Ramgar base, training ground for the Airborne Forces.

An American instructor with a fleshy face and a body of more than two meters stood on a two-meter-high cement ridge and was yelling at the Chinese soldiers rushing forward one after another: "Go! go！ go……”

Amid the roar of the American instructors, one group after another of Chinese soldiers put their legs together, honestly jumped off the two-meter-high cement ridge, and then rolled forward and fell to the ground after landing.

All the officers were removed from their ranks, and Du Xuewen, the commander of the 1st Regiment of the Baoshan Division, and Li Jiuding, the chief of staff, were also among them, and both of them were wearing ordinary training uniforms, which were no different from the officers and men of the whole regiment.

"Poof." Li Jiuding turned over and got up and spit out the sand in his mouth, and said to Du Xuewen beside him, "Tuanza, sooner or later I have to beat this Yankee, what the hell?" Did you really train us as animals? Twenty kilometers of cross-country and 500 meters of frog jumping in the morning and evening are just training, but 12 hours of high-intensity professional training every day are still not lived? ”

"Chief of Staff, bear with me." Du Xuewen was also uncomfortable, when he was at the Central Military Academy, his physical fitness was good, but when he participated in the airborne training in Ramgarh, he realized that the training intensity when he was in the Central Military Academy was nothing at all, and this kind of training intensity is probably only endured by the group of "soldier kings" of the special operations brigade, right?

As soon as Du Xuewen thought of the special operations brigade, the group of "soldier kings" actually appeared.

"Hey, isn't this Colonel Du, the head of the Baoshan Division? Alas, how did this happen? ”

"Tuanzao, do you want my brother to say hello to the American instructor and reduce the training of your 1st regiment?"

"This group of poor children is really spoiled by the general seat, look at them, what are the delicate arms and legs?"

Appearing next to the training ground of the 1st Regiment of the Baoshan Division were several senior officers of the Special Operations Brigade, Major General and Brigade Commander Liu Tiezhu did not come, but almost all of the five captains and more than a dozen sub-captains came, and their mouths were more bitter than the other.

Du Xuewen and Li Jiuding still have to endure it, no way, because they are fierce.

With the same training intensity, the special operations brigade can be completed very easily, but the Bao 1 regiment needs to grit its teeth and insist, the special operations brigade arrived at Ramgar two days later than the Bao 1 regiment, but everyone has already begun to parachute at a high altitude, while the Bao 1 regiment is still jumping in the sand pit, this is the gap between ordinary soldiers and the king of soldiers, and it is not okay to be unconvinced.

"Brother, practice hard, my brothers won't accompany you." Colonel Ma Fugui, the captain of the 5th Brigade of the Special Operations Brigade, squeezed his eyebrows at Du Xuewen and Li Jiuding, and then turned back to greet the other captains and more than a dozen detachment captains, "Go!" go！ go！ Today, Lao Tzu has a treat, and one person sends a British girl, and if she is not drunk, she will not return......"

On the cement ridge, the American instructor who was more than two meters tall shook his head, but he did not dare to intervene, because he understood that this group of Chinese soldiers was not easy to provoke, and on the first day they came to the Ramgar base, more than a dozen tall and strong British soldiers deliberately surrounded the six Chinese soldiers, but the six Chinese soldiers chased after half of the base.

The British soldiers were naturally not convinced, and went back to bring dozens of trucks of reinforcements.

Then a group brawl broke out on an unprecedented scale, but the result was quite astonishing, more than 1,200 British soldiers were defeated by more than 500 Chinese soldiers.

And it was a complete defeat without any suspense.

Since then, no one dares to provoke these Chinese soldiers, but fortunately, their training is by no means ambiguous, and the American instructors will turn a blind eye, as long as they complete the training subjects on time and in quantity, as for whether they go to the bar to pick up girls and drink the rest of the time, or go to the camp to steal the Indians' "holy cow" picnic, they can't care.

As soon as the group of "king soldiers" of the special operations brigade left on their front feet, a jeep stopped on the training ground with a creak.

Immediately, a US military liaison officer jumped out of the jeep in a rage and shouted in stiff Chinese to Colonel Du Xuewen, the commander of the 1st Bao Regiment: "Colonel Du, your regiment has an emergency exercise mission, and it will assemble in half an hour!" After speaking, the US military liaison officer pulled Du Xuewen and Li Jiuding to the side and handed them Yue Weihan's telegram.

"Airborne in Rangoon? Tomorrow!? Li Jiuding was taken aback when he read the telegram, the airborne training of the officers and men of the regiment had just begun, and they had not even fully mastered the most basic landing maneuvers, and the rest of the technical maneuvers, such as high-altitude attitude, off-plane maneuver, and on-board balance, had only been taught one lesson, and the actual actual training had not even begun.

"It seems that the situation in Mandalay is a little tight! Chief of Staff, hurry up and gather the team and rush to the airport overnight, remember that this is just a simulated airborne exercise! Du Xuewen's tone was a little dignified, most of his soldiers were veterans of a hundred battles, but airborne combat is a new challenge after all, jumping down from a height of several thousand meters, without super psychological quality!

Moreover, telling the truth to the soldiers too early is not conducive to emotional stability, otherwise, in the long wait to fly to Yangon for the airborne, the soldiers are prone to emotional fluctuations, and once there are emotional fluctuations, then all tactical actions will be seriously deformed, so that the number of casualties will inevitably surge.

"Tuanza ......" Li Jiuding's throat twitched, and he stopped talking.

"I know what you're trying to say." Du Xuewen patted Li Jiuding's shoulder, a look of remembrance suddenly appeared on his face, and he immediately said solemnly, "Chief of Staff, do you still remember the battle of the Four Elements Warehouse, and the answer of the general seat to the Shanghai citizens who persuaded them to retreat to the public concession at that time? ”

"How can you not remember?" Li Jiuding was also immediately touched by his recollection, "When I heard this on the radio, all the students in our class cried, crying!" At that time, there was only one thought in our minds, to graduate early, to go to the battlefield early, to fight devils early, and to serve the country and the nation as soon as possible! ”

Du Xuewen nodded silently, and then said solemnly: "What the general seat said is right, how can there be immortals in war?" Since we put on this military uniform, we have no longer regarded ourselves as living people, born in troubled times, at this time of danger when the country is ruined, it is the misfortune of our soldiers, and it is also the great fortune of our soldiers! We don't want to die, who doesn't love the world, who doesn't love their parents, wives and children at home? But as a soldier, you should go to the battlefield for the country, even if the horse leather shroud is not complaining, to be able to die for the country, to be able to die for the nation, for my generation of soldiers, is it not a blessing? Great blessings! ”

"Tuanza, I know about my humble duties!" Li Jiuding saluted Du Xuewen and immediately took the order.

Seeing Li Jiuding's figure go away, the expression on Du Xuewen's face gradually became unprecedentedly dignified, going to Yangon, it must be nine deaths, more than 2,500 people in the whole group, and finally 500 people can survive, I am afraid it will be a fluke, but even if they know that it is death, Yangon must go, because they are soldiers!

As the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, Yue Weihan can still go into danger alone, go deep into Mandalay and live and die with all the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Army, as a member of the 39th Group Army, as an ordinary member of the millions of [***] team, what reason do they have to be greedy for their lives? As the saying goes, there will be a heart of death, and the soldier has no greed for life, what he didn't say, fight!

………… Myitkyina, the headquarters of the US Army.

General Stilwell is giving the 10th Air Force a bombing mission.

The situation in Mandalay made Stilwell very worried, especially the heavy artillery brigade directly under the Guards Division, which posed a serious threat to the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and the worst thing was that he would rather sacrifice the accuracy of the artillery than shell during the day, which caused a great obstacle to the air strikes of the American bombers.

It is not that US bombers cannot fly at night, and night bombing is theoretically feasible, but it is really impossible to discover the artillery of the Japanese army hidden in the dense jungle at night; in the 40s, when there were no precision-guided bombs, night bombing was obviously an extremely difficult technical task.

Historically, U.S. Navy bomber groups have bombed Tokyo at night, but that was only a demonstration, and while politically significant, it was militarily worthless.

In view of the dire situation in Mandalay, Stilwell decided to try night bombing.

"Sir, I refuse to carry out the order." Major General Britton bluntly rejected Stilwell's suggestion, "How can you drop bombs if you can't find the target at night at all?" In addition, the heavy artillery brigade of the Chinese army has an antiaircraft artillery wing under its jurisdiction, so the night bombardment will not only not kill or injure the enemy, but will lead to unnecessary casualties in the US Air Force. ”

"However, if the U.S. Air Force can't provide the air fire support it can, the squadron in Mandalay will probably not last a few days." Stilwell hurriedly said, "If the Battle of Mandalay fails, the Allies will not only lose tens of thousands of elite Chinese troops, but also lose an excellent strategic counteroffensive opportunity!" ”

"It's all the fault of that Chinese madman." Maj. Gen. Britton shrugged, "It's none of us, sir. ”

As soon as the words fell, Stilwell's female secretary walked in with her plump buttocks twisted and hurriedly reported: "Sir, Yue Weihan, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, urgently telegraphed that the 1st Regiment of the Baoshan Division will forcibly land in Rangoon tomorrow morning, and request the US Air Force to prepare for troop projection and air escort. ”

"What, airborne in Yangon tomorrow morning?" Britton exclaimed, "God, that Chinese airborne regiment seems to have only been training for less than a week, right?" At this time, if you forcibly parachute, you will have to fall to your death at least half! Crazy, this guy must be crazy, I think that airborne regiment will definitely not carry out the order, this is simply to send them to death! ”

"No, they'll definitely carry out the order." General Stilwell shook his head and said, "Brilton, you don't know the [***] team, really, they are the bravest army in the world, there is no one, they are the bravest army, at least I have never seen a braver army than them." ”

"But I don't think they'll succeed." Britton abruptly said, "It's too risky. ”

"No, they're going to make it." Stilwell said solemnly, "Because they have to succeed!" ”

“ok！” Seeing Stilwell's insistence, Britton finished at the end and said in a deep voice, "With this deadly spirit of the Chinese, I must accompany them crazy once, even if it is to lose all the transport planes of the Tenth Air Force because of this, I will also send this Chinese airborne regiment to the sky over Yangon!" God testifies! ”

………… The next day, Tingjiang Airport, India.

It was just dawning, and the entire airport was still shrouded in a thick fog.

In fact, since last night, martial law has been imposed on the entire Tingjiang airport, and all idle people have been cleared out of the airport, and all ground staff and crew members who can enter the airport must also go through strict scrutiny, of course, to ensure that the military agents do not learn the news in advance.

The stakes are high and must be kept strictly secret!

In the dense fog, one truck after another drove into Tingjiang Airport.

Immediately, a group of heavily armed Chinese soldiers rushed down from the carriage, and immediately began to form a team, the discipline of the squadron was very strict, and in the process of the whole team, there was no noise from beginning to end, only the loud orders of the officers, and the neat rustling footsteps.

Five minutes later, the squadron was completed, and immediately under the guidance of the US military liaison officer, it came to the corresponding transport plane, and began the final preparations before boarding, mainly to check the soldiers' umbrella bags.

After another five minutes, the red traffic lights on the airport came on.

The engines of dozens of Allied transport planes started almost simultaneously, and soon the hatches were opened, and the Chinese paratroopers sitting on the ground stood up one after another, and quickly boarded the plane under the guidance of the officers, and the whole process lasted less than two minutes, and the first transport plane slowly slid into the runway under the guidance of the ground crew.

………… Mandalay, Command of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

In the dimly lit underground war room, Yue Weihan stared at the map with bloodshot eyes, and was staring at the map for a moment, with that expression and posture, as if he wanted to find reinforcements from two divisions or two heavy artillery regiments out of thin air from the map.

In the sound of hurried footsteps, Luo Youlun had already gone down to the war room, and immediately stood up and saluted: "General seat, Du Xuewen just sent an urgent telegram, and their regiment has already boarded the plane and taken off!" ”

Yue Weihan nodded silently, and then said in an inexplicable tone: "History will always remember today, because today, the first airborne force in Chinese history carried out the first airborne operation in Yangon!" Moreover, I firmly believe that this airborne operation will be victorious, because the Chinese nation is invincible! ”

Luo Youlun silently chewed Yue Weihan's words in his heart, and immediately clenched his fists heavily.

Unconsciously, Luo Youlun, Dai Anlan, Liao Yaoxiang and a large number of senior generals of the expeditionary force have been greatly influenced by Yue Weihan's surname, Yue Weihan's cold words can make them angry, Yue Weihan's affirmation and encouragement can make their blood stirred, they ...... is becoming more and more like Yue Weihan's subordinates.

(To be continued)