My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

To sum it up in one word, bombers are usually at an absolute disadvantage when facing fighters because fighters pursue speed, aggressiveness and flexibility.

On the other hand, bombers pursue stability and high load-bearing capacity so that they can carry more bombs. Apart from some self-defense weapons, they have almost no effective means of attack. They can't even run away because of their slow speed.

Of course, in the later period of World War II, as aircraft performance continued to upgrade and tactics gradually matured, some relatively effective tactics emerged.

But that was more than ten years later, and World War II had not yet begun, so there was very little experience in air combat. Therefore, when the Japanese pirates encountered such a situation, they had almost no way to deal with it.

But these Japanese pirates were, after all, elite soldiers who had served in the army for many years and had been brainwashed by the spirit of Bushido for many years.

So when they saw the enemy coming with great force, they immediately became angry and the four fighter jets turned around and headed straight towards the Anmin Army fighter group.

As for the thirty or forty bombers, they were so scared that they pissed themselves on the spot. Without even checking whether they could hit the target, they just dropped all the bombs on the planes, reduced the weight, turned around and ran away.

Seeing this, the Anmin Army had no choice but to let them leave. They sent four fighter planes to engage with the enemy fighter planes, and the rest went after the Japanese bombers.

In just a moment, the huge difference in speed between fighters and bombers was immediately apparent.

Since the bombers were slower to begin with and were delayed further by the temporary U-turn, the Anmin Army planes caught up with them in just one minute.

They heard the commander say that these bombers had killed or injured at least tens of thousands of their own people during this period.

The ground troops were crying out to heaven and earth but no one was responding, and the hatred in their hearts was higher than the sky.

Now that they had such an opportunity, they would not hold back at all and madly poured fire towards the bombers in front of them.

As mentioned before, the Japanese pirates' planes and tanks were notoriously thin on the outside but large on the inside. They were instantly paralyzed by the onboard heavy machine guns.

In just one encounter, the enemy lost eight bombers. Seeing the bad situation, the remaining enemy planes immediately fled in all directions, trying to use their numerical advantage to escape and barely retain some strength.

But it was too late now. Even though they had already separated, the fighter planes were so fast that they could kill one in just two or three minutes by chasing after them.

By the time each fighter plane had shot down at least two enemy planes, the remaining enemy planes had only been flying for less than ten minutes.

Upon seeing this, the Anmin Army fighter jets immediately changed direction and continued to chase them. After only a few minutes, they caught up with them again and shot them down one by one.

After they completed the killing mission, they turned around and went back to encircle and suppress the four fighter jets.

But when they arrived, they found that the situation was not good.

It turned out that these Japanese pirate pilots all had many years of flying experience, while the Anmin Army, although they had also trained for many years, had no practical experience and were still novices. When facing the Japanese pirate fighter planes, they had almost no ability to fight back.

So at this time, the four Japanese pirate fighter planes were occupying an advantageous position, chasing behind the Anmin Army fighter planes, and constantly shooting at the enemy in front.

The four fighter planes of the Anmin Army could only keep changing directions to avoid the shooting and had no ability to fight back at all.

But as the saying goes, if you defend for too long, you will lose. No matter how much they kept changing direction, they were still hit by the enemy.

One of the planes even emitted black smoke and dived towards the ground, apparently having been hit in a vital part and lost power.

Although the other three planes were not directly scrapped, they were also damaged in many places. However, since these planes were imported from Europe, they did not break into pieces like the Japanese pirates' planes, and could still fly normally.

Seeing this scene, the rest of the people did not hesitate at all. They directly divided into four groups and fought four against one against these Japanese pirate fighter planes in a righteous beating.

The result was naturally not unexpected. Under the siege of several fighter planes, no matter how high your skills are, two fists cannot beat four hands, let alone eight hands at this time.

So the four Japanese fighter planes were finally shot down successfully.

After hearing the roar in the sky, the ground troops suddenly heard a series of rapid explosions and immediately knew that the enemy's bombing had ended.

Some of the brave ones simply lay on the ground to hide, then looked up at the planes in the sky, trying to remember these iron birds in their hearts so that they could curse them when they returned.

However, when they saw the scene in the sky, they were immediately filled with question marks. How could the planes in the sky start fighting each other?

Before they could come to their senses, the Anmin Army's bombers had already begun dropping bombs on the enemy's heavy armored forces.

With the sound of explosions, tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed one after another. Some that were directly hit were even blown to pieces, and the people inside the vehicles did not even leave a complete body.

In just this one round of bombing, the Japanese pirates directly lost sixty or seventy tanks and armored vehicles, and each bomber basically achieved a double kill.

Just as the bombers dropped their bombs and returned for resupply, the Japanese armored forces, which had breathed a sigh of relief, were once again nervous.

It turned out that Jiang Li saw that time was scarce, so he simply sent out Sun Yousheng's cavalry division.

At this time, the cavalry division, equipped with British equipment, now had 170 light tanks, 12 medium tanks, and 200 armored vehicles.

When they faced the more than 100 ultra-light tanks and armored vehicles that had suffered heavy losses, they were almost completely crushed.

In addition, the artillerymen who had been hiding in the woods for fear of being the focus of attention of the Japanese pirates, and who had to change positions after firing a few shots, opened fire with all their strength.

The Japanese pirates had almost no power to resist and their defense line was directly broken through by this round of fierce attack. Seeing the bad situation, Song Jinshigen still wanted to organize troops for defense.

However, when the thirty-two bombers arrived again, he knew that defeat was inevitable. Without the support of the Air Force, he had absolutely no chance of winning in this situation.

He immediately gave a decisive order, asking the front-line troops to block the enemy on the spot, and the rest of the troops to immediately assemble and move into Shanghai city.

That's right, he has already thought it through. Although the current situation is not favorable to their side, as long as they retreat to the city of Shanghai, the enemy will not dare to bomb them at will.

As long as they can hold out in the city for half a month, support troops will surely arrive, and by then, with internal and external attacks, they may be able to turn defeat into victory.

After learning about the enemy's movements, Jiang Li immediately thought of this situation, so he immediately ordered the entire army to pursue and kill as many enemies as possible.