Myitkyina, the headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

On the balcony on the second floor, Yue Weihan was watching the fierce air battle with his telescope held high, two barricades had been erected on the balcony, and two Makqin heavy machine guns had been set up for firing at the air.

"Chief, danger." Luo Zhuoying panted and climbed onto the balcony, beckoning again and again, "It's too dangerous here." ”

"Brother You Qing, don't be nervous." Yue Weihan said lightly, "The planes of the little devils have been entangled by the fighters of the Flying Tigers, and they don't care about bombing the ground at all." ”

When Luo Zhuoying looked up tremblingly, he saw countless planes rolling and shuttling in the air, and in the blink of an eye, several planes emitted black smoke, and two of them exploded directly in volleys, and the wings and fuselages of these planes were painted with eye-catching "plaster" patterns, which were obviously little devils' planes.

"Boss, it seems that the Flying Tigers have the upper hand?" Luo Zhuoying asked cautiously.

"It's not the Flying Tigers who have the upper hand, it's the Flying Tigers who are slaughtering the bomber swarms of the little devils." Yue Weihan adjusted the perspective of the telescope and said, "The escorting group of the zero fighters of the Yue Army has been annihilated, and now the Flying Tigers are strangling the bomber group of the Yue Army, just now, 6 bombers have been shot down." ”

Before the words fell, two more Type 99 dive bombers were shot and smoked.

"Oh, the Flying Tigers are amazing, you see, the little devils are not their opponents at all." Luo Zhuoying couldn't help but admire, "If only our China could have such a powerful air force." ”

Yue Weihan's expression was slightly choked, and he immediately put down the binoculars and said in a deep voice: "Yes, Brother You Qing, what you said reminded me that our expeditionary force should consider forming its own air force, although the Flying Tigers are powerful, they are not Chinese after all." ”

"Forming an Air Force?" Luo Zhuoying was stunned when she heard this, and then her heart was stunned.

Luo Zhuoying thought to himself, how could the Air Force be so easy to form? First of all, where did the plane come from? Could it be that the US political axe will directly hand over the plane to the expeditionary force? Even if the U.S. political axe is nervous and sends planes directly to the expeditionary force, where will the expeditionary force find pilots? There are a lot of idle pilots in Yucheng, but is Chairman Chiang willing to give them?

Yue Weihan naturally didn't know that Luo Zhuoying was laughing at him in his heart, he really wanted to form his own air force.

Of course, Yue Weihan also knew that if the expeditionary force wanted to form its own air force, it would not be ordinarily difficult.

First of all, Stilwell's joints must be opened, Stilwell is the "general manager" who supervises the use of American aid to China, and only with Stilwell's support will the American political axe consider helping the expeditionary force to build up an army aviation force.

Second, the relationship with Chennault must be good, and if the Air Force is really to be formed, it is necessary to train pilots.

Finally, the expeditionary force must become strong enough! Only when the expeditionary force showed strong enough strength to make President Roosevelt feel that it was worth the money to help the expeditionary force build up the army air force, could the US political axe withstand the pressure of the national political axe and directly help the expeditionary force to form the army air force.

However, Yue Weihan naturally would not retreat when encountering difficulties.

Yue Weihan's surname, if it sounds good, it is called firm-willed and tenacious, and if it is ugly, it is not to see the coffin and not shed tears, once this guy has made a decision, there is really a momentum of vowing not to give up if he does not achieve his goal, and at the moment Yue Weihan has no heart to watch the live broadcast of the air battle over Myitkyina, so he went directly to the underground headquarters to find Stilwell to "set up".

………… Yangon, known as the army headquarters.

Major General Haruki Isayama, chief of staff of the 15th Army Corps, walked into Shojiro Iida's office with a blushing face, and immediately retracted his feet and said: "Your Excellency, the bombing operation of the 5th Flying Group on Myitkyina Airport has been a serious failure, and the fighters and bombers participating in this operation have almost been lost!" ”

"What?" Iida Shojiro Huo Ran got up and said in disbelief, "Serious failure!?" ”

"Hello!" Haruki Isayama bowed his head abruptly and said, "In this operation, the 5th Flight Group originally planned to bomb the positions of the Chinese Army along the Menggong after bombing the Myitkyina airport, but the group had just flown over Myitkyina when it was intercepted by the Flying Tigers, and less than 20 of the more than 100 fighters involved in the operation returned!" ”

Shojiro Iida's face suddenly became gloomy, and the 5th Flight Group lost more than 80 planes at once, which can be said to be a great loss of vitality, and what is worse is that the aviation manufacturing industry in this country is not developed, and most of the fighters produced have to be given priority to replenishing the navy, and in a short period of time, the 5th Flight Group will not want to restore its combat effectiveness.

This also meant that the 15th Army would not be able to receive air support for at least three months.

Without the fire support of the aviation forces, the attack of the 18th and 33rd divisions on Meng Gong is bound to be greatly affected, because the Chinese Expeditionary Force has a large number of armored units and heavy artillery units, plus the presence of Myitkyina airfield, the Chinese Expeditionary Force can also receive air fire support from the Flying Tigers.

Shojiro Iida immediately strode towards the left wall, and Haruki Isayama took two steps to brush the ground.

On the map, the two red arrows representing the 18th and 33rd divisions of the Yue Army have extended to the vicinity of Meng Gong, and one left and one right have formed a pincer offensive against Meng Gong. ”

"Attack?" Haruki Isayama was stunned and said, "Won't it?" ”

After saying this, Isayama Haruki said again, "The Chinese army has built three fortifications along the Menggong line, and under the premise that it has strong fortifications to rely on, is it possible for the Chinese army to attack the imperial army?" From what I know about the Chinese army, in this case, the Chinese army will only choose to hold on, and will not take the initiative to attack. ”

"But now the commander of the China Army is Yue Weihan." Shojiro Iida said worriedly.

Haruki Isayama said disapprovingly: "Yue Weihan has just arrived, it is impossible to grasp the actual command of the Zhina Army so quickly, plus Yue Weihan has ordered the troops to spread along Meng Gong, and then suddenly changed the order to go on the offensive, it is a change of order, which can easily arouse the disgust of the grassroots officers and soldiers, I think...... He wouldn't be so unwise, would he? ”

After saying this, Isayama Haruki said again: "Taking a step back, even if the Chinese army in front of Meng Gong suddenly turns to the offensive, it will only have less than three divisions, and it is not the opponent of the 18th and 33rd divisions at all. ”

Iida Shojiro waved his hand, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Order the troops, and turn to defense on the spot." ”

"Hello!" Shojiro Iida had already made a decision, so Haruki Isayama didn't say anything more and immediately took the order.

………… Myitkyina, the headquarters of the expeditionary forces.

As soon as the air battle ended, Yue Weihan convened an emergency operational meeting.

Among the seven division commanders of the expeditionary force, only Sun Liren and Dai Anlan attended the meeting, but even so, there were serious differences of opinion at the meeting.

"Attack!" Yue Weihan patted the map on the wall of the conference room and said loudly, "Only offense is the best defense!" ”

"Attack?" Luo Zhuoying, who was next to him, was taken aback, and exclaimed, "Boss, I heard you right, right?" ”

"Brother You Qing, you heard it right." Yue Weihan smiled slightly, and said: "Before the northward advance group of the Yue Army is not aware of the danger, with the armored regiment directly under the Fifth Army as the vanguard, and the 200th Division as the main force, we will defeat the 33rd Division of the Yue Army on the left in one fell swoop, and then after a roundabout flank, cooperate with the new 22nd Division and the 98th Division to encircle and annihilate the 18th Division of the Yue Army near Menggong!" ”

Offense is the best defense, which has been proved by the "Desert Fox" Rommel, in the North African battlefield, Rommel with absolutely weak infantry and armored troops, without air support, on the premise of absolute superiority in strength and armored strength of the British army brazenly launched an attack, as a result, the British army was caught off guard, defeated like a mountain!

Dai Anlan and Sun Liren looked at each other, they obviously couldn't keep up with Yue Weihan's train of thought, and launched an active attack before the army advanced north into the cluster before they realized the danger? The question is, where is the danger of the army? No matter how you look at the current situation, the expeditionary force is at an absolute disadvantage, where is the fighter that turns defense into offense?

Yue Weihan did find a fleeting fighter!

After the air battle in Myitkyina, the army aviation of the 15th Army Corps stationed in Burma has been heavily damaged, and it will be difficult to recover in a short period of time, so that the Flying Tigers will seize air supremacy in northern Myanmar without any suspense, which also means that the Chinese Expeditionary Force will be able to get the air fire support of the Flying Tigers!

On the ground, the expeditionary force also has more than 80 T-26 tanks, more than 100 armored vehicles, and 24 150mm caliber field heavy howitzers, and these heavy equipment are intact.

As long as the fighter is well grasped, it will be an unstoppable assault force.

If the Burmese army had not lost air supremacy, the armored strength of the Chinese Expeditionary Force would not have been anything at all, but now, the Burmese army had lost air supremacy, and this was a good opportunity for the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

There is a strong ground assault force, and there is full air support, if you don't attack at this time, when will you wait?

Stilwell has seen the world and knows the power of air-ground coordination, plus this old American man is adventurous, so he immediately nodded and said: "Great, this is really a wonderful idea!" The Chinese Expeditionary Force has an armored assault force strong enough to tear through the defense line of the Japanese army, and now that it has air support from the Flying Tigers, what reason is there not to take the initiative to attack? ”

"Boss, are you thinking about it again?" Seeing that Stilwell and Yue Weihan agreed on the same opinion, Luo Zhuoying was already frightened into a cold sweat, and immediately took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and cautiously persuaded, "The Fifth Army has just built a complete fortification, but it wants to abandon the fortifications and take the initiative to attack the Yue Army?" Humble Worries...... The officers and soldiers couldn't figure it out. ”

"There's nothing I can't figure out." Yue Weihan said shamelessly, "Soldiers should take obedience to orders as their duty!" ”

Sun Liren and Dai Anlan couldn't help but pout when they heard this, Yue Weihan said this, how did they listen to it and how awkward, when it came to disobedience on the battlefield, could anyone be more powerful than Yue Weihan?

However, Sun Liren and Dai Anlan also admitted that Yue Weihan's battlefield insight was indeed very powerful.

Sun Liren and Dai Anlan were still a little unclear just now, but as soon as Stilwell said it, they immediately understood that this was indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! More importantly, it is difficult for the Chinese Expeditionary Force to believe that it will suddenly switch from defense to offense, and this has the favorable factor of "taking it by surprise and attacking it unprepared" as the art of war says.

………… Fifty miles southeast of Menggong, the main force of the 33rd Division of the Yue Army was rolling north along the road.

The 33rd Division was formed by emergency mobilization on the eve of the Battle of Wuhan, and is a three-unit field division with 3 infantry wings and 1 wing each of engineers, baggage, field artillery, and search.

When the Southern Army was first organized, in addition to the 4th and 14th tank wings directly under the headquarters, among the 10 field divisions, 7 of the cavalry wings of the divisions were replaced by search wings; in terms of armored strength alone, the Southern Army was obviously stronger than the North China Front and the Central China Front, and the Kwantung Army was the strongest in armor because it was responsible for guarding against Soviet tank clusters.

In the rolling traffic, the chief of staff of the 33rd Division, Murata Jiaosheng Osa, came to the armored car of the division commander Sakurai Province No. 3 Lieutenant General at a trot, and immediately suddenly retracted his feet and said uprightly: "Your Excellency the division commander, Your Excellency Commander Iida, sent an urgent telegram, and our division immediately stopped advancing and moved to defense by building fortifications on the spot. ”

"What?" Sakurai was stunned and said, "Stop advancing and turn to defense on the spot?" ”

"Hello!" Murata Osa suddenly bowed his head, and immediately reached out and handed the telegram to Sakurai Shozo.

After reading Shojiro Iida's telegram, Sakurai said disdainfully: "Defense is a coward's act, how can the Imperial Army hold its position and wait for the weak Shina Army to attack?" Order the troops, continue to advance, be sure to take Menggong Town before the 18th Division, although our division is not a permanent division, but that is only the difference in numbers! ”

"Hello!" Murata Osa bowed his head suddenly, and then turned around with his saber on his shoulder.

Sakurai shozo casually tore up Shojiro Iida's telegram, and then got back into the armored car.

What is even more incredible is that the general staff headquarters of the army actually has an attitude of encouragement toward this phenomenon, and as long as the army generals who take risks and succeed, they will never be held accountable.

Historically, Sakagaki Seishiro, Tada Jun, Sugi Sugimoto, Tojo Hideki and other notorious generals of the Japanese army almost all relied on battlefield disobedience to emerge.

(To be continued)