"Boom" three rounds of artillery fire, and the rising explosion fire was particularly conspicuous in the darkness.

Dannat and Olivee stared at the Chinese Myitkyina position, but there was no reaction other than the explosion, as if it had really become a no-man's land.

"Smack!" With a sound, Olivee slapped his thigh and said, "I see." ”

Dannatt frowned, "What do you know?" ”

Olivee said with a smile: "I seem to remember that there is an 'empty city plan' in the history of Chinese wars, and the Chinese must have come here to fight psychological warfare with us." ”

Admiral Dannat yelled angrily: "Olife, I asked you to read the art of war, not novels. The 'empty city plan' can only appear in fiction, and in reality, especially in modern warfare, it is even more impossible, how can such a plan succeed in the face of absolute strength? As long as a small detachment is sent to test the attack, it will be exposed, and if an important position is seized in case of seizure, it will be tantamount to digging one's own grave. ”

Olife shrank his head and said helplessly: "Then what should I do?" ”

Admiral Dannat said in a deep voice: "The Chinese must have some tricks that can inflict a lot of casualties on the attacking troops." Send one to take a look. ”

Soon, the Anglo-Burmese army sent a company of officers and soldiers to slowly advance towards the Chinese position.

The troops were very careful, and although the British didn't care how many Indian soldiers died, it didn't mean that they were willing to let them die worthless.

At a distance of 50 meters, the officers and men of this company were more careful, and the hit rate was extremely high as long as the soldiers who had been trained in shooting at this distance. But they were wrong. There is still no movement in the position of the [***] team.

Thirty meters, no movement.

Twenty meters, no movement.

Ten meters, no movement.

A company of British and Burmese officers and soldiers entered the Chinese position, but there was still no movement. I saw the officers and soldiers turn around and shout: "No one, no Chinese, they are all gone." ”

This situation simply made Dannatt and Olife almost dumbfounded, could it be that the Chinese really ran away? It's not scientific. If the Chinese want to run, then why are they desperately trying to retake their positions during the day.

When an unexpected situation occurs, it always makes people feel hairy. Just like when the South China Sea Fleet landed in Thanh Hoa and Singapore, it was directly bluffed for a while.

And now, even Admiral Dannatt's decades-long military career has been baffled by this move by the Chinese side, and smart people have a common problem, that is, they are suspicious, and suspicious people often think bad when they encounter situations that are beyond their control.

The forward position of the Chinese side has been taken by them without much effort, and the whole position is quiet, but the more this happens, the more Dannet feels that this place is full of dangers, and the quiet Chinese position is like the bloody mouth of a terrifying monster, waiting for them to die.

Oliver gritted his teeth and said, "Commander! Isn't it time for us to attack? ”

Admiral Dannatt woke up with a shout, and he sighed and said, "Let the forward company continue to collect and advance, and the follow-up troops will follow!" If it weren't for the here and now, Dannatt knew he would never have given this order. But now he has no choice, he doesn't have much time to wait, if he can't take Myitkyina as soon as possible, they will soon be surrounded and even annihilated by the Chinese army that has come up from all directions. Although even if Myitkyina is taken, the outcome of their army is decided, but they can achieve their strategic goals.

Minutes and seconds passed.

The entire outlying position of the Chinese side has been occupied by the Anglo-Burmese army, and the company of the Anglo-Burmese army has entered Myitkyina and penetrated more than 200 meters.

"Damn, what's going on? What's going on? "Admiral Dannatt felt that he was going crazy, that the troops were going so smoothly that they did not encounter the slightest resistance, and did not even see a single Chinese soldier, and that it was in such an important strategic location, could it not make people feel furious?

Olife also felt furious in his heart, and couldn't help but say: "Commander, we have gone up to three divisions. Now what? ”

Dannat suddenly jumped up and shouted: "Order the troops, immediately withdraw from the position!" Fast! ”

"Huh!?" Olife was dumbfounded, thinking he had misheard.

At this moment, countless red flares rose into the air in Myitkyina.

"Boom"

"Well done!" The Nanjing Ministry of Defense burst into cheers.

Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng looked at Li Bufan and Li Huashan in disbelief.

Li Bufan said lightly: "We learned this trick from Xiaoshuo. ”

Duan Qirui was surprised: "My tricks? ”

Li Bufan sneered and said, "Yes." At the beginning of our army's attack on the local area, Marshal Yama Prefecture knew that he could not defeat our army on the frontal battlefield, so he used a large amount of explosives to bury in a city sewer system, and just waited for the main force of our army to enter the city, and as soon as he pressed the detonator, it would be wiped out. Xiao Yue is ruthless enough, I would rather sacrifice the population of a city, of course we can't be so ruthless, we can only withdraw the battlefield. ”

Xu Shuzheng couldn't help but say: "However, the British-Burmese army shelled before the attack." Don't you worry about the detonation of explosives by shelling? ”

Li Huashan said: "Of course, this is carefully calculated. The Anglo-Burmese army attacked Myitkyina, and after a miss, they launched an attack on the third or fourth day, but Myitkyina was 300 kilometers away from Mandalay, and the roads were not good, and the railways were damaged and could not be used, only the vast majority of 75-mm field artillery could pull up to the front line, and the battle also proved this, although they had a few 105-mm heavy guns arrived, it was impossible to put them in the first round, and this heavy artillery should be used against our heavy artillery. ”

Li Bufan then smiled: "For this reason, we only need to calculate the power of the 75mm field gun when burying the explosive bag and lead. Of course, in order to prevent some damage, we deliberately multi-line detonable devices. In fact, even if a few explosive packages are detonated, it doesn't matter much, and it is normal for some materials to be detonated on the battlefield. ”

Duan Qirui smiled bitterly: "Good means, three divisions, three divisions of the Anglo-Burmese Army are over." ”

Li Bufan laughed dryly and said: "Originally, we didn't expect it for a while, but it was the chief of staff of the 47th Army on the front line who reported the battle plan to resist the night battle of the British and Burmese troops, and at the same time asked us to send a large number of mines, so we remembered this. Where can there be explosives packs in landmines, and if they want to come, they will be ruthless. ”

Xu Shuzheng said: "But what if the enemy enters the position with few troops? ”

Li Bufan laughed and said, "So what? Anyway, there are no ones in the city, so let them into the city and fight in the streets first. They came with few troops, and one of our divisions prepared for a night battle was enough to resist. Myitkyina, an important place, it is impossible for the British and Burmese troops to give up, since they must capture it, then if they fail to attack, sooner or later a large army will be pressed. ”

Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng looked at each other, and they also felt sad for the British and Burmese troops. Li Bufan is not only a dignified and upright military strategy, but even these out-of-the-way tricks are so powerful, not to mention Dannat, the commander of the Anglo-Burmese army, even they will be treated to death.

The "boom" was like a landslide and the ground cracked, and the earth really shook the mountain, and the countless British and Burmese officers and men waiting for the forward troops on the outer positions of Myitkyina and the positions were instantly torn apart and submerged by the flames of the explosion

"Nope! No!!! Dannat looked at the firelight and almost went mad on the spot, howling with all his might. He was really negligent, he shouldn't have invested so many troops in the first place, but in order to ensure the victory of the attack, how could he succeed without arranging a heavy attack?

But, three divisions. These were the three divisions that had only arrived during the day, and although there were certain losses in the battle outside Mandalay, it was also more than 30,000 people, and they were wiped out in an instant.

Olife looked at the explosion of an ammunition depot, his mouth wide open, and he couldn't close his mouth for a long time.

"Poof!" Admiral Dannet was so angry that he spurted out a mouthful of blood. The losses were too great, and the casualties of the troops in the night battle last night were not so great. Moreover, with such huge losses, the troops he was ready to put into battle were directly lost half, so in the next battle, the remaining forces would definitely not be able to completely occupy Myitkyina.

If you don't do it tonight, then it is likely that you will never have the opportunity to occupy Myitkyina again, because of the intelligence from MI6, the Chinese have nearly 100,000 troops urgently reinforcing Myitkyina, and during the day the forward has already come to Tengchong, and Tengchong is only more than 100 kilometers to Myitkyina.

He was angry and vomited blood not because of the loss of tens of thousands of people, but because of such losses, which led to the failure of the strategic plan, which affected the entire overall situation. It's not that he didn't think that hundreds of thousands of British and Burmese troops were all pressed up, but that was impossible, behind them a whole elite group army in China was chasing and beating them, and the Chinese second group army was already annoyed and angry because they broke through, can they not send troops to block layer by layer?

At a distance of 300 kilometers, the troops are not able to fly over, the road is so big, there are only so many that they can come, the distance of 300 kilometers, and they still desperately get a lot of artillery, and the troops have reached the limit, and all the troops who come to the front line, the last to arrive, the marching speed is also a rapid march of 70 or 80 kilometers, which is a high-intensity march. He asked himself that he had exerted the strength of the Anglo-Burmese army to the limit, but he did not expect to plant it, planted under the trickery of the Chinese.

Admiral Dannatt's heart was bleeding, he could have succeeded, and victory was almost already beckoning to him. He organized a daytime of more than 70,000 troops to prepare for a round-up attack on Myitkyina, regardless of casualties, to drag the Chinese to exhaustion, and then expected that in the middle of the night, he would let all the remaining 450,000 troops who fought during the day also be pressed up, and these troops rested for five or six hours.

But it's all over.

"Commander!" Olife was taken aback and hurriedly supported the crumbling Dannat.

Dannatt's face turned pale, and he stabilized his body and whispered: "Don't scream, don't mess with the morale of the army." ”

Olife said with a gloomy expression: "What should we do now?" ”

Dannat gritted his teeth and said: "The possibility of conquering Myitkyina is already very small, and we can't lose our troops like this." Ordered the troops to move in and attack west of Myitkyina. If Myitkyina cannot be captured, we will hold the lines of communication west of Myitkyina, and we must not let the Chinese replenish their Assam troops! ”

"Yes!" (To be continued.) )