Gao Zhihang personally led the bomber formation to find the Japanese fleet, but Gao Zhihang knew very well that it was extremely unrealistic for the B-17 to bomb the aircraft carrier, but he still ordered the bombers to bomb. And the effect of this bombing was very obvious, that is, the Japanese did not realize that the Nationalist Government was going to launch air strikes against them.

Therefore, the Japanese fleet had to retreat overseas, but even in the overshoot of the retreat, the Japanese anti-aircraft machine guns did not stop, and bombers were shot down continuously.

Although the Japanese Navy was subordinate to the British Navy, its combat effectiveness was not Gade, and although the Nationalist Government had many bombers, they quickly formed a defensive formation and formed a huge barrage in the sky.

However, Gao Zhihang is not and is not an ordinary person, although the B-17 is not very effective, but it does not mean that he has no backhand, behind the B-17 is hidden more than 20 Stukas, all dive bombers, 500 kg of heavy bombs fell on the aircraft carrier.

Many of the remaining bombs also fell on some destroyers, and the commander of the Japanese Third Fleet, Hasegawa, had to order the troops to speed up the withdrawal from overseas.

In this battle, the aircraft carriers Longxiang and Fengxiang were sunk, the Akagi also suffered some losses, and the Japanese Third Fleet lost five destroyers.

No one expected that China, which had been holding back its grievances, would gather so many planes to carry out an air raid on an unprecedented scale, and the most important thing was to beat the Japanese and flee in disarray.

The Japanese base camp couldn't believe that they sank two aircraft carriers before the war began, and for a time Japan was the first to boil, and the letters of war reached the emperor's desk one by one, and the emperor signed the order to send reinforcements in anger.

But the Chinese people were even more boiling, which was simply impossible, and when Chiang Kai-shek received the telegram, he was eating breakfast, listened to Liu Yuan's news, and was excited, and ate two more eggs. Chen Cheng had to say with admiration, "If I fight the Battle of Songhu, it's not that I can't fight, but I'm really inferior to Liu Fuguo in the coordinated operations between the arms." ”

Shanghai was boiling, Nanjing was boiling, and then the whole of China was boiling, and everyone was running and shouting. The first thing the old and young masters said after they met it.

"Do you know the way? Our commander Liu Yuan has a thunder gong under his command, calling for wind and rain, omnipotent, just yesterday cast a spell, lightning and thunder, directly blew up and sank the Japanese devil's ship. ”

"Is there such a thing? How I haven't heard. ”

"Be lonely, Gao Lei Gong, hundreds of iron birds will go to the sky at once, that might."

"Don't listen to him, it's an airplane."

"Go aside, how can you defeat the little devil if you don't do it, and you go on, will Commander Liu do it?"

Just when everyone was immersed in joy, Liu Yuan did something that everyone couldn't believe, that is, drinking alcohol.

That's right, a group of front-line generals sat in front of Liu Yuan, shedding tears while borrowing wine to kill their sorrows.

When Liu Yuan commanded the troops to defeat the little devils and had no power to counterattack, Chiang Kai-shek ordered to stop the offensive and wait for international mediation.

"Why, the brothers sacrificed their lives and forgot to die on the front line, and finally beat the little devils, they didn't even let us continue to attack, are the central groups all a bunch of fools?" Many generals cried and said, you know, Lu Dao will die in battle this time, I don't know how many brothers Lu Dao has in the battle, and the central government actually ordered them to give up the attack.

"Commander, you are the commander of the theater of operations, what you say, as long as you give an order, even if the central government governs us the most, we will fight the little devil to the end." Song Xilian said angrily.

"There are still a few bases of ammunition under your hands, without the order of the central government, Gao Zhihang's plane will not be able to go to the sky, which of you has replenished the shells, without the consent of the central government, what will you do to fight." Liu Yuan drank the Moutai in his hand in one gulp, swayed his body, and said to everyone, "One general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies, but one commander is incompetent, and he wants to lose the country." ”

"The general is cautious." Li An held Liu Yuan's shoulders, looked at everyone and said, "Today's words, out of the general's mouth, into your ears, if the chairman hears something, you should be prepared in your hearts." Li An said coldly.

"Hmph, we won't say it to the principal, today's incident, we are dead to the principal, this is the national war we have to listen to him, if the devil is beaten away by us in the future, Lao Tzu will immediately retire and return to his hometown." A major general said angrily.

"The king regards the minister as a sibling, and the minister regards the king as the heart; The king regards the minister as a mustard, and the minister regards the king as an enemy, and the headmaster has nothing worthy of our allegiance to us and our dead brothers. The commander of the gendarmerie regiment had obviously drunk too much, swayed himself, slapped the table, and vented his dissatisfaction.

The weather in September was very hot, there was not a single wind, and water seemed to be squeezed out of the air, and everyone in the rest house was cautious, for fear that the chairman would be dissatisfied with something.

Lin Wei cautiously stood beside Chiang Kai-shek, He Yingqin would never dare to appear here at this time, and the angry Chiang Kai-shek would definitely shoot him.

Originally, Chiang Kai-shek's heart was not very stable, but He Yingqin kept advising Chiang Kai-shek in his ear that the losses of the troops were too great to fight, and he was waiting for negotiations with the Japanese, and the international community had already agreed to mediate.

Dai Jitao also persuaded Chiang Kai-shek to think about it, and Chiang Ching-kuo and his wife, who didn't want Liu Yuan to show too much, even found Zhang Jingjiang, who had a great influence on Chiang Kai-shek, and persuaded him with reason, "The Zhang family's industries are all in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and if they are gone, there will be no Zhang family." ”

And Liu Yuan has never been very good to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortiums, so when developing the southwest, many Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortiums fell to Chiang Ching-kuo, so at this time they all stood on Chiang Ching-kuo's side, each waving their flags and shouting, running and shouting, and persuading Chiang Kai-shek to negotiate with the Japanese, so these people condensed into a huge force.

Liu Yuan asked to see Chiang Kai-shek three times to no avail, so he could only order the troops to stop the offensive, the old saying will be outside, and the military order will not be accepted, but the premise, that is, there are sufficient materials and heartfelt soldiers, which Liu Yuan has, but the capital is complete, so if you want to launch an attack on the Japanese alone, you can't do anything.

"Wow! Wow! The sound of broken teacups was constantly coming from Chiang Kai-shek's study. Song Meiling kept admonishing on the side. Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui's head was full of sweat, and she stood aside and whispered.

"It's been a few days, what about the answer from the Japanese?" Chiang Kai-shek's voice was filled with anger and fear, and he knew that because of his stubbornness, he might have lost his best fighter, and that it was a huge mistake for him not to see Liu Yuan several times. But at that time, everyone told themselves that Liu Yuan was a powerful main battle faction, and when he saw him, most of them would be said by him, so if he wanted peace, it was impossible.

The ambassadors of the United States, Britain, and France kept saying that they would help China, force the Japanese to recognize China's interests in Shanghai, and let China station troops in Shanghai, which was absolutely an acceptable condition for Chiang Kai-shek, so Chiang Kai-shek strongly ordered a ceasefire on the front line and stopped all ammunition supplies to the front line, so that with the little troops under Song Xilian, there would be nothing to do.

But the reality is so cruel, the Japanese said they wanted to discuss it, but this discussion was a week, and at this time Chiang Kai-shek realized that he had fucking fallen into the little devil's delaying tactic.

"The Japanese side did not give us the slightest reply." The foreign minister looked cautiously at Chiang Kai-shek's face, which was like the sun at six o'clock in early spring, and half of the sky was red.

"The envoys of the United States, Britain and France issued a note saying that they are putting pressure on the Japanese, but there is no consensus among the Japanese, and they will continue to put pressure on us, hoping that we will be patient." Wang Chonghui continued.

"Mother, if they play with me, I'll make him pay a heavy price. You are going to talk to the three countries and tell them that we can't wait any longer, and that we will attack again on the 25th at the most. Chiang Kai-shek really wanted to break with the foreign powers now, but Chiang Kai-shek knew that China needed the assistance of the great powers to resist Japan, and it was difficult to defeat Japan close to China, so he did not want to fight against Japan independently unless it was absolutely necessary, but hoped to adopt the method of razing to make the Japanese submit.

"Okay, I'll do it right away." Even if Wang Chonghui was unwilling to do so in his heart, he had no choice, and secretly scolded the damn little devil a thousand times, but he still had to talk and beg, what dignity does a weak country have.

"The Executive Yuan has moved to the southwest, but Nanjing is the capital, and it is necessary to continue to work, especially the transportation of materials on the front line, as well as the internal relocation of industry, these are all things, you are busy for the time being, and the party-state will not forget you." Wang Chonghui said that Chiang Kai-shek was making himself the premier of the Executive Yuan, but is this prime minister really so good?

At the beginning of the war, Chiang Kai-shek had already declared the Chongqing Special Economic Zone as the accompanying capital, and almost most of the government offices were moved to the Chongqing Special Economic Zone, and all the factories, universities, banks, and hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou were all relocated.

Hope is always more satisfying than reality, reality is always more skinny than hope, the Japanese immediately made a reaction after Chiang Kai-shek issued an ultimatum, Japanese Prime Minister Binshan declared, "We must punish the brutal Chinese army, demand that the Chinese side compensate the Japanese overseas Chinese for the loss of 10 million US dollars, and at the same time demand that the Chinese side recognize the legitimacy of the puppet Manchukuo, and Liu Yuan, as a key criminal of the war, must be handed over to the Japanese military court for handling." At the same time, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters decided to organize a dispatch army to Shanghai, appointing Army General Terauchi Toshiichi as commander and Army General Matsui Ishine as commander to eliminate the brutal Shina troops.

Just when Chiang Kai-shek woke up the great powers to give support, the Japanese mobilized a large number of elite troops from the country as quickly as possible, and the third division, the sixth division, and the eleventh division were assembled one after another, and under the leadership of Matsui Ishone, they sat on the battleships of the navy, this time the navy and the army were unprecedentedly consistent, the reason is very simple, the damned people actually let the two aircraft carriers of the Great Japanese Empire sink into the sea, which is definitely a heavy challenge to the Great Japanese Empire.

To this end, five aircraft carriers and two marine groups were again mobilized to cooperate with the army.

The painful Chiang Kai-shek personally found Liu Yuan, who was drinking, and the master and apprentice had a scuffle again, Liu Yuan took a lot of advantage because he drank too much, but this time Chiang Kai-shek promised that he would never interfere with Liu Yuan's command of the troops.

Liu Yuan kept mobilizing elite troops, and the 86th, 98th, 56th, 54th, 74th, 8th and 24th armies, and the 24th Army felt the battlefield one after another.

Liu Yuan personally went down to several layers of troops, constantly calming the emotions of the front-line commanders, and the officers of each unit only had one sentence, if you don't fight to the death, you would rather die.

In the face of the high operational mood of the troops, Liu Yuan personally adjusted the operational arrangements and completely disrupted the original deployment, and the 88th, 87th, 56th, and 98th Divisions, the 10th Heavy Artillery Brigade, the Fifth Mortar Regiment, and the 3rd Tank Regiment were all deployed to General Zhang Zhizhong, commander of the Ninth Group Army, and General Zhang Zhizhong personally commanded the troops to launch an attack on the Japanese army.

The 74th Army was led by Yu Jishi, with an independent artillery regiment, which was also assigned to Zhang Zhizhong, and Zhang Fakui of the Eighth Group Army commanded the 61st, 62nd, 59th, 71st Division, 8th Heavy Artillery Brigade, and 3rd Mortar Regiment to be responsible for the defense of the northern shore of Hangzhou Bay.

Chen Cheng felt that Liu Yuan's subordinates were under great pressure, so he personally transferred civil engineering troops, Luo Zhuoying of the 11th Division, Guo Ruhuai of the 37th Army, Huang Wei of the 18th Army, and cooperated with Wang Yaowu's 57th Army to form the 15th Group Army, with Luo Zhuoying as the commander-in-chief, under the command of Xue Yue, commander of the 19th Group Army. However, the left flank that Xue Yue was in charge of belonged to the troops that had just arrived in Shanghai.

Yu Jishi, the commander of the 74th Army, was a die-hard believer of Chiang Kai-shek, so he was equipped with the best equipment that Chiang Kai-shek could give at that time, all Garand rifles, Makqin heavy machine guns, Czech light machine guns, mortars, Hu Zongnan rushed back from the northwest, and the First Army under his command was the strongest combat effectiveness of the Central Army controlled by Chiang Kai-shek at this stage, with an artillery brigade, all 150 howitzers, and a truck brigade, more than 100 trucks dedicated to him alone.

is different from other dicks, according to the route of his previous life, Wang Yaowu is now at most a division commander, but because of following Liu Yuan, Liu Yuan gave him a corps of troops, that is, the 57th Army above, all troops with southwest characteristics, camouflage uniforms, steel helmets, sapper shovels, semi-automatic, howitzers, bazookas, of course, Wang Yaowu belongs to the shameless kind of role, and deducted a chariot regiment and a mortar regiment from the logistics minister Chen Yun.

The Hunan army has been good at producing soldiers who can fight well since ancient times, but their Hunan dialect is indeed not understandable by ordinary people, but Liu Yuan is not a stingy person, he personally found Chiang Kai-shek and gave Liu Jianxu the commander of the Tenth Group Army, worried about their poor equipment, and specially ordered Chen Yun to send them a large number of weapons and ammunition.

The 11th Division, the 52nd Division, and other units, after replenishing a lot of equipment together with the Southwest Special Administrative Region and the Central Committee, immediately changed their guns and asked for a good fight with the devils. Liu Yuan personally went to the Tenth Army to feel that the morale was okay, but they were not very good at using weapons, so their characters were not very heavy, and they would be responsible for guarding Ningbo.

Many of Li Zongren's troops came on foot, but this did not hinder their enthusiasm for combat, especially many of the Xingang Seventh Army were veterans, and their combat effectiveness was very good, and Chiang Kai-shek was not a stingy person, all of them were German and equipped, and the Gui Department was the 22nd Group Army.

On the 22nd, Zhang Zhizhong received orders from Liu Yuan to launch a powerful attack on the Japanese army in Shanghai again.

The artillery of the Southwest Special Administrative Region is not at the same level as the artillery under Chiang Kai-shek, and the aircraft reconnaissance data in front and the artillery staff in the back have already done a good job of correcting the data.

More than 30 150 howitzers, more than 40 105 howitzers, fired together, the power in an instant, no worse than the Japanese naval guns, the whole world seemed to be about to collapse, the cement building under the blow of artillery, directly collapsed, at the same time 75 mm field artillery did not hesitate, under the command of Zhang Zhizhong, they opened fire on the front line, for a time the Japanese battle was blown to pieces.

A total of 300 fighters were dispatched to the Central Committee in the Southwest Special Administrative Region, and together with the 500 fighters transferred back by the Central Committee itself, the gap between the Japanese and the Japanese in terms of the total number of fighters narrowed to a certain extent, but the Japanese were able to mobilize as many as 2,000 fighters.

However, on some hills of the Songhu battlefield, the radar stations that quietly appeared were definitely a nightmare for the Japanese, and their Kashima heavy bombers had just taken off, they were blocked by a group of fighters led by Gao Zhihang himself, and the bloody air battles were fought by the fighters responsible for escorting the planes under Gao Zhihang.

Many of the pilots under Gao Zhihang's command this time were pilots from the central government, and many pilots did not have sufficient flight experience, and the losses began.

Rao is Gao Zhihang can fight well, but he can't save it, a Chinese P40 is like a kite with a broken line landing, but more fighters will crash into the Japanese fighters before they fall, and choose to die with them.

The battle became more and more intense, and eventually developed into the first large-scale air battle in the history of Asian operations, with each side dispatching more than 300 fighters, and 6 or 700 fighters fighting fiercely in the sky.

Wang Zengqin, the ace pilot of the Southwest Special Economic Zone, is good at various tactical actions, and has the experience of shooting down five fighters, this time the eagle attack on the sky is really too exciting, he knows that this air battle will definitely be included in the history of the war in the world, and the people who write history are definitely ordinary pilots, so Wang Zengqin is extremely serious.

"Wingman, wingman, help me pull away the 95 fighter next to me, I have to scrap their heavy bomber."

"We need to go back, we need to go back, we don't have ammunition anymore." The wingman said nervously to Wang Zengqin.

"Execute the order." Wang Zengqin ordered.

The wingman drove the BF to entangle with the Japanese Type 95, and Wang Zengqin was like a wolf that had found its prey, and pounced on the heavy bomber on the opposite side, but the bomber on the opposite side suddenly made a tactical dodge action, and four Japanese fighters appeared around him inadvertently, not good, this is the bait of the Japanese, Wang Zengqin realized that the situation was not good, and the enemy's bomb pulling a long line was like a drill monkey in the night with a long tail, flying towards Wang Zengqin, Wang Zengqin urgently pulled up, But the enemy's machine guns hit their own chassis.

"You've been shot and need to make a forced landing." I heard the voice of my teammates.

At this time, on the streets of Shanghai, the rooftops can be seen everywhere in the sky cheering citizens, they saw those warriors fighting in the blue sky, and every citizen was ready to rescue those parachuting warriors, at this time they found a green fighter plane smoking, the young men were ready to save the pilot, but no one thought that at the last moment, the plane chose to drive the plane into the enemy plane, and the enemy bomber died together.

He would rather die than let enemy bombs fall on his own artillery positions.