Ren Yamada and Dazuo, who were being bombed on the beachhead in Pudong, scolded his mother in his heart and called for Hainan Airlines to come to the rescue, but he didn't know that the plane he was waiting for would not come at all.

In the East China Sea in August, at 5:15 a.m., the sun rises from the east.

Bathed in the morning light, Captain Horie Rokuro was looking at the Nakajima 90 fighters on the deck with a sad face. His warship was adjusting and headwinding to facilitate the release of fighter jets.

Before the second expedition to China, after a month-long emergency repair and renovation, the aircraft carrier capacity of the Chicheng was increased to 85 aircraft, and if the overload of French aircraft on the deck was counted, the number of fighters that could be dispatched was even more than 100. Counting the aircraft carrier Kaga, which was also "overloaded" on the side, the combined fleet brought a total of 180 aircraft on this trip to Shanghai.

If we include the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier Fury of the British Navy, the "ally" British Navy on the side, this number will increase to as many as 220 aircraft -- according to the lessons learned from the previous naval and air war, the British Navy has also increased the number of carrier-based aircraft by using the overloading method of deck mooring.

It is not wise to place the deck tethered fighter in the Atlantic Ocean in rough sea conditions, but it is feasible in large flat ocean areas with relatively good sea conditions. Moreover, from Nagasaki to Shanghai, there are only three days at most, and another reason that Horie Rokuro did not say is that he will attack Shanghai, and after an air battle, the number of ship-carrying aircraft in the fleet will be drastically reduced, and the aircraft carrier, which is now in a state of "overload", may not even be able to fill the internal hangar when recovering the aircraft. That's almost certain.

The air battle over Shanghai in mid-June was nothing short of a disaster for the aviation of the Combined Fleet. None of the 75 fighters dispatched in that battle were able to return home, which means that the navy does not know where it has failed.

During the first intervention operation, the Chicheng ate several rounds of 200-kilogram bombs, and several large holes were blown out of the hull, the scene seemed miserable, but in fact it did not hurt its muscles and bones, and returned to Sasebo's shipyard overnight after emergency repairs. In fact, it only took ten days to completely fix it. Later time consisted mainly of dismantling useless eight-inch guns to free up more space for carrier aircraft.

What really frightened Horie Rokuro was that on the way back to Japan, he saw the empty pilot's dormitory and the empty pilot's dining room, and the desolation of people going to the building. At that time, a chill made him cold from his head to the soles of his feet.

"They were over Shanghai. What have you encountered? ”

Those who were still sitting at the table before the battle. There are familiar faces that talk and laugh, but they are all gone after just one sortie.

The only thing that comforted Rokuro Horie a little was that. After the war, Horie Rokuro learned from the Red Army's report of the results that a total of 37 pilots had been captured after parachuting, and that they were still being held in the Red Army's prisoner camps.

The scene of nearly 100 Red Army fighters screaming and diving over the Chicheng that day, those FW90 fighters screaming and diving, is something Horie Rokuro can never forget.

Later, the half-month-long air battle over Fujian and the Taiwan Strait allowed Horie Rokuro to deduce from the side what his subordinates had encountered in the sky over Shanghai.

Although the Red Deer of the Army Airlines lied about the results of the battle in order to cover up their fiasco, the Navy, which has always been at odds with the Army, is not something that can be bluffed by the self-deceiving guys at the top who are willing to "be deceived". The navy knew that the army aviation personnel had suffered heavy losses in the half-moon air battle off the coast of Fujian, and in the past seven months, more information about the Red Army's fighter planes had also been gathered to the navy through various channels.

It is no secret that the Red Army used German aircraft. Britain, which had always regarded Germany as an imaginary enemy, had also been paying close attention to the development of its opponent's air force.

In the past few years, in order to earn more military spending, Germany has also sold its fighters all over the world, and the HE51 and FW90 have not been strictly kept secret, among which the HE51 is the most famous.

From the British, Japan obtained information about the Red Army's two main German-made fighters, the HE51 and FW90, and the surviving pilots of the Army Airlines who fought with these two aircraft, and deduced that the maximum speed of the two Red Army fighters was about 400 kilometers per hour. The Americans, on the other hand, "kindly" sold several Hawker II fighters to the Japanese for testing.

After those Army Aviation pilots who had survived the Fujian Air Force fought and flew the Hawker II fighters provided by the Americans, and used the tactics of the Red Army to conduct simulated air battles with the main fighters of the Navy and the Army Airlines, the Japanese were very depressed to find that even the worst Hawker II fighters in the hands of the Red Army were superior in speed and climb performance than their existing Nakajima 90 and 92 land attacks. As for maneuverability, although the Japanese planes had an advantage, the pilots who had fought with the Red Army planes said angrily as soon as they mentioned the circling performance: "Yaga, to hell with the circling!" ”

Although the external propaganda is hard-mouthed, the huge loss of aircraft pilots still makes the two countries that are not on the right path for each other know in their hearts. Although these two companies stubbornly refused to admit that they lost to the Chinese Air Force, they put all their mouths on the heads of the Germans, repeatedly claiming that the Luftwaffe caused them trouble.

Germany has been in despair for more than ten years after World War I, but after all, it was once the largest army power in Europe, and there are not a few "harder" people in Japan. In the eyes of the Japanese, there was no shame in losing to the Luftwaffe. Although this statement covered up their self-righteous defeat in the Chinese air, it also caused a consequence, and everyone deceived themselves and said: The Luftwaffe fought against us, and regarded all the opponents they faced in China as the Luftwaffe.

Rokuro Mine does not think that the "outdated" Nakajima 90 on the aircraft carriers Akaisei and Kaga can be curry favor with the HE51 and FW90. Although there were British fighters on the side, the tonnage of the aircraft carrier Fury was too small, and the carrying capacity was even lower, although the use of deck mooring aircraft to "overload" only increased to more than 40 aircraft.

Before getting a new aircraft that could compete with the HE51 and FW90, Rokuro Mine was in an internal meeting of the Navy. It is extremely opposed to the use of aircraft carriers and land-based aircraft to confront each other at this point in time.

However, as the captain of the aircraft carrier, Mine Rokuro knew very well in his heart how much the confrontation between the aircraft carrier and the land-based aircraft was. The airport was bombed, that is, there were a few more pits in the ground, backfilled, and it took a day or two at most to repair and it could be used immediately. And if the aircraft carrier is bombed, then it can only go back to the shipyard for overhaul. In the previous battle, Chi Cheng was not seriously injured, thanks to the fact that the deck hangar was empty. If it was bombed before takeoff. It's quite dangerous.

But his opinion was not accepted by his superiors.

"Now is the best time to invade China!"

This is almost the "consensus" of the whole of Japan, because the entire "international environment" supports Japan's intervention in South China. Whether it is the control faction or the imperial faction, whether it is the army or the navy, the vast majority of people do not want to miss this rare opportunity in their hearts. Interference is just a fig leaf. Invade. Whale Swallow. Capture is the real goal.

The most dangerous time for an aircraft carrier is when it is bombed by enemy planes before it is released.

"Bombed before takeoff?"

Thinking of this, Min Jiang Rokuro couldn't help but glance at the southwest sky in fear. The sky there is full of clouds, and I don't know how many dangers are hidden.

In the previous battle of the Shanghai Sea, when reflecting on the lessons of the fiasco after the war, he and the other captains of the fleet were puzzled by the question: How did the Red Army's planes taking off from land-based airfields so accurately find the specific location of their fleet, and grasp the timing of the air attack on the fleet and the air force so well?

At the same time, the mouth of the Yangtze River was close to the north bank, where the Nanchang torpedo boat was cruising, and Lin Han was "nailed" to the bow of the ship like nails, looking at the northeast direction where the Japanese fleet was located. The second intervention operation of the Japanese, having learned the lesson of the previous time, was to locate the aircraft carrier fleet one hundred and fifty kilometers northeast of Shanghai, far from Hangzhou, outside the attack radius of the aircraft at the Hangzhou airport.

As for the battleships and cruiser warships of the Anglo-Japanese Combined Fleet, which are now cruising outside Shanghai, they are arrogantly sailing in the open sea about 10 kilometers close to the coastline, where the main artillery warships are concentrated, and it is the British aircraft carrier Fury that protects the air defense of these Japanese warships.

"Should I say you're stupid or smart?"

Obviously, the Japanese, who thought they were smart, put a large number of rough-skinned battleships in front in a vain attempt to attract the Red Army's planes, while placing the fragile aircraft carriers in the rear, did not understand the importance of mixing battleships and aircraft carriers -- recalling the hilarious formation method of the Japanese in the Battle of Midway in history, the aircraft carriers and the main battleships were arranged separately, and Lin Han was also very speechless.

"Idiot, I didn't choose to fuck you (crab) before you released the plane last time, first, I wanted to give the Air Force some actual combat experience in air combat, and second, I didn't want to blow up and sink all your aircraft carriers and cheapen the Americans. You Japanese, in my heart, are no longer the worst enemies. ”

Now Lin Han is more and more enjoying the fun of manipulating history and playing with history. In his heart, he still hated Japan extremely much, but he didn't want to see the elite aircraft carriers in the Japanese fleet be wiped out in the waters off China so lightly to cheapen the Americans. If the Japanese fleet is too deeply damaged in South China, the last thing Lin Han wants to see is that they will probably honestly watch China as the dog of Britain and the United States, and Lin Han will wait to see them bite each other with Britain and the United States.

In the last air battle, he could have reminded the upper echelons of the Red Army that they chose to bomb before the aircraft carrier released its planes. And Hannah deliberately did not send the Fi167 torpedo machine, which could pose a huge threat to heavy warships, to China, because the two did not want the Japanese combined fleet to lose too much blood in China. Although Lin Han takes pleasure in smashing history, he wants to manipulate history more. Like the history of the Pacific War, he still wanted them to happen.

"Sue sù empty division, you can turn in the direction of the sun."

The Nanchang sailed to the north bank of the Yangtze River estuary precisely to get closer to the aircraft carrier formation. Lin Han's humanoid radar was radio-correcting the flight path of the 1st Air Division that attacked the Japanese fleet.

"I don't want to sink you, but the leaders of the Red Army don't agree with my opinion of letting you go. May Amaterasu bless you, Amen! Don't sink, sincerity, Kaga, without you, this Pacific War won't be fun! ”

Looking at the direction where Kaga was located, Lin Han "sadly" drew a cross in his chest for the fate of the Japanese aircraft carrier. Although the generals of the Red Army were laymen in naval warfare, there were also many smart people. After the last air battle. It was suggested that the Japanese would carry out a surprise attack before they released their planes in order to achieve the greatest results. Soviet advisers also supported this opinion, and afterwards Lin Han explained his idea to the Red Army top brass very bluntly.

"Soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be overlooked!"

Chairman Li Runshi read a sentence from Sun Tzu's Art of War to Lin Han, and then said to him with a straight face: "Comrade Lin Han, although you are a person from the future, a traveler, and know history, history has now been reversed and changed by you. You can't say wrong about the idea that you want not to weaken Japan too much, so as not to cheapen the United States, China's worst enemy in the future. But. What we are now shouldering is the responsibility for the rise and rebirth of the entire Chinese nation. At this critical point, we cannot afford to take this risk. Because neither you nor we know that in this era when history is changed by Yan zhòng, Japanese imperialism. It will turn against its master. will continue to be a dog in Britain and the United States. And the main contradiction and the biggest crisis in China at present. It is the contradiction between the Japanese imperialist countries and the Chinese nation. ”

After the discussion between the two sides, the final result, Lin Han and the leaders of the Red Army each took a step back.

The Red Army Air Force will carry out a surprise attack before the Japanese aircraft carrier releases its planes. Heavy damage to two capital aircraft carriers. As for their next fate, it is up to heaven to decide. The Red Army simply agreed that it would not continue to send the Air Force to "replenish the guns" in the future.

In this attack on the Japanese aircraft carrier formation, the Red Army put all 80 FW90 sets that could be dispatched on bombs and attacked. And they were escorted, but they were newly delivered, because of the 40 He51 fighters flown by German pilots, in addition to the 16 newly arrived HS129 fighters to suppress anti-aircraft fire. In this sortie, not only the airfields around Shanghai, but also the two newly built field airfields in Jiangbei were also dispatched to provide support nearby.

At 5:20 a.m., when the Chicheng adjusted its attitude and was about to release the first wave of fighters, the ship suddenly issued an air defense warning.

"Patrol Plane No. 4 sent back the alarm, they encountered a large formation of aircraft!"

"Where's the location?"

"The telegram is interrupted."

Compared with the first time, when the patrol plane was suddenly shot down before the warning was sent back, the Japanese Combined Fleet was a little more fortunate on this trip to China, and the patrol plane was shot down only after the warning was sent back.

Horie Rokuro was suddenly shocked, how did he know that every move of the Anglo-Japanese combined fleet was all clear within the perception range of an unscientific existence in the direction of the Yangtze River estuary.

Not only him, but the entire aircraft carrier formation was in chaos, and the deck of the Akagi Kaga aircraft carrier began to urgently release fighter planes, who knew that the two ships had just released six fighters, and a large black and oppressive group rushed out of the dense clouds in the western sky.

"Again, like last time, there was no reconnaissance, and a single sortie directly found us! That's impossible! ”

Looking at the huge group of planes that suddenly appeared in the sky above the fleet, Captain Horie Rokuro's face instantly turned as pale as paper.

It is not an easy task to dispatch the air force to carry out air strikes on the fleet, especially against a fleet that is close to 200 kilometers away. In the vast sea, there are no coordinates on the sea to refer to, which is by no means an easy task. Judging from the time point when the Chicheng was attacked by the air at that time, it was obvious that the Red Army dispatched planes before dawn, taking advantage of the time difference caused by the earth's rotation, and when the planes flew over the Chicheng, it was just as the sky was bright.

Judging from the time calculation, they did not conduct aerial reconnaissance at all in advance, and directly dispatched a large group of planes, and in a wave of sorties, they accurately found the specific location of the fleet at sea and attacked.

"Judging by the time, it was as if an invisible eye in the sky was watching us"

This is the feeling of Rokuro Horie when he reflected on it afterwards. More than a month later, the Japanese Navy, having learned the lesson of the previous time, took it upon itself to place the carrier formation behind the battleships and cruisers, and thought that it was shielded as a warning by a large fleet, but it never imagined that the opponent's air force, under the guidance of some unscientific existence, would circle in the air, avoid the air defense alert ships on the front line, and directly approach the sky above the aircraft carrier fleet. It was not until it was close to the target that it was spotted by a patrol aircraft.

Rokuro Horie did not know that four of the eight patrol planes he had sent to patrol the air in advance had been secretly attacked and shot down by H51 escort planes that had been dispatched in advance before discovering the Red Army's large formation group. Under the guidance of Lin Han, a humanoid radar that had opened the "map hanging," the 12 He51s that "took one step ahead" repeatedly used the sneak attack tactic of following behind the detour, and repeatedly tried and tested the patrol planes to shoot down, until they approached the vicinity of the fleet, and were accidentally sent back by the fifth patrol plane before they were shot down.

The aircraft carrier formation headed by the aircraft carriers Chicheng and Kaga has only 12 warships, and at this moment all the anti-aircraft weapons on the warships are desperately firing at the air, but no matter how fierce the anti-aircraft fire is, it cannot stop the huge aircraft group formation that is completely black and oppressive in the sky, and the number is obviously more than 100.

A minute later, the familiar squill of the FW90 resounded over the Akaisei again.

Although the Chicheng and Kaga aircraft carriers urgently released six fighters, the six fighters that had just taken off from the deck, they had neither altitude nor speed, and when they climbed to an altitude of 1,000 meters, more than 10 He51 fighters, which had been prepared, swooped down like goshawks, and the three 13-millimeter machine guns on each plane fired wildly at the plane, which had neither altitude nor speed, and relied on the superiority in numbers, speed, and firepower to comprehensively crush the superiority, and directly tore the six fighters apart in the air.

Looking at the fire bombs dropped one by one, the only thing Horie Rokuro could do except manipulate the clumsy aircraft carrier to evade it was to ask for the blessing of Amaterasu.

"If you're worried about something happening, it's more likely to happen!"

This is Murphy's Law. (To be continued......)