Chapter 1209 Mogu, Purgatory Battlefield (II)

Ito knew that Lieutenant General Nomura was telling the truth, and in late September, in the airspace over the South China Sea, in order to ambush and intercept Tang Qiuli's special plane that had flown to Manila, within one day, it suffered two devastating blows from the Independent Division's air force.

Can there be any better weapon against planes in the sky? The anti-aircraft firepower of the sending army was very weak, and although he had given the order to organize anti-aircraft shooting, almost all the light and heavy machine guns of the front-line troops were spraying bullets into the sky, but the result of this was not only not to have any effect, but was ferociously shot by the fighters of the independent divisional air force.

In all fairness, the lethality of the Leyiqin machine group against the Japanese army in the Libao Grand Canyon defense line with natural concealment is not great, and the effect of a whole day of bombing only reaches one-fifth of the killing effect of the field position, that is, on the front line of Mandalay, because the Japanese army is scattered and hidden, it has not achieved the expected effect, which makes Le Yiqin's heart and very uncomfortable.

Although the division commander told him that the intensive bombing of your Southern Flying Group had only two purposes, one was to prevent Ito from gathering forces and facing Feng Jiwu's corps and Ma Chaoyang's corps in the east, and the other was to create the illusion that our main force on the Mengmi front line was about to launch an attack on the Japanese positions in the Libao Grand Canyon.

This time, the air force sang the leading role, and if he didn't show his face to the army, he was sorry for the pilots under his command, and those who didn't want money, threw down the bombs, but the Japanese troops hid in natural caves or hidden departments, and the bombs could not do anything.

It just so happened that Ito ordered the Japanese army to organize anti-air shooting, and found a new target for Le Yiqin, and he immediately issued an order, "Attention to all fighter groups, immediately stop free hunting, double-click cooperation, and specialize in attacking the anti-aircraft firing fire group of the little devils, remember, if you see one and kill the other, it is best to reimburse him even for the light and heavy machine guns of the little devils." ”

October 15 was a disastrous day for the Japanese troops on the line from Liho to Mandalay, not because of the number of casualties, but because of the huge strength displayed by the independent division's air force, which made all the Japanese officers and soldiers from Ito down have an instinctive sense of fear.

I haven't seen it before, but today I have seen it, from the defense line of the Libao Grand Canyon to Mandalay, an important town in central Myanmar, on a front of more than 300 kilometers, there are billowing smoke and burning fires everywhere, and almost all the roads and bridges on the ground have been blown into sections of dead snakes, and the surface buildings have become ruins.

As long as it was on the ground, even if there was a soldier of the Imperial Army, or a vehicle exercising, it would attract the ferocious strafing of several planes of the Independent Division, and on this day, the ground activities of the Japanese army were restricted on all fronts, and after being knocked out more than 1,000 groups of anti-aircraft firing points, Ito understood a reality, and the light and heavy machine guns on the ground firing into the air were tantamount to sending piles of live targets to the fighters of the Independent Division.

Ito, who understood it, issued an order without any delay, "All troops, immediately conceal, stop all activities, and take the preservation of strength as the first priority," such an order, for the first time for the troops of the Imperial Japanese Army, only the imperial fighter planes recklessly dropped bombs and shot in the sky above the enemy's head, how could there be Cheng Dù who was forced to dare not move by the enemy's planes?

In fact, after Ito gave this order, he clearly realized that his plan to defend the north and attack the east was completely bankrupt, even if Tang Qiuli's troops did not attack the defense line of the Libao Grand Canyon, and his troops continued to drive to the line of the Salween River to attack the independent division troops coming from the east, wouldn't that send hundreds of thousands of activity targets to the independent division planes in the sky?

After all the wanton and indiscriminate bombardment along the way, what combat effectiveness does your own troops still have, fighting against the independent divisions of the two corps? Putting down the phone, Ito felt that his throat and eyes were sweet, and he swallowed a mouthful of blood that almost spurted out, his eyes were black, and he held himself up to prevent himself from falling, and now, Ito must judge whether Tang Qiuli would really attack the defense line of the Libao Grand Canyon?

The bombing lasted all day, and in the sound of the "boom" explosion, Ito also didn't come out of the hidden part for a day, and he almost worked hard, where to meditate, whether Tang Qiuli would do it? Hit it on that day, how strong was the attack? After analysis, Ito found that the initiative of these three problems was not in his hands, that is to say, it depended on Tang Qiuli, and the imperial army could only passively wait, waiting for the fierce blow of this devil.

Weakness, Ito felt a deep sense of powerlessness, in the evening, the bombing of the independent division's air force gradually stopped, and under the cover of night, in the midst of stormy waves, the Japanese soldiers in the bunkers, concealment departments, and anti-artillery holes of the bumpy boats finally breathed a sigh of relief, and came out one after another, breathing in the air full of the smell of gunpowder.

However, the Japanese soldiers were wrong again, and did not agree to the large-scale, indiscriminate bombing during the day, so Le Yiqin specially organized a group of fighter planes for air raid at night, with two fighters and one bomber as a group, and when they saw a little light, they could throw bombs vigorously.

At night, the land of central Burma was full of fires from explosions, and the sound of "booming" explosions echoed in the night, and the Japanese soldiers who were bombed so bitterly had to hurriedly grab a ball of half-cooked rice, and then, with a stream of urine, drilled into the hidden places, bunkers, and caves, while eating rice balls helplessly, while viciously cursing the Chinese plane that brought them bad luck.

Tang Qiuli looked at the constantly flashing fires in the night, listened to the non-stop explosions, and said to the chief of staff Chang Feng with a smile, "Le Yiqin is addicted, and he won't let Ito stop even at night, if this continues, Minister Zhang of the Logistics Department should scold his mother, Le Yiqin, a bastard boy, consumes tens of thousands of aerial bombs in a day, and if it goes on like this, the independent division will have to be defeated by him, give Le Yiqin a call, and you can get it when you see it!" ”

Chang Feng replied: "Division commander, before dark, Commander Le called the division commander, the Southern Flying Group, using the opportunity of actual combat to train the new pilot's night flight ability, people are the first to say hello, and the reason is sufficient, you call at this time, isn't it to ruin people's interest?" ”

Tang Qiuli shook his head with a smile, and didn't say anything more, in this battle, he can be said to have taken the initiative, when to fight, how to fight, it's up to Ito, as long as he masters the heat, he can achieve the goal of the battle, if, at this time, Ito knows the danger he is facing, as he hopes, retreat in the direction of the Malay Peninsula, Tang Qiuli will definitely not put Ito's Japanese army to death.

I hope Ito can cooperate a little, and he will save his strength, it is estimated that even if Ito has the intention of retreating, the Japanese base camp will not agree, Le Yiqin's aviation has already smashed Ito's attempt to avoid the real and attack the false, to meet Feng and the horse regiment, if he insists on a battle, the battlefield can only be on the line from Mogu to Mengmi.

And Mogu is a piece of poisonous cake that he left for Ito, Mogu will become the fuse of the total retreat of the Japanese army, should the pressure be increased? Forcing Ito to eat this cake, Tang Qiuli thought about it for a while and shouted, "Yang Ketian! Yang Ketian didn't come, Liu Xinlan quickly appeared in front of Tang Qiuli.

Tang Qiuli remembered that Liu Xinlan was the person in charge of conveying his orders and delivering important telegrams in the General Staff Office, and he didn't know what Yang Ketian meant, such an arrangement, he glanced at Liu Xinlan, Liu Xinlan's face was calm, and it was completely a posture of a subordinate in front of his superiors, "Record, Feng Jiwu Corps and Ma Chaoyang Corps of the Eastern Front Group accelerated their speed, quickly swept away the enemy in front of them, and put on a posture of encircling Mandalay from the two directions of Indo and Menggong. ”

After Liu Xinlan retold the order crisply, he saluted, turned around and left, looking at her graceful figure, Tang Qiuli's heart was in a trance again, he had a feeling that he did not reject Liu Xinlan by his side, and her figure and Xiaoling's impression gradually overlapped, and sometimes, he couldn't even tell which was Xiaoling and which was Liu Xinlan, this feeling made him distressed and blamed himself.

Mandalay, the underground command post of the General Headquarters of Japan's Southeast Asian Dispatch Army, Ito was still sitting on the chair in a daze, and he didn't even move a bite of the carefully cooked and pure Japanese-style dinner sent by the guards, he really had no appetite, and he vaguely felt the tremor caused by the explosion, which made him even more upset, it seems that Tang Qiuli is ruthless and wants to attack the defense line of Libao Grand Canyon.

Even after reading the report on the casualties and losses of today's bombing sent by the combat department, Ito did not feel happy, judging from the situation report, the losses of his troops were not large, and compared with the fierce Cheng Dù bombing by the planes of the independent division, it was already the best result, but it was because of this sudden large-scale air raid that his established deployment was disrupted.

The independent division troops from the eastern part of the Indochina Peninsula continued to advance inexorably in the direction of Mandalay, and the imperial troops of the two divisions were almost completely killed and wounded.

Ito has comprehensively analyzed the current situation, and has already had the idea of retreating, and the troops of the independent division attacking his flank and Mandalay have already shown their sharp teeth, and if they do not retreat, the Southeast Asian dispatch army will be in danger of being encircled in central Burma, but can the base camp allow itself to retreat?

Tang Qiu's departure from this hand forced Ito to the point where he had to have a head-on decisive battle, but this required capital, fighting and retreating, which made Ito extremely entangled and distressed.