Chapter 240: Planning and Implementation (Asking for Subscriptions, Monthly Passes, and Miscellaneous !! ）

Wu Songkou. Japanese naval base.

October in the East China Sea was the season of typhoons, but this did not dampen the enthusiasm of the Japanese Navy in the slightest. While the Wuhan Navigation Committee was plotting how to bomb Wusongkou, the Japanese army's largest naval port in China was bustling with activity.

In order to welcome the Fourth Fleet from afar and the main force of the Third Fleet, which had returned from transporting supplies from China, Vice Admiral Hasegawa Ao, commander of the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet, personally hosted a banquet at the Wusongkou base to entertain Vice Admiral Toyoda, commander of the Fourth Fleet, and other senior officers of the Fourth Fleet.

"Toyoda-kun, I heard that the army group of fools lost the battle again, and they were beaten by that hairy boy from China, it's really a big shame, and the face of the Great Japanese Empire was lost by that group of fools!" Lieutenant General Hagatani said disdainfully.

"Yo Xi, the army guys are so disappointed by His Majesty the Emperor, so many troops can't even wipe out a small number of local troops, it's really a shame, if the army's supplies were allocated to our navy, the war situation in China would have been settled long ago." Toyota's deputy Wu said.

The contradictions between the Japanese army and navy have long been an open secret, and even the Japanese emperor turned a blind eye to them. Throughout history, the rivalry between the army and navy has been fierce in almost every country, and often fiercely, but the level of mutual hatred between the Japanese navy and navy is unparalleled. It is a long-accumulated contradiction that can be traced back to bloody territorial battles between clans. When the Meiji Restoration in the late 19th century. When the modern Japanese army and navy were established, some clans sent their sons into one branch of the military, while their long-standing opponents must have joined the other. In this way, the hostility between them continued, and even developed into an openly enemy relationship.

"Not to mention that group of fools, the North China Dispatch Army and the Central China Dispatch Army dispatched nearly 300,000 troops, and a large number of aircraft, combat vehicles and heavy artillery, but in the end they were beaten by a group of local troops in China and lost their armor, and the fifth and tenth divisions of the elite division suffered heavy losses. Lieutenant General Hase's mouth turned up.

"Hahaha. Hase-kun is really humorous. But those bastards are really speechless, thinking that when we destroyed the China Navy, there were only a few thousand people, but we took the China Navy in a pot, making it no longer powerless. Why is it also a formed unit of the Empire. And the performance is so bad? Vice Admiral Toyoda said with a smile.

"Toyoda-kun. It's not like that. The navy of the Chinese people was notoriously poor. By the end of the Sino-Japanese War, the navy had lost its military spirit, and they had been stagnant for more than forty years. How to compete with the heroic navy of the Great Japanese Empire. The army is different, the army actually does not have much skill in combat, and it is relatively easy to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, and in the past few decades, the north and south of the country have been fighting, and they have become accustomed to war. Not to mention that the 87th Division of the Central Army of China, the Central Teaching Squadron and the Tax Police Corps are all rare elites, so although the navy of China is vulnerable, their army is not as unbearable as the navy. In addition, the Imperial Army is a bunch of stupid guys from top to bottom, and it is not a big deal to be able to fight in this situation. Lieutenant General Hase.

"Hase-kun, although I really don't look down on the Shina people, I have to say that the Shina Army does have a few warlike divisions. For example, not long ago, our Fourth Fleet was ordered to Qingdao to deliver supplies to the 3rd Brigade and the 5th Division of the Independent Mixed Division, and at the same time to transport the wounded back to China. Then Deputy Toyoda said: "There is also the 41st Army of the Sichuan Army, when the Japanese Empire attacked Fuji County, that Wang Mingzhang dared to block the attack of more than 10,000 people of the Imperial Army. The army from the mountainous area of China fought with the elite troops of the Imperial Army for four days and four nights, totaling about 108 hours, causing more than 2,000 casualties to the Imperial Japanese Army. I heard that at the height of the fighting, the small city of Teng County could drop more than 30,000 shells a day. The most admirable thing is that the last person in that army of China surrendered, and its will to fight was far beyond my expectations. ”

"Yes, we did underestimate the Shina people, they are far stronger and more terrifying than we thought. Toyoda-kun knew that during the day today, the Kaoya Air Force met with a Shina Air Force on the way to Luoyang, and then the two sides launched a fierce air battle, and in just 15 minutes, the Kaoya Air Force lost 11 fighters, and even Captain Shoji Kobayashi was wounded. Lieutenant General Hasegawa said with emotion.

Lieutenant General Hagatani's mouth of this Kobayashi Shoji Toyota Deputy Takeshi is still known as the ace pilot of the Imperial Naval Aviation, since joining the Kaya Air Force, he has shot down 8 Shina fighters, if it weren't for His Majesty the Emperor to personally confer the title on him, I'm afraid he would have been the Air Force Lieutenant by now, but I didn't expect that even he would be injured.

"What's going on? Doesn't it mean that the Chinese Air Force is already vulnerable, how can it make such a big move? ”

"According to the intelligence department's investigation, it is not the air force of the Shina government that is fighting against the Luya Air Force today, but the 40th Group Army of China, that is, the aviation unit formed by the hairy boy of my China, and it is said that a large number of fighters came from the north to the south in one day today, and the number seems to be quite large." Lieutenant General Hase.

"The 40th Army of China, this hateful army again, bastard! This 40th Group Army is simply shameless, and when we were in Tianjin, it was this China Army that attacked the naval port, causing three large warships to fall into the hands of the China people, and our navy lost face once. ”

"Toyoda-kun, according to the information from our intelligence department, the destination of the Air Force of Nachina seems to be Wuhan, and it seems that they have already known the purpose of our two fleets to arrive in China. I guess we'll be able to fight that army soon, and we'll be going to surprise those bastards. Hasegawa Qingyin smiled.

"Hahaha, then I wish Hase-kun a victory."

"Hahaha, it's easy to say, and you still need Toyota-kun's strong support!"

"Well said, well said! The Fourth Fleet is at the disposal of Hase-kun at any time! ”

At 6 o'clock in the morning of October 14, the sky was bright, and the Wusongkou Naval Base was still silent, except for the roar of the sea, there was no other sound.

Suddenly, a shrill alarm sounded. Then the whole naval base was boiling. A large number of pilots quickly ran out of the cabin, officers ran to the command room, and ordinary pilots stood on the deck waiting for orders.

Soon the officers ran out of the operational command room again, each gathering his own troops. The hostile situation was reported. It turned out that the China fighter plane was discovered in the direction of Nanjing. It is the main force of the China Air Force. There were more than 150 fighters from three brigades, and it seemed that they were preparing to bomb Nanjing. The command of the Central China Dispatch Army called and demanded that the naval aviation take off immediately to intercept the group of planes in China. Then cooperate with the army aviation to annihilate the China Air Force.

After listening to the report on the enemy situation, all the Japanese pilots were nervous and excited, saying that they were nervous because the combat effectiveness and fighting will displayed by the Chinese Air Force were too strong. Although the Imperial Japanese Army Air Corps had about 1,480 aircraft, the Naval Air Corps had about 1,220 aircraft, and more than 2,700 aircraft that could be used in combat, and more than 1,350 aircraft were sent to the battlefield in China. Moreover, the industrial base of the Great Japanese Empire was relatively solid, and it was able to produce all kinds of aircraft and technical equipment, which could be replenished in time after combat losses. In addition, the air and ground crews of the Army and Navy Air Forces of the Imperial Japanese Empire were well-trained, had a clear operational command relationship, and provided effective support in all aspects. The Japanese army was equipped with better aircraft performance, among which the Type 96 carrier-based fighter, which was put into production in 1936, had a maximum flight speed of 435 km / h and a range of 1,267 km, which was much higher than the performance of the main fighter of the China Air Force, the Hawk 3.

On the other hand, the Chinese Air Force not only has very limited troops, but its aircraft are outdated, its models are chaotic, its performance is backward, and its aircraft are out of proportion. Moreover, there are more than 600 pilots, less than half of whom can participate in the battle, and the training of fighter pilots focuses on ground attack, and they have no experience in air combat.

However, it was these two air forces with completely unequal strength that each handed in a jaw-dropping test paper at the beginning of the war. In the first battle, the Chinese Air Force completely destroyed the Japanese Air Force 6:0, and then inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese Air Force by a large score. After that, Shen Chongzhi, the commander of the 2nd Brigade, and Chen Xichun, a bomber, piloted a Northrop-2E bomber to bomb the Japanese warship at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Their fearless spirit of seeing death as if they were at home greatly shocked the enemy, and at the same time inspired the Chinese military and people in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

The Japanese could not stand the insult the most, but behind the strong rise of the Chinese Air Force was the shame of the Japanese Air Force, so Japan, whether it was an army aviation regiment or a naval aviation regiment, hoped to capture the main force of the Chinese Air Force as soon as possible, and then gather and annihilate it.

Under the orders of the commander, the Japanese Third Fleet Air Force and the Fourth Fleet Air Force all boarded and set off for Nanjing, preparing to meet the Chinese combat aircraft group.

At the same time, Gao Zhihang, Xue Chenghu, and others were also in high spirits, and their task today was mainly to entangle the Japanese combat aircraft group and create bombing opportunities for the bomber group.

Originally, Chen Feng was planning to use Wuhan Airport to carry out strategic bombing of Wusongkou when the Japanese army's defense was lax in the early morning. But after I came, I found that this method would not work at all, and Wuhan was different from the sparsely populated area in northern China. With the loud noise of the Soviet bombers, they would be discovered by the Japanese before they could get close to Shanghai, so they sent fighter jets to intercept them. That's why Zhou Zhirou and others came up with this plan to divert the tiger from the mountain.

At least so far, this plan has been very successful, and before Gao Zhihang and others could get close to Nanjing, they were intercepted by the Japanese Army Aviation Corps. This time, Zhou Zhirou made a bloody investment and sent all 151 destroyers in his hands, plus 221 fighters of the Northern Air Force, the total number exceeded 370. According to the plan, Gao Zhihang would first take 130 fighters as bait to lure the Japanese army aviation regiment or naval aviation regiment to attack, while Xue Chenghu would lead the rest of the fighters to fly at high altitude on the battlefield in the distance, and wait for Gao Zhihang to lead the enemy into the encirclement, and then gather and annihilate him.

The first to meet Gao Zhihang was the 110 fighters of the Japanese Army Air Force, and the two sides met 15 kilometers south of Nanjing, and after a fierce battle, each lost seven or eight fighters, and then Gao Zhihang retreated to the northwest with the remaining fighters. The Japanese Army Aviation Corps had already received that the naval aviation regiment in the direction of Shanghai was on its way, so it desperately intercepted Gao Zhihang's headquarters. (To be continued......)