On the morning of February 8, 1941, Wuhan

The arrogant devil naval aviation was also very excited when they saw that there were fighters not only did not flee but pressed up, and they pounced without any hesitation, but soon they found out that something was wrong, they couldn't catch the opponent, and even if they occasionally caught one, their weak firepower couldn't defeat the opponent, and in just ten minutes, seven of their fighters crashed, and one of them disintegrated on its own during a sharp turn.

To say that the psychological quality of these old devil pilots is really good, they did not panic or retreat after encountering this situation, but immediately thought of countermeasures, and they began to pounce on the battle group around them in two and two, no longer entangled with that kind of strange-looking fighter.

Commander Zhou of the Air Force, who had been directing operations on a transport plane on the periphery of the battlefield, immediately ordered the old-fashioned fighters in the group to leave the battle group and go to the periphery to be on standby. And the battlefield was all handed over to the Dwatina D520 fighters and P-39 fighters, you must know that not only the provisional 68th Division was equipped with P-39 fighters, but the Yamashiro Air Force itself was equipped with 40 fighters, and some were lost during this time, but there were still more than 20 of them, and they were all here, just the P-39 fighters were more in number than the latest fighters of the Japanese.

But this is not all the fighters of the devils, in order to support the air battle in Wuhan, the devils continue to draw planes from the battlefields of North China, East China, and South China to support, so even after the Shancheng Air Force finally eliminated all the 36 Devil Naval Aviation Zero fighters, it was not able to obtain absolute air supremacy over Wuhan.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the ground troops of the devils entered the periphery of Hankou, but they did not rush into the city, but under the cover of the aviation force, they launched artillery positions outside the city, and carried out artillery bombardment of the area controlled by our army in the city, and the 36 75-mm guns and 12 120-mm guns of the artillery wing began a large-scale shelling of the urban area.

Soon, the urban area controlled by Zhang Zhonglin's department was shrouded in gunsmoke, during which the Shancheng Air Force tried to send fighter planes to bomb the Japanese artillery positions, but it was desperately blocked by the devil air force several times, and could only watch the urban area ravaged by the devil's artillery fire.

The devil's ground troops also slowly advanced towards the city under the cover of artillery fire, while Zhang Zhonglin's temporary barricade fortifications could not stop the Japanese army at all, especially in the face of the devil's bean fighting vehicles and armored vehicles, there was a serious lack of counterfirepower, and the few T-27 tanks in their hands were not effective at all because of the exhaustion of ammunition, and those Soviet-style 20mm machine guns now have no ammunition replenishment at all.

The two sides soon fell into a fierce street battle, although the Japanese advance was greatly slowed down, but the casualties of troops and civilians were extremely large, in order to reduce the losses of the troops, the Japanese troops even began to blow up buildings in an organized way to clear the fire for their direct fire, and a large number of civilians hiding in their homes were killed.

At this time, the representatives of the Japanese army found the highest authority, in order to avoid the indiscriminate shelling of the city by the Japanese army, the highest authority finally reluctantly agreed, Zhang Zhonglin's troops withdrew from the urban area of Hankou, and the Japanese side also promised that the sixth division would be strictly ordered to withdraw from the urban area.

If there is a slight opportunity, the highest authorities want to compare it with the Sixth Division, but under the current situation, it is really impossible to do it, the devil's small fleet is still desperately going north for reinforcements, once it is entangled, the last bit of family wealth in the hands of the navy is equivalent to having to be explained; The situation on the air force side is not good, although the air force has been trying to maintain the local superiority in the Wuhan area, but the losses are also very large, not to mention that the pilots and fighters have reached the limit, and it is somewhat inappropriate to continue to fight with the devils, after all, the devils' current capital is still very strong.

As for Zhang Zhonglin's department, don't look at it has swelled to 10,000 people, but the equipment and training of these troops are not optimistic, and the command is not smooth, it is completely relying on a group of blood and courage to insist, once this momentum is gone, it will definitely collapse at the touch of a button, especially the 58th Division commando, not to mention, it has been exhausted to the limit, the ammunition has been exhausted, and even the fuel in the vehicle is pumped out of the devil's car, and it can't fight at all.

The process of retreat was also full of twists and turns, with some of the puppet army units refusing to retreat, some of the citizens wanting to evacuate together, and some of the soldiers refusing to give up heavy equipment such as tanks and vehicles.

The Japanese army was also very troublesome, and the Japanese army's communication system also had problems, and the orders could not be conveyed to the grassroots troops for a while, and there were also grassroots troops who refused to cease fire.

It was not until the evening that the torpedo boats in charge of the vigilance saw the advance of the devil's fleet, and Zhang Zhonglin's retreat was finally completed, and the deck of the fleet was already densely packed with soldiers and people, and even the Ding'an aircraft carrier had to release a few Fujian-made seaplanes to vacate the tonnage to carry the people, and the small fleet was stunned to pick up a full 30,000 people from Wuhan, many of whom were ordinary citizens who were injured in the Japanese counteroffensive.

During this period, the 6th Division, which was holding back the damage, also tried to advance the 105 cannon in its hand to the riverside in order to sneak attack the Chuguan, but this action was discovered by the Military Command Bureau in advance, and a devil artillery brigade that went out too far was covered by fleet fire in advance, and in order to retaliate, the supreme authority ordered the transport ship Ke'an to arrive near Hankou Port, and then used the 98-type 320 mm heavy mortars on the warship to wash the devil's shipyard with heavy artillery.

The 98-type 320 heavy mortar is the devil's equipment, Wang Yue naturally can't buy it, but if he can't buy it, it doesn't mean he can't get the drawings, this thing is just a plus-sized gas cannon, Qijiang's arsenal has long been made, but Li Yunlong thought it was inconvenient to use and kept it in the warehouse to eat ashes, and was later discovered by Commander Chen of the Navy, and arranged some on the Ke'an, saying that it was used for ground fire support, this is the first time it has been put into actual combat, no way, the legs of this thing made by the devil are too short, Most of the time it was placed on the Kyan and could not reach the shore.

But there are not many people on the devil's side who know about this kind of artillery, and seeing that the Yamashiro fleet actually has an absolute advantage in suppressive firepower, the grassroots officers of the Sixth Division who are eager to try it are finally honest and no longer engage in small actions.

And after standing on the warship and seeing this scene, the highest authorities were also brightly impressed, and he felt that another door seemed to have opened in his world.

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