The typhoon that made landfall in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces has passed, but a new storm is converging over Japan.

Churchill did not die.

In fact, he was not seriously injured, but the injured part was a little embarrassing, and when Hitokazu Yamada rushed towards him, he fired a total of six bullets, and only one shot hit, and the part hit was the fattest butt on his body, although the position was awkward but not fatal.

Due to the tightness of the guards, Hitokazu Yamada fired at him from a distance of fifty meters, which was too far for a pistol. "Fortunately" Yamada Ren used the more powerful nine-millimeter ten-shot Mauser pistol, not the Southern 14 pistol (also known as the Wang Eight Box, the worst pistol of World War II) for Japanese officers, otherwise he would not have suffered this injury.

When Yamada Renhe returned to China, he was ready to go to the military headquarters to kill him, and he knew that the southern fourteen pistol in his hand was a bad gun, so bad that it was said to be a bad gun that was not even qualified for suicide (how bad it is, everyone Baidu the name of this gun, there is an explanation in it, so it will not be written in to cheat the number of words). So before returning to China, Hitokazu Yamada specially prepared another gun, a nine-millimeter Mauser pistol.

The gun was his trophy on the battlefield in Pudong for half a month.

In the bloody battles of the past half month, the Red Army organized a large number of small units of squads and platoons to enter the Pudong area to carry out infiltration operations, and fierce battles broke out with Yamada Renkazu's landing force. In these small regional battles, the Japanese side suffered enough.

The most important feature of these small infiltration units of the Red Army is that each unit has a non-wireman carrying battlefield communication equipment. Its communicator is a variable frequency radio for light infantry. Weighs about fifteen kilograms. This radio station is the same kind of product as the infantry radio station later equipped by the US army in World War II, and the effective communication radius is about 12 kilometers. With this kind of radio equipment, it became extremely painful for Yamada's landing force to fight these small infiltration troops.

The main task of these small infiltration units was not only to attack the Japanese troops, but also to attract and gather the Japanese troops who were scattered around them to avoid air raids like magnets. When the Japanese army in the Pudong area clashed and fought with this kind of infiltration force in squads and platoons, the number was small, and due to the difference in weapons, the opponent could not be suppressed and was often defeated and defeated. If there are too many of them, and the opponent is surrounded, then it will be in the hands of the opponent. The opponent will immediately radio a nearby airfield. Then, within a few minutes, planes would fly over the battlefield and launch air strikes against the Japanese troops who had surrounded and annihilated them. In order to cooperate with these infiltration forces, several HS129 fighter planes can often be seen hovering like vultures in the sky over Pudong all day long. As long as a radio indication passes, it only takes two minutes at the fastest time to summon an air strike from HS129.

This is a way of fighting that is full of the American imperialist style of later generations. It was Lin Han who supplied it to the Red Army. The Germans were also familiar with the actual combat of the Chinese battlefield. Put this tactic to the test. In the ground war with the infiltration forces of the opponent, the Japanese army had enough of this suffering, but it was never able to find an effective way to deal with it.

But in this brutal ground infiltration warfare. The infiltration units of the Red Army were not always smooth, and there were also cases of defeat in battle or even annihilation by the opponent. The nine-millimeter Mauser pistol in Yamada's hand was a trophy that was finally obtained in the fierce land battle in this month and a half. Mauser pistols are available in a variety of calibers in China, from 7.63, 9 mm and even 11 mm. After Lin Han came to the aid of the Communists, with the continuous improvement of the equipment in his hands, the Red Army suffered from the trouble of ammunition supply brought about by the Wanguo brand weapons in its hands, and began to unify the caliber of the long and short guns in its hands as much as possible. All of the existing Mauser pistols, with the exception of a few 7.63 rounds left for the consumption of stocks, were re-chambered in the arsenal to fire 9 mm Luger pistol rounds, a caliber that is compatible with the MP18 submachine gun bullet. In terms of power, the 9 mm Mauser pistol, which has the nickname of a submachine pistol, has great lethality even from a distance of 100 meters, and if it is a tattered like the 14th in the south, when firing from 50 meters away, let alone hitting the target, it is a big problem whether it can even hurt people after hitting. And the nine-mm Mauser pistol, the effective killing radius is between 100 and 200 meters.

When Hitokazu Yamada fired at Churchill, he started from 50 meters away, did not run and shoot, and did not shoot until 30 meters away before he was knocked to the ground by the guards who had woken up. Because it was a running shot, the six bullets fired were very different, but one bullet still hit Churchill by magic, and the first shot hit the fat on his buttocks, directly causing the future British Prime Minister to kneel on his seat.

Hitokazu Yamada was soon caught and arrested by the guards, and Churchill, who had been shot in the buttocks, was also taken to the hospital. And this assassination incident also shook the whole world.

Yamada Hitokazu's assassination of Churchill was just the fuse that ignited the fire pill bag of the imperial sect that had been suppressed for a long time, and the greater power was only revealed in the following days.

On the day of Yamada Renhe's operation, dozens of members of the Imperial Daoist faction secretly mimeographed the memoirs of his half-moon experience on the Shanghai battlefield with the private goods of the Imperial Daoist faction, and privately mimeographed them into a large number of copies and distributed them in military camps, schools, and other key departments. And the next day, the streets of Tokyo were filled with the truth about the Pudong front secretly mimeographed by these imperial soldiers, as well as the assassination statement of Hitokazu Yamada. When the news spread, it caused a sensation throughout Tokyo, and a day later, it spread to the whole of Japan.

Because of the tragic experience of the Chinese battlefield army brought by Yamada Hitokazu, it aroused strong sympathy and anger among the lower echelons of the Japanese army, and after the news spread, it had a great appeal.

The first to be agitated were the students of the military academy, and then these students, organized by active military officers, secretly mimeographed more than 100,000 copies of Hitokazu Yamada's "Pudong Half Moon Chronicle" and his assassination statement, and then began to distribute them everywhere on the streets of Tokyo on the day after the assassination. Taking advantage of the assassination, as soon as this batch of propaganda materials was issued, it caused a shock throughout Japan.

On the streets of Japan, countless angry Japanese people once again gathered and caused large-scale mass riots. And the Japanese Army Headquarters, which bears the first responsibility for the tragedy of the Battle of Pudong, is the target of the angry people's siege. The angry Japanese people were almost on the verge of tearing up the army headquarters building in Tokyo. In the process, the incumbent Lu Xiang was almost "punished by heaven" by an "angry" middle school student holding a sharp knife, but fortunately, due to the increased security of high-ranking Japanese officials after the assassination of the emperor, the murderer was subdued, and Lu Xiang barely escaped.

"On August 22, the whole of Japan was boiling!"

So said a British journalist based in Japan.

After August 22, no one in the world paid attention to Churchill, who was shot in the buttocks, and he was almost forgotten by the public. For the people, this British fat man is not dead. When Churchill was lying face down on the hospital bed humming haha, the focus of public opinion at this time was the murderer Hitoshi Yamada and Osa who shot him. In the hearts of every Japanese person who has read his statement and "Pudong Half Moon". Hitokazu Yamada was not the murderer. It's heroes. In the eyes of Westerners, the image of Yamada Renhe is also very "tall".

Under popular pressure, the cabinet of Keisuke Okada, who had only been in power for three months after the Kagoshima incident, was forced to resign en masse and apologize. It is the land and sea phases that have also just come to power. to take their place. It is the Hirota Hiroki Cabinet.

August 22nd. Lin Hantong Guò, who was far away in Shanghai, learned about the earthquake in Japanese politics according to information from the German intelligence service in Japan.

Afterwards, he said to the top of the leadership of the Red Army: "Chairman. Japan's all-out war of aggression against China is about to begin! ”

Before Yamada Hitokazu fired that shot, in fact, the Japanese upper echelons had already decided to shift the strategic goal of invading China, and Yamada Hitokazu's shot actually did not change in a substantive sense on this point. However, what really triggered the great storm in the Japanese political arena was the truth about the fiasco of the Pudong landing battle that was revealed.

The heavy damage of the Akagi, the sinking of the Kaga, the fate of the two "Imperial Heavy Weapons", the loss of more than 20,000 people of the Army due to the stupid strategy of the upper echelons, the anger of more than 6,000 families of the war dead, and the Japanese people who were mobilized by this almost overturned the entire Japanese political arena. How can the young officers of the imperial faction, who have been suppressed for many years, be satisfied with the political tricks of the Japanese upper echelons who have been suppressed for many years?

When discussing the political situation in Japan, Lin Han talked about the old things in this period of Japan's history, comparing the current political situation in Japan, Lin Han said to Chairman Li:

"226 will definitely happen, but what kind of outcome it will be, and what impact it will have on the Sino-Japanese war, is what I can know."

"No matter what the future holds, Japan's full-scale invasion of China will not change! A qiē is still a plan. ”

The great changes in Japan's domestic political situation did not have a great impact on the Red Army's strategic policy this year, and the original plan was still started.

After the assassination of Churchill on 21 August, the fighting around Hangzhou Bay subsided for a few days, and only the guerrillas lurking on Zhoushan Island continued to exchange fire with the British defenders stationed on the island. The Red Army, which had gained air supremacy over Zhoushan Island, dispatched DO17 bombers every day to bomb the barracks, airfields, and other key departments on the island in order not to make the British too comfortable. In order to evade the anti-aircraft weapons on the island, the bombing altitude was not low every time the bombing was dispatched, the effect was average, and the losses caused were not large, but the psychological pressure caused by the British was not small. In addition, another thing that the Air Force in the Ningbo direction did was to airdrop supplies to the guerrilla zone of the Red Army on the island.

Before the war, Zhoushan Island had already stockpiled a large amount of supplies in advance to cope with a possible protracted war in the future, and there was no shortage of materials in the short term, but this kind of airdrop was necessary. From 1 August onwards, Zhoushan fell into the hands of the British, and the guerrillas on Zhoushan Island fought the hardest in the entire Hangzhou Bay area. If it had not been for the great changes in the political situation in Japan's air force caused by the Yamada Hitokazu incident, the Japanese military would have even planned to send an army to the island at the invitation of the British to help encircle and suppress the guerrillas 20 days ago. However, after the Yamada Hitokazu incident, the political atmosphere in Japan has changed greatly, and the military now only wants to get out of the quagmire of Shanghai as soon as possible, and even Zhoushan Island does not want to be disturbed again. Therefore, the drudgery of encircling and suppressing the Red Army on the island fell back into the hands of the British.

The materials airdropped by the red are mainly medicines, candy, and letters of condolence sent from all over Shanghai. This kind of air raid is of great significance to these troops who insist on fighting in this "dead place" guerrilla warfare, and it is one thing to replenish supplies, and it is even more significant that this kind of airdrop and replenishment action brings a sense of spiritual security to the guerrillas. As long as the weather permits. When air supremacy was guaranteed, the Red Army sent planes as much as possible to drop supplies. For the British troops on the island, the opponent treated their defense area as if it were their own backyard, and this sense of humiliation was even greater.

After the air battle on 13 August, the Japanese Air Force had broken its backbone, and for three days after the 13th, when the Red Army sent DO17 airdrops for three consecutive days, no fighters took off from the local airfields to counterattack. Sixteen days later, the air force on Zhoushan Island recovered to a certain extent after receiving new aircraft. But at this time, the sky over Zhoushan Island was already the world of Red Army aircraft. Under the guidance of Lin Han, a long-range human radar. Every day, fighter jets taking off from the direction of Ningbo fly to the skies over Zhoushan to challenge.

Thanks to the guidance of Lin Han's humanoid radar, the Red Army fighters who opened the "map hanging" were always able to seize the best opportunity to cut into the air battle and take the lead before each air battle. Their tactics are extremely obscene. Usually in a group of 2X2 four-plane formations. First, under the guidance of Lin Han on this humanoid radar. Detour to the rear of Japanese planes conducting air defense patrols in the air. Then climb, dive, bite the tail in pursuit. The first to attack were two warplanes. The remaining two lagged behind for a secondary attack. If the first two planes missed in a surprise attack on the opponent, and were bitten by the opponent's tail, the two planes that missed would flee in the direction of Ningbo regardless of the situation. At this time, if the opponent's Japanese planes only cared about chasing the fleeing planes in front, they would face another surprise attack by the fighters behind. As for the DO17, which came to the airdrop every day, also because of the guidance of Lin Han's "humanoid radar", the Japanese planes' squatting and ambush became a joke, but they were counterattacked by the escort fighters who followed and suffered heavy losses.

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In the skies over Zhoushan, the Red Army fighters did not love war, and every time they appeared, they played this obscene tactic of hitting and running in waves. If the Japanese planes pursued in disregard of the air and were led to the direction of the mainland, they would face an all-round crushing of the Red Army's fighters in this direction, both in terms of quantity and quality. During this period, the Red Army Air Force had an all-round superiority in the area of Shanghai, both in terms of quantity and quality, and there were many tactical options in air combat. Coupled with the guidance of having Lin Han's humanoid radar, the air battle between the two sides once again played an outrageous exchange ratio.

By the time Churchill was assassinated on 21 July, more than 20 more Japanese Air Force planes had been shot down over Zhoushan Island, while only a few planes of the Red Army had been damaged by ground anti-aircraft fire. However, because Zhoushan was extremely close to Ningbo, the injured plane could always fly back to Ningbo in a shaky manner and crash or make a forced landing on land as long as it held on for a few minutes, and no pilot was captured.

After Churchill's assassination, the Japanese Army was no longer willing to lose planes and pilots on the wrong battlefield in Hangzhou Bay. Under the pressure of domestic sentiment, although the army did not directly evacuate Zhoushan Island, it no longer replenished its planes and pilots here, and the remaining pilots on the island first refused to attack with the tacit approval of their superiors, and quietly returned to China for rest and recuperation in the following month. The task of air defense on Zhoushan Island was left to the British to deal with themselves.

At this time, under the tremendous pressure of the people and the middle and lower echelons of the military, the newly inaugurated cabinet of Hirota Hiroki took advantage of the situation to shift its strategic objectives to northern China, and concentrated all its troops and resources in the northeast. As for the Yangtze River Delta? Let the British gnaw on this hard bone.

For the rest of August, there was basically no fighting in the direction of Hangzhou Bay, except for a few air battles. The British government, which was abandoned by the Japanese, had to grit its teeth and do a good job of "going it alone" to solve the Yangtze River Delta problem. In the process, the French also expressed their "friendship" support, but after the end of the First World War, the anti-war trend in France flourished. What the French can send is still only some meaningless broken warships and hundreds of colonial military sites. As for the U.S. government, which the British really wanted to pull into the water, at these times, apart from smiling and peddling fighter planes and counting banknotes to the British, they had no interest in sending troops to China at all. In Britain and France, in addition to the capitalists who had suffered heavy losses in China, the general poor masses were also not interested in the expedition to China. Under the covert instigation of Lin Han and the Soviet Union, the leftist forces in Britain and Britain even openly voiced the need not to interfere with the Chinese revolution. After the bloodshed of the First World War, war weariness was extremely high in both Britain and France, and the truly belligerent people in both countries were the big capitalists who had suffered heavy losses in China.

South China is a stinking quagmire, and this has long been a consensus among the top leaders of the British government, but at this moment the British Empire is already riding a tiger, and although it is extremely reluctant, it still has to throw its financial resources and troops into this bottomless pit, take over the Japanese class, and fight the wrong war with the wrong opponent on the wrong battlefield.

Knowing that the change in Japan's strategic direction was inevitable, what the British could do at this time, that is, to cooperate with the Japanese, they could only pray in their hearts that the Japanese Kwantung Army moving south could attract the main energy of the Red Army in the direction of the Yangtze River. As for the threat of the Soviet Union in the north, Britain at this time can no longer control them, and that must be a headache for the Japanese occupying the northeast.

In order to destroy the Red Army's air force, the only option for the British side now is to deploy a large number of air forces at the airfield here in the Zhoushan Islands, and then fight a protracted air battle with the Red Army, using the lives of countless planes and pilots to polish the new Red Air Force.

But was it possible to achieve this strategic goal when the shadow of the Soviet Air Force and the Luftwaffe stood behind the Red Army Air Force?

On the cover of Time magazine at the end of August 1935, the cover of the current leader of the Red Army, Lee Yun-seok, was photographed from the front, but the shadow behind it showed the shadows of two people: the bearded Stalin and the mustachioed Hitler, which can be described as intriguing.

When a satirical cartoon of the British newspaper is a satirical cartoon of Lee Run-seok in a sickle and hammer suit, and the current British Prime Minister Bordeman in a rice-shaped suit boxing in the boxing ring, while Stalin with a beard and Hitler with a mustache behind him secretly help to "punch black" at Britain, which vividly illustrates the dilemma facing the British Empire now. In this cartoon, the British's "allies" the Japanese are lying on the edge of the ring with swollen noses and eyes, while the Americans play the role of a pot-bellied referee who hides in a corner of the ring and smiles and counts money.

Because of the covert support of Germany and the Soviet Union, the British Empire's war of intervention against China was not even optimistic about the British themselves.

When the British were extremely reluctant to build an airfield on Zhoushan Island, accumulate fighter planes, and use the airfield of their "ally" Japanese in Taiwan to conduct adaptation training for new planes in preparation for a major air battle after September, on the last day of the end of August, a major event that Lin Han had predicted finally took place in Japan. (To be continued......)