Chapter 1086 Air Raids and Bombings

General Ito Yanzaburo, commander-in-chief of Japan's Southeast Asian Dispatch Army, was a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army. Invincible and invincible in Indochina and Burma, singing and rejoicing all the way, and being very distressed that they could not catch the retreating troops of the British, these British, who were more slippery than loaches, even if they turned back to meet the battle, were still decent soldiers.

The Japanese army chased wildly, chasing so much that they were about to vomit blood, the British army ran wildly, ran so much that they had lost their armor, and the Japanese troops from all walks of life rushed in the direction of Mandalay, but they couldn't catch up with the two legs of the British army.

Major General Morishima Keno, commander of the aviation of the dispatch army, appeared at the right time when His Excellency the commander-in-chief was extremely troubled, and proposed to use the full strength of the aviation force to bombard the retreating Anglo-Burmese army.

He said in a hurried tone: "Morishima-kun, please!" Dispatch all your planes, send winged ones to the sky, bomb them fiercely, bomb the targets you see, the British, the Burmese, roads, bridges, even a tree, a rock that can be hidden, you have to blow up and smash them, send military baggage departments, all to serve the air force, as long as Morishima-kun can hold back the retreating British, you are the hero of the Great Japanese Empire, I will personally ask His Majesty the Emperor for your credit, please! ”

After speaking, General Ito Yanzaburo solemnly bowed deeply to Morishima, not only that, but all the officers in the headquarters of the dispatch army also bowed and please, Morishima's blood was boiling, and the blood all over his body poured to his face, and his voice trembled a little excitedly: "Thank you for the trust of Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief and all the monarchs, Morishima will definitely live up to his mission, even if he sacrifices his life, he will complete the task!" ”

After speaking, Morishima strode away, Morishima was indeed very moved, he had never felt that the burden on his shoulders was so heavy, as for the words of sacrificing his life and the like, it was pure nonsense, singing and singing in a high-pitched manner, in the sky of northern Burma, as long as the Southern Flight Group of the Independent Division Aviation did not make a move, how could there be any air power that threatened the Japanese aircraft, and the British planes ran to India early to take refuge.

Beginning in early May, the Anglo-Burmese soldiers who had been massing all the way to Mandalay had no more peace to live, and Japan dispatched military air units to Southeast Asia, dispatched all the planes, and bombed them indiscriminately on every road leading to Mandalay, dumping Chengton's aerial bombs on the heads of the Anglo-Burmese soldiers.

Major General Morishima Takeo took out his bloody skills, not only all fighters and bombers were sent into the sky, but even transport planes were loaded with aerial bombs, reconnaissance planes were equipped with machine guns, and all of them went to the battlefield.

A soldier, a car, a mountain road, and a bridge will attract the frenzied bombing of several or even a dozen Japanese planes, and the Anglo-Burmese soldiers will be flying with flesh and blood, people will turn their horses on their backs, and countless broken corpses and burning vehicles will dye the emerald green land in central Burma into patches of dark red, and the smoke will be filled with gunpowder, and the smoke will soar into the sky, and the speed of the retreat of the British and Burmese troops will immediately slow down.

Keno Morishima fulfilled his promise, with more than 300 planes, including transport planes, to blow up the retreat road of the British and Burmese troops into a wall of death, the British want to take a step back, they have to pay a heavy price, in fact, the situation should not be so bad, if the British army retreats in an orderly manner, organize ground air defense fire, even if there is no air cover, it will not be so passive, those crazy Japanese pilots, the planes flew almost against the treetops.

A few light machine guns could knock down the raging Japanese planes, not to mention, those clumsy transport planes and bombers, but the British only cared about fleeing for their lives, the command system was completely paralyzed, and the commanders at all levels had lost control over the troops, and they could not even organize the most basic air defense, let alone give effective orders.

A few days later, the situation of the Anglo-Burmese army, which was chaotic and wantonly slaughtered by the Japanese air force, did not change in the slightest, and that unit, all wanting to make others the target of bombing, was often a narrow mountain pass, and the troops of different formations, in order to compete for the advantage of being the first to pass guò, fiercely quarreled and viciously abused, huddled together, each did not give in, and almost reached the point of using knives and guns.

Later, when the Japanese pilots returned home, they asked each other about the results of the battle, and they no longer had to kill a few Britons today, so they asked each other, but said, "I sent the bombs to a few bunch of Brits today." ”

Keno Morishima's air blockade strategy was an unprecedented success, and the activities of the British and Burmese troops during the day were restricted on the whole line, and they had to evade air raids during the day, and marched at night, and the speed of retreat was immediately reduced.

The sky in central Burma is in full swing, and Major General Le Yiqin, commander of the independent division and commander of the first and second flight groups in the south, who is on standby at Kunming Airport, can no longer sit on a stool; every day on the radar screen, he looks at the small red dots representing the Japanese planes, and the screen is full of chaos, swallowing saliva, a red dot is a little devil's plane, looking at this posture, I am afraid that there are more than 300 planes, what a big piece of fat?

After several discussions with several officers of the War Department, a telegram to the division commander Tang Qiuli requesting war was finally issued: "The division commander and all the commanders of the division, since the units of the Southern Flight Group of our independent division aviation unit have been stationed at the Nanning and Kunming airports, they have not had a combat mission for about three months, and the pilots are eager to fight, and they have recently heard that the activities of the Japanese air force in the airspace of Burma are very rampant and frequent, and all the units of the Southern Flight Group of our country have requested the approval of the division commander to enter Burma to participate in the combat mission against the Japanese air force, and first, to destroy the Japanese air force. Second, in order to exercise the actual combat ability of the troops, I hope to approve it! ”

After Tang Qiuli received Le Yiqin's telegram asking for war, he first smiled "fluttering", and then said to Chang Feng, the chief of staff next to him: "Chang Feng, look at this telegram, Le Yiqin can't sit on the stool, ask me for war!" Chang Feng took the telegram, read it carefully, and said: "Division commander, Commander Le's reasons for asking for war are very sufficient, and he is reasonable for both of them, and he doesn't give a close reply, I'm afraid it's uncomfortable, right?" ”

Seeing that Tang Qiuli didn't react, Chang Feng continued: "A week ago, more than 100 fighters were transferred from Commander Liu Cuigang of the Northern Flight Group. ”

Tang Qiuli smiled, glanced at Chang Feng meaningfully, and said, "Chang Feng, I'm afraid you also have the intention of meddling in the battlefield in Burma, right?" Chang Feng's face turned red and said: "Division commander, this is a general psychology, seeing that the Japanese are fighting vigorously in central Burma, and the British can't even take a move, the officer of our army is not careful?" They didn't dare to look for you, and they all came to me to complain. ”

Tang Qiuli shook his head and said, "Record, call back to the aviation troops, and play a piano, what?" Watching the Burmese fight lively, the buttocks are hot, and the heart is itchy and can't sit on the stool? I tell you, seize the favorable opportunity when our troops have not yet entered Southeast Asia, and intensify the training of the troops, especially those newly assigned flight cadets, and when the time comes, they will be able to fight, otherwise, I will transfer Liu Cuigang to take over your command position. ”

After Chang Feng recorded the contents of the telegram, he couldn't help but be stunned and said, "Commander, I'm afraid this is inappropriate, right?" It will dampen the enthusiasm of the troops," Tang Qiuli waved his hand and said: "The original text is still issued, Le Yiqin, a militant, if he is not strict, he will come to trouble me, in fact, the time to join the Burma battlefield is not yet ripe, the British want to save face now, if they don't come to ask for help, let the Japanese fight harder, and lose more, and when the British ask for us, the initiative will be controlled in their own hands." ”

Le Yiqin, who was at the Kunming Field Airport, received a call back from the division commander Tang Qiuli, and couldn't help but shrink his neck, and the sweat on his head came out, he believed that the division commander could definitely do it, and there was no war to fight in the north, and Liu Cuigang, who was panicked in his heart, asked the division commander more than once to change his position.

A border line, divided into two situations, in China, the common people live as usual, Burma and Thailand and even the entire Indochina Peninsula, are full of war, gunsmoke, and with the retreat of the British and Burmese troops, rolling to the north to press over, in Mandalay Alexander, anxious head full of black lines, about to hang, looking forward to the stars, looking forward to the moon, ten days later, the first British army to reach Mandalay, can finally see the city of Mandalay.

Alexander rushed out of the city and personally went to meet his men, this is the British Eleventh Royal Infantry Brigade in Chiang Mai, Thailand, which is at the farthest point from the Japanese attack arrow, so it is timely and fastest to withdraw, of course, there are no other troops in front of him to fill the road, and it is the smoothest to run, but when Alexander saw the troops, he was so surprised that he was speechless.

It is said that the 11th Infantry Brigade has not experienced any fighting at all and belongs to the retreat of the formation, but what the commander-in-chief of the British army, General Alexander, saw was a group of remnants of the defeated army, not only did not have trucks, tanks and artillery, but even light and heavy machine guns could not be seen.

Alexander looked at the troops he had been thinking about for a long time, and became a group of routs who had lost their weapons, and a wave of anger rushed to his head irrepressibly.

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