"Heighten your vigilance! Zhuang Jihua looked at the group of planes heading west, thoughtfully commanded the Lan, Dai Anlan's slender body looked heroic and tall in the sunset, he arrived with the new 39th Division yesterday. The whole book

Dai Anlan was also puzzled as he looked at the Japanese planes that continued to fly westward, he had already seen that a considerable part of these planes were transport planes, and he judged that these planes were airdropping supplies to the besieged Watanabe. But why didn't they airdrop it? He looked up and wanted to ask, but Zhuang Jihua had already turned around and entered the house. He could only arrange the city defenses with full doubts.

Zhuang Jihua returned to the house, "The breakthrough of the Kou Army was successful, the 22nd Division fell into chaos, Watanabe struggled to support, and the New 38th Division and the New 22nd Division stuck the 56th Division like two pliers, repeatedly attacking the Japanese defense line.

The development of Lashio City is going well, but Yu Chengwan of Meimiao is under great pressure. After the new 28th Division arrived at Meimiao, it immediately threw itself into the attack on the 33rd Division, the 33rd Division and the Independent Brigade were already on a par, and the new 28th joined, and the 33rd Division, which was already crumbling, no longer ignored Tanaka Shinichi's orders, pulled out its feet and fled backwards, and Xiao Lu Ruishan took the opportunity to wave his army to pursue, especially Fang Qiming. In this contest with Han Xinfa, he lost the upper hand, and it was Han Xinfa who seized the commanding heights of the entire battlefield that made the battle situation tilt violently towards the independent brigade. After the war, it is natural to put it first. Fang Qiming chased after him unconvinced, and bit the antlers united, Lu Ruishan was worried that he would rush forward, so he had to force the whole brigade to press. Just as Lu Ruishan was about to continue the pursuit, Yu Chengwan's telegram flew and he had abandoned Mandalay.

Lu Ruishan reluctantly stopped the pursuit. Led his troops back to Meimiao and entered the city, Yu Chengwan's order came again, ordering Liu Bolong to lead the new 28th Division to retreat to the Moya Valley, occupy the high ground on both sides of the valley, and build a blocking position. After Liu Bolong showed the order to Lu Ruishan, after handing over the position, he quickly drove towards the Moya River Valley. Lu Ruishan did not wait long for the new 46th Division to arrive, and the new 46th Division was extremely passive in blocking this time, and was led by the nose of the 55th Division to run around, the troops were exhausted, and the losses were also very large. Division commander Zuo Yongxian began to scold his mother when he saw Lu Ruishan. Lu Ruishan won the battle, but he didn't let him chase after him, and he was not in a good mood, so the two began to scold their mother together.

Su Xiaojun and the deputy commander of the new 46th Division, Wan Li, had to smile bitterly, and in the end, Shi Yuanxing, the chief of staff, stepped forward to persuade them to eat first, and then scolded after eating, but they didn't expect the two to refuse at the same time, one took a steamed bun and began to inspect the position.

Before dawn the next day, Yu Chengwan led the new 44th Division to withdraw to Meimiao, and then Tanaka Shinichi chased after Meimiao, and the New Eighth Army launched a large-scale blocking battle with the Japanese army on the periphery of Meimiao.

"Shinichi Tanaka is going crazy." Zhuang Jihua glanced at the telegram in his hand and disdainfully left it on the table, it was Yu Chengwan, just one day. Shinichi Tanaka launched more than a dozen attacks in all directions, and the positions of the New Eighth Army were broken through several times. Yu Chengwan blocked it several times, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.

Yu Jishi looked at the map and said with some worry: "If the New Eighth Army can't stop it, Tanaka will go straight to the Moya River Valley, and the new 28th Division's combat effectiveness is slightly weaker, and it will be difficult to stop it." ”

"No" Zhuang Jihua shook his head: "Brother Shi Jian can do it, besides, I didn't ask them to defend it, they can give up Meimiao, as long as they don't retreat to Papani Mountain." ”

Papani Hill is the last barrier of the southern line of Lashio, and it is also the bottom line stipulated by Zhuang Jihua.

Zhuang Jihua could fully imagine how tragic Yu Chengwan's resistance battle was, as many regiment-level officers were killed in the New Eighth Army, two brigade-level officers were wounded, and the casualties of the troops amounted to 40 percent.

"Do you want to let the new 39th Division go out of Papani Mountain?" Xiao Yi quietly suggested tentatively.

"No," Zhuang Jihua vetoed without hesitation: "The new 39th Division must stay in Lashio." Until the annihilation of Watanabe. ”

Zhuang Jihua raised his head and glanced at the generals in the room: "The key now is Watanabe, as long as Watanabe is taken, the initiative of the entire Myanmar will be under our control." ”

"Then, some troops from the New 39th Division will join the siege." Yu Jishi also suggested: "This way the troops are more sufficient." ”

"No," Zhuang Jihua also vetoed: The "103rd Army and the 58th Army" Kou Army, 150,000 troops, surrounded and annihilated two divisions that had run out of ammunition and food, and had been fighting for four days. ”

After a pause, his tone changed to resolute: "Order Sun Liren and Huang Botao Luhan to strengthen the offensive." Lashio was guarded by the New 39th Division, and the whole army of the Small 58th Army joined the battle to encircle and annihilate Watanabe. ”

The division of the 58th Army was annihilating the Hosokawa Wing at Lapopa Mountain, and the "Concave Division was guarding the city of Lashio", and these two units did not enter the battle due to heavy casualties, and now Zhuang Jihua wants to throw them into the battle as well.

What made it difficult for the squadron was that it was difficult to fight at night in the jungle, so the attack had to be stopped as soon as it was dark, and the Japanese army could adjust it at night and rebuild the defensive line. On the contrary, Shinichi Tanaka was able to storm around the clock.

"Don't be afraid of night battles, we are chaotic, and the enemy is chaotic, as long as you don't let the devil be peaceful." Zhuang Jihua's tone has

There was a lot of good news from all fronts, the 66th Army had defeated the Japanese-Thai forces on the periphery of Jingdong and was in pursuit; The special forces led by Song Yunfei and Zhao Hanjie attacked the Japanese convoy near Pingmanna and blew up the Pingmanna Bridge, interrupting the Japanese transportation for a time.

But the encirclement and annihilation of Watanabe progressed slowly, and no division was defeated in four days, which made Zhuang Jihua a little dissatisfied, and he must strengthen the attack on Watanabe, only by annihilating Watanabe, the pressure on Yu Chengwan will be reduced, and even disappear.

"Shi Jian, then he won't increase his troops?" Yu Jishi was not worried about Yu Chengwan, the new Eighth Army blocked the Tanaka New 14th Division with a single army of nearly 80,000 troops, the difficulty can be imagined, you must know that the Battle of Honghu, the initial total strength of the Japanese army was only 100,000.

"Let him persevere, the key now is Watanabe. Solve Watanabe, everything is in our hands. Zhuang Jihua still shook his head: "Order the Air Force to step up bombing, and tell Chennault that the Battle of Lashio has reached a critical moment, and the Air Force must not take it lightly, and a situation like today's will not happen again in the future." ”

The sudden arrival of the Japanese plane in Lashio made Zhuang Jihua a little surprised, and also made his dissatisfaction with Chennault even stronger, Chennault promised to support the expeditionary force, but the air power investment was always small, every day the plane came once in the morning and afternoon, each time only three or four, if it were not for the main force of the Japanese aircraft in the South Seas, not to take care of Burma, the sky of Lashio may be ruled by the Japanese plane.

The Air Force is an independent system, and when it is needed on the ground, it will request the Air Force Command, and the Air Force Commander will make unified arrangements. Zhuang Jihua now feels that this method is very inconvenient for operations, and the air force should be brought under the command authority of the theater commander and under the command of the theater commander, so that it can better cooperate with the operation.

Stilwell never spoke, he was very quiet now, surrounding Watanabe's troops, and he now understood that without Zhuang Jihua's order, he could not command every soldier of the expeditionary force. Now I heard Zhuang Jihua's tone faintly dissatisfied with Chennault. He was a little happy and a little helpless in his heart.

Stilwell was equally in command of Chennault. The independence of the China Aid Aviation Volunteer Corps is so strong that Chennault runs it as if it were his own independent kingdom. Stilwell secretly decided in his heart that this situation must be changed as soon as possible, and since the army could not be committed to the Far East, then the military presence of the United States could only be reflected by air power.

Seeing that Stilwell had no interface, Zhuang Jihua said to Yu Jishi: "You immediately contact General Chennault, and our plane must be present in the sky over Lashio for 12 hours."

The battle order was quickly issued to all combat units, and to Zhuang Jihua's surprise, his order on night combat was repeatedly pushed back by Sun Liren and Huang Botao.

Huang Botao's answer was that it was difficult to contact at night, and the 22nd Division in front of him had been divided, and the chaos at night could easily cause accidental injuries; Sun Liren said that it was unimaginable to fight at night in the jungle, Watanabe had been completely surrounded, and it was not easy to give full play to the superiority of firepower in night battles, which increased the casualties of the troops in vain.

Hearing the opinions of his subordinates, Zhuang Jihua almost scolded his mother on the spot, and Yu Jishi saw his annoyance. Without waiting for him to speak, he was pulled out of the headquarters and into the small courtyard outside the headquarters. Yu Jishi said slowly:

"Cultural Revolution, don't worry, they are front-line commanders. You haven't had a good rest for four days, and if you have a good rest, tomorrow it will be very different. ”

"Their movements are too slow, too slow" Zhuang Jihe was in an irritable mood, took the cigarette light handed by Yu Jishi, inhaled fiercely, and spewed out a large puff of smoke: "If the New Eighth Army can't withstand it, the whole battle situation will be out of control." ”

"I believe that Shi Jian, the New Eighth Army can withstand it" Yu Jishi shook his head and said: "Besides, there are still hundreds of kilometers from Meimiao to Lashio, even if they force the march, it will take two days, and the situation is still under our control." The principal transferred the Fifth Army to western Yunnan. The 200th Forward Division has also arrived in Dali, otherwise let the 200th Division come over first. ”

Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Fifth Army to be transferred to western Yunnan as a reserve for the entire Burma operation, and the commander of the Fifth Army, Xu Tingyao, had four divisions of two infantry corps and one tank division under his command, and the forward 200 divisions had arrived in Dali under the leadership of the division commander Gao Jiren.

"No, the Fifth Army is a mechanized army. It is suitable to fight in the plains, the principal should transfer him to Henan, you look at this road, this mountain, can the tank work. Zhuang Jihua shook his head and said: "Moreover, the 200 divisions were transferred from the border of Yunnan to western Yunnan, and the troops were tired, and it would take at least three days for the whole division to rush to Lashio, and if we did not eliminate Watanabe within three days, we must retreat from Lashio, and the annihilation of Watanabe was only the first step in reversing the situation in Burma, and we must also recover Mandalay." A confrontation with the Japanese army was formed in central Burma. ”

Yu Jishi nodded, indicating that he understood what Zhuang Jihua meant, but then he was stunned, what do you mean? Confrontation with the Japanese army in central Burma, not south to regain Yangon? ，！ Yi Xunshu is a fine concave and said that he shook off a different body clam

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