Devil's Army

Chapter 1849 Air Battle with Japanese Air Force in Jiangxi

The regimental commander ordered his soldiers to charge the Japanese troops and engage them in fierce fighting. At the same time, he requested the brigade commander to call for air support.

The Japanese artillery was still engaged in battle with the artillery of the 1st Regiment, while the Japanese gunboats were helpless due to the melee between the two sides.

The besieged Japanese troops were in dire straits under the fierce attack of the First Regiment, and telegrams requesting reinforcements flew to the lieutenant colonel's desk like snowflakes.

In an attempt to rescue the besieged Japanese troops, the reinforcements launched continuous attacks, but all were firmly blocked by the soldiers of the Second Regiment.

The lieutenant colonel attempted to send reinforcements along another route to the rescue. However, at that moment, intense gunfire erupted from several other directions.

More than 20,000 troops from the 1st and 2nd brigades of the Southern Independent Division launched an attack on Japanese strongholds in the surrounding counties and towns of Nanchang from four directions.

During the Battle of Nanchang, the Japanese army deployed nearly 12 troops to attack Nanchang.

After capturing Nanchang, the main force of the Japanese army successively attacked other cities. However, more than 40,000 Japanese troops and more than 20,000 puppet troops remained in Nanchang. But they were scattered in Jiujiang County and various transportation hubs and strongholds, making it difficult to form a resistance to stop the devilish troops' advance.

Zhongzuo hurriedly mobilized troops from various strongholds to block the attack of the four devil forces, but he was still overwhelmed and had to ask Commander Hata Shunroku for help.

Commander Hata Shunroku heard that the "Devil Force" had appeared in Nanchang, and estimated that the main force of the "Devil Force" in the south had moved north to the outskirts of Nanchang.

Therefore, the Japanese army was ordered to send reinforcements from Jiujiang, Anyi, Fengxin, De'an and other places, and at the same time requested the navy to assist in attacking coastal cities in Guangdong, so as to force the Southern Devil Forces to retreat south to provide reinforcements.

Japanese air force troops at Nanxiong Airport quickly arrived to reinforce the area, and a mixed squadron of fighters and bombers launched a fierce bombing and strafing attack on the Japanese gunboats on the Ganjiang River.

After several dives, bombing runs, and strafing attacks, all of the Japanese gunboats on the river were destroyed.

Japanese air force units from airports around Jiujiang also rushed over to provide reinforcements.

At that time, due to space limitations, the number of fighter jets stationed at Nanxiong Airport was only three squadrons.

Faced with Japanese air force converging from all directions, they quickly found themselves on the defensive. However, the pilots of the First Army Corps showed no fear in the face of such a powerful enemy. They waged guerrilla warfare against the Japanese air force, utilizing the superior speed and maneuverability of their aircraft.

The Japanese air force used two groups of three aircraft to surround a two-aircraft formation of the devilish unit, but it felt like punching cotton.

While the Devil Force's air force was engaged in fierce combat with them, they had just completed the encirclement of the Devil Force when the Devil Force's planes immediately increased their throttle and disappeared without a trace.

Japanese pilots could only sigh as they watched the exhaust flames of the devilish fighter planes.

After a fierce aerial battle, the Japanese air force shot down or damaged several of the Devil Force's aircraft, but suffered even greater losses themselves.

Undeterred, the Japanese air force continued to encircle and annihilate the devilish air force.

Because they knew that if they didn't eliminate the "Devil Force" air force and allowed them to grow stronger, it would pose a huge threat to the infantry in Jiangxi.

An hour later, the Japanese air force was in despair. They discovered that a large number of devilish fighter planes were flying in from the direction of Guangdong.

It turned out that the Japanese air force had just clashed with the Nanxiong Air Force of the First Army, and the squadron leader immediately requested assistance from the Fourth Air Group of the First Army.

The four squadron leaders immediately ordered all Guangzhou air force units to take off and reinforce the Nanxiong air force in Nanchang.

The numerical superiority of the Japanese air force in Jiangxi was broken, and they had no choice but to flee in all directions.