Chapter 217: Chinese Dignity
Shanghai, the earliest city in China to open a port, has been the largest and most prosperous city in China since the Manchu Qing Dynasty. But for a long time, the most powerful group in Shanghai was not the Shanghai Municipal Government in China, but the Concession. After the Opium War, Western countries established concessions in Shanghai, which not only made Shanghai an international metropolis, but also left Shanghai with the "reputation" of the International Architecture Museum!
After the defeat of Japan, the power of the Westerners in Shanghai was redivided, and because of the European war, the power of the Europeans was greatly reduced, and only Britain remained strong. However, the United States took advantage of the situation to enter the country, and the chairman of the committee deliberately drew closer to the United States, and the business of major American banks in China, such as Standard Chartered, Citigroup, and HSBC, snowballed. The income of the major American conglomerates in China has also reached an all-time high, which is also one of the important reasons why the United States has stubbornly supported the Nanjing government, because in the United States, you can not care about the opinions of congressmen, only the thoughts of the giant chaebols are the most important.
The Bund is the liveliest place in Shanghai, and today, the streets appear to be more crowded, especially near the Huangpu River. Most of the people came to see the excitement, and they heard that the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis of the US Pacific Fleet visiting China would sail to the Bund of the Huangpu River for people to visit.
"That's a 10,000-ton giant ship, much bigger than the Chongqing!"
"I heard that it can drive more than 30 sections, I don't know how fast it can drive in the Huangpu River?"
"You are a layman, such a big ship, it would be good to be able to sail to the Huangpu River, it is estimated that when you go back, you will have to use a tugboat!"
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On the Bund, the Chinese who had just won the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression were talking with great interest. It's not that the people of Shanghai don't know it, but now the largest warship of the Chinese Navy is the Chongqing light cruiser sent by the British, and even the chairman's ship Taikang is only a 1,150-ton frigate destroyer.
During the Anti-Japanese War, all the main warships of the Northern Fleet appeared along the coast of China, not to mention the 10,000-ton giant ships, and tens of thousands of tons of aircraft carriers and battleships.
The people who used exaggerated tones to create an atmosphere in the crowd were basically the personnel sent by the military command, and to put it bluntly, they were a bunch of military commander spies. In order to create the illusion that the people warmly welcomed the arrival of the US troops, Chen Cheng and Dai Li took great pains to get the welcoming crowd on the beach, and they went to the Bund to see the excitement, followed the crowd to coax, and paid their wages if they didn't work.
However, the faces of the little chairman and Boss Dai in the city hall were as dead as ashes, and there was no joy. They have already received a telegram from the USS Missouri, the flagship of the US Pacific Fleet, that several destroyers on guard in the East China Sea have discovered a large number of warplanes taking off from the vicinity of the East China Sea, and it is very likely that the Han army will declare war on the Pacific Fleet!
The two high-ranking and powerful officials of the Nanjing government looked at each other speechlessly, and they did not know what else they could do except send this news to the chairman of the committee at the first time. Ordered the Air Force or the air defense forces of Shanghai to enter the war? According to common sense, they should do this, and it is the duty of every host to protect the guests, but the other party is a big man!
War with the Great Han? Don't talk about Chen Cheng and Dai Li, even the chairman of the committee doesn't dare to make this decision easily, right?
Sure enough, until a violent explosion came from outside Wusongkou, Nanjing did not call back. The two guys decided to continue diving, what the chairman said, what to do!
The Royal Air Force order to attack was given at 6 a.m., and the commander of the Air Force, Admiral Yun Jiu, set the point of attack at the breakfast time of the American sailors. However, what was not planned was that the commander of the US fleet, Admiral Kimmel, cautiously placed several destroyers on guard in the East China Sea. All US warships have been equipped with shipborne radars, and the suddenness of the Royal Air Force's attack will be greatly reduced.
Please ask Weiyang Palace, His Majesty's reply is only four words, "Arrow on the string".
After getting the callback, Yun Jiu wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, Rao is a general of a hundred battles, and it is inevitable that he will be nervous before the battle. Relocate the positions of the four US alert ships to the monitoring range of the US radar. Admiral Yun could not help but give a thumbs up to the US Navy's combat quality, and their radar search range covered all the sea areas off the Yangtze River estuary, making it impossible for an attack from the sea to bypass their surveillance.
After staring at the map for a few minutes of hesitation, Commander Yun smiled. "Wusongkou is not Pearl Harbor, and Shanghai is not Hawaii surrounded by water. This is China, the Asia-Pacific region, and the territory of the Royal Navy and Air Force! ”
"My territory, of course, I am in charge!" Air Force General Yun Jiu ended his thinking with a domineering statement. "Order the Navy submarines in the East China Sea to sink those US destroyers for me. The planes of Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Jining, Zibo, and Qingdao took off half an hour ahead of schedule and launched an attack ahead of schedule. Long Xiaotian and the Helleye troops in Taoyuan, Taiwan, were ordered to fly around the mainland and advance at high altitudes above Fujian and Zhejiang, with the bombing targets unchanged. The other units of Taiwan and the forces of Japan, the Ryukyus, and the DPRK were ordered to carry out the original plan, not to drop the last bomb, and not to return home. ”
Telegrams were sent from the Natuna base in the South Seas, and the latest orders were transmitted to ten airfields around the East China Sea.
The pilots began to pack their clothes, the ground crews were busy refueling and hanging up their bombs, and the mechanics were doing the final checks before the planes took off. At this moment when the sun was about to rise, Jeju was in action, Kagoshima was in action, Naha and Kadena were in action, and earlier were several airfields on mainland China and a strategic bomber force in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Their flight on land is not without the discovery of the country/army, but they are accustomed to seeing the golden dragon symbol, and they have not yet changed from the habitual thinking that the two sides are allies during the Anti-Japanese War, and there are many soldiers who saw such a large group for the first time, and they jumped and waved their arms excitedly.
From officers to soldiers, no one reacted to the appearance of a group of aircraft in their defense area, and it should be reported. At the speed of the Royal Air Force fighters, the Tianlong fighters that took off from the northern airfield did not need an hour's flight to reach Shanghai at all, and the little time they could react was also wasted by the happy soldiers who were jumping, and by the time the bombers that took off a little later and attacked from the sea were discovered by the US Navy destroyers, the Tianlong aircraft group had already flown over Wuxi. By the time Nanjing's air force units reacted and took off the single-seat meteor they had just bought in the United States, the air battle on the Huangpu River had already begun.
One hundred and twenty air superiority J40-E Tianlong fighters, first and the US aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexington took off eighteen furious encounters, F-1 Fury and P-86 Sabre are very similar in appearance, is the US Navy's most valued swept wing single-seat carrier-based aircraft, carrying the AIM-9 "Sidewinder" air-to-air missile, which is an air combat missile designed with infrared as a guide, for the Tianlong that needs to maintain stable flight to provide semi-active radar guidance after launching the fairy penguin, there is a considerable threat.
However, because the US Navy's defense focus was on the sea, and the Royal Air Force's attack on the mainland, the national/military side did not give timely warnings, resulting in only 18 F-1s on the Saratoga and Lexington, and the siege of 120 Tianlong, coupled with the most excellent guidance performance of the Fairy Penguin air-to-air missiles in this era, the air battle lasted only 22 minutes, and the sky of Shanghai became the world of the Royal Air Force. This was the first air-to-air missile firing in the history of human air combat, and it was also the first time that a Draco fighter was shot down in actual combat -- three Dracons were hit by rattlesnakes while guiding fairy penguins in level flight.
The F-1 rage, which is still taking off one after another on the aircraft carrier, is often beaten into fireworks in the process of climbing. Wusongkou was also unusually small because of the excessive density of US warships when they were berthed, which made the US anti-aircraft firepower extremely concentrated and fierce, but it also caused the large warships of the Pacific Fleet to lose their mobile type.
It was precisely this that brought disaster to the US warship.
The Helleye strategic bombers can start dropping bombs at an altitude of 5,000 meters, and the position of their bombs is simply outside the US military's anti-aircraft fire circle, and the aerial bombs use inertia to draw a beautiful arc and smash into Wusongkou, while the Helleye can easily climb up and leave the range of US firepower.
Several warships have been shot, and if we continue like this, we will be blown up and sunk by them sooner or later, these yellow-skinned monkeys raised by bitches, they are fighting without declaring war!" Hurry, hurry! Order the ships to leave the harbor, maintain battle formation, and avoid bombs. Admiral Kimmel prided himself on his calmness, but soon he realized that he had made another stupid mistake.
No navy could leave the port and line up in such a bombardment very quickly. This is Wusongkou, not Pearl Harbor, and in order to adapt to the muddy Wusong Naval Base, the order in which the Pacific warships are berthed is not the same as when they were at Pearl Harbor. This confuses the order of departures between the ships, not to mention the increased intensity of the bombardment from the air - the Royal Air Force bomber units flying from the surface of the sea have joined the battle one after another.
Although the current ship-to-ship missiles cannot cause fatal wounds to battleships because of the light charge, the Hong's Penguin using passive radar guidance can reach 80 percent of the accuracy rate of attacking large sea targets, and the pilots of the Tianlong fighters are mostly aimed at two Lexington-class aircraft carriers with a displacement of more than 30,000 tons, and the successive explosions sounded on the Saratoga and the Lexton Star, although they did not sink, but the flight deck was destroyed. Both aircraft carriers quickly lost the ability to take off and land aircraft.
This made the attacks of the Royal Air Force pilots even more unscrupulous, and the dense anti-aircraft fire network woven by six battleships and three heavy cruisers of the Pacific Fleet could not frighten the brave bomber pilots, and the H36 Howler group that carried out low-altitude bombing continued to dive, dropping only two 250-kilogram armor-piercing shells at an altitude of less than 500 meters, and even several Howler pilots who were hit by anti-aircraft fire gave up the opportunity to parachute and controlled the planes to go straight to the vital parts of the US ships.
A reporter who had the audacity to watch the battle from a distance captured several such photos and exclaimed: "Is this a kamikaze?" ”
Of course not, the Japanese army's assault on Jushui in the later stages of the war of aggression against China was because the planes lagged behind the Han Air Force and the mainland was about to be captured, and there was no way to come up with a suicide tactic.
But the Royal Air Force obviously does not need this, and His Majesty has emphasized countless times on various occasions that "people are more important than weapons and equipment!" In times of danger, pilots can parachute, sailors can abandon ships, we dare to fight, but we do not fight recklessly! ”
But...... At one moment, the brave bomber pilots of the Royal Air Force, for the first and last time, disobeyed His Majesty's orders, and they gave up their chance to live and crashed into the American warship without hesitation. They have defended the dignity of the Chinese nation with their lives -- this is China's maritime frontier, this is the territory of the golden dragon, and this is ...... The sacred is undefiled.