Chapter 241: Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! (Ask for subscriptions, monthly passes, and various !! ）

Nearly 300 fighters from both sides chased and fled, and soon entered the encirclement set by Liu Nijia and others; after receiving Gao Zhihang's message, Liu Nijia and others, who were hiding at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, flew down from the sky in the Yi series of fighters and killed the Provisional Aviation Regiment of the Japanese Central China Front.

The 7.62 mm caliber machine gun, which is unique to the Yi series of fighters, emits an angry roar.

In addition, the main fighters of the Japanese Army Aviation Corps were still the old-fashioned Type 95 fighters and Type 97 fighters, and the latest Type 96 fighters of the Japanese army were basically equipped with the naval aviation regiment. The Type 95 and Type 97 fighters were no match for the Iraq series fighters at all, and soon after the war began, the Army Aviation Corps of the Japanese Central China Front fell into a bitter battle, and from time to time some of the fighters were destroyed, some of them fell downwards with thick black smoke, and some simply disintegrated in the air, which was really spectacular.

At the Wuhan airport, Ostrov waited a little nervously, as the commander-in-chief of the bombing, he was more nervous than anyone else. To be honest, he was a little worried, he had never commanded so many fighters in the Soviet Union, this was equivalent to a fighter of an aviation division, and it was also a reinforced division, and now he was handed over to a small major to command, he felt flattered and even more pressured!

"Woo woo" After the screeching sirens of the airport sounded, Major Ostorov waved his left hand. Then he ordered the pilots who were on standby to board the plane immediately and then act according to the original plan.

At eight o'clock in the morning, when the first rays of sunlight shone on the entire Wusongkou port, Hasegawa Qing and others were in a very good mood, and today was another good weather.

Just after breakfast, Hasegawa Aoi and Vice Admiral Toyoda were strolling on the deck of the 10,000-ton ship Izumo, and just now they had received a telegram from the aviation regiment that they had arrived in Nanjing, and the air force in China had been routed by the army bastards, but the army had also suffered a lot of losses. I'm going to retreat like this. But they were entangled by the bastards of the army, and they were preparing to kill and annihilate this batch of Chinese air forces.

Coincidentally, the degree of historical similarity is striking. Just like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in history. When a shrill siren suddenly sounded over the harbor. Aoi Hasegawa and Vice Takeshi Toyoda both looked relaxed. As the Supreme Commander of the Japanese Navy in China. Hasegawa Aoi and Vice Takeshi Toyoda know best about the strength of the Chinese Navy and Air Force.

Not to mention China's navy, in Hasegawa Qing's opinion, it is no longer a country's navy, and I am afraid that even the navies of second-rate countries in Europe can easily defeat the current Chinese navy. Not to mention that compared to the invincible navy of the Great Japanese Empire, which ranked third in the world, the two sides were not comparable at all.

The Chinese Air Force did fight well at the beginning of the war, but it could not change the drawbacks of the Chinese Air Force's limited strength, outdated aircraft, chaotic models, backward performance, imbalanced proportion of aircraft equipment, and insufficient personnel to participate in the war. The main fighter equipped by the Chinese Air Force is the Hawker III., with a maximum flight speed of 387 km / h and a range of 625 km, and the largest number of bombers equipped with the Douglas 02M, with a maximum flight speed of 238 km / h and a range of 524 km, are inferior to the same type of combat aircraft equipped by the Imperial Japanese Army. What's more, neither fighter jets nor bombers equipped by the Chinese Air Force can get to the port from Wuhan or the nearby Nanchang airfield, unless they don't want to go back.

Hasegawa Qing and Vice Takeshi Toyoda both thought that their fighters had returned home, after all, in the case of the 96 ship battle, one and a half hours of combat time was already its limit, and it was time to return to replenish fuel and ammunition. Hasegawa Qing never thought that the Chinese Air Force would attack Wusongkou at this time, and in Hasegawa Qing's opinion, even if it was really the Chinese Air Force, there was nothing to be afraid of.

At the beginning of the war, the Chinese Air Force pursued the ships of the Imperial Japanese Army to bomb them, but the most unfortunate result was that the Chinese Air Force actually threw bombs into the residential areas of Shanghai, resulting in the death of a large number of civilians and a huge oolong. Based on more than a year of operations, Hasegawa Qing has come to the conclusion that one should not fight against the combat aircraft group in Shina, especially Gao Zhihang's Fourth Group, until he is completely sure.

But don't mythologize the China Air Force, their bomber group is actually very soft, and there are many cases of the China Air Force bombers being shot down by the Navy's surface ships.

At 8:25 a.m., Major Ostolov led the 1st and 2nd Bomber Brigades, a total of 130 fighters, to arrive at the Wusongkou Seaport in Shanghai, each with eight 1,000-pound bombs, eight 500-pound bombs, and 35 other bombs. After the planes arrived at Wusongkou, they immediately divided into two groups according to the original plan: one group flew to the harbor to bomb the enemy aircraft carriers and other surface ships moored there, and the other group went to the coast of Wusongkou through the Songjiang Estuary to bomb the enemy's naval headquarters.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

When hundreds of fighters swooped down, the Japanese naval fleet and the soldiers on the shore were stunned, and their minds did not have time to switch to the combat state, and disaster had already struck.

The first to be bombed was the Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho, an aircraft carrier assigned by the Japanese Navy Command to the Third Fleet to fight in conjunction with the Third Fleet.

The quality of the Soviet pilots was very good, the first round of bombing caused the deck of the Fengxiang aircraft carrier to catch fire, and the most important thing was to blow up the flight deck of the aircraft carrier, which was regarded as a nest of the Japanese naval aviation, and now even if the naval air force comes back, it will not be able to land, and it is even more nonsense to replenish ammunition and fuel.

The whole bombing process lasted half an hour, and after the second bomber group arrived on the battlefield, Major Ostolov immediately flew to Nanchang Airport with the first bombing group to replenish fuel and ammunition.

The second round of bombers was commanded by Zhang Liqun, captain of the Nationalist Government's bomber brigade, with a total of 197 fighters, each carrying 50 fighters

Flying to Hangzhou Bay, the first group saw that there was no trace of an enemy aircraft carrier in the 80-kilometer vicinity of the bay, but there were enemy ships entering the 100-1,000-pound bombs. At 8:55 a.m., after the second group of bombers arrived at the Japanese harbor at Wusongkou, they formed a team of three planes and bombed from an altitude of 5,000 feet to 7,000 feet.

The Japanese naval oil depot and ammunition depot were destroyed one after another, and after the bombing was dropped, many fires broke out in the south and west of the Japanese naval headquarters.

At 9:12, a team of more than 70 Japanese fighters came to the rescue, but unfortunately after the Japanese air force fought with the Chinese air force over Nanjing, not only did there be little ammunition left, but more importantly, there was not much fuel left.

When the time came to beat the water dogs, it was time to take advantage of your illness to kill you, and when you saw a few Japanese fighters fighting, they were planted silently, and the Chinese and Soviet pilots were not stupid, and they quickly understood the reason, and it was also good to chase down the Japanese fighters who had run out of fuel after the bombing.

At 9:40, Ostolov flew to the Wusongkou military port again with the first round of bombers and continued to implement the bombing strategy. At 9:56, the Japanese aircraft carrier Fengxiang finally began to tilt after being attacked by more than 80 heavy bombs, and soon sank into the mighty East China Sea.

At 10:02, the Izumo armored cruiser, which had lost power, was hit by another shot in the chimney, and the No. 2 boiler exploded, causing the ammunition depot to explode, and the hull of the ship was broken into two in just 15 minutes, and soon sank into the sea, and the flagship of the Japanese Fourth Fleet, the cruiser Notoro, was also severely damaged and ran aground in the shallow sea, with multiple damage to the hull and an explosion in the command room.

At 10:36, the second round of bombers again came to Wusongkou seaport to carry out bombing, this time the scope of the bombing not only included the messy Wusongkou seaport, but also the Shanghai Army Headquarters and many military facilities in Shanghai.

At 11:35, more than 700 fighters of the Chinese Air Force flew to Nanjing at the same time, bombing all the Japanese military facilities and distributing paper bullets to the Chinese in Nanjing. The paper bullets were all printed by the Nationalist Government last night with the title "A Letter to All the People," and the article was drafted by Guo Moruo, director of the Third Department of the Political Operations Department of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government.

At about 12 o'clock, Chen Feng, who had been anxiously waiting in Guisui all morning, finally received a message from Wuhan Airport "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! "Telegram, informing of the news of the successful sneak attack.

In this battle, the Japanese navy and air force suffered heavy losses, and the strength of the Japanese army's air force in the Yangtze River valley suddenly dropped to the freezing point. Although the air force units of the Northern Air Force and the Nationalist Government also suffered considerable losses, with a total of 176 fighters on both sides shot down, the results were extremely brilliant.

Originally, Chen Feng planned to order the Northern Air Force to return to Guisui immediately, but Lao Jiang personally sent a telegram, hoping that the Northern Air Force could continue to stay in Wuhan for a period of time, and take advantage of the heavy losses of the Japanese Air Force to clean up the little devils.

Chen Feng readily agreed to Lao Jiang's request and ordered Liu Nijia and others to continue to stay in Wuhan to fight and return before October 25. (To be continued......)

PS: There is one more more, the time may be a little later!