This is an air battle where both sides paid a heavy price. Although the National Government cannot give it all, the nearly 100 types of combat strikes can be said to be a damaging move when pieced together.

In fact, in terms of overall strength, the air force participating in the war is far weaker than the Japanese air force. However, one thing has made the Chinese Air Force take advantage of it. Their raids were too sudden, and the Japanese Air Force participating in the war did not react at all. In the previous bombing and unscrupulous attacks, the Japanese Air Force's fighter jets consumed a large amount of ammunition against the Jinling defenders on the ground, especially those air defense personnel who controlled anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns. When the air combat really began, some Japanese fighter jets were already facing the situation of exhausting ammunition and food. Therefore, in the first wave of attacks, the Chinese Air Force shot down more than 60 Japanese aircraft in one fell swoop.

Almost everyone in the underground position came to the ground like Wu Siren, looking into the distance, between the blue sky and white clouds, the fighter jets on both sides were fighting for themselves.

The air battle lasted for more than half an hour. In the end, there were less than 40 planes that could safely return to the rear. Many pilots flew directly into the Japanese army on the ground when they were severely injured.

"Commander, it seems that our battle this time has been a big result!"

Luo Youqing said excitedly behind Wu Siren, not realizing Wu Siren's lost expression at all.

"But the price we paid is also not small."

Liu Tiefu said in a deep voice, and at the same time he also realized a problem. After the Battle of Jinling, Wu Siren would probably have no chance to command such a large-scale battle. On the one hand, the top leaders of the State Government must balance the forces of all parties, and on the other hand, they were also afraid that Wu Siren would take the opportunity to expand.

Due to the huge losses in this air battle and the repeated attacks on Jinling in recent days, Edo Base Camp could only recall Matsui Ishione back to Japan for review, and the one who took over him was Okamura Yasuji, who was known as Huaxiatong.

Originally, Okamura Yasuji was not the first candidate. Edo was preparing to let Teraunuchi take over the baton of attacking Jinling, but the cunning Teraunuchi immediately refused after understanding the situation and ruthlessly shirked the appointment on the grounds that the situation in North China was tense.

In fact, Shouyi of the Temple was afraid that he would not be able to bite Wu Sairen's tough bone. He had a vague premonition in his heart that the Japanese army would definitely suffer a big loss in Jinling.

After Okamura Yasuji took office, the first thing he did was to let all troops rest for three days, and at the same time transport a large number of artillery from Shencheng.

The war restarted, and the Japanese army changed its tactics and began to take steps forward. It did not want to eat a fat man in one bite like before, and wanted to capture Jinling immediately.

The fight between the two sides was even more tragic. By January 10, 1938, the Japanese army had captured nearly one-third of the city of Jinling. In order to destroy the Japanese army's troops, Wu Siren had to send the 4th Regiment of the Tax Police Corps and the Chu army, which had not yet been settled, to the battlefield, which stopped the Japanese army from continuing to erode.

What is a little gratifying is that the Japanese tanks basically withdrew from the stage in this urban street battle. The narrow streets and dense ruins in the city are not suitable for the influx of a large number of tanks. If a few Douding tanks are alone, the anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns of the Jinling defenders can be solved.

The war has actually evolved into a hand-to-hand battle between individual soldiers and individual soldiers, both sides fighting for consumption and life.

In order to prevent the Japanese army from further advancing to the city's encirclement, Wu Siren used all possible methods, including sending a sniper team composed of special forces to kill individual Japanese soldiers in the ruins of Jinling City, especially the leader officers.

In just one week, the sniper team formed by the special forces killed more than 2,000 Japanese troops, which was equivalent to crippling one of their brigades.

There is no specific battlefield for snipers to fight. In Jinling City, every broken ruin, every ruin, and every street full of corpses are the battlefield for special forces to hunt the enemy.

This week was definitely a nightmare for the Japanese. Since entering the city of Jinling, they have not felt real safety anywhere.

For a soldier, death may not be terrible, but it is a terrible feeling of facing death all the time. If this continues, anyone will go crazy.

Because of the elusive sniper battle of the special forces, the morale of the soldiers of the Japanese army suffered a heavy blow. Correspondingly, their speed of attack was also greatly restricted, and the war was completely in a stalemate.

Faced with this situation, Neji Kamura quickly made a response strategy. As an experienced commander, Neji Kamura understood that there was only one way to deal with sniper operations, that is, to send one's own snipers to counterattack the opponent's snipers.

A few days later, Gangmura Neji summoned a large number of veterans with excellent shooting skills, holding Type 97 sniper rifles, and entered the front line to fight.

The arrival of a large number of Japanese army snipers immediately brought great trouble to the Jinling Chinese defenders.

Fundamentally speaking, these snipers from the Japanese Army are not qualified. They are just soldiers with better shooting skills. As for regular sniper training, they have never accepted them.

Such an unprofessional and low-tech Japanese sniper team caused great casualties to the Chinese defenders.

Fortunately, all the personnel of the special forces have undergone modern training from Wu Siren, and the Chinese army is in a defensive position. Otherwise, the losses of the Chinese defenders in Jinling will be even greater.

Many times, Wu Siren wanted to take the 98k sniper rifle and educate the Japanese sharpshooters hard, but this idea was obviously unrealistic. As the supreme commander of the Jinling Defense Battle, reality no longer allowed him to "make trouble" like this.

In addition to sending special forces to conduct sniper operations, Wu Siren also formulated a combat plan, which is a night counterattack operation code-named "Midnight Bell".

At 0:00 on January 20, Wu Siren mobilized 100,000 troops including the 87, 88, the Teaching Corps and other German divisions to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army entering the inner city of Jinling.

At around five o'clock in the morning, almost all Japanese troops were driven out of the inner city of Jinling, causing the efforts of Gangcun Yanji to vain for many days.

This counterattack was repeatedly considered by Wu Siren and drew on the Battle of Shangganling in later generations.

If you blindly defend without counterattacking, your morale will gradually decline over a long period of time. Only through local counterattacks can the army see hope of continuing to defend.

However, although the counterattack was short, more than 20,000 people fell forever in the ruins of Jinling City. Japan also suffered huge losses, destroying a half division within five hours.

This failure caused Kazumura Yanji, who had just made achievements, to be transferred from his command position, and another Huaxia Teng Itagaki Seishiro.
Chapter completed!