At about 4 o'clock in the morning of 13 August, at the Yangon Naval Air Base on the Indochina Peninsula, at the command post of the Southern Flight Group of the Independent Division's Air Force, Commander Le Yiqin was in the headquarters sweating profusely.

At 3:20 a.m. today, the air surveillance radar of our station discovered that more than 400 fighters of the Japanese Kashima Air Force stationed on Sumatra Island had left their current station and flew in the direction of Luzon!"

At 3:40 a.m. today, the air surveillance radar of our station discovered that the Japanese Araki Air Force stationed on Kalimantan Island took off more than 500 fighters and flew to the direction of Luzon Island through the airspace of the South China Sea!"

"I am the leader of the air patrol team of the Singapore base, and when we were doing routine air patrols in the airspace of the Nansha Islands, we found that more than 230 Japanese bombers flew from the direction of Sulawesi, and according to the course of the Japanese bombers, the starting destination was in the direction of Luzon Island!"

All the ground radar stations and air patrol planes reported the same situation, more than 900 fighters and more than 230 bombers of the Japanese army, all of them took Luzon Island as their destination, put down the telephone, Le Yiqin wiped the sweat on his face, and went back and forth in the command post!

He was sweating profusely, not because of nervousness, but because of extreme excitement. The division commander didn't tell a lie, the planes of the little devils are all assembled on Luzon, there must be a war to be fought, damn, the little devils have concentrated so many fighters and bombers at once, it seems that the Yankees are going to suffer. If you add the Kuroda Air Force, which was originally stationed on Luzon Island, the little devil will take out 14500 fighters and bombers at once, and this is going to be a big deal! Le Yiqin couldn't stop muttering to herself.

While muttering, he also sighed for a long time, his eyes flashed with regret, excitement and eager to try, and he kept hitting each other with his left and right palms, making a crisp sound of "popping", and all the staff officers and operators in the command post turned a blind eye to Le Yiqin's actions. They have long been accustomed to such actions of the commander, and they also know that once the commander is like this, it means that he is in an extreme contradiction!

Le Yiqin wandered around for a while. He stopped suddenly, as if he had made a lot of determination. grabbed a red telephone on the table. As soon as he shook it, it looked like a deflated ball, put down the phone, sat back in his chair, frowned and stared, and the expression on his face was very tangled.

I was stunned for a while. He shouted at the communications staff officer: "Convey my order, all the air patrol crews, give me a little away from Luzon, ground radar station." Closely monitor the air battle on Luzon, and if you find a plane crossing the border, whether it's a little devil or a Yankee, you will beat me down! ”

Just now, Le Yiqin did have the urge to call and ask the division commander Tang Qiuli to fight, the information provided by the division commander yesterday was a feeling, and today, the situation he heard in person was vivid, and it was another taste, but what the division commander said last night was still in his ears, and he really didn't have the courage to challenge the division commander's patience, "To be a staff officer to the division commander is still forever!" Thinking about it, Le Yiqin's heart is empty.

A wave of courage came to naught, but, in all fairness, he was quite dissatisfied with the division commander's decision, in Le Yiqin's view, this was a lost opportunity, the opportunity to completely annihilate the little devils and the Yankees' air power, according to his plan, he would never crash into it stupidly when the little devils and the Yankees were fighting cocks, and he had to wait for the little devils and the Yankees to fight and lose both sides and be exhausted.

There is a saying in the Art of War, "The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind!" "With the strength of the Southern Flying Group, Le Yiqin is absolutely sure that he will be a yellow finch who only takes advantage and does not suffer losses, but this yellow finch does not have the courage to persuade the division commander to let himself out as a yellow sparrow, so he has to forcibly suppress the impatience in his heart, not to mention how uncomfortable it is!

In the Le Yiqin in Yangon, Indochina Peninsula, because such a large piece of fat meat could not be eaten, and he was so angry that he wanted to kill, in the Japanese army's battle headquarters in the Calais Mountains of Luzon, because of his great plan, General Ito Yanzaburo, who was about to be implemented, was also a little nervous, but in his nervousness, there was irrepressible excitement and excitement!

At 4:25 a.m. on 13 August, Chief of Staff Kawashima walked up to the commander-in-chief, who was sitting on a wicker chair and closed his eyes, and said respectfully: "Your Excellency, in five minutes, the attack will begin!" ”

General Ito opened his eyes suddenly, and a murderous cold light suddenly burst out, but his tone was as calm as a puddle of water, and he said indifferently: "Let's start!" ”

At 4:30 a.m., in the Calais Mountains of central Luzon, still shrouded in a mist, the early birds, chirping and jumping in the branches, ready to start the busy day of foraging, the wide leaves, can not bear the huge dewdrops, trembling slightly, the dew drops slipped, on the rocky ground, splashed into countless small droplets, if there are no external factors, rough destruction, this is undoubtedly a quiet and beautiful early morning.

Suddenly, in the distance, there was a thunderous sound, and a faint blue smoke enveloped the source of the sound, and immediately, countless scorching metal projectiles, with a screaming sound that pierced the air, swept through the whitening sky in the east and flew into the distance!

In an earth-shattering explosion, the earth trembled, the echo of the explosion, in the valley, in the woods, constantly echoed, on the American position, a dark red firelight, smoke and dirt, so, this dawn was not quiet, in a burst of unprecedented fierce artillery fire, began to make noise!

Although they were accustomed to the nerve-destroying artillery fire that preceded the Japanese attack, the shelling in the early hours of this morning still felt a different taste for all the US officers and soldiers on the defense line in the mountains of Calais.

The intensity of the shelling was more than double that of the previous one, and the American soldiers hiding in the shelter were holding their Garand rifles with pale faces, as if they were sitting on a small boat floating in a storm, jolting helplessly, the earth above their heads "fluttering" down, the earth was trembling, and all the qiē were trembling, including the spirit of the American soldiers, which was also trembling.

After 50 minutes of shelling, the stormy artillery fire came to an abrupt halt, as suddenly and rapidly as it came, and more than 100,000 shells fell, almost destroying all the surface fortifications on the US defense line, many areas that were convenient for tank attacks, and even rock ridges more than one meter high, were blown into slopes one after another.

A few minutes later, there was the noisy sound of the Japanese tank tracks "rolling" and crushing the soil, the roar of the Japanese soldiers all over the mountains, and in the glimmer of light before dawn, the bayonets of the Japanese soldiers with three or eight guns in their hands reflected the cold and dark light, and General Ito Yanzaburo threw all his troops and tanks into the defense line of the US Third Army and launched the most ferocious attack!

Commander Whiteman, when the Japanese began to attack rapidly, was awakened, he walked to the mouth of the cave, what he could see was his position, countless shell explosion points, gunpowder smoke and dust, Major General Whiteman's face, "swish" turned white, from the smoke that filled the line of sight, he smelled an ominous smell, the fierceness of the Japanese shelling this time, beyond any time, with the meaning of lore.

Could it be that on the fourth day, the Third Army ended its mission? "Boom!" With a loud bang, a large-caliber artillery shell exploded not far from the mouth of the cave, stirring up the dirt, scattering in all directions, a piece of shrapnel, with a metal trill, hit the rock at the entrance of the cave, if it weren't for the guards of Commander Whiteman, who were quick to shoot His Excellency the Major General to the ground, this piece of shrapnel might have been able to kill a major general of the United States Army!

Commander Whiteman, with an ugly face, got up, glanced at the loyal guard gratefully, hurriedly walked back to the cave, grabbed the phone, he must know that under such a devastating shelling by the Japanese army, the casualties of the troops and the damage to the fortifications, and the headquarters far away from the front line, all fell Japanese shells, and the experience of the soldiers on the front line can be imagined.

However, on the phone, there was silence, the Japanese artillery fire, blowing up all the lines to the front-line troops, Commander Whiteman, angrily lost the phone, ordered to start all the radios, immediately contact the commander of the forward troops, at this moment, the Japanese artillery bombardment stopped, but Commander Whiteman's face was even more as dead as ashes, people with a little military common sense know that at this time the large-scale attack of the Japanese infantry began!

The contact with the commander of the front-line troops is finally going through, and the situation reported by the commanders made Commander Whiteman's heart sink all the way, "Commander, our unit was heavily shelled by the Japanese army, most of the surface fortifications of the position were destroyed, many shelters and anti-artillery holes were blown up, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, Commander, the Japanese army has begun to attack, the mountains are full of Japanese soldiers, and there are a large number of tanks, we need air support!" ”

All the commanders of the forward troops who can be contacted are the same request, and the muscles on Commander Whiteman's cheeks trembled involuntarily a few times, "Ito Yanzaburo plans to kill the Third Army today, and if he withstands it, he can survive today, and if he can't withstand it, it will be the end of the annihilation of the whole army." He thought with a lamentation.

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