Chapter 285: The Great War
Boss Yang's anger was very terrifying, since he said that he was going to Ren'anqiang to set fire to the three oil wells that the Japanese had worked so hard to repair, it was necessary to light them, and in the next two days, two brigades of Liberator bombers and two brigades of twin demons were transferred to Kunming.
The bombers were accompanied by a thousand tons of napalm, as well as a dozen mysterious weapons that had been closely guarded and sent to a special warehouse, and no one knew what they were.
In addition to weapons, there are also people, in order to avoid the expeditionary force headquarters will not be able to use these things reasonably, the staff group personally led by Huang Baitao, the chairman of the Beiping Chiefs of Staff Liaison Conference, flew to Kunming, and then he was appointed by Zhu Peide as the chief of staff of the expeditionary force, and was fully responsible for the follow-up operations.
The bald guy doesn't care about the war in Burma at all, anyway, he has already reaped the benefits, as for how Yang Fengai plays, it's up to him, and now Nanjing is planning a counterattack on eastern Zhejiang to recover his hometown! It's impossible to still be interested in taking care of this side of things.
Just when Yang Feng's soldiers were preparing to make a big move, the Japanese were not idle, and the consequences of provoking Yang Feng Shan Sugi Yuan were very clear, except for the five divisions in Southeast Asia who were careful to beware of the Americans, and the five divisions who continued to roulin the British in India, the remaining ten divisions were all concentrated in Burma, and all the forty fighter planes that copied the Thunder design in the army's latest service were deployed in Burma, plus sixty zero battles of the two aircraft carriers of Chicheng and Longxiang, In his opinion, there should be no problem in seizing air supremacy.
In fact, the Japanese army is doing a test, they want to try to use their current strength, how many chances they have of winning against Yang Feng's descendants, if they can kill the 32nd Army and Yang Feng's mountain brigade in the Burma battlefield, then it means that they already have the ability to launch an offensive in the North China battlefield, if they are still powerless against Yang Feng's people. Then Ryokari had no choice but to hide in Shenyang and continue to be a turtle with a shrunken head.
Yang Feng also saw this, so he prepared the latest gift for the Japanese, the dozen or so secret weapons that were closely guarded, which were his first batch of experimental models of cloud burst bombs, and it took the research base on Weishan Island two years to get them.
The Battle of Burma opened in the most standard Young's style, with a hundred Liberator bombers. A full 500 tons of napalm were dropped on Mandalay, the headquarters of the Japanese Burmese Front, and the Burmese second-largest city was completely burned to the ground, and although he took precautions against this and built a large number of small bomb shelters, he still underestimated the power of the hellfire, which drained all the air in six of the improvised bomb shelters that lacked vents, and more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers and Burmese monkeys who had taken refuge died of suffocation.
Combined with those who didn't have time to escape into bomb shelters, the bombing killed more than 20,000 people in Mandalay and destroyed more than two-thirds of the city's buildings. Even the railroad, which was most important for the Japanese army, was burned to twisted iron slag.
This kind of brutal bombing completely broke the fighting spirit of the monkeys, and a large number of monkeys armed by the Japanese on the front line fled, and in their opinion, it was not people but devils who could do such things, and there was no hope for people to fight with the devil.
On the second day of the bombing of Mandalay, the Japanese army and navy conducted a joint operation, concentrating nearly 200 aircraft of various types to launch retaliatory bombing against several major strongholds of the expeditionary force. In retaliation for napalm, the Japanese massively used white phosphorus bombs. However, to their surprise, in the face of the menacing Japanese planes, a twin demon brigade stationed at the Nankan front-line airfield did not take off at all to meet them.
This made the frightened Japanese pilots so bad that they screamed and rushed straight to the ground troops of the expeditionary force, and met them with hundreds of anti-aircraft guns and countless anti-aircraft machine guns. There were also radio proximity shells.
"The soldiers have to be subjected to a real air attack, not the same as they used to train, and our soldiers have been fighting in good times, which is very bad for their growth, and if they suffer a setback, they can easily suffer a large-scale rout. So this way is a must. At the headquarters in Nankan, Huang Baitao explained to Yang Feng and Zhu Peide the reason for prohibiting fighter jets from providing air cover for the front line.
However, his wish was still not fulfilled, the dense anti-aircraft fire and the terrifying hit rate of the radio close bomb made the bombing of the Japanese aircraft almost turn into suicide, carrying heavy bombs and losing the ability to maneuver, almost repeating the tragic encounter when they acted as suicide planes in the Pacific theater, in the fire of the explosion of radio close bombs, the demeanor of the air lighters was fully displayed, and the fragile bodies without any armor protection were torn apart one by one.
The trembling Chinese soldiers on the ground, who were supposed to hide in their bunkers, even dared to run out and enjoy the hunting of anti-aircraft artillery fire one by one, and the two hundred Japanese planes lost more than 60 in less than half an hour after the bombing began, which is a jaw-dropping number, and the Japanese commanders could no longer hold on in the face of such losses, and all the planes hurriedly dropped their bombs and then turned around and left the sad sky.
But at this time, the twin demons arrived, Huang Baitao was not ready to let these planes that had no use value fly back, not only the twin demons of Nankan, but even the twin demons of Kunming arrived at the battlefield at the same time, and a hundred fighters of a whole wing swooped down with a piercing whistling volley, and the dense large-caliber bullets dragged the long whips of flames in the sky, and beat the Japanese aircraft group with the whip of death.
The Japanese planes that had just been wounded in the bombing, and there was little fuel and ammunition left, it was difficult to make any effective resistance at this time, and the sky was dragging black smoke one after another, and the ninety-seven fell into the vast jungle with a helpless cry of sorrow, and finally the two hundred planes dispatched by the Japanese army only went back less than forty, and after this battle, until the end of this battle, the Japanese air force in the Burma battlefield did not recover its vitality.
The battle in the air is over, and then it is time for the army, without the interference of the Japanese aircraft, the Liberator bombers first used napalm to roulin the Japanese defense line, and then bombarded the Japanese defense line with artillery of various calibers for half an hour, and then launched a fierce attack on the Japanese defense line with the mountain brigade with the whole army of the 32nd Army, and the left and right flanks of the two armies of Luhan and Sun Du were covered, and the three armies were on a front dozens of kilometers wide, and the finished shape killed Mandalay.
The Japanese army is also very tenacious, in fact, on the Mandalay front, the strength of both sides is about the same, the Japanese army has six three-wing divisions, nine divisions and one brigade of the three armies of the expeditionary force, and the Japanese army is also assisted by some Burmese monkeys, and the expeditionary force also has six Yunnan army divisions with slightly weaker combat effectiveness, it should be said that the Japanese army has a great advantage.
But the problem is that after the loss of air supremacy, those Liberator bombers and terrifying napalm are too powerful, just after the first round of bombing, seeing those comrades screaming and dying in the flames, all the Burmese monkeys were scared away, and without them, the Japanese combat effectiveness was not damaged, but the adjustment of the deployment to supplement the defensive line vacated after their escape inevitably caused a certain amount of confusion, and at this time the expeditionary force began to attack.
A great battle immediately unfolded in the jungles of Burma.
The 32nd Army, which was the main attack in the middle, was still overwhelmed, and these elites, who had fought with the Japanese army in the north for many years, were still pressed against the Japanese army in the remote tropical forest.
"Ma, these little Japan don't need to be beaten!" Huang Guanghua, who likes to run to the front line and personally command on the spot, shouted to the rear headquarters over the radio.
"You are talking nonsense, the Japanese army has expanded from more than a dozen divisions to more than sixty divisions, do you think they are all the elite of the Kwantung Army during the Battle of the Great Wall?" Shang Zhen said with a smile.
He said that the strongest strength of the Burmese Front Army was the 108th, 106th, and 115th divisions formed on the basis of the backbone of the standing divisions during the first round of army expansion, as well as the second and sixth divisions that were reorganized after being erased by Yang Feng, and the rest were all second, and even the new divisions formed during the third round of army expansion.
The 32nd Army and the 40,000 troops of the Mountain Brigade ran over the Japanese defense line like a huge steamroller, leaving behind a place of dead bodies, especially the mountain brigade with all automatic weapons, which was even more comfortable in the jungle environment.
Huang Guanghua's troops easily broke through the Japanese defense line and approached Mandalay, and the Burmese Front Headquarters led by Tin Junliu hurriedly evacuated the city, which actually had no defensive value, but at this time, the 32nd Army was blocked by a brigade of the 6th Division.
"What's going on?" Huang Guanghua looked angrily at the bare hill in front of him, which was stuck on the choke point leading to Mandalay, and the Japanese troops stationed here had not only worked hard to clear all the vegetation, but also dug countless bunkers and deployed a large number of mortars on the anti-slope, and now this hill became the biggest obstacle in the way of the expeditionary force.
Under the supervision of Huang Guanghua, the Mountain Brigade and the 139th Division organized two large-scale attacks one after another, but the results were very ineffective, and even more than 500 people were killed.
"There are two methods, one is to wait for the air defense troops to come over, and then use the double three-seven anti-aircraft guns to replace the armor-piercing shells one by one, not to mention the three-seven millimeter armor-piercing shells, not to mention these civil fortifications, even if they replace the bunker with reinforced concrete, they can also penetrate it, and the other is to directly call the air force bombers and burn them with napalm, even if they can't burn to death, they can suffocate to death." Lin Hu, the commander of the mountain brigade, said.
"The anti-aircraft artillery is too slow, and the armor-piercing shells are too expensive, so inform the Air Force to smash a hundred tons of napalm, which is still a good deal." Huang Guanghua immediately made the best choice. (To be continued......)