Bright Sword: I am Li Yunlong's old squad leader

Chapter 198 Preparing to Occupy the Shipyard

"Convert all our bombers into transport planes."

The Japanese still have more than 50 bombers at Hongkou Airport.

These bombers have a bomb load of 1.5 tons, which means they can transport nearly 20 soldiers at a time.

If the 50 bombers at Hongkou Airport are added, Wang Tianyou will have 150 aircraft.

These 150 planes can transport 3000 soldiers each time.

More than 6000 soldiers could be transported in a single day.

"Come here, tell Gao Qihang, Li Changkong and the others at the airport to transport people to the remote airport. I want 10,000 people and a full set of weapons and equipment within ten days."

"Yes……"

That afternoon, Gao Qihang, Li Changkong and other members of the aviation brigade took off in their transport planes and flew straight to Yuanshan Airport.

At night, Gao Qihang and his men brought 2000 fully armed light infantry.

These infantrymen carry a large number of sniper rifles, AK47s, and light and heavy machine guns.

In the early morning of the next day, more than 2000 people drove into the city.

In the next few days, five to six thousand fully armed men entered the city every day.

The people of Shanghai were finally enlightened, as the Central Army and local armed forces assembled millions of troops and fought a bitter battle with the Japanese invaders in Shanghai for three months in 38.

In that battle, the central army and local armed forces lost a total of 30 people, but still failed to drive the Japanese out of Shanghai.

There was no other choice but for the remaining nearly 70 central troops and local armed forces to evacuate Shanghai urgently.

However, these troops had no unified organization when they withdrew from Shanghai.

The Japanese rushed out from Shanghai and chased these people to fight.

Along the way, half of the 70 people were lost.

From that time on, this modern international metropolis fell into the hands of the Japanese.

It has been a year since 38.

Every day, local people could see the Japanese patrolling the streets in a domineering manner.

These little devils never treat the local people as human beings.

In order to practice their shooting skills, some Japanese soldiers held their Type 38 rifles and stood a hundred meters away, shooting at people's heads.

Although the Japanese did not touch the foreign concessions, the areas outside the concessions had already become a living hell.

These little devils burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of atrocities everywhere.

Now our own Chinese army has entered Shanghai.

The more troops came in, the more at ease the local people felt.

The local people also knew that the first group of people who attacked the garrison headquarters consisted of only a few hundred people.

In 38, Xie Jinyuan occupied the Sihang Warehouse.

At that time, Captain Xie only had 400 people under his command, but he claimed to have 800 people.

The 400 men resisted the Japanese attacks for many days in the Sihang Warehouse, but finally withdrew.

The local people do not want those who occupy the garrison headquarters to repeat the tragic retreat of the Sihang Warehouse.

The number of troops entering the city increased every day.

The people in the city are becoming more and more confident.

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The flag on the roof of the garrison headquarters building had long been replaced with the flag of the Eighth Route Army.

Wang Tianyou's office.

Brigade Commander Chen, Zhang Dabiao, Wei Dayong, Long Wenjian, Duan Peng, and Gao Qihang gathered together.

"Chu Yunfei, when will this kid arrive?"

"Reporting to the brigade commander, Commander Chu Yunfei's plane is expected to arrive tomorrow."

Wang Tianyou nodded, stood up and walked to the map of Shanghai.

"Everyone, I told you before that I want to take over Shanghai and seize the Japanese shipyard."

After Wang Tianyou finished speaking, he picked up a dozen photos and pasted them in front of the battle map.

These dozen large black-and-white photos all show the Japanese warships in two major shipyards.

"Here are a dozen destroyers and frigates that the Japanese have just built." Wang Tianyou pointed at the photos excitedly.

"These little devils also know that they are very likely to lose the two major shipyards in Shanghai, and they are preparing to drive these warships away."

"Fortunately, most people in this shipyard are willing to help us." Wang Tianyou looked excited.

"Let's take over the shipyard." Wang Tianyou took out a few large photos and pasted them on the map.

"These are several passenger and cargo ships." Wang Tianyou looked very happy. His excitement was beyond words. "The displacement of these cargo ships is more than 40,000 tons.

Brothers, do you know what this means? "

Everyone shook their heads. Brigade Commander Chen said, "Brigade Commander Wang, do you want to convert all these freighters into aircraft carriers?"

"right……"

"It's a piece of cake to transform these merchant ships into aircraft carriers. All we need to do is lay down the decks on them."

Wang Tianyou knew that if these merchant ships with a displacement of more than 40,000 to 50,000 tons were all converted into aircraft carriers, China's naval strength would have a big leap forward.

"Everyone, do you know how many tons the displacement of the Japanese's largest aircraft carrier, the Jiahe, is?"

Everyone shook their heads, only Gao Qihang and a few other pilots knew the answer.

"Reporting to the commander, the Japanese Kaga aircraft carrier is Taiwan's heavy aircraft carrier. With a full load displacement of tons, it carries 72 fighter jets." Gao Qihang knows them all.

Wang Tianyou nodded: "If we convert all these merchant ships into aircraft carriers, we will have four heavy aircraft carriers at once."

Wei Dayong and his men were not aware of the importance of aircraft carriers, but Brigade Commander Chen and Gao Qihang knew.

"That's great, we can also use aircraft carriers to engage in naval battles with the Japanese." Li Changkong shouted excitedly.

Wang Tianyou knew that although the Japanese had many aircraft carriers, except for the Kaga aircraft carrier, which was a heavy aircraft carrier, their four heavy aircraft carriers were still under construction in the dock.

Although the Japanese had more than 70 aircraft carriers during World War II, most of them were light aircraft carriers.

This type of aircraft carrier only carries more than 20 carrier-based aircraft.

The power of this aircraft carrier is not a concern at all.

The most crucial thing is that the Japanese naval high-ranking officials did not realize the importance of aircraft carriers.

Until the Japanese were defeated, they still used a large amount of naval resources to build two heavy battleships, the Musashi and the Yamato.

These Japanese, senior naval officers believe that only battleships with big guns and huge ships are the trend of naval development.

Although the Japanese were the first to be equipped with aircraft carriers, their understanding of aircraft carriers has always been insufficient.

The Japanese had two groups of battleships, the Yamato and the Musashi, each with a full load displacement of over tons.