While the forward troops of the 6th Division were under attack and were advancing rapidly on the Yunnan-Burma Highway, the headquarters of the Burmese Front in Yangon was also making active preparations for an attack, and the headquarters of the Burmese Front planned to use airborne troops to recapture the Songshan position at night, and then use the airdrop of materials and the fortifications of Songshan to hold on, so as to cut off the back road of the Thunder Return Army to China.

After dinner, Mandalay Airport. General Haneda shouted to the 1,500 airborne soldiers in front of him: "Warriors of the Empire, you are the best soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army, and you are the best among all the units in the past, and I hope that here you can also prove to the world that you are still the best soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army and the most loyal people of His Majesty the Emperor."

"Long live the Emperor"

"Long live the Emperor"

"Long live the emperor" The Japanese airborne troops assembled on the runway of the airport raised their hands and shouted in unison. Due to the limited number of transport planes of the Japanese army in Burma, the Burmese Front mobilized a large number of transport planes from Vietnam into Burma, increasing the airdrop capacity to the size of two squadrons at a time.

Soon, the first batch of airborne troops ready to be airdropped was ready, and more than 480 airborne troops from two infantry squadrons boarded the transport plane in full armor. The tower has already issued a command that it can be lifted into the air, and 40 Japanese-style 95-type transport planes began to rise one after another, and after all the transport planes were lifted into the air, more than 10 escort Zero fighters also took off, and then dozens of planes lined up in the air and began to fly north toward Gaoligong Mountain.

The Japanese army's plan for airborne landing in Songshan was very strict, and many of the Japanese army's own senior officers were unaware of the existence of this operation, but at the same time as the group of planes took off, a ray of radio waves swept through the sky and flew from Mandalay to Kunming. Haneda thought that the airborne operation was rigorous enough, but he forgot that when Zhao Zhi was in charge of Burma, Mandalay Airport was the training ground for the Jewish Airborne Forces. The Burmese who were in charge of logistics at Mandalay Airport had long since become Thunder's spies, and Haneda's actions had been learned by Zhao Zhi's intelligence agents in Mandalay before the group took off.

It was really not beautiful, when the group took off from the airport, it was already dark after dinner, but unfortunately when the group arrived over Longling, the sky was not full of stars but fog. The fog obstructed the view of the observers in the cabin, and the campfire that had been agreed to guide the direction did not appear on time, which made the airborne troops in the cabin feel heavy, because none of them had ever been airborne in foggy weather.

The pilots didn't care so much, and immediately after flying over Matsuyama according to the aviation coordinates, they turned on the signal lights in the cabin, and the airborne troops, who were accustomed to obeying orders, had no choice but to line up and squeeze through the cabin door and jump out of the cabin one by one to parachute. The "boom" fire pierced the fog, and a transport plane that was being airborne and a Zero fighter plane escorting an escort accidentally collided together, and the group of planes that had been airborne in order was in a panic, and the "boom" was another transport plane that had just opened the hatch and collided with its neighboring transport plane, and the explosion and the flying parts of the aircraft caused the group to scatter and flee.

The successive mistakes made the pilots drench in a cold sweat, and after the planes dispersed, the pilots, who had distanced themselves from each other, settled down to continue the airborne landing. The four planes that collided and fell were not useless, at least many quick-witted transport plane pilots used the wreckage of the fighter plane that was still burning on the ground as a guideline, and the scattered flames on the ground just served as a gathering signal for the airborne troops.

All the airborne troops who were still alive successfully jumped out of the hatch and opened their parachutes, and looking at the umbrella flowers blooming in mid-air, the Japanese aircraft group began to turn around and return to pick up the next batch of airborne troops. Soon, the mushroom clouds in the sky descended from high altitude to a distance that could be seen by the naked eye, and the burning wreckage of the plane on the ground provided the best guidance for the airborne troops, and in less than a minute, they could land safely on the ground, and the airborne troops controlled the parachutes to try to keep themselves away from the flames.

Yanagida Nan, who was floating in the air, looked left and right with his telescope in vain, but it was dark now, and he couldn't see anything clearly in the pitch black in his telescope. Yanagida is one of the few officers in the airborne forces who went to Germany to receive airborne training, the collision of the fighter plane in the air has exposed the airborne operation, and the wreckage of the plane that is still burning on the ground will expose the whereabouts of the airborne troops.

The parachute continued to descend, and the first to jump out of the cabin was that Yanagida had been able to see the woods below him, and carefully manipulating the parachute line, Yanagida planned to land in the open field outside the woods, which was both safe and reduced the possibility of being discovered by the enemy. The woods under his feet enlarged little by little, and Yanagida was landing in the open field at the edge of the woods according to his plan, everything was going according to his plan, Yanagida Nan clenched his legs and waited for the shock when he landed.

"Pap" "Pap" "Pap" Just as Yanagida was waiting for the smooth landing, dozens of searchlights suddenly appeared on the ground, and the sharp light that pierced the sky illuminated the airborne troops floating in mid-air. "Hit" Yanagida Nan, who is closest to the ground, heard an angry roar, and then burst out from the ground a hot tongue of fire into the sky, "poof" The first to be shot was Yanagida Nan, the unlucky guy, a string of machine gun bullets directly broke the guy closest to the ground into two, the lower body has fallen, but the upper body is still firmly grasping the parachute rope and slowly landing to the ground.

The dense machine-gun bullets penetrated the parachutes of the Japanese airborne troops, causing the parachute to whirring and leaking, and finally the crack in the parachute became bigger and bigger, until the entire parachute was useless, and the devil paratroopers on it returned to Toei's hometown to see their Amaterasu before they could land. The rain of bullets from the ground lasted less than two minutes, and about a squadron of Japanese paratroopers had already killed most of them before they landed, some of them had been pierced through the parachute and smashed into meatloaf, and some had been directly smashed into a sieve by the dense bullets.

The Japanese paratroopers who were landing also discovered the anti-aircraft fire on the ground, and hurriedly swept the submachine gun on their waists below. For a time, there was a lot of gunfire over the entire grove, and the Japanese paratroopers were swung on both sides due to the fact that they were in the void and their parachutes were affected by the wind, and their originally accurate shooting accuracy was greatly reduced. On the other hand, the thunder soldiers on the ground were waiting for work, and as soon as the dense firepower came up, they stunned the Japanese paratroopers who were landing in the sky.

The remaining Japanese paratroopers who were not shot in the air were shot in a hornet's nest by the swarming Jewish soldiers after landing, and before they could untie the parachutes wrapped around their bodies. The searchlight on the ground slid back and forth to find the target, as long as the Japanese airborne troops floating in the air were locked by the light pillar of the searchlight, waiting for them could only be locust-like bullets, in order to meet the Japanese airborne troops, the first infantry division stationed in Longling was transferred more than 30 searchlights and a large number of machine gun firepower, and the Songshan position was temporarily added an infantry battalion of more than 1,000 people, even if the Japanese paratroopers landed smoothly, they could not take the Songshan position.

Powell, the commander of the Matsuyama position, raised his foot and stepped on the corpse of a Japanese airborne soldier and said with a smile, "Inform the first company to slowly shrink the encirclement, and absolutely not let go of those Japanese monkeys who have slipped through the net, and the second company will immediately clean up the battlefield and notify the mercenary team to come up and ask the prisoners" After giving the order, Powell took his guard squad to wander around, "Let's look around to see if there are any Japanese airborne troops in other places, and we have killed hundreds of Japanese airborne troops in a few minutes, so it is so comfortable to fight."

Some of the mercenaries could speak Japanese, and many of the Japanese airborne soldiers who landed were captured alive, and more than a dozen Japanese airborne soldiers who were tied hand and foot behind their backs were dragged into the woods by the mercenaries to ask for information. The Jewish army talks about the Geneva Conventions, but the mercenaries don't care about it, they are mercenaries who are not recognized by all countries in the world, so those big truths have no effect on them. When the first Japanese airborne soldier couldn't stand the mercenaries' methods and shouted at the mercenaries to torture the prisoners, the mercenaries in charge of interrogating them directly took out their guns and shot several hardliners among the prisoners.

"In this way, they still have two groups of airborne troops to come" Powell listened to the mercenary's interrogation results, crossed his arms and began to circle in place, the officer has to rely on the record to prove his worth, this Powell and Joey are the same, he is eager to have more and more achievements to prove himself, the Japanese army's airborne operation this time is not his chance. "Order the 3rd Company to help the 2nd Company clean up the battlefield, and inform the Songshan Battlefield to strengthen its vigilance against the sneak attack of the Japanese paratroopers, and we are here waiting for their follow-up paratroopers"

The second and third groups of Japanese airborne troops who parachuted out were much smoother, there was already a fire on the ground that marked the location, and the group of planes transporting the airborne troops did not have a collision time, everything was so perfect and smooth, and even the pilots who controlled the fighters went to circle over Longling a few times and used machine guns to strafe the Yunlong Temple in Longling before turning back to the Yangon airport.

"The Japanese monkey airborne troops are not very good, their equipment is good, they are all automatic firepower" Powell, who won a complete victory and wiped out three waves of Japanese airborne troops in succession, fiddled with a German-style P40 submachine gun, and his face was glowing with a layer of oil. The capture of this batch of automatic fire equipment is nothing, the results of the battle have been counted, and there are more than 1,300 Japanese airborne troops parachuted down in three waves, most of whom were killed in mid-air, and the rest also died in the encirclement and suppression of ground troops.