Like the Japanese, the British also kept the news of the sinking of the aircraft carrier Fury strictly secret for political reasons. Although the United States and Germany, which received the news from the Red Army, publicized the incident in the newspapers in order to hit the British stock market, the British government gritted its teeth and refused to admit it, and instead increased its investment in China like a gambler.

Before August 1935, Zhoushan Island was only a fishing port and fishing island, but after August 1, it became the focus of contention between the Red Army and the British and Japanese forces, just like the Pudong Bund in Shanghai.

The Zhoushan Islands here, the distance between its main island and Shanghai is not more than 100 kilometers, and if you control it, it has an excellent forward base for threatening Hangzhou Bay.

Initially, the eyes of the British were all fixed on Zhoushan Island, the largest main island. The area here is sufficient, and it is completely suitable for tens of thousands of garrisons.

But in fact, it's a terrible choice. Zhoushan Island, which covers an area of more than 400 square kilometers, gave the Red Army guerrillas stationed on the island a great deal of room for their activities. From the day the island was forced, the defenders were disturbed by the attack.

However, the problem brought about by its proximity to the mainland coastline is that the plane taking off from the Ningbo Field Airport can fly over Zhoushan Island in 20 minutes at most.

If the British had chosen the small islands around Zhoushan Island to build the airport, because of their small size, it would be impossible for guerrillas to carry out their activities, and because they were far away from the coastline of Ningbo, they would have encountered countless troubles in the process of construction.

Unfortunately, both Britain and Japan covet the island's large size, which seems to be an advantage, but in fact it is a disadvantage.

Distance. In the air battle in the Taiwan Strait in the Fujian direction, the Japanese Army Air Force suffered the most in the away battle, and its fighters had to fly over the nearly 200-kilometer-wide strait to fight the Red Army's air battle, and then fly back to the airfield on the island after the incident, which in itself was a very burdensome battle. After the start of the second air battle in the Taiwan Strait in July, the Japanese Army Airlines stopped this extremely unfavorable way of fighting away from home because the losses were still huge.

After owning the Zhoushan airport, the Anglo-Japanese coalition also had a better forward airfield.

Because of this, since the British occupied Zhoushan Island. Every day, they were bombed by planes taking off from Ningbo Airport. to interfere with its construction of the Zhoushan Island airport.

Zhoushan Island was originally just a fishing island, lacking the necessary wharf handling equipment, and after the British occupied the island, the construction of the port and wharf began to be constantly harassed by the Red Army Air Force. And lurking on the island of the Red Army. Constantly pass the tactics of cold guns and cold artillery night raids. Repeatedly attacked the construction of the pier.

In the course of the raid, the Red Army's strategic goal was clear: to attack the port facilities under construction only slightly, and the real purpose was to destroy the enemy as much as possible.

In the raid of the Red Army. The construction of the wharf in the early stage was extremely unsmooth. Then, a few days later, due to the heavy losses suffered on the beach of Pudong in Shanghai, the Japanese also realized the importance of obtaining a forward base in order to enter the Yangtze River Delta region. Therefore, they transferred a number of destroyers equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft weapons, and stationed them in the port on 5 August to serve as floating anti-aircraft batteries, so as to suppress the inevitable air raids of the Red Army.

"As industrial countries, Britain and Japan always have the means to build a wharf and an airport on Zhoushan Island as long as they are willing. As long as they are willing to die more and pay more costs, these two strategies will definitely be completed. What we, the Red Army, really have to fight for, is time. ”

Every day that the airfield on Zhoushan Island is delayed in being completed, the Japanese landing force in Pudong will be bombed for one more day and tortured in this flesh mill for one more day.

The upper echelons of the Red Army knew very well that it did not make much sense to blow up some port equipment, so when a large number of air defense ships were stationed in the port, the air raids on the port immediately stopped.

The biggest weakness of the Red Army was that it was not an industrial country, and it had to rely on imports of all its aircraft, and it was worth the loss with the use of aircraft and air defense units. So after discovering the increased anti-aircraft fire of the pier, they immediately stopped bombing.

Then, a convoy of transport ships from Taiwan loaded with supplies sailed to Zhoushan Island, where it was scheduled to be unloaded at the dock. In addition to supplies, the ship was also loaded with a number of Bulldog fighters and anti-aircraft weapons.

Unfortunately, before the convoy departed, the British informed the Japanese, and the Japanese repeatedly mentioned it in their radio contacts.

On 6 August, Red Army planes that had deciphered the code of the Japanese dispatched dozens of planes on 6 August to directly sink several cargo ships loaded with bulldog fighters and anti-aircraft weapons in the East China Sea, 200 kilometers away from Zhoushan Island.

It is now 1935, and the British Empire, which has been peaceful for a long time, has an important industrial base thousands of miles away on its own territory, and after this important batch of materials is sunk at sea, it will be a few months before a second batch of military supplies is to be deployed.

Not long after the start of the war, the British were also in an embarrassment. Lacking planes, they had to relent, and agreed to allow the Japanese Army Air to be stationed on Zhoushan Island. When the British were faced with the embarrassment of having no aircraft available, the Americans helped them, and the US government, after urgent discussions, agreed to sell a batch of Hawker II fighters and a small number of P26 fighters equipped by the Philippine garrison to the British. It's just that it takes time for this batch of planes to arrive.

There was no airport on Zhoushan Island, and the British began to build a field airfield after they entered the island, but due to the constant harassment of the Red Army and the interference of landmines, the construction of the airport was extremely slow. At first, the British had their eye on some of the flatter areas of land suitable for the construction of the airport, but when they were built, it was discovered that they had long been turned into minefields.

Because the Red Army planted non-metallic mines, it was difficult to remove them, and it took the British two days to clear a vacant land, but in the process of construction, Red Army planes and guerrillas on the island continued to come and harass them, and the airfield on the island was not completed until the British agreed to the stationing of the Japanese Army Airlines.

At this time, the landing force in Pudong, Shanghai, was being tortured to death by the Red Army Air Force. Seeing that the Zhoushan airfield was about to be completed, in the Pudong area, the Red Army intensified its strikes against the Japanese troops in the Pudong area,

In order to maintain the beachhead in Pudong, the Japanese side also kept sending infantry ashore like cannon fodder overnight to die. Under the bombardment of the Red Army, endured the casualties of more than two thousand people per day. The lost troops died almost in the same way: all from air strikes.

In the eyes of the Japanese, as long as they held out for a few more days and waited for the Zhoushan airfield to begin operation, the bitter days of the Pudong troops would be over. During the 10 days of landing in Pudong, the landing troops were repeatedly bombed and slaughtered by Red Army planes like sandbags every day. It is impossible to distinguish which is more important between the two issues of "saving people and losing land" and "saving land and losing people", just like Chang Kaishen's stupid expression in the Battle of Songhu in history. Those commanders in the upper echelons of the military department. It's like a group of gamblers who have lost their eyes, constantly sending a group of elite soldiers to Pudong for the Red Army to slaughter.

By August 10, the airfield on the island was finally built, and the Red Army partisans on the island. Under pressure from the British Clearance Force. The space for the disturbance has also been compressed. Zhoushan Island serves as a forward base. Finally starting to work.

Under the strict protection of the escort ships, on the evening of 11 August, the Japanese sailed from the mainland. The first batch of fighters arrived. That night Red Army planes came again to bomb the port docks, and although some cargo was destroyed and several freighters were damaged, a number of planes were brought ashore. If there was an aircraft carrier in hand, the Japanese could have used the aircraft carrier to transfer the aircraft, but now they can only disassemble the aircraft into parts and assemble them on the island.

And assembling the aircraft, it still takes time.

At this time, the Japanese landing force in the Pudong area was still playing the role of a sandbag, and was repeatedly bombed by the Red Army every day.

He also insisted on Hitoshi Yamada and Osa in Pudong, and when he asked the headquarters to withdraw his troops, he received exactly the same reply.

"Hold on a little longer, Zhoushan Airport will be ready for use soon, and you will be able to get air support immediately!"

In the hearts of those in the military department, Zhoushan Airport has become their "life-saving straw". They continued to send troops to land in Pudong to die.

On 13 August, when Yamada finally saw the support of a large number of Japanese planes flying from the direction of Zhoushan over Pudong, he was so numb that he did not even feel the excitement of seeing his own planes.

"Baga! Those thieves in the military department! ”

All he had in his heart at the moment was anger and hatred -- not hatred of the Red Army against his opponents, but anger and hatred of his superiors and the senior officers of the Army Department.

At this time, Yamada Renkou Daisa, with stubble on his beard, counting the time on the ship, he had not been groomed for half a month, and his body carried all kinds of foul smells accumulated in the past ten days, and his eyes were even more bloodshot because of the lack of sleep.

This trap in Pudong was blown up by the Red Army Air Force for half a month, so his spirit did not collapse, just because the bitter hatred has been supporting him.

Beginning on the first of August, for the past thirteen days and nights, he watched teams of warriors of the Great Japanese Empire being sent ashore and then dying senselessly.

Since it was never possible to establish a working front-line dock, the heavy equipment in the rear could not be transported in large quantities, and even if it did, it was all blown up on the ground by the opponent because there was no air force cover in the sky. The landed troops launched several attacks on Shanghai, but the Red Army on the opposite side, relying on the absolute superiority of weapons and relying on the air force with artillery, rifles and tanks, blocked the east bank of the Huangpu River and could not advance an inch, and at the same time the air force wantonly slaughtered his troops.

As for the so-called naval artillery support parked on the coastline?

Those things have been simply decorations in the past half a month, because the Red Army on the opposite side does not want to enter the range of naval artillery at all, and they are simply willing to step into the range of naval artillery except for dispatching small forces. What they love to do most is to send planes to bomb, planes to bomb, or planes to bomb!

In the Pudong area, where there is nowhere to hide, airplanes dominate the city.

It was not that the Great Japanese Empire did not have no aircraft, not that it did not have artillery, and it was not that it lacked tanks, and the Imperial Army had many times more equipment than the Red China in front of it.

Just because, they can't transport it!

Just because, it is impossible to build a field airfield here!

All the more so because it's a wrong battlefield! The military department should not have chosen to start a war here at all!

However, such an obvious mistake was ignored by those national thieves in the military department. In order to kneel and lick the white-skinned ghost animals of Europe and the United States, he was stunned and unintentionally sent a team of men from the Great Sun Empire to this flesh and blood grinding disc meaninglessly to let the opponent's light ground be shattered!

"The despicable people deserve to die, but the gang of national thieves in the military department, you deserve to die even more!"

He now understands why the Red Army suddenly stopped its offensive at the last moment on 1 August, and why the so-called "humanitarian ceasefire" followed. It's all about luring those idiots in the military department to continue throwing more troops into this flesh mill full of traps! A few days ago, Yamada Renhe saw through this qiē, he reported to his superiors and resisted, but the gang of red deer in the military department, the gang of bastards from the superiors, still sent the troops ashore in batches to die, and the reason was that the men of the Great Japanese Empire could not retreat in front of the weak Shina people!

In the past thirteen days, a total of 25,000 Japanese troops have been sent to the land of Pudong, but now, Yamada Hitokazu still has only 5,000 troops on his side!

20,000 people!

A whole 20,000 troops, so senselessly, turned into corpses or seriously wounded and sent away. What made Yamada even more angry was that every time they bombed for several days, when their landing force was almost unable to hold on, or when the officials in the rear showed signs of wanting to retreat, the Red Army on the opposite side would take the initiative to propose a "humanitarian truce", and then generously allow their landing force to withdraw the wounded, either by sea or by land, and then the idiots of the military headquarters and superiors were ecstatic to think that the Red Army was making a fool and took the opportunity to fill the Pudong area with new troops. In order to lure the fools of the military headquarters to continue to bet here, the Red Army on the opposite side not only did not preach its own victory, but claimed in a very low-key manner that the front-line fighting was extremely tragic and played word games, so that the people in the rear military headquarters read their battle reports and mistakenly thought that the Red Army had also suffered heavy losses in the battle.

Hitokazu Yamada, who was at the forefront, knew very well that the Red Army's propaganda of losses was completely aimed at deceiving people, no, to cooperate with the group of fools sitting in the office at the army headquarters, so that they would continue to have the opportunity to deceive themselves and continue to be stupid.

The fools of the Army are now simply being played by the Red Army!

"Do you think that with the airport on Zhoushan Island, you can guarantee air supremacy here? Don't laugh, the airport opposite is closer to here! There's no way they can guarantee that I won't be bombed any longer! ”

The Japanese soldiers around Yamada Hitokazu who were excited to see their own fighter jets roared, but no one noticed his roar.

They looked at the Japanese planes, waving their military caps, bouncing and laughing, as if they thought that the days of suffering could end there. (To be continued......)

PS: I was out of town when I saw this article, and I can't change the typos or bugs for the time being