Three Hundred and Five Different Endings

In the morning, he saw the new German helicopter put into use, and persuaded Mercedes to have a baby. Accardo was a little proud. His hard work is slowly bearing fruit, and the feeling of seeing the rewards also makes him a little ecstatic.

But an item in the afternoon brought him back to the cruel reality: in the Far East, the war situation took a turn for the worse, and the Chinese squadron, which lacked foundation, was finally defeated in front of the Japanese army who was deliberately preparing for the war.

Although in many areas, the Chinese Ninth Army played a demeanor similar to that of the German army, driving several Japanese troops out of the sea, and even the main landing field of the Japanese army was once compressed to a small area of ​​a few kilometers. The headquarters even considered the possibility of failure in the Songhu Battle.

When the squadron was playing the most smoothly, the main force of the Japanese landing force, the 3rd Division, was almost completely wiped out.

Japan had to use the strategic reserve team, that is, the newly formed 10th Army to enter the Songhu area, which barely stabilized the battle situation, and finally found a killer, and finally stabilized the situation that was about to collapse.

This trump card is nothing else, it is the main air force deployed in Japan, Japan's most elite local air defense fighter force, the Japanese Army's First Air Force equipped with all 30 original German export me-fighters.

So an interesting episode appeared on the Songhu battlefield. The main air forces of both sides using the same weapon engaged in a high-level air battle that shocked the world. Withdrew back near Nanjing.

The grass-green fighter jets of the Chinese squadron faced the dark green fighter jets of the Japanese army, and the fighter models were still exactly the same in appearance. As a result, the two sides could only rely on the Air Force logo to identify the target. After experimenting with each other a few times, they returned angrily. In the first air battle, the two sides shook hands and made peace, and each went back to change the painting.

The Chinese Air Force sprayed two blue lines of the blue sky and white sun flag on its wings as an identification mark, and the Japanese aircraft added two yellow lines representing chrysanthemums on its wings as an identification mark. The two sides fought again, and the result was that the Japanese army was shot down 3 aircraft, Squadron lost two.

In the first exchange of fire, the Japanese army dispatched 46 fighters of various types. The Chinese army had no choice but to take off with only 27 fighters to take off. The two sides fought fiercely for 20 minutes. The Chinese army was shot down 5, while the Japanese army lost 2 me- fighters and 2 An old Navy fighter jet used as decoy.

In the first air battle, the Japanese air force lost 5 me-fighters, while China lost 7 me-fighters of the same type. However, 4 Chinese pilots successfully parachuted, while only one of the 5 Japanese pilots survived and was captured by the Chinese defenders. So the record of the two sides is almost equal.

History once again made an international joke,

The Chinese Air Force dominated the battle over Songhu because of the German fighter jets, while the Japanese Air Force regained its disadvantage and regained the initiative in the battle because of the German fighter jets. Come and buy German aircraft, me- is the best choice for your powerful air force!

Helplessly, the squadron, which had run out of ammunition reserves, entered a stage of weakness. However, the Japanese army still maintained a high combat effectiveness relying on domestic blood transfusions, and the Battle of Songhu had a turning point. The Japanese army began to counterattack, and the Chinese army had to abandon many areas that it should have held in order to preserve its strength.

Then because of the loss of air supremacy, the Japanese Air Force began to support ground operations after gaining an advantage. An important 150mm heavy artillery position of the Chinese Ninth Army was destroyed, and more than a dozen Krupp cannons, which made the Japanese army fearful, were lost. The situation of the firepower squadron is even worse.

In the end, the Ninth Army reluctantly withdrew from Shanghai, leaving the ruins of the 15-day battle to the Japanese invaders. Although the Battle of Songhu lasted only half a month, it killed more than 74,000 Japanese soldiers in one go. It was not until the Japanese army invested 400,000 troops that the squadron began to retreat.

In comparison, the Chinese army lost 100,000 people in this battle, which is more than double the terrible 100,000 casualties in another time and space; on the contrary, the Japanese army lost more than twice. In a quarter of the time, he achieved twice the results and reduced his losses by two-thirds—Acado had to admire the Chinese people once again, and they performed better than the German army.

Many people don't understand how weak China was during the War of Resistance Against Japan, so that they feel that China's loss of cities and territories is simply a loss of power and humiliation of the country. But if you take a look at the real historical data, you will know that the Chinese people have never been soft bones, and have never lost the face of Emperor Qin, Han and Wu.

In real history, in the first few years of the Anti-Japanese War, the number of ammunition produced and imported by China itself was about 280,097.5 million rounds per year, and after the United States entered the war, it was 312.5 million rounds per year. The total ammunition consumption in China is about 300 million rounds per year. If the number of bombs at that time is generally around 3 million, that is to say, each person averages 100 rounds per year.

Many friends joked that a division in China was chased all over the ground by a brigade of Japanese troops. In fact, this is also very helpless: At that time, a Chinese division had more than 10,000 people if it was a Type A division, and only five to six thousand people in a Type B division, and only more than 3,000 rifles, but the per capita ammunition was only 20-30 rounds. Even with 50 rounds, a Class B division would have 150,000 rounds, and a brigade of the Japanese army carried no less than this amount of ammunition, and it could be continuously replenished. On the other hand, if the squadron wants to replenish ammunition, it has to be transported from thousands of miles away. In this case, if it is an ordinary army with a weak will to fight, is there any other way besides retreating?

But this time and space of Akado is different. With the efforts of Sickert and the secret help of Germany and Britain, China produces 100 million more rounds of ammunition every year than in another time and space, and the National Revolutionary Army recovers earlier than before. The actual control of the whole country was saved, and a lot of ammunition was saved. Therefore, in the Battle of Songhu, China played an almost one-for-one battle loss ratio. Even if the main force retreated to Nanjing in the later period, there was no situation in which the formed troops were encircled.

But in the final analysis, China was still defeated. When Japan had basically completed industrialization, China was still a poor and backward agricultural country. Even with some industrial foundation, it is still an agricultural country. Germany's industrial base was only realized after contact with Acado. It was a manifestation of strength after accumulation and expansion. It was just the opposite of Germany's industrial level. Even decades after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, China's industry still showed a Share the shabby taste of nouveau riche.

The Japanese army occupied Shanghai, destroyed Asia's international financial center, and disrupted the order of the world's powers to make money. Soon two American freighters set off from Australia, transporting a full 100 million rounds of ammunition to support China's war of resistance, and Britain also produced 30 million rounds of ammunition from Australia and sent them to China. If the amount of ammunition produced by China is counted, the National Revolutionary Army At this stage, there are at least 200 million rounds of ammunition in stock.

With the flash of light in the battle of Songhu, Japan's clamoring slogan of annihilating China in a month has become an out-and-out joke. The squadron is still alive, although its strength has been slightly reduced, but the main force is still there. The defense of the Central China Front Army of the Japanese Army in the Lower Songhu area is still insufficient, let alone attacking Nanjing.

The Japanese Central China Front Army's attack on Shanghai also became a deadly game. In order to prevent Shanghai from being taken back by the Chinese defenders, nearly 200,000 troops had to be deployed to defend the surrounding areas, but they could not immediately join the Japanese troops going south. The Shanghai that General Matsui Iwane tried his best to capture became a piece of tasteless and discardable chicken rib, stuck in the throat of the Japanese army and difficult to swallow.

The national government of China announced the establishment of a temporary wartime capital, and the site was selected in Chongqing. The main force retreated to Nanjing and swore to the death to defend the important military city of Wuhan. The tragic Nanjing Massacre in history was not staged. Although the Japanese army had the upper hand on the Chinese battlefield, the Chinese army did not experience a large-scale collapse.

This is also what makes Akado most gratified. After all, being able to prevent human tragedies like the Nanjing Massacre from happening again can be regarded as his contribution to his distant hometown in this time and space. What he didn't expect was that Germany's secret aid to China won Germany a lot of impression points in the US Congress, which can be regarded as an unexpected return on another level.

On the general direction of assisting China to fight against Japanese aggression, Germany, the United States and even the United Kingdom have maintained a high degree of agreement, which makes Germany's diplomacy more dynamic. Although in Europe, Britain, France and Belgium are at war with Germany, Germany is still playing the joint card with peace in Asia, making it difficult for the United States to bet for a while.

The German ambassador to the United States publicly stated that Germany was originally resisting the Bolshevik invasion for the whole world, but was stabbed in the back by France. Although everyone doesn't believe his statement, there are still some American politicians who seek status and stand on the side of supporting Germany.

This reduced the scale of the U.S. plan to aid the United Kingdom, and the plan to expand the U.S. Army originally planned by Congress was also rejected, which delayed the progress of the U.S. in arming itself and delayed the timing of aiding the United Kingdom.

As a result, at night, Akado had to deal with his own affairs. Fanny had prepared a festive speech for him to announce to all his people: Emperor Arcador Rudolf learned today that the first lady of the Empire, Mercedes, is pregnant and that their first child will be will be born in the future.

Germany cheered from top to bottom. In order to celebrate the happy event of Yuan Youhou, Rommel broke through the French defense line that night and advanced another ten kilometers.