My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

Chapter 352: Air Force Demonstrates Its Power

In just a few moments, these miscellaneous soldiers who had no experience in air defense had suffered two to three thousand casualties. They completely collapsed in an instant and were no longer under the control of their superiors.

In fact, at this time their superiors did not intend to continue commanding, because they also saw the power of this wave of bombing. At this time, they only wanted to escape and had no intention of moving forward.

As the fear continued to grow, these 30,000 support troops retreated before they even came into contact with the enemy, and were completely disorganized.

But Jiang Li's arrangements would not stop there. The scouts responsible for providing coordinates in the surrounding area immediately fired signal flares, and the guerrillas ambushing nearby immediately moved over here and encircled and suppressed these defeated soldiers.

As the flare was launched into the air, the guerrillas within a few kilometers saw the flare and quickly moved towards this side.

Soon, the nearest guerrillas started fighting with these defeated soldiers.

In fact, it is not accurate to say that they engaged in a fight, because Yang Shen's soldiers had already lost their morale and did not put up any resistance at all. When they were ambushed, they immediately turned around and fled.

This allowed the guerrilla force of only more than 400 people to easily repel enemies that outnumbered them by several times.

However, after these people turned around, they were soon blocked by another guerrilla group. They had to turn around again, wasting their energy in vain.

After these two meaningless runs, the guerrillas in the surrounding areas rushed over and surrounded the defeated soldiers.

Seeing that the situation was not good, everyone finally came to their senses and stopped running away. Instead, they dropped their weapons and knelt down to beg for mercy.

At this time, the guerrillas who were ambushing around came out one after another and captured them all.

However, until this point, these frightened fleeing soldiers had not yet realized that there were less than 4,000 people surrounding them, and their own number was at least three or four times that of the enemy.

Speaking of which, there was a big mistake. It turned out that the order Jiang Li gave to the guerrillas was to do so after the air force bombing was completed.

The guerrillas quickly moved to the appropriate position to block the enemy, kill as many enemy manpower as possible, and then further undermined the enemy's morale, causing it to completely collapse.

But he never thought of using thousands of guerrillas to capture these defeated soldiers, and to capture all of them in an organized manner.

As for Yang Shen, he led his men to conduct a dragnet search in the mountains, but he had no idea that his soldiers were like frightened birds.

At the slightest sign of trouble, they would start attacking indiscriminately, and as a result, their whereabouts were exposed before they even got close to the guerrillas.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the guerrillas set some booby traps with grenades and retreated calmly.

And when these people come to search, they will suffer a great loss and then flee in panic.

The consequence of this was that the encirclement was full of holes, and the guerrillas slipped through in many places, and these guerrillas suddenly arrived behind the enemy.

After they walked away, they came out and gathered together to discuss the next plan.

However, although some guerrillas were missed, many were forced to retreat due to the ever-closer encirclement, and their range of activities was greatly restricted.

In this case, an exchange of fire between the two sides is inevitable. After all, it is impossible that all of Yang Shen's 80,000 men are fools. There are still some normal people.

During their exchange of fire, the guerrillas were outnumbered after all, so they could only fight and retreat, which naturally resulted in casualties.

After two days of shrinking the encirclement, they were finally forced onto a hilltop. When the guerrillas gathered together and explained the current situation to each other, they realized that they were surrounded and immediately organized a breakout.

On Yang Shen's side, he received news from below that the troops had exchanged fire with the enemy and killed some bandits.

He instantly understood that this trick was useful. The next step would be to wait for the big net to close and see how many fish it could catch.

But at this moment, he suddenly thought of something. If these bandits saw that they had no way to retreat and suddenly launched an attack to the death, his soldiers might not be able to stop them.

Even if others don’t know, how could he not know it?

Judging from the equipment and combat skills of these bandits, they are most likely elite troops sent by some big warlord to cause trouble.

With the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under his command who can only fight when the wind is in their favor, it is impossible for them to be stopped by others.

So he quickly gave the order to gather the troops and search slowly, so that in the event of an exchange of fire, his own soldiers could quickly provide support.

However, before his order was issued for ten minutes, a soldier came running over to report, "General, the bandits just launched a fierce attack towards the north. Our brothers couldn't hold on, and they have already fled!"

When Yang Shen heard this, he almost fell down on the spot.

He spent so much time and energy, even mobilizing 80,000 troops to encircle and suppress the enemy, but in the end he only harvested dozens of corpses.

Not only did a large amount of weapons and ammunition be consumed, but several thousand people were also shot by sniper rifles or injured by puppet mines. It was a complete loss of both the wife and the army.

In a rage, he immediately ordered his men to pursue, trying to catch the guerrillas in the act. Then he could lead a large force to suddenly attack and surround the guerrillas from both sides when the battle was fierce.

However, although his thoughts were beautiful, the reality was cruel. His soldiers were already exhausted after the march and encirclement in the past few days.

During this period, no one knew how many large and small battles had taken place with these guerrillas (if being bombed by booby traps could be considered a battle). At this time, morale was already extremely low.

So they were not willing to continue the pursuit, but Yang Shen was determined to kill these bandits at this time, so he immediately ordered the supervision team to force the soldiers to pursue.

Under the double blow of the Du Zhan Team's whips and bullets, the soldiers had no choice but to continue the pursuit and played hide-and-seek with the guerrillas in the mountains.

However, they had no idea that the large force of the Anmin Army had already entered Chongqing from Xiushan County, and was now continuously attacking various strongholds, towns and county towns.

Most of the defenders in these places had been withdrawn by Yang Shen. Faced with an army of 200,000, they had no courage to resist and chose to follow their will without firing a single shot.

After Jiang Li occupied most of the counties in Chongqing, he immediately led his army to fight a decisive battle with Yang Shen.

When Yang Shen received the news from the scout, he was immediately stunned.

Because just now, the scout actually said that there were hundreds of thousands of troops coming from outside the mountain and were advancing towards this side quickly.

Yang Shen refused to believe it, so he personally led people to the top of the mountain to observe through a telescope. When he saw it, he was immediately shocked.