The calculations of the British, of course, were very clear, that the purpose of sending Wingate was to try to divert the main forces of the Japanese army, preferably to the east. They imagined the Japanese army very powerfully, but they were also very naïve, thinking that such a strategy alone could succeed. It was not known that the Japanese attack on India was a predetermined plan.

Brooke immediately raised a different opinion, and also mentioned that Chu Tingchang's troops on the east bank of the Qingdun River, and the relay of 419 did not serve Wingate, so Slim Command did not know Wingate's current location, and this morning was a mess like most mornings after the Japanese attacked.

Slim had a hard time strategizing when all the information wasn't clear. He must not give up the last mountain of Manipur, and what if the Japanese army really reached the point of being strong? As for whether the Japanese army will still be tired, he really doesn't dare to have extravagant hopes. The Japanese have created too many miracles that surpass military common sense, which have made the Allied generals a little numb, and they feel that the Japanese do not eat, drink, or sleep as they deserve.

Of course, he also had to prepare for the worst, he had to mobilize the vehicles of the entire East Indies to be ready to retreat to the Bihar Gang, and be prepared for an uprising of the locals once the Japanese came in. He had to talk to Sun Liren on the phone immediately.

Before the phone was connected, a staff officer came over to the other side of the Qingdun River on the map and added an arrow representing his side. He stared at this scene blankly, and Sun Liren spoke on the other end of the phone, temporarily interrupting the doubts in his heart.

Sun told him that the Japanese army was coming strangely, and his men had touched it a few times and seemed to have no stamina. So be sure to resist and don't run first.

He put down the phone and hurriedly asked what the sign to the south meant on the latest updated map. Brooke came over and explained the general situation to him, Brooke knew all the arrangements of Pavilion Chief Chu before leaving in the early morning, and in addition, he had just learned that Wingate and Chief Chu had joined forces.

"Major, how do you think the Chinese troops on the other side of the river will behave? If it were Colonel Wingate alone, I think he would have taken the initiative to launch a series of attacks behind enemy lines to delay the enemy. ”

"Commander, I don't think Commander Chu will attack from behind enemy lines, he will attack directly from the flanks. Destruction of the enemy's river crossing facilities. ”

"I've seen those withdrawn Chinese troops, yellow and thin, panicked, silent eyes, no ammunition, impossible to attack, right?"

Then Brooke hesitated for a moment, wondering whether he should say something to the British commander that was contrary to the norms of the military staff officers, but this moment was quite crucial, and it had to be remembered by the British commander.

"Chu's Chinese army is different, it may be the strongest fighting force and the strongest desire to fight within the entire Allied countries. In addition, the soldiers believed in their generals and in the gods of heaven who watched them fight. ”

Of course, this was not what a professional staff officer should say, but it did make Slim remember deeply, and Sun Liren gave him a similar hint about the defeat of the Japanese army, and he decided to send two battalions of the 17th Division to the top of the first line. Aircraft were also dispatched to reconnoiter the situation on the other side of the river.

However, Brooke had already used his authority to send an L4 Grasshopper reconnaissance/liaison aircraft to observe. Now, the plane had reached the head of Chu Tingchang, watching the spectacular attack below.

This was not the first time the pilot had observed this unit, he was a reconnaissance unit directly under the US General Staff Committee, not Chennault's unit. He didn't expect that the synthetic group would always find a flat area in the mountainous area to attack. The Japanese troops below had almost no ability to resist, because the Japanese army did not have time to send heavy weapons up, and they were not even short of bullets. He immediately reported a devastating attack of the army below.

The only thing that can stop the synthesis is gasoline. Before the attack, Chu Tingchang redistributed gasoline once, and he could probably attack dozens of kilometers, and then he couldn't walk, so the attack itself was containment. He no longer had any decent firepower, but there were plenty of tanks, and the momentum was strong enough to make the Japanese commander think that he had fallen for the enemy's ploy.

In the Japanese headquarters, Kimura ushered in the first blow in the first few days of his tenure, he was not a cautious officer like his predecessor Iida, and Mutaguchi and others hastily launched this attack. It went very well at first, but a few hours ago, there was news from the front, and it seemed that something had changed.

He saw again in the telegram the words of the enemy's Chu Corps, this unit is not easy to mistake, because they still have tanks, and there are few tanks in the whole of Burma.

The last time I saw the whole word of Chu Bingtuan, it seemed to be the report of the southern organ. The report has the full name of Chu Tingchang, and introduces that this person was originally a guerrilla in Pudong, who may have participated in the attack on the Shanghai Army Headquarters, or may belong to the Dai Lisa system, and recently appeared in the 5th Army sequence and became a fierce enemy on the battlefield.

At that time, Kimura didn't pay much attention to it, he hated all reports that described the enemy as a fierce enemy, and looked at it, where did the opponent of the empire have a few fierce enemies? In his opinion, it is nothing more than the habit of the intelligence agencies to complicate the problem in order to show that they are doing their job. But now it seems that it is really a fierce rival.

But at this time, the main force was still on the road, and there were no troops to send, so he could only let the 5th Flying Division, which was greatly injured, hurry out. Having made up his mind, he called Yoshiei Obata in Chiang Mai and asked him to send out the newly arrived troops.

During the day, it was still within the operational capability of the Japanese army, but this time it was much more cautious, a total of 10 KI43 covered the operation of 16 Type 99 light bombers, although it was necessary to cross northern Burma, but because the British army lost the commanding heights in the north, the radar was no longer a group threat, and the Japanese army still had its suddenness.

419 was the first to detect this signal, because his location, not high to the east, was already high resolution of modern radar.

Qin Xiaosu found that the British coastal radar did not respond, probably because the enemy flew low and could not be seen, or fled all the way, and it was too late to debug it; He could not wait any longer, because these planes could disrupt Chu Tingchang's offensive, and he immediately forged a radar station telegram to send it to the Flying Tigers stationed in Tingjiang. The telegram said that after the US plane took off, the radar station would instruct the flight team to find the target throughout the entire process on the radio.

Sure enough, the camouflage-camouflaged Japanese fighters flew close to the mountain, so that although they sacrificed the altitude of the encounter, they could avoid the reconnaissance of most of the high-altitude aircraft, which was a method that Commander Obata came up with to reduce losses.

Sure enough, the Flying Tigers heard clear instructions in the air, and this kind of cooperation was within the agreement between the United States and Britain, but it was never realized because it was technically not allowed. After taking off from eastern India, they flew in a straight line and soon received radio instructions to fly down the clouds and watch out for the mountain passes below.

The pilots stared down with wide eyes and saw nothing but a stretch of forest. Of course, at this moment, the Japanese pilots below had already seen the P40 hovering above, and they used all their resources to reduce the altitude and slow down to merge themselves with the primeval forest below.

The US pilots began to scold their mothers on the radio, because they couldn't see the Japanese planes at all.

Finally someone saw something moving underneath, and it was a flash of red.

The Japanese were the countries that paid the most attention to aircraft camouflage during World War II, but while studying camouflage paint in various places, they were always reluctant to remove those bright red plaster marks.

The squadron leader, Edward Ricott, is a cunning and murderous old pilot, and the Flying Tigers are arranged in a scattered formation and pass over the Japanese troops, making the Japanese think that their plan to hide from the world has succeeded. But how could the Americans let go of the following $500 checks?

11 P40s staggered with the Japanese formation, occupied the southeast sun position, and suddenly turned and dived down. The bright red sun blinded the pilots in the back seat of the Japanese dive bombers a minute late before they realized that the enemy had come down.

The US plane did not attack the Type 99 bomber, but first reminded the Oscar plane, which did not have a backseat pilot, and was burying his head in the flight to avoid crashing into the mountain.

If you're serious about air combat, the KI43 is a tough aircraft to deal with like the Zero, so Rycott reminds the others that these fighters have to be killed first.

However, Captain Rickett himself abruptly abandoned his original target and pounced on a 99 bomber with a special yellow stripe on its tail, although it was no different from Chennault's settlement, but this should be a command aircraft, and the commander was a captain. The Japanese have to open their brains and don't always smear the commander's landline like a different target.

Six 12.7 machine guns fired fiercely, covering the 7.7mm self-defense machine gun in the back seat, and he roared, tilting the bullet behind the enemy's cockpit, chasing from 400 to 50 meters. Watching a mist of blood splatter on the windshield and the plane fell. Two Japanese families are shattered, and a check arrives.

A fierce attack came, and unprepared Japanese fighters fell one after another and crashed into the mountain. For a time, the entire huge formation, only the weak rear machine guns of the dive bombers were counterattacking. Instead, those fighters were slaughtered.

The US plane succeeded in one blow, never fell in love with war, turned and climbed, and reoccupied the East. The Japanese were in a hurry and did not immediately follow the pursuit, which made them miss the last chance to use the climb advantage and turn the defeat around. By the time they turned the corner, it was too late to try to pursue, and the enemy had run 500 meters away, and the weak machine guns could not reach the target at all.

The U.S. planes observed the remnants of Operation Oscar at high altitudes, and probably really knocked out the commander, but in short, the enemy reacted very badly. Now they have enough height to carry out repeated attacks. The P40, with a bloody mouth painted on the nose, rolled 180 degrees and came down again.

With only 2 machine guns, Oscar was not supposed to go head-to-head with 6 machine guns P40, but Sunshine delayed their judgment again. By the time they realized that something was wrong, the rain of bullets had already fallen.

The escort fighters were quickly killed almost as soon as they fought back, and the US planes scattered in formation, each of which pounced on the Type 99 dive bombers scurrying below, which was simply a one-sided slaughter.

These bombers of the 5th Flying Division had just been transferred from Da Nang Qu to this place after the last night flight disaster, and this was the first batch of products that Mitsubishi had accelerated after the introduction of the 70-hour work week. The workers absolutely did not want to see their 15,000 hours of extra labor turned into broken metal in 10 minutes.

The mountains blocked the radar of 419, first, he couldn't see the situation, but Qin Xiaosu heard on the radio that the Americans began to relax their nonsense, talking about bars, casinos and brothels, and he knew that no one would interfere with Chu Tingchang.