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It's not easy to dodge, as they control the airspace and can launch an attack at any time from thousands of meters above. You're just floating on the water, not an aircraft carrier, so you're just a target.

These warships, patrol boats, gunboats... had no choice but to sail eastward along the Yangtze River under the cover of night, trying to avoid potential bombing.

Unfortunately, half an hour later, Li Mu caught up from behind, looked at the targets all over the river, and smiled speechlessly.

Originally, because visibility was limited at night, he would always observe the target with binoculars for a while before bombing it, so as not to damage civilian and merchant ships.

This is one of the reasons why his bombing efficiency was so low.

Now things are much better. We no longer need to worry about civilian or merchant ships trying to escape. They're all easy targets anyway; we can just blow them up as many as we can.

That night, the Yangtze River became the liveliest place, with explosions, fires, and the wreckage of warships and gunboats sunk in the river everywhere.

Li Mu didn't sleep a wink all night. He changed fighter jets three times in a row. On the last occasion, after watching the Japanese warships escape into the sea, Li Mu directly dumped eighty tons of aerial bombs and hundreds of tons of gasoline bombs at the Japanese military port.

Only after the military port that the little notebook had been managing for so long was bombed into a burning ruin did he return satisfied.

The impact of this incident was greater than Li Mu had imagined.

For many years, the Japanese have been rampant in the Yangtze River waterway, and now they have occupied half of the river and controlled most of its surface.

Under these circumstances, there are no Japanese warships on the entire Yangtze River today, not even a single boat flying the Japanese flag.

Even those Japanese transport ships only dared to display merchant ship markings, not Japanese markings, for fear of being used as targets for bombing.

The following day, the bombing of Japanese warships on the Yangtze River undoubtedly made headlines across the entire front page, and even globally.

In just one night, nearly a thousand ships were destroyed by bombing, and the warships that once roamed the Yangtze River disappeared overnight.

Countless newspapers erupted in celebration, and countless people began publishing articles, declaring it a momentous victory. We had not only achieved air superiority but also demonstrated immense deterrent power over the Yangtze River.

This event not only delighted the people, but also made the government feel like it was New Year's Day. Not only had they just gained air superiority on the battlefield, but this massive bombing raid on the Yangtze River also had a huge impact on the Japanese troops at the front.

Their supplies of weapons, ammunition, food, and manpower will become much more difficult, and their combat effectiveness will inevitably decline, while Guofu's combat effectiveness will correspondingly increase.

For the next two nights, Li Mu patrolled the skies over the Yangtze River, bombing any Japanese military and transport ships that came into view. After sinking dozens more ships, the Japanese seemed to have learned their lesson.

On the third day, when Li Mu patrolled the Yangtze River, he didn't find a single small warship or transport ship, but there were more merchant ships.

Li Mu also understood that the Japanese transport ships carrying supplies, ammunition, and wounded soldiers were probably disguised as merchant ships.

There was nothing he could do about it; being thousands of meters in the air, how could he possibly see everything, let alone distinguish between real and fake merchant ships?

Li Mu could only intensify patrols between Wuhu and the front lines. This distance from Wuhu to the front lines was already within the combat zone, and virtually no merchant ships would venture there.

If any merchant ship heads this way, it's highly likely that it's a Japanese transport ship in disguise.

Li Mu launched several more attacks, bombing any merchant ships that dared to approach the Japanese front along the Yangtze River, trying to cut off their hopes of resupplying by water.

After being bombed several more times, the Japanese finally calmed down and began unloading cargo ahead of schedule, preparing to resupply the front lines via land routes.

It's quite impressive that they managed to push the notebook to this point.

The principal was naturally not going to let such a rare and favorable situation slip by. This was the best situation he had faced since the start of the war, and the time when he had the greatest chance of winning.

Therefore, they simply sent Xue Laohu, who was stationed in eastern Henan, along with his hundreds of thousands of men, south to launch a flank attack and catch the Japanese off guard.

When Li Mu heard that Xue Laohu and his hundreds of thousands of troops had been transferred to the front lines, leaving behind only tens of thousands of ragtag soldiers, he couldn't help but sigh, "The principal is too hasty."

Like Guangzhou, which already had heavy defenses, it also had to guard against threats from the sea. In order to fight this battle in Wuhan, the principal actually transferred several divisions from Guangzhou, which greatly weakened Guangzhou's combat power. As a result, after the Japanese landed at Daya Bay, it quickly fell.

The same applies to eastern Henan; it was originally intended to be a key area for defense, not only to protect the heartland of the Central Plains but also to prevent the Japanese from advancing directly into Wuhan from here, while also guarding against dangers from Xuzhou.

Such an important place, the only garrison was transferred away, leaving behind tens of thousands of ragtag troops.

These tens of thousands of ragtag troops, plus the Anti-Japanese United Army, amounted to only fifty or sixty thousand men. How could such a large territory as eastern Henan be defended with only fifty or sixty thousand men?

Chapter 453 Opening Up the Air Route

If eastern Henan cannot be defended and the Japanese invaders advance unimpeded, Nanyang will inevitably be threatened as well.

Since the government could not be relied upon, they could only continue to unite with the north. Coincidentally, the north was also quite interested and soon decided to send another batch of troops to the front line in eastern Henan.

Furthermore, with the support of Li Mu's equipment and logistics, eastern Henan has abundant human resources and a sufficient reserve of soldiers.

As for the security forces, Li Mu also sent a portion of his troops to join the front-line anti-Japanese united army, while the vacancies in the rear were filled by regular militia reserves, keeping the defense force of Nanyang unchanged.

Needless to say, the fighting strength in the north was excellent. With Li Mu's equipment support, after a period of expansion and reorganization, the Anti-Japanese United Army exceeded 70,000 men.

With these 70,000 troops equipped with gear comparable to the elite forces of the Guo family, the defenses of eastern Henan were not weakened at all, but rather strengthened, despite the absence of Xue Laohu's army of over 100,000.

Early the next morning, Li Mu began test flights, heading towards Suining County, where the transit airport "Suining Airport," specially built by Li Mu, was located.

Li Mu covered the more than 900 kilometers in just two hours and arrived at his destination. After several months of construction, the area had become a base for the security regiment. Grain warehouses and oil depots were also built near the airport. The soldiers of the security regiment were not idle here; in addition to guarding the airport, they also suppressed bandits and protected the local people, earning a good reputation. Furthermore, the Muwu Trading Company had even built a distribution center and a small market town at a nearby ferry crossing, which has now become a well-known small commodity distribution center for miles around.

Li Mu rested for a while, refueled, and then took off again.

Two hours later, the plane landed smoothly at the newly built airport in the Kachin region of northern Taiwan.

Kachin State was once part of Yunnan during the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Shan people, who controlled Kachin State, submitted to the Tan people in the south. The Tan people were unable to govern directly, which led to the loss of control over northern Kachin State and it became a no-man's land.

These areas were occupied by Britain during the late Qing Dynasty, but Britain only nominally controlled them and didn't really care. Coupled with the ever-present threat of war in Europe, this vast area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers in Kachin has now become a chaotic, lawless zone.

The airport built by Li Mu is located in a small basin in northern Kachin, nestled among mountains, more than 80 kilometers from Yunnan.

The population here is small, but many people speak Mandarin, and there are quite a few Chinese. The local private armed forces are of very poor quality and were easily dealt with by the security forces, who have become the de facto rule-makers in the area.

A few months ago, Li Mu not only dispatched infantry and engineers, but also some technicians from various industries and some administrative personnel, all of whom later proved invaluable. When his plane landed at the airport, there was no chaos as expected; everything was orderly, clearly thanks to the efforts of his entourage.

After spending a few days there, Li Mu discovered that Kachin was truly a treasure trove. The land was fertile, and many places could be cultivated into large tracts of farmland. Unfortunately, the locals were too lazy and wasted the land.

Most importantly, this place has the world's largest and most concentrated jadeite mine. Nobody may care about it now, but in the 21st century, the value of jadeite will become apparent, making this a true treasure trove.

Li Mu decided to develop this region properly. At that time, the country was embroiled in war and there were refugees everywhere, especially in the southwest, where people and refugees were fleeing south.

Currently, the entire Kachin region, spanning tens of thousands of square kilometers, has only a few hundred thousand inhabitants, far below its population capacity. If a large influx of migrants could be attracted to settle here, then the future…

After thinking for a while, Li Mu flew his fighter jet back to Nanyang. After two days of preparation, a group of soldiers from the security regiment were transferred to the Kachin region under the guise of escorting merchant groups.

A large number of technical and government officials also traveled with them.

Li Mu also transferred Mi Long there, because he remembered that Mi Long's wife seemed to be a local Chinese. Although he didn't know if the two would meet again in Mibei, Mi Long was staying in Nanyang, so they definitely wouldn't meet.

At the same time, Muwu Trading Company officially entered the Kachin region, making it one of the company's bases.

Many people even suggested that Li Mu simply build a new city in the small basin of the Kachin region. What was said in jest was taken seriously by the listeners.

Thinking about it, it really is necessary; it can be considered one of our backup plans.

Under his impetus, this matter was put on the agenda, and the next step would be to absorb migrants and laborers from the southwest region to build a new city and develop the Kachin region at the same time.

Meanwhile, the Fuxing Bank will also establish a branch here. When conditions are right in the future, they may even consider purchasing several commercial airliners to open civil aviation routes between the two places, adding a civilian route to foreign countries to facilitate exchanges between the two regions. For some people who want to escape the war further away, going south is also a good option.

Regarding the construction of the new city, once the order is given, many talented people will help him formulate plans and implement them, so it won't take much of his energy.

At this time, Nanyang's grain reserves were running low, so Li Mu put aside his other matters and conducted the first full trial of the new shipping route.

At 7:00 a.m., I took the plane from Nanyang and arrived at Suining Airport at 9:00 a.m. After resting for half an hour and refueling, I set off again at 9:30 a.m. and arrived at Kachin Airport at 11:30 a.m.

After resting for an hour and a half and having a simple lunch, at 1 p.m., I flew the plane to a small port city in northern Malaysia. It was not until after 4 p.m. that I officially landed in the port city.

I spent two days here and gained a deeper understanding of the development of Far East Trading Company during this period. The market for penicillin has finally opened up, and people have come to recognize the amazing effects of penicillin. Some medical institutions have already started placing small orders.

Li Mu did not come empty-handed this time; he brought a large quantity of penicillin produced in the Nanyang area over the past few months. Given the current rarity and value of penicillin, this shipment is worth over ten million US dollars.

The penicillin delivered was taken to the United States by the Far East Trading Company for canning and packaging, and then sold all over the world; Li Mu also purchased a large amount of grain, including 20,000 tons of wheat, 20,000 tons of rice, 5,000 tons of soybeans, and 3,000 tons of white sugar... before returning to Nanyang.

In the following days, he made two more trips abroad, and the food shortage in Nanyang was finally resolved.

At the same time, the grain storage plan was officially launched, with Far East Trading Company purchasing a large amount of grain and storing it in a newly renovated port warehouse in a small port town in northern Malaysia.

In the future, whenever Li Mu has free time, he will transport grain back to China to prepare for potential future famines.

The role of space is further brought into play.

Soon, the construction plan for the new city was released. Its scale was naturally smaller than that of Nanyang New District, but it was still quite large.

Once completed, it will definitely become the center of the Kachin region.

The new city was named Dragon City and quickly began construction.

Meanwhile, fighting continued fiercely along the Yangtze River. During this time, he repeatedly flew fighter jets to the front lines to look for opportunities to strike, but the results were mediocre.

After the recent heavy bombing raids, Japan made air defense a top priority. However, even after flying around at night, they couldn't find many targets worth bombing.

In addition, according to intelligence, in order to prevent bombing, besides the airports that obviously needed repair, Japan secretly selected several other locations and began building new airports.

The Military Intelligence Division went to great lengths but couldn't find it, which shows how much effort they put into ensuring the newly built airport wouldn't be bombed again.

However, since the secret airport couldn't be found, they could only vent their anger on the public airport.

As a result, the airport, which was under renovation, was frequently visited by bombs. A wave of bombs would be dropped, and all the hard work over a period of time would be wasted, forcing it to be renovated again.

This also meant that the reopening of these airports was still a long way off, and the airspace rights had been changing hands repeatedly, incredibly remaining in the hands of the government.

From the south, Li Mu then thought of the north. Although the situation in the south had improved, the situation in the north remained dire.

It's even possible to blow up all of Japan's armored forces and heavy artillery, bringing the infantry firepower of both sides to the same starting line.

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Chapter 454 The Hardships of People's Livelihood

For the next period of time, Li Mu used Yubei Airport as a base to launch a comprehensive attack on the air power of the Japanese in the northern region.