The group quickly walked out of the command headquarters, only to see that there were already several fighter jets in the air fighting and chasing. Not far away, two Mustang fighters were biting a Japanese Zero on the left and right, and the bullets were shooting towards the Japanese planes like a rain of arrows, but the Japanese Zero swing wings left and right, and miraculously flashed the bullets flying over, and then suddenly pulled up a big roundabout, and instantly turned to the rear of the two Mustangs, several machine guns simultaneously strafed the Mustang fighters on the left, and the Mustang fighters immediately rolled and dodged to the left, but they were still not fast enough, and smoke came out of the tail, which was obviously hit by the Japanese planes. Fortunately, the Mustang fighter on the right instantly turned its nose and fired wildly at the Japanese Zero, the Japanese Zero trembled, obviously also hit, gave up the chase, and suddenly dived to escape the Mustang shooting boundary, but when it was pulled up again, the Mustang that was bitten was hit again, and instantly exploded and disintegrated in the air, forming a huge spark.

The injured Mustang also seemed to be very serious, with smoke trailing from its tail, and the nose of the plane dived straight down, and then saw a white flower floating in the sky, the pilot had already parachuted, and the Mustang fighter plunged into the jungle in the distance, and a mushroom cloud rose from the jungle for a long time. And this tragic scene played out from time to time in the whole sky, the roar of machine guns and machine guns, explosions, and raging fires filled the whole sky, and this is still the limited airspace visible in the Hukang River Valley, at this time, the entire sky over northern Myanmar is afraid that a tragic aerial strangulation is being staged.

The time of the air battle is often not too long, the flight distance of both sides is not short, the fuel and ammunition are almost exhausted and they have to return, after the Japanese planes leave the airspace, a fighter is still hovering over the Hukang River Valley, although I don't know what the result of the air battle is, but at least the Japanese army retreated first, which has shown that the national army has won the victory in the air battle.

Sure enough, Mei Xiang's walkie-talkie sounded rustling, and Ye Zhaofeng's excited voice was immediately heard from the walkie-talkie, informing them that they had defeated the Japanese army's attack, and it was the Japanese army's carrier-based aircraft team that came, and Jiang Haoran was reassured that their flight group was ready for combat at any time and would ensure that they firmly controlled the air supremacy in northern Burma.

Jiang Haoran didn't say much, simply asked him about the battle damage, and ordered him to return immediately, taking advantage of the fact that the enemy might not come back so soon, and immediately cover the airborne troops.

After the plane hovering in the air left, Jiang Haoran's brows were also deeply locked, the Japanese army knew that the national air force over Burma was strong at this time, but still sent fighter planes to conduct air combat, this is not a good phenomenon, indicating that the Japanese army is going to make a desperate bet.

At the same time, the strength of the Chinese Air Force is in fact a false strength, the production capacity of the 331 base is not at the same level as Japan, even if the Japanese army loses a hundred aircraft, it may not take a few days to replenish it, but the 331 base needs a year, basically one less than one is knocked out, if the Japanese army comes to such an air battle or two for several days in a row, I am afraid it will not take long to reverse the air supremacy of Burma, that is to say, there is not much time left for Jiang Haoran, he must cripple the Japanese troops on the defense line as soon as possible, Only by quickly completing this major strategic shift will it be possible to completely get out of the current predicament and smoothly enter a stage of strategic stalemate.

Just when Jiang Haoran was in reverie, there was a sudden rumbling of artillery at the bottom of the mountain, and he saw that the entire forward position of the Hukang River Valley was shrouded in artillery fire, and it was not difficult to see from the density of artillery shells that the Japanese artillery fire was at least more than 50 guns, and the bombardment area included the entire outpost.

Fortunately, Jiang Haoran temporarily moved the main battlefield back last night, and the shells were basically smashed in the forward stretch area and the outpost area.

Judging from the distance of the shells and the area of destruction, the Japanese army only used the 75 mountain artillery and the 75 field artillery, the attack distance of the 75 mountain artillery was more than 6,000 meters, and the distance of the 75 field artillery was only more than 8,000 meters, but Jiang Haoran's main battlefield was set 10,000 meters away, and although the Japanese artillery fire was fierce, the casualties brought by it were not too great.

In the face of the enemy's artillery attack, Jiang Haoran handled it calmly, and now he hoped that the enemy's attack would be as fierce as possible, because this would be closer to his goal of crippling the enemy as soon as possible.

But Huang Jie, the chief of staff on the side, looked at Jiang Haoran with a confused look in his eyes, and his heart had already set off a huge Lang, yesterday he also felt that Jiang Haoran was a little too much, building the main battlefield on the river, using the height of the riverbed to prevent the Japanese army from crossing the river, which is not wrong in itself, in line with the point of occupying favorable terrain, but now it seems that the favorable terrain is actually a disadvantage, under such a powerful artillery fire of the enemy, the casualties have to approach three or four percent, not to mention half, the national army still can't hold the main battlefield, on the contrary, the main force is preserved, As soon as the enemy's artillery fire stopped, and then used the troops in the forward area to block the enemy's offensive, the main force quickly reached the outpost area from the trench shaped like an ant's nest, which could still block the enemy's offensive and invisibly expand the depth behind them.

Huang Jie is also a general, in the handling of this kind of details, he is ashamed, but often determines the victory of the war in the handling of these details, at this point, he has to admire Jiang Haoran, but what he didn't expect is that the battlefield he saw was only the tip of the iceberg.

The headquarters is located in a high position, the entire battlefield and the entire river valley are under the noses of everyone, with the help of telescopes, it can be clearly seen that a large number of boats and rafts have appeared in the river, the Japanese army is crossing the river under the cover of artillery fire, and a large number of sappers have begun to build pontoon bridges.

It was now the dry season, the water area of the Hukang River was less than 100 meters wide, and in ten minutes, the locust-like Japanese troops began to land, and the dense artillery shells also extended backwards as much as possible.

To say that the Chinese soldiers are really not inferior to the soldiers of any country in the same period, in the forward stretch area on the top of the strength of only one battalion and three companies, after the baptism of the Japanese artillery fire, from the beginning of the Japanese landing they actively returned fire, although the artillery behind them rumbled, a fire dragon separated them from the main force, but they did not show the slightest timidity, using all kinds of weapons in their hands to effectively block the enemy, since in a short period of time with the first batch of Japanese troops landing about a brigade of stalemate.

As more and more Japanese troops landed, the soldiers began to shrink their forces in an orderly manner and retreated, and in Jiang Haoran's plan, they were to stick to the enemy's artillery fire to block the enemy's attack until the enemy's artillery fire stopped.

Undoubtedly, they did it, and half an hour later, the enemy's artillery fire was constantly advancing because of the infantry, and the enemy was afraid of hurting his own men and had to stop the shelling, but the national army with a battalion in front was still holding back, although the gunfire was sparse and scattered, but they did not give up.