Rebirth of the National Marshal

In fact, the situation on the front line was directly related to the Chahar government. Because the Chahar government wanted to use troops against the Japanese devils in the Chengde area, one of the flying squadrons in the Yangtze River Delta area was transferred back, leaving only one fighter squadron. The Japanese devils thought that their opportunity had come, and after several battles, their losses increased.

In addition, there is no way to replenish their air force at this time, and they are becoming rampant again. It is still impossible to support the fight against the enemy. However, it is still no problem to entangle Chahar's air force and prevent them from launching attacks on warships.

So at this time, the enemy's two heavy cruisers came in first.

These two heavy cruisers are the Japanese devils' newest Myoko and Haguro. The heavy artillery on board is the 203mm naval gun. In addition, there are many 127mm naval guns. The entire heavy cruiser can be said to be a firepower hedgehog. It is really perfect for them to carry out ground attack missions.

In the Jinshanwei area, because of the addition of these two heavy cruisers, two infantry regiments, about 4,000 people, were wiped out in just one morning.

But this was just the beginning. In the afternoon of the same day, the Nagato-class battleship also arrived. With one shot from its 380mm main gun, almost nothing was left within a radius of meters.

Although Mao Yuanshan also knew the news from the front line, he was powerless against such a big guy. In the past, he could use planes carrying bombs to deal with them, but now it seems that it may not be possible, because the battleship moves too fast, and there are many anti-aircraft weapons on the ship. The most important thing is that the soldiers now are all trained to bomb immovable targets, and have not been trained to deal with such fast-moving targets.

In desperation, the central government could only announce that the army would withdraw ten kilometers.

It took tens of thousands of people to capture these places, but because of the enemy's warships, our army retreated ten kilometers. If the Japanese devils wanted to use their infantry to seize these ten kilometers, they would have to pay the price of at least tens of thousands of people. Now they haven't paid a single person, but instead, tens of thousands of people have died on our side.

If land artillery is used against ships, it would be like a child hitting an adult, it would be purely tickling and would have no effect at all.

It can be said that the Chinese army in central China is in a very depressed mood. After fighting for half a month and losing so many people, they finally achieved their current position, but they were beaten back by two warships of the Japanese devils. Although they are also very unhappy, they have no way to garrison by the river. A shell is too terrible. Now the shell craters caused by the battleships are almost the size of small fish ponds.

Even Zhang Dashan and his troops have been hit by several artillery shells in the past two days, with more than 300 people killed. Zhang Dashan was very sad. The Japanese had been hit by our artillery shells before, and we had never suffered such a loss. We wanted to fight back, but were stopped by other friendly forces. No matter how powerful the soldiers of your security regiment are, they are only on land, and it is not possible to go to the sea.

Moreover, the Japanese navy ranks third in the world, which is certainly not something that a mere security group of yours can deal with. Your 150mm heavy artillery is at the same level as the secondary guns on their ships. How can you rely on that to sink them?

Although Zhang Dashan was angry, he did not lose his mind. In the current situation, there was no other way but to retreat. The Luodian area happened to be within the range of the artillery bombardment. They had wasted so much effort to take this place.

They didn't expect that it would be so easy to retreat. Many soldiers shed tears. Many of their brothers lost their lives in this place before they took it. They didn't expect that the two Japanese warships would force them to retreat. If they didn't retreat, there was no other way. If you don't retreat, you can only die here. The Japanese will not be stingy with their shells.

After Mao Yuanshan learned the news from the front, he didn't know what to say. This was really a tragedy. The brothers had spent so much effort to capture Luodian, but just because we had no way to restrain their warships, they forced us to retreat. If there were still bombing formations on the front line, they might be able to hit them, but there was not much possibility of forcing them to retreat, because this time the Japanese navy had sent a lot of troops, and it was obvious that the headquarters was putting pressure on them.

Every time the Japanese Navy approached the shore and started firing, there were at least eighty fighter planes flying in their sky. Even if Mao Yuanshan's plane flew over, with the ground anti-aircraft firepower, the planes in the sky would most likely not be able to escape harm. So this risk could not be taken. Moreover, there were Japanese all around, and the lost pilots would definitely not be replaced.

Unless Mao Yuanshan could dispatch at least 500 planes and use overwhelming force, he could definitely destroy their navy, but for Mao Yuanshan, this was impossible.

The Soviet front had to maintain a certain number of aircraft. The battle was about to start in Rehe, and there was no way to transfer them there. There were plenty of aircraft, but where were the pilots? This brought us back to the fundamental question. The Central Air Force still had some pilots, but with the war now underway, how could there be so many pilots?

The Central Air Force could originally provide at least 1000 pilots, but now it would be good if it could have 1. During the war, the loss of pilots can be said to be huge. Even though Mao Yuanshan has increased the task of rescuing pilots, in the end one-third of the pilots will not come back. If they land on their own side, it would be better, it would just waste some time, but if they land on the enemy's side, it would be absolutely impossible to come back.

The people on your side know the value of pilots, and the other side must also know the value of pilots. Not allowing pilots to return to the other side's camp is the first rule that both warring parties must abide by.

The loss caused by a pilot is definitely greater than that of an infantry battalion. It is very difficult to kill an infantry battalion, but to capture a pilot, you only need to send out a team of dozens of people. Everyone knows how to do the math, so if a pilot is lost, it is impossible to get back.