Chapter 257: The Battle of Shanghai
The Shanghai incident not only confused Yang Feng, even the bald guy was confused, he was not a fool, at first glance, this situation made it clear that this was a provocation, and he made an excuse to start a war with him, and he was really not afraid to fight, although because the Japanese went to war with Yang Feng, his original military mobilization slowed down a little, but the three most elite German armament divisions were still all deployed outside Shanghai, and there were two security regiments and a police corps in Shanghai.
Therefore, his reply to the Japanese was very clear: First of all, the first case was a criminal case that occurred in the public concession and had nothing to do with the Chinese side, and as for whether or not he was an anti-Japanese element, this point could only be determined after the murderer was caught and interrogated, and in addition, as the Japanese side said that the murderer had fled into the Chinese realm, as long as they could provide the physical characteristics of the murderer, the Shanghai Municipal Police Department was very happy to help, including issuing a wanted warrant.
As for the attack on the Joban, because the Japanese side did not catch the attackers, it is impossible to confirm whether it was committed by Chinese, and it may also be a Korean exile, so it is necessary to wait for the navy and diplomatic departments of the two countries to form an investigation team to investigate the specific situation before making a decision; at the same time, in order to ensure impartiality, the naval personnel of the United States, Britain, and France in Shanghai can be invited to participate in the investigation team.
Twenty-four hours after the next day, the Third Fleet's flagship Tokiwa shelled the downtown area of Shanghai, causing more than 200 civilian casualties.
In response to the bald guys, he immediately ordered the three German armour divisions stationed on the outskirts of Shanghai to enter Shanghai, and at the same time used these three divisions and Shanghai's security forces to form the Ninth Group Army, with Zhang Zhizhong as the commander of the Ninth Group Army. Stop it immediately by force.
Shortly after his order was issued, the Joban bombarded Shanghai again, and the navy of the Nationalist Government was naturally useless, and at this time, the Japanese Third Fleet on the Huangpu River had four destroyers and a light cruiser in addition to the Joban. What really worked was the Air Force that had taken off from Hangzhou, ten of the latest Thunder fighters and five more advanced twin demons covering twenty Hawk Threes, bombarding Kazukawa Shiro's fleet with ordinary fifty kilogram bombs.
Standing on the roof of Jinyuan Company, Hu Biao, the captain of the security team, looked at the scene of dozens of fighters hovering and diving over the Changpan like vultures hunting on the Huangpu River in the distance, and said with a disdainful face: "These pilots of the Central Army just can't do it, it takes so long to bomb a fixed target and only hit ten bombs, which makes those guys in Peking have to laugh to death when they see it?"
"You don't have a backache when you stand and talk, how much does it cost to run out of gasoline for a flight? How many hours can they fly in a year? How many hours do those guys in Peking fly a year? Hurry up and get ready. Maybe we'll have to go to war later. Yu Maoren said.
"What if the concession doesn't let our people go?" Hu Biao asked: The Jinyuan security team is not allowed to carry weapons out of the camp unless Yang Feng goes to Shanghai.
"Then you will rush out of the company directly, leaving a hundred people to work as security guards in the company, you don't have to come back after you go out, and then I will tell the Ministry of Industry that you are acting privately." Yu Maoren said.
"Okay, Boss Yu, just look at it, I have to scare those Ah San outside out this time." Hu Biao looked at Ah San who was patrolling the street outside and said. As soon as this guy finished speaking, he suddenly heard an exclamation all around.
At this time, there were quite a few people like them who were watching the excitement outside, and almost all the roofs in the public concession were full of people. Not only Chinese, but also many foreigners are watching the excitement, and when the bomb hits the target, many people will cheer, but this exclamation is made by the Chinese pilot, because a Hawker is dropping a bomb at the same time. It was also hit with anti-aircraft guns by a Japanese destroyer near Tokiwa.
The plane made a gesture to pull up, but the damage to the lower wing caused the plane to crash to the shore again, but at that moment the plane swerved sharply, and without hesitation, crashed headfirst into the chimney of the destroyer, and then saw a huge ball of fire explode. A raging fire burned on this destroyer.
This obviously suicidal attack immediately aroused an exclamation, and even many foreigners watching the battle were sighing for this brave pilot, and his behavior also inspired the fighting spirit of the Chinese pilots in the air, and the battle situation became more intense.
In addition to this destroyer, a fire has also been ignited on the Tsukiwa, and the fifty-kilogram bomb, although it is difficult to cause fatal damage to this kind of large, thick-skinned and thick-skinned large armored cruisers, but it is unbearable to suffer too much, especially the old-fashioned antique-class warship Tsukiwa, because it is the main target, so the entire superstructure is already in a mess, and even the smoke and fire look quite miserable.
It should be said that the performance of the Chinese Air Force is still very good, after all, they do not use special dive bombers, and the use of biplanes like Hawk to attack warships, although it is not impossible, but the effect is definitely greatly reduced, and now this hit rate is enough to make people amazing.
At least those foreign officers who watched the battle thought that, of course, the record of the Chinese Air Force was not what they were most concerned about, and it was simply unrealistic to want to use a 50-kilogram bomb to sink Changpan, and they might as well bomb a certain destroyer, so maybe there would already be a record of sinking
What really caught the attention of these foreign soldiers was the two new fighters, needless to say, the twin demons were already the strategic weapons of the US Army Aviation, but the performance of the Thunder specially developed by Lockheed for the Chinese Air Force was equally surprising, this dexterous white fighter, like a swift, gracefully shuttled across the narrow Huangpu River, constantly attacking the anti-aircraft gunners on the Japanese warships with large-caliber machine guns, and from time to time you could see the Japanese Navy soldiers being beaten to pieces.
Compared to them, the eldest brother from the same family did not seem to be of much use in this battle, its size was too large, and it was dangerous to fight in this environment, so the five twin demons had been hovering over the battlefield like lions in a pack of lions, and it was not until the end of the battle that they really began to fight.
Carrier-based aircraft from the Japanese aircraft carriers arrived. In fact, last night, the three aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy, Kaga, Longxiang, and Fengxiang, had already set off from Japan, and unlike the original history, they were stimulated by Yang Feng's air force. At this time, the Japanese aircraft carriers had begun to be generally replaced with Type 96 carrier-based aircraft, and this batch arrived at the 60 Type 96 planes that took off from the Kaga-3 aircraft carrier.
At the moment when he saw the appearance of the Japanese carrier-based aircraft, five twin demons jumped into the air like five black lightning bolts, and then ten thunderbolts turned over and met them, and Hawke, who was already running out of fuel, turned around and flew in the direction of Hangzhou.
It didn't take long to see two flashes of fire in the Japanese carrier-based aircraft group in the distance, and then two Type 96 carrier-based planes fell headlong to the ground, and the crowd watching the battle immediately cheered, and five twin demons flew over the heads of the Japanese at high speed after shooting down two of them. At the same time, the Thunder fighter also began to engage the Japanese army, it should be said that the performance of the 96 type is not much worse than the Thunder, and the number occupies an absolute advantage, but the problem is that the five ghost-like twin demons are too difficult to deal with, the Japanese naval pilots who fought with this kind of high-speed large fighter for the first time can't adapt to its rhythm at all, if they are replaced by the Japanese army, they will not be so embarrassed, but they also have enough experience. But this experience is certainly not going to be shared with the Navy.
Five twin demons and ten thunderbolts actually blocked sixty ninety-six types out of the sky above Shanghai. Moreover, in a short period of time, five Type 96 planes were shot down one after another, and only one Thunder on the Chinese side was injured, and just when this plane turned around and flew away from the battlefield, the remaining 25 double demons that took off from Hangzhou all arrived, and the bald guy had this brigade in his hands, all of which were deployed at Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport.
It was followed by twenty Thunders that took off from Nanjing. The arrival of reinforcements immediately reversed the situation in the air battle, and the twin demons of a brigade, the Japanese army aviation after the Battle of Rehe, concluded that at least three brigades of the 95th Army could confront it. Now the number of Chinese planes on the battlefield even exceeds that of the Japanese army, and they are all more advanced than them, there is no great suspense in such a battle, the light in the sky saw the Japanese planes falling, in fact, to the end of this big air battle under the gaze of countless Shanghai people, the result is that the Chinese Air Force with a thunderous loss, shot down twenty Japanese carrier-based planes and declared the end, the remnants of the attacking Japanese planes hurriedly turned around and fled, and the twin demons who arrived after twenty-five followed all the way behind with a long voyage, It was pursued for more than 100 kilometers and shot down six more planes before returning.
Just as the citizens of Shanghai cheered and looked up at the air force group flying overhead, on the messy Tokiwa, Kazukawa Koshiro was looking up at the sky with a bitter face, saying that the Japanese Army Aviation had been beaten all over the ground by twin demons in recent years, and even had to withdraw from the northeast to avoid the war in order to preserve, which made the navy laugh off its big teeth.
In their opinion, Lu Airlines can't beat Yang Feng, it's not that the plane is too bad, how bad can this thing be? That's purely the tricks of the army's stupid people, and if it were the elites of the navy, this would definitely not be the case.
As a result, when I look at Nima today, the navy is still full of fighting and looking for teeth, and this situation is simply sad and infuriating.
Just when Kagawa Koshiro was feeling sad and indignant, on the sea three hundred kilometers east of Shanghai, a huge fleet was riding the wind and waves, the aircraft carriers Kaga, Ryuchi, Fengxiang, the battleship Haruna, the heavy cruisers Nachi, Myoko, Takao, Maya, Aoba, the light cruisers Naka, Yura, Kinu, Kawauchi, and another seaplane carrier, twenty-two destroyers.
But at this time, the commander of this huge fleet, Vice Admiral Takasu Shiro, had a blue face, because the news of the air battle in Shanghai had come, and he lost one-third of his fighters at once, and what was even more shameful was that the result was only a pitiful one, which was not just shameful, he had already seen what the defeat of this air battle meant to his career.
Is he standing on the deck of the Kaga, silently waiting for his fighter unit to return? At this moment, the air defense sirens suddenly sounded, and all of a sudden the entire fleet was in chaos, and all the soldiers on the warships rushed to their respective positions, especially those anti-aircraft artillerymen who were staring at the sky with nervous expressions
Takasu Shiro hurriedly returned to the command room, and a staff officer stepped forward to salute and said, "Report to Your Excellency Commander, an unidentified reconnaissance plane is sending a report nearby."
Takasu Shiro took the telescope and looked in the direction he was pointing, and sure enough, in the cloudless sky, a large four-engine plane was slowly flying by, but the flight altitude was very high, I am afraid that it would not be lower than 30,000 feet, and such an altitude fighter could not intercept it at all.
"It's a reconnaissance liberator. It was supposed to take off from Peiping, and the American liberators who took off from Guam would not come here. Said the chief of staff of the fleet.
He guessed very correctly, this was a Liberator maritime reconnaissance plane that took off from Beiping, and Yang Feng asked Lockheed to modify six such planes for him, which could fly more than 30,000 feet, and were equipped with high-performance cameras and high-grade optical telescopes that he had brought from modern times. Every day in the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, as well as the Northeast, North Korea, sometimes even fly to the coastal waters of Japan, this kind of aircraft can stay in the sky for more than ten hours, with them within the search radius of the Japanese Navy any move Yang Feng can know, next step he is even ready to install the radar.
Lieutenant General Takasu frowned and stared intently at the reconnaissance plane in the sky. The panda on the fuselage is faintly visible, which indicates the identity of this aircraft, which belongs to the Chinese branch of Panda Airlines, although it sounds a bit unbelievable, it belongs to the bombers of civil airlines, but this is true, because all the combat planes under Yang Feng are in this capacity.
"Your Excellency, Commander, our fighter is back." The chief of staff reminded him with a hint of grief. Takasu Shiro sighed and slowly lowered the binoculars. On the flight deck outside, a series of Type 96 fighters were landing, and of the 36 planes that took off from the Kaga, 16 would never return.
At this time, in the distant Beiping, when he learned that the Japanese Navy's aircraft carrier formation was less than 300 kilometers away from Shanghai, Boss Yang showed a satisfied smile. Last night, he didn't sleep all night, and when the bald admirals were studying how to block the Japanese navy by sinking ships in the event of a war, he ran to the mouth of the Yangtze River. More than 200 anchor mines were dropped somewhere, and 200 sunken mines were mixed in, and 400 500-kilogram mines sealed the mouth of the Yangtze River to the death, and a ship with a tonnage of more than 500 tons should not be allowed to enter or exit.
"I wonder if the Japanese will like the gifts I prepared for them?" The creature muttered to himself with a wicked smile on his face, and what he didn't know was that before the Japanese could bomb it, his mine had blown up a British merchant ship leaving the port.
"Mines?" The bald guy who was busy was stunned by this news, and he said innocently to Judgan, who came to the door: "Your Excellency, I can tell you very clearly that the Chinese Navy has not laid any mines at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and you should be well aware of the importance of the Yangtze River waterway to our economy.
As for the explanation of the bald man, Judgan still believes that although China and Japan have fought a wonderful naval and air battle in Shanghai, they have not really started a war, and there has not been any fighting on land so far, and the diplomats of the two governments are still shuttling back and forth, negotiating and negotiating, and the German ambassador Todmann is still mediating on both sides with sweat, and it is indeed far from the point of sealing the mouth of the Yangtze River with mines himself.
Since it can't be a bald guy who did it, it can only be done by Yang Feng, who is the culprit of the mines in Liaodong Bay, when the mouth of the Yalu River was blocked by mines not long ago, it was already an open secret, except for this guy, no one has the ability to do this, and this is also very in line with his style.
But to find Yang Feng? Judd thinks about it, don't be bored, this thing will definitely not admit it, if you don't get it right, it will affect your friendship with him, and besides, isn't it just sinking a merchant ship? Let's investigate slowly! It's not a big deal.
It's not a big deal on his side, but Takasu Shiro on the sea and Kazukawa Koshiro on the Huangpu River are dumbfounded, they are all counting on driving battleships and heavy cruisers into the Yangtze River, and then using artillery to crush the Chinese army, and now they can't enter the Yangtze River and crush a fart, not only is there no hope of crushing, it seems that if it goes on like this, it is still very dangerous for Kawakoshiro and his fleet, although fifty kilograms of aerial bombs can't destroy the Tokiwa, but if people come to blow you up once a day, let alone Tokiwa for half a month, you can't stand it even if you get Nagato, not to mention those light cruisers and destroyers, which are simply left here to deliver food to people.
Takasu Shiro is very smart, the Chinese task force led by him stopped directly at sea, and now there is a fart, if the mines at the mouth of the Yangtze River are not cleared, who would dare to go in? As for when these mines will be cleared, Lieutenant General Matsushita, commander of the Lushun Town Guard, has a say in this issue, he has swept the Port of Lushun for a year, and he still does not dare to leave the port!
The news of the halt of the Japanese naval fleet made the bald guys completely relieved, as long as those battleships and heavy cruisers could not enter the Yangtze River, it would be impossible for Shiro Kawako's fleet and the thousands of marines to pull out any tricks in Shanghai under any circumstances.
Now that Todman has flown to Japan, I believe that the Germans will come forward, and the Japanese will still have to give some face, and the atmosphere of war between China and Japan is as hot as boiling oil, and the temperature drops down in an instant as if a bucket of ice water has been poured on it. (To be continued......)
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