resist the Japanese invasion. The Japanese army of more than 100,000 people began to attack Beiping in a big way. The Japanese fleet also sailed to the port of Tianjin and began to shell Tianjin.

At this time, it was the turn of the Chinese Air Force to play.

Several Veyron jet fighters served as reconnaissance of the Japanese naval fleet. Soon they spotted 2 Japanese cruisers, 1 landing ship and 6 destroyers. Later, another reconnaissance aircraft reported the sighting of five destroyers at sea. Then another Weilong reconnaissance plane reported that there were two Japanese aircraft carriers and two destroyers 100 nautical miles west of Qingdao. According to intelligence, it was the Japanese Navy's aircraft carriers Hosho and Akagi.

Among them, the huge Akagi began construction in December 1920. In November 1923, due to the Washington Treaty, Japan needed to stop building 2 battleships and 4 battlecruisers. The Akagi was converted into an aircraft carrier before it was completed. After the modification, the Akagi aircraft carrier has a full load displacement of 41,300 tons, a main engine output of 133,000 horsepower, a maximum speed of 31 knots, and 72 aircraft, which can actually carry up to 91 aircraft.

In January 1932, during the First Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the Akagi and Kaga participated in the bombing of Shanghai.

Another smaller aircraft carrier is the Fengxiang. In 1920, the Japanese Navy began to build its first aircraft carrier "Hosho" at the Asano Shipyard, and it was completed and put into service in December 1922.

The Fengxiang was the world's first warship built specifically as an aircraft carrier, and although it started construction later than the British and American aircraft carriers, it was launched a few months earlier, so the crown of the world's first real aircraft carrier was on its head. In the twenties, he gained experience in tactical and deck flight training for aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy.

"Fengxiang" has a total length of 168 meters, a standard displacement of 7,470 tons, and a maximum speed of 25 knots. The ship has a downward slope of about 5 degrees at the front of the deck, and two lifts are arranged along the flight deck centerline. It broke the "flat prototype" structure of the first generation of aircraft carriers, and a small island bridge was set on the starboard side of the flight deck. The three chimneys can be tilted outwards so as not to affect aircraft take-off and landing operations. However, after testing, the Japanese Navy found that the island structure of the "Hosho" was not very suitable. Due to the ship's narrow flight deck, the island structure is very obstructive during take-off and landing. In order to ensure the safe take-off and landing of carrier-based aircraft, the Japanese Navy dismantled the island structure in 1924, and as a result, the world's first "purebred aircraft carrier" was restored to a typical "flat prototype" aircraft carrier, which was a retrogression in terms of development. (To be continued.) )