The first blow from the air
During the Sino-Japanese War of p>1894-1895, the naval forces in Toyoshima, Dadonggou, Ahava and China and some troops guarding the battery fought several rounds of fierce battles with the invading Japanese navy. Although defeated, it was attacked by Japanese warships, killing hundreds of Japanese naval officers and soldiers.
in the following 43 years, the Chinese and Japanese armies fought many times on land, and the Japanese Marine Corps suffered considerable losses in the aggression. However, for 43 years, Japanese naval vessels have been able to roam in China's territorial waters and rivers. Although there are occasional fire attacks from China, Japanese ships themselves have never been really attacked effectively.
After the July 7th Incident in p>1937, the all-round war of resistance finally began. On August 13th, 1937, the Sino-Japanese War in Shanghai began. The next day, 43 years after the Sino-Japanese War, Japanese troops attacked Japanese warships again. It was the service air force that did not appear during the Sino-Japanese War.
At 14: on August 13th, the Aviation Committee of the National Government announced in Nanjing that the Air Force had the task of assisting our army to wipe out the enemy's land, sea, air force and base areas in Shanghai.
Twelve hours later, at 2: a.m. on August 14th, the Aviation Committee of the National Government issued Air Force Operational Order No.2 in Nanjing. The No.2 combat order was first conveyed to the Air Force military order: Our army was ordered to bomb enemy ships that were shooting at me and cruising on the sea. Then, when assigning tasks to each brigade, the order was given to the fifth brigade: the fifth brigade, which first concentrated in Yangzhou, carried the prepared 5-pound bomb at 7: pm on these fourteen days, bombed enemy ships outside the Yangtze River estuary, and arrived at the target at 9: pm. Its departure time, altitude, formation and route are all decided by the captain.
On August 14th, an enemy destroyer was injured, which was the only recorded attack on a Japanese ship. On this day, the China Air Force dispatched 76 sorties, which were divided into nine batches to bomb the Shanghai enemy headquarters, ammunition depots, landing docks, enemy ships moored on the Huangpu River and other important military targets. An enemy destroyer was injured, causing numerous casualties, which dealt a heavy blow to the enemy.
In some wars, it is recorded in more detail that the Japanese navy destroyer was attacked by eight new Eagle fighters of the 24th Squadron of the 5th Brigade led by Ding, near Nantong. They took off from Yangzhou, each carrying a 25-kilogram bomb. Japanese destroyers used snake-like maneuvers to avoid bombing, and only the No.241 fighter plane driven by the deputy squadron leader Liang Hongyun crashed into the stern of a ship. The port side of the hit Japanese ship tilted 4 degrees, but it still tried to escape. At 11: 35, due to the increasing fog, the 24th Squadron had to abandon its target and return.
Even the record of the sinking of a Japanese destroyer is deduced. For example, on the 14th, the brigades were ordered to take the initiative to attack: a 1,3-ton destroyer was bombed and two other warships were injured.
Japanese military archives
For a long time, the research on the history of the Anti-Japanese War was seriously inaccurate. As far as the record of fighting against the Japanese navy is concerned, it is a profound lesson for the research community to misjudge the results of the attack on Izumo for decades.
the best way to verify our army's achievements is to check the combat records and loss records in the enemy's internal files.
according to Japanese archives, on August 14th, China air force bombed the destroyer Ku. The ship was started on March 5, 1919, launched on April 17, 192, and completed on July 2 of the same year. It is a fir-class destroyer. On August 12, the shuttle set off from Shanghai and served as a sentry on the Qiyakou River between the upper Wusong River and Tongzhou. Captain 83. 82 meters, a destroyer with a standard displacement of 77 tons, has a draft of only 2. 4 meters, suitable for coastal and inland river operations. At this time, being transferred to the Yangtze River estuary is also a manifestation of giving full play to Hao's advantages. On August 14, 1937, the ship was located 4 nautical miles upstream of Wusong.
according to the internal records of the Japanese army, at about 11: 1am on August 4th, eight aircraft formations of the China Air Force appeared. The formation of China Eighth Aircraft recorded by the Japanese army is exactly the same as that recorded in China's war history.
There are three 12mm single-barrel guns and two Type 6 machine guns in Chi's weaponry. 5 mm single gun, in the face of China's air strikes, the Japanese immediately fired machine guns into the air, and at the same time organized sailors on board to shoot with rifles for air defense. In the panic, Japanese ships also shelled the air with 12 mm artillery. According to Japanese records, China aircraft dropped bombs at an angle of 25 degrees, and the maximum elevation angle of Japanese ship's 12mm gun exceeded 3 degrees, which also posed a certain threat.
China warplanes broke through the barrage and dropped 16 bombs on Japanese ships. At 1: 15, a bomb landed on the right side of the back deck, with a distance of 15 meters, which was described by the Japanese as the distance from the stern to the approach. Shrapnel falling from the loud noise splashed on the machine gun platform, and the machine gun shooter and navy private Cao Heimu Changxi who was shooting into the air was hit by shrapnel in the abdomen. This example shows that it is inaccurate to seriously injure a ship's stern in the history of China War. One of the bombs did land near the stern of destroyer K, but it didn't hit directly.
After shrapnel hit the Japanese ship, another sailor who was seriously injured was Kinjiro Ueda, a first-class sailor of the telecommunications operator. At this time, he joined the anti-aircraft gun team on the ship. When it landed, he was shooting into the air near the back deck. A shrapnel penetrated the bulletproof plate of the warship machine gun platform and hit him in the abdomen.
When China Air Force fighters swooped down, they also fired machine guns at China people. The gunner of the 2mm single gun and the third-class sailor of the Navy, Kawao Nomura, was hit by a bullet from a China fighter in the brain while operating the gun, and died on the spot.
The air strikes have achieved initial results, but the Japanese destroyers are not willing to sit still and start releasing smoke screens. In Japanese records, the smoke screen was opened at 11: 27. This also corresponds to the fact that at 11: 35 in the history of China War, the 24th Squadron had to abandon its target return record because of the increasing fog. However, in the record, China mistakenly thought that the smoke screen released by Japanese ships was getting thicker and thicker.
I was still in shock when I watched China's plane fly away. At 11: 42, it increased its speed to full speed, left the river and returned to Huangpu River. After 14 o'clock in the afternoon, just before and after anchoring on the raft, the seriously injured Kumi Changxi and Ueda Kinjiro were killed. Together with Nomura Kawaxiong, who was killed before, the air raid killed three people on the Japanese destroyer. According to the internal records of the Japanese army, the first-class sailor Masaji Kawasaki and Maoyang Iwata were also seriously injured, and four others were slightly injured. According to the above statistics, the total number of casualties of Japanese ships is 9. There were 17 crew members on board, and only 8 people were killed or injured. 4%。 Judging from this data, the loss caused by the bomb was not a direct hit < P > but it was the first time that China army effectively attacked Japanese warships after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. The stern of the pool left 26 small holes hit by shrapnel, and the upper deck was hit by 97 bullets, which obviously surprised the arrogant Japanese navy.
General feeling of history
On August 14th, 1937, the bombing of a Japanese ship was recorded for the first time. Forty-three years after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japanese warships invading China were attacked again. But unfortunately, after Li started bombing in the 14th Record of China and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he quickly prepared for continuous bombing until the enemy ship was destroyed. Since then, the Japanese Air Force has never sunk a Japanese ship in the bombing at the end of the year. Even, it was the only bombing action of China Air Force in 1937 that killed Japanese warship personnel. After that, although the bombing continued until the end of the year, the personnel on the Japanese warship were never eliminated.
What is even more regrettable is that according to the statistics of the death toll of the Japanese navy, during the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, only mines laid by the South Korean navy sank the Japanese special sea sweeper "Xiong Ji Maru" on December 9, killing two Japanese sailors. Moreover, there is no record of killing Japanese sailors in the naval anti-Japanese war records of more than four months in 1937.
according to the internal statistics of the Japanese navy, 42 people died in the naval battle in 1937. Among them, on September 3, the crew of the cruiser Xizhang landed on Dongsha Island and was overturned by huge waves, causing 12 deaths; On August 14th, China Air Force attacked the Red Army, killing three people. On December 9th, China navy mines sank the Xiong Ji Maru, killing two people. According to statistics, among the remaining 25 sailors on Japanese ships, 24 were killed by land fire, that is, shells and bullets from China's army. Although the shells and bullets fired by the army at the national enemy could not completely sink the Japanese warships, they also made the naval sailors on the invaders pay the price.
There is another person in Japanese statistics, that is, Saiya Skirt Zonggoro, a sailor of the destroyer Haifeng, written in my book Air Force Operational Order No.2.. He was killed by a Chinese army soldier who narrowly escaped from the Nanjing Massacre, tied to a raft and retreated to the river with a revenge shot. Moreover, this kind of shooting from the raft killed the enemy, which was the only example in 1937 that the Japanese army directly shot from the water to kill the sailors on the Japanese warship. Previously, on September 14, 1937, in the Sino-Japanese Humen naval battle, the Japanese navy cruiser Zhao He launched a naval battle with the Japanese navy cruiser Xizhang. However, according to Japanese records, the shelling of Zhao He did not cause any casualties of Japanese ships.
Forty-three years after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the gap in weapons between China's army and Japan's army has not narrowed, but widened, and it has to rely more on the army to attack Japanese warships. Today, when we turn to the dusty history, we will find what an amazing history it is.
What is even more disturbing is the desperate efforts of Chinese army soldiers under this historical background. The author just saw a historical photo of a netizen, which also recorded the historical facts of Chinese army soldiers attacking Japanese warships. This netizen introduced Japanese Pictorial, explaining the general idea: In 1938, when the Yangtze River returned, China Warriors were captured by a Jiang Lai warship floating on bamboo tubes. This netizen left a message to the author, saying: It always brings tears to my eyes in silence.
I think what makes us all cry is the courage and unyielding of this nation in times of suffering.