Since visiting Wèn Japan in August, Winston. Churchill had been in Japan for twenty-one days.

He came to Japan with only one mission: to persuade the Japanese military to send troops to the Yangtze River Delta through the Guò landing war, and to directly solve the problem of the red regime in southern China, rather than the "distant" approach of invading China from North China or Shandong.

The British knew very well that once the Sino-Japanese war turned into a full-scale war, the interests of the British Empire in China would also be completely destroyed. Churchill did not believe at all that after the Kwantung Army entered the pass, after occupying the first line of North China and Shandong, the greedy Japanese would stop continuing to advance southward, and after taking North China and Shandong, the Japanese who had eaten up really stopped moving, and the British were even more depressed.

Britain's focus is on Europe, guarding against the rapidly rising Germany, followed by India, in the face of tens of millions of invading Japanese troops, how can it have the spare strength to deal with the continued expansion of the Japanese? The center of gravity of the British Empire's interests in China was the Yangtze River Delta, which was now occupied by the Red Bolsheviks. China is too big, even if the Japanese are really willing to be the dogs of the British, "obediently" take the North China Mountains and continue to go south, and then defeat the Yangtze River Delta to drive out the Red Army and then "obediently" withdraw again, how long will it be? Is it half a year or a year? This kind of "interference" method, which is far from being able to solve the near fire, is the last thing the British want to see.

In order to induce the Japanese government to act according to the will of the British Empire, the British government joined forces with the French government. A bunch of preferential conditions were prescribed, ranging from huge loans to the redistribution of interests in China, from covert support for Japan's occupation of North China to the opening of part of the Chinese colonial market after the fact, and a bunch of empty checks were written, but there was one premise: that is, the Yangtze River Delta problem must be solved first. During this period, the British could not help but advocate the Bolshevik crisis and "bitterly lobbied" to explain that "the emptiness in the northeast caused by the entry of the Kwantung Army could easily trigger the peeping of the Soviet troops in the Far East." In short, the British just did not want to see the Japanese enter the customs at this time, because that would cause Japan's influence in China to be too great. They agreed to the "premise" of Japan's invasion of North China. It was the Japanese who had to give priority to solving the problem of the red regime in the Yangtze River Delta.

And the control faction that manipulated the Japanese military department. So in June, "listening" to the British's advice was not their lobbying, but taking into account the Soviet threat. In September last year, the Japanese wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble in North China. But frightened by the "exercises" of hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army troops on the border line. Officers of the upper echelons of the Japanese military department. At this time, it was not crazy enough to empty the newly swallowed northeast garrison in order to invade North China, exposing it to the ironclad torrent of Red Russia. Even Ishihara, who created the "Manchurian miracle", or the prime minister of Japan at the time, were staunch supporters of the encroachment faction against China. They all understand that "swallowing the Northeast is fat, and then swallowing North China or the area north of the Yellow River is swallowing Gongdan."

After the Japanese sent troops to the Yangtze River Delta, because they did not have air supremacy, the landing force was repeatedly "hanged" by the newly-born Red Air Force, and suffered extremely heavy losses. In the past, the Japanese military department could have seen that the situation was not good, and after seeing clearly that it was a wrong strategy to send troops to the Yangtze River Delta without air supremacy, it urgently withdrew its troops to "stop losses" and suspend such irrational and erroneous military operations. However, at this time, the emperor was killed at this juncture, and the civil strife in the Japanese top was not stopping, and the ruling faction that controlled the decision-making was facing a comprehensive challenge from the imperial faction that had been suppressed in the past, and the two sides were fighting infighting. "Sending troops to the Yangtze River Delta to fight a partial war of aggression against China" has become a "political banner" of the unification faction, while the Kwantung Army's entry into the customs has become a symbol of the imperial faction. At this time, the way of thinking of the Japanese decision-makers on China's war policy was no longer to pursue "military correctness" but to "ensure their own political correctness."

Knowing that it was wrong, we had to continue to make mistakes and continue to gamble, which is why in the Pudong area, the Japanese sent their elite troops ashore one by one, and let their opponents slaughter them on this wrong battlefield where they did not have the right to evacuate.

However, the Japanese military department made a mistake, and after another crushing defeat in the air battle of the army and aviation, it could no longer support it.

On the 13th, the landing force in the Pudong area, which had been waiting for the air force for many days, finally waited for its own fighters, which had been waiting for a long time, but nothing changed as soon as it arrived. 、

Just as Hitokazu Yamada yelled on the battlefield, the Red Army's airfield was closer to Pudong, and they could have chosen to bomb Zhoushan's fighter jets if they wanted to, which is what they did.

As for the planes that took off from the Zhoushan airfield, destroying the Red Army's air force by hard work and hard work is a big problem of mathematics and time.

The weakness of the Red Army was that one Qiē aircraft could only be imported, but the advantage was that they were fighting on their own soil, and they had an absolute advantage in the performance of the aircraft.

In order to give full play to this advantage, in the area of Hangzhou Bay, the Red Army organized the local masses to build a field airfield runway on a large scale in June. As many as 10 field airfields have been built in the Shanghai area alone, and there are four field airfields, all of which are built only a dozen kilometers away from the Pudong front. The reason why so many field airfields have been built is not all for use, but for the other purpose of facilitating the forced landing of their own fighters who have been severely damaged in air battles, so as to give pilots another option in addition to parachuting and abandoning the plane.

Beginning on 13 July, a large-scale air battle broke out in the skies over Shanghai, and the Japanese, who had rushed to assemble the planes overnight, assembled more than 90 fighters in two days, and then threw themselves into the Shanghai battlefield in one go.

Under the early warning of Lin Han's humanoid radar, the Red Army received an early warning as soon as the Japanese fighters were dispatched. Not only the air force in Shanghai, but also the air force on the front line in Hangzhou and Ningbo, under the command of the personnel of the Air Combat Center, sent planes to support the front line in Shanghai.

The number of fighters, the number of FW90 and He51 owned by the Red Army in the Shanghai direction combined, is more than 200, and the number of sorties that day is as high as 150, and it has a crushing advantage in performance. As a result of the air battle, the Japanese Air Force suffered a completely one-sided fiasco. Below the battlefield, Hitokazu Yamada commanded the landing force. I looked up and watched the battle and witnessed the whole process of air combat with my own eyes. More than 200 fighters fought in the small airspace of Shanghai. Almost every ten seconds, a plane with "four wings" will be seen falling. The quantity is not dominant, the quality is not as good as the opponent, and the opponent on the battlefield has secretly opened the "whole map and all bright" hanging, and the rhythm of the air battle is completely controlled by the opponent, and the entire air combat process has once again evolved into a disaster. In such high-intensity air battles, both sides of the war are red-eyed, and it is not uncommon to shoot at the opponent's parachuting pilot or collide with the opponent's plane.

Compared with Japanese aircraft, the FW90 and HE51 have huge advantages in speed and climbing. There are also two advantages: sturdiness and firepower. The Type 92 fighter did not even have a bulletproof seat. Both the FW90 and HE51 are equipped with bulletproof seats, and the FW90 has a stronger fuselage structure to meet Lin Han's requirements for dive bombing. The consequence is that some speed is sacrificed. But the benefits are also more durable. When a fierce battle broke out in the airspace where hundreds of planes were concentrated, it was very small. The importance of protection and firepower. Sometimes even the speed is exceeded. (Friends who have played IL2 must have the same feeling, steel planes like FW190 or the three brothers in the bottle, especially terrifying in group P)

In terms of firepower. The FW90 is four 7.92mm machine guns, while the He51 is three 13mm imitation M2 machine guns with more ferocious firepower, while the Japanese aircraft have only two 7.7mm machine guns, which is twice as poor in firepower. The attack, defense, and speed were all inferior to the opponent by one grade, and the opponent in the air battle still had the guidance of the "humanoid radar" to prepare in advance, and this air battle was a tragedy from the beginning.

The air battle over Shanghai lasted about 30 minutes, and 60 Japanese Army Airlines planes were shot down in Shanghai, and the remaining wounded planes were ambushed by fighters taking off from Hangzhou Airport when they barely flew back to Zhoushan Airport. Under the guidance of Lin Han's humanoid radar, they had already occupied a good altitude over Hangzhou Bay in advance and had their backs to the sun, and they had been waiting for a long time. The Type 92 fighters used by the Army Air Force, which had just been withdrawn from the Shanghai battlefield, were ambushed by the opponent again, and more than 20 more were shot down, and in the end, only a dozen or so wounded lucky ones escaped from this trap.

In air battles, airfields that are set up in positions close to the front line, seemingly "too much", "too close" to the front line, play no small role. In fact, these airfields are just very bumpy take-off runways, and there are not even hangars, and on both sides of the runway, some anti-aircraft positions and infantry anti-aircraft trenches have been built. Their mission was not to take off the planes, but also to facilitate the landing of their own fighters, who had suffered heavy losses in air combat. In addition, there is also a task that in air combat, once the fighter of this side falls downwind and is bitten by the opponent on the tail, it only needs to dive and then desperately run towards these front-line battle airfields. Looking down from the air, the runways of these field airfields are extremely conspicuous, so as to facilitate the reference of those Chinese rookie pilots who are in a disadvantageous situation in the tense air battle, and they only need to glance at the runways on the ground to know where to flee. Then, all you have to do is increase the horsepower and dive down here to escape.

Before the air battle, the leaders on the ground said to them: "When you encounter this kind of bitten situation, you dive down the runway, fly as low as possible, and the air defense force will help you deal with the enemy planes behind you!" ”

A large number of anti-aircraft positions were set up near the runways of these front-line airfields, and the fighters in the hands of the Red Army were all monoplanes, which were clearly different from the biplanes of the Japanese. The ground anti-aircraft artillery units have long been instructed to "shoot only at the four-winged guys." In the air battle on 13 August, many rookie pilots who had little experience in flight time and air combat resorted to such scoundrel means, and not only easily evaded the tail-biting pursuit of their opponents, but also lured their pursuers into the air defense trap.

In the air battle on 13 August, 11 Japanese planes were easily shot down by anti-aircraft fire on the ground under such a shape. In addition, Li Huamei's body, the shallow water gunboat Ruijin, also made many gains on this day. Anchored on the Huangpu River, she shot down a total of four planes that day, and the rifled guns on Lin Han's Nanchang also shot down two enemy planes.

In comparison, the Red Army lost only six fighters, ten seriously wounded, and more than twenty lightly wounded. The superiority of the home field is evident in this aerial grinder, as long as the injured fighters of the side do not crash on the spot or the pilot is killed, there are airfields below that can be used for forced landings. There were only three planes that were really lost in the air, two of which were hit down by the Japanese planes that lost red-eyed, and the other three were too seriously injured.

However, the forced landing airfield set up on the front line for fighters who were injured and unable to fly normally received a number of fighters that were seriously injured and could not fly back to the rear airfield during the fierce air battle that day, greatly reducing the losses of the planes.

No matter how much the Japanese Army Air Force bragged or whitewashed the results of the battle, in one sortie, more than 80% of the battle losses occurred, and the entire flight team was crippled in one air battle. It's still official and terrified. Fight like this. Before the air force in the hands of the Red Army could be exhausted, the flying units of the Great Japanese Empire would have to shed their blood. Aircraft can be rebuilt when they are gone, and the training of pilots is not as simple as building airplanes. And the Japanese pilots who escaped from the front line repeatedly stated in their post-war reports that they had repeatedly seen "big-nosed" foreigner pilots in air battles.

One thought of the shadow of the USSR and Germany, which stood behind the Red Army. A slightly more rational person in the Japanese Army Aviation. After seeing such a huge report of battle damage. It is no longer possible to lose hope of destroying an adversary's air force by means of a cross-sea away air battle - at least not until better aircraft are obtained.

The Japanese plane, on 13 August, showed its face in a flash in the pan over Shanghai, and then was beaten by its opponent and fled with a blue nose and swollen face. The next few days were gone. The Army pilots, who had suffered heavy losses, even refused to continue the away air battle with such a disadvantage of being far inferior in performance and numbers to their opponents. In addition to asking for better aircraft, they also raised a question: The pilots of the Great Japanese Empire have shed too much blood in China, but we are defending the interests of British white animals! Why should the pilots of the Reich shed their blood while the British watched the excitement from the sidelines? -- The British Royal Air Force was supposed to join them on the 13th, but because the transport ship carrying the planes was sunk at sea by the Red Army, the British pilots, who had no planes, were fortunate to escape. But this also became the reason for the frightened army pilots to refuse to participate in the war.

Without the protection of its own fighters, the unfortunate Japanese Army could only continue to nest in the Pudong area and be beaten as a sandbag by the opponent's air force.

At this time, the huge losses caused by the front-line army due to political reasons exceeded the ability of the Japanese military department to endure. The pressure from the front and lower levels is increasing, and Yamada Renhe resents his direct superiors for refusing to withdraw their troops, but his direct superiors are also scolding his mother every day. After inquiring about the Army Aviation and receiving a reply that "it is absolutely impossible to destroy the Red Army Air Force within two months," the Japanese military headquarters quietly withdrew the landing force from the Pudong beachhead in the early morning of 15 August, under the pretext that the "typhoon" warning sent by the US maritime state on Guam was threatened by a typhoon and that it was inconvenient for the navy to dispatch and provide naval artillery support.

The second landing battle ended with more than 5,700 Japanese killed and more than 16,000 wounded. The only result of the Anglo-Japanese alliance was to obtain the Zhoushan Islands, which were isolated overseas. After the air battle on the 13th, realizing that their side needed more front-line airfields, the Anglo-Japanese forces began to build new field airfields on several surrounding islands in addition to the main island of Zhoushan Island. Unlike the huge main island, the small island in the Zhoushan archipelago was small and lacked space in depth, so the Red Army could not deploy guerrillas here to block the troops stationed on the island, so the process of building the airfield was very smooth.

After mid-August, seasonal typhoons in southern China began to make landfall in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, giving the Japanese troops trapped in the quagmire of Shanghai a reason to retreat. The Anglo-Japanese Combined Fleet, which had been anchored in the East China Sea for many days, also needed to return to port for maintenance and replenishment. After the withdrawal of the Japanese Shanghai Front on 17 July, Britain and Japan began a new round of intense negotiations on how to proceed with the next joint military operation. The upper echelons of the Japanese military department, who had suffered hardships, had decided in their hearts to give up the idea of invading the Yangtze River Delta, and began to secretly consider the strategy proposed by the Imperial Daoist faction to enter the Kwantung Army and land in Jiaozhou Bay in Shandong. It's just a matter of face and stance on the political case. The bill is now only being discussed in secret within the military department and has not yet been made public.

The British, who suffered huge losses in China, certainly did not want to see such an outcome. The British representative, Churchill, who was stranded in Japan, lobbied everywhere in the upper echelons of Japan these days, in a vain attempt to pull Japan's strategic direction back to the Yangtze River Delta, and even more vainly hoped to continue to coax the Japanese to help the Great Empire gnaw through the hardest part of the Red Army, a hard walnut. After seeing the heavy losses of the Japanese in Shanghai, Churchill also became conscious. Without the help of the Japanese to "shed blood", it would have been impossible to solve the Yangtze River Delta problem by relying on the little colonial troops in their hands alone.

However, the Japanese military department, which had learned to be obedient after being beaten, had become "smart" by this time, and they replied to the British with the reason that Lu Hangfei refused to fight: "The army and navy of the Great Japanese Empire have shed too much blood on the battlefield in Shanghai, but after 2 August, where are the naval, army, and air forces of your country?" ”

Although the British representative took out the sinking of the Fury Horn to resist, it was compared with the bloody Japanese figure of nearly 30,000 casualties. The British seemed to be very weak in their efforts.

Churchill lobbied for many days among the top levels of Japan. Didn't get the results they wanted. Discussions went on and on, and the Japanese repeatedly demanded that the British government must show their "sincerity" in this intervention war with its actual military actions. Only then can we continue to discuss the issue of the Japanese side sending troops in the Yangtze River Delta region. They almost put it bluntly: "We have already killed too many people in Shanghai." Now it's your turn to die! ”

"Damn the Germans, damn the Bolsheviks, damn Hitler. Damn Stalin! ”

Coming out of the palace of the Japanese emperor, Churchill cursed in his heart. The British, who were good at provoking wars between others and watching the lively peach picking on the sidelines, could no longer play this game in the Far East. After these few days of contact, Churchill has understood that it is no longer possible for him to provoke the Japanese to die as pawns for the British, and now it is the turn of the British Empire to shed blood for its own interests.

Aware of the enormous threat to the Red Army's air power, the British Empire was searching the world for fighter jets to counter it. Like the embarrassing Japanese Air Force, the British Empire was in the midst of a transition period. During the more than ten years of peace, the speed of equipment replacement in the air forces of Britain and Japan has become extremely lagging behind.

The British Empire did not have aircraft that could compete with the FW90 or HE51 fighters. The successful test flight of the gladiator fighter in 1934 is a fighter that can fight with the two. Although the gladiator fighter was still a biplane because of the backwardness of the design concept, the advantages of the early monoplane over the biplane were not obvious. Unlike the FW90 or HE51, the engine horsepower of the Gladiator fighter is as high as 830 horsepower, relying on the advantage of power, the speed is only slightly slower than the two by more than ten kilometers, and in air combat, it is generally difficult for the aircraft to fly at its maximum speed (because in air combat the aircraft always has to do non-stop maneuvers, and the speed will be reduced when it maneuvers). This is especially true when everyone's maximum speed is above 400 kilometers per hour. At comparable speeds, the biplane has an absolute advantage over the monoplane in maneuverability and hovering - of course, the dive performance is not as good as that of the monoplane.

The only problem is that the Gladiator aircraft have only been tested in March this year and have just begun to be installed in the Royal Air Force, and they are very few and all of them are deployed on homesoil. If there was no war in China, the British originally planned to reequip 231 fighters, and the production cycle would not have been completed until 1937 (the rate of refitting of the air forces of various countries in peacetime was the same). At the time of the China incident, the British government, which had not taken the threat of the Chinese Air Force seriously, still did not give an order to speed up the production of this fighter -- even if it was issued, it would not be too late, and it would take two and a half months to travel at sea at the earliest, plus the preparation period for expanding production, the time for production, and the time it would take for air force pilots to adapt to the new aircraft, and when the new aircraft arrived, it would be half a year later.

(Note: For new aircraft, the gap preparation cycle from the completion of development to large-scale equipment use is extremely long.) Even in wartime, taking the United States, which has a very fast rate of aircraft update, as an example, before the U.S. Navy encountered the Zero Crisis in the Pacific, its new fighter F4U was already in test flight operation, but even if the front line was tossed to death by the Zero Crisis, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps still dragged on until the end of 1942 before reluctantly using the first batch of F4U Corsair (land-based) for air combat on Kuah Island. Before that, it was supported by aircraft like P38, F4F, and P40 for a whole year. ）

Half? Neither the people, nor the economic nor the political needs of the British Empire could wait for half a year to solve the Chinese problem. Now the British government, wielding the pound, is looking all over the world for fighter jets that can compete with the FW90 or HE51, and the American P26 fighter and the Italian CR32 are their choice. The U.S. government, which had many "exchanges" with the Red Army and had strong production forces, had "kindly" sold a large number of active Hawker II and P26 to the British. But it still takes more than a month. The Royal Air Force of the British Empire was able to adapt to the new aircraft and then go to war.

Therefore, the British government was no longer willing to do so, and could only be like the Japanese, pinching its nose and being forced to use the air force flying to participate in the air battle after August 1935, which was obviously inferior to the opponent. At the point of the Air Force, the German aircraft that changed their concepts in advance and replaced them in advance took a huge advantage.

"Time, time again, damn time!"

When he walked out of the Japanese Imperial Palace after meeting the queen of heaven, Churchill cursed in his heart. Now he is scolding the waste of the former Nanjing Nationalist Government in his heart. After taking so much foreign aid and so much munitions, the territory of the five provinces could not survive even half a month. was beaten by the Bolsheviks to the ground. What a kind of incompetence this is!

"It's like Hitler's profiteer. They're pig teammates who are dumber than pigs! ”

The current Hitler, because of the "communist" affair, his international image has changed greatly. The whole world no longer sees him as a war maniac, but as a utilitarian "arms profiteer" and a politician who is very good at "acting". For the sake of their own interests, Britain and France have jointly lodged a solemn protest with Germany, demanding that they stop exporting arms to China, especially fighter jets, and the French have even put forward even more fierce "demands" that the Germans hand over the prototypes of the two fighters to Britain and France for testing, in order to find out the means to deal with these two fighters.

But how could the Germans hand over the weight of the country to Britain and France, let alone do such a thing as smashing the signboard of their own takeaway products. The demands of the French were nothing but a bunch of ridicule from the Germans, and nothing was gained by the British and French. China's war effort has helped to advertise the two aircraft well, and a large number of small European countries that are preparing to update their fighters are now gathering in Berlin, waving checkbooks to ask about the sale of the two fighter jets to Germany. Although the British government could secretly acquire these two aircraft from these countries through the diplomatic "curve", it would be a few months or even half a year before they could get it, and it would be meaningless.

Under the repeated protests of Britain and France and the United States, the German government was "forced" to announce that it would stop exporting fighter jets to China, but Churchill Tongguò intelligence department learned that they stopped exporting only fully assembled fighter jets, just like the recently hit movie "The Lord of War", the spare parts needed to maintain the normal operation of the FW90 fighter jets, especially the most critical core engine, are still marked as "engines" and are exported to China in large quantities. Churchill also received news that in the seven months from the last two months of 1934 to May 1935, the entire production capacity of the FW90 fighter, as well as the production of related spare parts, was supplied to only one customer: China.

Even if Germany now stops supplying China with spare parts for fighter jets, the Red Army's stock of aircraft and spare parts will be enough for them for a long time. What made Churchill even more angry was that a large number of Luftwaffe pilots and ground crews, holding "tourist" passports, were "touring" in China. As for the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union also formed a so-called "international column" to call on proletarian revolutionaries from all over the world to support the Chinese revolution and resist foreign "imperialist" aggression, claiming that the victory of the Chinese revolution was a new upsurge in the second proletarian revolutionary movement after the founding of the Soviet Union. Under the high-profile agitation of the Soviet Union, a large number of revolutionaries from all over Europe, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, as well as the United States, were encouraged by the Soviet Union to join the Chinese Red Army in large numbers. If we add the Soviet Air Force, which entered China in the early stage, in fact, the current Southern Red Army has no shortage of pilots at all. The addition of a large number of international columns also made the Red Army's technical reserves abundant.

And this qiē was done by the man named Hitler! Is that guy really the former "anti-communist and anti-socialist" Nazi madman to the extreme? It can't be an "actor", right? Or was he really a well-hidden Bolshevik, as it was rumored? ”

If possible, Churchill would have liked to unite with the Junkers in Germany to stage a coup d'état to oust Hitler from power, but this was only delusional. Now the German economy is in good shape, and the unemployment rate has fallen to a very low level. Hitler's "blatant and realistic act of aiding the Communist Party" not only did not meet with domestic opposition, but won unanimous support and praise from all over the country.

The left-wing forces in Germany certainly supported Hitler's act of aiding the Communists. Because he released a large number of leftists in Germany, although they were "exiled" to China, they were always freed, not to mention that when even the head of the KPD, the representative of the left, Thälmann, supported this approach, what did the German left have to oppose?

The forces of the German right also supported Hitler's act of aiding the Communists, they opposed socialism, they opposed the Bolsheviks, but they could not oppose the Bolsheviks' money. When "aiding the Communists" can bring huge economic benefits to Germany, in this case, in this situation where opposing Hitler's "aiding the Communists" is opposing the enrichment of the German capitalists. You call the behind-the-scenes boss of the German right-wing forces. How did the Junker capitalists, who had made huge profits from it, oppose Hitler's aid to the Communists? On the territory of the Red Army in China, the German-made machine qì equipment almost monopolized the entire market share, and here, the British. All Japanese products were excluded. Only the United States still has a certain market for petrochemical products. The Germans did not personally use force. The Second Reich could never have dreamed of it: a huge market for the sale of industrial products. After the Red Army acquired South China, the market prospects became bigger and better. When I thought that after China settled down, the industrializing China would bring great business opportunities to Germany. In the future, it can monopolize the bright prospects of the entire Chinese machinery product market, and the German industrial capitalists want to wake up with a smile in their dreams. In their eyes, Hitler, who opened up the Chinese market for them, was like an angel, and now the capitalists in the German machinery industry are the staunchest supporters of Hitler's China policy.

It is even more impossible for the German military to oppose Hitler, he did not have to fight against Hitler, he did not have to make a single soldier, he made huge profits by sending some old rifles, selling arms, and in the case of "making a lot of money", he tossed the feud British like this, and recently sank an aircraft carrier. With such a "far-sighted" strategic vision, Hitler really did what he often said: "Those who are good at fighting have no outstanding military exploits." Even some of the "traitors" in the German military who secretly connected with the British are now much weaker in their ties with the British. (Note: Historically, after Hitler came to power, some so-called rationalists in the German army who were not optimistic about Germany and opposed to waging war (in fact, the German Belt and Road Party) had been secretly contacting Britain and France and even selling information.) This situation even continued throughout the course of World War II)

As for the fact that aiding the Bolsheviks was a political mistake, please, it is really incorrect for the capitalists not to give profits to the capitalists. As for the Bolsheviks in China? They were the enemies of the British, the British were the enemies of the Germans, and the enemies of the enemy were friends. Hitler's covert acts of aiding the Communists in the past few years have now reaped nothing but praise and praise in Germany.

On 21 August, the negotiations between Churchill and the new Emperor Chongren failed again, and although the Japanese military department did not say it explicitly, it was obvious that it did not want to be a pawn of the British in the Yangtze River Delta region. As for their future China policy, what will it be? Churchill could have guessed that it was nothing more than the Kwantung Army entering the customs and starting from North China, or landing on the Jiaodong Peninsula to avoid the powerful Red Army and start from the direction of various warlords in the country. With such a strategy, it was the warlords of the north who were unlucky first, and then it was the turn of the Red Army. In Churchill's view, in addition to serving their own interests, the Japanese would push all the warlords in the north to the side of the Red Army, which would only be detrimental to the British Empire's recovery of the interests of the Yangtze River Delta region.

When Churchill walked out of the palace with a depressed stomach, he glanced at the guards at the door, since the assassination of the emperor, the security level of the whole of Tokyo has risen by one level, and the palace is even more important, from the front gate here there are only a few symbolic honor guards, but now you can see a full squad of guards standing guard nearby.

Churchill looked up at the sky, it was noon, but the sky was as gloomy as his mood. Affected by the aftermath of a strong typhoon in China's Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the weather in Tokyo today is also very bad. In the summer of August, the cool weather in Tokyo was something that the citizens wanted, and for Churchill, who was fat, today's shade also made him feel much better.

The car of the British Embassy was parked at the gate of the palace, and when he saw Churchill coming out, the driver opened the door, and Churchill bent down and was about to twist his fat ass and squeeze into the car, when a soldier suddenly rushed out of a corner next to the palace. The officer had a thin face, red eyes and sunken eyeballs. Seemingly lacking in sleep, he brandished a pistol at Churchill as he ran.

It was Hitoshi Yamada and Osa, who had been fighting on the Pudong front for half a month, who had just been withdrawn to the country for rest and recuperation.

"Heaven punish the white animal, return my expeditionary force!"

"Bang, pound, pound!"

After the gunshots rang out, Churchill plunged headlong into the car

Hitokazu Yamada left the Bund in Shanghai on 15 August along with the troops withdrawing from the Pudong area overnight. A strong typhoon formed near Guam, judging from the direction of travel, is very likely to make landfall in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. In the absence of satellite imagery to help monitor the typhoon's path, the path of a typhoon can only be speculated based on the experience of previous years. If the battle on the Bund in Shanghai is quite smooth. The Japanese military department may gamble that a typhoon will change direction on the way and not make landfall in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. But now, after losing air supremacy and being slaughtered by the opponent on the Bund for half a month, this has become the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

According to the plan, Yamada Hitokazu's retreating landing force will be sent back to the island of Taiwan to rest and recuperate, rather than returning home, mainly to cover up the heavy losses on the Army's Bund and send them home. But when Hitokazu Yamada retreated, he deliberately boarded a British warship. The British warship returned to Nagasaki for rest. He resorted to a little trick. Bribed the British sailors with money, stayed on the ship and returned home with the British warship. As for what he was going to do, Hitokazu Yamada did not hide it from several subordinates who had been fighting side by side for half a month. They help him hide the whereabouts of Hitokazu Yamada from his superiors.

Yamada Hitokazu's secret return to China was for revenge, and he was ready to use the most drastic way to seek justice from the Japanese military headquarters that issued such absurd military orders for the 6,000 warriors of the Great Japanese Empire who died unjustly on the Bund in Shanghai!

Before entering the war, Yamada Hitokazu was a neutral faction, belonging to neither the imperial nor the unification faction, and he believed that the unification faction was too cautious about China policy and the unification faction's ideas were too shallow. As for the entanglement of the two factions in terms of interests, he simply does not like the attitude of disgust together. But after the fiasco in Shanghai, he believed that the people of the Imperial Daoist faction were right, and that the upper echelons of the Japanese military department were full of "national thieves" who only cared about their own personal interests.

With a feeling of seeking justice for the death, Yamada Hitokazu sneaked back to Tokyo with murderous spirits, and according to his original plan, he went to the military headquarters with a gun to "punish" the national thieves and seek justice for his comrades-in-arms who died unjustly on the Bund in Shanghai.

At this time, Hitokazu Yamada was filled with anger and "noble" personal ideas before acting.

Before acting, he decided to make some more preparations, so that after his act, he would spread his voice of "justice" throughout Japan.

On the way back to Nagasaki by boat, Hitokazu Yamada spent three days writing a battlefield memoir, which recorded in detail the tragic slaughter of the Japanese landing force on the Bund during the half-month battle. Then, after returning to Tokyo, he first found his former classmates at the Tokyo Military Academy, handed him the memoirs, and then explained his thoughts.

Yamada Hitokazu's classmate happened to be a member of the Imperial Dao faction, and after receiving the exact situation on the Shanghai front, he was equally sad and indignant, and Yamada Renhe did not act recklessly, and then introduced him to other members of the imperial sect. At this time, due to the strong news control and news blockade in Japan, ordinary middle- and lower-ranking officers had no idea that the battle situation at the front had become so bad, and the news brought by Yamada Hitokazu was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue.

The radicals of the Imperial Road faction were even more treasured after getting the latest military information brought back by Yamada Hitokazu, and they were full of thoughts about how to make the most of this information. After a night of detailed discussions with several radical lower-level officials, they decided to do something that shocked the world so that the whole of Japan could hear their voices.

At this time, Yamada Renkazu was filled with a strong sense of "mission to seek justice for the unjust dead on the front line", and after returning to China, he only thought of the military department killing in order to "seek justice" for the dead comrades on the front line. But under the advice of these members of the Imperial Sect, Hitokazu Yamada finally chose Churchill.

There are three reasons for this.

First, after the assassination of the emperor, the officers and high-ranking officials have strengthened their security when traveling, and it is not easy to carry out the "righteous act" of "punishing the country thief".

Second, after killing these national thieves, a new group of people came to power, and they were still "national thieves" of the unification faction, and this was only a change of soup rather than a change of medicine, and could not really change the reality of corruption in the Japanese military department. In the last "Lord of War" incident, the case of the bombing of the Khuer Harbor Arsenal, and the handling method of the military department of the control faction to "catch the little ghost and not judge the king of Hades" have already chilled the hearts of most of the middle and lower-level officials of the imperial faction. In their opinion, these national beetles in the military department will only protect each other with officials and officials, learn from the white animals of Europe and the United States when something happens, and play the political trick of changing the soup but not the medicine.

Three to Churchill Churchill damn it! After he arrived in Japan in August, he was the one who constantly encouraged the lobbyists to insist on landing from Shanghai, and he was an important person responsible for the fiasco. And this person is a British envoy, and killing him will have a greater impact than killing several high-ranking officials in the military department, so that the whole world can hear the voice of "justice" in Japan, and it can also allow more "Showa warriors" to stand here.

And his comrades-in-arms in the Imperial Road faction promised him that after he carried out the assassination incident, he would take this opportunity to tell all the people the tragic situation of the army on the Bund in Shanghai and the truth about the fiasco of the navy, and use the anger of the people to overthrow the gang of national beetles of the unification faction and step down.

Yamada Renkazu's group of comrades-in-arms of the Imperial Road faction thought very far, if this could not drive those national beetles out of power, then the anger from the middle and lower classes would only burn more vigorously, and more "Showa warriors" would awaken, so it would be a good time for them to launch a military admonition.

After hearing this, Yamada Renhe felt that his words were reasonable, so under the arrangement of his comrades-in-arms of the Imperial Dao faction, there was this scene outside the palace. (To be continued......)