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When the Akagi and Kaga were attacked before they were released, the Fury was also not forgotten, and they were only five minutes behind the Japanese in the air attack.

In the second Shanghai landing, the Red Army's greatest advantage was to decipher the Japanese code and know their subsequent military operations inside out -- in the process, the cipher machine and code book that Lin Han and Li Huamei salvaged from the Ruozhu played an important role. After the failure of the first attack on Shanghai, although Japan changed the codebook, the physical object of the cipher machine was obtained by the Red Army, and the old codebook was used as a reference to its "principle", which made the number of messages from the Japanese side many. Britain, which was operating together with the Japanese, was also unlucky because of the leakage of Japanese naval intelligence.

Long before the joint operation of Britain and Japan, the airfield in this section of Shanghai was concentrated with the vast majority of the Red Army's dive bomber forces. All of them were pilots from China and the Soviet Union. In order to prevent the trouble of being shot down and the pilot captured during the attack on the warship, the Germans did not participate in this dive bombing operation. The reason why Soviet pilots were able to fly German FW90 fighters into the sky was that when the Chinese aid flight team was stationed in China in the early stage, the I16 conducted many simulated air combat exercises with the Red Army Air Force, and the Soviets were very depressed to find out during the training. With the backward engine, the I16 struggled to even compete with the second-tier Hawker II.

Since Hannah sold "too much" FW90 to China, in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the Air Force, the Red Army generously provided the FW90 to the Soviets, and although the Soviet side had the FW90 sent by the Germans during the technical exchange as a reference, it was also "happy" to personally fly the German plane to participate in actual combat to understand the strength of this "secret ally" in person.

Most of the pilots sent by Stalin to China were elite veterans, and compared to the I16, which did not pay attention to ergonomics and was more difficult to fly, the problem with the FW90 was simply not a problem, and the Soviet pilots applauded it. They quickly adapted to the temperament of the new aircraft.

With the participation of pilots of the Soviet Air Force. The number of Chinese sorties used for attack and dive bombing against ships suddenly increased dramatically. When Chisei and Kaga were bombed before the planes were released, the British aircraft carrier Fury, which was parked about 60 kilometers to the southeast, was also attacked by the Red Army Air Force.

"Knocking out the Anglo-Japanese air forces in World War I" was the policy of the Red Army's upper echelons before the war.

The same. Relying on Lin Han and Li Huamei, the unscientific humanoid radar guidance. Fifty FW90s and sixteen He51s bombed the aircraft carrier Fury with the same tactics as the raid Chisei and Kaga.

Same problem as the Japanese. Since the battleships and cruisers of the same company had to shell the landing force on the edge of Shanghai, and their aircraft carrier fleets lagged behind 100 kilometers away from the Grand Fleet, the problem of insufficient air defense escort fleets was equally serious.

Use the same tactics. The FW90 successfully bombed the USS Fury, 50 200-kilogram bombs dropped during the first wave of air raids. Compared to the Japanese fleet, the negligent British did not even send patrol AWACS aircraft - this was the most common embarrassing problem faced by the operations of a single aircraft carrier, and the British did not even take this into account at that time. The hapless British fleet, only when the Red Army was approaching, realized that the enemy had put the muzzle of the gun to the tip of its nose.

After the first wave of air raids, the Furious aircraft carrier swallowed ten bombs, and this was only the damage that could be seen on the surface, and the strong water pressure generated by the underwater explosion of several near-miss bombs even broke through part of the watertight compartment under the water, causing the hull to tilt to the left five degrees.

The fuel on the fighter plane parked on the deck and preparing to fly was ignited in large quantities, the huge warship floated on the sea like a torch and burned, the twisted steel plates, the burning planes and the shocking holes could be seen everywhere, and in the raging flames, from time to time there was a sound of ignited bullets collapsing and exploding indiscriminately, frantically hitting the fire damage control personnel who were venturing to fight the fire, and the black smoke from the gasoline burning and the mist raised when the fire hose was extinguishing the fire were mixed together, and the rice flag hanging on the top of the mast was dirty.

On either side of the aircraft carrier, two destroyers approached and sprayed water on the battleship to help extinguish the fire. The sailors on the aircraft carrier, risking being hit by the explosive bullets on the plane, are pushing the burning planes on the deck into the sea.

And that's just the damage that can be seen on the surface, and the bigger injuries and dangers are spreading inside the hull. A bomb fell from the elevator shaft and exploded in the hangar on the second floor, igniting a large fire in the hangar, which continued to spread below deck. As Britain's first aircraft carrier, the design on the Fury was extremely imperfect, the fire and explosion protection design was not perfect, and it was not the enlarged armor design that later began to shine. Both the flight deck and the hangar lacked thick armor, so four of the ten bombs he swallowed smashed through the first flight deck and exploded inside the hull, causing a fire.

The fire below deck is spreading to the ammunition depot and oil depot, and in order to save the life of the aircraft carrier, the sailors on board are fighting the fire demon despite the threat of poisonous smoke and explosive bullets. Having learned the lessons of the last war, and considering that the fleet was very likely to be attacked by the Red Army as soon as it dawned, the first wave of planes parked on the deck to be released were all fighters instead of attack planes with bombs attached.

However, the death sentence of the Fury was only due to the immediate execution turned into a suspended sentence, the fire below the deck has not been effectively suppressed, and the gasoline tank has also been ignited, although the ship's fire damage management team has been desperate to rescue for 30 minutes, many firefighters have been smoked under the deck by the poisonous (crab) gas caused by the combustion, but the fire is still continuing to spread inside the ship, even near the oil depot and ammunition depot.

The captain of the Fury is now faced with the most painful choice: abandon the ship. Give up salvaging the warship in order to save the lives of more crew members or continue to save the lives of this warship at any cost.

However, before the captain of the Fury could make his choice, the Reds had already made the choice for him.

At 6:05 a.m., the second wave of 40 FW90 bombers flew over the Furious and began to "replenish their guns" on the burning warship.

After eating thirteen aerial bombs in a row. One of them directly ignited the ship's jet fuel storage depot. This was followed by a violent oil fire, and within 10 minutes, a series of recorded explosions occurred inside the ship.

At 6:20, the acting captain announced that the rescue was ineffective and all the officers abandoned the ship. As for the captain. He never had to think about it again. In the second wave of air raids, a single fire that hit the bridge wiped out all the command staff in the captain's office.

At 7:03 a.m., when the citizens of Shanghai got up to make breakfast, there was a loud bang on the torch-shaped fury horn. The fire that burned to the ammunition depot detonated the bomb sheet that was supposed to be thrown on Chinese soil, giving the warship the final blow. A few minutes later, the USS Fury broke into two pieces and sank into the warm waters of the East China Sea in early summer.

Before the war, there were 790 crew members on board, but only 320 survived after the war, and the victims were mainly the crew members trapped on the bottom floor by the fire and the fire damage control personnel who were fumigated by the toxic (crab) gas produced by the combustion.

When the aircraft carrier Fury turned into a flaming torch and floated on the sea towards the end of its fate, his brothers, the Red Cheng and Kaga, who were "taken care of" by the Red Army, also became torches floating on the sea.

In that wave of raids, the Akagi aircraft carrier ate nine rounds of bombs, and the Kaga ate twelve rounds of bombs. During this "window of peace" of more than a month, the newly-born Red Air Force frantically conducted dive bombing training, and with the improvement of experience after the previous battle, the hit rate of this battle increased greatly. If it is a professional dive bomber instead of a cameo like the FW90, the hit rate will be higher during this wave of air raids.

The surface and interior of the two ships were all blown to pieces, and a large fire broke out one after another, and the most severe in the form of the Kaga.

When the fighter plane was released in the early morning, the crew of the Kaga, in order to speed up the release of the plane, violated the safety operation procedures and raised more than 10 rounds of aerial bombs to the deck in advance, but during the Red Army's air raid, the 12 aerial bombs piled up on the deck were detonated, and the explosive storm swept across the entire deck, and even affected the second deck, hangar, and even the oil depot and other fatal parts, and the whole ship was ignited at that time, and the billowing black smoke could be seen dozens of kilometers away. The worst were the pilots on the deck who were already on the planes waiting to take off, many of whom were burned alive and shocked to death in the cockpit by the fire and explosions, and some were thrown into the sea by the blazing storm and thrown to death or drowned in the sea. Half an hour after the bombing, the ship even lost its power and floated on the surface of the sea, turning into a fireship floating with the currents.

The fire on the Kaga was even more severe than that of the Fury, and because the fire could not be controlled, a large number of people on board were fumeted by toxic gases during the firefighting, and the captain even made plans to abandon the ship. However, after communicating with the flagship Nagato, the fleet commander Takahashi Miyoshi strictly ordered the captain not to abandon the ship and make every effort to rescue the ship.

On the other side, the situation of the Akagi can only be said to be 50 steps compared to the Kaga, and it was bombed in a state of full tank of planes, and the upper and lower decks were also on fire. Slightly better, since the ship's deck was full of fighters, the fleet that had the "shadow" of the last fighter took great care of safety regulations when commanding. So there was no tragedy of bombs piling up on the deck.

Although the ship suffered heavy damage in nine places and also caught fire in its hull, the damage was effectively managed, the fire was controlled, and the power room was finally not affected. After the bombing, Captain Hori Rokuro ordered to extinguish the fire with all his might, while driving the ship away from the direction of Shanghai at full speed to avoid a possible second wave of surprise attacks.

After receiving the news that the two aircraft carriers had been severely damaged by air raids, Fleet Commander Takahashi Miyoshi ordered all the warships along the coastline of Shanghai to return to the damaged aircraft carriers in order to provide them with air defense alert. As for the "army red deer" who are also being bombed in the Pudong area, Takahashi Sanji can only say to them in his heart: "Take care of you."

In the same way, his "friendly forces". The British fleet on the side, Rodbeck, the commander of the British Far East Fleet on the battleship Barham, also made a similar decision to him, and the whole fleet withdrew from the coast and moved closer to the heavily damaged aircraft carrier Fury, only when they arrived at the location of the Fury aircraft carrier, they saw a large area of floating oil and a few lone frigates intact, as for the Fury aircraft carrier, which was more than 20,000 tons in full load, it had sunk to the bottom of the sea an hour earlier and became a paradise for fish and shrimp.

The battered Akagi relied on its power system to survive and fled frantically northeast while saving itself, "like a wild dog that has been kicked in the middle of the second" - the British observer who accompanied the ship later recalled the incident and said of Rokuro Horie at the time. This assessment was later published in The Times. It was also cited by the Japanese Army when attacking the Navy, and later the Akagi was nicknamed a "gelding" in the Army.

As for the Kaga, due to Lin Han's "intercession" in advance, although it was hit hard and lost its motivation. The top brass of the Red Army after receiving the battle report. The question of whether or not to replenish the aircraft carrier was again discussed.

In the course of the discussion. Preparations for the replacement of the guns have not stopped. As soon as the first wave of dive bombers landed on the ground, the ground crews on the ground rushed to the planes as fast as they could. Refuel the plane, refuel the bomb, and repair the damage to the plane's skin. And some of the pilots who were damaged were replaced with spare planes directly at the airport.

Under the guidance of Lin Han's humanoid radar, the air power of the Anglo-Japanese coalition forces today is almost zero, except for a very small number of water reconnaissance planes. The second wave of attacking planes was dispatched, and the Kaga, which was floating on the surface of the sea and lost power, ate a few more bombs, and sank as an inevitable result. The ships of the Combined Fleet, led by the Nagato, were now hurrying to the location of the Kaga to escort and rescue the pilot, but due to the difference in distance and speed, if the second wave of attacks were sent now, he would only have time to collect the corpses at most.

After refueling, refueling, and simply maintaining or replacing the planes, the 60 FW90s took off in 40 minutes, ready for a second round of bombing.

As the plane took off from the runway, the question of whether to continue the bombing was still being discussed.

Although Lin Han had "pleaded for mercy" beforehand, in fact, until this morning's attack, the upper echelons of the Red Army were still arguing over whether to put Akagi and Kaga to death.

There are both supporters and opponents.

The supporters are nothing more than following history and leaving the Japanese Navy with the most powerful weapons aircraft carriers, so that they will have the opportunity to add to the blockage of the world's largest capitalist empire in the days to come.

Those who support the opponent are nothing more than believe that history has been changed, and that Japan, which has suffered a great loss of vitality in China and has lost most of its interests in China, does not have the capital to continue to develop its navy, and still less does it have the arrogant courage to attack Britain and the United States, but may become a watchdog for Britain and the United States to defend China and suppress China.

This dispute began half a month ago, and after today's successful raid, the 1st Air Division is on its way back and starts again.

In this process, Lin Han's opinion is neutral. After talking with the chairman that day, he also said that his biggest problem was that he was too affected by the inertia of the old past. The current history has long been unrecognizable, and the future pattern of Asia, as a smasher of history, can no longer be seen clearly.

In the end, Chairman Lee Yun-seok set the tone.

"It is true that in the coming years, it will be more in China's interests for the Japanese imperialist countries and the American imperialist countries to fight in the Pacific. However, this is only an idealized best-case scenario for China. However, history has been changed by the strictness of the present, and we should not think and guard against the worst situation instead of the best situation. In the days to come, it is very likely that British imperialism and Japanese imperialism will join forces in order to suppress another wave of anti-colonial anti-colonial rebellion set off by the success of the Chinese revolution, and in this process, US imperialism will also very likely intervene! This is the worst-case scenario. ”

The pilots of the second wave of bombing formations, which took off in air, received instructions from the top leadership of the Red Army in the air, on which there was only one sentence.

"Blow up the Sink Kaga!"

At 10 o'clock in the morning of 1 August, the commander of the Combined Fleet, who had hurried home, could only do but take off his hat in front of a large area of oil floating on the sea.

Facing the oil splashes from the jet fuel on the Kaga, which was constantly rising from the bottom of the sea, Takahashi Miyoshi said to the adjutant:

"The lion is awake!"

The next day, Lin Han, who was located on the Nanchang on the Huangpu River, received a pair of wild grass letters sent by Chairman Li Runshi through the Guò Railway: "It is advisable to chase the poor with the remaining bravery, and not to sell the name of the overlord." ”

In the air raid that took place in the early morning of 1 August off the coast of Shanghai, the Red Army sank the aircraft carriers Furious and Kaga, and severely damaged the Chicheng at the cost of losing two planes and wounding more than 10 others. After this battle, the British and Japanese intervention forces lost air supremacy over Shanghai again.

In order to rescue the three aircraft carriers that had been severely damaged, the main forces of the fleets of the two countries, after receiving the order, both left the landing force on the beach at that time and returned to rescue the aircraft carriers at full speed, and this practice made a miserable situation for the 4,000 landing forces guarding the beach. Without the cover of naval guns, they were thrown on the flat alluvial plain where they could not find decent anti-aircraft bunkers, and the 4,000 landing troops suddenly became fish and meat on the case.

Not long after the combined fleet in Shanghai off the coast had left its front foot, the main force of the Red Army, which had been dormant all day yesterday, took advantage of this short time gap to start an anti-landing assault on the whole front. (To be continued......)