Although the Chinese Air Force had no more than five fighters, the Japanese air force did not dare to be careless. These five fighters could hardly pose a major threat to the entire fleet, but they could cause heavy losses to the landing troops.
When the Martin 139WC heavy bomber and the Fighter MKI fighter appeared in the sky, six Type 96 Ship Fighters and four Type 95 Ship Fighters immediately appeared above the battlefield. They had been hovering in the darkness at an altitude of 4,000 meters for a long time.
The Chinese army temporarily mobilized 2,000 troops to block the Japanese landing at Wusongkou, which had long been known to the Japanese.
Back to five hours ago:
On the flagship of the Third Fleet [Izumo], General Hasegawa Kiyoshi is holding a military meeting.
After the war began, General Kiyoshi Hasegawa, the supreme commander of the Japanese army stationed in Shanghai, moved his temporary command post to the Izumo.
"Only two thousand people?" General Hasegawa Kiyoshi held the intelligence in his hand and looked at the intelligence officer. "Two thousand Chinese troops want to resist the imperial army's landing of 10,000 marines?"
"Hi!"
The intelligence officer stood at attention, lowered his head, and affirmed. This is the intelligence he received, and it is true, "In order to cooperate with the landing of our imperial fleet, the imperial troops stationed in Shanghai took the initiative to attack and held back Wang Jingjiu's 87th Division, Sun Yuanliang's 88th Division and the 20th Independent Brigade. Now The Chinese troops in Shanghai could only mobilize 2,000 troops, led by General Yi Anhua, commander of the 259th Brigade of the 87th Division, to block our landing troops at Wusong Wharf."
General Kiyoshi Hasegawa asked: "Where are the Chinese reinforcements now?"
The intelligence officer walked to the operational map and pointed at the map with his baton: "The 98th Division, the 11th Division, the 67th Division, and the 14th Division commanded by Chen Cheng, commander-in-chief of the 15th Group Army of China, are here, this, this, this, they We are rushing to help, and we will not be able to reach Wusongkou, Zhanghuabang, Shizilin and Chuanshakou until at least eight o'clock after dawn.
In other words, our army will start landing at dawn, and the Chinese army of 2,000 will have to guard for at least three hours before their reinforcements can arrive. "
General Hasegawa Kiyoshi stood up, walked to the map, and looked at it for a while: "The Chinese know that two thousand people will definitely not be able to stop the attack of my landing force, and they will definitely ask for their air force support."
General Kiyoshi Hasegawa said, turning around and asking the intelligence officer: "How many planes do the Chinese have in total?"
The intelligence officer said: "The Chinese Air Force can take off no more than 100 aircraft at most, and there are about 37 military aircraft stationed at Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport. One of them, a Martin Heavy Bomber, just arrived from Zhoujiakou yesterday."
"Well!" General Hasegawa Kiyoshi's frown relaxed and he paced in front of the battle map. "The commanders of the Chinese army are all familiar with the Thirty-six Strategies, so they are full of tricks. We do as the Romans do, and we do as the host does. Just learn their thirty-six strategies and show them a general strategy."
All the Japanese combatants laughed.
General Kiyoshi Hasegawa said: "Order!"
Everyone in the war room stood up.
General Kiyoshi Hasegawa "..."
Seeing ten Japanese fighter planes emerging from the dark clouds at high altitude, Yan Haiwen, piloting the Hawker 2, pulled out his flare gun and fired three red flares into the sky, dragging their long tails straight into the sky.
This is a signal representing the appearance of Japanese military aircraft.
The Chinese Air Force made an agreement before setting off. Seeing three red flares in a row meant that Zhou Zhihan and the others had successfully entered the "trap" set by the Japanese army. Japanese fighter planes appeared to encircle and suppress Martin Heavy Bombardment and escort fighter planes. Behind the bombardment, the Chinese fleet ready to attack the Japanese fighter planes can appear.
This time, all Chinese fighter planes stationed at Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport took off, and there was a ten-minute interval between Martin's heavy bombardment.
Ten Japanese fighter planes are a big piece of fat.
Before a large number of Chinese fighter planes appeared, Zhou Zhihan had to lead four fighter planes to deal with the Japanese fighter planes with an outnumbered enemy.
Two Type 95 warships and two Type 96 warships rushed towards Martin with heavy bombardment. They would never allow this heavy bomber to break into the sky above the fleet.
Zhou Zhihan flew at low altitude, and the three machine gunners opened fire at the landing Japanese troops from various positions. One bombardier specifically dropped bombs at places where the Japanese troops were crowded.
Under Martin's powerful attack, the Japanese landing troops in the water suffered heavy casualties.
The four Japanese fighter planes thought that when they made a dive attack posture, Martin's heavy bombardment would pull them up and escape, but they did not expect that Martin's heavy bombardment would ignore their dive and continue to go their own way with ultra-low-altitude flight bombing.
Just when the four Japanese fighter pilots were worried that the heavy bombardment of Martin would injure the landing soldiers and cursed the Chinese people for being cunning and cunning, Zhou Zhihan and all the crew members also breathed a sigh of relief. This seemingly rogue move was actually extremely dangerous. Won.
They bet that the Japanese military planes would not take the risk of killing or injuring their own people and fire heavily at Martin.
Facing the indifference of Martin's heavy bombardment, the four enemy planes could only pull up their noses, roll and turn at a small angle, change to level flight, form two two-plane formations, and pursue at the same flying altitude as Martin's heavy bombardment.
Four Type 96 warships also rushed towards the two Fighter MKI fighters in two twin combat formations.
The other two Type 95 warships intercepted two Hawk 2 fighter jets attacking the landing force at low altitude.
The Japanese fighter planes had an absolute advantage with more enemies and fewer enemies.
Now, just wait for the Chinese fighter planes to arrive quickly.
The two Fighter MKI fighter jets did not respond to the challenge at all. They first discarded the auxiliary fuel tanks under the wings and dropped bombs on the dense crowd of Japanese troops who landed, setting off huge waves and creating bursts of bloodshed and howling ghosts. Then they turned around and flew at low altitude to the southwest. Jump forward and attack with machine guns while flying. .
The Japanese two-plane formation that swooped down did not expect that the Fighter MKI fighter jets would rather fly at low altitude than fight. They had to watch the enemy planes below them but did not dare to fire, fearing that the bombs would hit the heads of the Japanese troops landing in the water. It can dive to the same height as the Fighter MKI fighter, seek rear tracking, and then fire in parallel, so as not to hurt its own soldiers.
The other two Hawker 2s directly circled at low altitude, only 200 to 300 meters away from the landing Japanese troops on the water, and continuously opened fire to attack the landing Japanese troops. In this way, the Japanese high-altitude Type 95 warships did not dare to dive and attack, and were also afraid of damaging their own landings. The soldiers could only swoop down and then pull up to pursue the two Hawker 2 fighter jets in parallel.
Before setting off to serve as bait, Zhou Zhihan, Yan Haiwen, Shen Chonghai and others had studied what tactics they should use to deal with Japanese troops several times their own after encountering Japanese fighter planes.
After several deductions, they agreed that they would rather fly at low altitude to face the machine guns and rifles of the Japanese landing troops than fight with the Japanese fighter planes that were superior in quantity and quality.
At the same time, the Japanese landing force, which had lost its air fire suppression, began to attack. Howitzers smashed into the Chinese army's defensive positions like hail. Stones flew, soil flew, and simple defenses were destroyed. In just one wave of shelling, the Chinese army suffered dozens of casualties. A soldier, the crater was full of broken limbs and arms, and the ground was stained red with blood like honeycomb after being blown up by artillery shells.
The light and heavy machine guns of the troops guarding the beach also opened fire, bombarding the water, forming a barrage of extremely lethal force.
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