At this time, both the National Defense Forces and the Japanese army are scrambling for the last bit of time. As long as whoever seizes the time, whoever seizes the time will seize the victory. If the Japanese army seizes the time to land, then Chen Shaokuan's First Air Fleet will not be able to

Return without defeat.

And if the National Defense Forces seize the time to prevent the Japanese troops from landing, then the entire army unit responsible for landing in the Philippines will face the danger of annihilation.

The worst thing is that the Japanese navy will suffer heavy losses as a result. If this happens, it will be difficult for the Japanese army to restore its combat effectiveness for a long time.

It is even possible that it will never recover from the fall and will have to retreat to its homeland to wait for the end of the war.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp... Boom! Boom! Boom..." Bombs were thrown from the sky towards the Japanese landing ships on the sea. Even if they did not hit the ship, they would shatter the surrounding small boats into pieces.

The seawater splashing everywhere and the bloody water were constantly stirred up by the bombs, causing huge waves. The waves threw the fragments of the small boats and the remains of the Japanese soldiers, internal organs and seawater onto the landing ship.

Those Japanese soldiers who boarded the boats and prepared to land may have the body fragments of their colleagues who had just been blown up beside them. Maybe even the pieces of flesh they trampled under their feet were someone who had drank sake and sang with them.

The corpse of the song's friend.

"Thud, tut, tug..." The fighter formations of the National Defense Forces were not idle either. They constantly blocked the Japanese fighter planes that tried to take off to intercept the bombers of the National Defense Forces. Some of the ones that had already taken off would also be chased by them.

The Japanese fleet is now in chaos. Countless anti-aircraft artillery fires are constantly fired into the sky in an attempt to drive away the sea eagles of the National Defense Force. However, the agile sea eagles can easily avoid the Japanese anti-aircraft fire. It is definitely not easy.

Get close to these cruisers with powerful anti-aircraft firepower.

Their main targets were only the Japanese fighter planes that took off and the aircraft carriers. The bulky bombers did not attack the aircraft carriers again. They chose the landing ships that had lost their protection.

The fate of the Japanese landing ships exposed to the firepower of the Wehrmacht bombers can be imagined, and the fate of the few Japanese fighter planes that took off has also been doomed.

Their number was too small. And because the second batch of fighter jets from the National Defense Force arrived too quickly, they had no time to fill up with fuel and ammunition. Under such circumstances, their fate can be imagined.

Those Japanese fighter planes that barely got into the air were bombarded by more than thirty Wehrmacht fighter jets before they even had time to deal with the Wehrmacht.

The specially improved fighter aircraft now equipped by the Navy are no longer called "Tiger Sharks". Their new name is "Stiger Head Sea Eagles". This is because they are specially designed for the Navy by the newly established Naval Military Industrial Research Institute of the National Defense Forces.

A new and improved fighter aircraft.

After several years of development, the military, civilian and high-end scientific research within the National Defense Forces have been divided very carefully. Although all scientific research projects are under the jurisdiction of Chief Engineer Jia Xiaohou, military scientific research and civilian scientific research have been separated.

Even in the military industry, the National Defense Forces will disperse the respective research institutes of the army, navy and air force. Sometimes these research institutes will cooperate with each other, but more often they will conduct research on their own topics.

The Tiger Shark is a fighter aircraft that has been improved again after many tests by the Naval Research Institute. It is more suitable for maritime combat than the original Tiger Shark in terms of aerodynamics, corrosion resistance, and variable climate at sea.

"Boom, boom...boom!!" When the last Japanese fighter plane that took off was shot down, the corner of Japan's Combined Fleet Commander-in-Chief Yamamoto Isoroku's eyes twitched heavily.

This result was already within his expectation. Before coming to support the Philippine operations, he had already applied for a base camp to return to replenish the fighter planes lost in the Annan Sea, and then carry out the Philippine landing campaign.

It was a pity that the base camp rejected his request. At the same time, he was forced to assist the army in launching the landing operation as soon as possible without any mistakes.

To be fair, there is no other way for the Japanese base camp. They simply don’t have time to wait for Yamamoto Isoroku to be fully prepared. If the Japanese fleet withdraws to the mainland for repairs, then the National Defense Force fleet will definitely take the opportunity to transport a large amount of weapons, equipment and combat forces to the Philippines.

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By then, it will become extremely difficult to conduct landing operations. The most important thing is that Sugiyama Gen's Southern Army is obviously no longer able to support the campaign in East Asia. They are retreating steadily. If the navy withdraws for repairs, Sugiyama doesn't know

Can the Yuan support it until that time?

"Boom!!" A Japanese landing ship was hit by a mace-type heavy rocket-propelled bomb. The huge hull was torn into two pieces by the violent explosion in an instant, and it slowly sank toward the bottom of the sea.

The sea was covered with blood and piles of mutilated limbs. Countless Japanese soldiers were wailing and screaming in the sea. But the fate of most of them was to be sucked into the vortex set off by the sunken transport plane and sink to the bottom of the sea together...

"How many transport planes do we have..." Yamashita Fengfumi's face had lost all color, and he asked his chief of staff with trembling lips.

"There are... there are eight more..." the chief of staff replied with great pain. The sinking of each transport ship meant the death of thousands of Japanese soldiers.

They didn't even fight the enemy with a single shot, and they died miserably on the sea.

"Call General Yamamoto and ask him not to take care of us anymore! Retreat to the mainland immediately, immediately!!" Yamashita Fengfumi growled to his chief of staff with a pale face.

"Send a farewell message to the base camp. There is no need to say too much. I just say to the base camp: We, the emperor's people, have served your majesty at sea... May our empire prosper and our military fortune be prosperous!!"

"Your Excellency, Commander! No! We..." The chief of staff was shocked. If the navy retreated at this time, everyone knew what would be waiting for his landing force.

"Stop talking, if we don't leave now, then the entire empire's naval power will be destroyed here together with us!" Yamashita Fengwen said with a livid face: "We overestimated ourselves and underestimated the National Defense Force... This is what we want

The price to bear..."

"Boom!!" Just when Yamashita Fengfumi said these words, another transport ship next to him that had already released half of its boats was hit by a mace-type heavy bomb from the National Defense Forces. This time it did not hit the hull.

Instead, it hit the bow of the ship.

The violent explosion tore a huge hole in the bow of the ship, and seawater poured into the transport ship. After a while, the transport ship was actually stood upright due to the large amount of seawater.

"Creak..." With the sound of steel twisting, the transport ship broke into two pieces after standing upright. It hit the water...

"Mom...Mom..." A Japanese soldier whose leg was broken by the bombing and who looked to be in his early twenties was holding a piece of floating wood and kept wailing...

He could no longer feel the pain, and he knew that his vitality was draining from his body along with the blood. He saw his squad leader, with only half of his body floating on the sea.

Just before departure, the team leader vowed to tell them that he would take them to enjoy Filipino women.

"The screams of these women when their clothes are taken off, and the screams when they are enjoyed by us are what I admire the most..." The team leader is called Kawasaki, and he told this person with an expression of great enjoyment at the time.

A low-ranking soldier named Oshima.

"We soldiers of the Empire of Japan have the natural right to enjoy these women. We enjoy them. This is their glory. The value of their existence is for us to conquer and satisfy..."

Unfortunately, as soon as he finished speaking, the squad leader was already dead.

At this moment, Oshima began to wonder. Perhaps because he was about to die, he began to think about why he appeared on the battlefield and why he died here.

That's right! It's the generals of the empire. They tell themselves that the empire is naturally the conqueror of Asia. It can even be the conqueror of Europe, so what they should do is not stay at home but come to conquer the world.

But... why did I come?! Oshima's consciousness began to become blurred. He didn't want to conquer the world! I just wanted to live a good life, marry a decent woman and have some children. I have a job that can support my family.

That's what I want...

Da Dao had no chance. As the blood in his body slowly flowed in the sea water, his eyes gradually lost their vitality. Then, he was attracted to the bottom of the sea by the vortex caused by the sunken landing ship.

"Your Excellency, Commander... This is a message from General Yamashita. Please read it..." The chief of staff of the combined fleet closed his eyes in pain, unable to bear to look at the Japanese soldiers floating on the sea and wailing.

Once upon a time, they brought such pain to China. And when they themselves experienced such pain, they realized how heart-wrenching this kind of pain is...

"Withdraw!!" Yamamoto Isoroku yelled out the word in a hoarse voice after reading Yamashita Tofumi's telegram. After receiving the order, the Japanese navy finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The cruise fleet began to escort the aircraft carrier slowly away from the battlefield, heading towards Japan...

"They left, let's start boarding the ship!" After watching the naval fleet send out the semaphore signal, Yamashita Fengfumi put away his telescope and said to the chief of staff: "We have at least 20,000 people who are close to them.

Tidal flat. As long as the landing is successful, there is hope for our survival..."

Twenty thousand people, the chief of staff knew that Yamashita Tomofumi was trying to comfort himself. The artillery of the National Defense Forces never stopped. After the Japanese naval bombardment came to an end, they began to bombard the small boats on the sea again.

The chief of staff could not imagine how many artillery pieces this National Defense Force unit had. Their shells fell on the sea one after another, and countless Japanese landing boats were bombarded to pieces.

Although their hit rate is not high, large-caliber artillery can always set off huge waves. Such huge waves can even overturn small boats, or throw Japanese soldiers on ships into the sea...

"Oh?! The Japanese navy is about to withdraw?!" Chen Shaokuan was stunned for a moment after receiving the news that the Japanese fleet had begun to gradually separate from the landing ship, but then he frowned.

"It seems that Yamamoto Isoroku is really difficult to deal with. This old boy is too cunning... If we encounter him in the future, we must be extremely careful... Order the troops not to pursue, and the fleet will move towards Manila Bay

.Be careful to avoid the Japanese fleet and reconnaissance planes, and don’t let them run into you.”

"Yes!!" Chief of Staff Chen Ce responded, and Chen Ce's face was flushed with excitement. The Navy hit the jackpot this time, sinking two Japanese aircraft carriers and three battleships in one battle. The remaining

It suffered varying degrees of trauma, and the navy's losses were thirty fighters, including eighteen fighter jets and twelve bombers.

"Boom!!" When Yamamoto Isoroku watched the last Army landing ship being destroyed on his bridge, he left the bridge without saying a word and returned to his captain's room.

Yamashita Tobumi's landing force was finished. Likewise, the Southern Army, which had lost these transport ships, was finished. Without these, they would not be able to evacuate South Asia. Their ultimate end would be to be dragged to death by the National Defense Forces.

"Go forward at full speed and return to the homeland as quickly as possible!" The chief of staff of the combined fleet silently took over the command and ordered to the fleet: "Start setting up reconnaissance aircraft, pay attention to monitoring the surrounding waters..."

"Boom! Boom! Boom... Chuchuchuchu..." The Japanese navy's fleet left, and the army's transport ship was sunk. However, a large number of small boats left the transport ship and rushed towards the beach like crazy.

The sea eagles of the National Defense Force Navy had received the order. They did not pursue the Japanese fleet but began to clean up the Japanese small boats.

Machine guns, cannons and bombs continued to explode among the Japanese small boats. The artillerymen of the Nanyang Military Division on the tidal flats also discovered the departure of the Japanese fleet, and then endless rockets continued to fly toward the sea.

Those boats were torn to pieces.

Gunshots, explosions and screams resounded throughout Manila Bay. Blood, broken corpses, and internal organs dyed the entire bay red, and the Japanese boats on the sea were peeled off layer by layer.

Without peeling off a layer, hundreds of Japanese soldiers turned into broken corpses and blood floating on the sea. Some small boats even contained corpses of Japanese soldiers that had been blown up.

Grab a stall! Land! This is the only wish of the Japanese troops on these small boats, and it is also their only way to survive. They have no choice. Either die at sea or wash up on the tidal flats to fight for their way out.

"Quick! Quick!! Send the Jianzi to the predetermined position immediately. If it's a little later, the Jianzi will be ashore!!" Commander-in-Chief of the Nanyang Military Division, Jason, personally took action and loudly commanded the troops to move more than thirty Jianji.

Anti-aircraft machine guns were sent to the broken positions on the front line.

This is what Johnson specifically applied to the General Armament Department of the National Defense Forces when the Nanyang Military Division was established. It includes Tiger Roar and Tiger Roar ammunition. These were personally approved by the Commander-in-Chief of the National Defense Forces Tu Mengben and the Chief of General Staff of the National Defense Forces Su Zongzhe.

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These weapons and equipment were not completely popular among the National Defense Forces even now, let alone at the time. Considering the difficulties faced by the Nanyang Military Division, Tu Menghu and Su Zongzhe happily approved these weapons.

"Grandma! I want to see if you guys are tougher than my machine gun bullets!" Jason's eyes showed a bloodthirsty light, which even made the US military general Jonathan beside him feel it.

Terrified.

"The caliber... My God! If this hits a human being..." Jonathan couldn't help but feel a chill. With thirty such anti-aircraft machine guns, Jonathan could completely imagine how the Japanese army would be dismembered.

Yes. It's dismemberment! The result of firing a caliber bullet is dismemberment. What frightened Jonathan even more was that a large number of heavy machine guns and light machine guns were also sent to the position.

Are they planning to hit the firepower and directly cover the Japanese landing ships?!
To be continued...