The Japanese Combined Fleet attacked the Yangtze River Delta and Hangzhou Bay region, causing huge losses to China, which is the most economically developed place in China, with a large number of port facilities, as well as countless fishing boats and merchant ships, although the Chinese government has organized evacuation operations before this, but more than half of the ships remain here, all of which have become a big target of the Japanese Navy.

The Japanese cruisers and destroyers relentlessly shelled everything that floated on the sea, and there were fires and dead and wounded everywhere along the way, like a group of demons, constantly creating a lot of crimes.

The Kaga and Nagato, the main guns, also used their main guns to attack shipyards, docks, barracks and other targets, and the 410 mm cannon showed extremely amazing power and wantonly caused murder.

Qiao Yu, who was in Beijing, got a report when Japan attacked the Zhoushan Islands, and in the face of the Japanese raging, Qiao Yu was also extremely angry in his heart, but he felt a little powerless, and now all the main forces of the Chinese Navy have gone to encircle and annihilate the Japanese fleet in the South China Sea, and this combat plan is also supported by Qiao Yu, but when the Japanese really attacked the Chinese mainland, Qiao Yu still felt a heart-rending feeling.

"Brother Baili, why is Shanghai only transferring sixty planes now, this number is too little! You must know that the Yangtze River Delta is the center of China's economy, and it must not be destroyed by the Japanese! ”

Jiang Baili was also embarrassed, "President, I estimate that the military has done its best, our family is like this, although a thousand planes have been invested in the coast, but in order to consolidate Gyeonggi, more than 400 planes have been arranged in the Bohai region, and they are also the most elite forces, and the other two Guangxi and Hainan, as well as the coastal areas of Fujian are the most important bases of the navy, and there is no room for error, we have arranged more than 400 planes, and there are only 200 planes left in the entire coastal area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang." It's already hard to be able to mobilize so many at once! Jiang Baili paused slightly. He also said: "Without the help of the navy, the air force alone is limited after all, and the range of the aircraft is not long enough, as long as this war is over, we must devote more energy to developing the navy, without the navy will be bullied by others to the doorstep, this is a shame for the soldiers!" ”

Qiao Yu also knew that in this position, there could be no woman's kindness. If the Yangtze River Delta suffers some losses, it can be exchanged for sinking the battleship Mutsu, and then changing the balance of forces on the entire battlefield, it is enough, and now the Japanese can bombard the coast of China. After China has the upper hand, it can also turn the Japanese coast into powder.

"Brother Baili, give an order to the Qinzhou Shipyard, asking them that no matter what, the first aircraft carrier must be built as soon as possible, no matter how many resources are needed, the government will all agree, and they must be allowed to come up with results!"

"Great President. With our current shipbuilding capabilities. It will take at least three years to build an aircraft carrier, and even more than two and a half years if it is fast. We only started construction at the beginning of last year, and it has been less than a year and a half now, so I think it would be easier for them to rebuild two more escort aircraft carriers, and they can see results quickly! ”

China's shipbuilding industry began to develop from the First World War, after the end of the First World War, China refitted Guangxi and Chongqing, and after the Washington Conference, China began to refit the first aircraft carrier starting point, and then began to build its first aircraft carrier in 26 years, this speed is not slow at all, and even a little ahead, which shipbuilding power in the world has been accumulated through more than 100 years.

China's ability to achieve rapid results is completely accumulated by the sweat of countless workers, but for the changing situation, Qiao Yu really hopes that China will be able to master more than a dozen aircraft carriers in an instant to fight for China's maritime rights and interests, but this can only be thought about.

"Brother Baili, I'm still a little anxious, let's let our workers try to take into account quality and speed, but is the modification of the aircraft carrier you proposed feasible?"

"President, we now have two heavy cruisers under construction in the Mawei shipyard, both with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, I asked them to prepare a modification plan in advance, but I am also worried that our aircraft carrier will have problems, because of the preparation, I estimate that it will be retrofitted within three months!"

When Qiao Yu heard this, he nodded slightly, although three months was a bit long, but it was also acceptable, so he nodded in agreement, at this time, there was a tragic air battle going on over the Huangpu River, and China's land-based aircraft were fighting to the death with Japanese carrier-based aircraft, and both sides used all their strength.

The Japanese wanted to seize air supremacy and then destroy the entire Shanghai area, and the mission of the Chinese army was to defend this pearl of China, the Chicheng and Fengxiang combined had a total of more than 100 carrier-based aircraft, they left 30 to protect the entire fleet, and the remaining planes were all dispatched to pounce on Shanghai.

Along the way, China set up a considerable number of antiaircraft machine guns in the coastal areas, and as soon as the Japanese planes entered the airspace, these machine guns began to fire fiercely, weaving one fire net after another in the air, in an effort to block the attacks of the Japanese planes.

However, there was a serious disadvantage in attacking the air from land, and the Japanese planes were able to evade the Chinese attack with their dexterous flying skills, and then fire at the Chinese air defense forces with the help of mounted bombs and machine guns, and the Chinese air defense forces soon suffered heavy losses.

The machine guns were blown to pieces, the soldiers were strafed, and the blood soaked the earth, but these soldiers did not flinch, even if their tendons were broken and broken, even if their limbs were broken, as long as they still breathed, they would never give up shooting into the air!

It was precisely the desperate battle of these air defense units that advantageously restrained the Japanese carrier-based planes and caused them to expend a lot of energy, while the Chinese air force was able to quickly adjust its state and fight hard against the attacking Japanese planes, and the vast majority of these pilots were on the battlefield for the first time.

Just a month or two ago, some of them were still studying in school, some were still rich young masters, and some of them were descendants of high-ranking military and political officials, and most of their families were very wealthy, in fact, if they did not have this kind of family background, they would not have had the opportunity to contact flying.

After the outbreak of the war, all of them were drafted into the army, no one was exempt, of course, there were those who tried to retreat, everyone was afraid of death, who was willing to joke with their lives, but once on the battlefield no one could back down.

Behind is the motherland, and below are countless Li people, that is, the fathers and old compatriots, at this juncture, there is only a broken head and a broken back. Defend the country and protect the family. It's the big husband and the real hero!

As soon as the battle began, these young air forces paid a terrible price, as more than a dozen planes were shot down, fell from a high altitude, and turned into fireballs, and many pilots lost their lives before they could parachute.

But no one was afraid. No one flinched, everyone gritted their teeth, used all their skills to entangle with the Japanese planes, aimed at the Japanese planes in a slightly immature and jerky way, and finally one Japanese plane was successfully shot down, followed by the second. This scene was staged in the past air battle in Zhoushan.

Until this moment, the Japanese pilots also felt a kind of fear from the heart, if all the Chinese can fight so heroically, will Japan still have a chance to defeat the Chinese, in fact, all walks of life in Japan know very well that China is a behemoth, and countless nations stronger than Japan in history have not succeeded in entering the Central Plains.

It is extremely difficult to defeat and annex the 5,000-strong Emperor China. Japan's only chance is for China to fall apart. Then the Japanese were able to fish in troubled waters, but with the rise of Qiao Yu. China regained its unity, and this time Japan collided with China again, and it felt constrained everywhere, and the more it fought, the more frightened it became, and even when it was at war with Russia, the Japanese never felt so passive.

The commander-in-chief of the combined fleet, Kanji Kato, was also full of sweat at this time, he knew very well that the Japanese naval aviation was limited in number, and even if it could destroy the Yangtze River Delta region this time, it would suffer heavy losses and be unable to fight again, and what made Kato even more uneasy was that the Chinese navy had not appeared for a long time.

It stands to reason that attacking Shanghai, the Japanese think that this is an attack on it, and it is absolutely impossible for China to avoid it without fighting, but the reality is so weird, the Chinese Navy did not appear at all, if it is said that it was stunned by the divine might of the combined fleet, and did not dare to go to war at all, Kato Kanji may have believed it before, but now it will definitely not believe it!

The Chinese can fight so tenaciously, and the navy will definitely not avoid the war, so what is the Chinese navy doing? Thinking of this, Kanji Kato also felt a chill from the bottom of his heart, but I am afraid that Japan has miscalculated!

However, at this point, Kato Kanji had no way to retreat, he could only command the Combined Fleet to destroy Shanghai, shipyards, docks, barracks, civilian houses, aircraft production, roads, railways, and factory areas as soon as possible.

China has long organized the evacuation work, but there are still many people who are unwilling to evacuate, and there are many foreigners among these stubborn people, who do not believe that Japan will attack innocent people, and if Japan dares to attack ordinary people, it will definitely be jointly protested by the great powers, which is an act that is spurned by civilized countries all over the world!

However, reality has taught them a vivid lesson, one huge shell after another brings the smell of death to these people, and Japan now only wants to destroy Shanghai, without any scruples at all, directly using cruisers to bombard China's residential areas, and a large number of civilian houses will be destroyed as soon as the cannon goes down.

Notre-Dame Cathedral is the first group of foreign churches built by the great powers in Shanghai, located on the Huangpu River, there are more than 20 priests and nuns in it, they know that their church is far away from military facilities, so they did not retreat, this time it happened to be bombarded by Japanese shells, just a cannon down, half of the church disappeared.

These clergy have gone to see their dear God, only a broken cross remains, swaying in the wind, how many years of Westerners burning, killing and looting, and when they have filled their waists, they begin to pretend to be civilized, just like bandits and robbers, they were still stealing with knives yesterday, and today they are dressed in suits and leather shoes, and they pride themselves as civilized people, after this battle, China began to completely erase these foreign churches, and drove all these sanctimonious things out of the holy land of China!

The battle continued, and the Japanese finally seized air supremacy over Shanghai at the cost of more than 20 planes, and they could bomb and shoot indiscriminately, and the warships were getting closer and closer to the shore, and the shooting became more and more frenzied, and the houses were destroyed one by one, and the whole of Shanghai was in a sea of fire.

And at this moment, the thirty planes transferred from Hangzhou finally arrived in Shanghai, these pilots saw Shanghai in the sea of fire, they were gritting their teeth, they quickly plunged into the battle, crazy attack the Japanese invaders, and at this time some of the remaining people in Shanghai also put aside their fear, although their homes were destroyed, but they did not have any tears, nor any fear, only hatred, every time they saw a Japanese plane shot down, they would burst out into shocking cheers! (To be continued.) )