At four o'clock in the morning of 18 June, before dawn, a huge fleet was approaching Shanghai on the sea about 150 kilometers northeast of Shanghai.

The Chicheng and Fengxiang, the two aircraft carriers in the Japanese fleet, were brightly lit, the deck was full of planes, and countless personnel were working on the deck, refueling, hanging bombs and bombs, and preparing for the attack.

Takasu Shiro's tactics were very simple, dispatch fighters before dawn, take advantage of the time difference between the sun rise, the plane was released at half past four, fly with instruments, and when it reached the sky over Shanghai, it was exactly five forty o'clock, which was the visibility in the Shanghai sky, just enough for the plane to bomb.

"The best way to destroy an enemy plane is to destroy it on the airfield."

In Takasu Shiro's view, the biggest weakness of the Red Chinese Red Army in the south was that its industrial base was weak, and all its aircraft had to rely on imports.

At 4:30 a.m., the Chicheng and Fengxiang began to fly their planes.

The first to take off were the bomb-loaded, slower Type 8 (Crab) 9 attack aircraft and Type 92 attack planes, both of which had a maximum speed of only 200 kilometers per hour, and the speed was even slower after the bombs were mounted. The last to fly was the relatively fast Nakajima-90 carrier-based aircraft.

Knowing that the Red Army had many airfields, in this sortie, Takasu Shiro sent out all the rest of the planes on the two ships at once, except for leaving six fighters on the two ships for air defense alert.

At five o'clock sharp, all 75 planes on the two ships were released. At this time, to the east of the fleet, the sun had risen from sea level.

In this wave of sneak attacks on the Shanghai fleet, Lieutenant Shigeaki Nango flew in the front with the Nakajima Type 90 carrier-based fighter, and in order to ensure the effect of the bombing, even a 100-kilogram bomb was hung under the lower abdomen of the fighter. Affected by the curvilinear topography of the earth, the sky is still gray and dreary at the sea level, but the sky is already bright in the air above 2,000 meters.

Nango Shigeru takes the lead. The huge Japanese fleet flew west with their backs to the sun.

Thirty minutes later. Nanxiang Maozhang saw the silver ribbon of the Yangtze River, and he was reflecting the luster of fish scales under the light of the rising Tailian in the east, and the group he was in. At this time, it has flown to the mouth of the Yangtze River. The goal is in sight.

He at this time. There is no realization that great danger is rapidly approaching.

"Soga!"

Nango Shigeru nodded in satisfaction, took out a flare gun, and was about to give an order. The fighters who ordered the formation to escort the aircraft spread out to make room for the subsequent attack planes to advance, and the rear of the huge group suddenly became chaotic.

The FW90 fighters, whose noses were painted bright beige, suddenly dived down from a small angle at an altitude of four thousand meters behind the formation, and at once bit the tail of the flying formation led by him, and the four 7.92 machine guns on each FW90 were firing frantically at the group of unconscious attack planes.

In just one minute, the Japanese planes that were successfully "exploded" by their opponents became lambs to be slaughtered, and 24 planes shot all the way from the tail group of the planes to the front of the planes, and came to a perfect "through-field."

After the clearance, a full 22 Japanese planes fell to the ground in flames with black smoke. More than a dozen of the remaining planes also barely flew with injuries ranging from severity to severity.

In 1935, most of Japan's combat planes were not equipped with radio equipment, and ordinary pilots could only communicate with guò sign language and flare guns in air combat. Shigeaki Nango, who was the captain of the plane, had one installed, and it was only when he heard the exclamation of the pilot of the attack plane from the rear that came from the airborne radio that he realized that something was wrong. When he hurriedly pulled out the color of the signal bullet on his body into the red of the early warning to warn the escort fighter formation, the "rear through field attack" of the surprise FW90 had already killed the middle of the formation. The six FW90s, which rushed the fastest, had even bitten the unsuspecting Nakajima fighters in front of them and fired fiercely.

Within a minute, the originally neat and spectacular bombing formation was slaughtered like a hornet's nest by this wave of attacks, and more than 20 planes spewed black smoke and fell to the ground.

"Baga!"

Nanxiang Maozhang cursed, he looked back at the rear, the two Chinese fighters that rushed the most and most urgently, only two wings, were biting the two friendly planes behind him one left and one right, and they began to shoot at 200 meters and 50 meters, and did not stop until they were 100 meters. The two unlucky Japanese planes, their pilots flew at least twice as long as their opponents, and their skills were far above the opponents, but unfortunately they not only lost the first move, but also the opponent's sneak attack, they had just seen Nango Shigezhang's warning, and were about to pull the control stick to make a maneuver, when the bullets splashed from the rear continued to hit intermittently.

Compared to the Nakajima Type 90 fighter, which had only two machine guns, the FW90 was equipped with four machine guns, and the fire density was fully doubled. Due to its small-angle dive attack through the field, the speed at this time has exceeded 400 kilometers per hour. At this time, the two Japanese planes were still hanging bombs under their lower abdomen, and they were still flying at cruising speed, and their speeds were not even 200 kilometers per hour.

In the face of the Chinese fighters that were attacking at a relative speed of nearly 200 kilometers, the two Nakajima fighters who had just reacted had just made a gesture of dropping their bombs and wanting to evade them, when they were hit by the FW90 that rushed up and were covered in holes, and their bodies were on fire, almost carrying them to the opposite side.

"Yamamura-kun!"

"Kawada-kun!"

Nakago Shigeru saw that his eyes were cracked, he threw away the bomb as a burden as fast as he could, and then increased the throttle pull, pulled up the nose, and manipulated the Nakajima 90 fighter to climb.

As a veteran pilot with more than 1,000 hours of flight time, Shigeaki Nango knew that biplanes should never compete with monoplanes in speed, let alone dive away from them. In particular, the opponent is in such a state of high-speed pursuit. The best way to deal with this situation is to maneuver the aircraft to spiral climb or circle horizontally.

Since he didn't know how many enemy planes were coming from behind, Nango Shigeru chose the safest way to climb the spiral.

When the plane was pulled up, Shigeaki Nango took advantage of the change in angle. Glancing behind him, he saw more than two dozen monoplanes with their noses painted beige, wreaking havoc in his own fleet. The previously neat flight formation was now in full force, and almost all the planes that could still fly on this side had abandoned their bombs and began to flee frantically for their lives.

killed the two FW90s of Nanxiang Maozhang's friendly army, and the pilot who took the lead in piloting the plane was also the identity of the "captain plane". However, because Nanxiang Shigeru pulled up the nose in time, the two planes that had previously flown too fast and attacked too quickly flew over their heads before they had time to climb. Rushed to the front at once.

"Yamamura-kun. Kawada-kun, I'll do it for you Baga, let you go this time! ”

Nango Shigeru was still a little calm, knowing that his priority at this time was to protect the vulnerable attacks in the formation. After the spiral climb. He had a nice somersault in the air. He turned his head around, but his eyes were squinted by the sunlight coming from the east.

"Damn, it's right up to the sun!"

Nango Shigeru squinted. He was about to scan the battlefield and confirm the situation, but he was terrified to find that in the rear of his own formation, one far and one near, there were two waves of enemy planes coming from the rear, and the wave rushing to the front was about to carry out the second round of clearance. Due to the obstruction of sunlight, Nango Shigeru could not judge how many enemy planes there were in these two waves, but the number must not be much less than the first wave.

"Yaga!"

At that moment, Nango Shigeaki had realized that his fleet had fallen into a trap carefully prepared by his opponent, and at the moment of attack, this air battle became a one-sided slaughter from the beginning.

Nanxiang Shigeruzhang, who had turned the nose of the plane, saw with grief and indignation that 800 meters below his plane, an FW90 fighter was biting a Type 92 attack plane.

"Even if I die here today, I'm going to pull one"

Nagato Shigeru set his sights on the plane, taking advantage of his altitude and starting to dive, preparing to take him down with a head-on shot.

Shigesho Nango is very confident in his shooting skills, and he has won the championship of the HNA All-Army Shooting Competition.

At this time, the pilot of the FW90 was named Li Minghui, a rookie with only 24 flight hours, and his attention was all focused on his opponent. As a rookie, he participated in air combat for the first time, and due to his excessive excitement, his attention was all focused on the opponent's plane, and he did not notice the enemy plane that swooped down directly above and bit him.

He fought from 200 meters to 50 meters, and the rain of bullets from four machine guns was not enough after killing the pilot, and even broke the entire wing before he gave up.

After shooting down his opponent, the rookie pilot didn't have time to calm down from the excitement of getting the first crash, and a dense rain of bullets poured down from above.

Nagato swooped down directly above him and opened heavy fire on his plane from a distance of 400 meters, leaving seven or eight bullet holes in the left wing of his plane, and more than a dozen bullets hitting the middle and rear of his fuselage.

It can be regarded as his luck that this head-on attack left a very short shooting window for Nango Shigezhang, although he was prepared to hit the opponent, but did not hit the cockpit but slightly deviated a few dozen centimeters, leaving more than a dozen holes in the wing and fuselage.

The Chinese pilot, who had been attacked by a surprise attack, instinctively lowered the nose of the plane, pulled up the throttle, dived away, and flew behind Shigeaki Nango, according to the dogma that had been trained many times in simulated air combat in the past.

"You can't run away!"

Seeing that the blow he was determined to win did not miss, Nanxiang Shigeru was furious in his heart, and he swooped down to turn over the plane in the air, drew a beautiful arc, and was about to turn around to pursue, when a row of bullets rained down from the east. Hit his desk with a slam on the fragile belly of the plane.

There were three fighters, a total of twelve machine guns were staring at this "outlier" in the Japanese group, and in the rain of bullets that hit the plane, several bullets hit the radiator of this Nakajima fighter, and soon the plane where Nango Shigeaki was also emitted black smoke and ignited a fire.

"I'm not convinced!"

In the midst of the burning plane, Nango Shigeru's flight suit was also burned, and his plane was hit by more bullets due to the "concentrated fire", and he himself was hit by two bullets, and he was unable to parachute at this time. The plane that hit him from the rear continued to shoot without letting him go -- one of the things that the Red Army pilots who studied under the German army learned the most from the German instructors was that accurate shooting skills were more important than fancy flying planes. The aircraft that has lost its maneuver now becomes a live target for hitting his opponent at the best level of air combat practice shooting. The remnants of the flying formation led by Shigeaki Nango had scattered and fled at this time, and his own plane was in front of a vertical head to the ground, and was successively pursued in the air by two planes as a target for two full minutes.

When the burning plane was hit by bullets constantly flying from the rear, Nanxiang Shigeru did not know that the aircraft carrier Chicheng, where he was located, had already been discovered by an unscientific "human-woman and humanoid radar" of the Nanchang torpedo boat because it was too close to Shanghai before the plane was released.

The Nanchang, which stopped on the Huangpu River, played the role of an air defense command center at this time. At the cost of consuming the power of faith, Lin Han scanned the position and speed of the Japanese aircraft group every five minutes, and then the staff officers and cartographers on the side drew the location of the Japanese planes on the map, so as to guide the timing and flight route of the air defense and air force sorties.

At that time, all sixty fighter jets scattered at four airfields around Shanghai took off. Guided by ground-based radio, the sixty fighters circled behind the Japanese group and launched a surprise attack before they entered land and approached Shanghai.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Nanjing Airport also sent 24 fighter planes to support. Of the eighty-four fighters, seventy-two were FW90 fighters, and the remaining twelve were HE51 fighters flown by elite pilots in the Luftwaffe.

Monoplane to biplane, plus there is a "humanoid radar" to guide the attack on the ground, eighty-four fighters against seventy-five fighters + attack aircraft, one per person is not enough.

It was a totally unfair air battle, and the battle was a one-sided slaughter from the start.

Afterwards, Lin Han shamelessly called this air battle "the wild duck massacre over Shanghai".

The air battle ended completely after half an hour, and only six of the seventy-five Japanese carrier-based planes that invaded Shanghai barely escaped with scars. The planes lost by the Japanese, except for a few that were killed by ground anti-aircraft fire, the rest were all shot down in the air.

On the Chinese side, only a few fighters were wounded, and the most seriously injured was Li Minghui's fighter who was hit head-on by Nanxiang Maozhang, but because the battlefield was on the outskirts of Shanghai and there was an airport nearby, he was the most successful in landing the plane at Hongqiao Airport.

Afterwards, when the ground crew was repairing the aircraft, they counted seventeen bullet holes from the fuselage. At that time, Nanxiang Shigeru had already hit the fuselage fuel tank of Li Minghui's plane, but he was extremely lucky, although Li Minghui's plane leaked oil, it still did not catch fire.

Afterwards, the ground staff gave Li Minghui a nickname, called Lucky Li Minghui. (To be continued......)