The tragic scene of the desperate fight between the air forces of the two sides, which took place during the three-day air battle from 5 to 8 December, also shocked the whole world, and after the war, reporters from various countries invariably called this air battle an "air meat grinder." In order to commemorate this significant air war, the newly born republic after the founding of the People's Republic designated December 8, the day of the end of the air war, as "Air Force Day".

In the great battle of the Chinese and British air forces, which ended on 8 December, although the British air force was crushed by the joint air force of China and the Soviet Union over Shanghai and Hangzhou, the Chinese and Soviet sides also suffered heavy losses. In addition to the scrapped fighters on the ground, the Red Army lost one-third of its fighters, and in addition, a quarter of its fighters needed to be overhauled before they could be returned to flight, and in a short period of time, the Red Army also lost sixty percent of its combat effectiveness.

Although the loss of pilots was still within acceptable limits, for the Red Army, which was not an industrial country, the replenishment of the lost aircraft had to be resolved under the premise that the sea was blocked.

Fortunately, there is a solution to this problem.

In recent years, the Red Army's territory in China has continued to expand, but its main target was the Nanjing Nationalist Government. The Red Army and the small warlords elsewhere, although there were conflicts, the scale of the war was not large. Yan Xishan, on the other hand, has been in a situation of "sweeping the snow in front of the door and no war on the front line" for a long time.

After June 1935, the Red Army's air force shook the world, and Yan Xishan, located in Shanxi, also wanted to form his own air force. During the end of the Nanjing government, he also received several old planes that had defected after the defeat of the Nanjing government, and with the small number of planes he had in his own hands, Yan Xishan built up a weak air force.

In the past six months. The military has always taken the initiative to establish a good relationship with Yan Xishan. With Lin Han's help in matchmaking, the Germans helped Yan Xishan start to expand the air force. In the past six months, the airfield in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, has been expanded, and a medium-sized fuel storage depot has been established, which has become an important transit base for the Red Army to obtain Soviet fighters on land.

In exchange, a group of Luftwaffe instructors entered Shanxi to help Yan Xishan train pilots. In the later war in the south, the Red Army also gave several Hawker II fighters as gifts to Yan Xishan.

In October, when the Red Army's foreign trade lines were cut off, Taiyuan became the most important transit base for the Red Army to obtain aircraft.

In order to obtain the gladiator fighter as quickly as possible, the British on the Zhoushan front did not hesitate to use the air transfer method that spanned half the world at any cost. The Red Army, on the other hand, was carried out by land and air through the Soviet Union.

Here's how. It was the FW90 fighter that was built and shipped into the Soviet Union, transported to Siberia by rail, assembled, and then transferred to Mongolia. After refueling there. Fly to Taiyuan again. After refueling in Taiyuan, he was transferred to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces again.

The land-to-air aircraft transport line was put into trial operation as early as September, but Soviet-made I16 fighter jets were brought in. On November 10, the first FW90 to guò railway, which was dismantled into parts state, entered the Soviet Union from East Prussia. By December 20th. The Red Army received the first batch of forty FW90 fighters that had crossed most of the Soviet Union. And in January 1936, the Red Army opened this line of communication again and acquired another 140 FW90s, which fully compensated for the previous losses.

This way of transferring planes by land and air is faster than getting planes by sea, but you can't get enough spare parts. However, what the Red Army lacks now is not spare parts, but physical aircraft.

It was precisely because of the foundation of this air supply line that the Red Army had the confidence to fight an air battle in Shanghai and Hangzhou in which 10,000 enemies were annihilated and 3,000 were self-inflicted.

Of course, in this process, Stalin and Yan Xishan of Shanxi reaped a lot of benefits. The Soviet side privately withheld eight FW90s for their own use and testing, while Yan Xishan's side, when the all-out anti-Japanese war had broken out, as a need for cooperation in resisting Japan, part of the transferred aircraft were placed in Shanxi to provide air cover for Taiyuan Airport and Yan Xishan.

In January 1936, with the Japanese invasion, another batch of Soviet-aided I16 fighters also began to be stationed in Taiyuan, along with pilots from the Soviet Union.

After June 1935, the Soviet Union's aid to China's I16 fighter encountered unwelcome embarrassment. Not only did the pilots of the Red Army not want it, but even the pilots sent by the Soviet Union to aid China did not want to fly "domestic" fighters into the sky after flying over the FW90. In order to make full use of the Soviet flight resources in their hands, the Red Army handed over the surplus FW90 and He51 to the Soviet Air Force to pilot. The I16 was only awkwardly used as a bomber at the time.

When the news was transmitted back to the Soviet Union, Stalin was greatly dissatisfied with the incident, and after asking the reason, he sent several telegrams urging the factory to speed up production. Under pressure from this strongman, the USSR accelerated the production of the I16-5 fighter. One or two. During the Wuhu Air War, Tang Jueyang was able to fly the latest I16 to participate in the war so early, and Stalin's iron-fisted intervention contributed a lot. In order to put the new engine for the I16 into production as soon as possible, a domestic department in the Soviet Union was fully operationalized to speed up production. In terms of mobilization capacity, the superiority of the socialist system is undoubtedly evident here.

Unlike the I16-5, which only participated in the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, one of the improvements of the I16-5 in this era is to "boldly" imitate the design of the FW90 and change the open cockpit to a closed cockpit, which increased the speed of the aircraft by more than ten kilometers per hour. The only problem was that due to the "old problem" of the Soviets who were "not fine enough" when it was manufactured, the aircraft had big problems with the canopy lock, which often could not be opened from the inside. Therefore, after the batch of I16s in service in China was transported to China, the first thing the pilots did after receiving the aircraft was to order the ground crew to remove the latches and replace the latches on the scrapped FW90 fighters -- this improvement measure of the Chinese side was soon copied by the Soviet pilots who aided China.

After the end of the air battle on 8 December, the Red Army began to shift the focus of air defense to the north, and a large number of fighters were transferred to the front line in northern Jiangsu and Shandong to participate in the war against Japan. During this period. The maintenance departments of the aircraft air forces in Shanghai and Hangzhou are working overtime to repair fighters damaged in air battles. By 15 December, 60 percent of the damaged fighters in the hangars had recovered their combat effectiveness.

At this time, the Japanese had already established a number of field airfields in Shandong, and as the main forces of the Red Army continued to enter Shandong, the attention of the Japanese troops who landed in Shandong was all attracted.

This landing in Shandong, the Japanese Army Airlines came with the idea of a shame. In the past few months, in order to win over the Japanese to work hard, although the British have written a lot of empty checks, there are still some "dry goods". The British sell it at a half-free price. "Supported" the Japanese with a batch of 720 horsepower aero engines for the improvement of the existing Type 92 fighters. It's not that the British didn't want to supply the Japanese Personality Fighter fighters. It's just that Britain itself, which has just entered the general mobilization of aircraft production, is in short supply of fighter fighters.

The year 1935 was a period of transition for the air forces of all countries. For Japan, it is also a transition period of industrial upgrading. Japan at this time. The production of engines for domestic aircraft is all lagging behind. Historically, Japan also introduced American engine technology during this period. After several years of hard work, the complete localization of the fighter was completed in a few years.

The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was greatly advanced because of the appearance of Lin Han, which was one of the benefits. It's that Japan is not ready at all. After Japan completely occupied Northeast China in 1932, in order to give full play to the production capacity here, it invested more than 2 billion yen in the development of Northeast China, and by July 1937, Northeast China had become an important military logistics base for the Japanese invasion of China.

However, it was 1935, and Japan, which hastily launched a war of aggression against China, was not ready at all, and their investment in Northeast China was in an embarrassing situation where their input far exceeded their output. In addition, Lin Han and Hannah transferred dozens of tons of gold from the Mukden Bank, which also shrank Japan's construction funds a lot.

If you count the sinking of the Kaga, the heavy damage of the Akagi, and the explosion of Kagoshima, Japan in 1935 was actually much weaker than history, and the manufacturing capacity of fighter jets was even weaker. If it weren't for the fact that the British sent a large number of engines to improve their aircraft, the Japanese would have had no choice but to import aircraft in the face of the advantage of the "generation gap" on the side of the Red Army. You must know that the 95 fighter that is now under development, in front of a monoplane, is actually an aircraft that has become obsolete before it is equipped, and the production line of the 730-horsepower engine of the Nakajima Hikaru 1 prepared for the 95 fighter is now being prepared, and it will be two months before mass production.

From the point of view of the progress and improvement of aviation technology, the Red Army, which solved the Nanjing government in 1935, really chose the right entry point: it happened to be at the weakest time before the change of dynasties of various countries. And because of the traverser, the German aircraft changed their minds in advance, and the German aircraft took a huge advantage in this regard.

After improving the planes in their hands, the Japanese Army Airlines, which came with a shameful and vengeful mentality, cooperated with the invading Japanese army in Shandong, and frequently appeared on the battlefield in Shandong. In order to resist the pressure of the Japanese army and aviation, the Red Army also constantly transferred air defense fighters from Shanghai and Hangzhou to the north, and at the same time withdrew part of the air defense antiaircraft artillery units.

From a strategic point of view, it was absolutely correct that the Red Army concentrated its air forces on the three days from 5 to 8 December and fought a fierce air battle with the British in Shanghai and Hangzhou. Otherwise, there is the British Air Force in the south and the Japanese Army Air Force in the north, and if this situation is difficult to take care of, if the troops are divided into battles, it will disperse their own air force strength.

The air battle that ended on 8 December knocked out the spirit of the British Royal Air Force in one fell swoop, and over the next month, although Dowding continued to receive new planes and new pilots, he had to spend a long time resting and recuperate, and the air attacks on Shanghai and Hangzhou were significantly weakened.

Stalin is now complicated about the attitude towards the CCP.

The unexpected appearance of Lin Han, a traverser, shattered history. He and Hannah's attitude of "feigning a left turn" and "seemingly pro-Soviet" gave the internationally isolated Soviet Union hope of getting out of isolation.

Historically, after Hitler, who was extremely anti-Soviet, came to power, the atmosphere in the Soviet Union suddenly became tense. And in this plane, after the Kiel Conference, because of the easing of Soviet-German relations, the upper echelons of the Soviet Union also let go of most of their hearts for this. The great success of the Chinese revolution also made the Soviet Union see the possibility of gaining a strong ally in the Far East.

As the Soviet Union claimed. The Great Gao Dynasty of the Second Proletarian Revolution is on the rise.

Originally, a qiē was very good.

The only thing that disturbed Stalin was Stalin's own nationalist and nationalist ideas.

The idea that "China, combined with a time-traveler who knows history, will sooner or later become a threat to the Soviet Union" has always hovered in Stalin's mind like a demon. Stalin's attitude toward the CCP, the "brother of the proletarian revolution," was extremely contradictory.

In recent years, as the revolutionary situation of the Red Army in southern China has continued to improve and the "misunderstanding" between China and the Soviet Union has been resolved, the pro-Soviet forces within the Red Army have also been constantly revived. But again, these forces are also suppressed by the upper echelons, consciously or unconsciously.

Stalin was not essentially a believer in Lenin's idea that "the communist world has no borders", but an out-and-out "Great Russia" chauvinist. In his eyes. The Comintern was just a tool. He supported the Chinese revolution, but in the interests of the Soviet Union. What he wants to see most is to turn China into the "little brother" and "puppet" of the Soviet Union, and what he wants most to do is to support a Soviet "spokesman" in the upper echelons of the CCP.

But this assumption. Because of the appearance of the traverser Lin Han. It's a long way off. Stalin did not understand Linhan. But Stalin also knew that Lin Han must have "understood" him and knew what kind of person "he" was. Because Lin Han came from the future, from the future, and knew what he would do in the future. This kind of information asymmetry, in which all of his hole cards are seen through by the other party, Stalin did not like it very much.

It is precisely because of this psychology that Stalin deliberately ordered the Far Soviet Army to stop its operations at this critical point, so that the Japanese Kwantung Army could move south with peace of mind.

He didn't want to let himself "dance" to the rhythm of the idea of a "traverser", and he didn't want to see a strong and unified China emerge. Had it not been for the seemingly powerful posture of the Anglo-Japanese invasion and intervention in the Chinese revolution, which made Stalin feel that the flames of the Chinese revolution might be extinguished, Stalin gave the green light to this land air supply line.

However, at the same time as the green light, Stalin made a formal request to the CCP: he hoped to meet with Lin Han, a traverser, at the appropriate time.

After consulting with the CCP leadership, Lin Han agreed to Stalin's request for a meeting.

After the Kiel talks, Lin Han had been thinking about meeting with Stalin in his heart. Although I didn't like the Soviet Union in my heart, I didn't like Stalin either. But the main reason was not that Lin Han disliked Stalin as a human being, but purely because Lin Han knew that Stalin was an extremely difficult man to deal with, and because he knew that this person was difficult to deal with, he "didn't like it".

Lin Han knew very well that one of the biggest problems in the strategic idea of the Sino-German-Soviet alliance to jointly confront the capitalist world was the mutual distrust between the three countries, and the distrust between the Soviet Union and Germany was the most serious. China and Germany are much better on this point because of the lack of territorial borders.

Also from the future, Hannah, feared the huge military potential of the USSR, which had completed industrialization and preparation for war. Russia in the era of Tsarist Russia was just a fat giant with feet of clay, but the Soviet Union in the era of Stalin was an out-and-out superpower and a world power.

And Germany?

Linhan commented that he was a "power" that had been doped and disguised as a peerless master, and sarcastically ridiculed that what Germany did best was to disguise itself as a world power.

Hannah, also from the future, was well aware of Germany's shortcomings and inadequacies, and that in order to become a truly first-class power, it needed two things in addition to having a strong industrial power.

First, it is a large enough land area.

Second, there is a sufficient number of domestic population, especially the population of the main ethnic group.

Before the fifties of the twentieth century, there were only two countries that met this condition: one was the Soviet Union and the other was the United States. Britain has a large enough territory and colonies, but the population of the main ethnic group is insufficient. The Chinese population is large enough and the territory is large enough, but at this time it is not an industrialized country, and it can only be said that it has the potential to become a superpower. As for Indian Ah San, although he also has these two conditions, before solving the domestic caste problem, Lin Han's evaluation of this country is "haha" twice.

As for Germany, if Germany really unified Europe in history, how could its pitiful 68 million Germanic population be able to digest such a large piece of land where "nationalist" ideas were awakened? In the end, it is inevitable that it will fall apart, because strong suppression cannot be long. It is understandable to look at the fate of the "Warsaw Pact" organization during the Cold War in the future.

Trust was the biggest issue in the Soviet-German alliance.

Lin Han's proposal to divide Poland and establish a Polish buffer zone only partially solved the problem of mutual threats between the Soviet Union and Germany, but deep down, the Soviet Union and Germany were still wary of each other. The geographical proximity of the two countries doomed the two sides to be difficult to trust.

"But it is not impossible to establish an alliance and mutual trust between the Soviet Union and Germany. Because in this world, there is still a distinction between the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction! ”

When talking about the Soviet-German issue, Chairman Li Runshi and the people in the upper echelons of the CCP repeatedly encouraged Lin Han to communicate more in the middle. China, as a third party, also saw the benefits of the Soviet-German alliance for the communist movement around the world, as well as for the Soviet Union.

Although Germany seems to be strong and weak, and the Soviet Union seems to be weak and strong, if the Soviet-German war really starts, it will only be a war in which both sides lose. Even if the USSR had not made historical mistakes and destroyed Germany, it would have shed a lot of blood itself, which is not a good thing.

The problems of the Soviet Union were similar in some respects to those of Germany: the Juche ethnic group had too few populations, and it was too self-sufficient to expand itself.

Take Germany, or even forcibly eat the whole of Europe, then what?

Can socialism really be realized, communism can be achieved, and the whole of Europe will forget its own national and national attributes?

Not to mention whether Stalin, the "Great Russian", would have done this, how could the Soviet Union, which had only 100 million people as the main nation, be able to digest the whole of Europe? Death is inevitable. To do so would be to make the mistake of the second Hitler.

Even if you take a step back, as in history, Britain and the United States divided Germany, made the Iron Curtain fall, split Europe in two, played the Eastern European socialist camp, and solved the problem with the method of "eating less"?

The collapse of the socialist camp in Eastern Europe, the collapse of the Soviet Union, is the best example of this. Although there are a bunch of strange leaders like Gorbachev and Yeltsin who have been fooled and stupidized by Europe and the United States. But these two people are just an inevitability in chance, and they are just "gravediggers" who "came into being" when the Soviet Union collapsed in the late Cold War. They were an inevitability, not an accident, of the Soviet Union in the economic and political environment of the time.

The underpopulation of the Juche nation was also a problem of the Soviet Union - only in this respect the Soviet Union was slightly better than Germany. But the Soviet Union, with its more than 100 nationalities, was itself a country full of internal contradictions, but it was forcibly integrated under the existence of the CPSU, an anti-natural organization.

Therefore, the Soviet-German alliance is actually the strategy that is most in line with the interests of the two countries, provided that the two sides can achieve real mutual trust.

In the past three months since the capture of Nanjing, Lin Han has privately told them about the history of World War II and the "history" of the confrontation between the East and the West in the Cold War in another dimension in his talks with the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party. Although a great deal of "black history" was omitted from the first thirty years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lin Han told them about the final outcome of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact in the last years of the twentieth century.

After a long period of reflection, the CCP leader told Sù Linhan that meeting with Stalin was a must. In their opinion, the twisted melon is not sweet, since the "Hitler" view of this plane has been reversed by Lin Han. It makes far more sense to turn Germany voluntarily into a friend of the socialist camp rather than to force half of Germany into a socialist country by the bayonets of the Soviet Red Army, as in another time and space. Since Germany in this plane has shown the possibility of "redness", then on the Soviet side, Lin Han should also make efforts.

Lin Han actually wanted to tell them that the current Hitler was Hannah, and she was also a time-traveler, but considering that this was her last hole card, she never opened it.

After several discussions, Lin Han finally decided that the question of China was over, and he told Hannah to arrange time for a meeting with Stalin for a face-to-face conversation - of course, the meeting place was chosen by himself, and provided that he could guarantee his absolute safety. (To be continued......)

PS: Probably in the next chapter, you can end the Chinese plot, maybe. But it must have ended in 10,000 words.