"Brothers, rush and rush!" Sun Desheng drove the Sherman tank to the front, and after hearing the fierce gunfire in front of him, he yelled into the walkie-talkie.

All 20 tanks of the 1st Company of the 1st Tank Battalion burst into speed, emitting a puff of black smoke and rushing towards the first line of defense of the 2nd Attack Group.

Behind them, two more tank companies followed.

Sun Desheng rushed to the front of the defense line of the second attack group, looking at the simple trenches filled with gunsmoke, obviously ploughed by the little devils with cannons, there were potholes everywhere, and the sacrificed soldiers could be seen everywhere, but on the position, the remaining soldiers in the artillery fire were still fighting back unyieldingly.

Sun Desheng's eyes turned red all of a sudden, "Fire!" Looking at the little devils who were charging not far away, Sun Desheng roared angrily.

Suddenly, the machine gunners and gunners on the tank began to fire fiercely at the little devils.

The batch of Shermans driven by Sun Desheng this time is already the latest M4A3 type, and the main gun uses a 76mm gun, which is more powerful than the previous 75mm gun.

Sun Desheng drove the tank to face the little devil infantry and slowly pressed up, and the little devils killed one after another everywhere they went, it was simply a ruthless killing machine!

The 20 Shermans who followed Sun Desheng also gradually joined the battlefield, and the little devil Shaozuo, who commanded a brigade to charge, suddenly didn't know what to do, and now whether to continue to charge or retreat, the little devil Shao's left brain was buzzing, and he didn't know what to do?

The tanks that followed Sun Desheng's charge joined the battlefield one after another, and as many as 40 machine guns and more than 20 artillery pieces on the tanks fired fiercely at the little devil infantry brigade, and this fire blow was intertwined like the scythe of death and was crazy to harvest the lives of the little devils.

For a steel monster like a tank, it is not something that flesh and blood can resist at all.

The little devils who charged intensively became sparse at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Rush!" The two battalions of the second attack group, which were originally ordered to retreat, did not retreat and counterattacked at this time, and the surviving company platoon commanders took the lead in drilling out of the trenches one by one according to the tactics of the usual drills, and began to attack behind the tanks, even if Sun Desheng did not ask for it, the soldiers on the position also began to follow their commanders one by one, and completed the infantry and tan coordinated attack formation without any pause, and began to counterattack the little devils!

In this way, even if the little devil officers who reacted wanted to fight hard and began to organize death squads to prepare for a counterattack with explosives bags and cluster grenades, there was no chance now.

Behind each tank, there are as few as five or six infantry fighters, and as many as a dozen, who use the tank as a cover to clean up the little devils who charge within 100 meters around the tank with Garand rifles and machine guns.

Sun Desheng's wave of counterattacks defeated a brigade of little devils at once, and then he cleaned up the remaining little devils on the battlefield, and the infantry of the second attack group who covered the attack slowly returned to their positions, calmly took the wounded comrades and martyrs, and gradually began to retreat to a safe place behind the third line of defense to rest and change clothes.

After losing a charging brigade, the commander of the Miki Daizuo Wing, who was in charge of the forward command, urgently contacted the commander of the Kumamoto Division and requested that the rapid-fire artillery brigade attached to the Tainan Kumamoto Division be transferred to undertake anti-tank combat missions.

The rapid-fire artillery brigade under the division is equipped with 12 one-type mobile 47-millimeter rapid-fire guns, if it can hit the Sherman tank head-on, it still has strong lethality, and it will not be completely passively beaten, but if you want to hit the tank in motion, it is not easy for ordinary people to do it, and the little devil now has no tank brigade in Tainan, so he can only rely on this to counteract.

Gao Jianwu received the change in front of him in the jeep, and the little devil did not follow to catch up, and decisively ordered the tank cluster to coordinate with the second line of defense, waiting for the main force to assemble and launch a counterattack.

Now his goal is to take down Tainan quickly, and if he has the opportunity, he will also take down Kaohsiung, otherwise the difficulty of attacking will increase in a straight line after the main force of the little devil's air force gathers. Under the condition that air superiority has not been seized, it is very difficult for the current air defense battalion alone to carry out an effective counterattack against the bombing and strafing of the little devil fighters.

As the support artillery battalion pulled by the jeep came to the second line of defense, Gao Jianwu quickly selected several artillery positions to form an intertwined artillery power coverage area, plus the two main battalions of the third attack group that rushed over, and redeployed the second line of defense, while most of the troops of the second attack group returned to Budai Port to redress and rest.

In the comings and goings, on the road less than 10 kilometers from Budai Port to the second line of defense, there was an endless stream of people, and the reconnaissance planes sent by the little devils had already flown to this area to conduct reconnaissance, and in the air, Lu Xingguo and Major General Smith also collided with the swarming little devil fighters.

The navy and air force piloting the Zero fighter learned a new tactic this time, that is, four fighters worked in a small team, not only to cover each other, but also to seize the opportunity to unify the fire.

At this time, the little devil's fighter is like a hedgehog, and he can't find a place to start, so he can only fight in the air to find an opportunity.

The two sides kept chasing each other in the air, and after a period of familiarity, Smith and they found that the formation of the little devil was almost always in a fixed flight mode, that is, one little devil fighter was the mainstay, and the other three followed him to dance, almost a diamond-shaped way, and the three fighters formed a triangle in the back.

Because the communication equipment does not support them to have a real-time conversation, so the little devil's fighter formation must maintain this fixed drill tactical mode, although the four fighters in a group enhance the firepower and the ability to cover each other, but Smith They keenly found that the little devil has lost the flexibility to change.

For the Zero fighter, this combat method of the little devils actually loses their strongest point. So when the pilots of the Smith Flying Team discovered the weakness of the new tactic of the little devil one by one, they began to pull the little devil in an extremely flexible and maneuverable way to scare the little devil.

Taking advantage of the Mustang fighter's high horsepower and fast flight speed, it constantly changes its position, increases the distance, and then looks for a powerful attack opportunity from the side and rear.

In this way, the little devil's combat team can't keep up with the changes of the first fighter, because the Mustang fighter changes faster, and the fighter led by the little devil has to follow desperately to barely keep up, but the three behind him are a little difficult.

After a period of tugging, the formation of the little devils began to deform, so that the number of the Smith flying team was much larger than them, and they began to surround and beat the little devil air combat team from two or three directions!

Smith and they were not in a hurry, after seizing a good attack position, they immediately floated away after a while, allowing fighters from other directions to take over the flank attack, so that the little devil battle team was soon in a situation where they were surrounded by multiple Mustang fighters in turn.

Because of the tactics of the little devil, the leading ace pilot also has to take care of the three fighters behind, which is equivalent to locking the ace pilot of the little devil in a group, unable to give full play to his superior combat advantage.

A seemingly invincible tactic soon turned into a joke, and as the first little devil battle group was shot down by the fighter, the monolithic huddle tactics began to crumble.

Eventually, it still evolved into a scene of being chased and killed by Mustang fighters everywhere in the air, and one after another was shot down.

In another airspace, Lu Xingguo and they have also achieved results, after a long period of fighting, Lu Xingguo's overall combat level has been raised to a higher level, and the Nakajima one-on-one fighter facing the little devil has now had a one-on-one advantage.

Compared with the Smith Flying Team, Lu Xingguo and they opened the situation earlier.

In the airspace of hundreds of square kilometers above Jiayi, hundreds of fighters fought for their lives in the air, although the outcome of this battle was doomed, but the outlaw little devil still caused some damage to Smith and Lu Xingguo.

When the little devils felt that they couldn't win, they all started the tactics of ending up together, and if they got the opportunity to shoot each other face-to-face, they would never dodge, but directly accelerated and rushed madly.

This crazy tactic is less useful for elite pilots like Major General Smith, who are experienced enough to dodge by making extreme maneuvers against Mustang fighters; But for the pilots under Lu Xingguo's command who have been in the ranks of the Air Force pilots for a short time, the tactic of the little devil is difficult to crack for a while, so Lu Xingguo's flight team began to suffer casualties.

However, the madness of the little devil air force also ended here, due to the double inferiority of quality and quantity in terms of fighters, they had no return one by one.

After the battle ended, Smith and Lu Xingguo, who had been fighting in the air for a long time, and their victorious fighters hurried back to the base one by one for replenishment or repair.

On the other hand, due to the desperate efforts of the little devils, more than a dozen fighters in the two air clusters have stayed in Jiayi, but after the pilots parachuted, most of them were rescued, although the fighters were gone, the people were still there.

However, for the little devil air force on Wanwan Island, the air force of the army and navy on the Tainan side was wiped out this time, and very few could escape back, and the air power on the Tainan side was completely destroyed.

For the lost fighters, Lu Xingguo and Major General Smith jointly sent a telegram requesting the Allied headquarters to immediately replenish them, because the fighters of their two flying teams needed to be repaired to a certain extent, and they could not provide air cover for the southeast task force.

After making urgent communication with General Steven, Major General Smith mobilized the flying team at the Hong Kong-Kowloon Allied Air Force Base as a reserve, and when Major General Smith returned home, the flying team that received the order of Major General Smith began to take off and rush to the skies over Tainan and began to provide air cover for Gao Jianwu's attack.

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"Huang Yun-fat, the left position will be handed over to your company. Until the arrival of the main forces, your company is responsible for the defense of this hill. ”

"Yes, battalion commander, resolutely complete the task!"

Lou Asi didn't expect that the soldier who chatted with him for a long time turned out to be a company commander. At this moment he took his company to seize a hill.

On this hill, the friendly forces of the 2nd Strike Group in front had already dug some trenches, and the whole position was already beginning to take shape.

Wong Yun Fat and his own company continued to deepen and increase the number of anti-artillery holes in these trenches according to tactical requirements.

According to the order from the headquarters, they will have a contest with the main force of the little devils here. For Gao Jianwu, it is easier to eliminate the little devil from the city base camp.

At present, the third attack group is the main blocking force, forming a defensive line more than 1 kilometer deep. Three tank companies served as a counterattack force, placed in a position at the back of the center.

A huge number of artillery clusters are staggered to form an arc-shaped position, which can wrap five or six square kilometers of little devils in it, this is Gao Jianwu's killer weapon, before the main force of the little devils arrives, Gao Jianwu will not expose the strength of the artillery, and at most use support artillery to knock out the mountain artillery of the little devils.

Therefore, the main force of Huang Yun-fat's infantry battalion also has to face the threat of infantry artillery and mortar bombardment from the little devils, and they must strengthen the defense of the position.

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All kinds of information from the front gathered here in Gao Jianwu, and for Gao Jianwu, he gradually marked the main location of the little devil on the map, so that he knew the progress of the little devil well.

The main force of the little devils in Tainan has been lured out, and now they are deterred by the tank counterattack and are waiting for their anti-tank brigade in the first line of defense. At the same time, it is ready to wait for the arrival of naval reinforcements in Kaohsiung to form a superior force counterattack.

The commander of the Kumamoto Division, after hearing the report from the front that the enemy's tank units had been discovered, no longer reported any hope for a quick victory, and in his opinion, only after concentrating the main forces could he hope to break through the enemy's tank defenses.

Not only his anti-tank brigade needs to be joined by the anti-tank forces of the navy, so that there is hope to fight the enemy's tanks.

The defeat of the army's aviation and the navy's aviation almost at the same time not only brought the commander of the Kumamoto Division to his senses, but also caused Lieutenant General Takagi to send out a tank brigade and an anti-tank brigade that he regarded as his family.

At this time, they did not have any room for prevarication, and the strength of the enemy had exceeded their most pessimistic estimates, so this time the Kumamoto division and Vice Admiral Takagi's navy were all doing their best.

The troops of the two companies have exceeded 30,000 people, including three artillery brigades, in addition to the mountain artillery brigade of the Kumamoto division, Lieutenant General Takagi sent a 105-mm howitzer brigade and a 75-mm field artillery brigade.

This is already the standard of the artillery wing of a division regiment, plus two anti-tank brigades and a tank brigade, the little devil sent all the elites of Tainan, which completely exceeded the strength of a complete A division.

From the point of view of the little devils, such strength is not weak to deal with the southeastern task force that went ashore in a hurry, but now the air force has suffered a fiasco, otherwise if the air force is added to a flying team, the victory will be even greater.

But now the reinforced air force is still on the way, although the army aviation in the north direction of the little devil still has some Nakajima-Ichi fighters and light bombers, but Lieutenant General Hagatani does not dare to press this bit of family background, he now does not know whether Lu Xingguo and Major General Smith's Mustang fighter air group is still there, in his opinion, if the Mustang fighter group of the southeast task force is still there, it is still a head-off to be sent over.

By mistake, Gao Jianwu won a rare respite.

Not only did the second attack group redress and recuperate and return to its position, but the three attack groups of the second wave of landings also successfully landed on the coastline of more than 10 kilometers near Budai Harbor, and soon assembled at Budai Harbor for redressing.

In addition to Gao Jianwu letting the fourth attack group join Zhao Dalei's attack team, he began to fight for Jiayi house by house and comprehensively clean up Jiayi's little devils, and the other two attack groups were hidden by Gao Jianwu under the dense forest near Jiayi.

Lu Xingguo and Smith's flying team took turns to cover the operation over Jiayi, intercepting and expelling the little devil's reconnaissance plane from afar, and in the little devil's intelligence, they always estimated that three assault groups had landed, which was also in line with their estimate of the transportation capacity of the fishing boat.

They didn't expect it now that the main force of the Southeast Task Force had long been hidden near Penghu, after all, according to the current intelligence, most of the Southeast Task Force was still in and out of Xiamen Island.

It was this intelligence error that allowed them to misjudge the whole situation.

After sending a mixed brigade in the direction of Taichung and a reinforced Division A division in the direction of Tainan and Kaohsiung, Lieutenant General Hase and Lieutenant General Kumamoto and others decided that they could at least settle a tie with the Southeast Task Force and stop the Allied landing force near Jiayi.

On the naval side, there is a detachment of the Fifth Fleet under the personal command of Vice Admiral Takagi, and the little devil thinks that at least he can have the upper hand, after all, the Southeast Task Force is now exposed to a small fleet of Admiral de Moore, as long as they avoid the enemy's aerial bombardment, they will be the victor on the sea.

In the waters of Tainan, Lieutenant General Takagi sat on top of his flagship, looking at the sea in the distance and falling into deep thought.

In order to keep abreast of the air force movements on the Allied side, Vice Admiral Takagi sent several reconnaissance planes under his command to monitor the waters in the direction of Southwest Port and Kowloon and the waters in the direction of Xiamen in the west to give early warning.

"Your Excellency General, Aerial Reconnaissance No. 1 reports that there are no enemy fighters in the nearby waters!"

"Your Excellency General, Aerial Reconnaissance No. 2 reports that the nearby waters are safe!"

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Listening to the report of the aerial reconnaissance plane and finding nothing, Vice Admiral Takagi, who kept scanning the sea, breathed a sigh of relief for the time being.

In his opinion, the most dangerous thing now is the enemy's dive bombers, and although the Mustang fighters carry bombshells, although they are also annoying, they are much less threatening than the Allied dive bombers.

After all, the torpedoes carried by dive bombers are far more lethal to ships than bombshells. For a nimble ship like a destroyer, aerial bombs that dodge aerial bombardment can be avoided by flexible positioning.

But against torpedoes dropped by the enemy it was not so easy.

Just when Vice Admiral Takagi thought that everything was going well, suddenly the destroyer on the alert mission in front sounded a battle alarm!

"Your Excellency General, the Allied fleet has been spotted ahead!" The communications staff officer quickly ran over to report the intelligence, "One battleship and four destroyers have been found!" ”

Hearing this, Vice Admiral Takagi chuckled in his heart, because this fleet was obviously different from the fleet he had received from General DeMoore attacking Budai Harbor!

This means that a new fleet will be launched, and his fleet will be at risk of being flanked by both enemy fleets.

"Order the fleet to follow at full speed and immediately encircle and annihilate the Allied fleet!" Lieutenant General Takagi hesitated for less than ten seconds before decisively ordering.

Before he discovers the enemy's second fleet, he can now use his superior forces to inflict heavy damage on this fleet that suddenly appeared!

"All ships, concentrate your firepower to encircle and destroy the battleships of the Allied fleet!"

Vice Admiral Takagi issued a second order, and suddenly, the entire fleet began to change formations, pressing violently towards General Hutt's fleet to the north.

To the north, Admiral Hutt discovered Vice Admiral Takagi's fleet almost simultaneously.

"Retreat, move closer to General Demor!" Admiral Hurt had no intention of going head-to-head with Takagi's fleet.

For him, how to win this battle is the most important thing, not acting in righteousness.

The entire fleet turned to the north and began to move closer to the fleet of Admiral Demore.

The two fleets fled and chased for more than half an hour, and General Hutt pulled Takagi's fleet to the vicinity of General DeMoore's fleet, and after the two communicated information slightly, General Hutt's fleet began to turn again, forming a left and right outflanking formation with General DeMoore's fleet, and turned his head and began to kill Takagi's fleet!

Seeing that the enemy really had two fleets and were still converging, this made Vice Admiral Takagi extinguish his ambition to annihilate the opponent's battleship!

The opponent's strength is almost twice as strong as his side now, how can he fight?!

Vice Admiral Takagi looked at the two fleets in the distance, his face twitched a few times, he wanted to leave, and simply ordered the fleet to change its voyage and return to the base port, where they had built a complete shore fortification, with a large number of batteries and anti-aircraft artillery to defend it, and to match the fleet firepower, if a fleet like Admiral Hurt and Admiral DeMoore dared to go, it would only be a send-off.

The current design of shore fortifications is difficult for even two battleships to take advantage of, not to mention that now Admiral Hutt's fleet only has one battleship from the early days and a light cruiser from Admiral Demoore, and the firepower is much weaker than that of the shore defense forces.

As for the destroyer, under this defense system, daring to get close to the past is pure death.

It's just that if the Allied fleet is not contained by General Takagi's fleet, the whole situation will take a sharp turn for the ground forces who are just preparing to counterattack with the Southeast Task Force!

Takagi didn't dare to imagine what kind of miserable situation the ground forces would have been if he hadn't contained himself, and his own Navy Special Marine Corps would have no power to fight back if it was suppressed by ten ships and guns!

Thinking of this, Takagi gritted his teeth and didn't retreat!

Even if the Allied fleet is playing hide and seek on the sea, these two fleets must be contained!