Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State in northern Myanmar, is the most important land and water transportation center in northern Myanmar.

After the Japanese occupied Myitkyina in 1942, a large military airfield was built in the western part of Myitkyina, upgrading Myitkyina from the original water and land transportation center to a water, land and air transportation center.

As soon as the sky turned white, the mournful sirens covered the airspace over the airport, pricking the eardrums of every airport worker.

On the anti-aircraft gun position, the sleepy gunners, who had been on duty all night, shook their heads, cheered up, and looked around the sky around the airfield to look for dangerous targets.

In the residential area of the airport, groups of disheveled figures rushed out, pilots and ground crews who had been called back to the real world from their sleep in advance by the alarm.

The crowd dispersed at the airport and ran to the tarmac and hangar respectively.

At this time, in the northern sky, from a distance, you can already see patches of black dots.

When the five fighters swayed out of the runway, the black dots were already approaching the airfield, revealing the true identity of their US fighters.

Sixteen P-40 fighters, escorted by twenty-four B-17 bombers, were the first group of air raid units to attack Myitkyina airfield.

Discovering that the Japanese fighters had risen into the air, the P-40 fighters left the group and rushed towards the Japanese fighters, and a fierce battle broke out.

Antiaircraft guns of various types opened fire one after another near the airport, and antiaircraft shells of various calibers burst out clouds of gray-black gunpowder smoke in the air, surrounding the US planes.

The formation of twenty-four B-17 strategic bombers, despite the anti-aircraft fire and the obstruction of the Japanese fighters, stubbornly advanced in the face of artillery fire until a suitable distance.

The bomb compartment canopy under the belly of the aircraft was separated from the left and right, revealing the neatly discharged aerial bombs on the bomb droppers in the cabin.

In less than two minutes, all the B-17s were dropped, and countless aerial bombs flew into the sky and fell towards the airfield at great speed.

Under the desperate gaze of the Japanese troops on the ground at the airport, the US aerial bombs changed from small to large, revealing their hideous figures and falling on the airfield.

The flames and smoke of the explosion instantly covered nearly half of the airport, and hundreds of black smoke rose into the air from above the crater, and finally converged into a cloud, hanging over the airport like a dark cloud.

The heavy carpet bombing tore all the buildings, weapons, and people within the radius of the explosion point to pieces, leaving only mottled craters.

In the sky, when the B-17 group turned around and returned home, the right wing of a B-17 suddenly snapped, and the huge fuselage that was making a U-turn suddenly lost its stability and spun all the way to the ground.

Another B-17 bomber in the rear of the plane, the tail suddenly burst out a series of black smoke, and the fuselage under the tail suddenly burst out of a hole, and black smoke and fire spewed out from the hole in the tail.

Dragging black smoke trails, the B-17 followed its comrades and threw herself into the arms of Mother Earth.

A Japanese fighter jet that was hit in the tail by a P-40 fighter jet, dragging a long black smoke and trembling fuselage trembled into the B-17 group from the sky above right, and crashed headlong into the cockpit of this B-17 bomber under the frightened gaze of the American pilot.

After the impact, the two fighters crashed to the ground together.

The remaining B-17 bombers turned around and headed north and began to move away from Myitkyina airfield.

Opposite them, in the northern sky, a formation of 36 B-25 medium bombers and eighteen P-47 fighters, has appeared in the sky.

Thanks to the destruction and suppression of Myitkyina airfield by the US Army Air Corps, the Luftwaffe operated exceptionally smoothly over the road connecting Myitkyina to Ubang.

After a half-hour flight, six FI-382 Black Hawk helicopters departing from Lido rounded the port of Taibang and, under radio guidance, found a FI-156 White Crane reconnaissance plane circling the sky about 10 kilometers directly south of the port of Yubang.

Under the command of the Hakutsuru reconnaissance plane, the helicopter pilots easily spotted a glade on the ground.

Looking down from the sky, the glade is an irregular oval, about forty or fifty meters long.

To the east of the glade, over the primeval forest, a north-south road can be seen.

Six Black Hawk helicopters flew straight into the glade, one landed directly, and the remaining five dropped their ropes.

Commandos from the 101st Special Air Service Regiment slipped down the rope to the surface, then removed supplies such as radios and tents from the helicopter on the ground.

After seeing the six helicopters return, a lieutenant felt out a compass and determined the direction, the lieutenant pointed in one direction and said, "The road is here, follow me." ”

A squad of soldiers was left behind to pitch their tents and operate the radio in the glade, while the rest of the soldiers followed the lieutenant into the depths of the forest.

About forty minutes after the lieutenant and his men left, a larger group of helicopters flew over the glade, but only two landed directly, and the remaining twenty-two turned their noses and flew east.

On the road to the east, seeing the group turn around and fly towards him, the German lieutenant asked his subordinates to put away their flare guns.

Twenty-two helicopters lowered their ropes on the road, and the soldiers of the 101 Special Air Service Regiment slipped to the ground.

Among the soldiers who arrived on the road in the second batch, the highest rank was Lieutenant Colonel Altman, who was also the commander of the steel brigade under the 101st Special Air Service Regiment.

Lieutenant Colonel Altman took a brief look at the terrain and then ordered his men to form positions facing south, preparing to intercept possible Japanese convoys.

After a whole morning of busyness and waiting, the helicopter group shuttled back and forth, and brought in the troops of the 1st Airborne Regiment under the 1st Airborne Division.

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At the Yubang Ferry, in the position of the Japanese army, Nagashi Nobutake Osaku was completely unaware of the enemy that appeared behind him, and all his attention was focused on the enemy in front of him.

At about nine o'clock in the morning, he received a telegram from the division headquarters that the airfield in Myitkyina had been attacked by Allied air forces and was currently being repaired, and it was temporarily impossible to provide him with air support.

In the telegram, division commander Shinichi Tanaka reminded him that the Allied air attack on Myitkyina airfield was likely a precursor to the launch of a general offensive, and asked him to pay careful attention to the enemy's movements.

Nagashi Shintake read the telegram three times repeatedly, and the originally hazy judgment in his heart became clearer.

As soon as it was dawn today, he noticed the abnormality of the German army, and the air raids that had been very regular did not appear.

Now another warning has been received from the division commander, and everything is unusual that the general attack of the Germans is likely to be today.

Nagashi Nobutake immediately radioed his judgment to the 114th Wing and the Artillery Wing on the east bank of the Dalong River, and after receiving a reply that they would fully cooperate, Nagaku Nobutake Dasa summoned the captains of his subordinates.

"According to my judgment, the enemy's general attack is today, and all the Imperial soldiers must have the determination to break all of them. It is the bad breed who can only use the cannon, and the real warrior who dares to see the red with the bayonet, let the blood of the Germans stain your bayonets, onboard. ”

After taking the captains to shout three times, Chang Xinzhu sent his subordinates away, reached out and took out a white strip of cloth from the pocket of his military uniform and wrapped it around his head.

On the forehead of the cloth strip is a red sun pattern, with two large black characters on each side, and the martial arts have been long.

After wrapping the strip of cloth, Nagashi Nobutake Dazuo picked up the command knife and walked out of the headquarters with high spirits, preparing to go to the front of the position to command nearby.

Nagashi Shintake was full of fighting spirit, but he didn't know what the German army on the other side was preparing for him under the fog of war.