Zhou Zhihan felt that he had done far from enough. He had deep respect for the national hero Xie Jinyuan, but he could not say much, so he could only hold Xie Jinyuan's hand tightly.

Looking at Xie Jinyuan, Zhou Zhihan recalled that the feat of the colonel leader who would lead 400 Chinese warriors to defend the Sihang Warehouse in a few months, moved the world.

The two sides greeted each other a few sincere greetings and began to turn to the topic.

Mao Bangchu asked Xie Jinyuan how the battle situation in Shanghai is today.

Xie Jinyuan shook his head, and his heroic frowns: "Every defense of the Japanese army is a difficult bone. Our soldiers' attack direction is not concentrated and too scattered. Moreover, the soldiers lack street fighting experience, and they suffer a great loss when fighting with the Japanese. Today, the 88th Division suffered more than 400 casualties, but the record achieved is very small."

Mao Bangchu remained silent. In the Fengtian Incident in 1932, he had fought with the Japanese and knew that the Japanese were far superior to the Chinese army in terms of weapons, equipment, soldiers' qualities and tactical cultivation. The 88th Division, 87th Division and 20th Independent Brigade that besieged the Shanghai enemy were very difficult to fight, which was already expected.

What Mao Bangchu couldn't understand was that according to the intelligence department's report, Japan had only more than 3,000 Marines in Shanghai, while the Chinese army reached 40,000, which had an absolute advantage in terms of number of people. Even if it was difficult to fight, it should have made achievements.

Xie Jinyuan seemed to see Mao Bangchu's question, and he stood up and paced in the simple room: "Actually, we are all fooled by the Japanese.

Especially the intelligence departments of the Party and the country are all busy, and the news they get is completely different from the news given by the Communist guerrillas.

The answer given by the Party and State Intelligence Department is that there are only 3,000 Japanese Marines stationed in Shanghai.

The data given by the Communist guerrillas is that there are about 5,000 Japanese Marines stationed in Shanghai, which was confirmed in yesterday's first battle that the Japanese secretly stationed in Shanghai must not be less than 5,000.

And we only knew from the battle yesterday that the Japanese army's fortifications were certainly a major obstacle to our army's advancement, but their defensive weapons were far beyond the data given by the Party and the State Intelligence Department. The Japanese army not only had mountain cannons and heavy artillery, but also had armored vehicles to help, and their defensive strength was completely beyond our army's predictions."

"The intelligence departments of the Party and the State have always been a sip of fresh food. Their intelligence is unreliable eight or nine times. They can't do the job, so they are faster than anyone else when they reach out for military pay." Mao Bangchu took a sip of water and said, "Brother Jin Yuan, you and I are also old friends. Let's tell you the truth. Now, in order to fight against Japan, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, I sometimes prefer to believe in the intelligence provided by the Communist Party, and I can't believe in the intelligence obtained by the Party and the country's intelligence departments!"

Xie Jinyuan smiled bitterly and continued: "The Communist guerrillas have reminded us before that after the July 7 Incident, Lieutenant General Hasegawa, commander of the Third Fleet of the Japanese Navy, believed that the battle in Shanghai would begin sooner or later.

So the Japanese Navy Command secretly sent the Special Navy to quickly enter Shanghai according to the suggestion of Ao Hasegawa.

However, the Party and the State Intelligence Department ignored the intelligence provided by the Communist Party.

In fact, on August 13, the eighth team of the Japanese army and the first mine team had already entered Shanghai secretly, and the big men in our intelligence department should have been sleeping soundly at that time.

As soon as the war started yesterday, within half an hour, the Japanese army's first water surface warning unit, the second water surface warning unit, the first mine team, and the third water surface warning unit were all in place. Their reaction was really too fast.

Originally, our army had an absolute advantage in ground artillery fire, but because the offensive weapons of the Japanese naval fleet were very long, [    www.boquge.xyz] fully supported the Japanese Marines on the shore, which led to our army, which was originally dominated by artillery fire, being at a disadvantage.

Today, the [Su] ship and [Aohai] of the 11th Warrior of the Japanese Third Fleet launched fierce shellings on our offensive troops at the same time. The [Aegean] warship and three other gunboats also carried out firepower suppression on the Wusong Fort and our positions in the lower reaches of the Huangpu River.

Before dark, the cruiser [Kawanai] carried out multiple artillery fire strikes on Jiangwan. Facing the 140mm naval gun with a range of 18 kilometers and the 127mm naval gun with a range of 19 kilometers, our artillery was unable to compete...

But now, our Air Force is here to help."

"I just don't know when the fog will dissipate." Mao Bangchu looked at the heavy fog outside the window and frowned. "Now the Japanese aircraft carrier is heading towards Shanghai at full speed. If the fog dissipates quickly, our fighter jets can take off early and launch a rapid strike on all the Japanese strongholds entrenched in Shanghai."

Xie Jinyuan said: "Three hours ago, I specially sent someone to invite a few local old farmers in Shanghai. Based on their experience, the fog will dissipate before 8 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Several old farmers said with certainty that there are a lot of heavy fog in Shanghai, but no matter how heavy the fog is, it will basically disappear before nine o'clock."

After hearing Xie Jinyuan said this, Mao Bangchu's eyes lit up: "Then we will choose to take off at 6:30 tomorrow morning and launch an air attack on all enemy positions in Shanghai."

The battle outside continued, and the Chinese army besieging the Japanese in Shanghai were attacking, but the gunfire was not as fierce as during the day.

At this moment, a ground crew member came to report that Captain Zhou Zhihan's Boeing 281 fighter was refueling!

Zhou Zhihan stood up.

"Does Captain Zhou still have a task to carry out?" Xie Jinyuan also stood up and asked.

Zhou Zhihan looked at his watch and at 2:30 am on the 14th, he said: "I will fly to Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport, and there will be heavy fog in Hangzhou. I will try to lead the deporting aircraft of the Fourth Battalion stationed at Jianqiao Airport to Shanghai before the heavy fog in Shanghai dissipates tomorrow morning, and take off with the fighter jets from Hongqiao Airport to the air, and fight the Japanese Marines in Shanghai with all their strength."

Zhou Zhihan has a flying helmet and does not need to light a bonfire for him around the airport runway. He directly flew the Boeing 281 fighter jet in the dark and heavy fog.

Seeing Zhou Zhihan flying Boeing fighter planes into the air and disappearing into the vast fog, Xie Jinyuan was stunned and looked at Mao Bangchu beside him: "This top student who returned from Randolph Air Force Academy is indeed different. He is indeed a flying genius. No wonder the principal of Randolph Air Force Academy is willing to accept him as a proud student. I am lucky to see him today, and it is indeed worthy of his reputation!"

Mao Bangchu couldn't help but admire: "Fortunately we have such a flying genius. Otherwise, the fleet that took off from Nanjing Airport would not have been able to land safely at Hongqiao Airport in such a big fog."

Now, the pilots flying from Nanjing are all hurrying to rest. As the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Air Force in Shanghai, Mao Bangchu still has many tactics to deduce with the combat staff.

At 5:30 in the morning, Mao Bangchu was not asleep at night. He walked out of the airport room and the fog seemed to fade a little. Mao Bangchu ordered the commander to get up and gather all the Air Force pilots.

Ten minutes later, all the Air Force was ready, and Mao Bangchu began to mobilize before the war.

At 6:20, the red sun appeared from the east, but the sun was not hot, and it would take at least half an hour to completely dissipate.

Mao Bangchu decided that the fighter jets that were responsible for the first wave of attacks would take off immediately within Hongqiao Airport.

According to the original plan, at this time, Zhou Zhihan should be on the way with the Fourth Brigade that took off from Jianqiao Airport. At most, he would arrive over Shanghai before seven o'clock and intercept the Type 96 and Type 95 carrier-based aircraft that took off from the Japanese aircraft carrier with all their might.

It turns out that it is more wins and less losses.

When I was in Nanjing yesterday, during the sand table deduction of the Operations Department, I deduced that the Japanese aircraft carrier would arrive in Shanghai on the morning of the 14th.

Just an hour ago, the intelligence department sent a telegram that the Japanese army's [Ryuka] aircraft carrier and [Kaga] aircraft carrier had entered the waters near Shanghai. As long as the fog dissipated, their carrier-based aircraft could take off at any time.

Mao Bangchu secretly prayed, hoping that Zhou Zhihan could lead the Fourth Battalion to arrive in time and intercept the fighter planes that took off from the Japanese aircraft carrier.

After a brief and passionate pre-war oath mobilization, Mao Bangchu finally said: "Brothers, today will be a day of the Chinese Air Force's bloody shame!

Today, your feat will be recorded in history by the world's air force history!
Chapter completed!