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

However, the remaining fuel was not enough to support the return flight. In other words, as long as the enemy wanted to send planes to bomb the Anmin Army airport, they would have to send a large number of bombers to deliver enough firepower.

At the same time, the same number of fighter jets must be sent out for escort, so as to avoid being discovered halfway and being used as sitting ducks by enemy fighter jets.

So this is an open conspiracy. If you want to eliminate the air force of the Anmin Army, you have to allocate one or two hundred planes to carry out such a mission.

The key is that you have to hit the target with one strike. If there is any mistake, all your one or two hundred planes will be wasted.

Jiang Li knew very well that one should not put all his eggs in one basket, so he had two airports in total. This meant that if the enemy wanted to completely destroy his air force, the price they had to pay would have to be multiplied by two.

Back to Muto Yoshinobu, after fighting with the Anmin Army for another half a month, he finally found out the location of the enemy's airport.

During this period, the bombers he sent out encountered two attacks. Although he had increased the number of fighter planes, he could not be absolutely sure.

These two attacks combined caused their army to lose another 24 military aircraft. Fortunately, according to the pilots, their side shot down at least eight fighter planes. This three-to-one loss ratio made him look a little better.

Looking at the location of the enemy airport on the map, Muto Yoshinobu frowned and pondered for a long time, and finally managed to utter a few words through gritted teeth.

"The cunning Chinese actually built an airport outside the combat radius of our fighter jets. How despicable!"

At this time, he had already understood the enemy's intentions. If he decided to attack by force, he would inevitably lose a large number of military aircraft.

If there were only more than a hundred planes, with the industrial strength of their great Japan, they could certainly bear it, but if more than a hundred pilots were lost, it would be too painful.

After all, being a pilot is different from being an army soldier. Anyone can be a pilot. This branch of the military has extremely high requirements on the physical fitness of soldiers.

Moreover, the training time is long and the training difficulty is extremely high, but they are much more valuable than skilled naval forces.

This made it difficult for him to make up his mind to issue such an order.

Then I thought about the current casualty ratio. If it was one to three, it would not be unacceptable.

The most crucial thing is that the current battle location is not far from our own line. If the pilots of those shot down planes jump out of the plane, the probability of them returning to our own camp alive is still very high.

So he gave up the idea of ​​defeating the enemy with one blow and planned to continue to fight a protracted war with the enemy. At the same time, in order to have sufficient troops, he directly conveyed the signal of increasing troops to the Japanese high-level officials.

But just when Muto Yoshinobu was still waiting for a reply from his homeland, he suddenly received bad news.

It turned out that Jiang Li not only sent guerrillas along the pirates' logistics routes, but also sent guerrillas throughout the north.

According to the war report, because there were many people in Shanxi fighting against the Japanese during this period and the guerrillas had become powerful, they became much more rampant.

Since they dared to launch an attack on the county town, the most crucial thing was that the number of local Japanese soldiers was small and the puppet troops had a weak will to fight.

So the guerrillas were able to recapture several county towns, and as a result, they became even more rampant, and are now planning to sweep across the entire Shanxi province in one fell swoop.

Having said so much, this battle report can be summed up in one sentence, "We can't hold on any longer, send reinforcements!"

When Mutō Yoshinobu saw the news, he was so angry that his face turned blue. He had actually expected this a long time ago, but what he was thinking was that with the help of Japan's millions of elite troops, he could wipe out the Chinese resistance army in one fell swoop.

Then he would completely destroy their main force, and finally when the reinforcements from his own country arrived, he could split his troops into two groups and sweep across China within half a year.

However, the reinforcements from the mainland have not arrived yet, and we can no longer resist. Once they really sweep across the entire Shanxi, the Chinese people's determination to resist will certainly be even stronger.

By then, his Great Japanese Empire would be plunged into endless troubles.

However, at this time, although some troops could be drawn from the 300,000-strong army that was pursuing the guerrillas, the journey was long, and it was hard to say whether the Shanxi defenders could hold out until the reinforcements arrived.

So he made up his mind and issued an order, asking the logistics department to transport poison gas bombs and bacterial bombs to the defenders in Shanxi, so that they could hold out until reinforcements arrived.

After this order was issued, he ordered the 300,000 troops that were pursuing the guerrillas to send 100,000 to Shanxi for reinforcement. After receiving the order, the commander of that force immediately dispatched 100,000 troops to Shanxi for reinforcement.

However, what Muto Yoshinobu did not know was that during this period, these 300,000 troops had suffered heavy losses during the pursuit.

They were ambushed by cold guns and traps from time to time, and some fell ill due to the unbearable local climate. At this time, among the 300,000 Japanese pirates, 20,000 to 30,000 had lost their combat effectiveness.

Now they have transferred another 100,000 troops, and the 300,000 encirclement and suppression forces are now reduced to only 170,000 or 180,000 active forces, almost half of them.

This gives Liu Huaqiang and his two companions a lot more room to use their guerrilla tactics.

In the following battles, the casualties of the Japanese pirates increased rapidly, but this is all later, so let's not talk about it for now.

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Now let's talk about the Japanese mainland. Since Muto Yoshinobu's order to mobilize troops reached the Japanese high-level officials, they agreed to Muto Yoshinobu's request after discussion.

All 800,000 reserve soldiers in the country were sent to China, and in order to ensure that there would be soldiers available for deployment in the future, they recruited another one million young and strong men from across the country.

However, this made the already empty rural areas of Japan even more empty, and the Dragon Slayer Taoist saw this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and immediately took action.

He gave an order and asked his subordinates, who had a blood feud with Japan, to bring the zombies and ghosts that they had secretly refined over the years.

They came to Japan to spread corpse poison and forcibly detained the wandering ghosts, then refined them with evil methods, put them into the Hundred Ghosts Banner, and used them for their own purposes.

Yes, over the years, the Dragon Slayer Taoist not only refined thousands of evil ghosts, but also cultivated hundreds of white zombies. He also used human skin and other materials to refine a Hundred Ghosts Banner for each of his followers.

Although their cultivation is not high now, they can use their essence and blood to drive the Hundred Ghosts Banner and release dozens of evil ghosts.

At the same time, it can control more than a dozen white zombies, so even if it encounters a small group of Japanese pirates, it can easily kill them.

As for larger-scale armies, they are not so easy to deal with. After all, as the number of troops increases, their bloody and fierce aura can directly disperse evil spirits and creatures, which is not something these small evil cultivators can deal with.

Not to mention how they spread the corpse poison, the ordinary people on Kyushu Island soon caused riots after being infected by this sudden virus.