However, Jiang Haoran did not hesitate at all, and when the Japanese naval guns appeared on the Inovady River, he decisively ordered Ma Weiji to scatter the 29th Division in the direction of Yingduo and Menggong in company and platoon, and searched all possible landing sites, especially to ensure the safety of the railway transportation line.

As for the line from Yingduo to Xidang, there is still a division of the 28th Division deployed along the riverside, and the 96th Division is deployed along the riverside to face Xidang, so this line is relatively safe.

Because of the appearance of naval artillery, the situation of the expeditionary force immediately became grim, and Meng Gong bore the brunt of it. The Japanese naval guns were obviously to assist the Japanese troops in the direction of Mina, with the strength of three divisions, and now with the support of naval guns, although Meng Gong is a natural danger, his strength is only three remnants of the 75th Army, plus the new 38th Division. Of course, there is also a heavy artillery regiment and a tank regiment, but even with these additions, the total strength is only more than 20,000, and it is difficult to block the bombing and attack of Japanese aircraft, heavy artillery, and male soldiers in turn.

The situation in the direction of Xidang is not much better, the 28th and 29th divisions were transferred to Jiangfang, and only three divisions of the Fifth Army were able to resist the enemy head-on, plus Liu Xianwei's airborne brigade, although the strength reached 50,000, but the battle line was long, there was no natural danger to station, and in the face of the two permanent divisions and regiments of the Japanese army without any damage, even if it was calculated according to the establishment of 38,000 permanent divisions and regiments of the Japanese army, the strength of the troops was 76,000, but the establishment of the Japanese Southern Army was larger than the establishment in China, and it was still unknown whether there was any supplement.

In fact, there has been no definite conclusion on the establishment of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army initially designed its structure with divisions and regiments as the largest independent combat units, and its status was equivalent to that of our army's group army, and the army was our army's theater-level command organ.

Divisions and independent brigades do not have a fixed scale structure, and are classified into two categories according to their uses: operational and public security, and combat-oriented divisions and regiments mainly refer to permanent divisions and special divisions.

As the core strength of the Japanese army, the basic structure of the permanent divisions is two infantry brigades, and the basic strength of each infantry brigade is two infantry wings, and one division and regiment has at least four infantry wings.

At the beginning of the war, the permanent divisions and regiments basically consisted of four infantry wings, and at the end of the war, the infantry brigades of some permanent divisions and regiments had more than five infantry wings, and the divisions and regiments still only had two infantry brigades, but the number of infantry wings increased to more than 10.

The minimum allocation of the subordinate strength of a permanent division is 1 field artillery wing, 1 baggage wing, 1 engineer wing, and 1 cavalry wing, and there is no upper limit at the maximum. In short, permanent divisions and regiments have only a minimum basic establishment, that is, four infantry wings plus one artillery wing, one engineer wing, one cavalry wing, and one baggage wing.

The number of infantry wings of permanent divisions has never been reduced, on the contrary, as the war progresses, the number of infantry wings continues to expand, and permanent divisions can divide some infantry to form other ad hoc divisions, but they themselves will be doubled.

Most of the special divisions and regiments within the 21-30 divisions of the Japanese army are expanded by independent field infantry brigades, and the 101-120 special divisions are transferred from reserve infantry brigades to active duty, but whether it is a brigade or a division, there is no standard scale to speak of, and the brigades and divisions are all formations such as battle groups, and it is possible that the difference between the large and small forces is 10 times.

In terms of size, the strength of the permanent divisions was between 25,000 and 50,000 in 1937, and 35,000-100,000 in the later part of the war.

The ad hoc divisions were not among the few super-ad divisions, between 22,000 and 15,000 in 1937 and 35,000-9,000 in the latter part of the war.

The 38,000-strong permanent division mentioned above was a non-standard division before 1936, and there has been no standard since then. By the end of the war, the strength of the permanent divisions was even larger, with the strength of the 7th Division jumping from 30,000 to 100,000 and the Guards Division from 50,000 to 80,000.

Therefore, it is impossible to use divisions and regiments to measure how many troops the Japanese army has, which is also the biggest problem of Jiang Haoran at present, and it is also the biggest hidden threat, once the two sides start a war, the enemy is too strong, and it will inevitably form a heavy crush, and once the defense line collapses, it will inevitably cause a situation of defeat like a mountain, and the defeat cannot be reversed at all.

Now the only thing that the expeditionary force can count on is helicopter gunships, but the Japanese army will definitely go all out to seize air supremacy, and perhaps, at this time, several aircraft carriers have been moored in the port of Yangon, and the navy's carrier-based aircraft plus the fifth flight group of the army aviation force have unimaginable how strong the air supremacy is.

The military meeting began at 8 p.m. and ended at 12 a.m. without any progress, and it was obvious that in the case of heavy troops, tactics alone could no longer solve the problem, and the key was to have strength.

The questions were all laid out, making the headquarters quiet, and everyone was at a loss, even Jiang Haoran held his hands in front of his chest, his brows were deeply locked, and his eyes were lowered.

After a long time, Liu Bao suddenly slapped the table and said angrily: "Fuck it, in my opinion, don't worry about anything, transfer Ye Zhaofeng's flight team out tonight, anyway, the Japanese planes are not capable of night combat, and we have radar planes to escort us, search all the way along the Inovady River, find out the Japanese ships tonight, and blow it up overnight, get rid of him all the way." ”

Huang Jie said: "Brigade Commander Liu, what you said is easy, this big night, how can the pilot search for the Japanese ships from a high altitude with the naked eye, and you can't fly too low, the Japanese dare to blatantly drive the ships in, you must have done enough precautions in air defense, maybe you haven't found them yet, and the Japanese anti-aircraft machine guns swept down a few of your planes." ”

Deputy Commander-in-Chief Luo Zhuoying took over the topic and said: "Yes, the chief of staff's words are very reasonable, the Japanese army can be said to be taking a huge risk by driving ships into the Inovady River, not to mention the threat of planes and helicopters to them, if we know the news in advance, it is enough to arrange an artillery position by the river, it is enough to make them have nothing to hide, but the Japanese army is here at these risks, it can be seen that they must have made sufficient preparations in terms of prevention, at least in terms of air defense, they definitely think that it is not leaky, because once they lose air supremacy, A few aerial bombs can sink them all to the bottom of the river, so the idea of striking them from the air is definitely basically unworkable. ”

Liu Bao continued: "Then we can only compete with them for air supremacy, our 40th Group Army Flying Group can transfer at least 200 Mustang fighters, and after the 14th Air Group of the US Army is replenished, the number of fighters will also reach three or four hundred. ”

As soon as Liu Bao's words came out, everyone looked at Jiang Haoran, in fact, everyone felt that this was their only way out at present, but they all knew very well that the price paid in this way was definitely not small, not to mention the loss of the 40th Group Army Flight Group, at least it would not be able to recover in the short term, which was tantamount to cutting the flesh on Jiang Haoran's heart, so everyone was silent about it.

The silence for a moment made Jiang Haoran raise his head, looking at everyone looking at him, and quickly understood what everyone was thinking, but then what he said surprised everyone.

Jiang Haoran got up and said: "Okay, this is the end of today's meeting, commanders at all levels have returned to their command positions and defended with all their might, whoever has a problem with the defense line because of a mistake, don't blame me for being unsympathetic, I hope everyone will go all out, no matter how fierce the enemy's attack is, you have to fight to the death for three days, after three days, the situation of the battle will take a turn." ”

Everyone looked at each other, they didn't know what kind of medicine Jiang Haoran was selling in the gourd, the military meeting was dismissed without any results, and the turning point after these three days was simply nowhere to be found, where was it?

Liu Bao immediately commented on the doubts in everyone's minds, but Jiang Haoran didn't talk to him at all and drove them out directly.

There were only Huang Jie, Leng Rushuang and the Mei sisters left in the conference room, and Huang Jiehu said suspiciously: "Boss, your turning point after three days is a plan to delay the army, and relax everyone's hearts, right?" ”

"Huh!" Jiang Haoran smiled deeply and said, "It's not all, it depends on whether Stilwell can say that the government of the United States can be moved?" If the Mi Army helps from this, our threat is immediately reduced. ”

"Mi Jun helps? How can this help, the Mi army has no troops in Myanmar and India? ”

"Burma and India don't, but they can appear in the Pacific!"

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Rice country, White House.

Army Chief of Staff Marshall knocked on President Roosevelt's door overnight, and Stilwell sent the latest Burmese war report from India, and the situation was so urgent that Marshall did not dare to slack off.

Marshall returned from India, the United States Navy received the Yangtze River Shipyard two aircraft carriers on the same day, the production drawings of the Cobra armed helicopter have been distributed to various aircraft manufacturers, the drawings of the Hellcat carrier-based aircraft have also immediately entered the aviation research center of the United States, and yesterday there was news that the design of the Hellcat carrier-based aircraft is very reasonable, almost impeccable, and it is completely designed for the advantages of the Japanese Zero fighter, and has surpassed the Zero fighter in terms of performance.

The most praised by experts is that the design drawings of Hellcat proposed the concept of installing radar on the wingtip fairifiers, so that the same aircraft can achieve all-weather combat, and at the same time, two missiles are hung under the wings, which realizes the accuracy of the aircraft airdrop, and the firepower is also greatly improved.

Jiang Haoran's performance against the sky shocked the top level of the United States government, but what excited them the most was the direct benefits that Jiang Haoran brought to them, as for the seemingly unreasonable conditions proposed by Jiang Haoran, they all felt irrelevant.

Opening the door, Roosevelt did not feel very strange about Marshall's arrival, the pragmatic attitude of the people of the United States is not at the same level as that of the Chongqing government, no matter when, everything is based on government affairs.