At four o'clock in the morning, when the two aircraft carriers, Chicheng and Fengxiang, were preparing for the take-off of the plane, Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport and Hangzhou's Jianqiao Airport were also preparing for the take-off of the plane, and the Fuzhou Yixu Airport, which was thousands of miles away, was also busy loading bombs and refueling.

"The best way to destroy an enemy aircraft is to destroy it on the airfield."

Takasu Shiro knows this, and so does his opponent.

When the two aircraft carriers Chicheng and Fengxiang began to fly planes, they were only half an hour behind him, and the Yixu Airport in Fuzhou also began to take off planes. The DO17 bomber and two HE111s, which the Germans sent to China for combat testing, were loaded with bombs at this time and taxied off the runway in turn. They were followed by twenty FW90 fighters with drop fuel tanks.

The targets of their bombing were the airports of Taipei and Hsinchu in Taiwan.

When Nanxiang Maozhang's plane group was diswinged in Shanghai and suffered a big defeat, these more than 30 Sino-German planes also succeeded in bombing the airports in Taipei and Hsinchu. More than 40 Army Type 92 fighters and critique planes parked at the airports of the two places were blown up unguarded, and the fuel depots and ammunition depots of the two airports were also destroyed. During the whole process, the defenders did not react at all, more than 30 planes, after dropping bombs, strafing bullets, and then patting their butts and walking away easily, leaving without even a bullet hole.

And the planes that took off from Hangzhou Miqiao Airport, their target was even greater, and it was the Chicheng and Fengxiang aircraft carriers that were stored as sea airports.

Lin Han's appetite is huge.

The Japanese had sea supremacy, within the threat of naval artillery. It would not be cost-effective for the Red Army to suffer great losses if it was to carry the landing force hard. During the Battle of Songhu in history, under the guidance of Chang Kaishendi, the artillery party of more than 100,000 troops meaninglessly threw their troops into the range of Japanese warship guns, and then was massacred. Although it was impossible for the leaders of the Red Army to make such a stupid mistake, Lin Han did not want to face those large-caliber battleship cannons too early.

On the side of the Red Army, there was a consensus at the top that there was a consensus on the struggle for air supremacy. As long as the aircraft carrier is heavily damaged or destroyed, in the next battle, the Japanese still want to play landing warfare. Without the cover of the aircraft, it is difficult to play.

The sinking of the Japanese aircraft carrier was not Lin Han's real purpose. What the Red Army needed most now was time, time to digest the newfound Nationalist Government in Nanking. As long as the Red Army is given half a year or even a few months to stabilize and consolidate its territory, even if there is no foreign aid. The Japanese or the British wanted to reach out in South China. You have to pay more than you do now.

When Takasu Shiro attacked the Shanghai airport. Almost all the pouring out of the nest, the same on the side of the Red Air Force. Under the construction of German instructors, a total of 80 Hawker II fighters in Shanghai and Hangzhou, all of which were hung with 200-kilogram bombs, and then under the escort of 40 FW90 and 12 HS129 attack planes, they took off from the airports in Hongqiao in Shanghai and Miqiao in Hangzhou.

The Hangzhou airfield, which was far away, took off 20 minutes first, and according to the plan, after bombing the Japanese ships, they would land at the nearest Shanghai airfield for refueling.

The plane that took off from Hongqiao Airport, under the guidance of Lin Han, first flew a semicircular small arc in the air to the southeast, avoiding Chicheng and Feng soaring the route of the aircraft group. Due to the accuracy of the "calculation", the planes that took off from Shanghai, at sea about fifty kilometers south of the Japanese fleet, caught up with the tail of the planes at the Hangzhou airfield, which took off first.

Then, this huge formation of 130 planes formed a dense black cloud over the East China Sea, where the sun had just risen, and pressed towards the Japanese fleet.

At 5:35 a.m., the sixteen FW90 fighters escorting this batch of planes suddenly received instructions from the direction of Shanghai.

"Captain Liuping? Twenty kilometers northwest of your plane, two Japanese Navy biplanes are on alert patrol. They're flying diagonally toward ten o'clock in the direction of your group! ”

The person who issued this order was Lin Han, a "human girl" who stayed on the Huangpu River and watched the air battle overhead. In the sky, FW90 and HE51 fighter jets formed a hunting team, chasing the collapsed Japanese planes around the world like a wild duck. Every few seconds, a Japanese aircraft painted with the "Circle of the Sun" logo can be seen falling down in black smoke.

However, at this time, Lin Han's mind was not at all under the air battle that was a foregone conclusion, but concentrated on acting as a humanoid radar.

Under the guidance of Lin Han, Liu Ping broke away from the formation with eight FW90 fighters and pounced on the Japanese planes flying in the direction of the group.

On one side, the "all-map mode" is in battle, and on the other side, it is fighting with a black eye.

There was no suspense in this eight-on-two air battle, but it was just a head-on strike, and the two cruising Japanese planes were shot down by volleys before they could even issue an alarm.

At 5:40 a.m., Vice Admiral Shiro Takasu, who was anxiously awaiting the return of the results on the flagship battlecruiser Kongo, received a radio reply from the group group in the direction of Shanghai.

"Our aircraft group was ambushed and encountered a large number of enemy planes"

Then the communication was suddenly interrupted.

Similar to fighter jets, only a small number of Japanese aircraft, even attack aircraft, were equipped with radio stations. As a result, in the air battle in the direction of Shanghai, the plane equipped with the radio had just sent out half of the alarm message to the flagship, when it was flooded with a rain of bullets from the fighters chasing from behind, directly killing the radio officer in the cockpit, and then, and then there was no more.

"What's going on!"

Lieutenant General Takasu Shiro yelled at the radio station in the command room, urging the telegraph operator to continue contact, but at this time, the Japanese attack aircraft group had already been caught in an ambush by the tigers, and it was in a bad state of "more tigers than sheep", so there was no energy or opportunity to contact the flagship again.

At 5:45 a.m., while Takasu Shiro was worried about the fate of the sortie group, a sharp air defense siren suddenly sounded from the flagship, and then someone from the lookout reported that a large group formation had appeared in the south of the fleet.

At this time, Takasu Shiro's fleet was sailing at full speed in the direction of Shanghai, and the fleet was in a sailing posture rather than an air defense formation. There were also six planes in the fleet for air defense early warning, two were sent to the west in the direction of Shanghai, and the remaining two were searched and cruised to the south, but they were directly shot down by the Red Army escort planes that were "discovered in advance" on the way, and no early warning was issued.

By the time the Japanese spotted the enemy planes in the air with the naked eye, the Red Army aircraft group was already flying overhead.

Looking at the huge formation of hundreds of planes in the sky, Takasu Shiro's face turned white.

The Japanese fleet, which was on the march, the 76-mm anti-aircraft guns on the ships began to fire in vain into the air, but unfortunately their psychological effect was much greater than the actual effect. In this era, the anti-aircraft fire of all warships in the world is very weak. For example, the Ruijin shoehorned more than ten Bofors anti-aircraft guns and one rifled gun into the six-hundred-ton hull, which only a traverser like Lin Han would do.

At this time, only a small number of Japanese fleets were equipped with newly made Type 94 or Type 95 25-mm anti-aircraft guns, which were very poor, with a slow rate of fire, high vibration, poor firepower, and a serious shortage of numbers. The main anti-aircraft weapons of most of the ships, including the Akagi, were mainly anti-aircraft machine guns, and the number of powerful 13 machine guns was also insufficient, and more than half of them were "like goods" like 6.5 mm machine guns.

In the era of the transition from biplanes to monoplanes, the navies of various countries initially paid great attention to air defense. Warships were crammed with anti-aircraft weapons like hedgehogs, and that was after the outbreak of the Pacific War. In 1935, the anti-aircraft weapons of warships of various countries were rampant with all kinds of strange goods -- such as Germany's famous "37-mm hand-pulled machine anti-aircraft guns", such as Japan's triple anti-aircraft guns, which could not be fired at the same time.

After the air defense warning was issued, the Japanese ships, which were originally on the march, frantically changed their formation, wanting to switch to the air defense formation, but there was no time in a hurry.

Before the sortie, the air force that came to attack the Japanese fleet was instructed: leave the warships alone, and only bomb the flat-topped ships and passenger ships!

Before the Japanese fleet could set up an anti-aircraft formation, the Red Army Air Force launched a surprise attack first.

The first to appear, the HS129 attack aircraft, which is still heavily armored and heavy on firepower, carried out "ploughing and sweeping" to suppress the air defense points in the fleet. In yesterday's air battles, the Air Force has already tasted the sweetness of this heavy attack aircraft.

The first to enjoy the "ploughing treatment" were the two aircraft carriers Chicheng and Fengxiang and the two escort destroyers in the vicinity. The 12th HS129 dived at a small angle, and when it swept over the warship at an altitude of 300 meters, the machine guns and cannons on the hull frantically strafed the open deck of the warship, hitting the flesh and blood on the decks of the four ships.

Although the nearby Japanese ships were eager to support them with anti-aircraft fire, they were too close to the range of the anti-aircraft machine guns, and most of the time they could only stare dryly.

After the twelve HS129s passed through the field, the FW90 fighters with two air battles and dive bombardments appeared on the shoulder, and the FW90 with a wind whistle in the nose made a sharp scream.

Of the 24 fighters sent from Shanghai and Hangzhou, they were all loaded with bombs, and they all gathered together to launch a dive bombing attack on the Chicheng aircraft carrier.

"Lao Gao, this blow is dedicated to you!"

Piloting the rest of his life in the FW90, he once again took the lead and dived and bombed the deck of the Chicheng.

The huge body of the aircraft carrier Chicheng was like a clumsy fat pig maneuvering on the surface of the sea to avoid it. When looking down from the sky, Yu Sheng clearly saw the white water dragon composed of long waves dragged out behind the warship, and the scene was extremely spectacular. (To be continued......)