Fists that can subdue mountains and rivers, martial arts that can lead to immortality!

"Brother Jiang is right."

"We cannot back down!"

"I immediately ordered men to reinforce the emergency defenses of Jinling City and mobilize all available troops to defend Jinling City to the death."

"If we hold out for three more days, reinforcements will arrive in droves. Then we can launch a coordinated attack from within and without, annihilating the million-strong army of the Japanese island nation in one fell swoop!"

Pan Zhen seemed to have made up his mind, and then turned around to convene an emergency military meeting with the commanders of the four major army groups and all army-level generals.

"Brother Pan, rest assured, victory is assured in this battle!"

"However, do not stay at your residence in Jinling during this period of time."

"If you're going to live in a military camp, you'll have to change your accommodations immediately."

"I have a feeling that the Japanese army has arrived, so the martial arts masters accompanying the army should also have arrived, and there should be quite a few of them."

"If a fight really breaks out, there's no way we won't be able to protect you!"

Jiang Wangzu offered a reminder.

"Don't worry, Brother Jiang, I know."

"I've been eating and sleeping with the soldiers these past few days!"

Pan Zhen nodded vigorously.

After Pan Zhen left, Jiang Wangzu resumed his cultivation.

Although he has reached a bottleneck in all three areas of martial arts—spiritual martial arts, external martial arts, and orthodox martial arts—it will require a lot of hard work to break through it.

However, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Little by little, and constant dripping wears away a stone; quantitative change can eventually lead to qualitative change!

The great battle is about to begin, and even a slight increase in strength would be beneficial.

Pan Zhen realized in the morning that the million-strong army of the Eastern Island Nation in Jiangnan Province had been surrounded by Jinling City.

Therefore, an emergency military meeting was immediately convened, and the 400,000 troops stationed outside Jinling City were ordered to build a military defense around the city.

Around noon, the vanguard of the Japanese island nation arrived in Nanjing and began fighting with the Southern Revolutionary Army.

Both sides immediately unleashed their full range of combat tactics, including air combat, artillery combat, and tank combat.

Neither side intended to stop.

The battle raged from noon until evening, with over 80% of the 100,000 elite vanguard troops from the island nation of Japan killed or wounded, and the Southern Revolutionary Army also suffering heavy casualties.

Because the current Southern Revolutionary Army consists of veterans leading new recruits, the combat effectiveness of Pan Zhen's 400,000-strong army is actually not as good as his previous old troops.

However, with the help of advanced weaponry and home advantage, they achieved a 2-to-1 kill ratio.

The 400,000-strong army was almost halved in half a day.

This is the cruelty of war!

"Hold on!"

"Even if you can't handle it, you have to hold on for me!"

"Three days!"

"We only need to hold Nanjing for three days."

"The elite troops from Shanghai can then reach Nanjing."

"Furthermore, bring all the capable soldiers from Jinling to the front lines. If we cannot defend Jinling in this battle, we will all die, and Jinling will be reduced to ashes!"

"We, the people of the new Republic of China, would rather die on the battlefield than stand idly by and offer our necks for slaughter!"

"Recruit soldiers! Recruit soldiers for me!"

"In the entire city of Jinling, with a population of one million, apart from women, children, and the elderly, everyone who can hold a gun and wants to go to the battlefield, every single one of them, is to be sent to the front lines."

"But we must be careful with the methods and approaches; we must avoid the old warlord practices of forcibly conscripting men into the army!"

At Pan Zhen's command, the entire city of Jinling was mobilized.

In Nanjing, people were constantly signing up for military service.

Even in the face of national crisis, young people still have a heart full of passion!

However, none of these people have received military training, and once they are sent to the battlefield, they will most likely become cannon fodder.

But there's nothing we can do about it.

That night.

Gunfire erupted again.

The Japanese army from the island nation of Japan kept coming in.

The sound of artillery fire soared into the sky, and flames shot into the heavens, shattering the darkness of the night.

Pan Zhen had already ordered his men to lay landmines, just waiting for the Japanese army to step into the minefield, where they would blow a large number of people to pieces.

Dozens of fighter jets flew over Nanjing, but Jiang Wangzu shot them down in no time with his specially made bomb javelins.

The air force is invaluable in this era.

In some respects, air force personnel are even more valuable than fighter jets.

This time, Jiang Wangzu destroyed hundreds of Japanese fighter planes, along with hundreds of well-trained air force personnel.

These are enough to give the Japanese a run for their money!

After the Japanese army discovered the minefield, they dispatched dozens of tanks to advance in a row to clear the mines for the troops behind them.

But Jiang Wangzu would not do as they wished. He charged into the battlefield alone, and in a short time, dozens of tanks had their cannons twisted, their chains broken, and they were completely destroyed.

Jiang Wangzu was quite measured in his actions.

He did not completely destroy the tanks, but merely rendered them incapable of fighting.

Once the war is won, these tanks can be disassembled and studied, and then replaced with gun barrels, chains, and other components, so they can be used again.

The battle continued until dawn, and more than 100,000 Japanese devils were sent back to their Western homeland to meet Jesus.

The Southern Revolutionary Army also suffered enormous losses, with no more than 100,000 soldiers still capable of fighting.

In addition, there are local armies, security forces, militia, private armies of powerful families and tycoons, and hundreds of thousands of newly recruited raw recruits.

The total number of people remains around 300,000, but their combat effectiveness is simply appalling.

This is only the first day!

The next morning, the remnants of the Japanese island nation did not launch an attack rashly; they waited for the arrival of the other main forces.

Pan Zhen, on the other hand, directed the army to build defensive fortifications in preparation for the upcoming great battle.

The next day at noon, just after lunch, the Japanese devils from the island nation of Japan once again marched towards Nanjing.

Pan Zhen's generals fought valiantly, charging ahead in the fray. The two sides continued fighting until dusk, when a temporary ceasefire was finally reached.

But Jiang Wangzu is in trouble too!

Seventeen grandmasters of martial arts from the island nation of Japan, along with a group of martial arts experts from Japan, arrived in Jinling City.

Jiang Wangzu led the Martial Alliance and the Bureau of Extraordinary People to meet the challenge.

He did not choose to hide.

Because he knew that in this battle, he had nowhere to retreat and nowhere to avoid it!

"Seventeen martial arts grandmasters? You little devils really think too highly of me!"

"However, I am quite curious, how many martial arts grandmasters does your Takamagahara in this Japanese island nation actually have?"

"If I kill you all in this battle, won't your martial arts tradition in Takamagahara be cut off?"

Jiang Wangzu looked at the seventeen martial arts grandmasters before him and spoke.

"You, a mere mortal, are not worthy to know the greatness of Takamagahara."

"I have heard of you, Jiang Wangzu, and I know of your abilities."

"My senior brother, Sasaki Muneaki, died because of the combined efforts of you and your master, Kojintsu."

"You've only been a martial arts grandmaster for a short time, yet you already possess such terrifying strength."

"If you were given another ten years, you might become even more terrifying than Wu Chongxiao and Yang Jin."

"But you have no chance now. Today, my four fellow disciples and I are all Grandmasters of Martial Arts at the peak of the Profound Realm."

"Don't tell me your master, Gu Shentong, isn't here. Even if he were here, you would still be dead!"

A middle-aged man who spoke fluent Mandarin during the Republic of China era looked at Jiang Wangzu and said in a deep voice.

Although he was dressed as a Japanese samurai, he was tall, had striking features, and did not have bowlegs, so he did not look like a native of the Japanese island nation.