At 11:20, news came from Shanghai that the Japanese commander-in-chief Kiyoshi Hasegawa ordered the aviation force to attack Hongqiao Airport. After the Japanese army turned Hongqiao Airport upside down, they found that all the bombs dropped were in vain, so Hasegawa was furious. The Qing ordered military planes to bomb the Shanghai City Hall. The Chinese troops guarding the city hall suffered heavy casualties, but Chinese ground artillery also shot down several Japanese fighter planes.
The Japanese military plane then returned to the aircraft carrier and waited for the fighter planes stationed in Taiwan to come and rendezvous.
In the morning, the Chinese Air Force bombed the Japanese Third Fleet parked on the Huangpu River, as well as the Marine Corps Headquarters on North Sichuan Road, and the armory of the Grand Textile Mill, completely suppressing the arrogance of the Japanese army. , forcing them to huddle in the fortifications, holding on to resist, waiting for reinforcements to come from all over the starry night!
The Third Fleet was severely damaged. Fearing that the Chinese Air Force would come again, the fleet assembled intensive shore artillery defense and strengthened the anti-aircraft artillery of the warships on the river.
Now, if we attack Japan's Third Fleet again, Chinese fighter planes will suffer heavy losses. Therefore, the Air Force's tactics at this time are correct. They directly ignore the Japanese Third Fleet and attack the Japanese defenders stationed elsewhere in Shanghai.
Zhou Zhihan has plenty of physical strength. After a night of fierce fighting, he did not show any signs of fatigue. His physical fitness has now reached a new level. Whether it is a dive with the lever or an attack with the lever, including the scissors maneuver, which is the most energy-consuming, he can do it at will. effortless.
Hearing that a new group of students had arrived in the Air Force, Zhou Zhihan wanted to see if these newly recruited students were suitable for the Air Force.
Never come in through the back door.
When Mao Bang first saw that Zhou Zhihan was still energetic after a night of fierce fighting, he couldn't help but secretly praise him for being a young man and having really good physical strength. So he asked a flight instructor to take Zhou Zhihan to see the newly recruited students.
At this time, the sky above Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport is as blue as watercolor, and the air is fresh enough to be swallowed. After the strong wind and heavy rain, the earth is full of vitality and the weather is hot. It is currently the so-called 18th Heaven and Earth Fire. The scorching sun is baking the earth and drying up the airport runway. It's dry and white, very eye-catching.
Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport was the cradle base of the Chinese Air Force during the Sino-Japanese War. Even though it was a cradle base, the equipment in the airport was very crude, incomparable to Randolph Air Force Academy. One look at it made Zhou Zhihan feel sad.
Hangzhou Jianqiao Aviation College Airport was the best aviation school in China during the Anti-Japanese War.
What made Zhou Zhihan feel uneasy was that such an important air force aviation school base did not have anti-aircraft weapons deployed around it, which left an opportunity for Japanese military planes to take advantage of.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army bought many traitors as their spies. The Japanese Air Force must have known from the scum traitors that there were no anti-aircraft artillery deployed around Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport.
After the Lushan Conference on July 18, Zhou Zhihan accompanied Air Force Commander-in-Chief Zhou Zhirou to inspect various air force airports across the country.
No anti-aircraft artillery was placed around each airfield.
In this regard, Zhou Zhihan once suggested to Zhou Zhirou that anti-aircraft artillery be deployed around the airport.
However, Zhou Zhirou said that there has never been any cooperation between the airport and the air defense forces. If anti-aircraft artillery is deployed around the airport, it may accidentally injure one's own aircraft.
Moreover, for now, there are not that many excellent anti-aircraft artillery deployed around the airport.
If artillery with average firepower is deployed, it will not only be ineffective, but sometimes it will be troublesome.
Zhou Zhihan could not refute this.
Zhou Zhirou trusted Zhou Zhihan very much. He said that each army unit had its own calculations in mind and it would not be easy to mobilize its own air defense troops to defend the airport.
An army unit believed that instead of deploying anti-aircraft artillery fire around the airport, it would be better to use military aircraft in the airport instead of artillery to defend the airport. This would free up anti-aircraft artillery and deploy it at key locations to attack the Japanese army.
Zhou Zhirou meaningfully told Zhou Zhihan that there are many factions in the national army. Many things seem easy, but they are very difficult to implement. The air force wants to transfer the army's anti-aircraft artillery and come to defend the vicinity of the airport, which is simply impossible. Still difficult.
Every army wants to protect its own wealth, so how can it be easily transferred from outside?
In this regard, Zhou Zhihan could only remain silent. He was in a humble position and could not control the air defense layout.
Although there are empty outposts around Jianqiao Airport, once an enemy aircraft is discovered, early warning can be issued from a long distance, but the lack of anti-aircraft fire greatly reduces the deterrence of enemy aircraft, which is equivalent to leaving the door open for enemy aircraft to come and bomb at will.
In this way, the enemy aircraft is in the active position, while our own side is very passive.
When the air defense post 30 kilometers away sounds the alarm and the siren reaches the airport, the airport pilots take off temporarily and are easily caught off guard by the other side. Moreover, it is not known how many fighter planes the other side will come to carry out air strikes. It is difficult for the airport to respond. defense.
Zhou Zhihan could only face the status quo.
In the aspect of anti-aircraft artillery alone, it can be seen that the tactics of the Chinese army are far behind the Japanese army.
Yesterday, when he piloted a Heinkel He111 A medium bomber to raid the Japanese airstrip, he was attacked by Japanese anti-aircraft artillery fire and still escaped unscathed. If it had been anyone else, under such concentrated artillery fire, let alone evacuated unharmed. It's hard not to get shot down.
The Japanese army only had an airstrip and deployed heavy artillery to defend it. However, the Nationalist Government's Hangzhou Jianqiao Academy was so important, but not even a single anti-aircraft gun was deployed around it. This war had just begun, and the Nationalist Government was already doomed to fail.
I don’t know who the original designer of Jianqiao Airport was, but he didn’t reserve a place for anti-aircraft artillery fire all around. This was also a big mistake.
Zhou Zhihan remembered that after the Chinese Air Force air raided the Japanese Third Fleet and Naval Headquarters in Shanghai on August 14, 1937, the Japanese army immediately launched an air attack on Jianqiao Airport in Hangzhou in order to retaliate.
But Zhou Zhihan only remembered the Japanese air raid, and he could not remember the time.
This is the case with many things. I remember what happened, but I can’t remember when it happened on a certain day, month, day, year, and time.
When Zhou Zhihan was at the Luandao Air Force Academy, he had learned how to deploy effective anti-aircraft fire around the airport. When an enemy plane attacked, the closely and camouflaged air defense fire could launch a dense attack on the enemy plane, causing serious damage to the enemy. An unexpected fatal blow.
Just from the important link that there is no anti-aircraft artillery fire around Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport, the Chinese Air Force's technology, tactics, and war awareness are really too backward.
The arrangement of anti-aircraft fire around the airport is also a tactic. When an enemy plane attacks, the intensive fire can force the enemy plane to change its attack direction and fall into the trap of our own fighters taking off from the airport. If the enemy plane does not enter this trap, then They had to break through the very secretive anti-aircraft artillery group and suffered heavy losses.
There are various types of training aircraft in the Jianqiao base. They are basically made by IWC, and most of them are models with old airframes and backward technology. Among them, the Fw 44 training aircraft imported from Germany is still relatively viable.
Before the war between China and Japan, military exchanges between Germany and China were relatively frequent. Many outstanding Chinese pilots had gone to Germany to observe and learn, and the German Air Force had also sent outstanding flight instructors to China to teach.
The 88th, 87th, and 36th Divisions of the National Government's Teaching Corps are all equipped with German equipment and are ace divisions specially trained by German consultants.
Some local troops are also equipped with German weapons, because German weapons are relatively sophisticated and durable, especially the German Mauser rifles, which are much better than the domestic Hanyang-made and Zhongzheng rifles. The Nationalist Government imported heavy artillery and heavy artillery from Germany. Machine guns have greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the army.
It was not until the July 7, 1937 Incident that Germany directly cut off all military exchanges with China, forced by an agreement with Japan.
A neat sound of "1, 2, 3, 4" came from the distance.
Listening to the sound, you can tell that there are many people practicing.
