Chapter 257 Shanghai Air Battle
The Shanghai Incident not only confused Yang Feng, but even the bald man was confused. He was not a fool. When he saw this situation, it was obvious that this was a provocation and he made an excuse to start a war with him. He was really not afraid to fight him. Although the Japanese started a war with Yang Feng, his original military mobilization speed slowed down a little, the three most elite German equipment divisions were still all deployed outside Shanghai. There were two security regiments and one police corps. Once the attack was launched, wouldn’t the Japanese Marine Corps have enough people?
So his reply to the Japanese was very clear. First of all, the first case was a criminal case that occurred in the public concession and had nothing to do with China. As for whether it was an anti-Japanese element, this point would be determined after being arrested and interrogated. In addition, the Japanese side said that the murderer fled to China, as long as they can provide the murderer's appearance characteristics, the Shanghai Police Department is very happy to provide help, including issuing a wanted order.
The attack on the Changpan was because the Japanese did not catch the attacker and could not confirm whether it was done by the Chinese, and it was also possible that it was an exile in North Korea. Therefore, it was necessary to wait until the navies and diplomatic departments of the two countries formed an investigation team to investigate the specific situation before making a decision. At the same time, in order to ensure fairness, the U.S., Britain and France naval personnel in Shanghai could be invited to participate in the investigation team.
The Japanese would naturally not be satisfied with this reply. Twenty-four hours later the next day, the third fleet flagship Changpan bombarded the city of Shanghai, causing more than 200 civilian casualties. The Japanese government announced that it would add two divisions to Shanghai to protect the safety of Japanese expatriates in Shanghai.
As a counter-attack, the bald man immediately ordered three German divisions stationed outside Shanghai to enter Shanghai, and at the same time formed the Ninth Army with these three divisions and the security forces in Shanghai. Zhang Zhizhong was the commander of the Ninth Army, and the two air forces in the sea and air force were dispatched at the same time. The Japanese Navy attacked Shanghai again and immediately stopped it with force.
Shortly after his order was issued, the Changpan bombarded Shanghai again, and the Navy of the National Government was of course useless. At this time, in addition to the Changpan, the Japanese Third Fleet on the Huangpu River also had four destroyers and a light cruiser. Such a bald man with poor strength may not be effective. What really works is the Air Force that took off from Hangzhou, the latest Thunder Fighter and five more advanced twin-body demons covering twenty Hawks and bombing Oikawa Koshiro's fleet with ordinary fifty-kilogram bombs.
Standing on the roof of Jinyuan Company, the captain of the security team, Hu Biao, looked at the scene of dozens of fighter jets circling and diving over the Changpan like vultures, and said with disdain: "The Central Army pilots are not good. After so long, they have hit ten bombs after blowing a fixed target. This makes those guys in Peking laugh to death when they see it?"
"You just stand and talk without a pain. How much does it cost to fly a plane with gasoline? How many hours can they fly a year? How many hours can those guys in Peking fly a year? Hurry up and prepare, maybe you will be on the battlefield later." Yu Maoren said.
"What if the concession does not allow our people to go out?" Hu Biao asked. Jinyuan Security Team is not allowed to carry weapons out of the camp unless Yang Feng arrives in Shanghai.
"Then you rush out and leave a hundred people as security guards in the company. You don't have to come back after you go out. Then I tell the Ministry of Industry that you are taking action privately." Yu Maoren said.
"Okay, Boss Yu, please see, I will scare the Sans outside this time." Hu Biao said to the Sans patrolling the Sans outside. As soon as this guy finished speaking, he suddenly heard screams around him.
At this time, there were many people like them watching the fun outside. Almost all roofs of the public concession were full of people, not only Chinese. There were also many foreigners watching the fun. When the bomb hit the target, many people would cheer, but the scream was made for the Chinese pilot, because while a Hawk dropped the bomb, he was also hit by a Japanese destroyer near Changpan with anti-aircraft artillery.
The plane made a move to pull up, but the damage to the lower wing caused the plane to fall to the shore again. However, at this moment, the plane turned suddenly and hit the destroyer's chimney without hesitation. Then a huge fire ball exploded and the raging fire burned on the destroyer.
This obviously suicide attack immediately caused a burst of surprise. Even many foreigners watching the battle sighed for the brave pilot. Moreover, his behavior also inspired the fighting spirit of the Chinese pilots in the air, and the battle situation became even more intense.
In addition to this destroyer, a fire has been lit on the Changpan. Fifty-kilogram class bombs are difficult to cause fatal damage to this large armored cruiser with thick skin, but they can't stand it if they get too much. Especially, the old antique-class warship like Changpan, which is the main target of attack, the entire superstructure is in a mess, and even the smoke and fire look quite miserable.
It should be said that the Chinese Air Force's performance is still very good. After all, they are not using dedicated dive bombers. It is not impossible to use biplanes like Hawk to attack warships, but the effect is definitely greatly reduced. Now this hit rate is amazing enough.
At least those foreign officers watching the battle thought so. Of course, the Chinese Air Force's record was not what they paid the most attention to. It was not realistic to use a 50-kilogram bomb to bomb Shen Changpan. They might as well blow up a certain destroyer, otherwise there might be a record of sinking.
What really attracted these foreign soldiers were those two new fighter jets. Needless to mention the twin demons, they were already strategic weapons of the US Army Aviation. However, the performance of the thunder developed by Lockheed for the Chinese Air Force was also surprising. This agile white fighter jet shuttled through the narrow Huangpu River gracefully like a swift, constantly attacking the anti-aircraft gunners on Japanese warships with large-caliber machine guns. From time to time, Japanese naval soldiers could be seen being beaten to pieces.
Compared to them, the elder brother, who was from the same family, seemed to have little use in this battle. It was too big. Fighting in this environment is very dangerous, so the five two-body demons have been hovering over the battlefield like lions in the group of lions. They did not really start the battle until the battle was about to be finished.
The carrier-based aircraft on the Japanese aircraft carrier arrived. In fact, last night, the three aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy, Kaga, Ryukao and Fengxiang, had already set off from Japan. Unlike the original history, they were stimulated by Yang Feng's air force. At this time, the Japanese aircraft carriers had already begun to generally replace the Type 96 carrier-based aircraft. The group of these arrived were the sixty Type 96 aircraft that took off from the Kaga three aircraft carrier.
The moment he saw the Japanese carrier-based aircraft appear, five two-body demons jumped to the sky like five black lightning bolts, and then ten thunders turned over and met them. Hawk, who had little oil, turned around and flew towards Hangzhou.
Not long after, I saw two ignitions flashing in the Japanese carrier-based aircraft group in the distance, and then two Type 96 carrier-based aircraft fell head-on to the ground. The crowd watching the battle immediately cheered. After shooting down two of them, the five twin-body demons flew over the Japanese head at high speed. At the same time, the Thunder fighter jets also started to fight with the Japanese army. It should be said that the performance of Type 96 is not much worse than that of Thunder, and the number has an absolute advantage. But the problem is that the five ghost-like twin-body demons are too difficult to deal with. The Japanese Navy pilots who fought with such high-speed large fighter for the first time could not adapt to its rhythm at all. If it were the Japanese Army, they would not be so embarrassed. At least they had enough experience, but this experience would definitely not be shared with the Navy.
Five twin-body demons and ten thunders actually blocked sixty 96-styles above Shanghai, and five 96-styles were shot down in a short period of time. Only one thunder in the Chinese side was injured. Just as the plane turned around and flew away from the battlefield, all the remaining twenty-five two-body demons that were urgently taken off from Hangzhou arrived. The bald man had only one brigade in his hands, all of which were deployed at Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport.
Following behind were twenty thunders taking off from Nanjing. The arrival of the reinforcements immediately reversed the air combat situation. A brigade of two-body demons. After the Battle of Rehe, the Japanese Army Air Force concluded that at least three brigades of 95 land warfare could be fought against them. Now the number of Chinese aircraft on the battlefield even exceeded that of the Japanese army, and they were all advanced than them. There was no big suspense in such a battle. The light of the sky saw Japanese aircraft falling down. In fact, in the end, the Chinese Air Force shot down twenty Japanese carrier-based aircraft with the loss of thunder. The remaining Japanese aircraft that attacked hurriedly turned around and fled. Twenty-five two-body demons arrived later followed behind with a long range, chasing for more than a hundred kilometers, and shooting down six more before returning.
Just as the citizens of Shanghai cheered and looked up at the air force fleet flying over their heads, Oikawa Fushiro looked up at the sky with a bitter look on his face. Speaking of the years, Japan's Air Force was beaten to the ground by two demons, and even had to withdraw from the Northeast to avoid war in order to save it. This made the Navy laugh.
In their opinion, Land Airlines cannot beat Yang Feng, and it is not that the plane is too bad. How bad can this thing be? It is purely because the idiots in the army are not good at skill. If it were the elites of the navy, this would definitely not have happened.
As a result, when I saw it today, the navy still made people beat the ground and it was so sad that this situation was simply infuriating.
Just when Oikawa Fushiro felt sad and angry, a huge fleet was riding the wind and waves on the sea 300 kilometers east of Shanghai. The aircraft carriers Kaga, Ryuka, Fengxiang, Battleships Hazelna, heavy cruisers Nazhi, Myoka, Kaohsiung, Maya, Aoba, light cruisers Naka, Yuri, Kyono, Kawauu, and there was also a seaplane mothership and twenty-two destroyers.
But at this time, the commander of this huge fleet, Lieutenant General Gao Xusi, looked as if he was ashamed. Because the news of the Shanghai air battle had already come, he lost one third of the fighter planes at once. What's even more shameful is that the result was only a pitiful one. This is not just shameful. He had foreseeed what the failure of this air battle would mean to his career.
He was standing on the deck of the Kaga, silently waiting for his fighter troops to return? At this moment, an air defense alarm sounded suddenly, and the entire fleet suddenly became chaotic. All the soldiers on the warship rushed to their respective positions, especially those anti-aircraft artillery were staring at the sky with nervous expressions on their faces.
Takasu Shiro hurried back to the command room, and a staff officer came forward and saluted and said, "Report to the commander, an unidentified reconnaissance plane is sending a report to the outside world nearby."
Takasu Shiro looked in the direction he pointed with a telescope. Sure enough, in the cloudless sky, a large four-engine aircraft was slowly flying over, but the flight altitude was very high. It was probably not less than 30,000 feet. Fighters of such altitude could not be intercepted at all.
"I am a reconnaissance liberator. I should have taken off from Peking. The US liberator who took off from Guam will not come here." said the Fleet Chief of Staff.
He guessed it right. This was a Liberator's maritime reconnaissance aircraft that took off from Peking. Yang Feng asked Lockheed to modify six such aircraft for him, which could fly more than 30,000 feet, equipped with high-performance cameras and high-end optical telescopes he brought from Hyundai. He wandered around the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, the Northeast, and North Korea every day, and sometimes even flew to the coast of Japan. This type of aircraft can stay in the sky for more than ten hours. Any moves of the Japanese Navy within the search radius Yang Feng could know. Next, he even prepared to install the radar.
Lieutenant General Gaofeng frowned and stared at the reconnaissance plane in the sky. The panda on the fuselage was vaguely visible, which shows the identity of the plane. It belongs to the Panda Airlines China Branch. Although it sounds a bit incredible. It belongs to the bomber of the civil aviation company, this is true, because all the combat aircraft under Yang Feng have this identity.
"His Excellency Commander, our fighter plane is back." The Chief of Staff reminded him with a hint of pain. Takasu Shiro sighed. He slowly put down his telescope. On the flight deck outside, a Type 96 fighter plane was landing. Among the thirty-six planes that took off from the Kaga, sixteen of them would never come back.
At this time, in the distance, when he learned that the Japanese naval aircraft carrier formation was less than 300 kilometers away from Shanghai, Boss Yang smiled with satisfaction. Last night, the guy didn't sleep all night. Just as the bald naval generals were studying how to block the Japanese navy by a shipwreck once the war started, he worked hard to reach the estuary of the Yangtze River, where he threw down more than 200 anchor thunders, and there were also two hundred sunken bottom thunders, and four hundred 500 kilograms of mines sealed the Yangtze River estuary to a dead end. A ship with a tonnage of more than 500 tons would be a ship that could not be entered or exited.
"I wonder if the Japanese would like the gifts I prepared for them?" The guy said to himself with a smirk. What he didn't know was that before the Japanese could blow up, his mines first blew up a British merchant ship leaving the port.
"Mine?" The bald man, who was busy and anxious, was stunned by the news. He said to Judgan who came to the door with an innocent look on his face: "Amprovement, I can tell you clearly that the Chinese Navy has not laid any mines at the estuary of the Yangtze River. You should be very clear about the importance of the Yangtze River channel to our economy. Although we do not have the ability to prevent the Japanese Navy from entering the Yangtze River, when the two sides did not go to war, they just blocked the Yangtze River first."
Judgan is quite convinced of the bald man's explanation. Although China and Japan have fought a wonderful sea and air war in Shanghai, they have not really started. There has not been any battle on land yet. Moreover, diplomats from the two governments are still shuttled and negotiated. German ambassador Todman is still mediating on both sides with sweat. It is indeed far from the point of blocking the Yangtze River Estuary by himself with mines.
Since it was impossible for the bald man to do it, it could only be done by Yang Feng. Who is the culprit of the mines in Liaodong Bay? It was an open secret when the mouth of the Yalu River was blocked by mines not long ago. No one except this guy has the ability to do this, and this is also very consistent with his style.
But are you going to find Yang Feng? Judd thought about it and shouldn't make things boring. This guy will definitely not admit it. If it doesn't work out, it will affect his friendship with him. Besides, isn't it just a merchant ship sinking? Just investigate it slowly! It's not a big deal.
It's no big deal here, but Takasu Shiro on the sea and Oikawa Fushiro on the Huangpu River were stunned. They all hoped to drive battleships and heavy cruisers into the Yangtze River, and then crush the Chinese army with cannons. If you can't enter the Yangtze River now, you can't crush it. Not only can you crush it, but you can't expect it. It seems that if you continue like this, Oikawa Fushiro and his fleet are still very dangerous. Although fifty kilograms of bombs will not destroy the Takaba, if someone blows you up every day, let alone Takaba, you can't stand it even if you get Nagato, let alone those light cruisers and destroyers, which are just left here to deliver food to people.
Takasu Shiro was very smart. The Chinese task force he led stopped directly at the sea. Now he has a useless job. If he doesn’t clear the mines at the estuary of the Yangtze River, who dares to enter? As for when to clear these mines, Lieutenant General Panasonic, the commander of the Lushun Guardian, has a say in this issue. He has been sweeping at Lushunkou for a year and still dares not leave the port!
The news that the Japanese naval fleet stopped made the bald man completely relieved. As long as those battleships and heavy cruisers could not enter the Yangtze River, it would be impossible for Oikawa Koshiro's fleet and the thousands of Marines to come up with no matter what.
What remains is international mediation. Now Todman has flew to Japan. I believe that if the Germans come forward, the Japanese still have to give some face. The war atmosphere between China and Japan, as hot as boiling oil, suddenly felt like a bucket of ice water was poured on, and the temperature dropped instantly.
PS: Regarding the problem of complaints, after I lifted the ban, I lost more than 300 subscriptions every day. Who wouldn’t get angry?
Chapter completed!