Although Ringanqiang is still fighting, the west bank of the Irrawaddy River is already under Chinese control.

On the sand table in the command hall of the Ministry of National Defense, it is clearly displayed that the red flag has surrounded the place controlled by a large number of rice flags on the front line of Mandalay. However, as the so-called "dog jumps over the wall", several special arrow signs point to Ringanqiang.

Li Bufan's face was extremely ugly, and he said angrily: "Bastard, there is no oil? ”

Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng sighed relatively, the British army obviously wanted to seize Ren'anqiang, and continued to reinforce troops to attack, and the 091st Division was attacked by several times the number of troops, if there is continuous air fire support to suppress the opponent's firepower for the offensive, the situation will be much more optimistic, but there is no oil in southern Burma, after all, this is originally the territory of the British, and the logistics arrangements of the Chinese side cannot be prepared.

Chief of Staff Li Huashan said: "Everyone knows the bad traffic in the Indochina Peninsula, and we require troops to quickly intersperse, and logistics will definitely not be able to keep up. We have requisitioned the Ninth Army to fully reinforce Ringanqiang, and we will advance by land and water, so that the forward troops can arrive in one day. ”

Li Bufan snorted coldly and said: "The problem now is that if the Anglo-Burmese army in Mandalay pulls up the artillery in this area and storms, our army will inevitably suffer heavy casualties. It will take at least two days for the artillery of the Third Route Army to reach Rangoon, and another day or two to be sent to Ringanqiang, and the Surian troops are equipped with a lot of mortars, but the range is far from being comparable to the field artillery, and there is no doubt that it will be destroyed by the opponent's artillery. ”

Li Huashan smiled bitterly: "That can only allow the troops to disperse the mortars, and leave with one blow, giving them an artillery guerrilla war." At the same time, troops from other directions were ordered to intensify their offensive. In order to contain the strength of the Anglo-Burmese army as much as possible. ”

Li Bufan nodded, stared at the map stubbornly, and said in a half-loud voice: "Order the strategic air force to assemble at Baoshan and Tengchong airfields, I see that the distance is only more than 500 kilometers, and the combat radius of our bombers is as high as 1,500 kilometers, so I have no problem providing air support at all." ”

Li Huashan said: "Commander-in-chief, Tengchong and Baoshan airports need to support the battle of the First Route Army of Assam, and also take into account the Second Route Army, and the use of airports has reached the limit. ”

Li Bufan said sharply: "If you can't do it, you have to do it, there is no airport for planes to take off by road." At the same time, every effort was made to repair the airstrip. And not only here. It is also necessary to rush to repair the airfields in the areas controlled by our army in Myitkyina and Dibrugar, and once Dibrugger is captured, the oil fields here must be used as soon as possible. ”

Li Huashan responded: "Yes!" After a pause, he said, "But the oil fields are still under the control of the British army. 500,000 British troops in the Assam region. Our army has only one army group. The six tank regiments we had prepared are still on the way. The flood season in the Assam region has passed, and as long as our six tank regiments are in place, we will be able to launch a full-scale attack on the British with Panzer Group as an assault force. Crush enemies as fast as you can. At present, the focus of the battle is still on the enemies in Mandalay, and if they are not annihilated, it will always be a security risk. ”

Li Bufan said in a deep voice: "Tell Li Dashan to defend Ren'anqiang at all costs and mobilize all the air forces that can be mobilized to support the Ren'anqiang battlefield." ”

"Yes!"

The Ringanqiang battlefield was filled with gunsmoke, and for the British and Burmese army, this was their "birthgate".

The small village of Ringanqiang has long been destroyed by artillery fire, and the ruins are almost invisible, and the Chinese and British reinforcements are constantly coming, and the Chinese positions are almost connected by pits made by artillery shells.

In order to capture this area, the artillery fire of the British and Burmese troops covered the infantry attack, and almost the infantry rushed to less than 50 meters in front of the position before the artillery fire began to extend, even if the artillery fire stopped, there was still the cover of grenades, and they did not care about hurting their own people at all.

The defenders on the Chinese positions almost always fought back in the explosion of the shelled grenades, and although the automatic fire inflicted huge casualties on the British-Burmese troops who were charging intensively, how long did it take to charge with all their strength at a distance of less than 50 meters? It's just a few seconds, not to mention the cover of grenades.

The defensive line was constantly broken through and white-knuckle battles were launched, and both sides suffered heavy losses.

Gu Pinzhen and Li Zongren were almost stunned by the madness of the British and Burmese army, they didn't know the mood of Li Dashan and Li Dangdang, because Li Bufan's first batch of officers almost all had the same expression, but they had to be shocked.

Gu Pinzhen said distractedly: "The British are really crazy. ”

Li Zongren said with a pale face: "This is simply filling with human lives. ”

Li Dashan said lightly: "If you don't do this, they will all have to die." ”

Li Dangdang said: "The most important thing is that the soldiers are Indians, and the British will not care how many Indians die, anyway, there are two or three hundred million people in India." ”

Li Zongren said: "Military seat, division seat, if the British and Burmese troops continue to attack like this, I am afraid that even if we hold on, the troops will be disabled." ”

Li Dashan looked down at his watch, and then said: "The commander-in-chief personally ordered the mobilization of air power to provide us with air fire support, look at the time, it's almost over." ”

Sure enough, in less than ten minutes, the sound of aircraft motors was heard in the sky, and dozens of H-1 Thunderbird bombers drilled out of the clouds and launched a fierce bombardment of the British army, and violent explosions continued to be heard in the rear of the British army

Gu Pinzhen and Li Zongren shouted in surprise almost at the same time: "It's the artillery position of the British."

The Anglo-Burmese command in Mandalay was full of interpretation, and many British staff officers looked a little panicked.

General Dannat, commander-in-chief of the Anglo-Burmese army, has always had a bad look, and it would not be good for anyone who has a dignified army of hundreds of thousands to suddenly turn from attacking to being surrounded, and the most terrible thing is that the encirclement of the Chinese side has not been broken by him so far.

Chief of Staff Olife turned pale and said in a low voice: "Commander, the Chinese bombers bombed the troops attacking Ringanqiang almost incessantly, and the troops suffered heavy casualties, especially the damned Chinese Air Force destroyed our three artillery positions in the first wave of bombardment, and our remaining artillery was no longer able to effectively suppress the Chinese defenders." ”

Admiral Dannatt suddenly laughed, laughed for a while and snorted coldly: "Major General Olife, my dear Chief of Staff, what do you think of my counterattack against Ringanqiang? ”

Olife was a little puzzled for a while, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Commander, don't you think so when you capture Ringanqiang and open up the retreat route of our army?" ”

Dannatt sneered, "Very good, you would think so, that's right." ”

Olif was a little confused and asked, "Why?" What do you mean, Commander? ”

Admiral Dannatt sneered: "Since even my chief of staff thinks so, then the Chinese must also think so, I think in that direction has attracted heavy reinforcements from the Chinese, and even greatly strengthened firepower." But," he said, turning sharply and pointing to the map, "what if we suddenly concentrate our forces on this place?" ”

Olife looked at the map and was taken aback: "Myitkyina? ”

Dannat said viciously, "Yes, Myitkyina." The fact that the Chinese wanted to encircle and annihilate us and actually let them form an encirclement is simply a great shame for my decades of military career. However, I also want to let the damned Chinese know that Dannat, who came from the sea of corpses and blood of the world war, is definitely not so easy to mess with. They wanted to kill us, but I never gave up on the idea of killing them. We are going to capture Myitkyina, cut off the connection between the Chinese First Route Army and the mainland, and then we cooperate with the Assam Army to attack and annihilate the Chinese First Route Army. In this way, we not only achieved the goal of breaking through the siege, but also completed the encirclement and annihilation of the elite heavy army group of the Chinese. ”

Olivee was stunned, and looked at Dannat stupidly, never dreaming that Admiral Dannat would have such a plan, and he never wanted to increase the number of troops to attack Ren'anqiang, which was his false move. But no matter how he thinks about counterattacking Ren'anqiang, it doesn't look like a false move, it's just desperate.

Olife quickly came back to his senses, looked at the map carefully, and said in a half-loud voice: "Commander, your plan is simply beyond everyone's expectations, and it is also very powerful. It's just that we have to counterattack Myitkyina, the whole journey will be more than 300 kilometers, this distance will take at least two days even if we march urgently, not to mention that we still have the enemy in front of us to block, and even the Chinese can still carry out air strikes against our army. Isn't that too difficult? ”

Admiral Dannatt laughed dryly and said, "Dear Olife, you are an excellent chief of staff, and your concerns are right. But as it stands, this is the best way to go. The Chinese are not fully prepared for this attack, their so-called Second Route Army is actually a group army, and just such a group army is also divided into troops to besiege our hundreds of thousands of troops on three sides, what a long defense line, how many enemies can they arrange in our north? ”

Olivee said: "An army. After a pause, it dawned on him, "God, that's great." They had only one corps to the north, but if we concentrated our forces on a little bit, it would be nice to have a regiment of defenders on that position. ”

Admiral Dannatt sneered, "You're right. Just one regiment, we concentrated artillery fire to cover the rapid attack of the troops, and we were completely able to quickly break them, rush through this defensive line, and take the empty rear of the Chinese. ”

Olife said happily: "Great. There are too many mountains and jungles in this direction, and as long as we send troops to block them, we will be tantamount to leaving behind the elite troops of hundreds of thousands of Chinese. General, you are truly a military genius. ”

Admiral Dannatt smiled, "Thank you for the compliment." Of course, it is not enough for us to do this, the Chinese will definitely draw troops to block it, and if we want to attack layer by layer, it will still be quite difficult. Therefore, after we break out of the encirclement, we need to divide our troops into two ways. I have studied the art of war of the Chinese, and I feel that only by going north in the light and in the dark can I ensure the success of my counteroffensive plan to the greatest extent. ”

Olife was surprised: "The Chinese's art of war? ”

Admiral Dannatt said, "Yes, that's a magical military treasure. But the Chinese seem to have forgotten that their art of war says 'ten rules of encirclement', but they are now inferior to our army and want to surround us? Dream! (To be continued......)