Chapter 408 Annihilation

(...After that big victory, I heard that the corpses on the riverside filled the river beaches on both sides. Many officers and soldiers who had lost their close friends and brothers shouted and searched on the river bank for three days; but I tried not to let myself know more about these, because I was already the commander of the war zone, and my duty was to win... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

There seemed to be no sound on the water. The navy had retreated. The artillery fire on the shore began to bombard the enemy ships on the river. For a moment, countless fire dragons fired towards the river, and the scene was spectacular!

Although the cannons used by infantry cannot directly penetrate the main armor of the cruiser, these cannons still have great destructive effects on the Japanese army on the deck and the buildings on the ship. Especially when these warships are all injured, sometimes a 105mm shell can cause great damage to the Japanese army that is being constructed in the cabin and will aggravate the injuries of the warships - this is not accidental imagination. Almost all the cannons on the shore are in a flat state, and the artillery aims at the center of the smoke ball that smokes in the dark!

The warships were better. The merchant ships and wooden ships that had escaped were quickly shattered under the intensive fire. The ships that had just controlled the fire during the attack immediately ignited another raging fire and burned the river surface into a sea of ​​fire!

The dense artillery fire became the best bombing instructions! The bombers that bombed closer targets, such as Wuhu Airport, have returned and reloaded the bombs and arrived above the battlefield. At this moment, they saw clear instructions below, and they dived down to bomb, and the air-sea war finally began!

According to the Japanese plan, we had to attack Jiujiang all at once, so the Third Fleet sent many warships: six cruisers of different types of light and heavy, plus fourteen destroyers and frigates. At this time, under the navy's desperate attack, two cruisers and six destroyers were sunk. These sunken warships became reefs, making the narrow river channel even more difficult to navigate; and the remaining warships were all injured, most of them were still seriously injured, and they could no longer move, so they could only fight against the ** navy and air force.

The dense shore firepower effectively suppresses the air defense firepower on the ship. Many firepower points exposed on the deck specially added to strengthen air defense are directly destroyed. Sometimes the ammunition that explodes can directly cause great damage to the warship.

A ball of dazzling fire suddenly rose with the huge explosion from the warship declared that the Air Force's bombs hit the target. Several Japanese ships were breathing heavily, and fireballs burst into the night sky from time to time in the smoke. The fire made the river brighter, the vision became clearer, and the attacks of the Air Force became easier.

There were more and more planes in the sky. The planes that completed bombing missions from all over the place came back to refuel and add bombs. The passion of the air force soldiers who immediately went to the new battle was ignited by the red of the river again. Some of the planes' dive heights reached the point where even the army artillery on the shore were worried that they would be missed!

Suddenly, a bomber pounced down from the sky like lightning and directly hit a warship with the most intense counterattack against the air!

This was an aircraft that was already carrying out a mission with injuries. It returned successfully, but the pilot found that it could not land. At this time, the pilot did not choose to fly the plane to the safe area to parachute. He used the remaining fuel to come over the battlefield and silently recited the classic slogan of the Chinese Air Force's War of Resistance: Motherland, but unfortunately I can only die for you once...

"Boom!..." The powerful impact and the huge explosion made a warship jump violently in the river water, and the fierce fluctuations made the river water rush like an angry ocean!

The active impact of a bomber triggered a series of imitations. The army officers and soldiers on the shore were stunned. Their faces were filled with tears: Fighters suddenly appeared from the dark sky on the river like daytime and collided with Japanese ships! (It is not to plagiarize the Japanese kamikaze, but on the contrary, the Japanese kamikaze attack combat concept comes from those young Chinese pilots who chose to collide with Japanese planes during fighting in the air; only when the country and nation are oppressed to the front line of survival, can the weak and powerful people stage such a brilliant and tragic scene...)

No one can know how these flights in the worst condition are flying. How these flight students who have not graduated did not think about the beautiful life that should have existed for a long time later. At this moment, they chose to die with the enemy! The Japanese ships that had lost a lot of air firepower could not stop the suicide attack of the air force. With the pilots' moth-to-fire attacks, more and more warships on the river suddenly rose up a whole group of white steam mists. It was a spectacular scene where the heavily burned warships finally sank into the river for a moment!

"Fight! Fight hard! Blow up the shells!" The souls of artillery soldiers at almost every fire point on the shore were shocked by the tragic tragedy on the river. They forgot the power of the enemy ships that they had been worried about, and fired desperately at the enemy ships as fast as possible. Many fire points even gave up transfer!

Twenty warships were beaten to the point where only five or six were floating on the river and struggling to support them. The wooden ships had long disappeared and all the merchant ships were sunk. The originally huge Third Fleet Squadron, along with the Japanese 15th Division, and all the two three-unit divisions of the 27th Division were wiped out in ashes overnight!

It was dawn, but more and more planes gathered in the sky: the Chinese Air Force, which took off again after returning to the flight, and the Japanese fighter planes that rushed to complete the bombing and escort mission after hearing the news came!

The 11th Japanese Navy also sent three destroyers to the battlefield. They immediately evacuated after seeing the planes in the sky. On the battlefield, the Chinese army artillery was still bombarding the five floating fire islands on the river. The bombers in the sky dived down and dropped bombs like ospreys. But above the battlefield, a large air battle was also underway: Japanese planes escorting the Japanese bombing formations were entangled with Chinese planes!

Entangle them! Let them use up fuel! This is the tactic of Chinese fighter jets. Relying on the absolute advantage of abundant fuel and quantity, Chinese fighter jets began to fight with Japanese aircraft; there are often situations where fighter jets and a Japanese aircraft are entangled. When the day's plane rushed towards a Chinese fighter jet, the Chinese fighter jets did not respond to the battle but deviated from the battle, while other fighters attacked the enemy aircraft sideways. If it did not evade, it would shoot down. If it evades, it would continue to chase the group like a swarm like moving the nest!

But more air combat is in other places. After the second takeoff of the Chinese Air Force fighter jets, they all targeted the airports they had bombed!

When the Japanese army was bruised by Chinese anti-aircraft artillery fire, a group of bombers returned to the airport but found that they could not land at all: although their airport was repaired by ground crew members, they could only carefully choose the only landing angle to decrease. At this time, Chinese fighter jets appeared. There were not many Chinese fighter jets appearing at each airport, and there were only two at some airports, but this was enough to prevent enemy planes from landing safely!

Some enemy planes risked to land fiercely, but were directly destroyed by the Chinese Air Force at the moment of landing, which completely cut off the possibility of other bombers landing!

The Japanese bomber groups that scattered were basically injured and could not fly further. They could only choose to parachute or land in the emergency. One by one, the forced landing planes exploded on the ground, and the parachutes floating in the air were smashed into pieces by the Chinese Air Force. All of this declared that the Japanese air force in the East China War Zone was basically eliminated...

"As of 8 o'clock in the morning, the last warship of the Japanese Third Fleet dispatched a fleet of the last warship sank. The enemy squadron and the 15th Division, and the 27th Division were all buried at the bottom of the river. Our army successfully completed the combat plan..." The staff summarized the intelligence from various fronts and reported to Cao Xiaomin: "Our army lost 166 fighter bombers of various types last night, and the army artillery lost 26 artillery groups... The Navy Suicide Squad set off and all staff were 2,724, and the search and rescue were successful 62 people..."

When the staff officer finally reported the loss of the navy, he stared at Cao Xiaomin and did not dare to move aside. He was afraid of seeing the paladin's generals' faces, so he choked up and reported.

Cao Xiaomin had no expression on his iron face. He just stared at the map and circled the river activity range of the Japanese Navy 11th Confederation, which was blocked from front and back: "The three navy and army forces continued to cooperate fully, and strive to wipe out the 11th Confederation in the shortest time. General Bai asked General Bai to dispatch the 146th Division, 147th Division, and 134th Division to launch a general attack on the remnants of the enemy 106th Division in Jiangbei. The 23rd Group Army dispatched a brigade to cross the river and cooperated with the Jiangbei guerrillas to advance west along the river to clear out the Japanese remnants of the landing and meet with the 134th Division. After the meeting, he followed the dispatch of Yang Hanzhong Division Commander... The artillery units of the 23rd Group Army gathered west along the river, and urgently called various artillery troops from Wuhan to participate in the war, preparing for artillery battles with the Japanese Navy 11th Confederation..."

"Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety. Now the 11th Japanese Army Team no longer has the power to land and fight. At the same time, they will not receive support in the short term. All departments must kill them. Everyone, the battle has not been completed, and there are still many places to fight to the death!" Cao Xiaomin had a blue face, so that a group of generals did not dare to show their grace: "In addition to the Datong Fort, we must be careful of the Japanese fleet's bombing of the channel, although other artillery soldiers are boldly used to annihilate the enemy, the independent combat plans of each department must be made before noon today. At the meeting at 12 o'clock, the chief officer shall not be absent..."

"Are there any living brothers? I'll give you a sigh of relief~!" At this moment, on the edge of the Yangtze River, countless soldiers staggered on the shore or stood in the water halfway deep, rummaging and searching desperately in the pile of corpses that were poured into the river by the river, choking and shouting...

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