Every time I go to battle, this tragic aura increases, because there are fewer and fewer familiar faces around everyone, and fewer fighter jets can perform missions.

After more than ten days of battle, everyone vaguely knew that one day, they would leave here forever and never come back, and their final destination would be the blue sky.

This is inevitable.

There is only one of the Chinese aircraft's assets, and only those pilots can reach the sky.

If they don't go, who will go?

The only way before them is to fight to the death is the way to fight to the end, as the chief instructor said, "Fight is glory! Living alone is a shame that will affect all family members for a lifetime."

So every time I come back from the battle, fewer and fewer people around me, and the tragic atmosphere becomes stronger and stronger.

At this moment, an intelligence officer hurried in and handed a piece of information to Mao Bangchu.

In just a few seconds, Mao Bang finished reading the information first.

This is Wang Jingjiu, the commander of the 87th Division, sent him a telegram: Two thousand soldiers entered Wusongkou in an hour and could build fortifications before dawn. I hope my brother will send fighter jets to assist in the battle at dawn.

Wang Jingjiu, the commander of the 87th Division, was the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Marine Corps at the beginning of the Battle of Shanghai. The three divisions entering Shanghai first included the 88th Division, and the 20th Independent Brigade were all commanded by him.

Just as the Chinese Air Force was tensely deploying, at 1:00 a.m., Wang Jingjiu was also dispatching troops and more than 2,000 soldiers drawn from the 88th Division, the 87th Division, and the 20th Independent Brigade gathered secretly and set off towards Wusongkou in the darkness. Everyone marched silently along the way. Each had a white towel tied on his left arm to identify each other.

Although it was night, gunfire was still sounding everywhere in Shanghai, and the battle was fierce. Fires were rising from time to time everywhere, just like daytime, and ruins could be seen everywhere.

An hour later, two thousand Chinese soldiers forcibly arrived at Wusongkou and began to build simple fortifications.

On August 21, Japan's [Namen] and [Muo] battleships formed a huge fleet to transport about 10,000 vanguard troops of the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Army. They arrived at the Ma'an Islands on the evening of the 22nd, and then took it to light cruisers and destroyed the destroyers, and then landed at Chuansha Town, Wusongkou, Lion Forest, and Zhang Huabang to quickly rescue them.

Faced with the Japanese's increase in troops, China urgently ordered Chen Cheng, deputy chief of the Ministry of Military Affairs, to be the commander-in-chief of the 15th Army, commanding the 98th Division, the 11th Division, the 67th Division, and the 14th Division to quickly block the Japanese landings.

Obviously, the Japanese army, who were well-trained and known as the world's number one army, rushed to the Chinese army with inconsistent pace and first arrived at these four landing sites.

During the war, not only did the Chinese army know the movements of the Japanese army, but the Japanese army also knew the mobilization of the Chinese army. The special high school classes are everywhere in China, and there are also many traitors and Japanese spirits. Whenever the Chinese army is mobilized on a large scale, the Japanese army will know immediately.

The Japanese carried out the orders resolutely and decisively, and they also snatched the time. The Japanese arrived at least a few hours earlier than the Chinese army, which was closer to the route.

Therefore, these 2,000 Chinese soldiers are now fighting to the death, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.

This is also a battle of back and forth.

Wang Jingjiu knew that the 40,000 troops had not captured the 5,000 Marines stationed in Shanghai, and now he hoped that these 2,000 men would withstand the full-strength attack of the 10,000 Japanese troops for a long time, would undoubtedly hit the stone with eggs.

The Japanese army knew that the Chinese army was also rapidly increasing its troops, so they had to rush to the beach before the Chinese reinforcements arrived, and then hit the Chinese army that was speeding from hundreds of miles away.

In this battle, the Japanese army that robbed the beach could not be defeated, while the 2,000 Chinese soldiers guarding the stall could only fight to the death and wait for reinforcements to reinforce.

The Japanese army had powerful fleets of artillery fire to support landings, and they also had air force to support the operations. It was impossible for these more than 2,000 Chinese soldiers to defend the Japanese snatch. So Lieutenant General Zhang Zhi, the commander of the theater, sent an urgent telegram to Nanjing, asking for support from the Air Force.

Although Lieutenant General Zhang Zhi was the commander-in-chief of this Shanghai Battle, the Air Force has always been under the principal's direct troops and is the top priority in the army. Therefore, if you want to mobilize all the Air Force's assets, Lieutenant General Zhang Zhi must also ask the principal for instructions.

At present, the air force is too important to China. Once there is no air support, the Japanese planes will take their lives as they wish on the Chinese army.

After reading the telegram sent by Wang Jingjiu, Mao Bangchu asked all the pilots to rest immediately. At four o'clock, the first batch of five took off first. Half an hour later, all the remaining fighter planes took off.

Just as everyone was about to leave and go back to sleep, Zhou Zhihan suddenly said, "Please wait a moment, and it will take you ten minutes. I want to discuss with you about the safety hazards in the flight formation of the large aircraft fleet this time."

After hearing what the chief instructor of the Air Force said, all the pilots sat down again. Everyone knows that since the chief instructor said this, there must be ways to change the hidden dangers.

Zhou Zhihan said directly: "Our bomber and interceptor flight formations are currently using the formation tactics used by the air force of various countries in the late World War I.

After World War I, the rapid development of air combat technology in various military powers can be described as rapid changes. Whether it is the performance, speed, or the tactics of the aircraft, it has made a qualitative leap.

Faced with the Japanese high-performance fighter jets such as the Type 95 ship war and Type 96 ship war, we still use the flight formation during World War I, which has a considerable loophole. Once the loophole is discovered and captured by the Japanese fighter jets, our army will suffer heavy losses.

If the Japanese fighter jets quietly appeared from the low altitudes at 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock on both sides of the tail of our group, and launched a sudden attack after approaching, our army aircraft group was flying in a dense formation and was suddenly attacked by enemy aircraft. The formation was too crowded and could not be carried out for tactical maneuvers, and it would inevitably be in chaos, and even a collision between two aircraft would occur."

All the pilots looked at Zhou Zhihan silently. If it weren't for the chief instructor's talk, they still didn't know that the flight formation they had practiced for several years was actually the technology of World War I. There was such a big loophole.

Not all foreign flight instructors who spent a lot of money to invite them were dedicated!

After listening to Zhou Zhihan's analysis, Mao Bangchu was immediately a little nervous and listened with all the pilots.

Zhou Zhihan continued: "Now, it is impossible to re-format flight, and it takes time to train to be proficient.

In order to solve this hidden danger, I suggest that three "weavers" should be placed behind our large aircraft fleet to prepare for any eventuality."

“Weaver?”

Everyone didn't understand what "weaver" means, Zhang Mufei asked.

Zhou Zhihan smiled dumbly.

"The weaver means a defender, that is, one defender fighter is added on both sides and in the middle of our large aircraft group, which is 100 meters above the aircraft group and accompany the flight. Moreover, these three fighters use rotation tactics to make a 180-degree rolling maneuver every five minutes to observe the enemy situation behind them. In this way, the three aircraft can resolve all the dangers behind the entire aircraft group."
Chapter completed!