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On 10 December, as the Japanese army invading Shandong and the Red Army entering Shandong came into contact on the front line, the Chinese and Soviet air forces in Shanghai and Hangzhou began to move their main forces northward and transfer to the field.

Beginning on 12 December, the first air battle between the two sides took place over Shandong. The Chinese and Soviet Army, which had experienced three months of actual combat training, was fully mature in both tactics and experience at this time, and with the superiority in aircraft performance, it still achieved a 12:3 victory.

However, the rapidly shrinking exchange ratio between the two sides also made the Red Army's top brass aware of the improvement of the opponent's combat power. In the "open air battle" without Lin Han's manned radar to open the map hanging, and at the same time without the cover of anti-aircraft artillery, the superiority of the Red Army Air Force began to decline.

The battle in Shandong was not too smooth, and the Red Army advancing north soon landed with about 60,000 people in the fifth, sixth, and seventh divisions of the Japanese army, and as soon as the two sides exchanged fire, the Red Army quickly felt that the opponent was different, and the Japanese were also surprised.

Unlike the unfortunate 9th Division on the Pudong battlefield, the Japanese army in front of it had artillery, tanks, and aircraft, and the battlefield was wide enough, and its unit fire density, artillery support capability, and individual soldier intelligence were all superior to the current Red Army under the condition of equal strength. Moreover, in terms of air supremacy, although the Red Army had a certain advantage in a short period of time, the Japanese were no longer as unscrupulous as they were in Shanghai, and they could not fight back.

Several Red Army units that fought head-to-head with the Japanese suffered losses and fought until December 20. The Red Army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, while the Japanese suffered more than 3,000 casualties.

Both the Red Army and the Japanese Army were taken aback by their losses.

The Red Army, on the other hand, was surprised by the individual soldiers of the Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese were equally surprised by the tenacity of their opponents. It was a land battle of more than ten days, and the losses of the Japanese army here in Shandong exceeded all the losses during the Manchurian Incident.

Twenty days later, the Red Army, which had entered Shandong, began to retreat.

"Beggars can't compete with the Dragon King. Temporarily abandon the Shandong battlefield, get out of the way, occupy both compartments, let the Japanese army move south, and then annihilate them on the main battlefield in northern Jiangsu! ”

This was a battle plan drawn up by the top brass of the Red Army before the war. The early contact and exchange of fire with the Japanese army. Just to attract the Japanese army in Shandong.

Initially, it was only the 5th Division that exchanged fire with the Red Army, and as time went on, more and more Japanese divisions landed in Shandong. The Shandong battlefield was also an "away game" for the Red Army, and it was not suitable for a decisive battle with the Japanese army.

Follow a pre-established policy. The Red Army withdrew. It's a 200-kilometer retreat. It was not until Zaozhuang to Lianyungang that it stopped.

"Get out of the way, occupy both sides, and open up base areas behind enemy lines. "Make it difficult for the Japanese army to take care of it" is a strategy formulated in advance.

The 5th, 6th, and 7th Divisions of the Japanese Army, who did not know the deception, mistakenly thought that the Red Army was so skillful, and the 3 divisions and 60,000 men formed a group and pushed straight to the south, while the rear was handed over to the newly landed Japanese 11th Division. With the shipping capacity of the Japanese, it was already the limit to send the fifth division to land in Shandong in a short period of time. Coupled with the greed of the generals in the front, they went straight south with the strength of three divisions, and lost a large area of land in Shandong to the other two divisions that followed.

During the war, the Japanese army was about 20,000 men after the expansion of a division. Where could the Japanese army, which had only two divisions, control the whole of Shandong. At the end of December, when the Japanese army took control of most of the cities in Shandong, the Red Army that had entered Shandong gradually took root in the countryside of Shandong.

"The countryside is the key to this China", and today's CCP upper echelons understood this earlier than in history. The 300,000 Red Army troops that entered Shandong, except for the initial 100,000 who resisted the Japanese exchange of fire in front of them to lure the enemy's attention to attract their attention, the remaining 100,000 people scattered into the countryside and opened up base areas behind enemy lines in regiments and battalions.

By January 1936, the three divisions of the Japanese army advancing south had advanced to the line of Xuzhou and Suqian. The lightning speed of the Japanese march made the whole world look favorably about the Japanese army. When Lianyungang fell, London, which had plummeted for half a year, even began to rise because of this "good news".

The "space" that the Red Army had was constantly decreasing, but while the space that the Japanese had was constantly expanding, their supply lines were also constantly lengthened. The three Japanese divisions, which had attacked too fiercely, were already out of touch with the other divisions that had landed in the rear of Qingdao.

This is the decisive battle ground that the Red Army has prepared for a long time, and for this decisive battle, the Red Army even transferred Lin Han, who was far away in Shaoxing, to Hongze Lake in Huai'an, and used another prepared shallow water ship here to act as his parasitic body to improve the combat effectiveness of the air force here.

For this decisive battle, seventy percent of the Red Army's air force was concentrated here, and at this time, Hannah's side also used the method of "exporting aircraft to the Soviet Union", bypassing the British embargo, and sending a large number of FW90 fighters to China.

On January 10, the Battle of Xuzhou broke out.

The Fifth Division stormed Xuzhou, and the Sixth Division of the Fifth Division, which had been smooth sailing all the way, encountered the resolute resistance of the defenders who had been prepared for a long time, and the large-scale trench fortifications that had been dug long ago, the heavy artillery arranged on the front line of Xuzhou, and the large minefields laid in advance, so that the attacking Japanese troops were full of bags. The 7th Division, which attacked in the direction of Suqian, was also severely defeated.

The previously invincible Type 94 Super Tank and Type 89B tank encountered a large number of anti-tank guns and Vickers tanks here.

On 15 January, the Red Army launched a large-scale counterattack from the Guanyun area, cutting off the Japanese troops in the direction of Lianyungang from the 5th, 6th, and 7th divisions in one fell swoop, and cutting off their supply line with the nearest Lianyungang.

At the same time, the Red Army in the direction of Jining and Weishan Lake, which had been silent before, launched a comprehensive counterattack from the Western Front on this day, and the Red Army in the direction of Jining moved south in large numbers, and the Red Army on the Weishan Lake side crossed Weishan Lake in large numbers by waterway, and the two Red Roads joined forces. It took only one day to recapture Zaozhuang, which was empty of troops, and two days later to take Lanling. At the same time, the Red Army in the Guanyun area also cooperated with the westward advance to the north and took Tancheng County.

By 20 January, nearly 60,000 men of the three Japanese divisions, which had been advancing vigorously, were surrounded by the Red Army in the narrow triangle from Suqian, Xuzhou, and Taierzhuang.

The 60,000 Japanese troops were surrounded by a full 500,000 elite units of the Red Army, and the troops in front and in battle retreated all the way in order to achieve the goal of luring the enemy into the depths.

In order to cooperate with the actions of the Red Army in the direction of Jiangsu, more than 100,000 Red Army troops who had previously advanced into the rural areas of Shandong to open up base areas behind enemy lines. At this time, they also wantonly "made trouble" in the rear of the Japanese in Shandong. Attacking Japanese convoys, destroying roads, attacking airfields, and making a lot of noise.

Japanese troops at this time. In addition to the 60,000 people trapped in the battlefield in Xuzhou. There are only two and a half divisions on the Shandong border. In addition, there was the newly occupied Lianyungang, which had about 10,000 troops. However, this point of being sprinkled on such a large piece of land is like sprinkling pepper. In the face of the sudden "eruption" of the battlefield behind the enemy lines, where is it possible to support the three divisions and regiments in the direction of Xuzhou, which are rushing forward, and to maintain "law and order" in the rear.

On 21 January, more than 400,000 Red Army troops encircling three Japanese divisions began an encirclement and annihilation operation. And the Japanese troops in the direction of Lianyungang and Shandong began the "siege relief" operation.

The fiercest fighting places were the two battlefields of Taierzhuang and Donghai County.

If the Japanese army in the direction of Lianyungang wanted to relieve the siege of Xuzhou, it was necessary to break through the defense line laid by the Red Army arranged in Donghai County and Tancheng before they could join the Japanese army trapped in the Taierzhuang area.

After learning that the three divisions were trapped in the Taierzhuang area, the Japanese military headquarters was greatly shocked and urgently mobilized troops from China to land in Lianyungang by boat, and constantly increased the strength of the attack on Donghai County, and by 10 February, the number of Japanese troops in the direction of Donghai County and Lianyungang had increased by as many as 50,000 men by two and a half divisions.

In order to rescue the Japanese troops encircling Xuzhou, the Japanese even transferred all the army airlines that were attacking Hebei to the Shandong and Jiangsu battlefields, and the planes of both sides launched fierce air battles in the Taierzhuang area.

Due to the control of the battlefield by Lin Han's humanoid radar, plus a large number of FW90s entered China at this point in time. The Red Army, which was massively replenished with new aircraft, gained air supremacy in the Battle of Xuzhou. Not only did it shoot down a large number of Japanese fighters, but it also made the Japanese think of a way to provide supplies to the Japanese troops trapped in the Taierzhuang area by airdropping Guò to the ground.

At the same time, the siege of the Japanese army in the Taierzhuang area still did not stop. The encirclement and annihilation battle lasted from 22 January to 31 January, and the Japanese army's territory was constantly compressed, and by 1 February, the Japanese army, which was close to running out of ammunition and food, repeatedly launched "onboard" bayonet charges, but was beaten back by the Red Army that surrounded them.

The war lasted until 3 February, when the three divisions of the Japanese army had been reduced to a narrow area less than 4 kilometers long and less than 3 kilometers wide in the Taierzhuang area, with a total strength of less than 20,000 men, ammunition, food and socks were almost exhausted, and the number of soldiers capable of fighting was less than 5,000, and the rest were all wounded, and they were on the verge of collapse.

If the Red Army continued its onslaught at this time, there would be only forty-eight hours at most to end the battle. However, at this time, the upper echelons of the CCP started the idea of besieging the city and sending reinforcements, and shifted the focus of the attack to reinforcements in the direction of Lianyungang.

On 7 February, it was not until the Japanese reinforcements in Donghai County were surrounded by the Red Army that they turned around, and the order for a general attack on the Japanese army at Taierzhuang was issued. In the early morning of 9 February, a Red Army flag was planted on the land of Taierzhuang, and the three Japanese divisions were "shattered."

After completing the encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese army in Rierzhuang, all the main forces of the Red Army turned around and attacked the 50,000 Japanese troops trapped in Donghai County with all their might. During this period, the Japanese military headquarters continued to increase its troops in Lianyungang as if adding fuel to the army, and by the end of February, the number of Japanese troops landing in Lianyungang exceeded 40,000.

After receiving the support of the Lianyungang Army, the Japanese troops besieged in Donghai County partially broke through on 20 February, and only more than 4,000 people broke out of the siege under the siege of the Red Army and joined up with reinforcements in the direction of Lianyungang.

Then the Japanese army, which suffered heavy losses, retreated to Lianyungang, and the Red Army, fearing the threat of Japanese naval artillery, only surrounded the perimeter of Lianyungang.

The Battle of Xuzhou, which lasted for nearly three months, came to an end.

In this battle, the Red Army invested a total of more than 600,000 troops in the battlefield from Shandong to northern Jiangsu, while the Japanese army, including the troops that landed in Shandong and the reinforcements from Lianyunyungang, invested a total of 200,000 troops in 11 divisions and regiments.

After the war, three divisions of the Japanese army were withdrawn, and the three divisions were completely destroyed. The number of dead and wounded reached 90,000. More than 400 planes were shot down in air battles. For the Japanese army in 1936, this was a great loss that broke the muscles and bones. The reason why the dead are far better than the wounded is mainly that the Japanese army in this era was brainwashed by militarist ideology, and almost all of the three divisions and regiments that were encircled and annihilated fought to the death, and the Red Army took very few prisoners.

In this battle of encirclement and annihilation, the Red Army, which had the upper hand, also paid a heavy price of 50,000 killed and nearly 120,000 wounded. In the case of strategic superiority, the total casualties of the Red Army were greater than those of the Japanese. It also allowed the Red Army to experience the difference between the Japanese army and the scrap troops of the former artillery party.

Iron Army. The steel army has always been tempered in vicious battles, not by training. The civil war of the past few years, due to the destruction of Lin Han as a traverser. There were not many vicious battles fought by the Red Army. The battle of Shanghai was also won too easily. In the Battle of Xuzhou, the Red Army finally made up for this lesson.

After this battle, the Red Army, which learned how to fight hard and vicious battles in the war. It will only get stronger in the future. After the Red Army, which had experienced three months of bloody battles, replenished new recruits and mixed the old with the new, its combat effectiveness would not decline, but its overall combat strength would increase.

However, the elite soldiers of the Japanese army, which have been tempered by long-term brainwashing and harsh training, are not so easy to replenish, and these elite soldiers themselves have reached the limit of individual soldiers, and after a large number of new recruits are replenished, the comprehensive combat strength will decline.

After the Battle of Xuzhou, both the Red Army and the Japanese had their own gains.

The upper echelons of the Red Army thoroughly understood that it was absolutely impossible to achieve a quick victory over Japan in the short term. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was still a hard and protracted war, and the Red Army itself was not yet mature, and there was still room for growth in many places.

In the Battle of Xuzhou, the Red Army made careful preparations before the battle, the battlefield was selected by itself, and hundreds of 150 mm heavy guns were transferred to this place before the war, both in terms of artillery fire and aviation weapons, but in this kind of land frontal battle that had the upper hand, the loss of casualty ratio was still not superior.

And in this form of war, the CCP's top brass knows that they can't afford to fight it for the time being. In order to fight this battle, most of the shells that were hoarded in the rear after the Battle of Pudong were used up in three months. Since the beginning of the war in June, the 200,000 tons of aviation fuel that the Red Army has hoarded by various means in the early stage have also been used up. If the Red Army already had its own coal-chemical oil plant, the monthly output of 2,000 tons of liquefied aviation gasoline would barely be able to make up for the fuel shortfall.

The Japanese Army is the best "teacher" of the Red Army, and if the war continues, at most after another one to two years of training, the Red Army, which continues to grow, is confident that it will be able to beat the Japanese out of North China within three years.

And the Japanese army understood one thing, their opponents are different, and some sober people have realized that it is impossible to either encroach or swallow China.

However, at this time, the Japanese military headquarters was still controlled by the short-sighted "red deer" of the imperial faction, and it was impossible to stop at all, so they continued to increase troops on the Chinese battlefield like gamblers who were in a hurry to lose.

"Adjust your mentality and fight the war with the Japanese as if it were the war of 1932!"

After the Battle of Xuzhou, such a policy was put forward in the post-war military summary of the Red Army's top leadership. In the Shandong battlefield, abandon the big cities and occupy the countryside. After consolidating the rural areas, they used the rural base areas to isolate the connections between the big cities that were under the control of the Japanese, and then pulled out the Japanese strongholds in the cities one by one, just as they did against the artillery army in 1933.

After the Battle of Xuzhou, the Red Army regained most of the lost territory in northern Jiangsu, and at the same time recaptured half of Shandong. The Japanese army, which had suffered a heavy loss of troops, could only control the urban areas along the coast of Shandong at this time.

In Jiangsu, nearly 50,000 Japanese troops occupied the Lianyungang area, relying on the advantage of shipping to forcibly nail a nail here. The Red Army, knowing the power of naval artillery, did not pull this nail by force, but adopted the method of occupying the countryside and isolating the city to strategically oppress Lianyungang.

When the battlefields of Shandong and Northern Jiangsu were in full swing, the British army on Zhoushan Island finally made some moves.

On 15 January, when the Battle of Xuzhou began, Daoding, who had recovered in numbers, once again dispatched his air force to launch an all-out attack on Shanghai and Hangzhou.

At this time, in Shanghai and Hangzhou, the Red Army had only more than 130 fighters to dispatch, and the rest of the planes were all concentrated on the Xuzhou battlefield.

At this time, the British wanted to share the pressure on Japan, which was caught in a bitter battle in Xuzhou, and it was also a strong demand from the Japanese side, and it was also the last opportunity for the British to "gamble" for a long time.

On January 1, 1936, New Year's Day. In Germany, Hannah finally launched the long-prepared "Rhine Exercises" plan, and a large number of German troops crossed the west bank of the Rhine River to occupy the undefended Rhine zone.

Although the British government has been mentally prepared for this, after the news came out, it still caused a certain shock in the British domestic political arena, and the voice of "withdrawing from China's quagmire" began to sound. And in the face of the Germans' advance step by step, the French, who had just suffered heavy losses in the skies over Shanghai, also flinched. Germany regained its garrison rights on the west bank of the Rhine a few months earlier than in history, and its strategic situation was greatly improved.

Germany's move to take over the west bank of the Rhine announced Germany's strong rise. Voices within the British Conservative Party to "turn attention away from China" began to grow louder after this incident. Even Churchill, who advocated the use of troops against China. When it comes to it. Nor is the attitude toward China as tough as it once was.

"Europe or China" has become a dilemma for the British.

On December 5 and 8 last year, the tragic losses shook the whole of Britain.

"The British Empire is not in an air war with China, but with the evil country of the Soviet Union."

"Don't Europe want it? Spend it in China. The Royal Air Force is about to become history. ”

"Get out of China. It's a bottomless pit. There are 450 million people in that country! ”

All sorts of voices began to pop up. The anti-war people even remembered the Gengzi year, when Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany was in the year. Ordered people to inspect the Chinese entering and leaving the city gate at that time at the gate of Beijing. At that time, the standard of inspection was to check the Chinese according to the physical requirements of German conscription, and the result was that Wilhelm II received a report that 90% of the inspected people met the requirements of the German minimum conscription standard, which really frightened Wilhelm II, and this result, together with the previous Boxer Rebellion, also made the foreign powers at that time realize that it was impossible to directly enslave China.

Now China, for the British, has become a poisonous and thorny "puffer fish" that is extremely unwilling to suffer from flesh. Faced with the dilemma of Europe or China, the British Conservative government made a choice: to take a final gamble.

With the idea of taking a gamble, the British chose the moment of the decisive battle between the Red Army and the Japanese army on the line from Xuzhou to Lianyungang, and launched a general air attack before the landing operation on 15 January.

However, even if the Red Army Air Force in the direction of Hangzhou and Shanghai was under great air defense pressure, the Soviet Air Force did not transfer a single plane back in the concentrated battlefield in northern Jiangsu.

At this time, the air forces of China, the Soviet Union and Japan on the battlefield in Xuzhou had fought to the point of white heat. Relying on the triple superiority of humanoid radar and performance and home field, the Red Army Air Force is pressing the Japanese Army and Air Force, and the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party will not give up the decisive battle of the northern part of the Soviet Union for this reason.

In the skies over Shanghai and Hangzhou, the ratio of the number of air forces of the Soviet Union and the British army reached one to six, and the most important humanoid radar Lin Han was also in the Xuzhou battlefield at this time and could not get out.

"Even if Shanghai and Hangzhou are lost, it will not affect the progress of the Battle of Xuzhou. And the Red Army Air Force itself had to learn to fight air battles in a disadvantaged situation. ”

When the British Air Force attacked Shanghai and Hangzhou on a large scale, Chairman Li Runshi replied to Lin Han, who wanted to turn around, with these words. In his opinion, the half-hearted British attack on the battlefield in Zhejiang was only a diversion attack, not fatal. What's more, the Red Army also prepared 300,000 reserves in Zhejiang and Shanghai to deal with possible landing operations.

In the all-out war of resistance that broke out in December 1935, the biggest mistake of the British and Japanese was to underestimate the Red Army's "riotous" ability.

At the beginning of the war in June 1935, the Red Army had a million troops, and six months later, it had already swelled nearly a hundredfold. Even if 600,000 troops were invested in the battlefield in northern Jiangsu, Shanghai and Hangzhou could still easily draw 300,000 troops to fight a long-term war with the British. Before the Battle of Xuzhou, the upper echelons of the Red Army were also prepared to abandon Shanghai and even cities along Jiangsu and Zhejiang if necessary.

If the land is lost, the people and the land will be destroyed. People and lands are saved, and people and lands are alive.

This 16-character mantra has always been a military principle adhered to by Chairman Lee Run-seok, who believed that only by taking his fist back and hitting people could he hurt the most, but in fact he really wanted to let the British army fight the British Army in a place where the inland naval guns could not reach after landing.

On 15 January, the British Air Force's attacks on Shanghai and Hangzhou were mainly concentrated in Shanghai, and during this war, the Red Army Air Force did not choose to fight hard, but completely abandoned the air defense in the direction of Hangzhou. Concentrate the main forces in the direction of Shanghai.

When attacking, it is not directly with the opponent, but under the guidance of the German observer, only the favorable situation is selected to attack, so as to preserve strength.

After a few days of air fighting, the Red Army was in a state of wolf, but it was able to retain the main force of the air force. The British bombed both Shanghai and Shanghai, but destroyed all the buildings and bungalows, and did not hurt any meaningful military targets. On the contrary, in the air raid operation, in Shanghai, a battlefield with a large number of air defense weapons. Dozens of warplanes were lost. Half of its losses were caused by anti-aircraft artillery, while the other half came from the air force against the empty hands.

By January 20, the Red Army in Northern Jiangsu had completed the encirclement of the Japanese army in Xuzhou and began the encirclement and annihilation operation. The British troops on Zhoushan Island also launched a landing operation on this day.

The place where he landed was not Shanghai. It's Ningbo at hand.

Dozens of British warship guns, led by the battleship Barham. Here, the beachhead of Ningbo was repeatedly fenced several times, and then, under the cover of intensive artillery fire, a large number of British troops successfully landed on the beach. Only nine people died in the whole process - and if there were defenders on the beaches of Ningbo at the time, their casualties would have risen. (This awake guy understands)

After gaining air supremacy over Hangzhou Bay, the British began to advance inland, but after breaking away from the cover of naval guns, the British began to enjoy the same constant attacks with mines and cold guns and cold guns on Zhoushan Island. Although the losses were not large, they affected the speed of the army's march.

In one day, the 10,000 landing troops landed at a depth of 30 kilometers inland Ningbo, and in the next two days, 50,000 British troops successfully landed in Ningbo. According to the plan, the Japanese would have sent two divisions to cooperate in the British landing operation, but because in order to relieve the three divisions trapped in Xuzhou, the landing troops of those two divisions were temporarily transferred to Lianyungang for emergency relief.

If it were the Japanese army of the control faction, they might not have done such a headache. On the contrary, it is very likely to take the risk of fighting in Ningbo Bay, using this method of "copying the back road" to play around Wei and save Zhao, and try to attract the Red Army in Xuzhou. But now it is the Imperial Dao faction that is in charge, and when the three divisions in the direction of Xuzhou are in crisis, how can the people of the Imperial Dao faction have the courage to carry out this military adventure. As a result, due to the temporary "drop of the chain" of friendly forces, the British suffered and had to go it alone.

The reason why the British intervened from the direction of Ningbo instead of directly attacking Shanghai was mainly due to the fact that the Red Army had been operating in Shanghai for a long time, and they were afraid that it would be half the effort to enter from there, so they vainly wanted to open a gap from Ningbo, a closer landing point.

Although the Red Army Air Force in the direction of Shanghai Airlines took the initiative to avoid the battle during the day, as soon as it was night, the attacking troops at night were constantly dispatched.

The Red Army, which had been hiding everywhere during the day, was in full swing at night, attacking the British landing force from outside the range of the naval guns, and lurking with all its might at dawn.

In these days and nights, the speed of the British army's march to Hangzhou was greatly affected. During the day, the air force opened the way, and the British bombed indiscriminately all the way, and the progress was relatively smooth, but at night, when there was no air supremacy, the constant harassment and impact of the small units of the Red Army made the landing British troops suffer greatly.

In this intervention in China, the intervention troops sent by the British were mainly Indian soldiers, and the British troops were all officers, and their combat effectiveness was not strong. From Ningbo beachhead to Hangzhou, it was only a hundred kilometers away, and the British walked for seven days to attack the city of Hangzhou under the constant sniping and attacks of the Red Army. In this process, the Red Army in the Shanghai-Hangzhou direction adopted the method of air guerrilla warfare, and instead of fighting the British Air Force, which had absolute superiority in numbers, it seized the opportunity of the opponent's air raid gap and rushed in. It's a pity that Lin Han was trapped in the Xuzhou battlefield at this time, and he was a flawless clone, otherwise he would have commanded it. The results of such air guerrilla warfare will increase at least several times.

On 27 January, the British landing force easily took the undefended Hangzhou, then continued northward, then attacked Jiaxing under naval cover, and on the 30th, Jiaxing was lost.

The British went around this big circle, the original intention was to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Japanese, to avoid the Pudong beachhead, which was considered the most difficult to fight, who knew that all the Red Army units in front of them were ready to retreat, although the night battle was fierce, but in the morning these troops were all hidden, so the effect of hindering the landing force was very limited. The biggest trouble is the ubiquitous snipers and the nasty pursuit of landmines that blow people up.

But that's just the trouble.

For the arrival of the Red Army on the battlefield of Zhejiang, a large number of cities along the Hangzhou Bay were lost. The shape shì may seem bad, but it is deliberately caused by the Red Army.

The British landing force consisted of only 50,000 men, and the more land they occupied, the more dispersed their forces became. What's more, if necessary, in the grand strategy of the CCP's upper echelons, even Shanghai can be abandoned.

By 1 February, the British had begun attacking the outskirts of Shanghai, and by far the British had suffered less than 1,000 casualties. All of them were used by the Red Army along the way to knock kraft candy tactics. The Air Force attacked and bombed at night, and the mines and cold guns and cold guns were knocked out little by little, although they were annoying, but the losses were slight.

But when attacking the outskirts of Shanghai, the British began to encounter strong resistance.

And it was during the period when the British army was in full force to advance Shanghai. Hamilton, commander-in-chief of the British Army, was suddenly surprised to discover something.

From Ningbo to Shaoxing to Hangzhou, Jiaxing and the newly occupied Suzhou. Previously defeated all the way. The opponents who only dared to harass at night and hid during the day almost all emerged from the front around Hangzhou Bay at the same time. Fierce attacks were launched against the occupying forces everywhere.

The British landing force was only 50,000 men!

It is necessary to concentrate the main force to attack Shanghai, and there are so many cities along the way, each city must be occupied by dividing its troops, and how many people can they divide to occupy.

Before the start of the war, the biggest mistake made by the British was that they were still looking at China with the idea of looking at the Beiyang soldiers and the Eight Banners, and the previous victory of the Red Army in the Pudong battlefield was always pushed by them to be the excellent table of the Soviet Air Force and the Luftwaffe, and they did not imagine the real combat strength of the Red Army's army at all. Even with the foundation of the Battle of the Concession, although the guerrillas on Zhoushan Island have not yet been annihilated, they are nothing more than a few cunning "bandits" in the eyes of the British, and it is not so easy to reverse the deep-rooted concept of looking down on China.

In the middle of the night of 30 January, Shaoxing, which had the smallest garrison and only 1,000 troops, was directly defeated in the onslaught of the Red Army that night, and the defenders were completely annihilated. Ningbo, Hangzhou, due to the large number of defenders, the Red Army pulled a few nails on the periphery, and after using the night battle to eliminate hundreds of people, they took the initiative to retreat just before dawn.

Although the Red Army took the initiative to abandon Shaoxing again after annihilating the defenders of Shaoxing, this wave of fierce counter-assault operations at night still made General Hamilton break out in a cold sweat.

After calming down, he opened the map and finally realized that his control area was too large and his troops were too small.

It's just that from Ningbo to Shaoxing to Hangzhou to Shanghai, he occupied almost all the cities around Hangzhou Bay, and then gave up all of them after the occupation? If you give up like this, what's the point of taking a lonely city in Shanghai?

There were too many easy victories in the past, and Hamilton hesitated.

Before the Japanese went to war, the British domestic plan was to increase the number of troops to 100,000, but one or two. Five to one two. The defeat in the Eighth Air War made the hesitant Conservatives retreat, and finally persuaded the country that when the military was preparing to increase troops in China again, Germany took back the Rhine Undefended Zone at this time, and the plan to increase troops in China was ruined again. When Germany regained signs of recovery, even Churchill, who had been the most vocal on China, began to change his attitude.

The current British government is facing the embarrassment of Europe and Asia, and its speculative mentality is becoming more and more serious. Hamilton could imagine the speculative intentions of the "old men" in Downing Street: it was nothing more than that the war would continue to be fought if it went well, and if it really didn't go well, then it would be regarded as an explanation to the people, and then it would be like withdrawing the intervening forces from Russia after the October Revolution of that year.

"The old men in Downing Street are just dreaming something like they did in 1840!"

Commander-in-Chief Hamilton spoke his mind to Air Force Commander Dowding.

At this time, Dao Ding was actually not optimistic about the Shanghai strategy like him.

When they landed in Ningbo and fought all the way to Shanghai, the British consumed too much time. But this landing battle, from the very beginning, the British were too speculative.

After the end of the air battle on 8 December, the British were bent on waiting for the Red Army air force on the opposite side to be transferred away, and the army commander was also attracted by the Japanese army before launching a landing battle.

This was to wait until the Battle of Xuzhou was at a fever pitch before launching a landing operation.

Half of their strategic plan was realized, and most of the Sino-Soviet joint air force in the direction of Shanghai Airlines was transferred, but the main force of the army was not moved, and the underestimation of the total strength of the Red Army was the biggest mistake made by the British.

The battle that took place in Shaoxing late on the night of the 30th was only a small prelude to the beginning of the Red Army's counterattack. Hamilton ordered three regiments to be assigned to the troops around Hangzhou Bay to strengthen the garrison after the long examination. And the main forces continued to attack Shanghai.

Under the cover of naval artillery, the British seized land within twenty kilometers of the sea around Shanghai, which was unexpectedly smooth. However, if they want to seize territory outside the range of the naval guns, they will encounter fierce resistance and counterattacks from their opponents.

After taking control of the territory on the south bank of the Yangtze River estuary, the British began to send minesweepers to clear the mines that had been laid there. However, the British cleared mines during the day, and the Red Army secretly laid mines at night through the Guò air force or using small boats, and this act of minesweeping and mine-laying was repeatedly entangled until 5 February, when the British could not sweep a safe passage into the Yangtze River, but several minesweepers were destroyed by the naval guns hidden along the coast.

In order to destroy the forts on the Yanchang River, the British Air Force, which had gained air supremacy in Shanghai these days, also made repeated sorties, but there were many camouflaged batteries along the long coast, which were blown up and repaired, repaired and bombed, true and false together, and Dowding did not know how many real targets were destroyed, but every time the minesweeper penetrated a little deeper into the Yangtze River, it would immediately be bombarded by 150 mm heavy artillery.

The minesweeper at the mouth of the Yangtze River was not smooth, and the offensive around Shanghai was also blocked.

When the British army attacked the periphery of Shanghai, the Battle of Xuzhou was nearing the end stage, and under the full resistance of the Red Army, the British used their large air force to bomb and indiscriminately bomb the road, but the organized resistance of the defenders still greatly hindered their advance speed.

The Red Army did not defend the defensive line around Shanghai strongly, but resisted in an organized manner with the aim of delaying time, and at the same time made an organized and planned retreat.

The British in the direction of Pudong took seven days to reach the east bank of the Huangpu River, but a Huangpu River gave them a headache and could not advance an inch.

On the southern front, after entering the Huangpu and Songjiang districts, the British were bogged down in urban warfare. Relying on the superiority of air supremacy, the British bombed indiscriminately here, and the Red Army lost thousands of men every day of resistance here, but at night, it unceremoniously organized an army to carry out a countercharge and recover the lost territory during the day.

Although the British army also organized night bombing units at night, the night fighter units of the Red Army were also dispatched at this time.

Beginning on 1 February, the blue 13, which had disappeared from the sky over Shanghai and Hangzhou for more than ten days, reappeared when the British troops approached the city of Shanghai.

For the air force in 1935, playing the night air force could only rely on the eyes of the pilots and the help of ground searchlights, but for the British troops fighting away, they could not provide a large number of air defense searchlights, in fact, the British did not think of the need to bring searchlights over at all.

And for Li Huamei, a heroic spirit with short-distance perception, night is the best battlefield for him to hunt.

In order to avoid the air raid, Li Huamei's spirit ship has temporarily evacuated Shanghai, but Li Huamei, who has become a super ace pilot and has a great reputation, has countless people in Shanghai who believe in her. When Li Huamei returned from the Xuzhou front on 1 February and joined the air defense operation in Shanghai, the Red Army gave a great deal of propaganda about this, and with the bonus of the faith of countless people who "believed" in Li Huamei, even without the bonus of the spirit ship, Li Huamei's perceptual radius rose to 1,200 meters.

The distance of 1,200 meters, although it is not very far, is enough for Li Huamei. (To be continued......)