The fierce air battle ended, the sun had just risen in mid-air, and the land of southern Jiangsu was silent, only the devil plane was hovering in the air, making a buzzing motor sound.

Chennault suddenly informed Wang Yilang that a large number of US bomber groups were about to arrive in East China, and asked Wang Yilang to quickly arrange anti-aircraft fire positions to create a bigger trap for the Devil Air Force, and to inform Wang Yilang of the combat order and concept of the US bomber group.

Wang Yilang was caught off guard by Chennault's whimsical battle plan, but he had no choice but to dispatch the baggage detachments to quickly replenish the ammunition and fly thunder to the various air defense positions, and ordered all infantry units to prepare light and heavy machine guns for air defense operations.

It turned out that Chennault saw that a large number of devil planes were gathered in East China to encircle and suppress one of his own flying squadrons, and he planned to bully the weak and completely annihilate his own flying squadron, and his flight squadron was now surrounded by several airports of devils, although it took advantage of it for a while, but after all, it was a passive situation, and sooner or later it would have to be completely annihilated by devils, so it was better to simply take a big action, severely damage the devil's flight group, and rescue his own flight squadron, so he mobilized 16 B24 bombers in the national control area. Under the cover of 24 P40 fighters, it attacked Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Nanjing in the east of the devil.

Because the devil's radar technology is not yet popular, and it is mainly used in the Pacific theater, and because of the constraints of various conditions, the air force's intelligence system is extremely weak, so the US military plane group that took off at Hengyang, Changde, Zhijiang, and other airfields was not discovered until it flew over Hangzhou, and the devil discovered the US plane group, and hurriedly sent fighter planes to take off and intercept them, and on the other hand transferred back to the fighter planes over Xishan.

Taking advantage of the chaotic scheduling of devil planes over Xishan, Chennault ordered all Xishan's planes to take off forcibly: 6 B24 bombers and 6 P40 fighters went straight to the heavily damaged Dajiaochang Airport to destroy them; 10 P40s fought with the devil fighters in the sky over southern Jiangsu, preventing them from reinforcing in the direction of Hangzhou and Shanghai.

The U.S. bomber formation fought with 8 bombers at the Jianqiao Airport of Hangzhou Devils and 16 fighters with Devil fighters; Another 8 bombers, escorted by 8 fighters, went straight to Shanghai's Hongqiao airfield.

The devil could not have imagined that the Allies would launch such a large-scale air battle, and for a time it was difficult to dispatch and coordinate the planes at various airports and in the air, and suffered a big loss: 12 bombers and 17 fighters on the airport were destroyed at Jianqiao Airport in Hangzhou, and 9 fighters and 2 bombers were lost in the air battle, with a total loss of 14 bombers and 26 fighters, and only 1 bomber and 1 fighter were shot down by the US military; Shanghai Hongqiao Airport was destroyed 21 bombers and 31 fighters on the airfield, and 13 fighters and 5 bombers were lost in the air battle, with a total loss of 26 bombers and 44 fighters, and only 2 bombers and 1 fighter were shot down by the US army; Nine bombers and 17 fighters were destroyed in two attacks on the Nanjing Daxiaochang Airport, and 23 fighters were lost in the air battle, with a total loss of 9 bombers and 40 fighters, and one US plane was not shot down or damaged.

After Chennault's air force completed the task of bombing the Devil's airfield, it flew through the air defense positions of the Wumu Army in a dive or at a low altitude under Chennault's command, got rid of the pursuit of the Devil's planes, and returned to their bases in Hunan and Sichuan, where the Wumu Air Defense Unit took the opportunity to shoot down 11 Devil's planes.

In the evening, Chennault had a dinner with the leaders of the Wumu Army, as well as the aviation crew members of the two bombers and three fighters who had been forced to land at the Xishan airfield due to injuries, as well as the ground staff of the airport.

The dinner lasted until midnight, and it was not until the returning flight formations sent telegrams that they had returned safely one after another, and Chennault hurriedly counted the results: a total of 49 devil bombers and 97 fighters were destroyed, including 7 devil bombers and 21 fighters shot down in air combat, 24 devil fighters and 2 bombers shot down by Wu Mujun, a total of 51 devil bombers and 121 fighters destroyed, and the Allied planes lost 3 bombers and 2 fighters, 3 crew members killed, 4 seriously wounded, and 6 lightly wounded. 4 people were captured and 21 people were missing, and the special operations brigade and guerrillas of the Wumu Army were searching and rescuing; Wu Mujun suffered 197 casualties, destroyed 11 anti-aircraft guns, 7 anti-aircraft machine guns, 13 light and heavy machine guns, several ammunition, 1,328 rounds of Foguang flying mines, captured 7 devil pilots, 18 crew members, and 53 corpses......

At Chennault's request, and in accordance with Western custom, on Tuesday the dog sent someone to negotiate with Shunroku Hata for the exchange of prisoners of war......

Because the devil pilots belong to a special group, one is a high-tech unit, and the other is that most of them come from high-level families; Therefore, Shunroku Hata also had to agree to the exchange of prisoners of war, but demanded that 4 American prisoners of war be exchanged for all 25 prisoners of war captured by the Mumu Army.

Tuesday, of course, the dog sternly refused, thinking that the devil's little abacus was too fine, and the quid pro quo was not equal! But Shunroku Hata bit the quid pro quo and did not let go.

The exchange of prisoners of war alarmed the heads of state: Tokyo ordered Shunroku Hata to deal with the enemy on his own terms, but the exchange of prisoners of war must be completed; On the American side, President Roosevelt personally telegraphed the chairman of the committee, demanding that American prisoners of war be exchanged at all costs; The chairman of the NPC committee knew very well that Wu Mujun had separated from Germany and might not give him face, but he still sent a telegram to Tuesday Dog, conveying the views of President Roosevelt and himself.

On Tuesday, the dog did not eat this set, and still insisted on a 1-to-1 exchange. On Tuesday, the dog bargained with Zhao Dahu from the beginning of his army; Until the time of the Shanghai gangs, other gangs stuttered tea and talked about conditions; After the Anti-Japanese War, he dealt with the devils Yoshikawa Moefu, Shadow Zuo Zhenzhao, and Inu Yangjian, and [***] Shangguan Yunxiang, Gu Zhutong, and Chen Cheng; Overseas to deal with all kinds of businessmen and politicians...... There is a deep sense of bargaining.

Tuesday Dog's non-bargaining attitude put pressure on all sides: Roosevelt was well aware of the grievances between the chairman and Wu Mujun, and knew that Wu Mujun did not buy the chairman's account, so he sent US consuls in Yucheng, Chengdu, and Kunming to negotiate directly with Tuesday Dog bypassing the chairman; Shunroku Hata also sent Yoshiaki Kagesa to negotiate with Tuesday Dog again; Wang Jingwei also sent Chen Gongbo to negotiate with Tuesday Dog; The chairman of the committee sent Gu Zhutong and Xue Yue, who had a good relationship with Tuesday Dog, to persuade Tuesday Dog; Even Cai Tingkai, who lives in seclusion in Xishan, suggested that Tuesday Dog settle the prisoner exchange as soon as possible!

Tuesday Dogs Just Don't Let Go!

Shunroku Hata also wanted to save face and took a tough attitude, and ordered Zhou Dagou in Shanghai to be arrested. Unexpectedly, Gui Sibao did not report or ask for instructions from anyone, and directly sent someone to blow up the devil's elementary school, killing 11 devil's cubs and 2 teachers, and kidnapping 7 young cubs and 7 teachers.

Gui Sibao issued a telegram to the world: Zhou Ji Chamber of Commerce is a civil group composed of many transportation and handling workers, with the surname of the gang, only for the survival of the family, and has nothing to do with the war, but I said that I unreasonably arrested the leader Zhou Dagou, according to the rules of gang survival, do not bow to the power, the winner is the king, so I belong to Sibao to declare to the world, in retaliation for my unreasonable arrest of the gang leader Zhou Dagou, now bomb a primary school of Yue, killing 13 children and teachers, in order to show the punishment of his vexatious trouble, At the same time, 7 children and 7 teachers were kidnapped as hostages until he released the leader Zhou Dagou; At the same time, he warned that if the leader Zhou Dagou was released with a wound on his body, he would kill 1 hostage, starting with the youngest child! With no morality to no morality, there is no morality at all, I hope the world will not accuse the Zhouji Chamber of Commerce of targeting women and children! The Zhouji Chamber of Commerce has the ability to take action against the military institutions of the Zhouji Chamber of Commerce, and the actions against the women and children of the Zhouji Chamber of Commerce are only to prove the determination of the Zhouji Chamber of Commerce and the powerful authorities to fight to the end by any means! The Zhouji Chamber of Commerce swore that if the leader Zhou Dagou could not survive, the Zhouji Chamber of Commerce would definitely kill 10,000 children under the age of 10! To show that the Chamber of Commerce of the Week does not intervene in military operations!

Shunroku Hata lifted a stone and shot himself in the foot, because he really couldn't come up with a reason to arrest Zhou Dagou! So, under the planning of many staff, Hata Shunroku released Zhou Dagou in a generous manner, and publicly apologized to Zhou Dagou, and then ordered Zhou Dagou to hand over the gang members headed by Gui Sibao who attacked his school, and issued a wanted warrant for Gui Sibao.

After Zhou Dagou was released from prison, he immediately issued a telegram, sternly rejecting his request to hand over Gui Sibao and others, stating that as the leader of the gang, it was impossible for him to hand over the gang out of morality, and at the same time, at the legal level, Zhou Dagou did not have the responsibility and obligation to hand over the gang! At the same time, it was stated that he was unreasonable and morally provoking the Zhou Ji Chamber of Commerce first, so he said that he should bear the consequences himself, and it has nothing to do with the four treasures of self-defense and counterattack!

Shunroku Hata could not have imagined that the exchange of prisoners of war would cause the "Zhou Dagou Incident" to cause an extraneous incident, and he was criticized by public opinion at home and abroad, and he was disgraced.

On Tuesday, Gou did not say a word about the "Zhou Dagou incident", but only sent a special operations team and guerrilla units to search for the missing US military crew members, and coldly handled all requests for the exchange of prisoners of war. In addition, the garrison troops and guerrillas were arranged to salvage the wreckage of the devil's plane, which contained too many valuable things.

In the end, all parties couldn't hold back and offered bids one after another.

The U.S. side promised to provide the Wu Mujun with an armored battalion of equipment, which was replaced by 200 walkie-talkies, 200 flamethrowers, 200 rocket launchers, and 200 jeeps for the Wu Mu Army, and at the same time hoped to continue military exchanges with the U.S. military.

[***] side proposed to exchange a regiment of U.S. weapons and equipment with Wu Mujun, but the proposal was put aside by Tuesday.

For Chen Gongbo, who was sent by Wang Jingwei, the dog was exempted from even meeting on Tuesday, and ordered someone to tell Chen Gongbo that he didn't want to see this professional traitor, only 10,000 taels of gold, and it also depended on the results of coordination in other aspects.

As for Shadow Zuo Zhenzhao, Tuesday Dog is willing to communicate with this old fox, talk to him about the mountains, chat about the current situation, and get some profound views. After several hours of nonsensical nonsense, on Tuesday the dog proposed that in addition to the one-to-one exchange, other personnel could be exchanged on other terms, and he and tens of thousands of prisoners of war could be exchanged.

Shunroku Hata was rewarded by Kagesa Zhenaki and offered to exchange 210,000 catties of grain for the extra 21 prisoners of war.

On Tuesday, the dog replied that he didn't trust the devils, and he was afraid that the devils would do things on food, so it was not easy to make materials such as old steel and old copper.

Shunroku Hata couldn't stand any twists and turns anymore, and in order to avoid extraneous branches, he immediately brought in 30 tons of old shipboards.

On Tuesday, the dog was not in a hurry, he arranged for the devil crew to communicate with the US military crew, and used the strong industrial strength and humanized culture of the United States to stimulate the devil crew members, while waiting for all aspects to fulfill the conditions.

Soon Wang Jingwei sent someone to send gold, which was given to the Americans by Tuesday Dog, in exchange for 200 walkie-talkies, 200 jeeps, 200 flamethrowers, and a balzooka for another payment. The Americans are also considered atmospheric, and they gave away an additional 120 penicillin for Tuesday dogs.

On Tuesday, the dog did not make any demands to the Military Commission, but arranged for the exchange of prisoners of war, and all sides gritted their teeth and pretended to be happy. Especially on Wang Jingwei's side, Chen Gongbo was greatly insulted, and he also took ten thousand taels of gold for nothing; The devil was forced to sign an alliance under the city, and even lost face; On Tuesday, the dog gave face to the Military Commission, but in fact, he treated the Military Commission as a marginalized air, which actually made the Military Commission lose face; Although the U.S. side achieved its goal, the four prisoners of war alarmed the Congress, and they also negotiated with the Chinese political axe on the exchange of weapons and equipment directly with local troops. But Tuesday Dog is undoubtedly the biggest winner!

Wu Mujun received a large number of weapons, equipment, and materials, and began to make full use of them: 200 jeeps were sought-after goods, so the commander got 30 vehicles, the directly subordinate corps, the garrison detachment, and the mobile corps team headquarters each got 10 vehicles, 30 vehicles were allocated to the special operations brigade, 50 vehicles were allocated to the reading division, 30 vehicles were allocated to the military engineering department, and 20 vehicles were allocated to the engineer detachment as tool vehicles; Zheng Qiguang took 20 samples of 200 bazookas, the others were distributed to the anti-tank brigade 90, and the rest were distributed to the guerrillas to storm pillboxes and fortifications; 200 walkie-talkies were taken away by Shu Jintang 50 sets of prototypes and reserves, and the rest were allocated to other units by the command center of the headquarters as needed, focusing on the armored brigade, cavalry brigade, artillery brigade, sailor brigade, and special operations brigade; In addition to 10 samples for the Shujintang Military Industry Department and 20 samples for the special operations team, the flamethrowers were stored in storage.

Zheng Qiguang quickly transplanted the electric ignition on the bazooka to the flying thunder launcher, which increased the rate of fire of the flying thunder launcher by 3 times, and the meteor flying thunder and javelin flying thunder could be used by a single person, and sent multiple groups of modified personnel to modify the troops.

The jeep has greatly enhanced the mobility capability of the troops, and has brought great convenience to the commanders and signal corps of the command organs of various units; in addition, it is difficult to estimate the combat effectiveness brought about by the rapid movement of small groups of elite units, such as special operations brigades.

Lu Yaohan was overjoyed when he received the jeep, in addition to the joy of receiving the new equipment, more importantly, Lu Yaohan and the others felt that they were treated as their own by Wu Mujun. So everyone discussed and formed the jeep into a mobile fire battalion as a reserve for the reading division.

After everyone agreed, Lu Yaohan reported to Qingyun.

The mobile fire battalion was commanded by Zhang Tielong's younger brother Zhang Tiehu, and was allocated 33 jeeps for the mobile fire battalion, 10 jeeps per company, 1 artillery platoon, 2 mortars, 1 flat-fire gun, 1 heavy machine gun platoon, 3 heavy machine guns, 1 thunder platoon, 9 Meteor Thunder launchers, and 22 shell guns; In this way, the light firepower of each unit is reduced, but the mobile firepower battalion can quickly provide support to any unit, increasing the utilization rate of the light firepower of the reading division.

The special operations brigade has been equipped with jeeps and has greatly expanded its combat radius, and while training in the use and tactics of jeeps, it has also taken back nine US crew members rescued by the Wumu Army guerrillas back to the Xishan base area.

The salvaged planes were not wasted, they were converted into hulls by Lee Guangda, and the engines were installed to turn them into fast gunboats or transport ships, and other parts were also fully used.

The headquarters of the Wumu Army was also busy. Through this air battle and the exchange of prisoners of war, the Americans gained a channel of communication with the Wu Mu Army, and many Americans came to visit.

Rick? Jensen was one of the foreigners rescued by Wu Mujun from Shanghai, and after he returned to China, he introduced Wu Mujun's "agricultural era" earthen weapon flying thunder to others, and was heard by his friend U.S. Army Colonel Skner and his assistant Lieutenant Earl, and was inspired by this to develop a bazooka, the bazooka produced under the conditions of industrialization in the United States is naturally much more perfect than the Wu Mujun native flying thunder - streamlined warheads, electric fire, aluminum alloy launchers, and sights are all many times stronger than Wu Mujun's native flying mines. But Colonel Skåna still wanted to see the "prototype bazooka", so he traveled thousands of miles to the West Mountain to observe.

In Xishan, Colonel Skåna, his assistant Earl and the tour guide Rick saw Zheng Qiguang's improved flying thunder again: there is no shortage of sights, streamlined warheads, and electric fire, but due to the limitations of the industrial level, paper projectiles are still used, and the launch canister is also a mixed material of thin iron sheet and paper tube, the shape is still very rough, and the accuracy is also poor, but because the paper projectile body is lighter and the propellant ratio is reasonable, the range is longer than that of the American-made bazooka.

Skåna was deeply inspired by the "rudimentary" (which is still a sharp weapon in China) weapons and equipment such as clay pot lime mines and Foguang flying mines, and after returning to China, he set up his own company to develop and produce powder bombs, large long-range rockets and long-range booster aerial bombs (later developed into airborne rockets and missiles), and made a fortune! However, Skåna also instilled in Zheng Qiguang and others advanced concepts such as reliable surnames, precision surnames, simple surnames, high-efficiency production surnames and low-cost surnames for military products, which opened the eyes of Shu Jintang, Zheng Qiguang, Yuan Zhongwu and others.

Ms. Papan, a doctor, a CIA intelligence officer, and a foreigner rescued from Shanghai by Wu Mujun, was obsessed with the wounds that Wu Mujun had treated with green ointment. This time, experts from American pharmaceutical factories were brought to study this "miraculous green liquid". Although the United States, Britain and other countries have begun to systematically develop and produce penicillin, the output has not been able to rise, the main reason is that the production capacity of raw materials is insufficient, and Wu Mujun has mastered the technology of mass production of penicillin raw materials.

As a result, the American pharmaceutical factory offered to purchase a large number of Penicillium. Tuesday Dog is now a fine figure, and when he received the request of the Americans, he did not express his position easily, but went home and carefully asked Wang Ziwei about the purpose of the Americans buying Penicillium.

Since Wang Ziwei received the penicillin gift from the Americans, he already knows the relationship between penicillin and penicillium, and at the same time knows Wu Mujun's shortcomings in the industrial production of penicillin, mainly because of the serious lack of theory, equipment, and raw material constraints on the purification, preparation, and deep processing of penicillin's active ingredients.

As a result, on Tuesday, Gou signed a 1:30 exchange agreement with the Americans for penicillin and penicillium and the exchange quantity, and sent Wang Ziwei and Liu Fuxing to the United States to "understand the needs of customers" in order to increase the transaction volume between the two sides.

In view of the fact that the transportation between China and the United States still relies on the hump route over the Himalayas, which is very risky, on Tuesday Gou decided to suspend Wang Ziwei and Liu Fuxing's plan to go to the United States, and Wang Ziwei was transferred from the General Hospital to the Military Industry Department to take full charge of the production of Penicillium.

Wang Ziwei was aware of a series of problems through the penicillin problem, so in addition to the comprehensive management of penicillium strain screening, and the production of temperature, moderation, luminosity, and nutrition, and the use of convenient conditions to carry out penicillin extraction, purification, preparation and other deep processing research, with the assistance of Liu Fuxing, a chemical expert, Wang Ziwei's knowledge was further broadened, and at the same time began to consciously cultivate other molds, carry out experiments on medical applications, and obtained a lot of information. (To be continued.) )