PS: Let's change this chapter first, there are some typos, and I will proofread it at night.

Today's second update, continue to write in the evening, if the speed and progress can catch up, there will probably be another chapter at about 12:05. Another thing I have to tell readers is that at the end of this month, I will be out of town to attend my cousin's wedding, and I will not be able to access the Internet for about three to four days. At that time, the speed of the update will be affected

The joint Anglo-Japanese military operation to invade China was an act of war first and then declaration for the British. The previous negotiations with the Red Army at the negotiating table were intended to confuse the opponent's behavior. Although the two sides had already fought on the Yangtze River before this, and the British had killed a fleet commander, two generals and a bunch of sailors, the insidious British still pretended to put on a show at the negotiating table in order to confuse the Red Army.

On the 30th before the war, Britain and Japan also took the opportunity to send out balloons to confuse them: it was clear that the intervention force had already been sent out to the sea, but on the 30th, the Japanese emperor went to the Nagasaki military camp in a high-profile manner to express his condolences to the soldiers who were about to go to China, and published the news in the guò newspaper, and on the 30th, the British government pretended to suddenly lower the conditions for the "claim" to show its sincerity.

But from the very beginning, this kind of performance by the British has become "a funny act of covering your body with a leaf and thinking that you can be invisible". The top brass of the Red Army, who knew what the British Empire was, had never had any illusions about them, and for the same purpose of delaying time, the two sides continued to play hypocritical at the negotiating table. As for the Japanese, the Red Army and the Japanese Army had long been in a state of mutual declaration of war. There was no sense of surprise in this war.

The performance staged by the two governments to confuse the Red Army turned into a ridiculous farce in the eyes of the Red Army's top brass, and immediately after the performance, Red Army leader Lee Run-seok ordered the front-line troops to prepare for combat readiness. And Lin Han and Li Huamei, the unscientific ones, even discovered their traces and gave early warning when the British and Japanese fleets sailed 200 kilometers away from Shanghai.

Therefore, when the British and Japanese fleets violently shelled Zhoushan Island and the coast of Shanghai, no one was injured except for the destruction of some buildings and the explosion of a bunch of huge craters in the ground.

The Red Army did not have the experience of the enemy in conducting anti-landing operations under the cover of naval artillery bombardment, they did not, but someone did.

Hannah, who "personally experienced" World War II, was the person with the most experience in anti-landing operations in the world. Anzio landing. The Normandy landings, the landing battles on Leuk Jima, Okinawa and a series of other landing battles, she has "experienced" a lot of experience in this area. At the request of Lin Han, Hannah began to write hundreds of thousands of words of military literature. At the same time, people were sent to Turkey. Discuss the military topic of anti-landing operations with Turkish officers who experienced the Battle of the Dardania Strait in World War I. According to these materials, as usual, he ordered people to make a military film and science and education film on anti-landing operations. Give it to the top of the Red Army to see.

In the movie, the Red Army leadership was extremely impressed by the scene of the explosion of a battleship's artillery grenade, and a ship gun grenade of more than 14 inches fell. Within 100 meters of the surrounding area, there was no life at all, and after watching this military science and education film to eliminate illiteracy, the impact on the senior leaders of the Red Army was extremely shocking.

The biggest difference between the terrain around Shanghai and Normandy, Anzio or Sulphur Okinawa is that it is an alluvial plain of the Yangtze River, which is easy to attack and difficult to defend. Compared with the hilly terrain, Zhoushan Island, which is underdeveloped, has no danger to defend in the Shanghai area, which has been developed by the Chinese people.

Therefore, from the very beginning, the Red Army formulated a grand strategy that was ready to abandon all areas within the range of 20 kilometers of the coast within the range of naval artillery.

In the past month, Lin Han had long night talks with Li Runshi and other senior leaders of the Red Army, discussing the relationship between the military and politics.

War is a continuation of the political system, which will affect the judgment of the political family on military affairs, and even interfere with the command of the military strategist.

Shanghai, the most splendid area in China, meant too much to the Red Army. But in Lin Han's view, this is just a piece of chicken ribs.

Shanghai's prosperity was built on the basis of the colonization of China by the imperialist powers. This is the bridgehead of their economic aggression against China, and it is also the distribution center of materials. Shanghai is to China what Hong Kong was to China before the reopening, and their prosperity is deformed.

After the fiasco of the first Japanese intervention, the Red Army was given a precious month and a half of digestion time, during which a large number of factories and machines in Shanghai were all transferred to the Hanyang Industrial Belt in Hubei.

After a large number of factories and equipment in Shanghai were relocated, the Red Army seized all the local foreign banks and securities and futures exchanges that bought and sold shorts, and Shanghai lost most of its financial value, and the only thing left was the status of an important port for import and export materials.

But the Red Army was now at war with the two great naval powers, Britain and Japan, and shipping to the outside world was largely blocked by the end of July, and the role of the port had disappeared.

"The current Shanghai is actually a piece of chicken ribs, even if he is broken, what he will lose is just a bunch of houses that cannot generate value."

When Lin Han expressed his opinion to the upper leaders of the Red Army, Chairman Li Runshi poked his head with a smile and said: "You have really lived a rich life for too long, and the cub sells his field, I don't know how distressed." ”

The upper echelons of the Red Army did not agree too much with Lin Han's crazy idea of turning downtown Shanghai into a second Verdun and fighting urban warfare here.

However, on the two issues of saving land and losing people and losing people, they saw farther than Lin Han.

In the eyes of Chairman Li Runshi, for the sake of the overall grand strategy, even Shanghai, the most prosperous region in China, can be abandoned. His idea was more bold than Lin Han's, and if necessary, it was to give up a large piece of land, let the British and Japanese intervention forces disperse, and then make room to consume them one by one, even if it was to destroy all the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang - compared with his idea, Lin Han's idea of only wanting to destroy Shanghai seemed more petty.

Of course, Chairman Li Runshi's idea was based on the fact that fighting outside the range of naval guns around Shanghai would be unfavorable to the Red Army. Britain and Japan join forces. Sending more troops to invade China is the worst scenario.

However, this is basically unlikely, unless the British government goes mad and ignores the threat of Germany, which is rising strongly in Europe, and constantly throws huge troops into the quagmire of China. Otherwise, at present, this point of people and horses, sprinkled in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, is just sprinkled with pepper.

On July 31, the weather in this area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang was affected by a typhoon blowing from the south to Guangdong, and thunderstorms were common in the surrounding areas of Shanghai. Affected by climatic factors. The local air force could not be dispatched.

Despite the bad weather, the Japanese invading forces took advantage of the bad weather to forcibly land in the coastal area south of the mouth of the Yangtze River.

For this operation, the Japanese prepared several old ships that were about to be sent to the shipbreaking yard for dismantling, loaded with infantry and light equipment. Under the cover of naval guns at sea. They forcibly stormed and landed in the area of Binhai Town, which is near the sea in the east of Shanghai.

The harsh climate is excellent cover. The beach-rushing force was spared the threat of air raids, and four freighters of several hundred tons were specially modified to increase their buoyancy. Taking advantage of the high tide, he rushed to a position very close to the coastline and successfully grabbed the beach.

The time for the Japanese to seize the beach was 3:30 p.m., which was the time when the water level in the area was at its highest. The four beach-grabbing freighters shoehorned 2,000 devil soldiers, and successfully swept the beach in one fell swoop with full power, running the ship aground on a beach only a few dozen meters away from the land coastline. At the same time, the combined Anglo-Japanese fleet, which had been swimming in the open sea, began to bombard the camouflage positions built by the Red Army along the coastline with naval guns.

As had happened on Zhoushan Island, the Red Army had never intended from the outset to fight the enemy's landing force within the range of British and Japanese naval guns. Most of the protective positions set up along the coastline are camouflaged to attract artillery fire. On the front line of the British and Japanese fleets, where the artillery fire was strongest, they only set up a few front-line observation posts in a safe terrain area where they had an anti-slope and were not afraid of naval guns.

After firing tens of thousands of shells, the Japanese beach-grabbing troops occupied the beachhead around Binhai Town at the cost of no injury, and at half past four in the afternoon, they entered the seemingly defenseless Binhai Town.

The coastal town was empty at this time.

Compared with the British, who were arrogant on Zhoushan Island and ended up falling headlong into the mines and regular fire traps carefully prepared for them by the Red Army, the Japanese, who had suffered from the anti-coalition guerrilla war in the northeast, were quite cautious in the area of Binhai Town. After the troops who entered the town in the early stage repeatedly hit mines and suffered casualties, the Japanese did not recklessly enter the houses in the town, but camped outside the town. After all, the Shanghai area is no smaller isolated island than Zhoushan, and the Red Army can frantically lay mines on the island in advance, and the personnel in the town have only been temporarily evacuated in the past two days, and the surrounding area is densely populated, so it is necessary to be more cautious when laying mines.

After gaining a foothold of advance, the Japanese troops at sea began to venture to move more troops ashore by guò boats, but due to the lack of suitable ports, the unloading of men and supplies was very slow, and only 2,000 men and a small number of light artillery were brought ashore in one night.

According to the Japanese assumptions, these early landing forces would advance several kilometers north to the Yangtze River, and then attack along the Yangtze River, destroying the coastal defense batteries along the coast and seizing ports suitable for unloading ships.

Although the Japanese suffered from the Red Army Air Force, they were still unwilling to accept in their hearts the reality that the Red Army was an army with a strong will to fight, and they still stubbornly blamed the "Luftwaffe" and the "Soviet Air Force" for the failure of the first intervention. The "miracle" fought by more than 10,000 Kwantung Army troops in the northeast chasing more than 200,000 Northeast Army still strongly affects the army's "red deer", and they delusionally hope that they can replicate the Northeast miracle again in Shanghai.

From the afternoon of 31 July to the early morning of 1 August, what happened to the Japanese in the vicinity of Binhai Town was very similar to what happened to the British in Zhoushan: at first it was very smooth, and after entering the inland town, the troops began to be constantly attacked by cold guns and artillery, and then there was the ubiquitous interference of mines.

Compared with the Zhoushan area, it is possible to install timed fire bombs in the house in advance, and then build them into the wall, leaving only a starting fuse outside. The Red Army could not do this in the densely populated area of Shanghai, so the Japanese only encountered all kinds of tricks and mines in the houses of Binhai Town, and finally had to sleep in the wilderness.

In the evening, as the troops began to sleep at night, the Red Army, which had been hiding beforehand, did not attack the artillery began to pronounce. During this month, the Red Army sent a large number of surveyors to meticulously map and mark the area around Shanghai. However, since the coastal areas were within the range of naval artillery, the Red Army still used light mortars and 107-mm rocket artillery to carry out harassment operations when using cold artillery tactics for night raids, as it had done on Zhoushan Island.

As the weather improved at night, several front-line airfields around Shanghai also took off a large number of Bo2 night bombers, and under the guidance of Lin Han's humanoid radar, they dropped a large number of gasoline incendiary bows on the landing troops who were landing on the beach.

Unlike Zhoushan, the Japanese landed near Shanghai Tang and were guided by Lin Han's humanoid radar. From 12 o'clock in the morning of 1 August, when the weather was good enough for aircraft to sortie, more than 100 sorties of Bo-2 night bombers from the four field airfields around Shanghai continued to make frequent sorties to bomb the Japanese landing troops on the beaches in turn.

The Red Army's bombing lasted the whole night, and planes from several airfields took turns to fly out until it was about to dawn. With the surveillance of Lin Han's humanoid radar, the Red Army was not afraid that Japanese planes would come in and carry out air strikes. In order to make it easier for the pilots of this side to return to the right direction after the bombing, the runways of several field airfields on the Red Army's side were deliberately lit with headlights.

Although the speed of the wave 2 is slow, the biggest advantage is that it is excellent to drive, the stall speed is extremely low, and it is almost impossible to enter a dangerous tailspin state, and it is as easy as "driving a car" when driving, which is extremely suitable for night bombing. After a night of bombing, coupled with the attack of cold guns and cold artillery, the Japanese suffered more than 100 casualties on the beach, but the greater losses were at sea, and one of the waves of attack was replaced by small bombing bows, and under the guidance of Lin Han, more than 40 waves of 2 bombed the sea, and attacked the Japanese troops who were taking advantage of the night to land in small boats.

Under the guidance of Lin Han, more than 40 Bo 2 Chang first dropped flares on the sea to illuminate dozens of Japanese landing boats on the sea that were heading towards the beach, and then took advantage of the light provided by the flares to skim the sea at a low altitude and drop 40 100-kilogram bombing bombs.

Although only one shot was directly hit, the huge wave set off by the near-miss bomb overturned two small boats, and in addition to the losses caused by the indiscriminate strafing of the planes, the Japanese killed more than 150 people at sea during the landing operation at that time, and most of them drowned in the sea.

It was also because of this wave of bombing that the Japanese finally stopped taking advantage of the night to take advantage of the risky landing. (To be continued......)