Rebirth of the National Marshal

The next things were much easier to decide. The battle strategy was basically the same as before. Mao Yuanshan knew without even looking that the first thing to do was to capture the Japanese Concession, kill all the Japanese Marines in Shanghai, and then attract them to send troops over, and then fight a decisive battle with the Japanese in the surrounding areas.

Historically, although the Kuomintang Air Force also began bombing Japanese military camps at the beginning of the war, the aircraft at that time were absolutely different from those now. Now they use 50 of the latest German bombers. The Stuka bomber is called the Death Vulture. At that time, they used old bombers from the First World War. They were all biplanes with slow flying speeds, small bomb loads, and poor bombing effects.

Now things are completely different. Each plane can carry two 500-kilogram large bombs, which can definitely send some Japanese warships to the bottom of the sea. Of course, now the practice of aircraft bombing warships is not very popular in the world. It only became popular after the Battle of Pearl Harbor. People's concepts have not yet developed.

But even so, Mao Yuanshan believed that the results achieved in the early stages of the war must have been much greater than those in the previous era. In that era, because the heavy artillery of the Japanese warships in the Huangpu River was not taken into account, the losses were relatively heavy. So Mao Yuanshan felt that he should say this during the break in the meeting.

"Everyone, I know I am relatively young, and you are all my seniors in fighting. But I think you may have forgotten one thing, that is the Japanese Navy in the Huangpu River. Their heavy cruisers and several destroyers are still there, and the caliber of their artillery is very large. If one or two battleships of the Japanese Navy come in when the war breaks out, my fear is that our losses will be quite serious." The crowd who were discussing excitedly just now quieted down after hearing Mao Yuanshan's words.

"How far can those artillery pieces go? With so many troops under our command, are we still going to worry about a few of their artillery pieces? What can a few warships do? I think you are exaggerating too much. We all know that young people want to be in the limelight. If you do this, it might be a bit too much. The time of so many people here is very precious, but you are talking about these trivial things." Everyone felt disgusted when they heard this voice. It was said by a person who didn't understand military affairs, but no one started to blame him yet.

Everyone thought that the first person to refute would be the prince, because Mao Yuanshan was the prince's man. Unexpectedly, the person who stood up to refute was Liu Xiang.

"Do you know something about the navy? As far as I know, Liu Xiang, you are not very familiar with the navy. I guess there is no sea in your Bashu area, right? Am I wrong?" No wonder Wang doesn't have many friends in the party. You can tell from the way he behaves that he is narrow-minded and can't tolerate others saying things that differ from him. If that's the case, it's a miracle that you can get your current position. This is the evaluation Mao Yuanshan gave him.

"Of course, I have never been a navy officer. There is nothing in Bashu except the mountains, so there is no hope for the navy. But I am very clear about the navy's heavy artillery. The navy's artillery is different from the army's. On land, 150mm heavy artillery is already very powerful. The most powerful artillery of our party country is at this level, but the navy is different. Artillery of more than 100 mm is just child's play in the eyes of the navy, and 300mm artillery is considered to be of high quality. As far as I know, the Japanese battleship guns will definitely destroy everything within a few hundred meters. Our entire company or even a battalion may be completely wiped out by them with just one shell."

Liu Xiang's words were agreed by most people. After all, although many people here were not navy, they still had some military capabilities, which made them despise Wang even more.

"You are the one who raised this question. Do you have any good solution?" In fact, this problem is really not easy to solve, because the areas to be defended are basically within the attack range of the Japanese battleships and heavy artillery.

Many people have also said that you can build defensive positions outside the attack range of battleships and heavy artillery, but those places have no strategic value. What's the use even if you defend them?

In fact, under the current conditions, no matter who solves this problem, there will always be heavy losses in the end. Even if Mao Yuanshan does it, he can only reduce the losses slightly.

"To be honest, I don't have a good solution to this problem. After all, the gap in strength between our two sides is too big. If we have time, we can build some coastal defense guns on the river bank. This is a way to deal with it. Other than that, we can only take some shortcuts." The matter of building cannons can basically be put aside. We don't have so much time now. Even if we did, no one in the world would sell us such large-caliber heavy artillery.

At this time, everyone was aroused by Mao Yuanshan's interest. What he proposed had never been proposed by anyone before. It was a new concept for them and also new to the whole world.

"We must teach the Japanese Navy a lesson, so we must keep at least 30 bombers. No matter how fierce the fighting on the front line is, these 30 bombers must be hidden. Especially our internal system must not be let the Japanese know. As long as they dare to mobilize warships on the Yangtze River, these 30 bombers will immediately take off to bomb them." This is also a desperate measure.

How to implement it is all your problem. Anyway, I have proposed the solution I can, and it is the only solution that can be done at this stage.

People had different attitudes towards the method proposed by Mao Yuanshan. Most people thought that this method was too crazy. After all, airplanes attacking warships had never happened before.