Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma, commander of the Nanning Campaign of the Japanese Southern Dispatch Army, and carefully planned infantry, tanks, and aircraft jointly launched a three-dimensional air-ground attack. )

When the artillery was destroyed and the "Buddha light" napalm fell from the sky, it was already doomed to the fate of the Japanese artillery, and the bullying Gui army did not have enough artillery, let alone air power, and the Japanese artillery positions were blatantly located on the outskirts of Nanning, which brought great convenience to the bomber group.

The distribution center of supplies and supplies was even more beaten by fighter jets, and the hateful Chinese planes, when they were about to return home, were still in the places where the infantry were hidden, throwing napalm bombs all over the sky, burning into a sea of fire, in the raging flames, the soldiers of the empire were running and wailing, suffering heavy casualties, and everywhere was billowing smoke wrapped in flames, in front of the Gui army's position, forming an insurmountable barrier.

Honma Masaharu no longer knew how he returned to the hidden department, whether he carried it back or carried it back, he had no impression in his mind, in just over an hour, his troops lost two offensive weapons, one was the chariot wing, the other was a powerful artillery unit, all the staff officers and senior staff, all of them looked at the suddenly old commander with bated breath, no words could comfort such a blow, a gloomy cloud, plus a already wooden Honma Masaharu.

A young staff officer of the War Department came in out of place, "Report to Your Excellency Commander, this is a detailed list of the casualties and material losses of our soldiers, please take a look," As soon as he finished speaking, he felt countless murderous eyes, viciously pressing, especially His Excellency the Chief of Staff of the Third Army, who almost pulled out the command knife on his waist and cut off this short-eyed guy, the pig's head, Your Excellency the commander's current mental state, are you still deliberately adding fuel to the fire?

The soldiers of the Gui Army on the outskirts of Nanning almost used the mood of escaping death to see this dramatic change, all the planes flew away, the sky was quiet, there were no endless Japanese shells, no rumbling tanks spitting tongues of fire, there were groups of howling Japanese soldiers, only "beep" burning flames and billowing smoke, the moment when they thought they were going to die, they carried it lightly?

The soldiers of the Gui army didn't know why there were so many planes to help them, but Bai Chongxi in Nanning City was like a mirror in his heart, he could have such a big hand, and dispatched nearly 100 planes to help, only Tang Qiuli, not even the chief boss of the Chongqing government, Jiang Mou, couldn't do it, first, he didn't have such a good intention, and second, he didn't have such strength.

The situation of the forward position, a steady stream of convergence to the Nanning City Defense Headquarters, Bai Chongxi has a feeling in a dream, originally thought that today is the day of the destruction of the city of Nanning, he is ready for street fighting, the retreat has been arranged, but there have been dramatic changes, according to the report of the forward position, at least within two days, the Japanese will not be able to organize a decent attack, without tanks and artillery, my Gui army, will not lose to the Japanese.

Bai Chongxi, on behalf of Duke De and the hundreds of thousands of Guijun soldiers in Nanning City, thanked Zunjia for his help at a critical moment, and reported the situation of the defense of Nanning to Vice Chairman Tang at any time, "Bai Chongxi is a smart person, Tang Qiuli dispatched a plane today, not just to support a battle, but to show an attitude, the troops of the North China Independent Division have no intention of taking advantage of this to get involved in the land of Guangxi."

We are allies, I, Tang Qiuli, will help the Gui army at any time, from this aspect alone, the people who owe Tang Qiuli are very much, and they can't express it in words, Bai Chongxi finished dictating, and leaned back on the chair with fatigue and tiredness, only a few hours, the situation in Nanning has drained all the energy of the number one general of the Gui army, known as "Xiao Zhuge ".

Liu Cuigang led the group of planes and returned home satisfied, and received a report from the group of planes that bombed Nanning, and the air base of the Hainan Island of the Japanese Southern Dispatch Army was bombed at that time, and like most of the units of the Southern Dispatch Army, it was formed in Japan itself, and it had never suffered the losses of the troops of the North China Independent Division, especially the army aviation units, and they felt very good about themselves, and the psychology of the great Japanese Imperial Air Eagle fighting invincible opponents all over the world was rooted in the hearts of every Japanese pilot.

Immediately, more than 100 fighters that had taken off from several airfields met over the Beibu Gulf, and flew directly north with murderous vigor like a group of mad dogs whose eggs had been trampled on.

Let the air eagles of the Great Japanese Empire suffer such a big loss, it will definitely not work, as for how the army reacts, that is their business, Japan sent a military air force in the south, in order to avenge an arrow, this time it has made a lot of blood, dispatched a large number of fighters, not to mention, there is also a commander of the army air force at the level of major general, as the air commander of the pursuit group, and he is determined to leave Liu Cuigang's group in the sky over South China.

The speed of the bomber is relatively slow, and the fighter is exhausted of ammunition after the air battle and ground attack just now, and what is even worse is that the fuel of all the planes is only enough to return home, and it is impossible to maintain a small-scale air battle, and the Japanese "Zero" fighter is lackluster in other aspects, that is, in terms of speed, it surpasses the Soviet-style fighter, and according to the current return distance, when it does not reach the Wuhan base, it will be chased by the Japanese fighters

Le Yiqin, who was at the Wuhan Air Force Base, reported the situation to Liu Cuigang as soon as possible, "Cuigang, be careful, you are chasing a group of mad dogs behind you, according to the radar, there are about more than 100 of them, the little devil is anxious, yes, you guy has taken such a big advantage from others, and the little devil is not allowed to retaliate?" Le Yiqin still has the leisure to tease.

"Yiqin, this is expected, I have an idea, simply, in the airspace of Hunan, have a good fight with the little devils, leave their fighters behind, and save the annoyance of buzzing all day long, how about it? Did the group of fighters take off? Le Yiqin was very dissatisfied, and said: "Nonsense, in another thirty minutes, I will be able to meet you, and ah, I added a little material, not ten squadrons, but eighteen squadrons, how about it?" Le Yiqin said triumphantly, Liu Cuigang laughed, and only said, "You are ruthless enough, I'll give it to you." ”

A great air battle unfolded over Hunan, and the Japanese fighter group that was violently chasing and killing them hit the iron plate headlong, and the squadron establishment of the independent division's aviation unit was far greater than the regular establishment, with eight fighters in each squadron, 18 fighter squadrons, and nearly 130 fighters.

Regarding this air battle, after the incident, the Japanese army did not announce it, and the independent division also rarely did not publicize it, but the friends who made friends with Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang took out something from their mouths, and the independent division aviation fighter group lost 11 fighters, as for the Japanese army, in Le Yiqin's words, the little devil plane was kept honestly for half a year, indeed, in several large-scale battles carried out after that, rare Japanese planes appeared, especially in the sky over Nanning, and there was no shadow.

After Tang Qiuli received Bai Chongxi's telegram, he smiled knowingly, this little Zhuge finally understood his intentions, with the first-hand information he provided about the Nanning battlefield, he could grasp the battlefield more clearly, in Tang Qiuli's heart, he still hoped that today's battle on the periphery of Nanning would give Bai Chongxi a lesson, so that he realized the huge gap in firepower with the Japanese army, and had the idea of retreating, no longer insisting on the useless defense of Nanning, and not consuming the Gui army troops on the death defense of Nanning.

It is a pity that this hope of his was completely dashed when he received Bai Chongxi's second telegram, Liu Cuigang killed all the Japanese tanks and most of the Japanese artillery, but gave Bai Chongxi the confidence to defend Nanning, "Vice Chairman Tang Xun Jian, this morning's battle relied on the independent division's aerial eagle to show its might and defeat the tanks and artillery of the Japanese army that posed the greatest threat to our Nanning garrison troops. Completely bury the Japanese invasion of our Guangxi troops, and provide a detailed battle report at any time. ”

Tang Qiuli looked at Bai Chongxi's telegram and shook his head, today is the best time for the Gui army to evacuate Nanning, the Japanese army has suffered heavy losses, and it is temporarily unable to pursue, what is the loss of hundreds of cannons, guarding the two supply bases of Taiwan and Hainan Island, it will not take five days, it can be replenished quickly, and at that time, Bai Chongxi will not be able to withdraw even if he wants to, Honma Masaharu has suffered such a big loss, and he will not spread all his anger on the head of the Gui army.

Tang Qiuli could only sigh that Bai Chongxi had lost the best opportunity to retreat, and when he couldn't stand it, I was afraid that the elite troops of the Gui Army in the Nanning defense line would be almost exhausted, and even if they could withdraw, they would be pursued step by step, but he could not persuade Bai Chongxi to withdraw from Nanning.

On May 19, the replenished Honma Masaharu's troops launched a frenzied attack on Nanning, and this time, Honma Masaharu became extremely crazy and threw all the troops in his hands into the Gui army's positions on the outskirts of Nanning

On the evening of May 21, the Gui army lost all the peripheral positions in Nanning, withdrew to the troops in the city, not 40,000 people, the commander of the 113th Division, Major General Xia Guodong, was killed, the division fought to the last man, the whole army was annihilated, on the evening of the 22nd, the Japanese army captured Nanning Xiguan, the Gui army and the Japanese army engaged in fierce street battles, not support, step by step, was compressed to the north of Nanning City, the north bank of the Hujiang River was hard to defend, so far, the Nanning tribe into the hands of the Japanese army, Nanning City is about to break.