At this time, both the Wehrmacht and the Japanese army were vying for this last bit of time. As long as whoever grabs the time, he grabs the victory. If the Japanese army had won the time to land, then Chen Shaokuan's First Air Fleet would have to return with a feather.

And if the Wehrmacht had seized the time to stop the Japanese landing, then the entire army unit responsible for landing in the Philippines would face the danger of total annihilation.

Worst of all, the Japanese Navy will also suffer heavy losses as a result. If this happens, it will be difficult for the Japanese army to regain its combat effectiveness for a long time.

It is even possible that it will never recover, and it will have to retreat to the mainland and wait for the end of the war.

"Chirp...... Rumble! Rumble!! Bombs ...... "Bombs were smashed from the sky towards the Japanese landing ships on the sea, and even if they did not hit the ships, they also smashed the surrounding boats to pieces.

The splashing water and bloody water were constantly stirred up by the bombs, which in turn threw the fragments of the dinghy onto the landing ship along with the stumps, internal organs, and sea water of the Japanese soldiers.

Those Japanese soldiers who boarded the dinghy to prepare for the landing may have the corpses of their colleagues who have just been blown up close to them. The piece of meat that they may have stepped on under their feet is the corpse of a friend who used to drink sake and sing songs with them.

The "Tutu Tu ......" Wehrmacht fighter formations were not idle, and they constantly blocked those Japanese fighters who tried to take to the air to intercept the Wehrmacht bombers, and some of those who had already taken off would also be hunted down by them.

The Japanese fleet was now in disarray, with countless anti-aircraft guns constantly strafing the sky in an attempt to drive the Wehrmacht eagles away. However, the nimble sea eagles easily dodged the Japanese anti-aircraft fire, and definitely did not easily approach these cruisers with strong anti-aircraft firepower.

Their main targets were only the Japanese fighters that took to the skies, and the aircraft carriers. The bulky bombers did not strike at the aircraft carriers again, they chose the landing ships that had lost their protection.

The fate of the Japanese landing ships exposed to the fire of the Wehrmacht bombers can be imagined, and the fate of those Japanese fighters who took off in small numbers was already doomed.

There are too few of them. And because the second batch of Wehrmacht fighters came too quickly, they simply did not have time to fill up with fuel and ammunition. In such a situation, their fate can be imagined.

Those Japanese fighters who barely rose into the air were directly bombed into the sky by more than 30 Wehrmacht fighters before they even had time to deal with the Wehrmacht.

The specially improved fighter planes now equipped by the Navy are no longer called "Tiger Sharks." Their new name is "Steller's Sea Eagle". This is because this is a new type of fighter specially improved for the Navy by the newly established Naval Military Research Institute of the National Defense Forces.

After several years of development, the military, civilian and high-end scientific research within the Wehrmacht has been divided into very fine. Although all scientific research projects are always under the jurisdiction of Chief Engineer Jia Xiaohou, military scientific research and civilian scientific research have been separated.

Even in the military-industrial sector, the Wehrmacht will decentralize the respective research institutes of the army, navy and air force. Sometimes these institutes collaborate with each other, but more often than not, they work on their own topics.

The Steller's Sea Eagle is the result of many tests by the Naval Research Institute. Another improved fighter. It is more suitable for combat at sea than the original Tiger Shark in terms of aerodynamics, corrosion resistance, and changeable climate at sea.

"Tutu Tu Tu ...... Rumble!! When the last Japanese fighter plane was shot down, the corner of Yamamoto Isoroku, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, twitched heavily from the corner of his eye.

Now this result was already expected by him, and before he came to support the Philippine operation, he had already applied for the base camp to go back to replenish the lost fighters in the Annam Sea, and then carry out the Philippine landing war.

It's a pity. The base camp refused his request. At the same time, he was ordered to assist the army in launching a landing operation as soon as possible, without making mistakes.

In all fairness, there is no way to do it in the base camp of the Japanese army. They simply did not have time to wait for Yamamoto Isoroku to be fully prepared, and if the Japanese fleet withdrew to the mainland for repairs, then the Wehrmacht fleet would certainly take the opportunity to transport a large amount of weaponry and combat forces to the Philippines.

At that time, it will be extremely difficult to carry out landing operations. On top of that, Sugiyama Moto's Southern Army was clearly no longer able to support the campaign in East Asia. They're losing ground. If the navy withdraws to repair, it is not known whether Sugiyama will be able to support it until that time.

"Boom!!" A Japanese landing ship was hit by a heavy rocket-booster bomb, and the huge hull was torn in two by the violent explosion in an instant, and slowly sank to the bottom of the sea.

The sea was covered with blood and piles of stumps. Countless Japanese soldiers wailed and screamed in the sea. But the fate of most of them was to be sucked into the whirlpool set off by the sinking transport plane, and they sank to the bottom of the sea together......

"How many more transport planes do we have......" Yamashita asked his chief of staff with trembling lips as his face had lost its bloodshot color.

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

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

"Call Yamamoto Go**. Please don't worry about us anymore! Immediately retreat to the mainland, immediately!! Yamashita Bongwen yelled at his chief of staff with a pale face.

"Send a farewell message to the base camp, needless to say. Then he said to the base camp: Our emperor ** people, we have been loyal to Your Majesty at sea...... May my empire prosper and prosper!! ”

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

"Don't say it, if you don't leave now, then the entire empire's naval power will be destroyed here with us!" Yamashita Fengwen said with a pale face: "We overestimated ourselves and underestimated the Wehrmacht...... That's the price we're going to pay......"

"Boom!!" Just as Yamashita said this, another transport ship beside him, which had already released half of its boat, was hit by Wehrmacht's heavy bombs, this time not the hull but the bow.

The violent explosion tore a huge hole in the bow of the ship, and the sea water poured into the transport. In just a moment, the transport ship was unexpectedly erected by a large amount of seawater.

"Squeak, squeak......" With a sound of tooth-aching steel twisting, the transport ship broke into two after being erected. Smashing on the water......

"Mom...... Mom ...... "A Japanese soldier who looked to be in his early twenties with his leg blown off and was holding a piece of floating wood and wailing......

He couldn't feel the pain now, and he knew that his life force was draining from his body with blood. He saw his squad leader, who was only half of his body floating on the surface of the sea.

Just before leaving, the team leader swore that he would take them to enjoy Filipino women.

"The screams of these women when they are stripped of their clothes and the kind of screams they make when they are enjoyed by us are what I admire the most...... "The squad leader, Kawasaki, told the private named Oshima with a look of great enjoyment on his face.

"We, the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire, are born with the right to enjoy these women. Let's go and enjoy them. This is their glory. The value of their existence is to make us conquer and satisfy ......"

It's a pity that as soon as the words fell, the squad leader was already in a different place.

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

That's right! It's the generals of the Empire. They told themselves that the empire was naturally the conqueror of Asia. Even empires can be conquerors of Europe, so what they should do is not to stay at home but to conquer the world.

But...... Why am I here?! Oshima's consciousness began to blur, he didn't want to conquer the world! I just want to live a good life and marry a decent woman and have some children. Having a job to support my family is what I want......

Oshima had no chance, and as the blood in his body slowly flowed through the water, his eyes had gradually lost their life. Subsequently, the whirlpool triggered by the sunken landing ship attracted the bottom of the sea.

"Your Excellency, Commander...... This is a message from General Yamashita. Please take a look...... "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 surface of the sea and wailing.

Once upon a time, they brought such pain to China. And when they themselves experience such pain, they realize how heart-wrenching this pain is......

"Withdraw!!" Yamamoto Fifty-six read Yamashita's telegram. The voice hissed as hard as he could. The Japanese Navy, having received the order, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The cruiser began to escort the aircraft carriers slowly out of the battlefield and sailed in the direction of Japan......

"They're gone, let's start boarding too!" After watching the naval fleet signal the flag, Yamashita put away his binoculars and said to the chief of staff: "We have at least 20,000 people who have approached their tidal flats. As long as the landing is successful, then we still have a chance of survival......"

20,000 people, the chief of staff knew that Yamashita was comforting himself. The Wehrmacht artillery never stopped. After the Japanese naval bombardment had ended, they began to bombard the boats on the surface of the sea again.

The chief of staff could not imagine how many artillery pieces there were in this Wehrmacht unit, and their shells fell on the sea one after another, and countless Japanese landing boats were bombed to pieces.

Despite the fact that their hit rate was not high, large-caliber artillery was always able to make huge waves. The waves could even overturn a dinghy or lift a Japanese soldier into the sea......

"Oh?! The Japanese Navy is going to withdraw?! Chen Shaokuan was stunned for a moment after receiving the news that the Japanese fleet had begun to gradually break away from the landing ships, but then frowned.

"It seems that Yamamoto Fifty-Six is really difficult to deal with, this old boy is too cunning...... When we run into him in the future, we have to be 120,000 careful...... The troops were ordered not to pursue, and the fleet advanced towards Manila Bay. Be careful to evade the Japanese fleet and reconnaissance planes, and don't run into them. ”

"Yes!!" Chief of Staff Chen Ce responded, and Chen Ce's face was now flushed with excitement. The navy won the jackpot this time, sinking two Japanese aircraft carriers and three battleships in World War I. The rest were traumatized in varying degrees, and the losses of the Navy were thirty warplanes. Among them, there were 18 fighters and 12 bombers.

"Boom!!" When Yamamoto watched from his bridge as the last landing ship of the Army was destroyed, he left the bridge without a word and returned to his captain's room.

Yamashita Bongbun's landing force, it's over. In the same way, the Southern Army, which had lost these transport ships, was also finished. Without these, they could not evacuate South Asia. The final outcome can only be dragged to death by the Wehrmacht.

"Full speed ahead and return home as fast as possible!" The chief of staff of the combined fleet silently took over the command and ordered the fleet: "The reconnaissance plane begins to be deployed, pay attention to monitoring the surrounding sea area......

"Boom! Rumble!! Rumble...... "The fleet of the Japanese Navy left, and the transport ships of the army were sunk....... But a large number of small boats left the transport ship and rushed madly towards the tidal flats.

The Wehrmacht Navy sea eagles had already received the order, and instead of pursuing the Japanese fleet, they began to clear the Japanese boats.

Machine guns, machine guns, and bombs continued to explode in the Japanese boats. The artillerymen of the Nanyang Army Division on the tidal flats also noticed the departure of the Japanese fleet, followed by a continuous stream of rockets flying to the surface of the sea and tearing the boats apart.

Gunshots, explosions and screams. Resounded throughout Manila Bay. Blood, broken corpses, and internal organs stained the entire bay red, and the Japanese boats on the sea were stripped away layer by layer.

Without peeling off a single layer, hundreds of Japanese soldiers were reduced to floating broken corpses and blood on the sea. On some of the dinghys, there were even parts of Japanese soldiers who had been blown up.

Grab the stall! Landing! This is now the only wish of the Japanese troops in these boats, and it is also their only way to live. They have no choice. Either die at sea or rush to the tidal flats to fight for a way to live.

"Quick! Fast!! Immediately send the relict to the predetermined position, and then the reins will have to go ashore later!! "The commander-in-chief of the Nanyang Army Division, Jensen, personally went out and loudly commanded his troops to send more than 30 anti-aircraft machine guns to those broken positions on the front line.

This was when the Nanyang Army Division was established before, and Jensen specially applied to the General Armament Department of the National Defense Forces. Including the Tiger Roar and Tiger Roar ammunition, these were personally approved by Tu Mengben, commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces, and Su Zongzhe, chief of the General Staff of the National Defense Forces.

Not to mention at that time, even now in the Wehrmacht, these weapons and equipment are not fully popularized in the Wehrmacht. Considering the difficulties faced by the Nanyang Army Division, Tu Menghu and Su Zongzhe still happily approved these weapons.

“***！ I'm going to see you hardness. Or Lao Tzu's machine gun bullet is hard! There was a bloodthirsty light in Jensen's eyes, and this light made even Jonathan, the American general beside him, feel terrified.

Caliber ...... My God! If this hits people...... Jonathan couldn't help but feel a chill, thirty such anti-aircraft machine guns, Jonathan could fully imagine how the Japanese army would be dismembered.

Yes. It's dismemberment! caliber bullets, the result of hitting them is dismemberment. And what made Jonathan even more frightened was that a large number of heavy machine guns and light machine guns were also sent to the position.

They are planning to hit the firepower and directly cover the Japanese landing ships, right?!

"Hurry up! Hurry up...... We're getting close to the tidal flats. We approached the tidal flats...... "Yamashita Bongfumi's face was covered in blood, and it was impossible to tell whether it was his or those Japanese soldiers.

Lucky or unlucky. He was not killed in strafing, bombing and artillery fire. Instead, he was as death-resistant as Xiaoqiang, and Leng led his troops to an area only about a kilometer away from the tidal flats.

"Sudden ......," and as he muttered in a low voice, the Wehrmacht's heavy machine guns on the tidal flats finally began to roar. This subdivision of the Nanyang Army did not use caliber machine guns, they used anti-aircraft machine guns with a longer range.

"Ding-ding-......" Japanese boats were immediately exposed to a rain of bullets, and the landing craft made by the Japanese Army were completely exemplary models of thin-skinned and large-stuffed bullets, and the bullets penetrated them without any pressure at all.

The Japanese soldiers on those boats were directly cut into piles of minced flesh by the rapidly spinning bullets, and the bloody blood suddenly spread in the landing craft, and countless Japanese soldiers frantically scurried around in the rain of bullets and splashing flesh.

But no matter what they do, they will end up being swept into minced meat all over the landing module by this crazy barrage.

"Red Okanoro!! Fight back! Fight back!! Yamashita Fengwen ordered loudly with red eyes, but the chief of staff, who was also covered in gunpowder smoke beside him, whispered: "Your Excellency Commander, our ships don't have any weapons at all......

"Then set up all the machine guns and return fire!!" Yamashita grabbed his chief of staff by the collar and roared, "Quick!! Do it now! ”

"Hail!!" The chief of staff immediately passed the order down, but the machine guns were in the hands of the Japanese in the landing capsule. There's no way to take it out for a while.

The Nanyang Army Division was constantly shelling and strafing, and the navy was not idle. After the Japanese fleet had already left this area, they slowly arrived.

"Chirp...... Rumble! Rumble!! The escort fleet of the "bombardment......" aircraft carrier began to launch artillery bombardment on the Japanese boats, and each drop of bullet points overturned a large number of Japanese landing craft.

This is not the high hit rate of the Navy, it is really that there are too many landing craft of the Japanese army. Basically blast towards a position, and a piece of landing craft will be blown over......

"Your Excellency, Commander...... Can I still climb the tidal flats......" The chief of staff of the Japanese Front looked at the bloody Manila Bay with a dull gaze, and asked with a cry towards the mountain downstream......