Because it was winter, the trees had already fallen away, and the Shanghai area was a plain, and the troops of the 11 th Division of the Japanese Army that were being mobilized were unsheltered, and under the bombing and strafing of the planes of the Fourth Route Army Air Force Corps, the troops of the 11 th Division of the Japanese Army in motion suffered heavy casualties, and the troops in motion had to disperse and take shelter in the ridges and ditches on the side of the road when the planes bombed and strafed. **!Book. This not only slowed down the movement of the troops, but also caused several wings of the 11th Division to appear in organizational confusion.

Knowing that the Japanese army was in chaos, Gao Zhihang reported to Zhang Zhizhong in time. In addition, Gao Zhihang also informed Zhang Zhizhong that a Japanese convoy had been discovered on the Yangtze River, and under the cover of five warships, it was advancing in the direction of the mouth of the Liuhe River.

Gao Zhihang reminded Zhang Zhizhong that it was possible for the Japanese army to land again at the mouth of the Liuhe River to rescue or respond to the 11th Division's breakthrough.

Upon learning of this situation, Zhang Zhizhong and Jiang Guangyang agreed that they should seize this opportunity to launch a general attack on the 11th Division in advance and seize the time to annihilate the 11th Division.

However, with regard to the fleet heading for the mouth of the Liuhe River, Zhang Zhizhong and Jiang Guangyang believed that Gao Zhihang should send planes to bomb and prevent the Japanese from landing so as to ensure the encirclement and annihilation of the 11th Division.

But what they never expected was that Gao Zhihang simply refused. Moreover, no reason has been given yet.

This made Jiang Guangmao very angry, and even Zhang Zhizhong was very unhappy.

At this time, Zhang Zhizhong received a telegram from Shi Ming saying that Sun Liren reported that he had found that the various units of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army were frequently transferred, and he believed that fighters were rare to mobilize troops to attack the Japanese army. Shi Ming suggested that the general assault on the 11th Division should begin earlier.

Zhang Zhizhong and Jiang Guangmao, who received the report, were very dissatisfied with Sun Li's unauthorized actions, but since the wood was already in the boat, they could no longer hesitate, so they had to immediately issue the order for a general attack.

At the same time, Zhang Zhizhong informed Shi Ming of the possible landing of the Japanese army at the mouth of the Liuhe River, and asked Shi Ming to order Sun Liren to leave at least one regiment of troops in the vicinity of Xincun, Majiazhai, and Zhangzhuang Temple, so as to block the Japanese troops landing at the mouth of the Liuhe River and ensure the safety of the rear.

Shi Ming, Ou Shounian, Song Xilian, Sun Yuanliang and other subordinates who received the order immediately took action. A swift attack was launched on the 11th Division from all sides.

Song Xilian, who had long been impatient, commanded the troops to immediately cross the Liuhe River and kill the 11th Division. And put your own brigade headquarters. moved to the regimental headquarters of Liu Anqi of the 521st Regiment and personally commanded directly on the front line.

This made Liu Anqi very dissatisfied. **!Book. * Song Xilian disdained this, and ordered Liu Anqi, Chiang Kai-shek's henchman, with a big grin. Directly attack the first battalion of the forward to supervise the battle.

Before the attack on Zhu's house in the early morning, the commander of the 11th Division, Atsuichiro Houdong, never thought that his 11th Division would be besieged by the Chinese army, so the departments basically did not build any decent fortifications, and many of the current fortifications were hastily constructed after the Zhujia Mansion was attacked.

How can such a fortification stand up to the task? Under the onslaught of the Fifth Army and the 78th Division, the Japanese army was beaten back and retreated, and the defensive space was gradually compressed to smaller and smaller.

Because of the sharp attack of the Independent Brigade and the 187th Division, some units of the 11th Division did not even have time to retreat, but were divided behind the Chinese army and besieged by the units of the Fifth Army, which were several times larger than the Japanese army.

While trying his best to command the troops to resist, Atsuichiro Atsuto sent a telegram to Shirakawa asking for tactical guidance on the 11th Division.

Received a telegram from Atsuichiro Taketo. Shirakawa knew that the 11th Division had reached a critical moment. Matsuki was immediately ordered not to hesitate to bomb the Chinese planes, and immediately launched an attack on Tang's house and Wang's house, and must break through the defense line of the 88th Division and rescue the 11th Division. At the same time, he urged the 6th Brigade to land at the mouth of the Liuhe River as soon as possible and contain the Chinese troops besieging the 11th Division from the rear. …,

And at this very moment. The planes of the Fourth Route Army, which bombed and strafed the Japanese army, flew away en masse in the direction of Changshu.

Zhang Zhizhong hurriedly called Gao Zhihang to inquire, and Gao Zhihang called back. The second batch of planes will arrive soon. Zhang Zhizhong was relieved.

Just over 10 minutes after the Fourth Route Army's fleet flew away, a large number of Japanese planes flew violently from the south. There are nearly 200 planes, which makes Zhang Zhizhong and Jiang Guangmo very nervous.

Fortunately, Gao Zhihang did not break his promise, and a fighter group composed of eight monoplanes and 36 biplanes appeared in the sky to the north.

The first eight unicorn monoplanes were not only fast, but also more agile, and the 20mm cannon with a long barrel in front of the nose was even more long-range and powerful.

Instead of facing the Japanese Nakajima-style fighters on the upper floor, the eight unicorns pounced on the Japanese Type 13 carrier-based attack aircraft group below, and opened fire head-on to the enemy early.

Although it was only a demonstrative shooting, with the intention of disrupting the formation of the Japanese planes, because the Japanese planes were so large and dense, they unexpectedly caused a Type 13 carrier-based attack plane to emit black smoke, tilt its nose, rush out of formation, and staggered towards the ground.

At the same time, the Japanese attack aircraft group was like a group of sparrows that suddenly encountered a bird of prey, and immediately exploded the group, scrambling to avoid the front of the unicorns, and eight unicorns directly rushed into the Japanese aircraft group, rampage inside, and stirred up the chaos of the Japanese attack aircraft group.

Although monoplanes are not yet universally accepted, at least in Japan, where all aircraft at this time were biplanes. However, the Japanese fighter group, only from the speed and power, immediately found that these eight unicorns were their real opponents, and immediately two squadrons of twenty-four Nakajima swooped down from the heights and followed the unicorns in hot pursuit.

As soon as these 24 Japanese Nakajima-type planes broke into the attack aircraft group, the attack aircraft group became even more chaotic, and the formation of these carrier-based attack planes not only could not be maintained at all, but even if they wanted to regroup, it became almost impossible.

The remaining more than 40 Nakajima planes went straight to the Newburgh fleet of the Fourth Route Army.

The Nakajima and Newburgh 28 belonged to the same period of aircraft, and they were about the same in speed and agility, and when they met, they immediately launched an extremely fierce battle.

For a time, over the battlefield, more than 200 planes of both sides rolled and became entangled, and the largest air battle ever fought in the Chinese sky.

A large part of the fighter pilots of the Fourth Route Army were former pilots of the Northeast Army, and these people were not only skilled in the Northeast Army, but also experienced the actual combat test of the Soviet Army in Northern Mongolia, and Gao Zhihang studied in France after World War I, knowing the importance of daily training of pilots, and emphasizing confrontation in training, so these pilots are very skilled in flying.

On the contrary, the Japanese carrier-based fighter pilots had never been tested in real combat. The plane of the Central Army, shot down by the carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese Navy in Shanghai, was not only the first air battle of its naval aviation in real history, but also the first record of naval aviation since its formation.

Therefore, although Newburg was inferior to the Japanese Nakajima fighters, the superb skills of the pilots completely made up for the lack of aircraft, and the two sides were evenly matched, and there was basically a draw.

However, in comparison, the situation of the eight Unicorns, which specialized in attacking and harassing the Japanese Type 13 carrier-based attack aircraft, was much more difficult.

This is not because the pilots who flew the unicorns were not good at their skills and tactics, nor because there were too many Japanese Nakajima fighters chasing them, but because their mission determined that their situation was much more difficult after all. …,

The mission of these eight unicorns was to drive away the Japanese carrier-based planes that were attacking on the ground, so that they could not calmly carry out the ground attack, so as to ensure the safety of the troops encircling and blocking the Japanese troops on the ground.

Therefore, although the eight unicorns were not aimed at shooting down Japanese planes, but only the Type 13 mainly driving the Japanese around, the opponent also had a machine gun in the back seat, so they had to be extremely careful when driving them away.

In particular, the 24 Nakajima fighters that were chasing after them were very annoying to the pilots on the Unicorns, who not only pursued them closely, but also relied on their numerical superiority to chase and intercept the eight Unicorns in all directions.

The unicorn could only rely on its fast speed and flexible and agile movements to break out of the encirclement again and again in the middle island-style encirclement and interception, and again and again rushed into the group of 13 carrier-based attack planes attacking the ground, scattering the opponent and fleeing, unable to attack the ground. Then, after struggling with the Nakajima-type fighters surrounded on all sides, they broke free from the encirclement and rushed to the Type 13 carrier-based attack planes again.

However, the Japanese Type 13 carrier-based attack planes relied on the superiority of their large numbers and the protection of the Nakajima-type fighters, and under the pursuit of the eight unicorns, some carrier-based attack planes still had the opportunity to attack the ground, but they were no longer of much help to the encircled Japanese 11 th Division.

Because the 11th Division, the 5th Army that surrounded it, and the 78th Division of the 19th Route Army were already entangled, and many areas were full of you, and without careful distinction, the Japanese carrier-based aircraft pilots did not dare to easily drop bombs, and they were afraid of bombing their own people.

However, for the 88th Division, which had a clear battle line and was blocking the 14th Division of the Japanese Army, the Japanese pilots who had the opportunity to attack did not have so many scruples, and carried out round after round of bombing and strafing on the front of the 88th Division. Some Japanese carrier-based pilots, even ignoring the threat of the pursuing unicorns, rushed to drop bombs while resisting with machine guns in the back seat, and then climbed high to escape.

This brought great casualties to the 88th Division commanded by Li Yannian.

In this situation, it was not until more than a dozen Type 13 planes ignoring the threat of unicorns were beaten into smoke and kissed the earth intimately that the Japanese carrier-based attack planes were slightly restrained.

While the 40 or so fighters of the Fourth Route Army were struggling with the more than 160 Japanese planes, several more fighters flew from the western sky (to be continued......