Under the blue sky, the murky waves crashed against the reef on the shore, splashing patches of gray-white foam.

There are no stunning beaches, no seagulls skimming low, only the heavy smell of gunsmoke, the smell of burnt dead human flesh, and the screech of rocket artillery that occasionally falls on you. In this steel hell that is gradually turning into blood and fire, even the seagulls know the opportunity to avoid it early.

On 30 July, British and Japanese warships arrived in the waters off Shanghai, and on this day, due to sudden changes in the climate, the air force was unable to dispatch due to the thunderstorms that are common in the Shanghai area in summer. Under the cover of naval guns, the Anglo-Japanese forces separately began to land on the beach in the outer areas of Shanghai.

The target of the British attack was the Zhoushan Islands, which hung alone in the sea, as a springboard for attacking Shanghai. After the failure of the intervention in June, the British and Japanese sides have given up their original contempt and have begun to pay attention to their opponents.

At the beginning of the battle, the British advance in Zhoushan was very smooth, and under the cover of twenty warships and guns, the landing force easily landed on Zhoushan Island.

The Red Army set up a large number of defensive positions on Zhoushan Island at several suitable landing sites, but under the heavy bombardment of the large-caliber naval guns of 20 warships, all the positions were ploughed by shells.

Due to the harsh climate, there are no nasty "flies" in the sky to harass. Under the cover of artillery fire, the British colonial troops were able to grab the stalls very lightly, and the whole process met little resistance - the only resistance was the occasional sporadic large-caliber mortar from the anticline from the island's terrain.

When the Anglo-Japanese forces occupied the main position of the Red Army on the outer edge of Zhoushan Island, they were surprised to find that all of them were camouflaged positions. There were only cannons disguised in wood and bamboo, and dummies in clothes. The large number of troops stationed there, as reflected in the aerial photographs taken during the reconnaissance of the naval aviation two days ago, have all disappeared.

The landing force, with the British troops as the main force, quickly understood what they were going to encounter here as they gradually took control of the whole island.

They were greeted first by the ubiquitous mines, and secondly, by the cold guns and cannons that rang out from time to time.

From the beginning. The Red Army had no intention of fighting the Anglo-Japanese forces in Zhoushan. The anti-landing positions arranged on the periphery of the beach were all camouflage positions at all. The Red Army kept only one force of 2,000 men on the island for inland raids. After the liberation of Zhoushan in early June, realizing the importance of the place, the Red Army immediately prepared for a long-term guerrilla war on the island.

How to do it. One is to move the islanders. The second is to set up secret supply points at multiple locations on the island, and the third is to transport a large amount of special equipment to the island.

Camouflage positions set up on the perimeter. Let the British and Japanese fleets make a false alarm, and after a whole day of shelling. A lot of shells were wasted. What really caused them trouble was that there were landmines everywhere. Especially the treacherous thunder.

The first day after landing on the island. Because I don't know. Hundreds of British interventionists were injured and injured by mines, and dozens were killed.

What is more annoying than the mines is the cold guns and cold guns fired from time to time by the Red Army hiding in the hills and dense forests. Although at most two or three people were injured at a time. But for the occupying forces, the mental stress caused by this constant harassment is enormous.

Zhoushan Island is a standard hilly terrain. The high hills account for 9%, the low hills account for 61%, the plains 30%, and the highest Taohua Island Confrontation Mountain has the highest elevation of 544 meters. It is hilly and lush with vegetation, while the land area is more than 500 square kilometers. An elite mountain guerrilla force of 2,000 people was hiding on the island, and it was impossible to sweep it up in a short time.

On July 31, the British threw more than 6,000 troops into Zhoushan Island. Relying on their huge military superiority, they soon took control of the flatter coastal plains. and squeezed out the Red Army's raiding forces two kilometers away from the landing, after which more personnel and supplies began to land on the island.

When landing on the Zhoushan Islands, both the British and the Japanese played some "little cleverness".

The British have always regarded the lower reaches of the Yangtze River as their "own land" and were extremely reluctant to ask the Japanese to come and help. The Zhoushan Islands were regarded by them as an important springboard, and the British deliberately demanded that they occupy the island alone, and threw the hard bone of Shanghai to the Japanese to gnaw, so when they landed on Zhoushan Island, they only asked the Japanese to send naval and ship support. In the opinion of the British. No matter how Zhoushan Island is, it is just an isolated island, isolated in the open sea, it is easy for the British to control it, and if the Japanese want to take Shanghai alone, they must have a bloody battle with the Red Army in the early stage. After the defeat of the Japanese and the Red Army, it was too late for the British to go to the fishermen to make a profit.

The Japanese, on the other hand, have long coveted Shanghai, the most beautiful part of China. The British's reluctance to gnaw hard bones and want their teammates to "top the cow" first and then pick up the ben family is also exactly what they want. And they have learned the lesson of last month's fiasco, they think that they are fully prepared, and at the same time after going to the heart of the enemy, they can completely rely on their own strength to take Shanghai.

But in the end, both sides of the idea fell through.

As soon as they landed on Zhoushan Island, the British colonial troops, who were accustomed to bullying the indigenous people in Southeast Asia and India, began to be entertained by all kinds of "oriental" guerrilla tactics full of intrigue and intrigue.

The ubiquitous harassment of mines and cold guns and cannons, although annoying, caused only trouble rather than a threat to the Anglo-Japanese forces that were overwhelmed by the soldiers.

However, if there is more "trouble", it will also hurt. After the successful landing on Zhoushan Island, the British did not realize what they would encounter on the island.

On Zhoushan Island in summer, the weather can change. There are still thunderstorms during the day, but at night the sky is clear, the moon is clear and the stars are sparse, and tomorrow will be a good day.

That night, it should be said that in the early morning of the next day, at two o'clock in the morning of 1 August, more than 20 planes flew from the direction of Ningbo and flew over Zhoushan Island by the moonlight. At the same time, the Red Army lurking on the island also went out at the same time, using mortars to fire a flare on the perimeter to help indicate the target.

The 20 planes were all Wave 2 trainer planes, which flew at a low altitude over Zhoushan Island. Dozens of rounds of incendiary gasoline bows and small fire bullets were thrown at the barracks of the garrison on the island. Then he slammed the bullet and patted his ass and left. More than 100 people were injured or killed in the bombing, but the biggest loss was that the supplies that had been brought to the island in the early stage were swept away in the air raids.

And that's just the beginning.

On 5 August, British Minister Winston Churchill, who was visiting the new Emperor Takahito in Tokyo, Japan, was "lucky" to meet the first batch of wounded soldiers who had been withdrawn from the Zhoushan front.

Those who went with him to Nagasaki to visit the wounded, in addition to a bunch of foreign journalists, also brought boxes of "medals".

Nagasaki's hospitals are now crowded with thousands of wounded soldiers who have retired from the front line and are missing arms and legs, and journalists from all over the world have a keen sense of smell before Churchill arrives for a political show. I interviewed them a step earlier. It happened in the war in China. Now it is the object of the world's attention. Everyone wants to see what the confrontation between the Red Bolsheviks and the empire on which the sun never sets will be.

Those who were lying in Japanese hospitals were treated, except for a small number of British (crab) officers and soldiers. More of it is the Indian Asan. The Indians here speak very non-standard Indian English. He is complaining to foreign reporters one after another.

"Bullets from the Bolshevi in China. Very brutal. A single shot can shatter the lower half of a person's body. I heard that it was rebuilt from an anti-tank gun sold to them by the Germans. We strongly urge the British government to protest to Germany. The Red Army was forbidden to use such murderous and inhuman weapons. ”

"If you have a grudge against someone, just salute them on the battlefield, and the opponent's sniper will help you solve the problem."

"Zhoushan Island is full of landmines. All the houses are uninhabitable. Because God knows which one was mined or fired at regular intervals. On the first day of landing, we didn't know about this, so we just checked the local houses and moved in. As a result, at twelve o'clock that night, all the houses burst into flames. It turned out that the Bolsheviks had already buried their bombing slips inside. Our sappers later found an unexploded dud in an intact house, his place buried deeply. The camouflage was very good, it was made with a German-made alarm clock, and the time was set to explode at twelve o'clock that night. Judging by the traces of camouflage, they were buried there many days ago, and they have been waiting for us to come over for a long time. It's such a small trap that buried half of our battalion."

And a few crippled Australian soldiers kept complaining in front of reporters about the various "murderous" weapons used by the Red Army.

An Australian soldier missing a leg cried to reporters:

"Compared to those cold guns that go on all day. What we hate more are landmines. Most of the mines are crudely made, but they are very difficult to remove, and many times the mine detectors do not work. Many of those mines were made of pottery shards or even clay embryos, and there were not many charges, but I would rather they charge more and up. I lost this leg. How will you live in the future? ”

When Churchill made a show of pinning a medal in front of another Australian soldier who had lost half of his foot, the soldier lying on the hospital bed unceremoniously raised his right leg, which had had all his toes amputated, and handed it to Churchill, thus embarrassing the British minister, who had been vigorously advocating a tough policy toward China.

It had been six days since the British troops landed on Zhoushan Island, but until now, they were far from being able to control the entire island. The Red Army was full of strange and strange battles, endless raids and harassment wars, and sparrow warfare. Piecemeal, like knocking kraft candy, more than 2,000 people have been gnawed off the landing army.

In the past six days, the British have lost more than 500 casualties on the island, but more than 2,000 have been wounded, sick and disabled, and Nagasaki has only received some of the wounded, while the other part has been sent back to Hong Kong for treatment. So far, the number of eliminated island guerrillas has been determined, and the number of corpses of the Red Army that can be identified is less than a hundred.

The British army did not lack experience in regular warfare in positional warfare, nor did it lack experience in counter-guerrilla warfare in the plains, but it lacked only the experience of conducting counter-guerrilla warfare in the densely jungled hilly areas -- even in later generations, guerrilla warfare in the mountains covered by vegetation was the most troublesome problem for all military powers.

After the First World War, the British Navy and Army had been in Nanshan for more than 15 years. The Red Army, who was guided by Lin Han, a traverser, was originally from guerrilla warfare in the southern mountains, and arrived in Zhoushan one step ahead of the British to familiarize themselves with the environment.

From August 1. Every night, the air force from the direction of Ningbo will send a large number of waves to Zhoushan Island to bomb, and the target of the bombing is very clear, that is, the materials on the Zhoushan airport under construction, and the materials at the dock are also the objects of their bombing.

Having adapted to the night raids of the planes, the British learned to disperse the supplies sent ashore before dark, which reduced the losses of the bombing, but this night raid once or twice a day still bothered the garrison on the island. Because of the continuous raids of the Red Army, the hoarding of materials on the island encountered great trouble.

Compared to a sneak attack like a shop at night. The island is buried everywhere in a "strange" way, and the "strange" landmines are the biggest headache. Before going to the island. The British, who had been prepared for a long time, brought a large number of metal mine detectors, but on Zhoushan Island, the demining sappers encountered pottery mines bubbling with lack of morality. And these mines are deliberately "insufficient" in power.

Under the guidance of Lin Han, the Red Army made a large number of ceramic mines. Many of them use ordinary black (crab) fire (crab) medicine charges. Not very powerful. Just want to be able to blow up the injured and disabled.

In order to increase the "post-facto lethality", these mines are often infiltrated with feces or broken porcelain fragments that have invaded in dung buckets as fragments, which are detonated once stepped on. Bacteria on the scattered porcelain tiles are very susceptible to infecting the wounded. It's August. It is the peak season for bacteria to multiply. If the slightest treatment is not properly treated, the wound will often be severely infected and will not be threatened with amputation.

The British troops on the island suffered countless times from the mines. I don't know how many of these clay mines are buried on the island, and metal detectors can't detect them at all.

The Red Army's mine-laying was not just a simple wait-and-wait manner, and sometimes it was also an initiative to attack. Usually they infiltrate the British-controlled area at night, then bury a few shots in the path they must pass, and then the next day, unaware that the previously safe road has become a minefield, the British accidentally step on it, and then pay the price.

In line with the principle that one wounded soldier needs two healthy people to carry it, most of the mines on the island are not very powerful. It's just that you can completely cripple your opponent, but there are exceptions to the "murderous" guys.

That is the famous German "S" mine in World War II, the Chinese version of the anti-infantry jumping mine, also known as the "waist mine". Once this kind of mine is stepped on, the fire (crab) powder in the lower part of it will be detonated first, and the mine will be bounced to the height of the waist before exploding.

The industrial capacity of the Red Army today is not capable of producing mines with such precision as the Germans. The height of the explosion after this kind of thunder jump cannot be precisely controlled. But the quality is not enough, the quantity is compensated. According to Lin Han's opinion, this kind of earth-made thunder jumping mine also chooses pottery as the material as much as possible, and is subject to the influence of the material, and the strike distance is much less at the beginning of the explosion. But the infantry that stepped on it would definitely not end well. Those porcelain pieces stained with feces on the infantry, even if it is only a little bit of skin, is very troublesome.

Compared to landmines, the 13mm sniper rifle that guarantees to hit the torso and see God is nothing.

Disturbed by the ubiquitous landmines, although the British sent more than 10,000 people to the island, the area of activity was greatly restricted. After straying into a minefield during the night attack counterattack and losing more than 100 men, the British troops on the island now became cautious in every move. The task of clearing the islands of the guerrillas has also become elusive.

Sleeping Youbo 2 helped to "check the shop" at night, and there were mines everywhere when walking, and the British troops who went to the island enjoyed another kind of hospitality in six days was cold artillery.

The British troops on the island, relying on the oppressive superiority in the number of troops, took control of the so-called "absolute control area" on the island within a few days of landing on the island, which was about six kilometers long and about five kilometers wide. It is not that they do not want to control the area even more, but that Zhoushan Island is full of hills, and if it expands any further, they will have to go into the ravines and play hide and seek with the Red Army, who are already accustomed to fighting guerrilla attacks in the mountains. Filled with mines and cold guns, the British colonial troops, who were not highly motivated, could not accomplish this task at all—at least not for a short time.

The Red Army's mountain infantry still had a way to deal with the night raids and harassment by strengthening their vigilance and increasing the number of secret posts. But in the face of the shells that came from a distance and came at night, the British army was helpless.

In addition to using the same Lee Enfield rifles as the British, the Red Army left behind on Zhoushan Island to fight guerrillas was armed with the same style of 81-mm mortars that had been sold to the artillery party by the British. During the sneak attack at night, the Red Army was not greedy for merit, and left with two shells from a distance.

Mortars have a limited range and have fewer shells fired at one time. The threat was not great, but what really caused the British a headache was a weapon that did not require a launcher - a 107-mm rocket launcher.

AK47 rifles, RPG rocket launchers, and Chinese-made 107mm rocket launchers, which were nicknamed the three major artifacts of guerrilla warfare by netizens in later generations:

AK47 and RPG bazooka of this era, although the current Germany has secretly made it, but for the sake of secrecy, it did not appear in China, but 107 mm rockets. However, it has been tested on the Chinese battlefield in advance.

Later generations when Lin Han was watching a military TV show. I have read the introduction of 107 mm rockets in the column, and I am very impressed by them.

The reason why 107-mm rocket artillery is called the three major artifacts of guerrilla warfare. One of them is that it is extremely lightweight, easy to carry, and when using some special "earth method". You don't even need a launcher to launch. And that's the most important thing.

The third day after the British landed on the island. began to enjoy the hospitality of 107mm rocket artillery.

Before World War II, Germany was defeated by the Treaty of Versailles. It was forbidden to develop cannons - this is why the German artillery manufacturing process during World War II was so bad in history, and too much homework was pulled down in the past. At this time, they had to study rocket artillery to circumvent the Treaty of Versailles. And at the same time. The Soviet Union was also conducting research on rocket artillery. The Soviets later launched the famous Katyusha rocket launcher, while the Germans developed a 210-mm large-caliber rocket launcher.

In this plane, Lin Han's greatest contribution to the research of rocket artillery is to provide a "design concept" suitable for "guerrilla" raid operations.

The famous 107 mm rocket launchers produced in China in later generations were not advanced in technology, and they could be manufactured with pre-World War II technology. What really calls an artifact is his design ideas and the resulting tactics of use.

107 mm caliber, is taking into account ergonomic factors. It is the best caliber for infantry back, with moderate weight and great power. When used in raid operations, a soldier can move with the army with a single shot.

Gun mounts are cheap, and they can be fired using the earth method even without a gun mount, which is even more important in raid warfare.

Usually during night raids, the Red Army's night raiding units were dispatched about one squad at a time. Bring several rounds of 107mm rockets. After approaching the British garrison several hundred meters at night, the infiltration troops only need to take a shovel or sapper shovel, find a good firing site, build a mound of earth with a shovel or sapper shovel, build a launch pad with earth, and put rockets on it. Simply aim at the target, then light the fuse behind with a match or lighter, and the rocket will shoot out like a monkey.

The range of such rockets, which are not fired with the help of launchers, is generally only six or seven hundred meters, and most of the targets are sentry posts or barracks on the front line. Although the accuracy of the hit is not high, if anyone is unlucky enough to eat a shot, it is definitely a nightmare for people within tens of meters in diameter.

This method of firing was seen by Lin Han in later generations from military programs, after telling the German designer about this concept. They quickly developed a German version of the "guerrilla warfare artifact" and brought it to China for trial this year, and the British were the first to enjoy it. The Anglo-Japanese intervention was delayed until the end of July, which gave the Reds, who had been given new equipment, a long enough time to acclimatize to the equipment.

On 2 August, the British sent a large number of military supplies to the temporary wharf through the guò steamer, and before they had time to disperse, the Red Army on the island quietly advanced six 12-mounted rocket launchers to a distance of three kilometers, and fired 72 rockets in 10 seconds, covering the entire wharf, causing huge casualties and destroying most of the military supplies that had been transported to the wharf with great difficulty.

Although the British near the dock quickly counterattacked and found the bombed rocket launchers that had not had time to be transported, the Red Army did not feel any pain at all - because the most important feature of rocket artillery was that the shells were much more expensive than the gun carriages. The gun carriage is just ordinary seamless steel pipes and brackets, and it is not worth much.

The Red Army on Zhoushan Island had more than 1,000 rounds of German-made rockets, and the British garrison would suffer until they were finished.

When the British troops stationed on Zhoushan Island were being entertained on the island by all kinds of "guerrilla tactics" from later generations, Germany, the German Führer Hitler, who was far away in Europe, was talking about his "concept of war" in front of the American reporters who came to interview him.

Adolf dressed as Hitler. Hannah put on a compassionate look and said, "Actually, I am a peace-loving person. In my opinion, in person. There is nothing more stupid than waging war. My Chinese friend told me that he was a good fighter and had no great feats in war! The most important thing that Germans should learn is to sell the war, as the Americans did, and not to go to war themselves. Isn't the current situation in China very good? I just sent tens of thousands of rifles, and for a small amount of money, I brought huge benefits to Germany! ”

Now "Hitler". His or her prestige is rising at a high rate in Germany. Both military and civilian. All were extremely satisfied with Hitler. Although Hitler supported the Bolsheviks, the Junkers' nemesis, it was the Chinese Bolsheviks, separated from Germany by half a world. What are the Junkers to worry about?

If it was a few years ago. The German military still complained about Hitler's covert aid to the Communists. But now every German admires him greatly. From China's standpoint, Germany bet on both red and white, not only earning huge arms profits. It is easier to pit the old adversary, Britain, and directly turn the benefits of Britain's colonization of China into ashes over the past century.

Guerrilla warfare of the Red Army on Zhoushan Island. Inflicted considerable casualties on the British army. But the biggest problem here is that it hangs out of the sea, with the depletion of resources and the elimination of British troops. Sooner or later, it will settle down, and it will take time.

And what the British people lack most today is precisely time.

The fierce folk sentiment in China requires them to do their best to solve the Chinese problem in order to "stop the loss".

Fearing the resulting domino effect, the rest of the colonial-based China had a new round of anti-colonial revolution in the "Gao Yu Dynasty", and they must also resolutely deal with the "China question" to the best of their ability.

What's more, the rapidly rising Germany and the Americans who stand on the sidelines while "shouting and cheering at their teammates" while secretly stabbing behind their backs are watching the sun never set on the empire make a fool of themselves in China. After the Red Army occupied the entire territory of Shanghai. With the connivance and instigation of the Americans, several American passenger and cargo cruise ships carrying humanitarian relief departed from San Francisco and arrived in Shanghai a few days before the start of the war.

The red-necked president of Ghana was very happy to "gift" the Chinese in China to return home, and the media in the United States also praised this as a great act of "purifying the United States." And under Lin Han's covert manipulation. In the United States, there has even been another movement to "send people of color home," with some racists taking the initiative to donate money to send Chinese back to China -- and the last similar movement has to trace back to the end of the last century, when Americans sent some of their blacks back to their African homeland and established Liberia as an African country.

The racists in the United States are "cool" about this, but the consequences of their actions have also greatly strengthened the technological power in the hands of Red China. What made the British even more depressed was. Most of these people who were sent back from the United States were young people who had received various technical and even military training in the United States, and the Americans' intentions in sending "Chinese people back to their hometowns" during this sensitive period can be imagined.

Although the British government has solemnly protested and negotiated with Germany and the United States, they have both rejected it on the grounds that "this is the personal freedom of citizens under the capitalist system". For these two uneasy and well-meaning countries, the British can only stare dryly.

The Germans are more explicit than the Americans.

The British government got the information. Hitler had already sent a large number of so-called "volunteer pilots" to China, and inflicted great losses on the Japanese in the early air battles. It is even rumored that most of the planes defending China's skies over Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu provinces today are flown by German and Soviet pilots, so they were able to achieve the "miraculous" results ahead.

When the British were caught up in guerrilla warfare on Zhoushan Island in both air and land directions, the Japanese, who hurried to Shanghai in a vain attempt to "grab meat to eat," also ran into bags on the way to Shanghai.

In the course of Japan's attack on Shanghai, the British army, which was still consolidating the Zhoushan base under the pretext that the main force still needed to be repaired, and the large force was resting in Taiwan, only sent the navy to support the Japanese fleet head-on for the time being.

The second strategic operation in Shanghai was usually kicked off by Red Army planes.

The British dispatched a flotilla led by the aircraft carrier Furious and the battleship Barham to approach the mouth of the Yangtze River in Shanghai. This time, the Japanese, who had learned the lessons of the previous time, sent out the Kaga aircraft carrier, which was being renovated, and the Chisei aircraft carrier, which had been simply repaired.

The aircraft carrier Kaga has just entered the dockyard for major renovations this year, and it has only been four months now. After the failure of the first intervention, the Japanese shipyards, realizing the importance of air supremacy, worked overtime overnight to reluctantly restore the aircraft carrier, which had just undergone "major surgery," to a state that could take off and land aircraft. At this time, the transformation of the Kaga aircraft carrier had not yet been completed, but the useless eight-inch turret on the ship had been removed, and the number of aircraft carried had increased.

In this month's emergency repair, in addition to repairing the damage on its body, the Chicheng aircraft carrier also dismantled the eight-inch guns that were useless in naval battles and increased the number of aircraft carriers.

Although the two aircraft carriers are not completely improved and can only be said to be semi-finished products, they are capable of taking off and landing aircraft for combat. After the air battle in Fujian, the Japanese have already admitted in their hearts that the quality of the aircraft in service is inferior to that of their opponents, but in a short time, where can they find fighters that can fight the FW90? Even the United Kingdom, which has a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour and can compete with the FW90, is still conducting test flights on its own territory to improve, and it will be half a year before it is necessary to equip a large number of troops. The current British Navy, officially equipped, is still with a strong World War I color of the "glove fighter" (that is, called glove, what a strange name), this is a biplane fighter, the performance is not much better than the Nakajima 90 that was slaughtered (crab) in the sky over Shanghai not long ago. As for the Royal Air Force, their main aircraft is the Bulldog fighter, although this aircraft is more than 300 kilometers away, but its performance is comparable to that of the Hawker II.

The British are unaware, but the Japanese are "hungry" and overconfident in themselves. Seeing that they could get the British to go into the water together, in order not to miss the current "best historical opportunity to invade China," they did not wait for the new aircraft to equip the troops, but still took most of their belongings to Shanghai without regard for a single thing. The Japanese not only dispatched Chisei, two aircraft carriers in Kaga, three battle cruisers of the Kangang class, but even the treasure of the Japanese town, the battleship Nagato. (To be continued......)

PS: I wanted to update it yesterday.,The result was reviewed.,Dragged to the present to update.,I'm dizzy.,It's actually "black fire (crab) medicine" is a prohibited word.。

Quite a few typos were corrected after 12 o'clock