In the world of the blind, the one-eyed dragon can also be a king. In an era when there is no radar to find the enemy, and night battles are all dependent on the eyes of pilots, Li Huamei, who has perception, is even easier to shoot down opponents in night battles than during the day.

On the evening of 1 February, when the Red Army on the ground in Shanghai launched a night counterattack, Li Huamei also flew a plane to fight. The British, in order to counter the night raid tactics of the Red Army, also organized night bombing units.

The night air force of the British began in the early days of the landing on Zhoushan Island, when the Red Army sent Bo 2 to harass them, and the British were forced to form a night fighter unit. But in the era when there was no radar, let's talk about the results of the night battle, although two Wave 2s were shot down, but the British themselves fell one due to an accident.

However, the British began to pay attention to night bombing, and after the air battle on December 8, Dowding formed his own night fighter unit. When his night fighter unit began to appear in the sky over Shanghai and Hangzhou, because Li Huamei and Lin Han had already gone to the Xuzhou battlefield to participate in the battle, Daoding's night fighter was "comfortable" for a few days. Although the Red Army also had space fighters at this time, the tactical use of night air combat was still being explored, and the planes of both sides were like two blindfolded blind people looking for each other in the sky, and as a result, they could not touch each other. Considering that it was easy to be accidentally injured by their own air defense fire during night air battles, the Red Army even gave up night air combat for a time until Li Huamei returned.

After 1 February, the Japanese air force and the Sino-Soviet combined air force on the front line were weakening day by day, and the evacuation over the Xuzhou area was completely controlled by the Red Army, and the battle situation on the Xuzhou battlefield became clearer. Li Huamei came back one step ahead of Lin Han, and after participating in the night annihilation force, Dao Ding's good days were over.

The day before returning from the Xuzhou battlefield, Li Huamei happened to have the hundredth crash on the Japanese Army Airlines, becoming the first pilot in human history to crash more than 100.

As a result, Li Huamei, who flew alone that night, shot down 11 planes twice in one night, and under her guidance, three friendly planes that followed him and piloted the night version of the Hawker II also achieved two downs.

Late at night on February 2. Li Huamei, who attacked again. He personally shot down nine night planes, and on the third day, Britain "inexplicably" lost 15 planes in the night sky over Shanghai, most of which were also "brushed" by Li Huamei.

By the fourth day. Dowding no longer dared to send out a unit of night fighters. Sudden, huge losses. It made Dowding feel that the eyes that were watching the night sky of Shanghai Airlines were back.

At the same time, Dowding heard the news of the return of the "Blue Thirteen" from the Red Army radio. On 5 February, the Red Army broadcast a high-profile broadcast of Li Huamei's achievements in the night air battle, praising her as "an eagle in the sky over Shanghai Airlines."

During the day on 5 February, the British Royal Air Force, which had carried out a large-scale tactical bombardment of Shanghai, sent back the news that they had encountered the "Blue 13" in the sky over Shanghai. The Sino-Soviet Joint Air Force, which had been avoiding war and would only take the initiative in air combat when it was advantageous, once again challenged the Royal Air Force under the leadership of the "Blue Thirteen".

And this time, the Sino-Soviet joint air force once again went out.

"Oh my God, there are so many fighters!"

"Blue Thirteen, Blue Thirteen is here again!"

"I was hit, I was hit!"

"Witch, witch, that Chinese female cousin is a witch!"

"Again, oh my God, is that woman a monster?"

"Those Bolsheviks, how come the timing of every attack is so good!"

On that day, the RAF's radio channel was filled with similar screams. The Sino-Soviet joint air force, which had been silent for many days, took the initiative to attack on 5 February after Li Huamei's return.

The only 11,100 fighters in the hands of the Red Army were released in a wave, and they attacked fiercely around the British fighters that bombed Shanghai.

In the previous 10 days of air battles, Dowding had lost nearly 100 planes for various reasons, and only 700 air force fighters were left in his hands, but only 600 could be dispatched. But he can't send all the planes at once, and he must send them out in batches and waves. At the beginning of the air battle, he sent only more than 100 planes to attack Shanghai, and half of them were bombers and attack planes with poor air combat capabilities, while the opponents were all fighters. And after Li Huamei's famous Blue Thirteen appeared, it caused countless panic in the Royal Air Force's communication channel.

And this time, the timing of the appearance of the opponent's air force was just right.

Although the Red Army Air Force faced pressure on both the northern and southern fronts, its greatest advantage was fighting on the interior front. From Lianyungang to Shanghai, the straight-line distance is only 460 kilometers, while the range of the FW90 and HE51 is about 600 kilometers. Theoretically, with an airfield between these two places, the fighter planes taking off are barely enough to protect the skies over the two Xuzhou fronts and Shanghai, and after the air battle is over, these planes only need to land at the nearest local field airfields in the two theaters to replenish supplies.

This is also the reason why the Red Army set the battlefield of the decisive battle with the Japanese army on the line of Xuzhou in the past. The Red Army planes, which were fighting over the Xuzhou battlefield, could directly engage in air battles on two fronts without even making a special transfer. Previously, the air force was temporarily concentrated on the northern front, because it was faced with great pressure from the Japanese army and aviation, and had to concentrate its forces on the back line.

Then, after more than a month of bloody fighting, the Sino-Soviet joint air force once again won an overwhelming victory over Xuzhou by virtue of the advantages of generation difference, home field, and humanoid radar, and once again played a five-to-one air combat exchange ratio here.

By 5 February, air supremacy over Xuzhou was completely in the hands of the Red Army, and it was able to turn back to support the direction of Shanghai. And in February, with the arrival of a large number of fighters from Germany and the Soviet Union through the guò mask-Shanxi route, the Red Army in the early stage of the first two ... After the 5th Air War, the situation of huge losses of aircraft and insufficient numbers was also improved.

The reason why the Chinese and Soviet air forces avoided the war in the early stage of the British Air Force in Shanghai was only to concentrate on destroying the weaker Japanese Air Force on the Northern Front. The decisive battle in Xuzhou has been fought for nearly a month now. The Japanese Army Airlines, which was fighting away, lost more than 500 planes here and was unable to fight again in a short time. Taking advantage of this rare interlude, on 5 February, Lin Han also rushed back from the Xuzhou battlefield, and at the same time, a large number of fighters were also transferred south.

After yesterday's air battle, a large number of fighters intended to fly an additional 100 kilometers to the south and land at the field airfields in Taizhou and Yangzhou to refuel and replenish supplies. Directly participate in air defense operations over Shanghai. Directly hit the British by surprise.

On 5 February, under the guidance of Lin Han, a humanoid radar that had returned to Shanghai, Sino-Soviet joint fighters were put into the skies over Shanghai with a scale of 100 planes per batch. In the past ten days, the royal family, which has been bombing over Shanghai for more than ten days, did not expect that the opponent would suddenly withdraw a large number of fighters from the fierce Xuzhou battlefield. They don't even know. In the past, in the sky over Shanghai and Hangzhou, the "humanoid radar" that had a huge bonus effect on air combat also returned on this day.

Caught off guard. The plane sent to Shanghai by Shouding suffered another crushing defeat.

Because of the presence of Lin Han's humanoid radar, the Red Army's sudden appearance of a large number of fighters was very well chosen, and the 150 British planes of all kinds that bombed Shanghai at that time were completely unprepared in advance, and when a large number of fighter groups appeared in the air, it was too late to escape.

As soon as the air battle began, it immediately developed towards a stage of an uncontrollable full-scale outbreak, and although he was unwilling, Daoding not only did not send fighters from the airfields in various parts of Zhoushan to the skies over the Songhu battlefield.

The second aerial meat grinder battle broke out again.

Compared with the one-two-five air battle, there were only a lot more planes in Dowding's hands, but the pilot's su zhì was strictly reduced. Novice pilots at new aviation schools account for more than half. And most of their opponents are elites who have been baptized by the 125 air battle and the Xuzhou air battle.

On 5 January, the Sino-Soviet Joint Air Force even gave birth to three "one-day trump cards" in one breath (if more than five planes were shot down in one day, they were called one-day trump cards).

"The strong are stronger, and the weak are weaker," and the evil consequences of a large number of rookies flying into the sky began to be manifested on 5 February.

The air battle lasted from the morning of 5 February to the evening, and when Dowding counted the day's losses, the losses of more than three digits of aircraft and pilots made the old pilot's hand tremble.

On 5 February, Dow lost 110 planes in the skies over Shanghai, 150 pilots were killed or lost or captured, and closer to that number were wounded or scrapped.

As for the downing record of this side, even if the number of "flooded" is "flooded", the number reported by the pilots below is only about 30, but this is obviously to be discounted.

In just one day of air combat, Dowding was deprived of nearly a quarter of his air power.

"This kind of grinding war, this unfair air war, can no longer be fought, it's time to leave some seeds for the Royal Air Force."

At that time, Dowding begged Commander Hamilton almost in a pleading tone.

"There are a pair of magical eyes watching the sky over Shanghai," said the Japanese Army Air Force that gave Dowding loyalty before the evacuation, which was very popular among the pilots of the Royal Air Force.

As the air war has been fought to the present level, more and more people believe this.

On this day on 5 February, when he went to the front line in Jiaxing, the air battle took place at the head of Daoding, and he witnessed the action in the sky above. And the pilots under his command reported to him again and again that the Sino-Soviet joint air force over Shanghai was like an eye that saw through the entire battlefield, and during the whole day of air combat, wave after wave of fighters were sent to join the battle, whether it was the time to cut into the battlefield or the time to exit, all of them were just right.

One time something like this happened was an accident.

This has happened many times, and it is because the other party has excellent command.

But every time it's like this, every time it's the first move, and the command of the large fleet of hundreds of planes is as harmonious as one person, then someone must be cheating.

Whether that's what scientists are talking about, whether the so-called new device "radar" is working, or whether mysterious Chinese witchcraft is at work in between, Dowding no longer wants his air force to engage in this kind of "unfair" air combat in this strange land until he has the power to fight an "open" war with his opponent.

On 5 February, when the Red Army Air Force marched south and regained air supremacy over Shanghai and Hangzhou, it was also the day when the Red Army counterattacked on all fronts in the Hangzhou Bay area.

Although Dowding was reluctant to continue the air battle, when the Red Army around the city of Hangzhou Bay counterattacked on all fronts. Faced with the crushing of the main force of the 300,000 Red Army from all directions, Dow Ding also had to painfully send fighters to fight with the opponent again.

In an air war between countries, the strong are stronger and the weak are weaker.

During the four days from 6 to 9 February, the Royal Air Force suffered another major defeat in the four days of air battles, in which the ratio of aircraft losses was rapidly moving towards an outrageous number of 10 to 1. On the opposite side of the broadcast, Blue Thirteen's number of crashes has dropped from 100 when she returned to Shanghai on February 1. It quickly climbed to one hundred and sixty.

Although Dao Ding Yan zhòng suspected that this was the opponent's "number of irrigation" for propaganda needs. But every day after the air battle, the pilots who were lucky enough to survive their own side kept telling him about the terrifying blue thirteen's demonic appearance on the battlefield, and it was the air battle on the 9th of February. Even when that blue thirteen appeared on the other side. The pilots of the Royal Air Force were actually timid before they fought. Scattered and fled, which is unique in the history of the formation of the Royal Air Force.

No one calls Li Huamei "Lancelot" anymore, and the pilots of the Royal Air Force invariably call her "witch".

It's February 10th. Dowding said that he was not sure that he had sent the remnants of his air force into battle. Although the Chinese and Soviet fighters on the opposite side were reduced by half after the air battle on the ninth day, and they were redeployed back to the line of northern Xuzhou-Lianyungang to join the Japanese army, the Royal Air Force, which had suffered heavy losses in the air battles in the previous days, was no longer able to suppress it even if the opponent was reduced.

Although Britain was able to build more fighters on its own, Dowding, thousands of miles away, could not get new planes and new pilots in a short period of time.

After regaining air supremacy, the Red Army retained less than eighty fighters in the Shanghai direction, while the rest of the fighting was re-engaged on the northern front. At this time, the British attack on the periphery of Shanghai was also facing a total collapse.

Wave 2, Hawker II, and even various captured Anglo-Japanese fighters began to appear on the outskirts of Shanghai. These obsolete planes in the air battle, relying on the British fighter jets being driven out of the sky of Hangzhou Bay, began to roam the heads of the British landing force with impunity, constantly strafing and dropping bombs like hens.

In the past, Hitokazu Yamada encountered in Pudong, and now it is the turn of the British army to enjoy.

During this period, the remnants of the air force in the hands of the remnants of Daoding on Zhoushan Island, under the strong demand of the front line, also rose up bravely and sent out several times to support, but their disabled fighter units were still one-sided and defeated in the face of opponents who were also greatly reduced in number. In the process, Li Huamei's blue thirteen unceremoniously brushed the results of more than 20 crashes on his remnants. As her combat skills become more and more mature, Li Huamei's ability to dominate the sky is getting stronger and stronger.

By the time the air battle reached 15 February, the Royal Air Force had completely collapsed in Dowding's hands, and not only did Dowding refuse to send pilots into battle, but even the pilots themselves refused to fight.

At this time, the number of planes in Dowding's hands that could be used in battle, and the number of pilots in existence, were even worse than when he sent his telegram to the Prime Minister on December 8.

The British colonial troops, in terms of combat skills and fighting will, were far from being comparable to the Japanese army elite who landed in Shanghai. After completely losing air supremacy and being "pulled by the planes in the sky for a few days," on 16 October, the British landing force began to withdraw from Hangzhou Bay on all fronts, and on 18 October, the last British soldier boarded a dinghy in Ningbo at 4 a.m. and turned back to Zhoushan Island.

When they landed in Hangzhou Bay, there were 50,000 British.

When Hangzhou Bay was evacuated, there were only more than 30,000 people. Six thousand people were killed in bombing or fighting, and the rest were captured in the great counterattack of the Red Army to regain air supremacy. If it weren't for the ferocity of the British fleet's naval guns, which bought time and space for the British army to retreat, as well as the advantage of Hangzhou Bay being close to the sea to facilitate retreat, otherwise more people would have stayed in China forever.

When landing in Hangzhou Bay and attacking Shanghai, the British brought a large number of tanks, artillery and automobiles, but when they retreated in a hurry, most of these heavy equipment were abandoned, but the Red Army made another military fortune.

When the British intervention forces withdrew from the cities along the Hangzhou Bay, both Hamilton and Dowding knew in their hearts that the history of the British Empire in Far East China was completely over.

On 25 February, the Battle of Xuzhou in the north had just ended, and the Red Army, which was fighting on two fronts, completely annihilated three Japanese divisions on the northern front, inflicted heavy losses on three divisions, and inflicted the greatest defeat on land on the British allies since the Russo-Japanese War.

Since the Red Army shelled the British Yangtze River Fleet in June last year, this intervention war has been fought for nine months, and the British military expenditure has consumed hundreds of millions of pounds, lost more than 1,500 aircraft, and lost countless personnel.

At this time, the British government had already begun to discuss internally the issue of abandoning China and retreating from Europe.

Later, the Battle of Hangzhou Bay received a nickname in the British: Aircraft Cemetery.

And Li Huamei, who has swept more than 100 crash records on the British Royal Air Force, became famous all over the world after the war.

Decades after the end of the war, the country called "mud bombardment" in the northeast, and later a cartoonist nicknamed Tomino's bald head was given to him, and he designed an ace female pilot named Char in a comic book of the machine qì people, the pilot likes to paint the mecha blue, with horns on the head, numbered thirteen, known as "blue with horns three times faster", and later this title and this image became a very classic comic legend. (To be continued......)

PS: The Chinese plot is almost over here, and the next chapter will end at most, and then the main story line will be transferred to Europe.

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