Shanshita Zao watched a shell fly towards him. He was so frightened that his hands and feet turned cold and his whole body stiffened. He wanted to maneuver the bomber to dodge, but he couldn't move at all.

At this time, his mind was racing faster than his body. He had already thought of how proudly he had told the two Japanese soldiers loading the bombs that he would treat them to drinks when he returned.

He thought of how he had wanted to drop a shell and blow up the artillery piece in the distance, but now all these thoughts were in vain.

Shanshita Zao watched as more than one shell flew towards him. At this moment, his gaze suddenly became sharp. This time, he saw clearly that although those flying shells were heading in his direction, they were not all aimed at his plane.

After a moment's thought, he understood: the other shells were aimed at the bombers behind him! This was a greedy gunner; who had given him such confidence?

Lin Fan's confidence, of course, came from his years of hard training. Infallibility was the result of his many years of training. He De Yuan and the other seven members of the observation group watched as the bombers that were almost overhead suddenly exploded. But this was not the end. These bombers had a second, even a third explosion in the air.

The power of their explosions was much greater than the first. Lin Fan had not expected such a situation: after the Japanese bombers exploded, the fragments produced by their subsequent explosions filled the sky. The entire sky was full of aircraft wreckage and shrapnel.

These were the eight-hundred-kilogram aerial bombs hanging on Shanshita Zao's bombers, which were detonated by the explosion of the anti-aircraft shells.

The warhead of an anti-aircraft shell weighed only a dozen kilograms, and the power of the explosion was less than one-tenth of that of an aerial bomb. When these aerial bombs exploded in the air, fighter planes and bombers within a hundred-meter radius were affected.

Daichi Haiten, piloting his fighter plane, was one of the affected. He was happily flying alongside Shanshita Zao, chatting happily with the other Japanese soldiers.

They were talking about going back to Guangzhou to see a movie at the cinema and going to a nightclub for drinks. These Japanese soldiers were still bragging about how good the girls were there.

As a result, they were suddenly ambushed by Shanshita Zao on the side. The eight-hundred-kilogram aerial bomb generated enough airflow when it exploded to overturn Daichi Haiten's fighter plane.

Just a gust of air was enough to overturn the fighter plane, and the pilot, Daichi Haiten, could still save it.

However, along with the air current came countless shrapnel and aircraft wreckage. When these things hit the plane and hit his body, Daichi Haiten was immediately unable to rescue it.

Now he couldn't even take care of himself, let alone the fighter plane that was riddled with holes. Daichi Haiten kept shouting, "I'm injured! My plane's engine stalled, the cabin is on fire, I'm going to crash, I'm going to crash!"

Most of the Japanese soldiers in the earphones, who were just enthusiastically discussing which nightclub to go to tonight, were now shouting, "I'm injured!"

The injuries were not isolated. The main reason was that the aerial bombs carried by Shanshita Zao and the other twelve bombers were too powerful, causing the entire Second Air Combat Team to suffer.

Captain Sakai Yuji's heart was filled with bitterness. He had been happily listening to his subordinates' discussions, but in the blink of an eye, the entire channel was filled with cries for help.

He also saw that dozens of planes flying at the front of the squadron were now either exploding or injured, dragging thick smoke as they fell to the ground.

Sakai Yuji watched as a fighter plane rushed into the airspace ahead. The plane immediately emitted thick smoke, and the propeller suddenly stopped spinning. This area ahead was like a cursed place; it was already a no-fly zone for aircraft.

He loudly reminded, "Avoid the front, avoid the battlefield ahead! Go back, let's go back." Sakai Yuji didn't want to continue the mission this time.

He couldn't bury the entire squadron here. The airspace ahead seemed to have an invisible demon, devouring their planes.

In fact, it was just that there were too many planes exploding in the airspace ahead, and there were too many shrapnel and aircraft fragments in the air, filling the entire space. When these planes crashed into it, they immediately hit those fragments, which was equivalent to hitting bullets, so of course they would crash.

Captain Sakai Yuji wanted to escape, but of course Lin Fan was unwilling. Now he began to fire at the planes that were escaping the fastest and farthest from him.

Sakai Kohaku was the first Japanese to see the opportunity. He was flying at the very back of the entire Second Air Combat Team, with a full sixty-nine planes in front of him, which meant that he didn't see the magnificent scene of Shanshita Zao and the others exploding in mid-air.

However, from the cries for help of Daichi Haiten and the other Japanese pilots, he sensed danger. Without waiting for Captain Sakai Yuji to issue the order to retreat, Sakai Kohaku had already begun to turn around.

Anyway, he was flying the plane. Even if he escaped in the wrong direction, he could just fly back later. He was right not to escape. He heard the captain's order to retreat while he was still turning around.

At this moment, Sakai Kohaku admired himself: I am a genius!

Just as he was affirming himself and feeling moved, the plane he was piloting suddenly shook, and then disintegrated. At this moment, Sakai Kohaku heard a loud noise, felt a heat wave attack him, and then knew nothing.

Lin Fan was now moving from far to near, killing the enemy planes in the air one by one. He De Yuan and the other observers were dumbfounded and couldn't say anything, but they raised their hands, pointed at the enemy planes in the air, and kept pointing.

It was as if the planes in the air were cooperating with their performance. When they pointed their fingers, the planes in the air exploded.

The Fourteenth Air Combat Team had a total of forty planes. Captain Suzuki Sho led the squadron following Captain Kimura Jiro and Captain Sakai Yuji.

Therefore, Lin Fan's first wave of attacks did not cause any losses to the Suzuki Sho Squadron. Sakai Yuji led the Second Air Combat Team to the west to bomb the artillery positions of the Special Forces Brigade, and Captain Suzuki Sho followed Captain Kimura Jiro to bomb the artillery positions to the north.

The Kimura Jiro Squadron, which was flying in front of him, now had few planes left. They were under the intense attack of twenty anti-aircraft guns commanded by Feng Junya on the ground.

Although these soldiers were not as accurate as Lin Fan, they had many guns. Twenty anti-aircraft guns fired together, and continuous shells connected a red bridge from the ground to the sky.

This bridge, which looked very beautiful, was so terrifying in the eyes of both Captain Kimura Jiro and Suzuki Sho. This was the Naihe Bridge that would lead them to hell.

If he had known earlier that there were so many anti-aircraft guns here, Captain Suzuki Sho would not have rushed in rashly.

His squadron was now on the Naihe Bridge. They could not advance, nor could they retreat. The remaining three fighter planes of the Kimura Jiro Squadron, which were flying in front of them, did not dare to dive down to strafe. They just passed over the artillery position, as if they were scouting the situation, and flew away. They flew away, but the fighter plane piloted by Captain Kimura Jiro crashed.

Captain Suzuki Sho saw the planes in front of him falling like dumplings. Pilots in his squadron were already calling for help: "I'm injured! I'm injured!"

They rarely encountered such a situation, especially since they had not encountered such a situation once during their attack on Guangzhou.

Pilot Domoto Shiro was the vanguard of the entire Fourteenth Air Combat Team. He rushed to the front and could clearly see how those fighter planes were being destroyed.

He loudly requested, "Captain! The firepower of the Chinese army is too fierce. Should we retreat?" At this time, Captain Suzuki Sho was still thinking that the Kimura Squadron had already prepared the way, and his squadron could take advantage of it. He did not want to leave yet.

Captain Suzuki Sho still wanted to stay and bomb the Chinese army's artillery positions. In this way, the First Air Combat Team would be completely destroyed, but he would be able to lead the entire squadron to complete the mission, and this credit would be great.

Moreover, their mission today was to support the infantry team on the ground. If they could not destroy the Chinese army's artillery positions, it would be impossible to rescue those infantry.

Because of these considerations, although he knew there was a tiger in the mountain, Captain Suzuki Sho preferred to go to the tiger mountain this time.

He loudly ordered, "Everyone, fighter planes fly at low altitude and strafe the Chinese army's artillery positions first, so that their artillery will be in chaos.

Bombers follow up immediately and bomb their artillery. Everyone, it's time to make contributions to the empire."

Suzuki Sho encouraged his subordinates. He heard a cowardly tone from Domoto Shiro's words.

Captain Suzuki Sho had to encourage his subordinates. The pilots in his squadron immediately executed the order, and the fighter planes accelerated to the front.

The bombers circled in the air. Feng Junya, who was with Lin Fan every day, saw the Japanese bombers circling in the back and the fighter planes flying to the front.

He ordered, "Concentrate fire and shoot down the enemy planes in the near distance first! Don't worry about the bombers in the distance for the time being." They didn't have the brigade commander's ability, so they could only shoot down the enemy planes in the near distance first. In any case, they couldn't let the enemy planes rush to their position.

Lin Fan had now completely destroyed the Second Air Combat Team led by Sakai Yuji, and even Captain Sakai Yuji could not escape.

Now Lin Fan had time to fire at the Suzuki Sho Squadron's planes. He also shot at the Japanese fighter planes first, mainly because he saw that these fighter planes were about to hit the artillery regiment's position.

Feng Junya saw the enemy planes exploding one after another in the air, and finally breathed a sigh of relief: The brigade commander is now free to help.

The twenty planes of the Koryu Air Corps, led by Squadron Captain Ishiguro Yūsuke, arrived at the battlefield at this time and saw the Japanese planes crashing non-stop from afar.

How could he be willing to wade into such a battlefield? From afar, he ordered, "The Chinese army's anti-aircraft fire is too dense. We retreat!"

They were not the only ones with such resourceful flying teams. There were also several light flying squadrons from the Fourth Air Regiment.

They all turned around and ran back from far away from the battlefield. After Lin Fan shot down the Suzuki Sho Squadron's fighter planes, he began to attack their bombers.

At this time, the air was much cleaner. There were only a dozen or so bombers left, still flying around in the sky like frightened birds, but no matter how they flew, they could not escape the shells fired by Lin Fan.

The Takenouchi Takuma Brigade, which had already established a defense line on the ground and was holding on, saw the entire process in the air. The faces of the Japanese soldiers were pale. They were now very clear that there was no hope for air support.

This was also an inland mountain area, and warships could not be counted on. The only thing they could count on was the infantry sent by the 104th Division.

What made Captain Takenouchi Takuma feel slightly relieved was that when they began to defend, there were fewer bombings from the Chinese army.

They could clearly concentrate their firepower, and after a few rounds of shelling, the defense circle they had established would immediately collapse, but they just didn't bomb.

The purpose was very clear: to keep the lives of these Japanese soldiers and lure the main force to come to rescue. Although he saw through the Special Forces Brigade's plan.

Captain Takenouchi Takuma did not report to Regiment Commander Kawazaki Shiro. He only reported that the Takenouchi Brigade had established a defensive position and began to hold on for reinforcements.

He had just counted the entire brigade and found that there were still 543 Japanese soldiers who could fight. Although more than half of the entire brigade had been killed or wounded, with more than 500 Japanese soldiers here, the 104th Infantry Division could not but rescue them.

As for the planes that came to support, Captain Takenouchi Takuma had truthfully reported the entire air battle situation.

Division Commander Miyake Toshio heard that many of the planes that came to rescue were shot down. He could not believe it at all, nor did he want to believe this report.

He personally ordered them to verify the report before reporting it, and asked Captain Takenouchi Takuma to report directly to the division's staff. Soon, Takenouchi Takuma's telegram arrived.

In the telegram, Takenouchi Takuma reported the air battle situation in detail and estimated that at least one hundred planes were shot down by the Chinese army.

This data made the Japanese soldiers in the 104th Division's staff dare not believe it. Division Commander Miyake Toshio asked his chief of staff, "Is this true?"

Chief of Staff Kataoka Kaoru knew that the division commander wanted to hear a negative answer, but he could not tell the truth. After considering it, Chief of Staff Kataoka Kaoru said, "The Takenouchi Brigade is on the battlefield. If this telegram was not a mistake by the telegraph operator, it should be true."

"A mistake! It must be a mistake! I must punish the Japanese soldier who made a mistake on such critical data. Confirm with the Takenouchi Brigade again whether the number of planes that crashed is more than ten or more than one hundred?"

The Japanese soldiers in the entire staff thought that more than ten planes were shot down by the Chinese army. Losing more than ten planes in one battle was already a huge loss that they could not afford. You must know that they had not lost a single plane from the beginning of the landing to the attack on Guangzhou.

The Takenouchi Takuma Brigade's reply came very quickly. This time, in order to avoid misunderstanding, they did not use Arabic numerals to indicate the number of crashes. When they saw the words "more than one hundred planes crashed" on the telegram, all the Japanese soldiers in the entire staff fell silent.

They all looked at Division Commander Miyake Toshio, their eyes filled with panic: What kind of weapons did the Chinese army use? How could they shoot down more than one hundred planes at once?

Miyake Toshio was still a division commander after all. After being stunned for a while, he finally woke up. He said loudly, "Immediately send a telegram to Commander Kozo Kaniro and report this unfortunate news."

Commander Kozo Kaniro, who received this telegram from the 104th Division, also did not believe this report. However, this time, in order to avoid misunderstanding, Division Commander Miyake Toshio specifically replaced one hundred with "one hundred", so there would be no misunderstanding.

But how could Commander Kozo Kaniro, who was already immersed in the joy of victory, accept such data? How could he believe it?

The angry Kozo Kaniro ordered, "Investigate! Investigate thoroughly for me! Who sent this telegram from the 104th Division? Deliberately disturbing the morale of the army, is a traitor hiding among us, we must find this person."

His anger immediately spread through the telegram. At this time, the light fighter squadron of the Fourth Air Regiment had returned to the airport.

Their report was also sent up, and it said that warplanes were falling to the earth like dumplings, and the Chinese army's anti-aircraft fire was as dense as raindrops.

The two fighter squadrons of the Fourth Air Combat Team, twenty-four fighters, had been completely wiped out, with no planes surviving. They also saw that the First Air Combat Team, the Second Air Combat Team, and the Fourteenth Air Combat Team had suffered heavy casualties.

At this time, Kozo Kaniro finally calmed down a bit. He asked, "Has the First Air Combat Team returned?"

"No!"

"Has the Second Air Combat Team returned?"

"No!"

"Has the Fourteenth Air Combat Team returned?"

"No!"

"Which air combat team do we still have that has returned?" Commander Kozo Kaniro was angry.

"Report! The Kaohsiung Air Corps has sent a telegram!" A Japanese staff officer reported.

"Read it!" Commander Kozo Kaniro couldn't wait any longer.

"My air corps flew over Conghua and saw that the front was full of artillery fire, countless shells exploded in the air, and many fighters and bombers exploded in the air. My corps had to retreat and return."

The Japanese soldiers in the headquarters of the 21st Army of Japan all understood after hearing this telegram: the report from the 104th Division that more than one hundred planes crashed was true.

The Fifth Fleet's First Air Combat Team dispatched forty planes this time, the Second Air Combat Team dispatched seventy planes, and the Fourteenth Air Combat Team dispatched forty planes. They added up to a full one hundred and fifty planes.

This was too much compared to the data of more than one hundred planes. If you add the twenty-four planes shot down by the Fourth Air Regiment, that's one hundred and seventy-four planes shot down.

No matter how you calculate it, it's impossible!

"Impossible! Impossible! Absolutely impossible! This is unscientific!" Commander Kozo Kaniro said loudly.