During the night, 419 again intercepted some clips of the Chinese Air Force's aerial calls, which traveled far but were not very stable at night. It sounds like a specific formation of hit-bombers is preparing for action, since the rest of the Chinese fighters generally do not have radios, and there is no point in making a sortie at night. The conversation did not mention the number and target, so there was no way for 419 to know where the Chinese air force was bombing.

Historically, from 1940 to the first half of 1941, it was undoubtedly the most depressed period for the Chinese Air Force. In addition, in the end, the gradual withdrawal of the Soviet air force and the fact that the planes purchased through the concession bill had not yet arrived, it was obviously the period when the Japanese invaders were most rampant in the skies over China for more than a year.

However, the gap appeared after July of '41. During this period, the elite air force of the Japanese army and navy began to be transferred out of the mainland, redressed and prepared for the Pacific War, which gave the faster Soviet СБ-2 and СБ-3 bombers a new opportunity, so they began to carry out some small-scale sneak attacks and reconnaissance missions, including the attack on Shanghai by mistake.

Generally speaking, these two high-speed bombers are not afraid of those landing gear that cannot be recovered, and look like brothers, Mitsubishi 96 ship battles or army Nakajima KI27 fighters.

You don't need to tell who they are, you just need to speed up and get rid of them. Even if you encounter the Army's latest Nakajima Hayabusa fighter, you will have the opportunity to entangle with it and get rid of it, especially the self-defense firepower of DB3 is not weak. Without the tough firepower of the Zero, it would not have been easy to shoot down such a twin-engine bomber.

On September 1, 1941, after a month, Cheng Dayang once again saw China's coastal areas in the periscope.

419 was delayed for 10 days and did not return directly to Shanghai. The main reason is that many people on the submarine still have illusions, thinking that they can wait until Makino and the other three people appear on a warship or salvage ship in the Kasuga Maru sinking area, so that they can wait for a chance to completely solve the problem.

Lin Xiuxuan and Cheng Dayang deduced various possibilities, and the relatively unanimous opinion was that no matter how hard Makino and the other three tried to perform, it was unlikely that they would gain the trust of the highest authorities, which would lead to them, most likely to return to this sea area to find Kasugamaru, and only by fishing for something useful and stepping on it could explain their identity.

But after ten more days, nothing waited. At the same time, no news from Ramza was intercepted, and everything was surprisingly quiet. On the bright side, perhaps they didn't even have the least amount of trust to send in warships to do it.

Obviously, it is just a waste of time to continue to wait passively, and we should take advantage of the last isolated island period to return to the motherland to collect enough things, so that the salvage work can be carried out earlier.

In the end, the trio decided to take the performance of Makino and the other three as a complete failure according to a more optimistic estimate, and they were still incapacitated. Of course, it will take about 1 month to verify all this.

September 6 will be a very critical time, a day of pre-imperial meetings to discuss the current situation, and the main topic will of course be the response to the US blockade. The alliance of the leaders of the Shanghai Army (Tojo and Nagano) at the conference will form a strong consensus on the main battle, and Japan will generally set the tone for a war against the United States, but there will still be some leeway, such as the outcome of new diplomatic negotiations. Prime Minister Fumiro Konoe, out of fear, did not dare to make a straightforward decision, and he would step down in the cabinet initiated by the military ministry in the near future.

Subsequently, at the meeting of important ministers at the end of the month, the new prime minister will be discussed, and once Hideki Tojo comes to power, it can be roughly determined that the efforts of Makino and others have failed, and the focus of the next stage of 419 will be how to return. If the situation is the opposite, the next phase may focus on how to restore the locked* in the launch tube.

The submarine drove to the mouth of the Yangtze River, which was about the area where Lu Qingshan and the others evacuated last time, where it was inaccessible and more conducive to landing, Lin Xiuxuan was ready to land again and set up a support point, leaving a number of people in case of response.

However, there is still some preparation before landing. First of all, the submarine stretched out its electronic mast to collect information, and at the same time, the task force had to recreate the documents.

Lin Xiuxuan found the "skillful hand" He Ming and made a list of documents needed. Since he himself has been seen by many people and left a portrait, he needs to be extra careful. Kinoshita's painting, which he had also seen, was actually just expressive, not formal. For this reason, at the suggestion of He Ming, he deliberately wore a mustache on his upper lip and a pair of glasses to disguise himself.

He took the press card of a reporter from Wang's fake newspaper "New China Daily", which He Ming forged and used before, and turned it over and over again, but could not see any flaws.

As for why he always pretends to be a reporter, because this identity can easily blend in with crowded places, and asking some more sensitive questions, others are not easy to guard.

"Well done, there's almost no problem."

"Team leader, you're scolding me, aren't you? What do you mean by barely being able to see a problem? I don't believe you can see anything without a microscope. ”

"Well, I really don't see any problems."

"Have you figured out what pseudonym to use this time?"

"Well, it's called Lin Shi."

"Good fellow, I'm convinced. Sign your name yourself, and remember to use a different handwriting than last time. ”

Lin Xiuxuan quickly wrote the new name in a slightly slanted scribbled font. He can write in a variety of different pen styles, disguise all kinds of vivid accents, but the biggest threat is still his face, after a month, there is still a great risk of returning to Shanghai, but he feels that no one but himself is capable of such a task, so he can only take risks.

After getting the new documents, Lin set a new identity in his mind while strolling to the telecommunications room, where Qin Xiaosu was listening to various calls, and he worked 16 hours a day to monitor all the signals that could be intercepted. Shortwave communications of 9 to 12 MHz travel great distances at night, even more so in this era.

While he was doing other things, he always listened to four radio stations. The first was the wartime news broadcast in both Chinese and English on Soviet radio stations in the Far East; The second is the 24-hour BBC English-language radio program Empire Service, which is located in Calcutta, India, based on London time. The third is the French colonial AM radio station in Hanoi. The fourth is the news of the Chongqing Central News Agency.

Through these radio stations, he kept abreast of the latest changes in the current situation and made a report to Lin. In addition to the above 4, he also monitors radio stations in the concession and radio in the United States, but there is a certain time difference in the news in the United States, and the radio stations in the concession are mostly hearsay, and there are a lot of nasty advertisements.

"Boss, you came just in time, the British said that the USSR suffered a catastrophic defeat in Kiev. However, the Soviets were still stubborn, saying that they had blocked the attack of Army Group Center, and the enemy troops were driven far away from the direction of Moscow. Marshal Timoshenko was about to launch a counteroffensive. ”

"It seems that nothing has deviated yet, except that we have let Izumo sink a few years earlier."

"Listen, this is the signal of the far-reaching airfield of the national army, and the ground command is with a Sichuan accent, it should be the Taiping Temple. 96 m wavelength 10W bomber radio. It's so far, it's quite clear. ”

"Are you sure?"

"Sure, every time a bomber takes off recently, there will be this kind of advance communication test, the communication discipline of the national army is too bad, even if the conversation does not reveal any details, but the Japanese are not stupid, they know that only bombers have a radio station, sooner or later they will find out the law in terms of sortie time."

"Is it СБ--2 or СБ--3?"

"It's not clear, the 2nd Group is armed with both types of bombers and uses similar radios."

"Where are you going to bomb again?"

"It's 2 o'clock in the morning, and judging from the take-off time, it won't be Wuhan or Changsha, it must be more far-reaching, most likely a target in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River."

Chengdu Taipingsi Airport, where the heat is in full swing. The last elite of the bomber unit of the Chinese Air Force gathered here, ready to attack.

The majestic pilots walked out of the conference room and shook hands with each other, and then walked to the bombers that were hung all over the air. The Chinese Air Force confidently found a new way to strike at the rear bases of the Japanese, that is, long-distance night raids without fighter cover. This may be the first positive effect of the crooked beating after SCP-419 disturbed time and space.

Chongqing's wartime propaganda department took advantage of the results of the 419 launch* to deliberately confuse the long-distance attack on the Huangpu River by Soviet pilots last month due to navigation errors with the attack on the army headquarters for unknown reasons.

This made the anti-fighting spirit of the whole people rise again. In response to the situation, the Aviation Committee has carried out several bombing operations in succession in the past month, and practice has proved that bombing without the cover of fighter planes is feasible. As long as the necessary navigation is carried out along the Yangtze River, the aircraft can touch the various fortified areas along the river at night and confirm the target in the early morning light for attack.

And the farther the target of the attack, the more the Japanese could not touch the pattern of Chinese bomber sorties, and for the two Soviet bombers with a larger range, this tactic was feasible, provided that there were no Zero fighters.

Although they were all clever and clever, they bombed Wuhan for a while, Changsha for a while, and Jiangxi for a while, but they destroyed the enemy's prestige. The Japanese did not have an early warning system in place on the hills of the deep zone, which was Chennault's prescient suggestion. In the end, the nimble but low-speed, short-legged Japanese fighters could only run for their lives.

Encouraged by the great results (mainly psychological) of these days, the commander-in-chief Mao Bangchu put forward a most daring idea. He wanted to bomb the Japanese airfield near the Dagong Yarn Mill in Shanghai again (this target was chosen to prevent the accidental bombing of the concession) and show the foreigners in the concession that China was still putting up effective resistance. He was ready to use the last rack DB2 bombers of the 9th Squadron below the 3rd Group.

Group Leader Jin Wen was the air commander of this air formation, and his No. 1101 plane was also the command plane of this attack. The order to clear the runway had not yet been given, and the ground crew was still climbing up and down the plane. He was on a map laid on his lap and continued to study the route.