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Act 9 Noto Rono enters the war

After repelling the second attack of the Japanese Marine Corps with slight casualties, the 19th Route Army Command was filled with joy, and several younger staff members kept shouting, "The Japanese army is just that." "We want to drive the Japanese army into the sea." If someone who didn't know the details suddenly entered, they might think that China had won.

Compared with those officers of the 19th Route Army who were busy but excited, Song Yinghui, who came to Shang Hai to take charge of the liaison matters of Qiong's military aid to Shanghai, could not be happy at all. He sat on the chair with a gloomy face next to him, which was incompatible with the atmosphere around him.

Seeing that Song Yinghui who had helped him a lot, the atmosphere was a little wrong, Jiang Guangnai took out two cigarettes and walked over, handed out one to him: "Brother Song, why are you looking bitter? We have repelled another attack from the Japanese army. Isn't it worth being happy?"

Song Yinghui took the cigarette handed over by Jiang Guangnai and took it into his mouth. He took out a match from his pocket and lit it. He was in a bad mood and was about to smoke and took a big sip. The spicy and inferior tobacco smell instantly invaded his lungs, choking him and coughing.

"Haha, it seems that Brother Song is not used to the poor cigarettes in this triangle and one pack." Jiang Guangnai knew that when he saw Song Yinghui's behavior, he knew that he was used to smoking good cigarettes and was not used to the inferior cigarettes.

Song Yinghui, who was exposed, was also not vague. He took out a cigar box from his arms and gave it to Jiang Guangnai evenly, and said with a smile: "I don't have enough money to be a soldier under the command of Dashui Luo. I have kept my mouth full of money in the past two years. How about trying Cuban cigars?"

Jiang Guangnai took the cigar but was not in a hurry to light it. Instead, he stuffed the cigarette left in his hand back into the cigarette box and then handed the cigar to his mouth.

After swallowing the clouds and spitting mist, Jiang Guangnai praised: "It's indeed a good thing..."

"Just know it's a good thing, I'll give it to you in two days."

"Then let me thank Brother Song, but don't let Gao Lao Cai (Cai Tingkai) see it when sending it here! I don't want to be missed every day."

Song Yinghui smiled and shook his head, saying, "Then you should get it from me, otherwise I won't be responsible if there is any problem."

"Okay, go and save yourself! Oh, I almost forgot the serious matter when I said this." Jiang Guangnai slapped his head and said, "Brother Song. Is it because of your bitter face?"

Song Yinghui said: "Are you still worried about the Japanese aircraft? It will be dawn soon. At that time, the aircraft on the aircraft carrier "Lu" will have to visit our position! Do you think I can avoid worrying?"

The "Nengdenglu" is a seaplane aircraft carrier. The aircraft it carries is also the only air force of the Japanese army in Shanghai. As a seaplane aircraft carrier transformed from a fuel supply ship, the standard displacement of the "Nengdenglu" after the transformation is as high as 12,786 tons, and the standard displacement of more than 12,000 tons looks shocking, but the "Nengdenglu" can be said to be just a measure. The 10,000-ton giant ship can only carry only four Type 14 water reconnaissance aircraft! And one of them is usually not dispatched as a backup aircraft. All carrier-based aircraft of a 1,000-ton aircraft carrier has only 3 reconnaissance aircraft, plus a maximum speed of only 12 knots. It can be said responsibly that the "Nengdenglu" is sorry for its title of aircraft carrier.

The Type 14 water reconnaissance aircraft carried on the "Nantenglu" was developed by Yokosuka Naval Factory. It was first flight in 23 years and was finalized in 25 years (the 14th year of Taisho), so it was named Type 14. It was put into service in batches for 26 years, with a maximum speed of 178 kilometers per hour. The weapon is a 7.7mm machine gun, which can carry 4 30 kilogram bombs or a 110 kilogram bomb. This type of aircraft is slow, unprotected, and has weak self-defense firepower. Not to mention the dispatch of the air force, even ordinary light weapons can pose a huge threat to it.

But even such a so-called aircraft carrier that was so weak that it could not be weak, and only three reconnaissance aircraft with mediocre performance without protection, caused huge casualties to China in the Battle of Songhu in history, blowing up the North Railway Station and the armored trains parked inside. The fire caused by the bombing forced the 19th Route Army to abandon a large number of positions, and even bomb targets such as Commercial Press and Oriental Library, not only burning a large number of documentary books, but also causing a large number of civilian casualties! It can be said that more than half of China's losses in the first two days of the Battle of Songhu were caused by the three Type 14 reconnaissance aircraft on the "Nengdinglu".

In order to deal with the Japanese army, Roger sent a batch of special weapons when Song Yinghui and his friends secretly went to Shanghai, including four truck-modified self-propelled anti-aircraft guns. However, these weapons have not arrived yet, how can Song Yinghui not be anxious?

"It was all delayed by that stupid bear!" Song Yinghui said angrily to himself, "If it weren't for the drag, those four trucks could not have run so slowly!?"

"It seems that Brother Song's arrangement is no longer possible now?" Jiang Guangnai smiled and said, "Don't worry. I have already transferred a team of small cannons to the North Station. Although your Qiong Army's help is very timely, we can't rely on you all, right? Could it be that we, the 19th Route Army, will not fight any more?"

Song Yinghui shook his head: "This is nothing to do with it, don't think about it. However, I have seen your small cannon, it is a 20mm Erickon high-level dual-purpose cannon. It has too little ammunition capacity, is not very good at air defense, and is not large in quantity. The North Railway Station is really too important to us, and we cannot make mistakes."

Jiang Guangnai had no choice but to spread his hands: "Then what do you think you should do? Our 19th Route Army has only such a little bit of financial resources. If it really doesn't work, then get some machine gun racks?"

"A good woman can't cook without rice, so I'm afraid that this is the only way to go..."

"Okay, okay, Brother Song, don't sigh. I, the landlord stationed in Shanghai, are not depressed. Why are you angry in a hurry?" Jiang Guangnai smiled indifferently. Their 19th Route Army was not as rich as Roger's Qiong Army. They have always had any weapons and weapons to fight what kind of battles. Jiang Guangnai and others have the best attitude towards the anti-aircraft cannons mentioned by Song Yinghui, and they will fight the same thing even if they don't.

Just when Song Yinghui looked gloomy, the guard who suddenly broke in brought him good news and a visitor - the four self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery have already been launched! The captain of the self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery brigade has also stood in the command center.

Seeing that the people he had been waiting for finally came, Song Yinghui went up and punched the man hard: "I said, Lao Xu, you should have arrived yesterday according to the itinerary. Why did you delay until now? It's dawn soon, and I'm worried about how you should deal with the Japanese plane if you don't come."

Captain Xu, who was punched in the chest, did not fight back, and smiled bitterly, saying, "It's not that the big stupid bear was dragged down. He shouldn't have agreed to come here with that thing at the beginning. The car body was too heavy and the road conditions were not good, so the transport truck was always going wrong. If we didn't throw him down and take a step first, we wouldn't be here until tomorrow!"

When she heard Captain Xu throwing the stupid bear off, Song Yinghui immediately widened his eyes and said with a thumbs up: "You guy, you dare to throw the German treasures off and run away by yourself. What if something goes wrong, aren't you afraid of those German experts going back to eat you?"

"Don't worry, I'll leave all the guards to them. I'll just drive four anti-aircraft gun cars, so there won't be any problem with the designation."

"Okay, no matter if there is any problem, don't worry about me. Since you are here, hurry up and go to the North Railway Station. It's dawn now. If you don't hurry up, it's probably the first wave of Japanese bombings will arrive."

"Aren't it just a few water reconnaissance planes on the 'can-mount'? The thing is slow and thin, so don't worry." After saying that, Captain Xu turned around and left the command center, plucked some cold pancakes and pickles from the kitchen and wrapped them up, and pulled the brothers who were rushing to the North Railway Station with anti-aircraft guns.

When they drove all the way to the North Railway Station, the morning sun just rose from the east - finally caught up.

While Captain Xu and his team were busy laying out positions, the Japanese Navy's aircraft carrier "Nedenlu" also began to get busy. The ship's crane began to lift three Type 14 water reconnaissance aircraft onto the water surface in turn, and then the plane took off from the water surface and rushed to the North Railway Station.

Japan seems to like the word "serving the country". All equipment purchased by civilians is named after "serving the country". A Type 14 water reconnaissance aircraft on the "Nantenglu" has the Chinese character "serving the country-1" painted on the rear of the aircraft, and is renamed with the Type 90 armored vehicle of the armored convoy.

At around 4 a.m. on the 29th, three Type 14 water reconnaissance aircraft were already loaded with bombs and took off. After forming a formation of three aircraft, they headed straight for the North Railway Station.

Type 14 was originally a reconnaissance aircraft. Although it could mount bombs to perform bombing missions, this was only their side job after all, and it was inevitable that it would be difficult to be proficient in business. Type 14 was originally not fast, and now it was staggering with 4 30 kilogram bombs now. In addition, due to the limitations of technical conditions, the accuracy of horizontal bombing during World War II has been poor, so countries had to adopt a carpet bombing strategy to make up for the accuracy with quantity. Now there is still some time before World War II, Type 14 has only a load of 4 bombs, and it is obvious that it is impossible to achieve real carpet bombing, so in order to improve the bombing accuracy as much as possible, they had to lower the altitude as much as possible.

So, after Captain Xu and his team set up their positions, the Japanese planes of the three-plane formation flew into their sight slowly and low. (To be continued)
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