In the smoke and blood, the Lunar New Year of 1936 passed like this.

On the first day of the new year, after the Ming army counterattacked Pukou and completely wiped out the possibility of the Manchu Qing Dynasty continuing to invade the south, Emperor Guangwu of the Qing Dynasty became angry and sent a large number of bombers to Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Ma'anshan, Wuhu, Changzhou, Jiangyin, Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi, Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo and other large cities in succession.

The bombers of the Qing army were attacked by the Ming army on the airfield, and 179 of them were blown up, and there were more than 500 left, which is still a lot. However, the Qing Air Force suffered huge losses in fighter planes, especially the relatively effective "Haidongqing" with only more than 60 planes left, so the number of escort fighters that could be dispatched was limited, and the number of bombers that could be dispatched was "affected" -- only about 100 bombers could be dispatched.

These more than 100 bombers were scattered over more than a dozen cities, and each group was pitifully few. In large cities like Shanghai and Nanjing, the Qing army allocated more than 20 bombers, but in other small cities, there were only a few.

The bombers were so dispersed that there were even fewer fighters to escort the ship. Only a few big cities have a few Haidongqing, and the other small cities are all old-fashioned Jebe.

The second year of junior high school is daytime bombing. The Qing army suffered heavy losses in aircraft, 115 bombers lost 87 and 120 fighters lost 52 aircraft. 11 of them are Haidongqing. Because the Ming fighters calmly fought more and less, they only lost 20 kingfishers. Moreover, the Qing army bombed too many targets, and the losses of each city in Nanming were very limited.

But after all, the bombs really fell on cities, such as Shanghai, Wuxi, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, and Ningbo, and yesterday they felt that war was far away from them, only along the river, but today they feel the taste of war. The Qing army's large-scale bombing caused the horror of the war to spread from several cities along the river to almost the whole of the Southern Ming Dynasty. From this point of view, Emperor Guangwu insisted on a large-scale and all-out bombing, which achieved the expected results.

On the night of the second day of the Lunar New Year, the Qing Air Force carried out another night bombing. This time the effect is much greater. At this time, there was no airborne radar, and night air combat was very difficult, and Nanming's fighters were black-eyed after going to the sky, and the losses of Qing bombers were very limited.

This time, fires broke out in many places in more than a dozen cities in Nanming, and more than 500 citizens were killed and injured.

During the day of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Li Guoliang adopted Xiang Xiaoqiang's World War II tactics, dispatched 80 Kingfisher fighters, escorted 15 dive bombers deep into the Qing territory, and relied on air superiority to "sweep" the Qing bomber airfields one by one. Bombing is supplemented, and "lure" is the main thing. If you can lure the Qing fighters into the sky, they will be annihilated in the air. When the Qing fighters did not take off, they bombed and strafed the bombers on the ground. Nanming, who had air superiority, used this trick very effectively, and the Qing army was in a dilemma.

Fighter jets go to the sky, but they can't be beaten. The 80 fighters are not scattered, and they are all kingfishers, and they are superior in quality and quantity. And Hai Dongqing, who is worthy of a war, has only more than 60 planes left in the country. For the rest of Jebe, Heaven is just a target. Don't go to the sky to face the battle, and watch a large number of planes be wiped out on the ground. Stopping on both sides of the runway, the Ming army swooped down and strafed. Hiding in the hangar, the 15 dive bombers of the Ming army went to blow up the hangar.

The reason why only 15 Ospreys were dispatched was because Xiang Xiaoqiang was too precious to dive bombers, and he didn't dare to invest too much, for fear of losses, and the original purpose was not to bomb, but to lure enemy fighters into the sky. It was only when the other side did not want to go to the sky and hid in the hangar, and the fighter strafing did not work, that the Osprey was allowed to blow up.

In the face of the superior fighters of the Ming army, the Qing air force did not dare to move much during the day, but only bombarded it with anti-aircraft guns. In the evening, the Qing air force began to bomb again. Although the Ming army implemented light control in all cities, the Qing army also tasted the sweetness of night bombing, realizing that the losses of night bombing were small, this time boldly dispatched twice as many bombers to bomb Nanming City. The destruction of buildings in Nanming City has greatly increased, but this time the city's air defense response has also been greatly enhanced, the air defense siren sounded very early, and the citizens entered the air raid shelters and air raid trenches very quickly. Therefore, the total number of casualties this time was only more than 200.

But a 200-kilogram bomb fell on the Forbidden City in Nanjing, which damaged a row of white marble railings.

During the day of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Nanming gathered 150 bombers, and under the escort of 120 kingfishers, they concentrated on bombing Xuzhou, an important town on the Jinpu line. This is one of the most important major cities within the range of escort fighters, especially military and transportation towns, and one of the few major railway hubs that can be counted. The Ming army did not make the mistake of the Qing army, did not divide the troops, but concentrated bombing, focusing on practical results. This time, the Ming army lost 35 bombers and 12 kingfishers, but also shot down more than 50 Jebe and more than 20 Haidongqing. Moreover, Xuzhou's railway area has become a ruin, and the canal dock area, coal mining area, and factory area have also suffered serious losses.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, 4 of the 6 battleships, 2 of the 3 battlecruisers, 15 of the 20 cruisers, and 50 of the 110 destroyers of the Ming Navy, a total of 71 warships, had already sailed to the predetermined positions and began to retaliate and shell the coastal cities of the Northern Qing Dynasty: Qingdao, Weihai, Yantai, Lushun, Yingkou, and Jinzhou. The four aircraft carriers carrying more than 100 Osprey bombers have also sailed into the port of the Dongjiang Fleet on the Changshan Islands, and have joined up with more than 50 land-based bombers of the Dongjiang Fleet, ready to bomb Beijing at night.

But at seven o'clock in the evening on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Empress Zhu Yourong was interviewed by the BBC and broadcast live to the world on the radio. Zhu Yourong said that she was very disgusted by the indiscriminate bombing by both sides, which used terrorist attacks on civilians as a means of bombing. Although this war between the Ming and Qing dynasties was provoked by the pseudo-Qing dynasty, the people on both sides suffered greatly, and neither was the winner. Nanjing and Beijing are both historical capitals, with a large number of ancient buildings, both of which belong to the wealth of all mankind, and they should not be destroyed. The Qing army had already shelled and bombed Nanjing, and the bombers of the Southern Ming Dynasty were also in place and ready to bomb Beijing at any time. However, Zhu Yourong said she did not want to see this happen.

Then the British reporter asked, if Emperor Guangwu of the Qing Dynasty stopped bombing the cities of the Southern Ming Dynasty tonight, would His Majesty also stop bombing and shelling the Northern Qing Dynasty? Especially, let Beijing go?

Zhu Yourong pondered for a few seconds and replied: Yes. That's enough.

After this signal was given, sure enough, the night was calm. Not a single bomb fell on the banks of the Yangtze River.

For the next few days, the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth days of the Lunar New Year, until February 1936, both sides of the Yangtze River were silent.

The whole world breathed a sigh of relief. They knew that the Empress of the Southern Ming Dynasty had spoken softly first, and the Emperor of the Northern Qing Dynasty had failed to achieve his strategic goal and had suffered heavy losses himself, especially the loss of air superiority, and he did not want to fight it. Emperor Guangwu came down this step.

Everyone thinks that the first Ming and Qing wars of the 20th century ended in this way. The two regimes on both sides of the Yangtze River will return to that state of "quasi-peaceful" confrontation.