The departure of the two BF-109F led by Gao Zhihang was like a lonely knight who could not win after a bloody battle in the face of a strong enemy, and left the battlefield with grief and indignation.

It can be said that in the final air battle that broke out over Nanjing, the Chinese fighters did not even shoot at the pilots of the Flying Tigers who were shot down by the fighters, because in the battle of Songhu and the battle for air supremacy in Nanjing, the Chinese and Chinese pilots who had killed red-eyed people even shot at the pilots who parachuted out of each other, and in order to avoid being hit by the other side, most of the pilots preferred to take the risk of waiting until low altitude before opening their parachutes to reduce the time they were grounded.

The last battle of the Flying Tigers shocked the Yue Army no less than when the Flying Tigers first appeared on the Songhu battlefield, and the Flying Tigers of the Rehe Regiment of the Chinese Air Force really kicked off the most tragic fierce battle for the defense of Nanjing.

Zhang Xuewu knew very well that once the Yue army completely controlled the air supremacy over Nanjing, then it would be difficult for the two heavy artillery brigades he deployed in Jiangbei and the artillery groups held by various fortresses to play a role, and without artillery support, the defense of the defenders would inevitably turn completely passive, and perhaps this moment would be the beginning of the bloody battle for the defense of Nanjing.

Due to the successive failures of the attack on Nanjing, someone in the headquarters of the headquarters of the headquarters had already proposed at the Imperial Council to remove the acting commander, Prince Hatohiko Asakanomiya, and remove him from command, but Emperor Hirohito decided to let Hatohiko Asakanomiya carry out a general attack.

In the temporary former enemy headquarters set up in Niuzhuang, Hatohiko Asakamiya summoned the commander of the 6th Division, Toshio Tani, the commander of the 3rd Division, Susumu Fujita, the commander of the 11th Division, Munetake Yamamuro, the commander of the 9th Division, Ryosuke Yoshika, the commander of the 13th Division, the commander of the 16th Division, Nakajima Asahago, the commander of the 101st Division, Masaki Ito, the commander of the 18th Division, Sadao Nakajima, the commander of the 114th Division, Shigeharu Suematsu, and the head of the Shigeto detachment, Chiaki Shigeto, As well as the commanders of the 5th, 7th, and 11th Brigades of the Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, the 17th, 38th, and 39th Brigades, and the 3rd and 4th Flying Divisions, all gathered together.

Hatohiko looked around at the many generals present with a cold face, and slowly took off his white gloves and said: "The previous attack on Nanjing City by your various departments has had an effect, greatly weakening the strength of the [***] garrison in Nanjing, and killing and injuring a large number of the living forces of the [***], I will remind you that the generals who are stuck in Nanjing are the old enemies of our empire, Zhang Xuewu, who once brought great shame to the empire, and the shame of Chengde in Rehe is the shame of the empire and the imperial army. And today it is destined that we will completely turn these shames into history, so that Zhang Xuewu and his army will become history together with the capital city of Nanjing, and there will be no fortress and city that cannot be attacked in front of the imperial army, and there will be no enemy that cannot be destroyed. ”

Hatohiko walked quickly to the huge military map and said, "Everyone! Today I can tell you with great pleasure that the main force of the Chinese Air Force has been completely defeated in a series of strikes launched by our army, and the Soviet Volunteer Air Force has been defeated at the same time, and what is particularly worthy of celebration is that we have completely annihilated the Flying Tigers of the Rehe Air Force, and now the entire sky of Nanjing is our own army and naval aviation, and from now on, the army and naval aviation units have decided to dispatch all their fighters to search for and completely destroy the heavy artillery units in China to support the offensive of all units. ”

Hatohiko of Asaka Palace paused slightly and continued: "His Majesty the Emperor has ordered our army to capture Nanjing, the capital of China, within ten days!" In addition, the base camp and the general staff headquarters made major adjustments to the previous strategy, and decided to use the main force of the Kwantung Army to comprehensively attack Zhang Xuewu's headquarters entrenched in Rehe, Suiyuan, and Chahar, completely cutting off the worries of the empire. ”

On the one hand, they attacked Nanjing, the capital of China, and on the other hand, they attacked the troops landing in Qingdao with the main force of the North China Front to attack Xuzhou, and in Rehe, Suiyuan, and Chahar, they wanted to attack Zhang Xuewu's Rehe Corps. The empire is tantamount to opening up three major battlefields in China at the same time?

In fact, many generals of the Yue army had a skeptical attitude towards the sudden attack on Rehe at this time, because the commanders of the Yue army who had fought with the troops of the Rehe Army in Nanjing would be shocked by the strength and high will to fight of this army.

Attacking Rehe is undoubtedly tantamount to stabbing a huge hornet's nest, you must know that Zhang Xuewu has already run Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan like an iron plate, Chengde, Chaoyang, Zhangjiakou, Chifeng four fortress cities, 150,000 regular troops, as many as 200,000 reserve troops, a large number of heavy artillery, and the chariot troops and fighters that have been increasing rapidly since the start of the war, especially after the Soviet Union's secret assistance, Rehe has made a qualitative leap in both industrial development and military aspects.

I'm afraid this is the main reason why the base camp and the staff headquarters are most worried, and I'm afraid that only His Royal Highness Hatohiko, a self-proclaimed prince, doesn't care.

In accordance with the instructions of Tada Jun, commander-in-chief of the General Staff Headquarters, and in accordance with the latest meeting decision of the Imperial Council, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Dispatch Army, Terauchi Toshiichi, once again adjusted the deployment of the Xuzhou Campaign troops, with Okamura Ninji as the commander of the Fifth Army, and the 24th, 25th, 36th, 37th, and 40th Divisions under his jurisdiction were attached to the 6th Tank Brigade and the 7th Heavy Artillery Brigade. The 20th Division advanced from Qingdao to Jinan, cutting off the northern line of the Jingpu Road, and the northern and southern lines would attack Xuzhou.

In North China, six divisions of the Kwantung Army were assembled in Jinzhou, and the Kwantung Army's Flying Division, the Kuda Special Flying Unit, 19 brigades of armored trains, and two combat vehicle wings were also fully deployed and assembled in Jinzhou.

With the 50th Division, the 51st Division, the 55th Division, the 56th Division, and the 57th Division, and the 5th Heavy Artillery Brigade as the Eighth Army, with Umezu Mijiro as the commander, they attacked the Chaoyang defenders of Zhang Xuewu's department, and after breaking through, they quickly rushed to Baotou and destroyed the Baotou Industrial Base carefully managed by Zhang Xuewu.

With the 60th Division, 62nd Division, 63rd Division, and 65th Division as the Chifeng cluster, Chifeng was contained, and the 68th Division, 69th Division, 70th Division, and 72nd Division were the Ninth Army, with Tufei Yuan Xian as the second commander, to carry out a comprehensive attack on Zhang Xuewu's corps in the direction of Chengde, and after capturing Chengde, attack and advance in the direction of Suiyuan, and attack Zhangjiakou with the 80th Division and the 85th Division.

Zhanyang, Wang Chuang, and others had already held relevant military meetings, believing that this time the Yue army was likely to win, and the direction of its main attack and assault might also be the direction of Baotou, so they hurriedly summarized and reported the collected information to Zhang Xuewu, who was in command of Nanjing.

Zhang Xuewu, who received the report from Rehe, was also startled, and Zhang Xuewu's first feeling was that he was crazy? He even prepared to open up three major battlefields at the same time, especially the army invested at least 15 divisions and regiments in response to the deployment of Rehe.

It can be said that he finally couldn't sit still, because after Zhang Xuewu announced the military embargo and embargo against China in Germany, the United States, Britain, France, and other countries through secret channels through Zhou Ying, he was still able to purchase a large number of Mercedes aero engines, high-power diesel engines, gasoline engines, special alloy steel, refined oil, machine tools, industrial equipment, rubber, and so on.

Moreover, he learned through his secret intelligence channels that the Soviets had made a tank weighing 26 to 29 tons, equipped with a 75-millimeter gun, and capable of being extremely good, and that the German-made "jackal" light tank equipped by the Rehe Corps had already terrified the chariot units of the Yue army.

Rehe imported a large number of aero engines from Germany, using the wind tunnel built in Baotou to continuously improve the BF-109F multi-role fighter, in addition to the aero engine can not be produced by itself, Rehe has been able to assemble the BF-109F multi-role fighter that fully meets the German process standards.

The strength of Rehe made the side extremely worried, and the most important thing was that the first side of the country was to destroy the industrial base in Baotou, and could not sit idly by and watch the big position of Zhang Xuewu, and on the other hand, it was to cut off the Soviet side's material route from Suiyuan Dingyuan Battalion to aid China, so that the Soviets knew the determination of the Great Empire to fight against China.

At the same time, he also wanted to take advantage of Zhang Xuewu's absence to launch a full-scale onslaught in one fell swoop when the Rehe group of dragons was leaderless, and completely solve the sword hanging behind the Rehe Army.

However, there are also things they don't know, that is, Xu Guohui's headquarters of the first division, Wang Chuang's headquarters of the second division, Zhao Xinyu's headquarters of the third division, Hu Zhenglong's headquarters of the fourth division, and the Zhanyang headquarters of the fifth division, plus Tang Zhiqiang's mechanized assault division, as well as Zhang Tianpeng's artillery clusters and special forces, are all under the unified and coordinated command of the General Staff, and Li Xinkai, chief of staff of the Rehe Army, and Li Songtao, senior staff member of the Rehe Army, are the think tanks of the Rehe Army.

Again, the Germans had done their best to help Zhang Xuewu improve the staff system of the Rehe Army, and it can be said that the whole system is a miniature version of the German staff system.

Therefore, even if Zhang Xuewu was not in the command position, the Rehe Army had as many as a dozen sets of countermeasures to deal with the attack of the Yue army, and many of these plans were offensive and defensive plans that moved before the enemy, and their purpose was to reduce the pressure on the direction of the main battlefield in Nanjing, attract more troops of the Yue army, so that the Yue army did not dare to easily reinforce the North China and Central China battlefields.

It can be said that at this moment, the Rehe Army has completed comprehensive preparations to meet the enemy, and if the Rehe side can fight a beautiful battle of annihilation, then it will also be a great excitement for the defenders of Nanjing in the bitter battle.

(To be continued)