Under the harsh midday sun, 228 fighters lined up in a neat formation, and the wings were inlaid with red blue sky and white rì markings. The air commander of today's air raid was Colonel Feng Dafei, commander of the 1st Combat Aviation Regiment of the Air Force, who is a member of the Chinese Communist Party. Sitting in the open cockpit of Fokker D.18, looking at the fighters neatly arranged up and down, left and right, and thinking of the Zhenhai victory on July 19rì, Feng Dafei's mind was filled with exciting pictures Although he did not participate in the operation that day, he could still imagine the fierce scene of the sea and air battle that day!

Today's battle must be more intense, right? Feng Dafei thought to himself. At the operational meeting before takeoff, Rear Admiral Shi Jianfei, chief of operations of the Air Force, told himself that the fleet of the Rì Army at the mouth of the Yangtze River was very large, with hundreds of ships of various kinds, including an aircraft carrier! Rì Ben's Mitsubishi Type 10 carrier-based fighter was the famous British aircraft designer Harbour. Smith's work, it is said that xìng can be very superior! It's just a bit old, it's a 1921 product, almost two years earlier than the Fokker D.18 I was driving

Feng Dafei glanced at his watch, it was already 12:25, and he should have flown to the vicinity of the rì fleet. The lookouts on the two Ju.23s in charge of piloting must have spotted them, right? At this moment, Feng Dafei suddenly saw the Fokker D.18 under his wing agitated, and twelve planes suddenly separated from the edge of the neat big triangle formation, and flew towards the lower left with a roar.

Looking in the direction in which these planes flew, Feng Dafei saw ten Mitsubishi Type 10 carrier-based fighters of the Rì Army staggering towards him!

"How brave you are!" Feng Dafei muttered a compliment to the fearlessness of the pilot, then took out a small red triangular flag from the cockpit and waved it twice. Then there was a pause, and then he swung it three more times. This is signaling the Fokker D.18 below. Since there is no on-board radio, the current air command can only use the flag language. To this end, the Defence Forces, Air Force and Naval Aviation have developed a set of easy-to-understand flags. The small red flag represents the fighter squadron. One wave represents the 1st Squadron (not the official number, but the number temporarily specified before the issuance) to attack, two waves to represent the 2nd Squadron, and three more waves to represent the 3rd Squadron. The twenty-four Fokker D.18 fighters of the two squadrons that had been ordered also left the large formation with a hula and pounced on the ten Rìben fighters who had been killed. Together with the twelve Fokker D.18s of the 1st Squadron, which had already attacked on their own, a numerical advantage of 36:10 was formed! Considering the Xìng energy advantage of Fokker D.18, this air battle will be without suspense

"36 planes...... Eight squares! The captain of the Fengxiang Air Force, Kondo Shintora Shaosa, looked at the twenty-four Fokker D.18s flying at high speed towards his side. Blood was spurting from his eyes.

3.6 Fokker D.18 to 1 Mitsubishi Ten! These people really don't have a bit of a bushido god!

"Eight squares! Fire! ”

Kondo couldn't care less about the Chinese pilots who were disdainful of group fights, because two two-plane formations of four Fokker D.18s were already coming at him from the left and right. Kondo hurriedly turned the nose around and opened fire on one of the Fokker D.18s. Two 7.7mm Vickers Aviation machine guns spat out two strings of tongues of fire. But the flexibility of the other party is just too good. With a slight flash, all the bullets hit the air.

"Lose your mother!"

Captain Zhou Baoheng, who piloted this Fokker D.18, also scolded, although he has been a veteran of flying for several years, but it is the first time that he has participated in the war. A little excited. Without paying attention to covering each other with his wingman, he almost hit this rì plane.

"Look at the fight!"

Zhou Baoheng shouted, just like the military general on the stage shouted before, pulled the cāo longitudinal rod, and drove the plane to a high-speed turn in front of Kondo's eyes. Kondo's reaction was not slow, and he was busy driving his Mitsubishi 10 plane in circles with his opponent. In this era, the main thing in aircraft fighting is to turn xìng energy, followed by speed. Of course, that's the premise of one-to-one fighting. If the four fight one in a group, then the plane xìng can still be weaker than the opponent Kondo Shintora really has no way to survive at all. So he could only get ahead of the other three planes before they were in battle. First find a way to kill the Fokker D.18 in front of you.

Click......

While the two planes were still circling there, Zhou Baoheng's wingman had already flown over and opened fire with two 7.92mm machine guns.

"Damn it!" Kondo only felt his plane tremble a few times before he knew that he had been hit by his opponent. He turned his head to see that the Fokker D.18 had locked onto itself and was still spitting tongues of fire. He twisted the cāo longitudinal rod in a hurry, and the plane deftly flipped over and dived down at a wide angle. This is an extremely dangerous maneuver, the current biplanes are not very strong, and doing a large-angle dive is almost desperate, and a plane will fall apart if you are not careful!

However, Kondo couldn't wait for the plane to fall apart, and Zhou Baoheng's Fokker D.18 also bit his Mitsubishi Ten and opened fire. Four tongues of fire swept across the biplane almost at the same time, and Kondo only felt a sharp pain in his back, and his heart was not good, and his eyes gradually blurred......

"Kill one!" Zhou Baoheng, who got the results for the first time, cheered excitedly. When he tried to look for his opponent again, he regretted to find that there was no trace of the rì plane in the sky.

At this time, one cannon flower bloomed under his plane, and the black smoke swept through the empty sky with debris rì himself's fixed height fuse as usual (in fact, the Chinese fixed height fuse was worse than this). Zhou Baoheng looked under the wings and saw that the sea was full of large and small ships! Some of them are firing frantically into the air!

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The officers and men on dozens of warships also witnessed the scene of their fighters being beaten by their opponents, and their eyes were already red. Without waiting for the commander of the Combined Fleet, Isamu Takeshita, to give the order, all the high shè guns and high shè machine guns opened fire together, and all that was dense in the sky was black smoke and fragments scattered by the explosion of the shells.

See this scene. More than 200 Chinese planes also seemed dumbfounded, just circling around the edge of the high firepower of the rì ship, as if looking for a gap to break into.

On the bridge of the Nagato, the flagship of the Rìmoto Combined Fleet. Vice Admiral Isamu Takeshita, commander of the Combined Fleet, was staring at the sky with his eyes wide open, watching every move of the Chinese fighters in the air, and his head was already sweating profusely. Because he knew that the black smoke from the air defense artillery fire was just an illusion, and the air defense capability of his own fleet was indeed very weak. Take the latest battleship in the fleet as an example, the entire anti-aircraft artillery fire is only four 76mm anti-aircraft guns! It's no different from the Kurama, which was inherited in the Battle of Zhenhae, if you take into account those damn fixed-height fuses. These high shè cannons are simply nothing!

"Your Excellency, the large bombers of China and the Fokker D.18 pose no threat to our battleships, please concentrate your fire against their torpedo attack aircraft. It's the bigger biplanes! The Kurama battlecruiser was sunk by them! ”

Standing beside Isamu Takeshita and shouting loudly was Yamamoto Go**, who was the first mate of the original battlecruiser Tsukuba. Because of his valuable experience in air defense operations, he was temporarily appointed as an air defense staff officer of the Combined Fleet. The rank has also been promoted from Nakasa to Dazao!

"Yamamoto-kun, are you saying that those big planes are not a threat?" Isamu Takeshita asked regretfully. In his opinion. Those ju.23 are so big. There must have been a bombshell, and if the Nagato were to take a hit, it would definitely be hit hard.

"Yes, there is no threat!" Yamamoto fifty-six hurriedly said. "The planes were carrying two 250-kilogram bombs, but the accuracy of the bombs was very poor, so they didn't pose much of a threat. As for those Fokker D.18s, they were carrying a 50-kilogram bomb, and although the accuracy of the dropped bomb was relatively high, it was not too threatening. The real danger is those torpedo attack aircraft! They will pass from a low altitude and drop torpedoes at a height of twenty to thirty meters above the surface. So please use the tactics of anti-torpedo machines to deal with the air raids of the Chinese army. ”

There were also torpedo bombers, and Takeshita naturally knew that the torpedoes on those planes were no joke. Moreover, the air defense exercises of the United Fleet were devoted to anti-torpedo aircraft.

"Yamamoto. Are you saying that regardless of the other aircraft of the Chinese army, only anti-torpedo tactics are used? Eisuke Yamamoto, chief of staff of the fleet, interjected. Those Fokker D.18s and those large bombers don't care? ”

"Yes!" Yamamoto Fifty-six nodded heavily.

Isamu Takeshita gritted his teeth. "Just follow Yamamoto's advice...... Now he is the only one in the Combined Fleet Command who has fought against the Chinese fighters, and we have to believe in his experience! ”

Isamu Takeshita's order has just been given. Suddenly, there was a dense and dull sound on the land of Chuansha County in the west, and there was a faint flash in the sky. Then, as soon as they landed on Hengsha Island, the infantry of the Rì Army, who were building fortifications, heard a loud whistling sound of artillery shells cutting through the air. Enemy shelling! Before they could come to their senses. There were already several huge pillars of mud and sand splashing up with a thunderous explosion! At the same time, all the miscellaneous things within the range of the power of the explosion flew into the air!

The commander of the 1st Guards Brigade, Major General Hayashi Mijuro, had already established a headquarters on Hengsha Island, a brick house on the edge of the beach, which turned out to be the private villa of a millionaire on the beach. But now that it has been bombarded, half of the roof has collapsed, and the sun is so hot on the bare head of His Excellency the Major General. When the shells fell, the bearded and ruthless-looking Major General Rì was lying intently on the map table made of ammunition boxes, constantly marking with a red and blue pencil. Three red arrows extend from the landing site, advancing from the north and south shores of Hengsha Island and the middle to the northwest of the island. According to the plan, the 1st Guards Brigade was to use a sampan to make a forced crossing from there and attack Changxing Island, which was separated by a water. On Changxing Island, the marks of the Chinese army's three triangular regimental units marked with 60d have appeared. There are also two shipwrecks in the Yangtze River waterway on both sides of Changxing Island, two 10,000-ton bulk carriers were scuttled there by the Chinese themselves to block the channel, and a large number of mines were deployed in these two channels. If the Rì Army wanted to clear a passage for battleships to enter and exit, then the capture of Changxing Island and Chongming Island to the north was a prerequisite for salvage and clearance. Therefore, the Chinese army will definitely defend Changxing Island at any cost, and Lin Mi Shilang suddenly thought: "Changxing Island is the place where all the First Guards Brigade will kill and serve the country, right?" ”

That's when it happened. There was a sudden shock all around, and before Lin Mijuro could figure out what was going on, the half-collapsed roof fell down! Then he heard a loud explosion that shook the ground and shook the mountains. This is a situation that would never have been imagined. Isn't this under the protection of naval guns? It couldn't have been a mistake from those stupid people in the Navy, right?

"Shelling! Shelling! Hide ......," a staff officer shouted, knocking the brigade commander to the ground, who was still standing stupidly.

"Eight grid ......" Lin Mi Shilang scolded, and wanted to push away the staff officer and stand up. As a result, another shell exploded nearby, and the huge shock wave carried countless metal fragments, tearing everyone or everything outside the brigade headquarters to shreds, and then throwing it high. The brick wall that looked quite sturdy only affected a little bit of the aftermath of the explosion, and it fell down with a bang, and the young staff officer who was lying on Lin Mi Juro thought that his head was smashed by the falling bricks, and the blood mixed with brain sauce splashed Lin Mi Juro's face. Immediately scared him awake. This is the fucking super heavy artillery of the Chinese army bombarding! Now the 1st Guards Wing is finished!

It was not only the 1st Guards Wing that went ashore that was bombarded. There are also 220mm giant shells falling next to several RÌ military transport ships near Hengsha Island! The infantry of the Rì Army, who were changing trains or still on the transport ship, suddenly let out a sound of surprise. These officers and soldiers of the Emperor's Guards also knew to be afraid! There are so many enemy cannons, and they are still so accurate! It seems that Shanghai is really the place where you become a god?

The second and third rounds of 180 220mm heavy howitzers soon arrived, and it seems that there is an artillery observation post of the Chinese army on the island directing this shelling! The landing point of the shells was very accurate, and one of the shells hit a transport ship of more than 3,000 tons! A giant grenade burrowed through the deck of the transport, which was laden with ammunition, and exploded inside the transport's belly. Destroyed a shipload of ammunition and blew the entire ship to pieces!

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General! Shelling! The heavy artillery of the Chinese army is bombarding the army on Hengsha Island, and an ammunition ship has been destroyed! Eisuke Yamamoto, chief of staff of the Combined Fleet on the Nagato, happened to aim at the scene of the Chinese army's shelling, and hurriedly reported to Isamu Takeshita.

"Fight back! Fight back! Suppress the artillery positions of the Chinese army with the main guns of the Nagato! Isamu Takeshita ordered.

"Enemy bombs. Enemy bombs ......" Takeshita's words just fell. Someone exclaimed. It turned out that the Chinese ju.23 bombers in the high altitude had already begun to drop bombs! Although this temporary modification of the horizontal bomber dropped bombs was very problematic. But the power of a 250-kilogram bombshell is no joke! The captain of the Nagato didn't care about Isamu Takeshita's counterattack order, and just concentrated on driving his warship in an S-shape on the sea. In fact, he doesn't know where to fight even if he wants to fight back! Now where is the lookout on the Nagato, where do you have the spare time to find the Chinese artillery position? Airplanes in the sky, as well as submarines that may appear underwater at any time, are the deadly things!

"Boom!" A bombshell had fallen and exploded in the sea near the starboard side of the battleship, stirring up a huge column of water higher than the mast of the Nagato. Takeshita suddenly gasped, he understood that if this guy smashed on the deck of the Nagato. At least it's a medium-sized one!

"Boom!" This was followed by another huge explosion, and a huge cloud of smoke came out of a 10,000-ton oil tanker close to the Nagato!

"Fuji Maru! Fujimaru has been shot! Commander...... Fuji Maru is sinking! ”

When Isamu Takeshita looked in the direction of the explosion. I happened to see Yamamoto Fifty-six also looking at it blankly, so he scolded casually: "Eight grids!" It's not that the bombs of the Chinese plane were thrown inaccurately! ”

When Yamamoto was wondering, there was another loud bang, and this time it seemed that it was the Nagato who was shot! The flagship of the Combined Fleet shook heavily, shaking the devil inside the bridge. Yamamoto fifty-six suddenly thought of something and shouted: "Submarine! The submarine of China is firing shè torpedoes! ”

Hearing the word submarine, all the devils only felt a chill down their spines! Is the Nagato going to follow in the footsteps of the King Kong?

At this moment, the phone of the captain of the management and damage had already reached the bridge, and the communications officer of the Nagato put down the phone and shouted: "Report, the Nagato has been hit by a torpedo in the bow and penetrated an oil depot, and there is no major problem." ”

"Fleet acceleration! Turn around! Get out of here! Takeshita calmed down a little and ordered loudly. For the anti-submarine capabilities of the current Rìben Navy, he has completely lost confidence! So the only way to get rid of these submarines is to rely on the high speed of warships.

"Commander! Don't you care about the army on the two islands of Hengsha and Chongming? Eisuke Yamamoto hurriedly reminded.

"Order the Izumo and the Iwate to run aground in the shallows near Yokosha and Chongming to serve as a fixed battery!" Takeshita ordered without even thinking about it. "The main forces of the combined fleet cannot stay here as a target for submarines! Come on! Let's go! Take refuge in the open sea! (To be continued.) )