Brigadier General Chatricklei, commander of the British forces stationed in Shanghai, said conceitedly: "...... You can rest assured! They didn't dare to fire! These yellow-skinned monkeys of the East have been broken by us in the past hundred years! At this time eight years ago, they did not dare to enter the British Concession, and eight years later, they did not have the courage to do so! ”

Sir Bran was not as optimistic as he was, and he hurried worriedly.

"But last year, in Honghu, during the Goose incident, these yellow-skinned monkeys fired at the first opportunity."

At the time of the Gannet incident, he had also been to Hankow, where he had confronted the red elements and seen with his own eyes the force they wielded. They knew that they were by no means a bunch of braided savages with musket cords, as advertised in the domestic newspapers. The sinister German mustache and the evil Russian beard have armed these red monkeys with terrible proportions.

Being told that the emperor's new clothes were broken, Brigadier General Chai Kelei twitched his cheeks, and he said dissatisfiedly: "Here, we have more than six thousand people!" Those yellow-skinned monkeys dare to mess around, the warships of the British Empire, will let you see what the wrath of the empire on which the sun never sets. ”

While the two were talking, there was a buzzing roar overhead, and a plane was flying over the Shanghai Concession, and it was at a very low altitude.

The two of them looked through the window and saw a flying squadron of planes flying in the direction of the west. Visually, they flew at an altitude of about a thousand meters. Brigadier General Zacre picked up his glasses and saw that the planes were all biplanes, all of them painted beige with their noses painted and their wings painted with bright red five-pointed stars. Brigadier General Zacre saw these aircraft photographs. The information given by the British Empire Intelligence Service is a Soviet-style Wave 2 trainer aircraft, but the Chinese have transformed them into front-line bombers for use.

Flying over Shanghai was the Red Army's newly formed Second Air Force Division. In addition to the leading captain, the rest of the pilots were rookie pilots who had flown less than 100 hours.

As a trainer aircraft, the biggest advantage of the Wave 2 is that it is easy to fly, and it is extremely friendly to novice pilots. The batch sold to China was modified according to Lin Han's requirements, and was replaced with a 150-horsepower engine provided by the Germans. It's a little faster. The bomb load has also increased. When piloted solo, the aircraft can carry a 100-kilogram bomb plus a fuselage machine gun. The German side has also developed its own training aircraft GO145 with reference to the design of the Wave 2, which has just been installed in the army this year. It's just that the international implications are taken into account. The aircraft was not sold to China.

Due to its extremely low requirements for take-off and landing runways. A flat piece of grass could take off directly, so it was the most popular front-line bomber of the Red Army on the Chinese battlefield. From 1934 to the present, the Red Army imported 190 Wave 2 modifications from the USSR in one fell swoop. In the past half month of fighting, whether it is the battle of Xuzhou in Jiangbei or the battle of Wuhu and Huzhou in Jiangnan, Bo-2 can be seen in every battlefield, and its limelight even surpasses the current best biplane Hawker II in China.

The Wave 2 appeared in the sky over the concession so quickly, and the Red Army's field airfield in Shanghai had already been built, and now it could even take off and land Hawker II fighters there, but because the corresponding fuel supply was still on the way to transportation, the field airfield could not fully function, but it was only a matter of time.

After the twelve Wave 2 planes flew over the concession, they split into two columns, lowered their altitude, and dived down at a small angle, and then the crew of the plane turned on the wind whistle installed in the nose, and the wave 2 changed to let out a shrill scream in the air.

Sir Bran screamed: "What do the Chinese want to do, to bomb the concession, are they crazy?" ”

"No, he's throwing leaflets and demonstrating!"

Brigadier General Chaikre said coldly, he could see more clearly through the guò telescope, there were no bombs under the plane, and the sky was not flying in the back seat of the bombing type, but the rear seat of the coach type.

Twelve Wave 2s dived to a height of more than a hundred meters above the ground, leveled the fuselage, and then the occupants of the rear passenger seat spilled a large number of leaflets from the seats, and soon it rained in the sky.

The humiliation suffered by the Yangtze River Fleet of the British Empire a few days ago on the Anqing section of the river was now changed to the Shanghai Concession. Those leveled Bo-2 trainers roared arrogantly at a height of less than a few dozen meters higher than the landmark post and telecommunications building on the Bund. Although the shrill wind whistle had disappeared, the foreigners on the Bund had a feeling that the next time they heard this kind of screaming again, it was likely that what would fall from the sky would not be a leaflet but a bomb.

Looking at the wave 2 flying away in the sky, Brigadier General Chai Keley suddenly remembered that as early as 11 June, the British defenders in the concession were stationed at the airport "at the invitation of the Nanjing Nationalist Government" to "help maintain law and order." There was a company of troops stationed there in conjunction with the garrison company of the artillery party.

Yesterday there was a civil strife among the last troops of the Nationalist Government in Nanking, and there was no great chaos at the airport, thanks to the help of the colonial troops. But after daybreak, the Red Army, led by the "insurgents", surrounded the airport, which is now similar to the Zhabei railway station, is also in the midst of a standoff.

Once the Hongqiao airfield was lost, the Red Army had an airfield that could directly take off and land large quantities of aircraft, and importantly, it could also obtain large quantities of aviation fuel stored in the airfield. Due to the distance, Hongqiao Airport had lost land contact with the concession, and the Red Army wanted the defenders to surrender, but under the strict orders of Brigadier General Chacre, it was barely holding on.

Hongqiao Airport is the most headache for Brigadier General Chaikere, and the other place is in the direction of Baoshan Wharf, which is near the sea. It was far from the concession, and two companies of Indian soldiers and one company of Japanese soldiers sent to help in the defense, plus more than 300 troops of the International Merchant Group, were now trapped at the docks by the Red Army. Although he can now rely on his strong water transportation capacity to transport the garrison trapped there through the Guò wharf, once he loses the Baoshan wharf, whether it is the follow-up reinforcements or the external communication artery, there will only be the last Huangpu River channel that will be cut off at any time.

"We've been pitted by pig-like teammates!"

Brigadier General Zacre complained to Sir Bran. To defend the concession. The correct approach should be to concentrate the troops, hold the hedgehog in a group, turn their backs to the direction of the sea, and use the warships and guns to cover the defense and wait for reinforcements. However, two days ago, at the initiative of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, he sent out part of the troops in the concession to help assist in the defense, and occupied the strategic points of Zhabei Station, Hongqiao Airport, and Baoshan Wharf.

Originally, Brigadier General Zacre intended to use his "foreign signboard" to force the Red Army not to open fire on these demands. But he never dreamed that his "friendly army" would be such a strange existence. The Red Bandits have not yet attacked. It's just that a few agents were sent to spill hundreds of thousands of dollars, and then they were busy staging a farce of "scrambling to sell their bosses and teammates" last night.

They not only "sold" the high-ranking officials of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, but also made him miserable.

A large number of artillery troops defected to the Communist Party and vied for the lead party, and the consequence was that all the garrisons in these three areas lost direct contact with the concession. All became lone soldiers besieged by the Red Army. You can't go in and you can't go back. Brigadier General Zacre's previous army formation turned out to be his biggest mistake.

The attitude of the Red Army was clear. The defenders in these three places must lay down their arms and accept "protection", which is a euphemism, in effect, asking them to surrender. Even such a reasonable request as "permission to withdraw to the concession with weapons" was denied.

The top of the Red Army on the Wuhan side. Obviously, it was not intended to let the garrisons of these three places leave lightly.

What Brigadier General Chacre didn't know was that the company he had arranged at Hongqiao Airport was now finished. It's just that because the phone line was cut, he didn't know the specific situation there for the time being.

Hongqiao Airport, built in 1921. When the Red Army entered Shanghai last night, there were still thirty planes on the tarmac here. Twenty-two of them were the last remaining fighters of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, and the rest were all commercial airliners. The Nationalist Government in Nanking originally placed a battalion of garrison troops here, and then an Indian colonial reinforcement company from the British garrison was stationed there.

This point of the troops was simply not able to completely protect the airfield from the Red Army. When thousands of Reds surrounded them, the defenders were forced to abandon most of their positions and retreat to a small area around the terminal.

Then the vast majority of the airfield area fell into the hands of the Red Army, and the 30 planes, together with the airport's oil depot and ammunition depot, all became trophies of the Red Army.

Lin Han didn't send Xiao Bailang to shoot at the company commander of the airport defenders with silver bullets, it was because the battalion commander who guarded the airport was a good commander who was honest and capable and never drank the blood of soldiers, so that the sofa at home was a good commander.

Lin Han's silver bullet couldn't knock him down, the only problem was that this battalion commander was also an underground party.

Then, when the Red Army entered the city from all sides and surrounded the airport, the battalion commander saw an opportunity, and an hour earlier, he lured the leading British officer into the waiting room to "talk about something", and then the "knife and axeman" who was lying in ambush around him suddenly attacked and subdued him. Without a leader, the two sides should join forces inside and outside, and this Indian reinforcement company was all taken prisoner by the Red Army and disarmed without firing a single shot.

In order to hide people's eyes, the Red Army did not use this airfield for the time being, and still made it appear to be surrounded by regiments.

Surrounding Hongqiao Airport was Lin Shi's troops, and Lin Shuai was a general who was very good at fighting with his brains. In his opinion, taking advantage of the strange situation at Hongqiao Airport and operating it well can give the defenders in the concession a "surprise" when the war starts.

While Brigadier General Chack was depressed for his pig teammates, Rear Admiral Maiden, the commander of the Yangtze River Fleet of the British Empire, was also depressed at the Jiangnan Shipyard not far away.

The ship he is on now is not the Gannet, a river gunboat of only a few hundred tons, but a Carlyle-class light cruiser, the Camp, with a displacement of 5,000 tons and five six-inch guns, is the most powerful warship in the British fleet in China. His warship was anchored at the confluence of the mouth of the Yangtze River at the mouth of the Huangpu River and into the mouth of Wusong.

If it were possible, he would have liked to give the order to open fire now and shell the Jiangnan shipyard not far away, because there was a cruiser Pinghai that was about to be built in the Jiangnan shipyard.

The Pinghai is the sister ship of the cruiser Ninghai, which was recently bombed by the frogman units of the Red Army and sunk in Jiangyin. Japan provided the components, the design drawings were the same as those of the "Ninghai", and the former shipbuilding director of the "Ninghai" ship, Mr. Jinbao Zongnan, was hired as the chief technical engineer of the Jiangnan Shipyard to supervise the construction. The keel of the ship was laid on June 28, 1931, and in order to encourage the self-production of new domestic ships, Minister of the Navy Chen Shaokuan personally attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the ship.

Originally, it was scheduled to be launched on October 10, 1933 (the National Day of the Kuomintang), but unexpectedly, the Northeast Incident and Sino-Japanese tensions affected Japan's parts supply and technical support, and the construction period was greatly delayed for nearly a year. It was not until October 1934, when the Nationalist government in Nanking was again defeated and faced with the threat of an attack by the Red Army on the Yangtze River waterway, that the speed of construction of the ship was greatly accelerated under the attention of the government, and the Japanese, who were responsible for the supply of spare parts, did not delay any longer.

In fact, the ship was originally ready for service in May, but at this time, the Jiangnan shipyard had also been infiltrated by the underground party. The final closing stage. The shipyard workers deliberately delayed and secretly manipulated the power system. The ship was entangled in power failures and could not be put into service until the defeat of the artillery party.

During last night's operation, the workers of the shipyard cooperated with the Red Army in launching a revolt and easily took control of the whole factory, and by daybreak a Red Army unit had occupied the shipyard. Later, a large number of sailors entered the shipyard to receive the ship. Among them is Li Huamei.

As a 2,000-ton coastal defense cruiser. The combat strength of the Pinghai is in addition to the Kanpur, which is fixed at the mouth of the Yangtze River. The river gunboats of the rest of the powers in China were far from being his opponents. The ship had three twin 140-mm guns, and in terms of firepower, it was not even inferior to the 5,000-ton British cruiser at the mouth of the Wusong River.

But now, such a formidable battleship. Already in the hands of the Red Army. Commander Maiden was tempted to give the order to fire the guns now and wreck the ship directly in the shipyard. But he received instructions from London that he must try his best to delay the time and keep the concession, and even asked him to keep the landing site in Shanghai, so as to give space and time for the "reinforcements from Japan" to land.

So he now watched with hatred, for the time being, he could not start a war, and he could only watch the Pinghai fire in the shipyard a few kilometers away, black smoke coming out of the chimney, accumulating pressure, and then conducting the first pressurization test of the launching boiler system after it was built.

Commander Maiden could guess what the Bolsheviks on the shore were doing now, and in addition to receiving the ship and restoring its combat strength, they would also place heavy artillery on the shore as a protective countermeasure. Commander Maiden was not afraid of the newly built Pinghai, and his real headache was the confrontation with the shore defense guns, as well as the threat of air danger that could arise at any time. Either way, he was unwilling to face.

In fact, the Pinghai has already been completed and can be launched at any time for trial, but the workers of the shipyard are deliberately delaying. Now there are only a few useless auxiliary facilities left on the ship, which have not yet been installed.

The Pinghai was the target of the Red Army very early, and it received the warship very early and prepared sailors and officers. Of course, they boarded the warship as Russians, "fighters supporting the Chinese Revolutionary Communist International", and were mainly responsible for the operation of engines and power systems with high technical requirements, some of them were officials from the Ninghai who were willing to join the Red Navy, and the rest of the sailors were naval seeds cultivated by the Red Army in the past two years and members of the naval underground party who had secretly joined the CCP in the past two years.

It was a bit difficult for a group of Chinese and foreign miscellaneous sailors to control a warship that had just been built and was in a state of running-in and they directly participated in the war.

But the biggest advantage of the Pinghai is the unscientific existence of the ship's soul.

On the day of the liberation of Shanghai, Li Huamei, who had returned to the main body two days earlier, had only completed the escort task of escorting the fleet down the Yangtze River, and then rushed to the Jiangnan Shipyard as soon as possible to stand on the completed Pinghai.

Li Huamei's identity is the soul of the Chinese ship, although the Pinghai also has his own vague sense of the soul of the ship, but he himself does not reject Li Huamei, the "same race", but Li Huamei wants to imagine integrating into the battle of the Pinghai like integrating into her own body ship Ruijin, and she also makes a difference.

She can't do it, and she can't wait for others to do it.

At noon on the 14th, with the efforts of the shipyard workers, the Pinghai was filled with coal, replenished ammunition, and at the same time the power system was also tested, and it could set sail at any time.

At this moment, another reinforcement they had been waiting for arrived in Shanghai.

That is Lin Hai's body, the Sephiroth, Lin Han's spiritual core, and the statue of Emperor Xuanwu are now placed in the cabin.

Because of the British flag and the registered status of the British, the British warships at Wusongkou and the Japanese warships cruising in this area did not stop him, but only reminded him that Shanghai was about to turn into a battlefield and persuaded him to leave. The ship's captain replied that he had come to accept the expatriates trapped here, and the British warship did not stop them and let them go.

After the Sephiroth entered the Huangpu River, it quickly drove into the Jiangnan Shipyard, and the Heping Hai was close together. After driving away unrelated people, the statue was moved out and loaded onto the Pinghai, and Lin Hai, who arrived later, also boarded the ship.

Li Huamei stood in front of Lin Han and looked at Lin Han quietly, now all the outsiders on the Pinghai have been driven out, only she and Lin Han are still on the ship.

"Father is older, I'm ready!"

Lin Han nodded at her, and Li Huamei then pressed her hand on Lin Han's chest, and the whole person melted into his body, and the clothes on his body fell to the ground with a thud after losing support.

After absorbing Li Huamei, Lin Han then changed to a state of "helping him", and then he squatted down, pressed his palms on the floor of the hull, and began to erode the warship under his feet. (To be continued......)