Wuhan, February 7, 1941

The Japanese planes appeared, and the Shancheng Air Force pounced on it as if it had been beaten with chicken blood, and the two sides fought in the sky over Wuhan, during which several light explosive planes tried to break away from the battlefield, and the domestic and international Chuguan, in the face of this emergency, several Guizao biplane light fighters that had been cruising around the battlefield directly collided with them without the slightest hesitation.

But that's it. There was still a light explosive plane that got rid of the entanglement and rushed straight towards the Chuguan. plunged headlong into the bow of the warship, and at the same time, a deafening explosion was heard on the radio of the highest authorities, and for a moment, the heartstrings of the whole country were tensed.

However, after only a few tens of seconds, the broadcast resumed, and even someone could clearly hear someone report to the highest authorities that the bow of the Chu Tong had been hit and caught fire, and it turned out that it was the Chu Tong that was hit just now, after all, the three warships were almost identical, and it was impossible to judge from the sky, and it was normal to admit mistakes.

After everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they heard the words of the highest authority, he would not retreat, and would continue to stay here to supervise the battle, and would not leave until the navy completed the strike on the Japanese targets around Wuhan.

Even along the Yangtze River around Wuhan, a large number of people appeared, cheering at the fleet with the national flag that had been treasured for many years, until the Japanese army sent troops to risk attacking the river bank, but from beginning to end, there were people calling the fleet in some places on the river bank, no way, it is not easy for the devil to rush to the river bank at this time, the artillery fire on the mountain city fleet is not very powerful, but there is no shortage of machine guns and small-caliber artillery, as long as they appear in the other party's field of vision, You will be greeted without hesitation.

In the face of the Japanese air threat, the fleet did not rely only on its own pitiful anti-aircraft firepower, but began to release smoke on a large scale, and in order to expand the range of smoke shielding, all ships lowered their lifeboats and used these to release smoke.

For a while, the entire fleet was covered by heavy smoke, and the few Japanese fighters who broke away from the battle group suddenly found that they could not find their target, but looking at the Shancheng Air Force fighters who were chasing closely, they could not withdraw, and had no choice but to crash into the still burning Chu Tong ship.

At the end of the air battle, the Chu Tong ship was hit by seven Japanese fighters in front of and back, and used its own firepower to shoot down three Japanese planes and damage one forced landing, while the old warship superstructure had already turned into a sea of fire, and only a few secondary guns that were still stubbornly firing showed that he had not been abandoned.

In fact, it was true, but the fire was so great that the deck burned through, the steel plates burned red, the ammunition depot exploded, and finally even the coal bunker was set on fire, and in the evening of the same day, when Admiral Chen, the commander of the navy, had to give the order to abandon the ship, there were only thirteen officers and men left on the ship, and all of them were wounded, and an hour later, the Chutong ship sank.

However, the Japanese attack did not end, and at the same time that the Japanese air force was attacking the fleet, the Japanese torpedo boats that had been dormant also appeared in the evening, and under the cover of the setting sun, they pounced on our fleet from the west and rushed straight to the flagship Chuguan.

Although the Yamashiro fleet launched a blocking fire as soon as it discovered the Japanese army, and even the air force formation that had just arrived to replace it also pounced on the torpedo boats, and after a while, several torpedo boats with almost no armor were blown up, but even so, one torpedo boat rushed into the firing distance and fired two torpedoes at the Chuguan ship, and the two high-speed torpedoes rushed towards the Chuguan ship one after the other.

The Chuguan ship hurriedly made an evasion, but at this time, the Chuguan ship happened to be in shallow water, and the warship was too old to have any mechanical power at all, so no matter how it was adjusted, it could only avoid one torpedo, but just when the torpedo was about to crash into the Chuguan ship, the concentric ship guarding the side came over and blocked the Chuguan ship with its own hull.

Just a few seconds later, with a huge explosion, the submarine gunboat, which was launched in 1935 at the Jiangnan Shipyard and had a displacement of only 509 tons, was hit.

At this time, the bomber formation from the mountain city also arrived, this is the last large-scale bombing today, in less than two hours, the sky will be completely dark, but this is enough, because after these days of high-intensity bombing, they have successfully driven the headquarters of the 11th Army into Hankou Middle School near Nanhu, in order to prevent further bombing, the Japanese military police also detained the students of Hankou Middle School.

However, for the Yamashiro government, this was enough, because unconsciously, the garrison force around Lieutenant General Sonobe and Ichiro was already less than a squadron, and even the staff officers and civilian personnel of the headquarters were mostly sent out by this commander to supervise the battle of the nearby puppet army troops.

As night fell, the fleet cruising on the river finally stopped the shelling of the Japanese army, and began to sail towards the west under alternate cover, seeing this scene, the Japanese army finally breathed a sigh of relief, and began to hurriedly pack up the mess and lick the wounds, preparing for a more fierce attack the next day, Vice Admiral Sonobe and Ichiro even sent the last armored wing in his hand, hoping to block the overwhelming armored troops of the Nine Theater of Operations, Tai Nima's fierceness, one day, stunned by the Renault R35 \/ The 40 tanks advanced 100 kilometers per hour at a speed of less than 20 kilometers per hour, and if it weren't for the poor road conditions and the lack of fuel, it is estimated that the madman in the 9th theater would have been able to hit Wuhan directly.

This is also the Renault R35 / 40 tank congenital insufficiency, as an infantry tank, the highway speed of this thing is only 20 kilometers per hour, replaced by the dirt road in the south of the Yangtze River, it can be more than ten kilometers, and the fuel consumption of 100 kilometers of 212 liters of the engine can only provide 130 kilometers of road travel for the tank, a day to advance 100 kilometers or rely on the crew members to carry 20 liters of fuel, otherwise, it is estimated that it would have been lying on the nest a long time ago.

The Japanese army had obtained the specific parameters of the Renault R35/40 tank from the Vichy government, and after some "study", Lieutenant General Kazuichiro Sonobe confidently believed that the armored wing in his hand equipped with the Type 89 medium tank still had the strength to fight.

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