In the morning, seeing the new German helicopter put into service and convincing Mercedes to give birth to a child, Accardo was a little proud. His efforts are slowly bearing fruit, and the feeling of seeing the rewards also makes him a little fluttery.

But an afternoon essay brought him back to the harsh reality that the war situation had taken a turn for the worse in the Far East, and the Chinese army, which lacked foundation, had finally been defeated in the face of the Japanese army, who were planning for war.

Although in many sections, the Chinese 9th Army played a style similar to that of the German army, and once drove several Japanese troops from the landing ground into the sea, and even the main landing field of the Japanese army was once compressed to a very small area within a radius of several kilometers, the Japanese command even considered the possibility of failure in the Battle of Songhu.

At the time when the Chinese army was fighting the most smoothly, the main force of the Japanese landing force, the 3rd Division, was almost completely wiped out, the division commander Lieutenant General Fujita Susumu was wounded, and the chief of staff of the division, Takuyu Toshio Osa, committed suicide by cutting his abdomen.

Japan had to use its strategic reserves, that is, the newly formed 10th Army to enter the Songhu area, which barely stabilized the situation of the war, and finally found a killer weapon, and finally stabilized the situation that was about to collapse.

This killer feature is none other than the main air force deployed on the Japanese mainland, Japan's most elite indigenous air defense fighter unit, and the Japanese Army's First Air Force, which is equipped with 30 ME-109C fighters originally exported from Germany.

As a result, there was an interesting episode on the Songhu battlefield, where the main forces of the two air forces using the same weapon engaged in three high-level air battles that shocked the world, and the Chinese air force fought a record of one victory, one draw and one loss, and finally retreated to the vicinity of Nanjing because it was inferior in numbers.

The Chinese army's grass green fighter livery meets the Japanese army's dark green livery fighters, and the fighter model is exactly the same. As a result, the two sides could only rely on the air force logo to identify the target, and after going back and forth several times to each other, they returned to each other. In the first air battle, the two sides shook hands and made peace, and each went back to change the livery.

The Chinese Air Force sprayed two blue blue sky and white sun flags on its wings as identification marks, and the Japanese planes added two yellow lines representing chrysanthemums on the wings as identification marks, and the two sides fought again, with the result that the Japanese army was shot down 3 planes and the Chinese army lost 2.

In the third exchange of fire, the Japanese army dispatched 46 fighters of various types, and the Chinese army had no choice but to take off only 27 fighters to meet them, and the two sides fought fiercely for 20 minutes, and the Chinese army was shot down 5, while the Japanese lost 2 ME-109C fighters and 2 old naval fighters as decoys.

In three air battles, the Japanese Air Force lost 5 ME-109C fighters, while China lost 7 ME-109C fighters of the same model. However, four Chinese pilots managed to parachute, while only one of the five Japanese pilots survived and was captured by the Chinese defenders. So the records of the two sides are almost equal.

History has once again played an international joke, the Chinese Air Force because of the German fighter planes dominating the skies over the Battle of Songhu, and the Japanese Air Force because of the German fighter jets into the battle to regain the disadvantage and win back the initiative in the battle, it seems that both sides are using their own results to advertise to the world: Don't hesitate! Come and buy German aircraft, ME-109C is the best choice for your powerful air force!

Helplessly, the Chinese army, which had run out of ammunition reserves, entered a weak phase. However, the Japanese army still maintained a high combat effectiveness by relying on domestic blood transfusion, and the Battle of Songhu took a turning point. The Japanese army began a counteroffensive, and the Chinese army had to abandon many areas that should have been held in order to preserve their strength.

Then, because of the loss of air supremacy, the Japanese Air Force began to support ground operations after gaining superiority, and an important 150 mm caliber heavy artillery position of the Chinese 9th Army was destroyed, losing more than a dozen Krupp cannons that terrified the Japanese army, and also made the lack of firepower of the Chinese army even worse.

In the end, the 9th Army reluctantly withdrew from Shanghai, leaving a ruin that had been fought for 15 days to the Japanese invaders. Although the Battle of Songhu was only fought for half a month, it ate more than 74,000 Japanese troops in one go, and it was not until the Japanese army invested 400,000 troops that the Chinese army began to retreat.

In comparison, the Chinese army lost 100,000 men in this battle, more than double the terrible 300,000 casualties in another time and space, while the Japanese army lost more than twice as much. In a quarter of the time, he doubled the results and reduced his losses by two-thirds - Accardo had to admire the Chinese once again, who were even better than the German army.

Many people do not understand how weak China was during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, so much so that they feel that China's loss of power and land is simply a loss of power and humiliation to the extreme. But if you look at the real historical materials, you know that the Chinese people have never been soft bones, and they have never lost the face of the Qin Emperor and Han Wu.

In real history, in the first few years of the Anti-Japanese War, the number of bullets produced and imported by China was about 2 per year. 800975 billion rounds, 3 per year after the United States entered the war. 12.5 billion rounds, if you look at it on average, the total amount of ammunition consumed by China during the entire Anti-Japanese War was about 300 million rounds per year. If the number of **** at that time is generally about 3 million, that is to say, an average of 100 rounds of ammunition per person per year.

Many friends joked that a Chinese division was chased by a large group of Japanese soldiers and ran all over the ground. In fact, this was also very helpless: At that time, a Chinese division had more than 10,000 people in the first division, and only 5,000 or 6,000 people in the second division, and more than 3,000 rifles, but the average ammunition per capita was 20 to 30 rounds. Even if 50 rounds are counted, a B division will have 150,000 rounds, and a brigade of Japanese troops will carry no less than this amount of ammunition, and it can be constantly replenished. On the other hand, if the Chinese army wants to replenish ammunition, it has to be transported from thousands of miles away, and in this case, if it is an ordinary army with a weak will to fight, is there any other way but to retreat?

But this time and space of Accardo is different, with the efforts of Sickert and the covert help of Germany and Britain, China produces 100 million more rounds of ammunition per year than another time and space, plus the National Revolutionary Army has restored the actual control of the whole country earlier than before, saving a lot of ammunition, so in the Battle of Songhu, China played a nearly one-for-one battle loss ratio, even if the main force retreated to Nanjing in the later period, there was no situation where the formed troops were surrounded.

But in the final analysis, China was defeated, and while Japan had basically completed industrialization, China was still a poor and backward agricultural country. Even though it has some industrial base, it is still an agricultural country. Germany's industrial foundation Accardo only knew how strong it was after contact, which was a manifestation of strength after accumulation and expansion, which was just the opposite of Germany's industrial level, even decades after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, China's industry still exuded a sour taste of nouveau riche.

The Japanese occupation of Shanghai destroyed the international financial center of Asia, undermined the gold-making order of the world powers, and made the United States and Britain, who had been out of the way, unbearable. Soon two American freighters departed from Australia and transported a full 100 million rounds of ammunition to support China's war of resistance, while Britain also manufactured 30 million rounds of ammunition from Australia and sent them to China, and if you count the amount of ammunition produced by China itself, the National Revolutionary Army still has at least 200 million rounds of ammunition in its hands at this stage.

With the flash of inspiration of the Battle of Songhu, Japan's slogan of destroying China in three months became an out-and-out joke, and the Chinese army still had its blood and bones, and although its strength had been slightly reduced, the main force still existed, and under such circumstances, the defense of the Japanese Central China Front in the Songhu area was still insufficient, let alone any attack on Nanjing.

In order to prevent Shanghai from being recaptured by the Chinese defenders, nearly 200,000 troops had to be deployed to defend the surrounding areas, but it was impossible to immediately connect with the Japanese troops moving south. Shanghai, which General Matsui Ishine had taken with great effort, had become a tasteless and discardable piece of chicken ribs, stuck in the throat of the Japanese army, and difficult to swallow.

The Nationalist Government of China announced the establishment of a provisional wartime capital in Chongqing. The main force retreated to Nanjing, swearing to defend the military town of Wuhan to the death. The Nanjing Massacre, which was the most tragic in history, was not staged, and although the Japanese army had the upper hand on the Chinese battlefield, there was no large-scale collapse of the Chinese army.

This is also the most gratifying thing for Accardo, after all, being able to prevent the recurrence of human tragedies such as the Nanjing Massacre can be regarded as a contribution to his distant hometown in this time and space. What he didn't expect was that Germany's covert assistance to China won Germany a lot of impression points in the US Congress, which could be regarded as an unexpected return on another level.

Germany, the United States, and even Britain have maintained a high degree of unity in the general direction of assisting China in resisting Japanese aggression, which has made German diplomacy more dynamic. Although in Europe, Britain, France, Belgium and Belgium are at war with Germany, Germany is still playing the joint card with Asian peace, making it difficult for the United States to bet for a while.

The German ambassador to the United States openly stated that Germany was originally resisting the invasion of the Bolsheviks for the whole world, but was stabbed in the back by France. Although everyone does not believe his claims, there are still some American politicians who seek status to stand in favor of Germany.

As a result, the U.S. plan to aid Britain was downsized, and the plan to expand the U.S. Army, which Congress had originally prepared, was also rejected, delaying the progress of the United States in arming itself and delaying the timing of aid to Britain.

As a result, at night, Accardo had to deal with his own affairs. Fanny prepared a festive speech for him to announce to all his people: The head of the Third Reich, Accardo Rudolph, learned today that the First Lady of the Reich, Mercedes, was pregnant and that their first child would be born in the future.

The Germans cheered, and in celebration of the Führer's event, Rommel broke through the French line that night and advanced another ten kilometers.