Li Runshi saw the weakness behind the bluff and speculation of the British, and in the first two days of Japan's landing in Shandong, he boldly threw all the bombing troops into the northern battlefield, retaining only the vast majority of the fighter units. The actual situation was just as he expected: Throughout December, although the British Air Force dispatched a large number of planes to bomb Shanghai and Hangzhou, the "landing in Hangzhou Bay" operation that had been blowing loudly before the war did not take place at all.

The British, who were too opportunistic, were always delusional in their desire to wait for the Red Army and the Japanese to come and pick peaches after they had fought hard. The British garrison on Zhoushan Island did not launch a landing operation and played a "sit-down war," but the air forces of the two sides fought hard in the sky.

On 5 December, in order to coordinate with the Japanese movement in the north, British planes from many airports on the Zhoushan Islands poured out, and black-pressed planes poured into Hangzhou and Shanghai one after another.

The outbreak of a full-scale war between China and Japan was delayed until 5 December, and both Britain and Japan had reached the limit of "delay." Japan, which was bent on eating meat and sucking blood on China again, had no patience to wait any longer, and the British government, which had also spent a lot of military spending in China's quagmire, also had no patience to delay any longer. During this time, Dowding also received support from outside the French Air Force, the Australian Air Force, and the Canadian Air Force.

In the China Incident, the French also suffered huge losses, and the assets of several French banks in Shanghai were confiscated. In this intervention in China, France only symbolically sent hundreds of land forces, but the air force also made great efforts, sending two flying groups. Hundreds of fighters supported the British, but because they did not personally experience the suffering of the Red Army, and the French were arrogant, they used outdated old planes to help the French in this war.

This is the limit of the French. In peacetime France, the planes in the hands of the country's air force are more than 1,000 at full capacity. As for Canada and Australia, the Commonwealth countries, there are not many air force fighters, a total of sixty, but the fighters used are all gladiator fighters provided by the British. I have suffered from underestimating the enemy in the early stage

And the British side. Before the events in China. The size of the Royal Air Force is also small, with a total of about 2,000 aircraft. In the past two months, the Royal Air Force has shot down nearly five hundred aircraft in China and scrapped nearly two hundred. Losses of pilots and aircrews were more than six. After the 1942 National Commander-in-Chief of World War II. This loss is nothing. But in 1935, the "peaceful years" before the general mobilization for war. This is already a terrifying number that hurts the muscles and bones.

In order to make up for the loss of pilots at the front, the British had to transfer a large number of pilots from the home air defense force in the air battle on December 5. Through the way of driving the plane to the battlefield, he crossed a distance of more than 10,000 kilometers to participate in the war in China. In the current British Empire, the local air defense has actually been weakened to a very dangerous level. Although the aircraft production line has been mobilized to produce a large number of new fighter fighters, the training of pilots has been shortened in the short term, and nearly half of the local air defense tasks are now taken up by novices who have just left the aviation school. Even so, here on the Zhoushan front line in China, nearly half of the aviation pilots replenished by Daoding's subordinates are rookies from new aviation schools.

"It's all because we were too light at the time!"

On December 5, Commander Dowding felt great remorse as he watched a large number of planes take off from the runway of the airport and fly in the direction of Shanghai and Hangzhou. In the air battle in October, because of excessive underestimation of the enemy and post-bureaucratic reasons, a large number of RAF pilots piloted backward planes were killed in large numbers by the opponent's advanced generation fighters in the away air, and some of the losses were the result of ground anti-aircraft artillery.

Air battles between pilots are extremely important in the first place.

In an air war between countries, the first strike is equally important.

Once a country's air force has a "generation gap" in an air battle and loses a large number of experienced veteran pilots by shooting down a large number of them, the consequences will often take years to breathe. Because the side that has the upper hand will gain a lot of "experience" in this overwhelming air battle, giving birth to a large number of elite veteran pilots and becoming stronger, while the losing side will not be able to use novice rookies to deal with the battlefield because of the loss of old pilots, and will become weaker and weaker.

During the air war of World War I, after the "Fokker disaster", although the British and French air forces later solved the problem of forward firing of fighter machine guns through guò imitation, because of the huge losses of pilots in the early stage, they were still pressed and beaten by the Luftwaffe in air battles for a long time after the Fox disaster ended. In the history of the Soviet-German War, the air force of the Soviet Red Army also suffered huge losses in the air battle in the first year to the point of almost rebuilding, and as a result, in the next two years, the Soviet Red Army Air Force, despite having the advantage in the number of aircraft, was still pressed and beaten by the Germans for a long time, and it was not until the end of 1942 that the Battle of Stalingrad took a breath, and it was only after the air battle of Zhikuban that it regained confidence, which took two years! And the reason is that a large number of novice pilots are slaughtered in the air by a large number of veterans of the opposing side because of their lack of experience and training.

(Note: According to the experience of World War II, three-quarters of novice pilots are often shot down by their opponents in the first five air battles, and only the remaining one-quarter survive five air battles before they have a chance to continue to grow.) ）

Having lived through World War I, Dowding knew this very well in his heart.

"We've given our opponents too much experience in air combat in the past."

Looking at the waves of fighters taking off from the runway, Dowding sighed in his heart. If he had a choice, he hoped to delay it for a while longer, wait for the Japanese attack in the north to pick up, and after the army and air forces of the Red Army had fought hard, he would wait for the opponent's strength to be greatly depleted before launching a major air battle. This kind of away air battle is very disadvantageous, because in addition to the range and landing advantages brought by the home field, the opponent's aircraft can also be covered by ground anti-aircraft artillery. During the first big air battle, a large part of the outrageous exchange ratio of ten to one was the credit of the 40-mm Forbos anti-aircraft guns in the hands of the Red Army. One of the front-line opinions of the surviving British pilots who participated in that air battle. It is the Forbos anti-aircraft gun in the hands of the opponent that is extremely ferocious. Dowding learned from intelligence that before the sea traffic was blocked, the Red Army imported at least more than 200 Forbos anti-aircraft guns from the German side, and even a large number of them were directly transferred from the German army and air force.

Although he knew that the Red Army on the opposite side had no aircraft production capacity and lacked stamina, but now the Royal Air Force was facing the "sequelae" caused by too many losses of old pilots in the early stage.

It's a pity that this is an order from Downing Street. Daoding, the commander of the Air Force, is not the largest on Zhoushan Island. And Hamilton, the commander-in-chief, pressed on his head. Dowding has done his best to delay the air battle until now. Some time ago, only a small unit of the Air Force was dispatched to test the operation, just so that the rookie pilots under his command could have more time to adapt to the battlefield atmosphere and familiarize themselves with the opponent's tactics. But who knew that there was a demon called "Blue Thirteen" on the other side. In a skirmish, he almost single-handedly destroyed the Royal Air Force that had come to challenge the temptation. This also puts more pressure on Dowding.

A previous more than a month of tentative attacks. Dowding was aware of the difference in performance between the fighters. Although the pilots of the Royal Air Force were beaten by Li Huamei alone, Dao was not beaten like them and lost all confidence, but saw that the difference in the performance of the two planes was not large. It's just that a super ace like Li Huamei has too much personal ability, and this medium-scale air battle of dozens of fighters has magnified her role to the maximum. Once the air battle becomes a fight of hundreds of fighters, the influence of a few ace pilots will be greatly weakened.

Dowding actually didn't want to fight this big air battle at this time. But political pressure from the rear interfered with his command. It's December, the "China crisis" has dragged on for too long, and the people's patience has run out.

The second wave of the British air raid on December 5 was not a good time. Because the main fighter forces of the Red Army at this time were still all concentrated in the area of Shanghai and Hangzhou, there was no transfer, and there was no need to transfer.

The distance from the front-line airport in northern Jiangsu near Shandong Province to Hangzhou and Shanghai is only two or three hundred kilometers. The distance is too close, and there is a real need for fighter cover. Fighters from the airfields of both places flew there. Just land nearby for supplies after completing the air battle. Even if the upper echelons of the Red Army had been informed of the timetable of the actions of the Japanese in advance, they only moved the bombers and attack aircraft in advance, and the fighters did not move for the time being.

They simply did not believe that the British were capable of completing the landing operation on Hangzhou Bay on their own.

Therefore, on 5 December, Daoding dispatched a total of 800 fighters and bombers from Zhoushan Airport in batches to bomb Shanghai and Hangzhou, so as to force the Red Army Air Force to conduct a decisive air battle.

The 1st Air Force Division was stationed at the Shanghai airport, while the 2nd Air Force Division was responsible for the air defense of Hangzhou.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of 5 December, as soon as the air defense siren sounded, a large number of fighter pilots at the airfields of the two places urgently assembled and took off in batches to meet the enemy planes flying over the two places.

With the guidance of Lin Han's humanoid radar, as soon as the enemy planes on Zhoushan Island showed signs of sortie, the airfields of the two places received early warnings.

It was no secret to the Red Army that the air force on the island had been continuously strengthened during the days of the Truce at Dowting. In the past few days, the "voice" of London's speech on the "China issue" has become louder and louder, and the smell of mountains and rains is about to come and the wind is full of buildings has long permeated the sky over Hangzhou Bay.

At the Hangzhou Bay Airport, Li Huamei boarded her HE51F fighter jet, the plane had already been filled with fuel, the engine was warmed up, and it was turned on a trial basis. On a nearby runway, another Soviet pilot piloting the HE51E was giving her a thumbs up in encouraging motions. Although Stalin deliberately "dropped the chain" at the critical moment, the pilots of the Soviet Air Force he sent to China, the low-level pilots, still in the lofty spirit of "proletarian friendship", stood side by side with all their might on the side of the young Red Air Force.

The pilot of the fighter numbered 11 was named Antonov, and he was the captain of one of the flight groups stationed in Hangzhou, and his flying skills were excellent. It is also Li Huamei's friend. This year, the Soviet pilot was only twenty-five years old, unmarried, and after fighting side by side with Li Huamei for a month, he was fascinated by her and was frantically launching a love offensive against Li Huamei, but Li Huamei refused.

Hangzhou Airport has built a total of 12 runways, and fighter planes with full fuel are heading to the runways in sequence, waiting for the command desk to attack. The first sortie was all FW90 and HE51 fighters.

In the hangar on the other side, a large number of FW90, HE51 and I16 fighters that will not take off for the time being are also in combat readiness. As scheduled. Their planes will be released twenty minutes later (note: in large-scale air combat. It is impossible for the fighters of both sides to be released all at once, and they will also set off in batches to prevent the air defense blank when one side returns without fuel and refuels to give the opponent a chance to take advantage of)

Tang Jueyang, a young rookie pilot, sat in his I16 fighter jet, listening to the speech coming from the hangar speaker with a little excitement. Tang Jueyang is a novice pilot. Only last month he returned to China after completing a full post-flight training course in the Soviet Union. He trained in the USSR. The last plane to fly was the I16, when the Red Army's foreign trade lines were completely cut off by the British. In November, Stalin sent a batch of the latest I16 fighters from Outer Mongolia, and the I16-5 fighters finally used the new engines. In the process of transfer, it was with the help of the airport in Yanxi Mountain, Shanxi. Although these warlords in China have many problems themselves, except for some traitors, they are very clearly divided on the issue of national righteousness. The Red Army, whose sea routes were blocked, now had the only foreign aid on the way was the Soviet Red Army in Outer Mongolia. It was precisely with this air supply line that the leaders of the Red Army agreed to conduct another major air battle with the British over Shanghai and Hangzhou.

Tang Jueyang drove this I16 back to China, during which he participated in six air battles, suspected of injuring the opponent, but his aircraft skin was punched by the opponent a few holes. As for the fall, in order to improve the shooting skills of these novice rookie pilots in air combat, his captain gave him the enemy planes that were crippled and emitted black smoke and repeatedly "whipped corpses" to shoot.

In the loudspeaker of the hangar, a thick male voice was reading the speech prepared by Lin Han for the air battle before the battle.

"Today is the 5th of December, and Japanese imperialism, together with British imperialism, has made another comeback. They vainly want to use force to bring the Chinese nation to its knees, to turn this land back into their colony, and to continue to enslave the people here.

But this is just their delusion!

The Chinese Soviet Republic was not a Manchu government, and the days when the imperialist powers could bring this nation to its knees by erecting a few cannons on the Chinese coastline are gone.

In the past three months, the Tenryu, Ryumosa, Kaga, and Fury, which sank in the East China Sea, have proved this to the whole world with their corpses. The thousands of corpses of the invaders lying on the beach of Pudong also warn their wolf ambitions of this qiē

We will fight the imperialist countries to the end! We will fight on land, we will fight in the oceans, we will fight in the air with more and more confidence and more and more power, and we will defend our homeland at any cost! We will fight in the sky, we will fight on the beaches, we will fight on the landing sites of the enemy, we will fight in the fields and streets, we will fight in the mountains. We will not surrender"

Part of this speech was Lin Han's plagiarism of Churchill's speech during World War II, and he felt that it was very imposing and inspiring, so he unceremoniously used it. When plagiarizing this paragraph, Lin Han even maliciously thought that once World War II broke out in the future and the British announcer once again came up with a similar speech to boost morale, then the radio station on the German side could take the opportunity to ridicule them for plagiarizing the anti-aggression speech of the Chinese, and the scene of "piracy and anti-pollution originality" must be a very interesting thing at that time.

At 8:50, Tang Jueyang's I16 fighter was pushed to the runway of the hangar by ground crews (this is to save fuel), and at 9 o'clock, his fighter left the runway and flew into the sky.

At this time, the air battle had already been going on for 20 minutes, and from Zhoushan, Ningbo, Shaoxing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai, hundreds of fighters were twisted into a ball, chasing and fighting frantically in the narrow airspace, and every minute the planes could be seen dragging long black smoke to the ground.

On the ground, 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns scattered everywhere fired wildly. In the past three months, the Red Army Air Force has enjoyed a lot of scenery over Shanghai and Hangzhou, but these anti-aircraft guns on the ground have also performed outstanding feats. More than one-third of the planes lost by the British and Japanese air forces were actually the results of the air defense forces, and most of them were the results of the Bofors anti-aircraft guns. The fact that the Red Army was able to play such a high exchange ratio in the air also had a share of the credit of the ground air defense forces. Many planes that were in a disadvantageous position in air combat simply swooped down and fled to the air defense positions according to the instructions of their superiors, while the enemy planes that had the advantage had no choice but to give up unless they were willing to risk being shot down and unless they risked penetrating the anti-aircraft fire network on the ground.

At 9:35 a.m., a fighter numbered HE51F returned to Hangzhou Airport with several bullet holes. In such high-density and high-intensity air combat. Even a super ace like Li Huamei can't guarantee that he won't be hit and injured in the chaotic battle.

This sortie. The plane she was piloting suffered only minor injuries, but the reason for returning was that it had run out of ammunition. In this round of air battles, she shot down six fighters in one go.

Once back at the airport, hop off the plane. I took a sip of the hot water from the ground staff. Drink too much either. ran directly to the other HE51F that had been prepared for her on the runway and continued to fight. Of the two HE51F models sent by the Germans, Li Huamei was the only driver. As for Lin Han. Because he needed to sit on the ship and act as a humanoid radar to direct the air battle, he could not fly the plane to the battlefield himself.

Originally, this big air battle could have been avoided by the Red Army, and the important factories in Shanghai and Hangzhou had already been transferred, and the British could only blow up some houses and buildings when they came to bomb them. However, the Red Army's top brass was not prepared to avoid the war after discussion, not only for the sake of defending civilians, but also for the reason that the British were kicked out.

"This air battle, we, the Red Army, cannot escape! Because, if it is a long-term air war with the imperialist countries, our Red Army cannot afford it! The situation of boiling frogs in warm water is the last thing we want to face. We must take advantage of the fact that we still have the superiority in the performance of our aircraft, the number of pilots, and even the number of fighters, and we must use a great air battle to inflict maximum damage on the opponent, directly shatter the courage of the British Air Force, and let the British imperialist countries out of this war. ”

Lin Han also supports this opinion. War is the best catalyst for the development of weapons. Realizing that biplanes are outdated, the Hurricane fighter will only be equipped faster than in history. If the war with the British becomes prolonged. The air battle dragged down in the way of boiling frogs in warm water, so that the British Air Force lost blood little by little, and did not make the British feel pain. Only by fighting a tragic air battle and causing the British Air Force to lose tens of percent of the country's air power "instantly" will they know what it means to be in pain and what it means to stop it urgently.

The same blood loss of 1,000 milliliters, open a small opening, put a day's blood loss of 1,000 milliliters, where is the scene of cutting open the major arteries and spurting 1,000 milliliters of blood in an instant?

The British's center of gravity was Europe after all, and when Germany began to stir up trouble in Europe, it was possible to stab him in China so that the arrogant British could evacuate China for fear of excessive blood loss.

Therefore, the three days beginning on December 5 became the craziest three days for the air forces of both sides.

The two warring sides are like two swordsmen tied together by an iron chain, neither of them can escape, there is no evasion, they can only rely on each other's swordsmanship to open holes in each other's body one sword after another.

The pilots on both sides of the battle were all red-eyed. Strike, return, refuel, strike again!

On this day, Li Huamei, who made the most sorties, changed planes four times and made five sorties in one day, and this situation lasted until 8 December.

During these three days, Li Huamei, who is not a human being, flew a total of 14 sorties and shot down 42 planes.

On December 5, before the start of the war, Dowding had nearly 800 planes and 1,000 pilots.

After the war, on the Zhoushan airport, Daoding had planes in his hands, and at this time there were less than 100 planes left that could barely go to war, and the airport on Zhoushan Island was full of hundreds of planes with different injuries that could not take off for air combat for the time being. One-third of the planes lost by Dowding were shot down by ground anti-aircraft artillery, and the rest were the results of the opponent's air force.

On December 8, Dowding sent a telegram to British Prime Minister Baldwin with only one sentence: "Prime Minister, I have no air force in my hands. ”

The Red Army on the opposite side was also shot down 120 planes in the air battle, dozens were scrapped on the ground, in addition to hundreds of planes that needed major repairs before they could be re-flown again, and almost all of the rest of the planes participating in the battle were slightly damaged. More than 60 pilots were killed and more than 60 were injured.

(Note: This battle loss ratio is not arbitrary, when referring to the number of British air battles, the ratio of German and British pilots in air battles is 6000 to 544.) The advantages and cheapness of home air combat are simply too many. ）

The losses of the Red Army pilots, although not small, were still within a bearable range. Because a large number of rookie pilots are rapidly maturing after the baptism of this air battle.

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On 8 December, the air battle between the two sides came to a temporary end, and although the Red Army suffered heavy losses, the British were directly crippled. Due to the backward performance of the French Air Force, only a dozen of the 100 planes participating in the war survived, and only one-third of Australia and Canada survived.

The lost planes were only a drop in the bucket for the British Empire, and the factories in the rear worked overtime to build them in two months at most. However, it is simply impossible for the lost pilots, especially the experienced veteran pilots, to recover without delaying for half a year.

In the past three days, the two sides did not avoid a hard-nosed air battle, which not only crippled the air force in Dowding's hands, but also caused the overall losses of the Royal Air Force to the point of breaking the bones. Although there are still some elite veteran pilots in Britain, it is impossible for them to transfer the last elite of the country to the meat grinder in the Far East unless the Conservative government collectively goes crazy.

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