This chapter is a fake update for the time being, and a new one is being written, and it will be changed around two to three o'clock in the middle of the night. Yesterday, when I wrote chapter 143, I only cared about writing the article, and I forgot the time, but I didn't update it in time, and for the sake of full attendance, I had to update 15,000 today, and it was a little too late. So I'll give you a holiday update here. It will change in the middle of the night.

As for the Japanese, the officers of the Marine Corps stationed in Shanghai and the Japanese River Fleet in China were happy to stir up trouble in China, "go alone," use this to start a war, and replicate the "Northeastern" miracle. It is a pity that at this critical moment in determining the fate of China, there was a change of severity in Japan, and the entire upper strata was in chaos, and now it has flawlessly dealt with the sudden changes that took place in South China.

Because on June 1, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito was assassinated in the imperial palace in Tokyo.

The person who can do such a thing is naturally Lin Han, a history smasher, a celebrity murderer - this is the title he crowned himself.

Since the assassination of Chang Kaishen, there have been more than ten historical celebrities who died at the hands of the "Lin Han family": Chang Kaishen, Roosevelt, Hoover, Hitler, a bunch of famous scientists in Europe and the United States, and high-ranking officials in Japan. The highest level is Chang

Kaishin, Roosevelt and Hitler, so they didn't move Churchill, it was Hannah and Lin Han who both felt that this British fat man might hurt Britain more if he stayed, and Stalin was because he was not good at killing.

As for the Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Lin Han dragged him to this juncture in order to plunge Japan into a brief period of civil strife at this time, without flawless concern for the drastic changes that were taking place in southern China.

The next chapter is being written, and it will be changed around three o'clock in the morning on the 17th. Don't worry, everyone. If you are reading books with the app of the starting point. You may have to delete the old ones and refresh them before you can see them. It hurts to read a book wirelessly at the starting point, and it will take about a day to two days to recover after the revision.

From 1 June, upon learning of the Red Army's fierce attacks on all the borders with the Nationalist Government's control area in Nanking, the British Government realized that the situation was not good.

On the same day, the British government made a strongly worded statement in Parliament, stating that the British Empire would not allow any foreign power to change the balance of power in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River - a statement that was later exploited by Lin Han. Subsequently, the four capital ships of the Yangtze River Fleet stationed in Shanghai, the Gannet, the Tern, the Falcon, and the Moth, as well as the Harrier Eagle, which was transferred back from Hong Kong, all set out to sail up the Yangtze River to Anqing, which was turning into a war zone, to carry out armed deterrence in the name of "protecting overseas Chinese."

After the Gannet incident. Britain strengthened the Far Eastern Fleet. The Moth and the Harrier were transferred to Shanghai. At the same time, the garrison in the Shanghai concession also increased by 800 people.

The British made a statement on 1 June, and on 2 June the five warships set out together, arriving at the outskirts of Anqing on 4 June.

It's a pity. The army of the Nationalist Government in Nanqing was even more unbearable than expected. The day before the arrival of the British. The defenders of Anqing bombed the plane in the sky. The artillery bombardment on the ground, the artillery bombardment of the ships on the river, and the joint reception of the water, land and air forces. After only 36 hours of support, the British pulled the flag and surrendered, and the British, who were late, did not even catch up with them to "collect the corpses".

With regard to the interference of foreign forces in China's Red Revolution, the Red Army had long been prepared and prepared. The British Yangtze River Fleet had barely left Shanghai when the Red Army headquarters in Wuhan received the news.

On 4 June, led by the Gannet, five river gunboats lined up in a straight line and appeared on the river outside Anqing.

The commander of the British Yangtze River Fleet in China, Mayt, stood at the bow of the ship, looking at Anqing, where the smoke had not been extinguished not far away.

Unlike the members of Congress who liked to talk about war against the Red Army, Commander Mette was not an aggressive hawk, but on the contrary, he was even opposed to the practice of driving the boat to Anqing for demonstration.

"That would only be self-inflicted!"

Before leaving Shanghai, he spoke very clearly to the British ambassador to China, Sir Judgan. (Note: Historically, Britain and China did not establish an ambassadorial-level relationship until after September 1935, and both were minister-level before.) However, because of the Treaty of London, the two sides established a higher level of diplomatic relations earlier.)

He said to Ambassador Judkan without concealment: "The people of this country have woken up! The effect of such armed demonstrations will not be very good. ”

Ambassador Judgan sighed with a sad face: "I agree with you too, but this is what Downing Street means. ”

In China, they know far better how serious the situation in China has become, than the group of lawmakers sitting under sun umbrellas in London's Downing Street, drinking afternoon tea. Although the British newspapers did everything they could to disparage the Red Army in the south as a red "Yihekou Tuan" with long braids, arquebuses, and invulnerability, and blamed the defeat on the incompetence of the Nationalist Government in Nanking for "calling them pigs and insulting them," they were in China very well aware of the strength of the red forces in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

Of course, they did not know that the British media's deliberate disparagement of the Red Army in southern China was entirely behind Lin Han's efforts. Anyway, "scandalizing (crab) Chinese" is something that the British like to see, and Lin Han will meet their needs and push more hard in the back, so that the British can continue to maintain the "great power superiority" of "as long as a few cannons are erected on the water, China can be brought to its knees".

Before leaving, Ambassador Judgan complained to Commander Maiden: "Now the attitude towards China on the other side of Downing Street is full of impetuous atmosphere. As early as this time last year, I repeatedly warned them that if we did not increase our support for the Nationalist Government in Nanking and increase the number of troops stationed in China, we would lose China in two years at most. But in Downing Street, under the control of the traitors of the Labour Party"

In the past year, all the reinforcements for the British troops stationed in Shanghai were the transfer of a thousand colonial troops from India and Singapore, and the addition of two river gunboats, and nothing more.

Britain's "investment" in China was insufficient, and Lin Han's manipulation of the media in Britain and the belittlement of the Red Army in southern China and the "killing" of the strength of the British fleet in China were external causes, but the real reason was the sharp decline in Britain's national strength after World War I. It is difficult to control China as firmly as before, not because they are unwilling, but because they cannot.

Gone are the days when the British did whatever they wanted in China, like the surging river under their feet.

In the Wanxian Massacre in 1926, the British Yangtze River Fleet shelled the county seat in Wanxian, and was also retaliated by the local garrison.

At that time, they had already seen the power of the Chinese people once, but what really woke him up was the gannet incident more than half a year ago. At that time, the Red Army in the shore batteries did not hesitate to open fire, and afterwards the British government swallowed its anger and avoided it. Let him see the weakness of the British Empire. As well as the weakness of the Yangtze fleet.

After the Gannet's post-mortem investigation, the British Navy confirmed that the opponent was using about four cannon guns of about four inches at that time, and the number was about four.

Where did the large-caliber cannons in the hands of the Red Army come from. The accepted version is from Soviet Russia. Stationed in Shanghai for half a year. Soviets. The Germans, frantically using Guò Shanghai as a transit point, transported a large number of munitions to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. In Shanghai, he saw it all. More than nine months have passed since last year, and God knows how many cannons the Red Soviet Union and the German profiteers who pretended to be crazy have smuggled into the Red Bolsheviks -- since the fact that Hitler (pseudo) and the Red Army were engaged in arms dealings was exposed, the world's perception of Hitler has now changed, and the public opinion of Britain and the United States has been reversed into a pretending to be a crazy militant who is in fact a utilitarian and immoral Jewish profiteer, which embarrassed Hitler, who was once known for being anti-Semitic.

When he was about to arrive at Anqing, Commander Maiden gave strict orders to the captains of the five warships not to fire their guns without his permission. He knew very well in his heart that the Red Army had powerful enemy artillery in its hands, and that the channel of the Yangtze River was too narrow, and the weak armor of the river gunboats could not withstand the direct fire of the four-inch cannon. In the past six months, there has been intelligence that the German profiteer Führer even secretly sold a batch of 150-mm naval guns that had been "eliminated" to China. The Nanjing Nationalist Government did not receive this batch of artillery, and it is self-evident who its users will be.

Commander Maiden knew very well that his warships would never be able to fire at 150-millimeter naval guns, but he was more worried about the large number of Red Army planes that had appeared over Anqing a few days earlier. According to the news from all sides, this was the result of the Chinese god stick named Lin Han tricking Chairman Song and pulling most of the air force in his hands away to join the Bolsheviks.

On the river, about five kilometers from Anqing, Commander Maiden suddenly received an alarm from the ships behind him in the command room, and it turned out that some suspected artillery objects had been found on the hills on both sides of the Yangtze River.

Frightened, Commander Maiden picked up the binoculars and looked in the direction pointed by the lookouts on both sides of the Yangtze River, and sure enough, he found more than a dozen long barrel-like objects stretching out of the river on the mountains on both sides. In the telescope, Commander Maiden saw that the objects that were suspected to be cannon barrels were covered with leaf camouflage nets, and the gun body could not be seen clearly, but judging from the outstretched barrels, this was at least a long-barreled cannon with a caliber of more than five inches, and the lethality of inland river ships was extremely huge. What's worse is that these guns are all placed in high places, with good firing angles, and they are available on both sides of the Yangtze River.

On the five battleships, a piercing battle alarm sounded, and the sailors on the ships hurriedly took their positions, carried the shells, loaded them, shook the gun mounts, and prepared for battle.

"We found out too late."

A drop of cold sweat ran from the corner of Maiden's forehead, and he knew very well in his heart what would happen to the river gunboats and the prepared heavy artillery on the shore. The opponent must have set up a shooting demarcation on the river in advance, and it is very likely that the shooting will be corrected in advance, and in the event of an exchange of fire, the first hit rate will be extremely high.

The Red Army had excellent artillery shooters, as evidenced by the incident with the Gannet. When firing at night, eight shells hit four, which is already quite telling.

Commander Maiden was in a dilemma, and when the grass and trees were all soldiers, a searchlight came from the river bank in the distance, and it was the Red Army on the shore who was sending light to communicate with them.

The message sent by the Red Army told the British that an air force anti-ship exercise was underway ahead and that they could not advance for the time being, and that the Red Army would send a transport boat to communicate with them in a few moments.

"What, anti-ship exercises?"

Commander Maiden then noticed that about two kilometers ahead, there was a very inconspicuous small fishing boat parked on the river.

"Is this a Chinese-style dismount?"

Commander Maiden was slightly angry, but he knew that the situation was not good. still agreed to the other party's permission to board the ship.

A few minutes later, a petrol-powered transport boat departed from the shore, carrying six crew members and speeding towards the Gannet.

Soon the people came on board, and there were four people on board, and the first one was a young soldier who looked like a commander, and his two thick black eyebrows were extremely eye-catching. He doesn't look like he's over thirty years old. Three people in his entourage. One is a translator, one is a guard, and one is holding a camera, a journalist.

British journalist aboard the Gannet. The scene of the four people getting on the ship was filmed. One of the photos of Commander Lin shaking hands with Commander Maiden. Ten days later, it was on the front page of The Times. And the title is "China in the Awakening". Commander Maiden, who was soft on the Red Army, was later criticized by the British press and the public.

And the accompanying Chinese reporters also took similar photos, the same. The photograph also appeared on the front page of the Xinhua Daily the next day, under the headline: Sunset Anqing - The Last Elegy for the Sunset Empire in China.

Decades later, after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Britain, when the British journalist visited China with the British mission, he met the commander surnamed Lin, who was already the marshal of the Republic at this time.

Even if he had not been tricked by the Red Army's camouflage artillery array, Commander Maiden did not have the courage to go to war, and in fact all the officers and men of the ship at that time lost the courage to provoke the war after twenty minutes.

Twenty minutes later, the "exercises" of the Red Army began.

There was a buzzing roar of planes in the sky, and the naval officers and sailors on the ship looked up together, and soon noticed a row of black dots in the northwest.

Through the guò telescope, Commander Maiden recognized that it was a Hawker II fighter developed and equipped for the U.S. Navy, which was later sold in large quantities to the Nationalist Government in Nanjing. However, Chairman Song was brutally tricked by the mysterious Chinese kung fu master, Taoist god Lin Han, and made the Bolshevik pilots he provided, and the result was that he joined the Red Army with planes and equipment.

There are a total of eight planes in the sky, with a two-person crew and four formations, which is different from the popular three-person crew in the United Kingdom, the V-shaped formation, and the formation is not too good-looking. (Three-person crew, V-shaped formation is a very useless formation in air combat, this kind of formation made the British Air Force suffer enough during the French campaign, and the two-plane formation was the mainstream of the right path in World War II)

After flying over the Yangtze River, eight Hawker II fighters, led by the long plane, began to dive down against the still fishing boat on the river, as the signal bombs fired from the shore.

The Hawker II was the first fighter in the world to be designed according to the standard of dive bombing, and although its air combat capability was a little worse, its dive bombing capability was excellent (in fact, the Hawker fighter was only a snack, and by the standards of 1934 and 1935, it was still an excellent fighter at that time). It's just that in this era of drastic changes in the speed of aircraft performance improvement, last year's classics often become obsolete the next year. Not to mention the Anti-Japanese War in 1937. ）

A piercing screech sounded.

Wind whistles were installed on the dive-swooping Hawker II fighters, and the planes were affected by the air currents when they dived, emitting a piercing screech, which made many British sailors watching from three kilometers away cover their ears. And Commander Maiden stood side by side with the Chinese commander with an extremely expression, raised his head, and looked coldly at the plane that dropped bombs in a dive.

The man who led the plane was Yu Sheng, a former Northeast pilot with the best aircraft skills in the Red Army, and when he was in Germany, he met Udet, the ace pilot of World War I, who was also a big man who was obsessed with dive bombing, and learned a lot of dive bombing skills from him, and spent a lot of energy to practice.

The rest took the lead, drove down at an angle of 60 degrees, dropped a 200-kilogram fire bomb suspended from the belly of the plane at an altitude of 300 meters, and then quickly straightened and leveled. It followed as if it were biting a fish, and seven planes followed suit, dropping bombs at about the same height.

Boom, boom, boom continuous explosions rang out one after another around the fishing boat, the sound was unexpectedly small, and the splash was not loud.

Commander Lin comforted Commander Maiden, whose face was a little pale, and said: "Don't worry about that boat, this is just bomb throwing training, we use practice bombs, we use ordinary black powder, and the charge is not very sufficient, and most of the charge is sand." ”

A few minutes later, the exercise ended. Eight planes bombed in full dive made a circle at an altitude of seven hundred meters above the head of the British fleet, and then flew north. Before they could disappear, another group of eight planes flew over the sky to the south, and as usual, they circled again at the same height above the head of the British fleet, and then flew away.

The sharp-eyed British crew could even see with the naked eye that the eight new planes also had a fire bomb hanging on the belly, but no one knew whether this fire bomb was filled with TN (crab) T fire powder or ordinary black powder with sand.

The sharp-eyed British crew could even see with the naked eye that the eight new planes also had a fire bomb hanging on the belly, but no one knew whether this fire bomb was filled with TN (crab) T fire powder or ordinary black powder with sand. (To be continued......)