Dusk falls, and night falls.

Liao Yaoxiang, commander of the 61st Army of the Sixth Group Army of the Chinese National Defense Forces, officially issued the order for an all-out attack. This large-scale military operation in Southeast Asia was led by the 61st Army, the backbone of the Sixth Army.

Myanmar has many jungles and rivers, rocks and mud pools. It is a complex terrain, which requires a force that can be fully adapted to the area to take charge of the attack.

The Sixth Army was established in Burma, and was mainly responsible for operations in complex terrain. The total number of the three armies, including the units directly under the group army and a large number of logistical units, reached 200,000.

Although this army group was not equipped with heavy tanks due to the limitations of combat missions, even medium tanks could not be seen in a few. But equipped with a large number of small infantry fighting vehicles and many river gunboats, in order to carry forward the firepower advantage, there is also a Humvee regiment as a dense firepower output force.

The artillery aspect is also powerful, and the strength is reflected in the short period of dense fire coverage. The Sixth Army was armed with a large number of vehicle-mounted rocket launchers, as well as many small portable MLRS carried by livestock. Mortars, as an important fire support unit in the jungle, were also equipped in large quantities on the Sixth Army. If you don't count the large-caliber heavy artillery, the number of artillery of the Sixth Army is not weaker than that of any other group army.

Yangon, as a city controlled by China and an important outlet to the sea, is strategically important, but its area is too small. There is not the slightest strategic depth, and the width of the Burma railway is only a pitiful five kilometers.

Very early on, the Chinese side was already aware. This must change. Otherwise, tragedy is likely to happen!

Therefore, Du Yuming regarded expanding the depth of strategic defense as the first task of the offensive. This is also in line with the Ministry of Defense's idea that the war itself is aimed at expanding Myanmar's territory. Do everything possible to protect the safety of the Myanmar Railway.

On the outskirts of Yangon, it has become a military exclusion zone. As early as the beginning of the Air Force's operation, a large number of rocket launchers had already gathered here.

China began to develop rocket artillery very early, earlier than the initial rocket artillery developed by the Soviet Union in 32 years (32 years in this book). After more than 10 years of development, China already has several kinds of rocket artillery. Calibers vary from one hundred millimeters to three hundred millimeters.

There are four types of calibers from small to large, 105 mm, 130 mm, 175 mm, and 300 mm. Compared to the Soviet Katyusha non-tube-launched rocket artillery. China's rocket artillery is launched from launch tubes. in the number of concentrated fires and one-time launches. None of them can be compared with Katyusha.

The 105 mm 12-tube or 24-tube portable rocket launcher has a range of 6-12 km, can be fully disassembled, and is mainly used by special forces and platoon-level combat units.

130-mm 40-barreled Hurricane rocket launcher. Standard artillery of the Chinese Army. The firing range is in 30-50 km. It is loaded by tracked or heavy trucks and is used for anti-personnel, mine-laying, reconnaissance, etc., and is now the main equipment of the artillery of the division of the Chinese National Defense Forces.

175-mm 20-barreled Dragon's Tooth rocket launcher. China's main large-caliber rocket artillery, and at the same time, it is also the first choice for heavy rocket artillery in the army's field forces.

The 300 mm 8-tube long-altitude rocket launcher, the launcher assembly is a heavy rocket launcher composed of two quadruple launch boxes/storage boxes, which is China's current long-range mass killing weapon. The rockets are 4.2 meters long, 300 mm in diameter, weigh 505 kilograms, and have a maximum range of 80 kilometers.

Rocket artillery is a multi-launch device that launches rockets, and the rockets it launches fly by the thrust of its own engine. Rocket artillery has a fast launch speed, fierce firepower, good surprise attackability, and strong maneuverability, and can launch a large number of rockets in a very short time to carry out surprise attacks on long-distance and large-area targets, so as to annihilate and suppress the living forces and technical weapons, and give the enemy a great spiritual shock.

The main role of rocket artillery is to ignite the igniter of the rocket and give the rocket an initial flight direction. Since rockets fly on the thrust of their own engines, rocket artillery does not need bulky barrels and bolts that can withstand huge chamber pressures, and there are no recoil devices. Rocket artillery can launch multiple combined shots and launch rockets with a large diameter, its launch speed is fast, the firepower is fierce, and the surprise is good, but the projectile is widely dispersed, so it is mostly used to carry out area firing strikes on targets.

Multiple rocket launchers can be divided into two parts: rocket artillery and rockets. Rocket artillery consists of a launcher, a slewing mechanism for high and low directional aircraft, an aiming device, a power supply (battery or generator), a launch ignition control device, and a carrier vehicle.

A rocket consists of a warhead, a fuse, a rocket engine, an electric ignition device, and a tail (except for turbine shells). The launcher is mostly mounted on tracked vehicles or wheeled off-road vehicles, which travel faster than ordinary self-propelled guns.

The launchers of Chinese rocket artillery have been designed with a variety of uses in mind, so some launchers can also be installed on monoplanes, helicopters and surface ships to become air-to-ground, ship-to-ground or ship-to-ship rockets.

Chinese rocket artillery is operated and fired in a wheelhouse or special turret with protective armor, and there are different launch methods such as single launch, double launch, triple launch or salvo fire. Some rocket launchers can be moved out of the vehicle, operated from a safe distance or in a bunker, and can even be launched remotely.

Rocket artillery is a high-performance weapon system with high power, firepower, and good mobility. In combat, it is necessary to give full consideration to factors such as the mission, the enemy's situation, the terrain, and the time, as well as the characteristics of the rocket artillery itself, so that its capability can be brought into full play. Rocket artillery is mainly responsible for long-range and in-depth combat missions.

Long-range combat rocket artillery covers a large area and can hit multiple aiming points, which is most suitable for attacking targets with a large area and less accurate positioning, but it cannot be used to attack targets that are too close to your own troops, nor can they be used in areas that your troops are about to occupy or pass through.

As the main ground fire support unit of the Sixth Army, after deducting the heavy artillery that was not conducive to advancing in the jungle. The Sixth Army is equipped with a large number of Hurricane rocket artillery and Dragon Tooth rocket artillery, and as for portable rocket artillery, it is equipped in field companies, and the Sixth Army is currently very little equipped with long-altitude rocket artillery. Mainly in the jungle, which is not conducive to the use of such big guys.

The rocket launcher positions on the outskirts of Yangon are already lined up with rocket launchers. Some are wheeled heavy trucks for chassis, others are tracked armored vehicles for turf.

The combat parameters have been confirmed to be ready, and the angles have been adjusted. At present, every rocket artillery soldier is doing the final inspection, striving for every rocket launcher in the launch tube to be successfully launched.

When Liao Yaoxiang gave the order to attack, all the rocket artillery of the rocket artillery group began to ignite.

When the first rocket launcher began to fire, the originally dim artillery group position was instantly lit up by the tail flame of the rocket artillery. The entire running group position was shrouded in the light of the rocket artillery tail flame, and then the dust on the ground was stirred up by the impact of the tail flame, and the dust and smoke became higher and higher, and soon the entire rocket artillery group was shrouded in it. After that, I could only see the flames rising from the dust and smoke rising into the sky, flying into the distant sky.

This rocket artillery cluster concentrated 80 percent of the Sixth Army's rocket artillery, 400 Hurricane rocket artillery vehicles, 150 Longya rocket artillery vehicles, and 30 Changkong rocket artillery vehicles. A one-time salvo of nearly 20,000 rockets can instantly light up the entire sky.

Nearly 20,000 rocket launchers were delivered to the enemy's positions in a short period of time, and such a powerful lethality is enough to be described as terrifying. This is not like artillery, 20,000 artillery shells, unless it is a salvo of 10,000 artillery, in terms of lethality, it is absolutely incomparable with rocket artillery.

Moreover, this time, China also used a large number of anti-personnel munitions, such as rocket artillery with anti-personnel shells in the warhead, which had only one purpose, that is, to kill and injure enemy personnel as much as possible.

The Allies had been operating in Burma for several years, especially when they were driven out of Southeast Asia by the Japanese, and had already built a large number of defenses in western Burma. After a few years of operation, it can be said that it is a difficult bone to gnaw.

Therefore, although the Allies had lost all their air superiority, Mountbatten still had considerable confidence in whether he could resist China. The supplies are sufficient, the defense is calm, and the bunkers are strong, all of which he relies on.

What he didn't expect, however, was that he ordered his troops to pay attention to the defense and prevent a surprise attack from China. However, China actually used large-scale rocket artillery attacks, although rocket artillery has been common in European battlefields, but many people have not yet realized the true power of rocket artillery.

In his opinion, it is not surprising that China is using more than 5,000 heavy artillery, and even so, its own troops have time to react, pay some casualties, and others can hide in the anti-artillery holes in time. But now he was faced with 20,000 rockets at a time, with alphabet anti-personnel bombs, enough to plow seven or eight large mountains back and forth several times.

This was also the case, after Liao Yaoxiang gave the order to attack, on the Allied positions thirty kilometers west of Yangon. The Allied soldiers also gathered in the trenches to talk about meat jokes or when China would attack.

In fact, most of the Allied forces in Southeast Asia are composed of Indians, accounting for eighty percent of the total Allied forces. There is no way to do this, there is a need for people everywhere on the battlefields of Europe, and it is already very good to keep 100,000 British and French soldiers here.

It didn't occur to anyone that what was sending them to hell was already flying towards them.

A huge group of "meteor showers" suddenly appeared in the night sky, and many people saw such a spectacular scene. Many of the soldiers stood up to watch, but when they saw these "shooting stars" flying towards them quickly, a bad premonition flooded through their hearts.

From the time they saw the "meteor" to the time the "meteor" fell, only a few seconds passed.

Looking at the "meteor" that was getting closer and closer, some people had already begun to scream to find a place to hide. But it was too late, and the rockets had already fallen on their positions.

When the rocket artillery fires a volley, it is like a volcano erupting hot magma, pouring down on the enemy target like a sky, and the sound is like thunder and tiger roaring, and the heat is like overwhelming the mountains and the sea. (To be continued.) )