In view of the deterioration of the northern shape, the Red Army has long had a plan. Japan's full-scale war of aggression against China, which did not break out until December, was really a "surprise" for the Red Army. The five-month delay period gave the Red Army a valuable period of preparation. As soon as the flames of war in Shandong and Pingjin ignited, the Red Army on the front lines of Jiangsu, Henan, and Shaanxi was fully dispatched in accordance with the advance plan.

The fastest movement was carried out by the Red Army in northern Jiangsu. In the past few months, the main forces of the Red Army in northern Jiangsu have not been weakened by half a point, but have been continuously strengthened, even if there is a great threat of intervention in Zhejiang and Shanghai. The instructions received by the Red Army in northern Jiangsu were simple: be ready to march north into Shandong at any time.

In the past five months, in addition to completing land reform and the construction of base areas, the Red Army has also been training its troops incessantly. The war in Shanghai gave the Red Army a glimpse of what a real "modern" war was. In this war, although the Red Army had the triple advantage of favorable time, place, and people, the Red Army was still surprised by the individual soldiers who landed in the Japanese army, and the consequences brought about by this made the technical training of the whole army the focus of the whole army.

During the Battle of Shanghai, Lin Han gave a plan to the upper echelons of the Red Army: The planes and artillery here are good at fighting, and that is because the Red Army concentrates the essence of the country's military strength in one place, so it can fight so happily. However, China is not an industrial country, and once a full-scale war is fought, the Red Army will not be able to fight this kind of fighting with a wall of fire in the sky and a wall of fire on the ground. In the Battle of Shanghai, what we really need to learn is how to deal with this tactic of the enemy. In the battle of Shanghai, what should really be paid attention to is how the Japanese troops trapped in Pudong treated us with this tactic. Then learn from it.

"Japan, which is already an industrialized country, has more aircraft, artillery and tanks than we do. Because in the future all-out war of resistance, we will also face similar tactical strikes. ”

Lin Han, who came from later generations, knew very well that the "experience" of winning the first war could very well become the foreshadowing of the fiasco of the second war. The slash tactics of the infantry of the Scarlet Empire made the Prussian army a strong army in Europe, but in the Napoleon era, the Prussian army that adhered to the slash tactics was swollen by Napoleon. During World War I, the French relied on trench tactics to win World War I, and by World War II. I would like to do this again. The French, who were frantically repairing the fort fortress, were wiped out by Guderian's tank cluster tactics for a month.

In the battle of Shanghai, the Red Army relied on various operational concepts provided by Lin Han to achieve a great victory, and one of the consequences was to promote the progress of the concept of war. If you can't see your own shortcomings. Still clinging to the old experience. It comes at a terrible price.

The leaders of the Red Army felt justified.

After the Japanese retreated from Pudong. The top echelons of the Red Army summoned front-line generals and middle- and lower-ranking officers who participated in the war, and repeatedly convened military seminars to sum up lessons and lessons. With our own experience in using these "modern high-tech weapons," it is more important to sum up the experience of how to deal with the strikes of such high-tech weapons. In the process, Soviet and German military personnel also accompanied the staff officers. The summary report after the incident was quickly sent to the whole army to share. When the British began a large-scale air battle over Shanghai, another round of large-scale military training began in various localities after the Red Army completed its autumn harvest mission.

The Japanese blew up and killed Han Fuyu in Shandong, which solved the big trouble for their invasion of Shandong, and also helped the Red Army solve the big trouble.

As soon as Han Fuyu died, the dragons were leaderless, and their subordinates scattered one after another, and each voted for the new owner.

Some traitors and traitorous generals couldn't wait to join the Japanese and became traitors.

Some patriotic generals, under the previous work of the underground party, led their troops to join the Red Army.

The powerful troops who were hit by Lin Han's "silver bullet" handed over their soldiers and horses to the Red Army that marched north to resist Japan. The situation in Shandong, which seemed chaotic, was divided into "layers" within a week, turning into a confrontation between the Japanese troops who landed and the Red Army that went north to resist Japan.

The Shandong battlefield became the focus of the exchange of fire between China and Japan.

At one o'clock in the morning and afternoon of December 6, Jiaozhou Bay, Qingdao.

On the dock of Qingdao, black smoke is billowing, and the sound of ammunition detonation can be heard from time to time.

Looking at the Qingdao wharf that had been blown to pieces, the face of Kuniaki Koiso, commander of the Japanese Fifth Division, was as black as a dark cloud in the sky.

Yesterday, the process of his troops landing on the beach at Jiaozhou by boat was extremely smooth, and as soon as the guns rang out, the defenders broke up on their own almost without putting up resistance. Overnight, tens of thousands of troops easily succeeded in forcibly occupying the Qingdao wharf. Only a few soldiers were killed or wounded in the process.

However, no one expected that shortly after dawn the next day, a group of planes from the south appeared in the sky over Jiaozhou Bay at 8 o'clock in the morning, bombing and strafing at the wharf, wreaking havoc for a full 20 minutes before retreating in turn.

Although the Japanese troops, who had just landed last night, easily captured Qingdao, they did not have time to complete the transfer of planes. As a result, they could only let their opponents bomb indiscriminately and rage for a whole morning without resistance.

As a result, a large number of munitions and materials piled up on the docks were destroyed, and an arms ship brought from Japan was also shot and sunk in the bombing, and the losses in personnel and materials were extremely heavy.

The Red Army in the south had long been mentally prepared for the Japanese action in Shandong. The Japanese had just landed in Shandong yesterday, and the next day the opponent's air force reacted immediately.

Just yesterday, after receiving the news of Japan's landing in Shandong, the Red Army, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately carried out the plan that had been prepared for a long time. Twenty DO17s, four beta HE111s, and twenty HS129 attack planes stationed in Shanghai began to transfer to a newly built field airfield in northern Jiangsu in the afternoon of the same day. The next morning, just after dawn, together with the existing planes at the local airport, they went out to bomb the Qingdao wharf directly.

After returning to the airport in northern Jiangsu to refuel and replenish ammunition, the second wave of planes went out again and blew up the Qingdao wharf again.

After a hard night's work, a large number of munitions that the Japanese had managed to unload were destroyed on the port wharf, and in the course of the air raid, more than 400 Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded, and countless others were wounded.

The timing of the Red Army's bombardment was well chosen, precisely as the landing force had just been unloaded. There was no time for the interstitial period of the air defense positions. During the two bombardments, the docks were almost unable to organize effective anti-aircraft resistance, and were completely left to the back and forth of the adversary, with no ability to fight back.

The biggest problem of the Japanese in this landing in Qingdao was still that there was no air cover, and in the second Shanghai Raid, the Kaga was sunk and the Akagi was heavily damaged, and the navy was unable to provide air cover at all. Although it was possible to transfer the fighters from the airport built in Liaoning through Guò, the airport in Qingdao was first put into operation. The planes that were originally planned to be transferred were to fly from the Liaodong Peninsula to Qingdao early the next morning.

Realizing that the fighter in his hand was outdated and backward. In the past few months, the Japanese have spent a lot of money to import a batch of the latest CR32 fighters from Italy. The 60 fighters transferred this time were all imported from Italy.

Who knew that the Red Army was one step ahead, and the planes that transferred to the field had not yet flown to Qingdao. The pier was blown up first. Most of the unloaded supplies were destroyed.

However, last night, although the beachfront landing was successful. Take Qingdao lightly. Qingdao Airport was also easily won. The oil depot also fell into the hands of the Japanese army.

An hour after the first round of bombing ended, 60 fighters from Liaodong to Qingdao hobbled late and landed at Qingdao airfield.

When the Japanese troops occupying the airfield pumped fuel from the oil depot and wanted to fill up the planes in transit for air defense alert. But when he restarted the plane and wanted to take off again, he was angry to find that the fuel in the oil depot was not oil but water at all.

Lin Han, who had been prepared in advance, had long been staring at the most sensitive Japanese landing point in Qingdao, where might give them the opportunity to use local supplies. After the Japanese mutiny on 31 August, the upper echelons of the Red Army had long been aware of the imminent all-out war of resistance. The underground party on the Qingdao side stepped up its efforts to infiltrate Han Fuyu's subordinates. And the Red Army also secretly sent a large number of agents to infiltrate Qingdao, just in case.

Han Fuyu controlled Qingdao, and there were only a few old-fashioned planes in his hands, all of which were "leaks" that the Nanjing government had escaped. A company and several pilots of the airport defenders had already "looked south and marched north" under Lin Han's "silver bullet" offensive.

Before the Japanese landing, the defenders of the oil depot and the managers colluded to sell the aviation fuel from the stock to the Red Army to enrich themselves, leaving only a small part of the fuel to meet the needs of the "superiors".

The Japanese invasion of Tsingtao was not kept strictly secret, and the Red Army relied on deciphering the Japanese radio code to obtain the exact time of their operation. So when the Japanese began to act, the chess pieces arranged by the Red Army and Lin Han in Qingdao also began to work.

At Qingdao Airport, the first thing the oil depot manager did after receiving the report was to add water to the oil depot's already large oil storage. Oil is lighter than water, and each drum is almost entirely filled with water, with only a small amount of aviation gasoline floating on the surface.

When the Japanese invaded Qingdao, the airfield pilots flew south to the Red Army-controlled area, while the defenders also fled with guns and bullets. For these warlord arms, Lin Han didn't expect them to have any heroic performance on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and he was very satisfied with not bringing guns to the enemy. As for the rest of the stockpile, they have been stolen and sold in the past few months. After the Japanese took Qingdao Airport, all they seized was a pile of water filled with aviation fuel.

After the first round of bombing, the planes from the Liaodong Peninsula were transferred to Qingdao, and the Japanese army, who did not know that the fuel in stock had been manipulated, used these "refueling water" to refuel the planes in the transfer area, and then none of these planes that could still fly could not fly after "adding water".

The Japanese looked closely and found that the oil was full of water. When the Japanese pilots were scolding the corrupt and shameless Shina people. The second wave of air raids by the Red Army came, and a very small number of Japanese planes that could take off without adding "water" barely took to the air to fight, but because of the lack of fuel and the absolute disadvantage in numbers, they were either shot down by escort fighters in the air or planted headlong because they ran out of fuel. As for the remaining planes lying on the runway of the airfield and unable to move because of the addition of water, they were easily blown up on the runway by the Red Army bombers. The Italian planes imported by the Japanese at great expense did not serve any purpose and were all piles of wreckage.

Without the aerial cover of fighter jets, the ships and cargo on the Qingdao dock could only be bombed again. On the day of 6 December, Red Army planes at the airport in northern Jiangsu repeatedly flew out, bombing four local wheelers from morning to evening, and the Japanese landing force, which had landed in Qingdao in the hope that it would be able to do a great job, was hit here before it could show its strength and strength.

Looking at the miserable situation after the bombing of the dock, Koiso Kuniaki could only keep gossiping and treacherous Shina.

According to the original plan of the Japanese. After they landed in Qingdao, their strategic goal was not to move south to west. The Japanese army, who had suffered from the Red Army in Pudong, also had the mentality of "picking up soft persimmons and pinching them". Although the officials of the Imperial Sect were short-sighted than the officials of the Unified Faction, they were not stupid enough to act as pawns of the British to "regain lost territory". They also had the idea of letting the British fight the Red Army first, and then follow behind to pick up the bargain. At this point, both British imperialism and Japanese imperialism thought of going together.

According to the plan formulated by the Japanese army base camp, the Kwantung Army entered the pass and moved south, and the fifth, sixth, and seventh divisions of the army landed in Shandong, leaving one division to guard against the Red Army in northern Jiangsu on the southern front, and the rest to advance westward. The Northeast Army stationed in Hebei. Within two months, take the northern provinces of Jin-Cha-Ji.

However, the Japanese plan of action in Shandong was known to the Red Army early because of the leakage of the navy's communication code. Just landed in the second and suffered a heavy blow.

After being bombed by the Red Army all day. The commander of the Fifth Division, Kuniaki Koiso, stood on the Qingdao pier full of craters. Looking at the tragic situation on the dock, he roared angrily in his heart: "What are the British guys doing!" British white animals are really unreliable! ”

As had been agreed beforehand, the British Air Force was supposed to be in full force on these two days. Attract the attention of the Red Army Air Force. However, the anger of the head of Koiso Kunisho Division wronged the British.

Beginning on 5 December, the Royal Air Force, which had been replenished with a large number of fighters, in coordination with the actions of the Japanese, violently increased its air raids on Hangzhou and Shanghai, in the delusional hope that the attention of the Red Army would be concentrated in these two places. Although the Japanese had changed their codebooks in the past few months, the Germans, who were secretly helping, did not have much effort to decipher their codebooks.

It's just a pity that both the British and the Japanese underestimated the real strength in the hands of the Red Army today.

After the Japanese landed in Shandong, they had trained the Red Army army in Henan and northern Jiangsu for several months, with a total of 300,000 troops, and on this oath they also went north to resist Japan and entered Hebei and Shandongxi provinces in an all-round way, and the 60,000 Red Army troops in Shaanxi also began the operation of crossing the Yellow River eastward on this day.

And this was only the first units of the Red Army to the north. The 360,000-strong army was only one-sixth of the strength of the Red Army in October 1935.

After the remnants of the artillery party were incorporated and nearly half a year of training and conscription and mobilization preparations were made, the mobilized mobile strength of the Red Army in the south was close to 2 million. Unless the Japanese don't plan to go to the northeast and invade the south with the strength of the whole country, they don't want to cross the Yangtze River.

The Red Army, which was advancing northward, first made contact with the Japanese troops who landed in Shandong on the Rizhao and Mengyang lines in Shandong, and exchanged fire.

Due to the success of the Red Army's surprise attack on Qingdao, it took the Japanese another two days to build an airfield and related facilities in the area to meet the requirements of being able to take off and land planes for combat.

Due to the Red Army's initiative to advance northward, Japan's strategy of outflanking the Hebei Eastern Army was bankrupt, and several divisions and regiments that landed in Shandong in the first wave were all pinned down in Shandong Province. The 50,000 Japanese troops and the 300,000 Red Army from Henan and Jiangsu faced off against each other.

In response to the actions of the Japanese, the British intensified the bombing of Shanghai. And as the Japanese army continued to increase its troops in Shandong by sea, there were more and more Japanese planes on the Shandong battlefield. At this time, the new Red Air Force had to face the difficult problem of fighting on two fronts, the Shandong Bay Battlefield and the Hangzhou Bay Battlefield.

Whether Shandong or Jiangsu and Zhejiang became a choice before the leaders of the Red Army.

Chairman Li Runshi concluded: "Of course, it is Shandong! Because the British are here in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they can't stir up any storms! ”

In the strategy set by the Red Army, the Japanese troops landing in Shandong were regarded as the first priority targets, and after the Japanese troops landed in Shandong, all the bombers and attacks in the hands of the Red Army were concentrated in the northern Jiangsu region in the fastest time. As for the interaction of the British in Hangwan, Li Runshi, the leader of the Red Army, had long seen through the British mentality of "doing great things and sparing their lives" of "small people in island countries," and he was not at all worried that they would launch a landing operation against Zhejiang and Shanghai at this time, and boldly transferred all the bombing away, leaving only two-thirds of the fighters to use the air defense of the two places at first, and in the later war, he transferred two-thirds of the fighter units to the north.

In Chairman Lee Run-seok's view, what if the British followed the example of the Japanese at this point in time? The Red Army was not Han Fuyu's clay man army, which was about to collapse at the touch of a button. In the face of the defenders with strong combat intentions, even if they have naval artillery cover and air superiority, it is so easy to complete the landing operation, open up a complete and stable landing ground, and not die tens of thousands of people. Historically, even a military idiot like Chang Kaishen foolishly sent the army to the ship's guns to be slaughtered by the Japanese, and it lasted here for months, and the Japanese lost tens of thousands of people. And now the opponent on the other side of the strait is nothing more than the British colonial forces, which are much worse than the Japanese, and in the face of the threat of Germany's strong rise, how much energy can the half-hearted British continue to devote to the quagmire of China?

Seeing the weakness behind the bluff and speculative mentality of the British, Lee Run-seok boldly threw all of his bombing troops into the northern battlefield in the first two days of the Japanese landing in Shandong. The actual situation was just as he expected: Throughout December, although the British Air Force dispatched a large number of planes to bomb Shanghai and Hangzhou, the "landing in Hangzhou Bay" operation that had been blowing loudly before the war did not take place at all.

The British, who were too opportunistic, were always delusional in their desire to wait for the Red Army and the Japanese to come and pick peaches after they had fought hard. (To be continued......)

PS: Update it first, and then go back and proofread

Regarding the war in China, it is possible to write about two more chapters to end the Chinese plot.

I feel that the Chinese plot is a little delayed, which is not good, after all, the focus of this book is on the world's grand strategy, mainly naval and air battles, and there will not be too much written about land warfare, and it will be explained in the form of an outline later.

After completing the Chinese plot, it is time to turn back to the layout of Europe and Southeast Asia.