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

But even so, he still had to face the Japanese pirates, a million-strong army from both the navy and the army, which made Jiang Li feel a lot of pressure.

Not to mention whether the logistics supply and the guerrillas can hold on, it is also unknown whether we can hold on in the face of the massive bombing from the Japanese pirates' huge number of planes and tanks.

But they had to hold on even if they couldn't. Not to mention that once they retreated, Shanghai and Nanjing would inevitably be massacred again, just thinking about the fact that they were people of later generations.

Of course we know how much killing the Japanese pirates have caused in China since the September 18th Incident.

During the 14-year war of resistance against Japanese aggression, a total of 35 million soldiers and civilians died. If we retreat now, we will inevitably lose the support of the people. If we allow the Japanese pirates to take advantage of our victory and pursue us, we will probably repeat the same mistakes.

So this battle must be fought, and it must be fought to the end.

After thinking this through, Jiang Li did not care about anything else and immediately summoned the generals in the army to discuss the details of the defense. At the same time, he urged Han Yong to transport the purchased heavy weapons as soon as possible.

Yes, because the guerrillas delayed for so long, Han Yong had urgently purchased a large number of heavy weapons, including many airplanes, tanks and anti-aircraft guns.

Moreover, the Western powers also responded. Just as Jiang Li expected, they all wanted to suck a big mouthful of blood from China and bite off a big piece of meat.

They all reached arms trade agreements with Jiang Li, but the price was the outflow of a large amount of real money, and there were also many unreasonable demands.

Things like leasing Taiwan and Guangzhou, stationing troops there, building churches, hospitals, banks, and schools. In short, they were planning to launch a comprehensive cultural invasion of China.

Faced with these unreasonable demands, Jiang Li was simply unable to refuse, because he couldn't even deal with a single Japanese pirate now. If these powerful countries stabbed him in the back, he would be in dire straits.

In desperation, he reluctantly rejected a few of them, and had to grit his teeth and agree to the rest.

In this way, although he had almost used up all his activity funds, he did get a large amount of arms.

Among them were hundreds of aircraft of various types, eight hundred armored vehicles, more than five hundred light tanks, sixty medium tanks, thousands of anti-aircraft guns, and many trucks and fuel.

As long as these things are delivered smoothly, he will be sure to use them and his numerical advantage to fight a good battle with the Japanese pirates.

It stands to reason that with so many arms, the Japanese pirates would never allow them to reach China, but it was because of the discord between the Japanese navy and army.

They simply gave up the blockade on the sea, which prevented them from discovering the ships transporting the arms.

Otherwise, if they learned of the existence of these transport ships, they would certainly use this information to negotiate terms with the army and would never allow them to deliver the goods smoothly.

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Back to the battlefield, although the Japanese pirate army did not receive assistance from the navy and air force, they also had a large number of aircraft of their own.

So when the baggage train arrived, the Japanese pirates immediately launched an attack under the cover of aircraft, and this time they did not hold back at all.

An unprecedented amount of ammunition was used to launch a massive bombardment on the defense positions of the Anmin Army.

Even though the Anmin Army had strong fortifications and criss-crossing tunnels, they still suffered heavy casualties and soon came into close combat with the Japanese pirates' infantry.

But at this time, the Anmin Army had been bombed to pieces. Although they still resisted stubbornly, they were all killed by the Japanese pirates and lost their position.

Upon learning of the situation, Jiang Li did not act rashly, but entered the second line of defense to defend.

When they finally held out until dark, he ordered his troops to launch a night attack to retake the lost position.

But the Japanese pirates were not willing to give up and saw the enemy launch a night attack and recapture the position.

At daybreak they resumed their bombardment and then again sent out their infantry to attack and capture the position.

In this way, the Anmin Army and the Japanese pirates fought repeatedly day and night on the nameless barren mountain outside Jiading City, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

According to the casualty data obtained by Jiang Li, the Anmin Army had suffered at least 10,000 casualties in just this small hilltop with a radius of three square kilometers in the past few days.

Although a number of Japanese pirates were killed or wounded, the casualties of the Anmin Army were at least twice that of the Japanese pirates because they had air force support.

Seeing that the Anmin Army put up such a tenacious resistance, the Japanese pirates once again extended the battlefield to other places, hoping to cause the enemy to collapse through huge casualties.

As battles broke out in many places, the casualties and ammunition consumption of the Anmin Army increased exponentially.

But at this time, because more than a month had passed, Jiang Li reorganized a large number of troops that came from all over the place. The largest number of them came from the neighboring province of Anhui, and they contributed more than 300,000 troops.

If we count the 200,000 troops sent by Li Renzong at the beginning, the number of troops sent by Anhui is second only to the number of troops sent by Jiang Li.

It is precisely because of this that Jiang Li has now deployed 2.8 million troops around Shanghai alone, which allows him to barely withstand this level of casualties.

But since the Japanese pirate navy never made any move, Jiang Li was always unsure and had no choice but to deploy 800,000 troops there to prevent a surprise attack by the enemy.

After several days of tug-of-war, Jiang Li finally received good news that Han Yong had already delivered the first batch of arms.

The most important of these are more than 30 fighter jets, hundreds of tanks, and more than 300 anti-aircraft guns.

After receiving this batch of equipment, Jiang Li immediately equipped the troops with these things. At the same time, he did not take action immediately, but quietly launched an attack after the deployment was in place.

That morning, the Japanese air force took off as usual and bombed the positions that had been lost last night. This batch of theirs consisted of thirty bombers and fifteen fighter planes.

Why are there such a number of fighter jets, which is neither too many nor too few?

We have to talk about the news obtained by the Japanese pirate army. It turns out that they had received intelligence from the navy before.

The Chinese army seemed to have a strong air force, which sent out more than 30 bombers and four fighter jets at one time and shot them all down.

However, after repeated explorations, they still could not figure out the specific location and number of the enemy.

So during the bombing a few days ago, the Japanese pirates sent a large number of fighter jets to escort, but the enemy did not send out the air force to intercept, so these fighter jets made a wasted trip.

After several more attempts, the Japanese pirates still failed to find any trace of the Anmin Army's air force.

So they simply adjusted the number of planes. After all, the hill they were fighting for was not big, and thirty bombers were enough to cover the entire hill once.

As for the fifteen fighter planes, they are a bait. When the enemy air force attacks again, these fifteen fighter planes will serve as a entanglement.