On the 13th, a skirmish between the Japanese Marines and the 88th Division of the Chinese Army broke out. At 2 p.m., Zhou Zhirou, former commander-in-chief of the Chinese Air Force, issued the No. 1 Air Force Operational Order, demanding that the troops make all preparations for dispatch before the evening of 14 July.

At 7 o'clock in the morning of 14 July, at the Jianqiao Airport in Hangzhou, five Curtiss BT-32 bombers of the 35th Independent Brigade of the Chinese Air Force took off -- the wind and rain were fierce, and the clouds were 300 meters high; under bad weather conditions, the Japanese army was waiting for the weather to improve, but the Chinese Air Force resolutely lifted off -- the five bombers formed a wedge-shaped formation, braved the dense ground anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese army at an altitude of 1,500 meters, and went straight to the Japanese positions and armory of the Gongda Yarn Factory.

At 8:40 p.m., Sun Tonggang, deputy commander of the Second Brigade, led 21 Northrop-2E light bombers, carrying 14 250-kilogram bombs and 70 50-kilogram bombs, took off from Guangde Airport and bombed the Japanese warships at Gongda Airport, Huishan Wharf, and Wusongkou in two directions.

The planes that bombed the airfield and dock dropped bombs at 800 meters, all of which hit the target. The bombers that bombed the Japanese warships at Wusongkou had no known effect after dropping the bombs due to poor visibility, but the bombed Japanese warships had already begun to flee towards the mouth of the Yangtze River. On their return, six of the 21 bombers were forced to land at other airfields due to bad weather, and all returned two hours later.

At 9:20 a.m., Ding Jixu, captain of the Fifth Brigade, piloted a Hawker destroyer carrying a 500-pound bomb to take off from Yangzhou Airport and search for Japanese ships along the Yangtze River.

Hasegawa Kiyoshi did not expect that the Chinese Air Force would be able to take the lead regardless of the bad weather conditions. When the Izumo, the flagship of the Third Fleet anchored outside the Wusong Pass, was attacked, he decided to order the air force to attack immediately, regardless of whether the weather was improving or not.

In the afternoon, in a new round of bombing, planes of the Fifth and Second Brigades and the 35th Brigade of the Chinese Air Force successively bombed the headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps in Shanghai, the Japanese military bases, Gongda Airport, Huishan Wharf, and other places. The Japanese apparently intensified their anti-aircraft fire, and the 5th Group was shot down with one destroyer and two damaged; The bombers of the 2nd Group were damaged by two.

The Japanese Marines suffered heavy casualties in the massive bombardment, so they constantly called the Air Force for assistance. However, most of the Third Fleet's air combat planes are carrier-based aircraft, and because the wind and waves are too strong, carrier-based aircraft cannot take off and land safely on warships. Hasegawa Kiyoshi had no choice but to order the Kaya Air Force stationed in Taipei to take to the skies to intercept the bombers of the Chinese Air Force and destroy the main airfields of the Chinese Air Force around Shanghai.

Jianqiao Airport is home to the China Aviation School and the main base of the Chinese Air Force in Songhu, so it became the preferred target for attacks by the Japanese Kaoya Air Force.

Over Hangzhou, the storm is raging.

The Fourth Brigade of the Chinese Air Force, originally scheduled to be used for operations in North China, had flown to Zhoujiakou Airport on 4 August, but on 13 August it received an order: The whole team was transferred to Jianqiao Airport in Hangzhou. On 14 July, in the pouring rain, some of the 32 planes of the squadron were unable to take off, and some had accidents because the runway was too muddy, and only 27 fighters flew safely to Jianqiao.

No sooner had they landed, and the combat alarm sounded for the approach of enemy aircraft to the airfield. Captain Gao Zhihang ordered the whole team to refuel urgently. Before all the planes were refueled, nine planes of the Luwu Air Force had already entered the airspace of Hangzhou. These Japanese biplane bombers struggled to maintain their formation in the wind and rain, and staggered to finally discover the Jianqiao airfield through the gap in the rain clouds. Suddenly, they saw the Chinese Air Force planes approaching. The first to take off urgently were Gao Zhihang, the captain of the group, and Tan Wen, the leader of the 21st team, who were about to shoot down a Japanese plane. The Japanese planes realized that the Chinese Air Force was prepared here, and quickly pulled up into the clouds to evade, but the planes of the Fourth Group had already pursued them. Zheng Shaoyu, captain of the 22nd team, caught up with a Japanese plane over the Cao'e River and shot it down, and Li Guidan, captain of the 21st team, and Liu Zhesheng and Wang Wen, members of the team, also worked together to shoot down a Japanese plane.

3-0, in the first air battle between China and Japan over Songhu, which was later named the "Jianqiao Air Battle", the Chinese side won a complete victory.

On the 15th, in Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places, the Chinese and Japanese air forces once again launched large-scale air battles. The Chinese Air Force made an all-out sortie, withstood the attack of more than 60 Japanese planes, and shot down 17 enemy planes. On the 16th, the impact of the typhoon in East China was basically eliminated, and a large number of Japanese aircraft carrier planes participated in the battle, and the Chinese Air Force encountered greater challenges. On this day, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th destroyer groups of the Chinese Air Force made persistent efforts and shot down 8 enemy planes.

The young Chinese Air Force actually wiped out more than half of the latest bombers equipped with the latest bombers of the two world-famous Japanese main air forces, Kisarazu and Kaboya, which caused a shock in Japan, and Wing Commander Ishii Yoshishi was forced to commit suicide by disembowelment.

At the beginning of the war, the Chinese Air Force, which had shown most of its air strength, made the Japanese newspapers lament: "Today's China is no longer the China of the past!" ”

At this time, the "Aviation Volunteers" located at Chengdu Airport in Sichuan Province were still waiting for the military order of the national government, and all the planes had been filled with fuel, waiting to be transferred to join the battlefield at any time.

In the first few days of the war, the air force had the upper hand on the battlefield, but the ground battlefield was a miserable defeat.

On the 14th, the 88th Division began to attack the Marine Corps Headquarters with 4,000 troops in Hongkou, the 264th Brigade of the 88th Division served as the main attack, and the brigade commander Huang Meixing personally commanded the front-line.

On the second day of the war, China sacrificed its first general.

On the 15th, Japan officially announced the formation of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, with Senior General Matsui Ishine as the commander, leading two divisions to Shanghai for reinforcements, further expanding the war of aggression against China.

The 300,000-strong Nationalist army, which had already been deployed in Songhu, did not know that they would face a steady stream of reinforcements of 280,000 Japanese troops. The Japanese also did not know that the boiling elite forces of the Chinese provinces were gathering, and in the next three months, they would face a Chinese army of 750,000.

When the elite of the Central Army entered the Songhu battlefield one after another, all parts of the country asked Ying to go out to participate in the national war.

The Red Party sent several telegrams across the country, hoping to send elites to participate in this national war. The Red Party Office in Nanjing, the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Kuomintang and the Red Army held urgent consultations on the reorganization and establishment of the Red Army.

Guangxi Guijun, Yunnan Yunnan Army, Guangdong Guangdong Army, Hunan Xiang Army, Guizhou Guizhou Guizhou Army。。。。。。 All of them actively reorganized their armies and prepared to come to Songhu in the southeast.

Liu Xiang, who is located in Sichuan, is even more angry this time, since the July 7 Incident, on July 10, he asked for help, and on July 13, he explicitly ordered the whole country to be mobilized to fight to the death against the Japanese invaders, and on July 25, he ordered the whole army in Sichuan to gallop back to the original defense within three days and make every effort to reorganize the army. On August 7, Liu Xiang went to Nanjing, attended the national defense conference, and made a generous speech for nearly two hours: "In the War of Resistance, Sichuan can send 300,000 troops, supply 5 million strong men, and supply tens of thousands of stone of grain!" ”

On August 25, Liu Xiang, who returned to Rongcheng, issued the "Letter to the Military and Civilian Officers of Sichuan Kang", calling on the military and civilians in Sichuan to make great sacrifices for the War of Resistance: "In order to consolidate its own survival, the Chinese nation cannot but actively resist Japan's aggression and atrocities!" All the people of my country must go through hardships and seek the final victory from the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood! Sichuan is the rejuvenation of the national base and the wartime rear area that the people of the country expect, the dangers of the mountains and rivers, the large population, and the abundance of products, and the responsibility that the 70 million people of Sichuan should bear is particularly heavy compared with other provinces!"

The generals of the Sichuan army have asked for a war of resistance.

Also on August 25, the last day of the Luochuan Conference, the Red Military Commission issued an order for the reorganization of the Red Army into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, changing the former enemy headquarters of the Red Army to the General Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. On the same day, General Zhu, commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, and General Peng, deputy commander-in-chief, issued a telegram announcing their inauguration and announcing that the troops had been reorganized and were about to march eastward to kill the enemy.

Seeing that the Japanese army was about to sail from the Japanese mainland to Shanghai, Liu Lang, who was anxious, sent a telegram asking for war and went to the Songhu battlefield.

Liu Lang and the independent regiment could only wait. In this war, anyone who disrespects military orders will be executed. Liu Lang understands this truth better than anyone else.

In early August, the Sichuan armies of all roads had gathered in Rongcheng to discuss the anti-Japanese war, and they were determined to give up their previous suspicions, reorganize their elites, reorganize them into 14 divisions, and form two group armies, with Liu Xiang personally serving as the commander of the 23rd Group Army, under the jurisdiction of Tang Shizun's 21st Army and Guo Xunqi's 50th Army, Zhang Yan's new 61st Brigade and the Northern Sichuan Security Regiment. Deng Xihou was the commander of the 22nd Group Army, under the command of Sun Zhen's 41st Army and the 45th Army of which he himself was the commander, as well as Li Jiayu's troops and Liu Lang's Guangyuan Independent Regiment.

In the past time and space, a total of 150,000 people from the two group armies of the Sichuan Army went out of Sichuan to resist Japan, and this time, there were 10,000 more new 61 brigades, security regiments, and independent regiments, all of which were elite.

That time, they carried the old sleeve and singles, hung the bolt with hemp rope, and walked out of Sichuan wearing hats and straw sandals. This time, they were carrying Springfield rifles, wearing steel helmets, and wearing rubber-soled shoes, and although their equipment was still not comparable to that of the Japanese with heavy artillery, it was much stronger than in the previous time and space.

The soldiers have made their final preparations and are waiting for the order to go out.

The people didn't just cheer and encourage, they were also acting.

In the face of the destruction of the country and the collapse of the family, all Chinese have burst out the most glorious side of their human nature.

It is a suffering China, but it is also a China with a brilliant humanity.

The war is about to rage, but it is also the beginning of Phoenix Nirvana, and everyone firmly believes it. Because, behind the hot-blooded men who left suicide notes and carried guns, there are still them。。。。。。

PS: I would like to dedicate this chapter to my great motherland and nation, and to the ancestors who have worked hard to break the mountains and rivers, and the future generations will not forget everything you have done.