Chapter 626 The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Songhu and the Night Attack on Dagong Yarn Factory (1)

As soon as they heard that the Japanese plane had fled, Jiang Guangding, Zhang Zhizhong, and Gao Xingda hurriedly put their eyes on the observation glasses again. k update

The air battle was over at this time, and in addition to the Japanese carrier-based attack planes that fled first, only 4 Nakajima fighters were left in the air to flee south, and one of them dragged a long black smoke. And none of the twelve planes of the Fourth Route Army were damaged, Jiang Guangding checked it several times, twelve planes, absolutely right, 0 to 8. Such a record made Jiang Guangding and Zhang Zhizhong happy.

At this time, of the 12 victorious Jian-2, four climbed to a high altitude and circled for alert, and the remaining eight began to dive and strafe the ground in turn.

Gao Xingda said to Jiang Guangding and Zhang Zhizhong: "Commander-in-chief, Commander Zhang, don't be happy first, there will be things that will make you happier later." ”

"What could be happier about?" Jiang Guangding and Zhang Zhizhong were both interested.

Xingda didn't answer, but put his eyes back on the scope and searched southeast. After a while, he stood up, pointed to the southeast direction, and said, "If you look in that direction, you will be happier." ”

Jiang Guangding and Zhang Zhizhong hurriedly turned the scope to the southeast again. With the rotation of the observation glass, a group of small black dots soon appeared in the field of vision, and the black dots gradually became larger, and soon they saw clearly, this group of small black dots were dozens of biplanes, heading straight for the sky over Loutang from the southeast.

It was the first time that Jiang Guangding and Zhang Zhizhong saw such a huge fleet, and they were so surprised that they couldn't close their mouths for a while.

Soon, the group of planes came to the sky over Loutang, and after circling twice and identifying the enemy target, they began to dive and bomb in groups.

"Good! Good! Good! Jiang Guangding applauded. Lying on the observation glass, he refused to take his eyes off the lens again.

Ten minutes later, Huang Qiangxing hurriedly climbed onto the roof.

"Commander-in-chief, commander, good news!"

Jiang Guangding, who was already a little numb by the good news, asked with a smile on his face: "What is the good news?" ”

Sun Yuanliang reported that the 517th Regiment had withdrawn with the cooperation of aircraft and the response of ground troops. Sun Yuanliang also reported that our air force shot down eight Japanese planes, and they also captured three Japanese pilots alive. ”

"Good! Very good! ”

Jiang Guangding said to Huang Qiang: "Tell Sun Yuanliang to send the Japanese pilots to Penglang immediately." In addition, photographs of the wreckage of the plane should be taken, and the photographs of the wreckage and the Japanese pilots should be handed over to the "Central Daily" and the "Declaration," and then the Shanghai Municipal Government should be notified. I want them to know that our 19th Route Army and Fifth Army Coco did not eat the good things of the Shanghai people in vain. ”

This plane was not shot down by the 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army, or even by the Air Force of the Central Army, but by the plane of the Air Force Corps of the Fourth Route Army. For Jiang Guangding, who was so happy that he couldn't say anything, Zhang Zhizhong had no choice but to laugh secretly in his heart.

"And."

Zhang Zhizhong also said to Huang Qiang: "Send a telegram to the chairman of the committee and the Ministry of Military Affairs, and ask for credit to the Fourth Route Army Air Force Corps." ”

Huang Qiangle got off the roof, and Jiang Guangding was still a little reluctant to stick his eyes to the observation mirror again.

Jiang Guangding, while observing the Fourth Route Army aircraft group that was still bombing and strafing the Japanese ground troops in the sky over Loutang, asked Xingda without raising his head: "High school colonel, the 517th regiment has already come out, and our pilots are also tired for a long time, so let's hurry back to Changshu and save all our strength until tomorrow morning, when the Japanese planes will definitely be dispatched in large numbers to bomb our interspersed blocking troops." At that time, beat the little devil again. ”

Gao Xingda said with a smile: "Commander-in-chief, rest assured, tomorrow our planes will all be dispatched, not only to ensure the safety of our army's ground troops, but also to beat the little devil's planes." However, now those Jianer will not leave, the little devils are extremely vindictive, and they will come back soon to regain face. ”…,

"Oh! The little devil is back? ”

Jiang Guangding became a little anxious, stood up, and said to Xingda with concern: "Then don't hurry up and send a telegram to the chief of staff and ask him to send more planes, otherwise the little devil will come to take revenge, and this time there will be no fewer planes, and we will suffer." ”

As the chief of education of the Central Army Military Academy, he obviously knows much more about aircraft than Jiang Guangding, and Zhang Zhizhong also said worriedly: "High school colonel, although the performance of our army's Jian-2 is far stronger than that of the Japanese army's Nakajima-style, but our army's plane has been almost an hour since it took off. ”

Gao Xingda said indifferently: "Please rest assured that the commander-in-chief and army commander are waiting for the Japanese planes to take revenge, so that we can eliminate some Japanese fighters in advance and grasp air supremacy more quickly in tomorrow's battle." ’

"Moreover, the little devil will not come many planes this time, according to the information we have, the planes on the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga have been transferred to the shore, and now they are in the Dagong Yarn Factory, with a total of 36 Nakajima fighters and 72 bombers and attack aircraft."

"In order to avoid attack, the Japanese aircraft carrier will sail to the open sea in the southeast direction every night, and the fighter on the aircraft carrier will not dare to fly again at this time, otherwise it will be dark when he flies back, not only can it be difficult to find their aircraft carrier, but it is also prone to danger when landing. Judging from the direction in which the fleeing Japanese plane flew back just now, it was from the Dagong Yarn Mill. Therefore, the number of planes coming back from the Japanese army will not be very large, at most 24 to 28 planes, and we are prepared. ”

"As for the time in the air, our strong two should be shorter, they will fly away before the Japanese planes come, and as long as the Japanese planes fly together from the Dagong Yarn Mill, someone in the concession will call us. Our J-2 can stay in the air for more than 5 hours, and another 4 hours is enough. ”

Zhang Zhizhong asked with some doubts: "However, after the Japanese plane took off, even if someone called Changshu to inform it, how could our plane over Loutang know?" ”

Zhu Guangda, a professional, had long had doubts about Zhang Zhizhong's question, because these biplane groups of the Fourth Route Army came at the right time, as if they knew very well that the Japanese fighters had just been beaten away, but before he could ask, he was deeply shocked by the strength of the Fourth Route Army Air Force.

Xingda did not answer Zhang Zhizhong's question, but just smiled mysteriously and did not answer.

Zhang Zhixin knew that it might not be easy to answer this sentence, so he stopped asking.

"Our fleet flew away." This time it was Jiang Guangding, who had been carefully observing the air battle, shouted.

Xingda said confidently: "It must be the little devil's plane that took off at the Dagong Yarn Factory." ”

Zhang Zhizhong also hurriedly put his eyes on the observation mirror and carefully observed the sky above Loutang.

At this time, not only the Qiang-2 group had already flown away to the northeast, but the twelve J-2 had also begun to climb the whole team. After a while, 24 Japanese Nakajima-type fighters flew violently from the southwest, and at a glance they knew that they were here to seek revenge.

It's just that as soon as they arrived over Loutang, they were scattered by the twelve J-2 that flew down in the air, and soon six Japanese planes were tightly bitten by the faster and more agile J-2, and in the chase with J-2, Nakajima looked extremely clumsy, no matter how the Japanese planes dodged, as long as they were bitten by J-2, they could no longer get out. A few minutes later, two Japanese fighters crashed to the ground in black smoke.

However, the Japanese army had a large number of planes, except for a dozen or so Japanese planes that were entangled with the Jian-2, the rest of the Japanese planes began to climb higher, trying to reorganize their formation and use the altitude advantage to reverse the unfavorable situation. …,

But what the Japanese planes never expected was that the Japanese planes that were climbing were hit by a rain of bullets head-on, and twelve more Jian-2 planes rushed down from above their heads, and the formation of the Japanese planes was scattered again. Moreover, Zhu Guangda, who is an expert, also found that the Fourth Route Army's Jian-2 climbed very quickly, and several Jian-2 that swooped down after a sharp turn and then climbed quickly, biting the Japanese army's Nakajima-style from behind......

An air battle without suspense lasted less than half an hour before it ended, and the result can be imagined, the Japanese army suffered an even worse defeat this time, and only fled back to Jiujia Nakashima.

The 19th Route Army entered Hongkou for the first time, blew up the Japanese naval headquarters, burned down the factory area, and forced Shiozawa Yukiichi to run on the ship, and the vegetables and rice from Hongkou could no longer be transported. The Chinese in the Hongkou area have long since run away, and all that remains there are Japanese ronin, merchants and soldiers. The Japanese had no choice but to buy vegetables, rice, and fuel for airplanes and vehicles from the British and American concessions.

Because of the protest of Shanghai Mayor Wu Tiecheng, the British and American concession authorities had no choice but to prohibit anyone in the concession from transporting all kinds of supplies to the Japanese army in Hongkou, and foreign companies from various countries were not allowed to sell weapons, ammunition, and oil to the Japanese army. However, under the pretext of humanitarianism, the concession authorities allowed the Japanese troops in Hongkou to come to the concession to purchase vegetables and rice.

Because these vegetables and rice are not operated by foreign companies, the Japanese have to buy them from the Chinese. However, all the Chinese merchants in the concession, including the small traders who came to the concession every day to sell vegetables, were warned by the Iron Blood Regiment and the Green Gang organized by the citizens of Shanghai that they were not allowed to sell anything to the Japanese army, otherwise they would be treason and bear the consequences. If you can't tell if the other party is Japanese or Chinese, you are not allowed to sell vegetables and rice to the other party as long as you buy a large amount of vegetables and rice at a time.

Therefore, when Japanese military quartermasters came to the concession to buy vegetables and rice, they could not buy them at all, and not only did the Chinese refuse to sell them, but some young and vigorous men and businessmen would curse a few words. The slightest rudeness on the part of the Japanese army will immediately attract young people who are very helpful, and these people seem to have some martial arts.

In accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau of the Concession, the Japanese soldiers were not allowed to carry weapons, and the bare-handed Japanese soldiers were able to beat a large group of "practitioners," and several clashes broke out in succession, and the Japanese suffered great losses, and more than 20 people were hospitalized by the bricks.

The Japanese changed their methods and let the Japanese in the Hongkou area disguise themselves as Chinese, or directly hire Chinese to purchase in the concession, but they also did not succeed. Not only are these people often recognized, but mainly because the amount of things they buy is large, which arouses suspicion, and after being carefully examined, they are all beaten on the head and bleeding.

As for buying vegetables and rice outside the British and American concessions and outside Hongkou, it is even more impossible, because there are still British and American patrols in the concession to take care of them, and they will not be killed, but the Japanese will not be able to return when they leave the area controlled by the Japanese army in Hongkou. Outside, there are not only squadrons, but also a large number of plainclothes armed personnel, and there are Chinese everywhere.

For example, there was a squad of soldiers who were fully armed and went out to grab vegetables and grain in a truck that had been temporarily recruited, and before they left Hongkou, the first truck full of Japanese soldiers was driven into the Huangpu River by the Shanghainese driver named Chen Agen, and more than 20 Japanese soldiers only climbed ashore for three days, and the rest were all drowned.

The road that relied on the Chinese Navy to transport supplies was also blocked, since the last time the Chinese Navy used ships to transport vegetables for the Japanese army, and the Vice Admiralty and Shiozawa Koichi were exposed for drinking and chatting, the Admiralty was severely reprimanded by Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin, and the Admiralty lost face. Chen Shaokuan was also furious about this, and scolded the vice commander of the navy and the commander of the shallow water fleet stationed in Wusong; although the navy still did not participate in the war, no one from top to bottom dared to get involved with the Japanese anymore. …,

For the sake of this incident, the Japanese navy, which was so angry, also sank 10 shallow water gunboats of the Chinese navy, including Jiangning, Haining, Funing, Suining, Weining, Suning, Chongning, Yining, Zhengning, and Changning, which were anchored in Songhu and Taiwan.

After all, the Japanese had nearly 100,000 naval and air forces in Shanghai and Japanese merchants and ronins who stayed in Shanghai to help the Japanese army.

As a result, the Japanese army urgently demanded that oil and rice be sent to Shanghai from the mainland, and at the same time threatened the British and American consuls that if the Ministry of Industry did not take action to stop the anti-Japanese and anti-Japanese Chinese merchants and rioters, the Japanese army would enter the concession with arms as a precaution.

The British and American consuls couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed at this time, and they couldn't offend both China and Japan.

Originally, the consuls of the two countries, especially the British consul Lake, would not have cared about the warnings of Shanghai Mayor Wu Tiecheng, or would have scoffed at the warnings of Foreign Minister Luo Wengan.

In Lake's view, a government that has lost large swaths of its territory and is powerless to do anything about it, all of its threats and warnings are frightening. Hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army troops fled without a fight in front of more than 10,000 Japanese troops, how could such an army dare to do anything to the dignified British Empire.

However, in the past ten days, Lake's concept has changed dramatically, and tens of thousands of poorly equipped squadrons have defeated the menacing Japanese army, which shows that the squadrons are not all troops like the Northeast Army. Moreover, this time the Central Army also participated in the war, and Miaoxing fought very heroically. Lake was well aware of the predicament of its British Empire at this time. He was also afraid that something similar to the Hankou Concession would happen in Shanghai again, and that sending only a few warships to China would no longer solve any problems.

Therefore, both he and US Consul Cunningham believe that the Chinese Government must not be offended now, still less should the Chinese people be given the impression that they support and condone the Japanese.

However, the requirements of the Japanese must also be taken into account, otherwise this group of dwarves will be forced to enter the concession by force. At that time, I was trying to please both sides, but I couldn't do it without offending. For the Japanese, there must be some comfort.

Therefore, after consulting with Cunningham, Lake informed the Japanese side that they were firmly opposed to the Japanese army sending armed men into the concession. However, taking into account the actual situation of the Japanese side, the concession side allowed foreign banks to provide the Japanese side with large quantities of military supplies, such as oil. As for vegetables, rice, that's the Chinese's business, they can't do anything about it. Moreover, in order to take care of the feelings of the Chinese, all the materials provided by the foreign bank to the Japanese side must be handled by reliable Chinese entrusted by the Japanese side, and must be carried out secretly. Otherwise, the Ministry of Industry and the Bureau will have to intervene to stop it.

Shirakawa Yoshiro just wants to scare and frighten the concession authorities, at this time, it is not a good time to offend Britain and the United States, the two big countries, if Britain and the United States and the Chinese stand together, Japan will be very isolated in the international community, Shirakawa Yoshiro does not have the courage to cause such an international dispute, he cannot bear this responsibility.

Seeing that the British and American consuls had made certain compromises, Shirakawa Yoshinori had no choice but to accept it. But who does this suitable client turn to? Shirakawa Yoshinori had no choice but to consult with Consul Aoi.

Aoi provoked Takayoshi Tanaka to "one. The "Twenty-Eight Incident" was somewhat heard, so he immediately recommended Takayoshi Tanaka to Shirakawa.

Takayoshi Tanaka instead recommended Sanyuqing to Shirakawa. Of course, this matter still has to be contacted by Tanaka Takayoshi and Chang Yuqing.

Under the temptation of Tanaka Takayoshi's huge sums of money, Sanyuqing agreed. Because of the material supply for more than 100,000 Japanese soldiers, the difference in the price of this transaction alone is a huge amount, and Chang Yuqing, who has a tight life, still cares so much. …,

It was not a big problem to secretly transport the materials of foreign companies in the concession to Hongkou, but the purchase of vegetables and rice for the Japanese army made it difficult for Chang Yuqing.

He knew very well that many of those who beat up the Japanese personnel in the concession were Du Yuesheng's apprentices. Moreover, he also heard that the people who warned the merchants and hawkers in the concession not to sell vegetables and rice to the Japanese army, whether they were Du Yuesheng's apprentices or the people of the Iron Blood Regiment, were all funded by Yu Qiaqing and Song Zhewu's father-in-law, Li Yuanda.

Although Chang Yuqing is a veteran of the Green Gang, his mind is far less flexible than the rising star Du Yuesheng, he can't compare to Du Yuesheng compared to the underworld forces, and he can't compare to Yu Qiaqing compared to financial resources, he can't afford to offend any of these people.

After thinking about it, Chang Yuqing felt that it was better to find a way outside Shanghai. So, Chang Yuqing sent a large sum of money to Huang Jinrong, the boss of the Qing Gang, to obtain Huang Jinrong's acquiescence, and then bought and borrowed money, got together 100 trucks, and sent a large number of disciples and grandchildren to Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places to quietly buy vegetables and rice in large quantities and transport them back to Shanghai, and then quietly transported them to Hongkou through the concession at night.

Chang Yuqing knew that the oil he bought from the foreign bank was different from the vegetables purchased for the Japanese army, it was the fuel for airplanes and cars, and it was no different from weapons and ammunition.

Chang Yuqing did these things, naturally he couldn't hide Du Yuesheng, who had hands and eyes in the sky, but because of Huang Jinrong's affection, Du Yuesheng was not good. However, the people of the Iron Blood Regiment did not buy Huang Jinrong's account, although these locals did not dare to provoke these people of the Green Gang, but they knew that someone could afford to provoke them.

Du Wende learned that Chang Yuqing was delivering supplies to the Japanese army, and immediately reported to Shi Ming. Just in time for Gao Zhihang to prepare to blow up the Japanese airfield in the Dagong Yarn Factory, Shi Ming tried to indicate the location of the Dagong Yarn Factory to the planes of the Air Force Corps at night. Shi Ming immediately sent Du Wende to Changshu and accepted the task.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, at the entrance of a dark alley leading to Hongkou south of Laojizi Road in the concession, a team of cars loaded with vegetables and Dengdeng rice sacks stopped. This convoy consisted of 20 trucks, and it was the convoy of Chang Yuqing, the boss of the Shanghai Youth Gang, who secretly transported supplies and oil for the Japanese army.

From the position of the co-pilot of the front car, jumped a middle-aged man, this person was wearing a suit, but he was wearing a peaked cap and his face was full of arrogance, typical of the Qinggang disciples, this person was Chang Yuqing's apprentice Lu Xiaowang. Chang Yuqing handed over all the supplies to him for the Japanese army.

The first car stopped, and the cars behind it also stopped. The driver of the first car and another escort also jumped out of the car with Lu Xiaowang. Usually, in order not to attract attention, they don't stop at all along the way, and they all drive directly into Hongkou. The two didn't know why Lu Xiaowang was parking here, so they hurriedly got out of the car and asked.

Lu Xiaowang said: "Tell the people behind to get out of the car, the old man said, the big guy has been working hard these days, and today I will give the big guy 30 oceans each to show my gratitude." The man sent by the old man is waiting for us in the alley. ”

As soon as they heard that each person was 30 oceans, the driver and the other person were very excited, and hurriedly ran to the back to inform everyone to get out of the car. In the car behind, there was also a driver and two people, who were responsible for escorting and transporting the car.

Seeing that everyone got out of the car, Lu Xiaowang led the way to the alley. After stopping in front of a courtyard gate, Lu Xiaowang tried his best to control his beating heart, and touched the check in his arms with his hand, which was 20,000 oceans! This was handed over to him by Du Yuesheng last night.

Du Yuesheng promised him that as long as he fully cooperated with the people of the Fourth Route Army to finish tonight's work, the money would belong to him, and for the safety of his family and to avoid Chang Yuqing's revenge, he had secretly sent his family to Taiyuan in the evening.

Lu Xiaowang steadied himself, stepped forward and knocked on the door three times with a rhythmic rhythm, the door opened immediately, Lu Xiaowang took the lead and walked in, and went straight to a large room with lights on on the left. The people who followed Lu Xiaowang, when they entered the door, the people guarding the gate kept standing in the dark and couldn't see their faces clearly. When everyone had entered the courtyard, the janitor closed the gate tightly.

A few minutes later, there was a faint flurry of movement and a few exclamations that were visibly interrupted in the large lighted room, and then there was silence.

After about 20 minutes, the gate opened again, Lu Xiaowang walked out first, looked left and right, and saw that there was no movement, so he waved his hand behind him, and walked towards the convoy outside the alley with more than 50 people who came out of it.

Lu Xiaowang peeked at the quiet-looking middle-aged man who followed him closely, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his spine. If he hadn't seen this person with his own eyes just now, and easily twisted the necks of the two Chang Yuqing disciples without blinking, he would never have thought that this person would have an outstanding kung fu.

This middle-aged man is none other than Du Wende, the squadron leader of the special operations team.

When everyone came to the convoy, they did not immediately get in the car and leave, but were busy in and off the car for a while before getting into the car under the command of Du Wende. The convoy restarted and headed straight for the old target.