At about 7:30 a.m. on April 26, in a dense jungle about 200 kilometers west of Ledo, Major General Hopkins, commander of the 1st Division of the British Army's Plame Garrison, was awakened by a loud noise, frowned and just got out of the tent.

Several British soldiers and Indian soldiers, in a clearing on the edge of the woods, quarreled, should have just exchanged hands, more than a dozen soldiers, all with blue noses and swollen faces, military uniforms torn in many places, covered with mud, on the ground, is an overturned lunch box, a mess, around, surrounded by dozens of British and Indian soldiers, watching the excitement there.

For the Plame Garrison 1st Division, which was formed by a mixture of British and Indian soldiers, such fights between soldiers were commonplace, and the vast majority of them were provoked by British soldiers, and officers at all levels were also commonplace.

The division commander, Major General Hopkins, also knew this situation, and in peacetime, he was not interested in dealing with such trivial matters, but today is different, yesterday, the first garrison division was bombed by Chinese bombers, and although the casualties were not very large, it affected the stability of the troops and the speed of advance.

In order to deal with this situation, Division Commander Hopkins held a meeting in the middle of the night, a noisy meeting, which made His Excellency the Major General confused and exhausted, and barely fell asleep in the second half of the night, but was woken up early in the morning by these short-sighted guys.

Your Excellency, the angry division commander, can you be in a good mood? Angrily walked over to the dozen soldiers. Regardless of nationality, all are treated equally, and each person has a few ruthless big mouths. Then, he ordered the gendarmes to send all these blind guys to the Soldier Management Brigade for Discipline Violations. Strict discipline, at least ten days, these guys will have to suffer.

As for what these soldiers quarreled about, and even did it, Division Commander Hopkins. His Excellency, who was not interested in knowing at all, was ruined early in the morning, and returned to the tent in anger, and the communications staff officer was waiting there, and when he saw Hopkins coming in, he hurriedly said: "Report to the division commander, Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Bright called." Ask if Chinese bombers were found? ”

Hopkins was even more angry. He almost roared angrily and said: "Sue those playboys in the air force, no, not even a ghost!" Are they, are we still bombed by the Chinese as they did yesterday? ”

The communications staff officer was stunned, he didn't know. On this beautiful morning, why is His Excellency the division commander so angry? Hopkins looked at the dumbfounded staff officer, and then yelled, "Deliver my orders." Thirty minutes later, the troops moved on! ”

The communications staff officer hurriedly rushed out, and even the time to prepare breakfast and eat was only thirty minutes, just kidding, is the division commander crazy, letting the soldiers go hungry and march on this sheep intestine trail in the mountains?

At about 10 o'clock, the soldiers of the 1st Plame Garrison Division were hurriedly stuffing breakfast into their stomachs, and piles of soldiers were crowded together around the marching pots, and no one was afraid that they would not be able to catch breakfast.

At this moment, there was a sudden roar in the sky, and the British lookout post hurriedly picked up the binoculars and looked into the sky, and was startled, my God! The Chinese bombers are here again!

"Smack!" A few poignant gunshots echoed in the forest, and the British and Indian soldiers who were eating heavily were stuffed with food in their mouths, looking around inexplicably, and some of them were sharp-eyed, and saw the small black dots in the sky, which swooped down, and quickly became larger in the field of vision, and threw down the lunch box and shouted loudly: "Air raid!" Bombers for the Chinese! "Good fellow, it's like a starting pistol, Anglo-Indian soldier, turn around and drill into the forest. …,

Colonel Xu Zhiming, commander of the Second Bomber Regiment of the Southern Flight Group of the Independent Division's Air Force, looked sideways at the British and Indian soldiers scurrying around like flies in the forest and open space below, the pots and tents still smoking, and couldn't help but shake his head, "Why don't these British and Indian soldiers have a long memory, they were bombed yesterday, and they haven't learned a lesson, so they camp like ducks, they don't even have the most basic sense of air defense, and they don't suffer enough!" ”

What is that polite, Xu Zhiming ordered: "All crews pay attention, look for targets, and start entering the bombing route, the British and Indian soldiers don't take us seriously, let them suffer enough and start attacking!" ”

More than 30 bombers swooped down from a high altitude, the bomb bay under the belly of the plane opened, and one after another heavy bombs fell with a roar, and in the dense woods, "Boom, boom, boom!" "Clusters of fire, thick pillars of smoke, soaring into the sky, blasting off the debris of the big trees, with the stirred up of the earth, mercilessly hit the British and Indian soldiers who were hiding everywhere.

This is still lucky, unlucky, a bomb just fell in the pile of people, a puff of black smoke, the body of the British and Indian soldiers, together with the flying dirt, flew into the air together, when it fell, it was a broken corpse, at about 8 o'clock in the morning of April 26, into the mouths of the British and Indian soldiers, not only the hastily made breakfast, but also the bombs of the bombers of the independent division.

Less than five minutes after he stepped out of the tent, a bomb blew up the place where His Excellency the division commander was resting last night into a large crater of white smoke.

Hopkins, who had no head or face covered with muddy water, ran to the cave where the communications office was located, and as soon as he entered, he shouted to the operator: "Quick, send a telegram to Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Bright that our 1st Division of the Dipram Garrison, at about 8 o'clock in the morning, the camp west of Ledo was heavily bombed by Chinese planes, and the number of enemy planes was about fifty!" ”

In the panic, the number of bombers of the independent division was almost doubled, and at the same time, the British and Indian troops in the other three directions of Sugia, Gamai, and New Taiji were all heavily bombed by the bombers of the independent division.

Ten minutes after the bombing began, Lieutenant General Bright received four telegrams one after another, all of which were the same, "Our unit was heavily bombed by Chinese bombers!" "And the strange thing is that the commander of the Central Route Army Alexander in the Hukang Valley, however, was calm as usual, and there were no bombers of the independent division to patronize it, and Bright did not understand what the reason was?

Despite the doubts, Lieutenant General Brett would not be stupid enough to take a telegram and ask Commander Alexander, "Your Excellency, Honorable Commander, why are you not bombed there?" "Isn't that unlucky? It's not fun to find yourself!

What happened, as Bright himself expected, the bombers of the independent division, which took advantage, really appeared again, and the combat staff officers, watching intently, waited for His Excellency the Commander, to give the order for fighters to attack, and His Excellency the Lieutenant General, but cautiously ordered: "Immediately contact the troops in the direction of Ledo, Sugia, Gamai, and New Taiji, please confirm the Chinese bombers, whether there are fighter escorts?" ”

Xu Zhiming dropped a round of bombs, pulled his plane high, circled around, and was about to look for a new bombing target, in the earphones, the voice of the commander Le Yiqin sounded, "201, all the captains of your regiment, immediately climb to the maximum altitude, turn on the airborne radar, and search all the airspace that the British Yankee fighters in the East India direction may have!" ”…,

At the same time, Le Yiqin issued this order to all the bomber regiment commanders who participated in the bombing, and all the ground radars in the northern direction of Burma began to search, from the high altitude to the ground, forming a three-dimensional air surveillance network, just waiting for the British fighters to appear.

At 8:43, Lieutenant General Bright received calls back from the commanders of the four divisions, "After we risked the danger of Chinese bombs, after careful observation, we did not find any escorted Chinese fighters!" ”

Only then did Bright make up his mind, threw himself in front of the intercom, and said: "Order, all fighter wings, immediately according to the predetermined plan, start to assault the Chinese bomber group, remember, quick victory, no love war, quick departure, responsible for bombing Ma Gao's bomber first and second wings, escort fighter wings, return route for the Hukang River Valley, I give you the best opportunity, Chinese fighters, will be attracted to the direction of Ledo, Sugia, Gamai, New Taiji, bomb as much as you like!" Blast Magao to ruins! ”

Lieutenant General Bright, playing a little trick, returned with two bomber wings and a fighter wing, flying over the Hukang River Valley, just to let the old guy see it with his own eyes.

Xu Zhiming, who was hovering at high altitude, stared intently at the radar screen, and suddenly, a group of bright spots appeared on the screen, at the beginning, it was very vague, but it became clear immediately, Xu Zhiming immediately called: "No. 1, No. 1, 201 reported in the airspace of Ledo, and found that the British plane was about 500 kilometers away from my bomber formation, please instruct, my bomber formation, is it going to return immediately?" ”

At the same time, Le Yiqin, who was at the Myitkyina command post, received a report from the bomber formation and the ground radar station in the other three directions, "It was discovered that the British fighters were rapidly approaching our bomber formation, and the Magao ground radar station reported that the British bomber and fighter mixed formation, about 240 enemy planes, were approaching in the direction of Magau!" ”

"Good!" Le Yiqin slammed the table and shouted, his voice was so loud that everyone in the command post was startled, "The hard work pays off, the British have finally taken the bait!" In an instant, Le Yiqin's blood burned all over his body!

(To be continued)(To be continued......