In the end, it was the air superiority of the American army that saved Colonel Lizberg.

In order to ensure that the 1st Marine Division could escape from the encirclement alive, MacArthur went crazy and mobilized all the air forces he could muster, the land-based fighters of the Air Force, the aircraft carrier aircraft at sea, all kinds of propellers, jets, fighters, bombers, almost obscured the sky of Changjin Lake, and the huge numerical superiority completely suppressed the quality superiority of a small number of volunteer MiG-15s, and then firmly grasped the air supremacy.

If it weren't for the various combat planes hovering over the US troops almost every moment, the 1st Marine Division would have been completely wiped out at this time, and they would still be able to support themselves on the battlefield everywhere, completely relying on endless aerial bombing and strafing, and countless volunteer soldiers fell under the fire of coagulated oil bombs and large-caliber machine guns.

After discovering the danger of the 7th Marine Regiment, a dozen pirates who had taken off from the aircraft carrier immediately after discovering the danger of the 7th Marine Regiment swooped down towards the artillery position of the 20th Army.

Their attack didn't go well, though.

These 12 heavy mortars are the treasure of the entire corps, a large number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns are deployed around them, after discovering the enemy planes coming, they immediately open fire to intercept them, double 37 anti-aircraft guns, 14.5 mm machine guns, and even 12.7 mm machine guns obtained from the Ming Dynasty, quickly compiled a blazing fire net, and at the same time those heavy mortars also began to quickly stop firing and go into concealment.

Fortunately, this can be regarded as saving Colonel Lizberg, at least he will not have to suffer from this terrible shell for the time being, after counting the losses. His Excellency the head of the regiment found out with sorrow. Just a few minutes of shelling. He lost nearly a battalion of troops, and it was clear that with another shelling like this, he should consider raising the white flag like Colonel Johnson.

However, he is not the worst on this battlefield, of course, neither is Lieutenant Colonel Drysdale, who is still struggling to support at this time, although he is indeed miserable now, but the worst on this battlefield is the 31st Regiment of the 7th Division of the US Army in Xinxingli, and they are already seriously considering the issue of raising the white flag at this time.

This regiment is the famous polar bear regiment.

Not actually a regiment. Rather, it consisted of two infantry battalions of two regiments, plus an artillery battalion, and the commander of the thirty-first regiment, Colonel McLean.

It's just an ex, because he just died in battle not so long ago.

Now represented by Lieutenant Colonel Faun.

At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Faun was in the process of breaking out.

Because the highway has actually been cut off and impassable, so this American army broke through on foot from the mountains and forests, although it was close to April, but the Gaima Plateau was still cold and snowy, although it was not to the point of freezing off the fingers, but it was definitely not comfortable, those unlucky remnants of the defeated generals. Trudging through the snowy pine forests, the almost never-ending sound of explosions around them. It's just a matter of distance.

"Xinhua Army!"

Lieutenant Colonel Faun, who was walking with a shallow foot, suddenly heard the frightened screams of soldiers not far away in his nostalgia for his Willis, followed by a sudden chaotic and dense sound of shooting, he subconsciously threw himself behind a big tree, almost at the same time a series of bullets hit his feet, His Excellency Lieutenant Colonel took his M1911, and very heroically shot at the shaky earthy figure opposite.

All around him, the American soldiers were lying on the ground or hiding behind trees, fighting their sudden opponents, and from time to time some of them slumped in the snow.

"Attack! Open the channel! ”

Lieutenant Colonel Faun heroically brandished his pistol and shouted, and the communications corpsman, who was hiding behind a tree not far away, immediately repeated the order over the radio.

Although reluctant, but also understood that there was no choice, the American soldiers immediately charged fiercely with rifles while firing with their rifles, as their opponents were accustomed to, and even Lieutenant Colonel Faun himself personally picked up the submachine gun of a fallen soldier and took the lead.

It was clear that their bravery had been rewarded, and although the opposing side was equally stubbornly resistant, the charging Americans quickly closed the distance, but at a somewhat heavy cost, leaving corpses and wounded soldiers all over their back, although this problem can be ignored in the current situation.

"Attack, attack, like your enemies, ...... fearlessly"

Lieutenant Colonel Faun held a submachine gun and roared frantically as he shot, but his roar stopped abruptly, and in an instant changed to a frightened expression, and almost at the same time on the ground not far in front of him, a burst of fire exploded, and the lieutenant colonel flew upside down like a dog that had been kicked violently, and slammed into a big tree, but it was not only him, the six attacking American soldiers near him were also overturned by the force of the explosion.

"Mines!"

The clever communications soldier lay in a dirt pit and shouted in horror, next to him was Lieutenant Colonel Faun, only by this time he was unrecognizable, his whole face was smashed, and he looked like a watermelon that had been stepped on.

But the warning of the signal corps was too late, and in front of the charging US troops, the same explosions kept sounding, and the US soldiers who were caught off guard were falling down in pieces under the blow of steel balls, but not far from them, the volunteers who were still holding on to the defensive line were not affected by the explosion in any way, and it was obvious that this mine was only effective against the attackers, so its identity was very clear.

"Directional mines, damn them!"

An American captain who had fought in the European theater screamed in horror and seemed to have a good memory for this kind of thing.

Indeed, what they are opposite is a directional mine, and it is a broadsword mine invented by the people of the United States themselves, such a good thing must of course be given to Comrade Li, Yang Yuanfeng a landmine alone, he exchanged this thing for 100,000 people, so that many years later he regretted the miscalculation of this deal, because Comrade Li did not use it up on the battlefield in Goryeo.

This thing was so ferocious that the attacking American troops were so frightened that they all immediately fell down, and at the same time, a nearby marching volunteer army had already outflanked their rear.

"General, Lieutenant Colonel Faun has lost contact there."

Half an hour later, in the headquarters of the 1st Marine Division in Xingnan Port, an officer said to Division Commander Smith in a sad tone.

Originally, this headquarters was in Xiajieyu, but because the situation there was severe, and if it continued, there might be a tragedy of the division commander being captured or killed, so he urgently retreated here by plane.

Regarding this news, Division Commander Smith just sighed helplessly, losing contact is nothing more than being killed or captured, but no matter which result, it means that the 31st Regiment of the United States Army is over, even if it is not completely wiped out, it will basically collapse at this time, and it will no longer be an established force, so we can only hope that they will escape as much as they want!

In fact, for the entire 1st Marine Division, what he can hope for now is that as much as he escapes, the fiasco is irreparable, but the defeat is just as miserable as it gets.

"This damn war."

His Excellency the General said helplessly.

"This damn war."

Thousands of kilometers away, in Goalpara, Lieutenant General Manekshaw, commander of the First Army of the Tianzhu Army, was also smiling wryly and saying the same words to him, and around this general, there were countless burning tanks, broken military vehicles, and dead bodies everywhere and weapons discarded at will, and the burly figure of the centurion tank rumbling in the distance was gradually becoming clear in the smoke of gunpowder, and in front of these tanks, there were groups of Tianzhu soldiers kneeling on the side with their hands raised.

This is the only bridgehead of the Tianzhu army on the banks of the Brahmaputra River, more than a month ago they took advantage of the Ming-Arab coalition army to change generals, the newly appointed commander of the Ming army Assam theater is not familiar with the situation caused by the defense loopholes, in one fell swoop to break through the Brahmaputra River defense line, and quickly consolidated the position, although after failing to expand the occupation area, but still let Tianzhu a cheer, even he himself was named Sam. Batuer's good name, that is, Sam the Brave.

However, he now understands that it is not a bullshit defense hole, it is completely a cunning trap, which is to deliberately lure them to the south bank, and then cut them off and swallow them on the south bank, and what he was swallowed this time was an entire army group.

"Bai Chongxi? What an insidious guy! ”

He smiled wryly and recited his opponent's name, and sat in the empty headquarters, quietly waiting to be taken prisoner.

By the way, this will be his second time as a prisoner, the first time in Calcutta, after the subcontinental war in which he was released in exchange for prisoners of war, and continued to be reused because of the lack of generals in the rapidly expanding Tianzhu army.

Indeed, he guessed correctly, it was a trap at the beginning, the newly appointed chief of the general staff of the Assam theater, Bai Chongxi, as soon as he took office, found that his predecessor Han Xu was too honest, very steady but not insidious enough, and immediately formulated such a plan to lure the enemy deep and then rely on air superiority to cut off the connection between the north and south banks, and completely annihilate on the south bank, and now this plan is very successful, and the Tianzhu First Army, which was spared by the Brahmaputra River, was completely annihilated on the south bank by the Ming-A coalition army in the case of complete supply cutoff.

More than 60,000 Tianzhu troops surrendered.

However, the hundreds of thousands of Tianzhu troops on the north bank could only watch this scene play out helplessly through the surging water of the Brahmaputra River and the remnants of the blown up pontoon bridges.

With the annihilation of the Tianzhu First Army, the situation of the Assam war was completely reversed, and the original situation of Tianzhu attacking the defense of the Ming-A coalition army immediately became the attack of the Ming-A coalition army, the defense of the Tianzhu army, and the hundreds of thousands of Tianzhu troops on the north bank all shrank into the coastal defense system that had been painstakingly managed over the years, trembling and waiting for the counterattack of the Ming-A coalition army. (To be continued.) )