readx; After the sun goes down, the Burmese women bathe and put on clean and beautiful clothes, combing their long black hair with ivory on their heads. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info evening is the most watery moment for Myanmar women. It is said that the soldiers are dedicated to this time, they are very drunk, through the streets and alleys, enter when they see the door, and rob the women when they see them.

In this regard, Maruyama Daisa is more conservative. He was the commander of the 114th Wing of the Honhon, the former supreme commander stationed in Myitkyina, and was directly under the command of Honda Masasa, who was stationed in Mai Miao. Maruyama Osa generally did not "fight in the wilderness," preferring to go to the military "comfort station" in an ancient temple in Myitkyina, where there were "comfort women" specially prepared for officers. Most of the "comfort women" were recruited from their own country, and a few came from North Korea and Taiwan. Maruyama Osa was stout and sturdy, no more than five feet tall, round and round, like a big meatball. He had a flat, short face and a deep scar on his right cheek, which was said to have been struck by a stray bullet during the fighting in Singapore. The scab of the scar was shiny and wrinkled, as if it had been burned with an electric soldering iron. In this way, the right side of the face is more "pumped" and shorter. As a result, the whole face was kicked like a freshly debilitated earthen bowl, which was crooked and particularly ugly.

Maruyama Osa is a veteran soldier who likes well-trained soldiers as well as experienced women. Let's talk about "hometown flavor", after all, it is more to his appetite.

It just so happened that another "comfort station" in Myitkyina was opened. Among them, there is a "comfort woman" recruited from Osaka who is very beautiful, Maruyama Osa, as the supreme governor of Myitkyina, came to visit, and naturally got the "comfort" of the beauty from Osaka.

Until the next morning, when the American "looters" and the officers and men of the 19th Chinese Regiment lurked on the banks of the Nangui River, Maruyama Osa was still hugging the Osaka "comfort woman" on the "tatami" bed.

In a forest of mango and teak trees on the banks of the Nam Kwai River, improvised tents have been erected. After arriving here in the early morning of 16 July, the officers and men of Detachment K of the Chinese and American contingents began to take a short rest. If anyone pays attention, this forest is still quite beautiful. This small basin formed by the alluvium of the Nangui River is flat and fertile, the tall trees are like an open cloth umbrella, the forest is breezy and the shade-loving ferns cling to the earth, growing a dense layer, like a carpet for the forest. The sky is green, the ground is green, the air is green, the water is green, and even the sun is green. May is the flowering season, and the green bushes are dotted with clusters of flowers, and there is a faint fragrance everywhere. This floral fragrance is sometimes strong and sometimes light, if there is nothing, like the perfume on the girl's body, however, it is more fresh and elegant than perfume, simple and pleasant. A happy forest covered by green shade, birds singing and flowers.

It's a pity that the officers and men of the Chinese and American contingents have been trekking through the woods for a long time, their clothes are ragged and tired, and not many people have the heart to appreciate this cool world.

The American "looters" are eager to attack immediately. They are anxious to see the prey of their hands, how can they hold it? What's more, they knew that as long as they took the Myitkyina airfield, their entire mission in the hated Burmese jungle would be completed, and they could withdraw from the battlefield and fly back to the rear.

Later, the leaders gave the order to rest with a mandatory surname, and they returned to their respective positions. Some set up tea pots and brewed the last small packet of coffee. After drinking, he dropped the tea jar as well. Because they believe that tomorrow, there will be no need to lie in the jungle and drink coffee in a tea jar. Some of them played a simple game called "fortune telling" by themselves, and many more American soldiers were sleeping with their heads covered.

The mood of the soldiers of the 19th Regiment of China was also high. The first time you fight a war in Burma, you must fight beautifully. They were scrambling to wipe their weapons and mend their clothes. Tighten your leggings, tie your shoelaces tightly, and get ready to charge.

The members of the Savage Rangers were not ordered to rest, and they were immediately sent out to listen for information. It's a no-brainer for them to do it. The only extra thing that needs to be prepared is to find a pair of shorts for each person, and replace the ugly "curtain" made of animal skins. In this way, they can pass through the military posts with the locals in a grand manner, and enter and exit the city. This can only be done by them. The Americans simply can't do it, they just get in the way with their big noses. Neither can the Chinese, who neither speak nor understand the local vernacular.

Brigadier General Merrill sat in a hammock with two long legs on the ground. In another hammock nearby, sat Colonel Hunt. After reaching the southern edge of Kumanshan, Meriel's command post had been operating with Detachment K. Having not seen the sun for a long time in the jungle, Meriel's red nose, which had been peeled from the sun, was a little pale, and the temples were wrapped in duct tape, which had been broken in the jungle. As he slowly smoked his cigar and listened to the information sent back by the scouts one after another, Merrill couldn't help but feel a burst of ecstasy in his heart, and he said to Hunter:

"God forbid, I am still in the dark! That's great! ”

When he heard that there were only more than 300 soldiers guarding the airport, that the airport was empty, and that the runway had not been destroyed, Merriel exclaimed in surprise: "Oh my God"

Not good! Merrill suddenly felt tightness in his chest and his heart tightened. Seeing his face change sharply, Hunter hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, General?" Melliel clutched his chest and replied, "The old mistake has been done again." He quickly took out a small medicine bottle, swallowed two tablets of nitroglycerin, and slowly felt his chest feel more comfortable.

It turned out that after 20 days of trekking in the forest, his body was extremely tired, and his heart, which was not strong, was like an overrun classic car, and he was about to crawl. The information at Myitkyina Airport was surprisingly good, and when he was excited, he stepped on the accelerator of the "classic car" to the end, and almost stalled.

"Orientals, they were engaged in psychological tactics, and they almost killed me."

After calming down, Meryl beckoned to Colonel Hunt and said:

"In my experience, the more ripe the grapes, the more careful you have to be when picking them. Brother, let's discuss tomorrow. ”

On the morning of May 19, Captain Hirai brushed his teeth, washed his face, and carefully combed his mustache in front of the mirror, and then put on his military hat and weapon, and stepped out of the underground shelter.

At the entrance of the cave, he habitually looked up at the sky, only to see the blue sky cloudless, and a waning moon still hanging on the western wall of the sky. And in the east, a round of red is jumping out of the horizon, and the whole earth is bathed in the golden light of the morning sun. On the runway, wisps of white mist rise, and on the grass on both sides, dew drops sparkle in the morning light.

"It's another sunny day. Good weather. ”

A smile appeared on Hirai Nakasa's face. He was a soothsayer, and last night, the weather forecast he provided to Maruyama Daisa was accurate.

But what about today's duty situation? Is it also "safe and sound"?

Myitkyina Airport has been quiet during this period. At the beginning of the year, U.S. planes bombed Myitkyina airfield once a week, and after mid-April, the U.S. Air Force barely visited the area because of heavy fighting in the Mon Gong Valley. Actually, there is nothing left to bomb at Myitkyina airport. The airfield was built by the British, but Stilwell expanded it to withdraw troops from Burma to India. But before Stilwell could use it, the Chinese expeditionary force was defeated and retreated from Savage Mountain. After the occupation of Myitkyina, the facilities were further increased, so that at the peak of the Myitkyina airport, more than 200 planes were parked. However, since the beginning of this year, the US military has frequently engaged the Yuben Air Force in the Pacific region, and almost all of the Yuben planes at Myitkyina Airport have been transferred to the South Pacific. So, now the airport is empty. There were no planes taking off and landing, there were a lot of gasoline drums, ox carts and firewood piled up on the runway, and the weeds were growing taller.

The 15th Airfield Brigade of the Japanese Army, which was guarding the airport, originally had more than 500 people, but Maruyama Osa said: "Since the 'birds' have flown away!" Why should I send so many troops to guard an empty bird's nest? Maruyama Osa gradually reduced his forces to the city, and the guard of the airfield was reduced to just over 300 people. There isn't much to do with just 300 people. Captain Hirai Nakasa reported to Maruyama Osa, such as "safe and sound" and the weather forecast for the next day, every night, and then yawned and burrowed into the bed.

Nakasa Hirai left the shelter and walked around the airport, then to the grass on the tarmac, where he breathed the morning air greedily with his mouth wide open, and then finished a workout set. At this time, the mist gradually lifted, and the earth began to bare under the blue sky. Birds leap through the woods, and cicadas whisper in their ears. The soldiers guarding the airport began a new day's work

Everything is organized and undisturbed.

The sun rises over the treetops at about 10 o'clock. The sun was not as lovely as it was in the morning, the temperature was rising sharply, the dew on the grass had long since dried up, and the ground was steaming hot. The birds and cicadas began to get tired.

At this moment, a terrible siren sounded from the city of Myitkyina, and then the alarm at the airport also howled. The devil soldiers outside the fortifications immediately burrowed into the hole like rats.

It must have been too late to call the police. Before the first siren sounded, the US bombers were already flying over Myitkyina.

Under the exposure of the sun, Myitkyina City was like a wilted banana leaf, without thick smoke, and some ran to the place where the bomb had just fallen to see how powerful the American bomb really was, and some ran around on the runway, laughing, and they laughed at the fact that the American plane was blind and had let go of such an important target as the airport.

They thought they had a good day!

In fact, the officers and men of the Chinese 19th Regiment who were ambushed around the airport were waiting for this moment when they got carried away.

Brigadier General Merrill yesterday, after careful consideration, decided to place the assault on the airfield after the heavy air raid on the city, so as to paralyze the defenders of the airfield and to try to destroy the enemy positions in the city as much as possible before the capture of the airport, thus paving the way for the occupation of the whole city in the future.

At the same time, he decided to give the task of capturing the airfield to the 19 regiment. The "looter" forces were sent to capture another target, the Irrawaddy River crossing. The "looters" were not happy at first. They decided that the capture of the airfield was their return date, fearing that Meryl the Red Nose would change his mind. Merrill was not the same, he was entrusted by Stilwell to take charge of the capture of Myitkyina, including the airport. He thought more about the siege after the capture of the airfield. The siege task was destined to be completed by the squadron, so he linked the capture of the airport to the next combat mission of capturing the railway station and developing the city area, and let the Americans choose the candidate. The "looters" had no choice but to curse and agree to take the ferry.

When the US planes bombed Myitkyina, the officers and men of the 19th Regiment lay in the jungle around the airport, feeling the trembling of the earth, and their hearts were about to jump out, like a military general on the stage, hearing the sound of gongs that created an atmosphere and paved the way for his appearance.

Finally, the air raid ended, and the soldiers at the airport climbed out of the fortifications, all exposed to the guns of the [***] team. The gongs and drums passing through the door turned into a hurried "inverted board", and the military general appeared.

"Rush!"

With a wave of his arm, the regimental commander raised his pistol and jumped out of the bushes first.

The officers and men of the whole regiment came out of the mountain like fierce tigers and pounced on the enemy together.

The appearance of Chinese officers and soldiers at the airport was even more sudden than the air raid just now, and there was not even a sound alarm.

Just now, some of them came out of the fortifications without even a gun; I can't get down when I climb the watchtower; The people who were fighting on the runway were even more panicked, and how could they hide on the flat runway?

After suffering in the jungle for more than 20 days, the officers and men of the 19th Regiment have made a big deal today. In less than half an hour, more than 300 devils in the airport were cleaned up. That Hirai Nakasa, before he could even pull out his command knife, was shot dead next to an ox cart. The two beards that had just been combed in the morning were stained with blood, and a pair of distracted little eyes looked up at the blue sky in surprise. He couldn't figure out until he died: what the hell was going on today?

Brigadier General Meryl was so happy that he kept screaming "oh oh". With a carbine in his hand, he followed the attacking team to the airport. When he was convinced that the airport was firmly in the hands of the [***] team, at 10:50 he sent Stilwell a secret signal of "The Merchant of Venice".

"The Merchant of Venice" is the secret phrase agreed between Stilwell and Merrill when he left Mengguan, which means "the transport plane can land".

It is said that the "merchant of Venice", who has been waiting for it all night, has finally arrived. Stilwell looked at Meryl's coded telegram, and the wrinkles on his face widened. After kissing him on the newspaper, he took out a small notebook from his jacket pocket, put it on his knees, and hurriedly wrote down a word:

Cheer!

Reinforcements that have been on standby at Indian airfields for a long time took off immediately!

At 13:30 p.m., more than 100 US Douglas transport planes, towing gliders, flew through the clouds and fog to Myitkyina Airport. Over the airport, the aircraft motor roared, obscuring the clouds. From time to time, a few cannons were heard on the ground from the anti-aircraft artillery positions of the Myitkyina army. However, the sound of the army's artillery was gradually swallowed up by the thunderous sound of engines.

After adjusting their flight attitudes, one after another gliders broke away from the transport planes and began to dive and land on the runway, and Myitkyina Airport, which had been deserted for a long time, suddenly became noisy and crowded.

On the first voyage, the 8th Regiment of the 2nd New Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the 819th Aviation Technical Brigade of the United States all arrived by air. After nightfall, the light is still used to continue the airlift.

The next day, May 20, Stilwell flew to Myitkyina in a light plane. He was accompanied by 12 journalists. Stilwell was beaming, still wearing that old-fashioned oil-stained combat cap on his head and a carbine under his right shoulder. After getting off the plane, he hugged Brigadier Merrier, who had come to greet him, and laughed loudly.

The reporters shot the shot.

The success of Operation "King Cobra" put Stilwell at the most glorious moment of the war in northern Burma.

Since the Burma War in 1942, Myitkyina has been a place that Stilwell has thought of but has never been able to reach. It was the fall of Myitkyina that led to the fiasco of the past. Two years ago, while fleeing to India, he Stilwell vowed to fight back from northern Burma, and now he has fulfilled it. In front of the whole world, Stilwell can confidently say: I can do what I say!

The occupation of Myitkyina was crucial for the entire Chinese theater of operations. With this airport, air transport from India to China can avoid towering and steep humps, transit through Myitkyina, shorten the route, reduce the flight altitude, and immediately multiply the volume of air transport. Between Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek, and Stilwell, the long-standing quarrel of hump air traffic was solved. In the long run, the recovery of Myitkyina has cleared away important obstacles on the Sino-Indian highway and enabled rapid progress in road construction and tubing projects. Once the China-India Highway opens, more reliable ground transport will replace air transport.

A more important and direct result than the increase in traffic is that Myitkyina's fall into the hands of the Central [***] team is tantamount to driving a wedge in the defense line of the Yue army in northern Burma and western Yunnan. This in turn led to the bankruptcy of enemy defenses in Southeast Asia.

Prior to this, not only did they consider Myitkyina to be the most solid link in their entire defensive chain, but even the British asserted that the Chinese forces were currently unable to capture Myitkyina, and even if they were to be captured, it would be difficult to ensure it.

What Stilwell hoped was to occupy Myitkyina by extraordinary means, cut the throat of the army, and kill him; At the same time, he slapped the British guy unexpectedly.

Now, Stilwell's wishes have all come true.

The world was shocked when the Chinese and American troops seized Myitkyina Airport and the photos of Stilwell hugging Merrill and laughing at the airport wearing a combat cap and a carbine on his shoulder.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent a sternly worded telegram from London to Mountbatten, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in Southeast Asia, questioning him:

"What kind of tricks did the Americans use to embarrass us in Myitkyina? Did General Mountbatten anticipate this? ”

Churchill's annoyance was justified. Ten days earlier, on May 6, he had received a telegram from Mountbatten predicting that "the occupation of northern Burma, including Myitkyina, will not be easy, and more troops will need to be committed to it." ”

Mountbatten was in an awkward position. As the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in the Southeast Asia Theater, he did not know anything about such a major military operation within his jurisdiction, but Stilwell was still nominally the deputy commander of the Southeast Asian Theater and his deputy. This made him lose face even more.

The British are the most decent "gentlemen"!

(To be continued)