Most of the front and left and right wings of the fleet are currently the most advanced jet fighters in the world, with only a small number of Mustang fighters.

Even though the air force of the island army could not pose much of a threat to the allies now, Jiang Haoran, who had always been cautious, still assigned them a huge escort formation throughout the whole process, and the first half of the security was taken care of by the navy's carrier-based aircraft, and the second half was clearly all from the Mindoro airport.

Dozens of fighters pulled a distance in the sky, monitored every move on the ground and were ready to respond to a possible attack by the enemy's air fleet.

After the fighter planes, the rear was full of dense transport planes, including Chinese-made wolf warriors, as well as C-47 air trains and Curtiss C-46 commandos made in the United States, with more than 100 planes.

The transport plane flew overhead, and a parachute had already appeared in the sky, like dandelions falling in the wind.

Although Jiang Haoran once suspected that the island army had already identified his airborne landing site, or that the island army would ambush here, the airborne landing had not done any preliminary ground fire reconnaissance, and even Huang Jie's plan to use napalm and bombs to burn it first was not implemented.

Traditionally, the airborne landing site is, of course, the more open and flat the place, the better, even in this low crop field, you should choose a rice field, not a corn field, because the corn stalks are thick, tall, and the branches and leaves are relatively dense, and if you really want to Tibetans, you don't know how many times stronger than the seedlings.

The low-slung Miao people must have knocked down a large area when they entered, and they were barely able to deal with the ground troops, but for the air troops, there was nothing to hide.

But this airborne landing is very strange, the airborne troops chose the cornfield, all the parachutes are floating over the cornfield, even if there is a deviation, the soldiers are trying their best to control the parachute to land in the direction of the cornfield.

Seeing that the airborne troops were only more than 100 meters away from the ground, it was as if the expected ambush had not appeared.

The reason why the airborne troops are called the most dangerous troops is because they are deep into the enemy's depth, and they may be surrounded and ambushed at any time.

Even with strong air support in the sky, it is in vain, because it is simply impossible for the aviation to destroy the enemy without harming their own people.

Fifty meters above the ground, everything was calm, and the airborne troops began to relax their vigilance and make preparations before landing.

Suddenly, in the rice field in front of the cornfield, the seedlings were overturned, and the island army in khaki uniforms and heavily armed groups of three or five emerged from the ground with hideous faces, roaring forward in the direction of the cornfield, and the island soldiers who rushed to the front did not hesitate to shoot at the sky.

The gunfire suddenly rang out, and the officers and men of the airborne troops at the front immediately became live targets, and were beaten in mid-air.

The nearby fighters had apparently discovered the sudden situation and immediately moved closer to the direction of the rice fields, and the machine guns and machine guns opened fire one after another, sweeping towards the ground in a burst of fierceness.

The island army was indeed prepared, and just as the fighters were diving and strafing at low altitudes, the larger seedlings in the rice fields were turned over, and below them were actually heavily walled antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine gun positions.

A group of soldiers had already been waiting for the battle, machine guns and machine guns began to roar, and the low-flying planes that were caught off guard were suddenly subjected to unprecedented catastrophe, and one after another was beaten and fell with thick smoke and roaring.

Lucky to escape quickly pulled up, hovered at high altitude, and urgently dropped the loaded bomb.

The airborne field, which had just been silent, was suddenly filled with gunfire, explosions, smoke and flames.

The dense little devil soldiers on the ground rushed to the direction of the cornfield, and the weapons in their hands spared no effort to shoot the airborne soldiers, and the casualties of the Mi army suddenly increased dramatically, and someone had already quickly cut the parachute rope and made an emergency landing, but at a high altitude distance of dozens of meters, even if they escaped the hunt, they would be thrown half to death.

Of course, the casualties were not as terrible as imagined, and it was only the soldiers closest to the front line who suffered, and a large number of airborne troops at the far end had landed safely.

In the end, it was the cold as frost "do the opposite" plan that worked.

Instead of choosing an area of rice fields more suitable for airborne, cornfields were chosen.

If it was the former, the airborne troops would fall directly into the enemy's ambush circle, and with the number of enemies on the ground, plus the continuous fire that most of them were equipped with, the airborne troops would be almost completely annihilated.

Moreover, the enemy will definitely attack in advance, and it will be difficult for the transport aircraft to retreat safely, and it is entirely possible that most of them will be shot down.

Because they were far away from the enemy's ambush circle, the enemy had to passively launch a long-range charge, so that at most the soldiers close to the front line would suffer, and the vast majority of the airborne troops would survive.

More than ten minutes later, the airborne landing was over, the parachute was no longer visible in the sky, and the plane began to rain bombs towards the rice field area.

The airborne troops of the Mi army also began to counterattack, quickly advancing towards the enemy.

The enemy's offensive momentum was halted, and the rear was in flames, and bombs rained down on their heads.

At this time, in the sky, a huge fleet of aircraft appeared again, and the number was simply several times that of the previous one.

The first batch was put into operation with only three airborne battalions of one brigade, and the real airborne landing began only at this moment after determining the position of the enemy on the ground.

After releasing the airborne troops, all the transport planes would rush straight to the front and drop their bombs and fire fiercely at the enemy's positions on the ground, regardless of whether they could see the target or the enemy, but just dumped the ammunition.

To transport more than 10,000 soldiers of a division, the transport planes required are at least a few hundred, plus escort fighters, and the planes in the sky at this time can only be described as overwhelming.

Even if each plane dropped only one aerial bomb, the intensity of the bombing was unimaginable, and the entire rice field area was completely covered by bombing, and the sound of explosions was incessant.

The first batch of airborne troops quickly organized a defensive line in the front, desperately blocking the enemy's first wave of attacks, and when the airborne troops in the rear landed safely, the enemy was already powerless.

Half an hour later, the island army knew that it could not stop the airborne landing of the Mi army, and began to disperse and break through, risking the pursuit of the aviation and rushing in the direction of Manila.

This is undoubtedly a wise choice, in such an open area, there are so many planes in the sky, and it is undoubtedly a dead end to continue to resist, and the only way to save the living forces is to escape while the airborne troops have not yet fully formed an offensive posture.

In the whole ambush, the island army arranged a C division, with a strength of about 14,000, originally expecting an ambush to annihilate the airborne division of the Mi army on the spot, who knew that it was as cold as frost, and saw through the conspiracy of Hori Rongsan, and as a result, stealing chickens did not become a loss of rice, and nearly half of the soldiers of the division were killed in this ambush, and the casualties of the Mi army were less than thirty percent of them.