Compared with the conditions announced by the public, Keishi had less conditions to replace officials and]+T Deman did not answer, and his gray eyes looked at Chiang Kai-shek calmly through the frame. Chiang Kai-shek made few concessions. Dixon in Tokyo was also testing the conditions of the Japanese, but with his diplomatic experience, the conditions proposed by the Japanese would definitely not be low.

Mediation is a technical job. The main problem of mediation is timing. It must be when neither side wants to continue fighting. At least one side does not want to continue fighting. Only then can mediate the country be mediated, otherwise the mediation Congress will face a big cleanup.

The Sino-Japanese War put Germany in an embarrassing situation. China and Japan are Germany's most important ally in the East. China is vast and has a large population and has amazing potential for war. Japan has a strong navy, which is what the head of state values ​​the most, but Japan is an island country with scarce resources and cannot engage in long-term wars. Moreover, Japan took advantage of the situation during the European War, first destroying China and Germany's negotiations to return Qingdao, and then directly sent troops to seize Qingdao, Germany's important base in the Far East. This incident left a deep memory in the German diplomatic community. The German diplomatic community generally has no good impression of Japan, but the German community, especially the navy, believes that the German navy is not enough to compete with Britain and the United States, and Japan has a strong navy that can restrain the British and American naval forces. These two forces are competing in front of Hitler, and Hitler is not willing to choose between China and Japan for the time being. In fact, the most important thing is that it is difficult to choose.

"Mr. Ambassador, I cannot make more concessions," Chiang Kai-shek felt something from Todman's eyes and explained: "You also know the current situation in China. The people's sentiment is surging. If I make too many concessions, the National Government will fall. I must step down. In the end, the Soviet Union and ** will benefit."

Todman agreed with this last point. In the past few months, he has witnessed the current trend of war of resistance in China that is everywhere in all walks of life. No politician could turn a blind eye to this trend. If Chiang Kai-shek really seeks peace at a high price, just like the Weimar Republic, he would have to fall. In addition, if the mediation fails and the war continues, the Chinese government will inevitably seek help from the world in order to resist Japan. Whoever can help him will tend toward him. The Soviet Union will be very happy to take on this role. On the one hand, it can take the opportunity to force Nanjing to make concessions on the issue of **, and on the other hand, it will prompt China to continue to fight Japan and delay Japan. He will feel at ease to deal with the threat from Europe.

"I understand that I will report your country's attitude to the Head of State," Todman knew in his heart that this moment might not be a good time to mediate. Then he said: "Your Excellency Chairman, I personally feel deeply sympathetic to your country's situation. I admire the courage and determination shown by the people of the country. General Farkenhausen once said that Chinese soldiers are one of the best soldiers in the world, and the war in Shanghai has proved this."

"My people and I will remember the people who have helped us in our difficult times." Chiang Kai-shek's voice was very calm, but he was a little disappointed. Todman's attitude obviously showed that Germany was not very enthusiastic about mediation, at least not very enthusiastic now.

"Squeak" The convertible car stopped in front of the war room door with a long sound of brakes. When he saw Gao Zhihang coming out of the car, several pilots in front of the window turned around and returned to the bed. They were fighting in the sky for a day today, and they were already very tired and had no mood to care about other things. If there were combat missions, Commander Gao would naturally call them. Sure enough, several squadron leaders were called away soon.

"Commander Zhou ordered to attack the Japanese air base on Ma'an Island tomorrow. Come and see, my plan is like this." Gao Zhihang said the mission in one sentence and recruited everyone in front of the aviation map: "Districted in three routes, Li Guidan, you will lead the first squadron to lure Japanese aircraft, but Japanese aircraft will definitely not all come to attack you. Some of them will stay in the sky. I will lead the second route to continue luring the enemy. This time, the Japanese aircraft will definitely be taken away by us. At this time, the bomber squadron can hit Ma'an Island directly, and the Japanese air base is here."

Gao Zhihang pointed to a red dot on the map. In order to find out the location, the Navy sacrificed seven soldiers. Li Guidan chewed the gum and jumped up from the chair.

"So what do you want to do? I will lead a squadron to make sure to disrupt their security aircraft group. Then the commander led the aircraft group to attack their airport directly, and Le Yiqin led the team to cover it." After more than a month, Li Guidan's chin became sharper and his eyes looked bigger. There were more Japanese aircraft and more pilots, with more than 600 aircraft concentrated over Songhu, attacking in turn. Every day, about a hundred aircraft patrolled over Songhu.

"Stop talking nonsense. I just won a few battles and got fucked. The small Japanese planes are not worse than us. The newly appeared A5m can be completely at the same time as P40. We are completely at the radar. However, the Japanese probably have noticed the radar. Yesterday, two radar stations were attacked. One was blown up and the other was seriously damaged. They cannot be used for the time being. This is a signal. In the past, we relied on ground radar guidance. We could always take the initiative first. I am afraid it will be more difficult in the future." Gao Zhihang's face darkened. Li Guidan was brave in combat and had excellent flight skills. He just liked to cause trouble. He was the kind of person who had to go to the room and remove tiles if he didn't fight for three days.

"Xue Muhua. Your squadron covers the bomber squadron." Gao Zhihang said at last.

However, Xue Muhua was a little surprised. In the past, Le Yiqin commanded the bf109 squadron to carry out assaults or cover. Why did he get this commander today?

"Le Yiqin has another mission." Gao Zhihang then explained why he should use him: "Le Yiqin. You take people to Kunming. The Americans sold us 180 p40s, the first batch of fifty p40s, have arrived in Myanmar. They will be transported to Kunming soon. You bring ten people to Chongqing. Chongqing has already transferred forty people to Kunming. After you receive the plane, you will not fly back in a hurry. You will conduct a month-long training in Kunming.

We have to train them out.”

Not only was Le Yiqin excited, but also others were also excited. After playing for so long, this was the first time that there was a plane to supplement it. They didn't ask how the plane came about. In fact, the land price paid by the United States to buy radar. Chiang Kai-shek initially offered 500 p40 and 100 b17s. Of course, the United States did not want to be a sucker. After the bargaining, the Americans gave 180 p40 and 30 b17s. Chiang Kai-shek did not insist. So these aircraft became the first batch of supplements to the Chinese Air Force.

With a smile, Li Guidan yawned, Gao Zhihang felt a little distressed. The battles were too fierce these days, and sometimes he had to fly twice a day. The pilot was tired and the war was damaged. He immediately announced the meeting to leave and all went back to rest. He fell asleep on the camp bed with his own clothes.

In the middle of the night, an air strike sirens sounded, and the pilot on duty immediately flew into the sky to intercept Japanese planes in the night sky. Recently, Japanese planes changed their tactics and adopted night air strikes. Whenever Japanese planes flew over the airport at night, spies lurking on the ground immediately fired flares to indicate the direction for Japanese planes. This is how Hangzhou Lan Airport and Yangzhou Airport were bombed.

This kind of night combat has only recently begun. Japanese planes suffered heavy losses. One month after the war started, nearly 200 planes were lost, and Japan could not afford it. So it changed its tactics and no longer raided cities and airports during the day. It was a disguised recognition that the Chinese Air Force had certain air supremacy.

However, this tactic has caused a lot of trouble for China, and the pilots are even more tired, so everyone finds ways to overcome their fatigue. Li Guidan recommends everyone to chew gum. Le Yiqin says chili is useful, and if you are sleepy, chew a few chili peppers to ensure that you will cry. For a while, all kinds of methods came out of the ground. However, Gao Zhihang was very worried and too tired. Therefore, every time he came back from the flight, he asked everyone to rest and relax immediately.

Just when Gao Zhihang was sleeping, Deputy Foreign Minister Xu Mo reported to Chiang Kai-shek that British Ambassador Xu Gesen agreed to take his car to Shanghai. Chiang Kai-shek nodded silently. After Xu Mo left, Soong Mei-ling said with some dissatisfaction: "Da Ling, this is simply murder. Once it is leaked, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"This is not murder, it's a trick." Chiang Kai-shek said lightly: "Besides, if an attack by the Air Force tomorrow will contain the power of Japanese aircraft. I don't think it's necessary to attack the Japanese. Besides, who knows? Who will leak? Are you or Jingzhi Jiansheng? Or Wang Xiaoshan and Xu Enzeng?"

Soong Mei-ling had no choice but to answer, but even though Chiang Kai-shek said that, he still secretly hoped that the Japanese army would attack Xu Gesen, and then Britain would go to war with Japan. This was the best result.

But Chiang Kai-shek was disappointed. Four Japanese planes bombed Xu Gesen's car. Xu Gesen himself was seriously injured, but Prime Minister Chamberlain of London accepted the apology from the Japanese and received hundreds of thousands of subsidies and quietly stopped.

"…The Xu Gesen incident was resolved in this way, just to show that the British did not want to interfere in the Sino-Japanese War. It not only gave up the nine-nation convention, but also gave up its power in the League of Nations and the basic justice of human society...

The British Empire has declined, and it no longer has the ambitions of the past and the pride of shaking the waves. Think about a man-killing on the streets of Peking decades ago, which attracted the Eight-Nation Alliance, but now? The rulers of the British Empire can only threaten a few words.

The British Empire declined, the West declined, and the justice of human society was trampled on again. The British were afraid of war, and the West was afraid of war, but war would not avoid them.

The Japanese have seen their weakness clearly. China is followed by Southeast Asia, Indochina, Myanmar, Thailand, and Singapore...

I once again remind the Chinese people not to maintain even a slight hope for the Nine-Nation Convention. The West is not worth our expectations, and only we can help us." This incident once again caused Mei Youlan to criticize her. She wanted to mock the British and the Western world, and no one in the Western newspapers in the concession dared to fight.

Chinese news media began to fuel the fire and explore the significance behind this incident. With Mei Youlan's arrival, publicly questioned the Nine-National Convention and the League of Nations. For a while, the Nine-National Convention was ruined in the minds of the Chinese, and the League of Nations was also suspected. Ambassadors of various countries to China reported to their governments, and the Chinese began to no longer believe in the Western world.

The situation in Shanghai is becoming increasingly fierce. Luodian, Dachang and Yuepu have become the three most cruel battlefields. Both sides have joined the heavy army group. China changes a regiment almost every half day, and Japan is not very happy. The loss is close to a brigade every day.

Chen Cheng handed over the entire defense of Luodian to Hu Zongnan's First Army, transferred the 18th Army to Yuepu, transferred the 74th Army to the main field, and transferred the 57th Division of Ruan Zhaochang to the command of the 74th Army. The 14th Division returned to the 18th Army sequence, and the entire army defended the main field.

At dawn, more than forty planes rose into the air, formed formations over Nanjing, and flew towards Ma'an Island in the morning glow.

Passing by the Luodian battlefield, Gao Zhihang looked down. The shadows were slim in the mist, and the strong smell of gunpowder could be smelled even at high altitude. It seemed that not only the Air Force, but also the army on the ground fought hard overnight last night.

"The xx position, height xxxx, little ant appeared." The sound of ground guiding came from the headphones.

"Receive it, chewing gum, attack." Gao Zhihang's voice was very calm.

A plane was separated from the group. The leader waved his tail proudly, then quickly climbed and went around to the left. Gao Zhihang understood at a glance that Li Guidan wanted to intercept the attack in the middle. A smile appeared on his lips. The kid became more and more seductive as he slapped. He had known spanking before, but now he knew how to slap his waist.

"Xx position, height xxxx, crow xx rack." Another report on the enemy situation came from the ground.

"Received, the second squadron comes with me."

Gao Zhihang swung his nose, and he circled around from the right and flew for about three minutes.

Point the direction." Gao Zhihang stretched his neck and found a [t5m was a plane directed by Japan. There were not many. Gao Zhihang fought with it twice. This kind of plane is very flexible, with a fast climbing speed and a small turning radius. It is a bit difficult to fight with it.

However, they still suffered a great loss at the hands of the Chinese. The reason is very simple. China has radar and always finds them first. After suffering a brave and fierce Li Guidan quickly summarized a set of experience after suffering a loss, which is to dive and strike, leave after hitting, and not fight with him.

Gao Zhihang quickly locked an a5m, then dived fiercely, and a series of machine shells flew out from the nose. The a5m almost immediately burned. Gao Zhihang flashed past it from the side. The Chinese Air Force three aircraft and one group of dived from high altitude. Four aircraft were shot down in the first round of strikes, and China suffered no losses.

Xue Muhua protected the bomber and continued to fly towards Ma'an Island. When he was approaching the target, a sudden sound came from his headphones: "Note that there are a large number of enemy aircraft in front of him, with azimuth xx and altitude xxx."

"The Snake Squadron follows me."

Xue Muhua immediately pulled up the nose and rushed down from high altitude was a common tactic of the Chinese Air Force and the most effective tactic. Generally, one-third of the aircraft harvested prey in the first round of attacks.

As soon as Xue Muhua came down from a high altitude, the gathering Japanese planes immediately became in chaos. Xue Muhua then realized that Japanese planes were also preparing to bomb. Many of the Japanese planes in this team were bombers. Xue Muhua was excited when he was suddenly excited. For fighters, bombers were the best targets.

After Xue Muhua finished the first round of attack, he dived, circled and flew up again. It was a chaos in the sky. The two sides fought together. The Japanese formation was completely disrupted and the bomber lost cover. Xue Muhua seized the opportunity to target a bulky Jiuliu. He approached him from behind and fired the gun. The firepower of the BF109 was strong. He fought until eighty meters before he stopped. The Jiuliu had already burned. Other aircraft quickly escaped from the flames in the sky. It was very dangerous to be by its side at this time.

Matsui Ishigen had just gotten up, and he was brushing his teeth leisurely, and a roar came from his ears, "These guys are back so soon." Before his thoughts could be gone, the alarm sounded loudly, "Air strike! Air strike!"

Matsui Ishien rushed out of the room and saw that the anti-aircraft guns on the ground were already firing, regardless of the ground, but there was no chance. After a while, a whole explosion came from the airport.

"The airport is attacked!" Matsui Ishigen shouted immediately: "Evacuate immediately, remove the ammunition and hide it!"

Some soldiers began to run towards the ammunition piled up in the open air, then carried the boxes and turned around and ran. After half an hour in a mess, a roar came from the sky, and the planes that bombed the airport began to walk back.

"Dada..." The enemy troops carrying supplies were in chaos. An aircraft with a blue sky and a sun badge on the wings swept down. The machine cannon on the head spewed out flames, and the flames immediately turned into ashes.

"Boom!" "Boom!" Several black dots floating in the sky fell a few more iron eggs, one of which fell into the pile of ammunition, and then detonated the ammunition. A strong gust of wind came to his face, almost blowing Matsui.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The earth was shaking slightly, and the wooden house rattled, as if it was about to collapse immediately. Matsui jumped up from the ground and ran into a shelter with agility that was not in line with his age.

"Boom!" Another bomb exploded nearby, and the window glass made a crisp sound and announced it was ruptured. The explosions rang out in a series of explosions. I wonder if the ammunition depot was blown up again. Matsui was very upset. The Chinese Air Force had never sneaked into Ma'an Island, so he was careless.

The planes in the sky raged for seven or eight minutes before they flew away. Matsui crawled out of the shelter. The neatly tidied military camp just now became devastated. Most of the ammunition was destroyed. The soldiers were suffering heavy casualties. They were calling for military doctors everywhere. The stretcher soldiers carried the stretcher and quickly ran to the wounded. The ammunition depot in the distance sounded from time to time.

Matsui's face was gloomy and patrolled, gritting his teeth and cursing: "Chinese people must pay the price!"

"I'm going home," a young soldier murmured, his abdomen gurgling, and two soldiers desperately bandaged him.

“Go home, go home.

"The soldier's eyes slowly faded.

Matsui squatted down and whispered in the soldier's ear: "We'll take you home right away, don't worry, we'll go home soon."

"He just got married..." The soldiers who joined the army in the same village were choked up.

The soldier's eyes were blurred, as if he saw the newlywed wife following him with a happy smile when she left the village, and her parents were excited to accompany him, encouraging him to make achievements for the Emperor while walking.

It is said that China has abundant resources, and it is said that China's women are beautiful and charming, and it is said that...

He died, and he died on an island in eastern China in just over ten days of his marriage. Is such a person worthy of sympathy? No, not at all, a robber is a robber, and he deserves to die, and he has to pay off his debts even if he dies!

"Order the troops to strengthen the attack." Matsui Ishien stood up, headed towards Shanghai opposite the sea, pulled out his command knife, cut off the small tree next to him with one knife, and roared loudly.

The air strike was a great success, and the periphery of restrained operations also won a great victory. The battle loss ratio was 34:1. Matsui's anger immediately turned into practical actions. The war on the south bank of the Yangtze River suddenly became fierce, and Luodian was the first to be hit.
Chapter completed!