In fact, even Liu Lang did not expect that because he used his body as bait to give the Japanese navy a hard hit with a stick so as to prepare for their march in the next two days, he would actually involve himself in a battle of absolutely no scale.
Small air battle.
The strategically short-sighted Japanese navy and army are ahead of the entire Asia and even as good as the major military powers in the world in terms of tactical operations.
They are more cunning than many people think.
The huge fleet of aircraft took off from the sea of Hangzhou Bay and flew straight into the sky. Regardless of the number of aircraft, just looking at the shadow of the aircraft wings reflected in the warm afternoon sunshine made the people shrouded in the shadow feel cold all over.
Although no one knows that these evil falcons carrying death bombs will bring death to that battlefield, there will always be people who will be wiped out in the blazing fire of the terrifying aerial bombs. Those are all those who witnessed the large-scale Japanese carrier-based aircraft passing through the sky.
people's thoughts.
China's intelligence agencies are not vegetarians. Chinese intelligence personnel on the front lines from Hangzhou Bay to Hangzhou sent an urgent telegram to Nanjing: The Japanese army took off a large number of fighter planes and rushed into the interior of China. Moreover, the Huxi, Jinshanwei, and Songshan front lines did not encounter large numbers of Japanese troops.
Bombing, its target unknown.
This piece of information made the big bosses of the Military Commission in Nanjing uneasy. Nanjing was regarded as the rear in the Battle of Songhu, but it was never said that the rear would be safe. The capital, which is only more than 300 kilometers away from Songhu, has always been
Within the attack range of the carrier-based aircraft carried by the Japanese aircraft carriers parked on the sea, since September, as the Chinese air force has been exhausted, not only the sky of Songhu has become the Japanese navy's carrier-based aircraft soaring wantonly
Even Hangzhou, Suzhou, Changshu, and Jiaxing were shrouded in the shadow of the Japanese aircraft.
The capital, where China's highest military and political commanding body is gathered, is not so stable. The Japanese army has long been eyeing it. The large air raid involving more than 50 Japanese aircraft at the end of September, if it were not for the bloody fight by the last remaining force of the Chinese Air Force,
I'm afraid the capital has also been blown into a sea of flames.
So what did the Japanese army want to do this time? When they received the intelligence, the Japanese plane had already taken off for more than 20 minutes, and at the slowest, it would arrive over the capital in 50 minutes.
At this time, at the Nanjing University Airport, in addition to the forty fighters of the "Volunteers", only the last half of the Chinese Air Force's flying brigade was left. The soul of the Chinese Air Force, Gao Zhihang, led the Chinese Air Force's few remaining fighters a few days ago.
The elites went to Lanzhou to accept the new fighter planes provided by Red Polar Bear. It can be said that the dozens of aircraft now are the last force of China's air force.
If only a few dozen Japanese planes came, it would be fine, but if there were more, I am afraid that the small Chinese air force would be completely wiped out in this asymmetrical air battle. Then, not only would the sky over Songhu become a
Where the Japanese planes act recklessly, I am afraid that the entire southeastern sky will become a hunting ground for the Japanese army, and China will completely lose its final counterattack force in the sky of the motherland.
You must know that hundreds of thousands of troops have begun to retreat. The highways from Shanghai to Kunshan and from Shanghai to Hangzhou are already densely packed with troops. Any bombing by Japanese planes may cause greater losses than a fierce battle on the front line.
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China's most elite army may not have been wasted in the battle of Songhu, which can be called a meat grinder, but will perish on the way home.
The Chinese top generals were not without foresight, and their predictions were extremely correct. In the past, a total of 750,000 troops suffered more than 100,000 casualties in the three-month Battle of Songhu, but they were unable to retreat from the front line.
The sequence eventually led to a massive retreat. At the summary meeting the following year, the estimated casualties exceeded 300,000. In fact, more than 200,000 were lost in the battle on the 300-kilometer journey home. And the Japanese Navy aircraft were
One of the main culprits of this tragedy was that the Chinese infantry, which was extremely short of anti-aircraft weapons, could not avoid the threat from the air. The retreat roads were littered with the remains of China's most elite veterans and civilians.
This is the tragedy of an era in China, but it can only silently swallow the bitter pill and face it bravely.
Without leaving much time for China's supreme commander to think about it, China's last air force asked for a fight, requesting to defend the enemy outside the capital's defense circle. The Air Force's Senior Airport in the capital was already the last airport in the southeastern battlefield. If it was successfully bombed by Japanese planes, China would
No matter how many Japanese planes were shot down, the last eagles would become lone eagles that could not return to their nests. No one could fly to the distant Hangzhou to find a bridge or the even more distant Wuhan after experiencing a hard battle.
Captain Le Yiqing, the commander of the 22nd Squadron of the 4th Group of the Chinese Air Force, was ordered to lead his team to meet the enemy. This Chinese Air Force captain, known as the "Steel Helmet of the South of the Yangtze River" in the Chinese Air Force, had made great achievements in time and space. In this
The times are equally radiant.
His glorious resume can still occupy a place among the ace pilots a few years later. Like his comrades, he is not flying a Spitfire, a Thunderbolt, or a BF-109 of the Third Reich.
The aircraft he was flying was an obsolete Hawker III biplane, which was almost an era behind the Japanese Army's main 96 fighter at this time.
However, the "Four King Kong" of the Chinese Air Force and their comrades at that time still used their almost terrifying records to rectify the name of the Chinese Air Force. With them, China's blue sky is always guarded.
On August 14, 1937, several aircraft of the "ace" "Kisarazu" Air Force of the Japanese Air Force made a sneak attack on Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport. The 22-year-old Air Force Captain was ordered to lead the 22nd Squadron to meet the enemy, and shot down 6 enemy planes with his teammates.
, no one on his own side was damaged, breaking the myth of the Japanese Air Force's invincibility. And four of the six downed enemy planes were all destroyed by his own hands. That was the fierce performance of the Chinese ace pilot that shocked the world.
Within seven days of the war, he shot down four Japanese aircraft again. In one week, he shot down eight enemy aircraft. He was known as the "Steel Helmet of the South of the Yangtze River". Together with Gao Zhihang, Liu Cuigang, and Li Guidan, he was known as the leader of the Chinese Air Force.
"Four Diamond".
At this time, November was an extremely cold November for the Chinese Air Force. Gao Zhihang, captain of the Fourth Battalion, the head of the "Four King Kong" of the Chinese Air Force, and Li Guidan, then captain of the 21st Squadron of the Fourth Battalion, rushed to Lanzhou
; A week ago, Liu Cuigang led his team to support the Sino-Japanese War in northern Shanxi. He was forced to land due to lack of fuel. He fired the only flare to help his wingman make an emergency landing. The wingman made a successful landing, but in the dark, he was unable to find a landing place and ultimately died.
On the Kuixing Tower in Gaoping County, Shanxi Province.
At this time, the only ace pilot of the Chinese Air Force in the southeastern battlefield was Le Yiqing.
The 24th Squadron has 9 Hawker III fighter jets. As for the volunteers, Zhou Dapeng also led 24 fighter jets to take off and fly at full speed in the direction of the Japanese planes. He left 16 fighter jets to protect the airport and the capital.
Faced with an unknown number of incoming Japanese aircraft, the weak Chinese Air Force dispatched the strongest force they could at this time to fight.