A few thousand meters in the air, the crews of the Japanese bombers began to shout long live, and their bombing time was pinched very accurately, just in time for the early morning of the 29th, which was a moment worth celebrating. Members are praying that the bomb will kill more people.

When the plane flew over the Japanese headquarters, * had not yet landed, but the lieutenant general had already sensed that something was wrong, the smile on his face stiffened, * the whistling sound of the fall was getting closer and closer, and in an instant, it was falling in rows a hundred meters ahead. Blow up a row of mountain artillery piled up there. These 75 guns have just arrived, and they have not yet fired a single shot aimed at Lashio. Someone next to him flew over and threw the lieutenant general to the ground. Outside, a wave of air swept in, and the pine brackets of the Provisional Command creaked. A hot piece of shrapnel landed next to the lieutenant general's face.

"How so?" He knew that there was a big mistake this time, but what went wrong?

"Division commander, look north...... There is also the south side...... There is firelight. Someone reminded.

He quickly got up, and without even using a telescope, he could see two fires on the left and right sides, not burning on the top of a barren mountain 1.5 kilometers apart, I don't know when they were lit, these two fires obviously indicated his approximate assembly area.

"Bastard, how could this happen?"

"Captain Takagi, hurry up and take someone to put out those fires. In 10 minutes, the second team will arrive. He shouted, hoping it wasn't too late.

At the same time, Zhang Lingfu in the headquarters of the 58th Division also saw the strange explosion. This round of enemy planes approaching, in fact, scared him a lot, his essence is here, and there are a lot of enemy planes coming to listen to the movement, he is as usual, standing upright at the command headquarters to stabilize people's hearts, of course, he prayed in his heart to throw some part. But somehow I prayed that the power was so far away, and if you calculated according to the map, it was the enemy's core position.

He had long judged that the enemy headquarters would be in that position, and his mortars had been trying to attack there and try their luck, but the insignificant few shells that hit them only scratched the other side, and did not damage the surface position. But what was just thrown down was different, even if it was a few kilometers away, you could see a rapidly expanding arc shock wave outside the firelight, which looked spectacular, and it was the characteristic of an explosion of more than 250 kilograms*. The explosions came to his side more than ten seconds apart.

"Division, did the enemy plane admit its mistake*?" Someone on one side said.

"I'm not blind, I see it all."

"The Japanese are crazy and blow themselves up?"

"Crazy, what crazy, it must be that the height of the bomb is too high and it is blown away by the wind. Stilwell boasted about the American high-altitude bombers in front of Du Yuming, saying that the Japanese fighters could not reach the 10,000-meter altitude to carry out bombing. I still say the same thing, fighting a war is not won by being clever and having a few weapons. ”

"Report, the reconnaissance company caught 16 Japanese spies, and they lit the nearby anti-air fires, a total of seven or eight places, all of which were destroyed by us."

"The Detective Company is so efficient?" Zhang Lingfu was also taken aback, his new arrival was far less familiar with the surrounding terrain than the Japanese agent boy who had been lurking for a long time, how could he find all the indication points at once.

"It's such a division, when we touched the first point, we found the schematic diagram on the corpse. All indication points are precisely labeled. ”

"You see, how meticulous the Japanese are...... However, there are times when it comes to self-defeating. ”

"What about the captives?"

"Are there any traitors?"

"They were all traitors, and the Japanese either died in battle or committed suicide during the firefight."

"Keep it for now, and let the transport team take it with you when they return to Songshan with the empty car tomorrow, and put it in a sack on the Huitong Bridge and throw it into the Nu River."

"Master, isn't this troublesome?"

The military commander said that there were more than 1,000 enemy special radio stations lurking in Lincang, Ruili, and Wan Town alone, and the purpose was to blow up the Huitong Bridge. So, I just want them to know that this bridge is too important to us and we must keep it. ”

"The teacher is wise."

As he spoke, the roar of planes sounded in the sky again, this time from south to north, apparently from the enemy group that had just been found along the Mekong/Lancang River, and seemed to have flown from the base in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

It seems that there are more than a group of Japanese planes coming tonight, and they are all in a hurry to congratulate the emperor on his birthday. Zhang Lingfu began to worry again, worried that the Japanese team that had not yet been caught suddenly lit a fire again and lured the plane to his head, although he said that he was not afraid of advanced weapons, but it was actually somewhat against his will, if he was given a few heavy artillery or aircraft support, of course he could not ask for it. No, then you can only speak hard words to strengthen your courage.

Curiously, the group of enemy planes seemed to make a turn on their heads and flew west again. Today they all kindly took the wrong medicine.

What the Japanese pilots in the air saw was still the light of the fire lit by the special group, and the places chosen by Lin Xiuxuan and Ma Qiang were all barren hills, not the Japanese soldiers who climbed up for a while, so more than a dozen planes flew over again to drop bombs. Their original bomb dropping instructions needed more firelight to form a funnel type that could be seen in the air with a wide front and a narrow back, and the bomber flew into the funnel and dropped the bomb directly at the bottom of the funnel, but now there are only two fires, so just throw it in the middle.

Of course, due to the technical limitations of this era, the high-altitude bomb delivery was not accurate, and the wind deviation had a great impact, and it did not fall to the position just now, and all of them were greeted at the head of the 56th Division Automobile Squadron, which was 800 meters away from the bomb coverage area just now.

For tomorrow's offensive and the rapid advance after the capture of the prefecture, Watanabe concentrated all his forces near the forward departure position, and these losses were large.

This time, the yield of the bomb was larger than that of the previous one, and the wind was biased, and the area was more widely dispersed, and almost all the cars hidden in the ravine were reimbursed, and by the way, all the precious gasoline was ignited, and an unquenchable fire was formed on the ground, and many horses of the baggage troops were also frightened away. The fire slowly shifted to the place where the baggage was piled up, where ammunition for the general attack was hoarded, and Lieutenant General Watanabe hurriedly ordered the Matsumoto Brigade to assist the baggage brigade in removing the weapons and equipment that could be moved. At the same time, he gritted his teeth and waited for the firelight to go out.

The Japanese finally climbed onto the bonfire lit by Lin Xiuxuan and blew it up with *. The bonfire at the other end couldn't be in a hurry, and it was directly fired with all kinds of firepower, and finally with the blessing of the emperor's mana, the fluttering bonfire was hit by mortar guns, and finally disappeared, just in time for the next batch of bombers to arrive. Lieutenant General Watanabe finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The third batch of bombers was late, and the navigator could no longer see the standard commanding heights fire signal, but he saw a sea of fire on the ground, which was a lit oil depot.

On the ground, the Japanese army desperately wanted to call the air, but Japan rarely practiced this kind of coordination, although there was an agreed channel, but later the air force found that it overlapped with the US military channel, and was afraid of being monitored, so it temporarily changed the backup channel and forgot to inform the ground forces, so there was no coordination in essence. The formation began to drop bombs with reference to the sea of fire on the ground.

Guo Wenchu's death squads and the Japanese troops at the forefront all stopped fighting, and they all began to watch such a spectacle, and all * fell to the rear of the war zone and fell to the Japanese side.

Countless people in Lashio City flocked to the Guandi Temple in the east of the city to kowtow and burn incense, thanking Emperor Guan for showing his might and showing the color of little Japan. There was a story in the market immediately, saying that the new Master Zhang was a descendant of Zhang Fei, so the emperor showed his strength. When the 58th Division was given an umbrella during the day, the squire at the back testified that he saw from a distance that Division Commander Zhang was indeed nine feet tall, with a leopard's head and eyes, and an iron and steel beard under his chin.

Lin Xiuxuan and Ma Qiang made peace, waiting for Xu Chong to come. After sunrise, their supernatural powers will be greatly reduced. However, it seems that the enemy's deployment to attack Lashio on the 29th was destroyed by their own bombing, and the ammunition, fuel, and forces suffered huge losses, and the capture of Lashio before the Tianchang Festival seemed to be almost bankrupt, but the main force of the Chinese army was still far south of Meimiao, bypassing the ragtag defense line of the 49th Division drilled by the Takeuchi Division in Mandalay, echoing the Watanabe Division; Du Yuming's intelligence is lagging behind, the enemy's situation is unclear, and he is still struggling, and whether to bring heavy firepower back to China is indeed a little slow.

Now that Mandela's railway from Lashio has been completely cut off, it is impossible to pull back the heavy artillery and tanks that were originally transported by rail. But those 150 heavy guns, whose rifling has been worn out, are so precious to the Chinese army that their value has even gone far beyond the weapons themselves and has become a spiritual pillar. Lin Xiuxuan can even understand Du Yuming's ambivalent feelings, this generation of Chinese soldiers is indeed too short of steel, but such hesitation will most likely cut off the last way of life for the expeditionary force, once the retreat is blocked, these cannons will not be able to be transported.

The headquarters of the Japanese 15th Army had just moved forward from Yangon to Tawati, and Commander Iida stood in a daze in front of the photo of the emperor in military uniform, with his brows furrowed. He'd already heard that the night bombing had messed up,* and it all fell on Watanabe's head. Masao Watanabe is a soldier he likes, he has a lively heart, does not hold on to the defects, does not resist the tide, and has a lot of ghost ideas, but this time the night bombing he asked for was indeed too advanced and surpassed the tactical ability of the air force.

Now the top priority...... It is no longer about crossing Lashio and recapturing the Huitong Bridge in its entirety, but destroying it.

He was originally reluctant to destroy the bridge, but if he could capture it, he could open a bridgehead in Baoshan on the other side of the Nu River. Although the base camp did not have a plan to attack China from the southwest, he could make some preparations in advance, and when Shuojiang, the main force of the Japanese army in central China, attacked Chongqing in the future, he could launch an attack on Kunming from this direction as a countermeasure. But now that the enemy's main force, the 51st Division, had reached the vicinity of Dali, the 5th Army, which was trapped in Burma, was slowly but orderly retreating towards Lashio, so it was necessary to blow up the bridge at all costs. What he was most worried about was that the 5th Army would arrive at Lashio in two or three days, and then leave part of the troops to hold Songshan west of the Nu River; The Songshan natural hazard is an extremely important point for both sides, and either side can take advantage of the geographical advantage to save the garrison troops to the greatest extent, which the Chinese military command does not seem to have understood.

He trembled and grabbed the phone and called the Fifth Flying Division, although he had 10,000 reasons to scold Chief of Staff Kuwatsuka who had changed the communication channel without permission, but in the end he held back, and he spoke out to appease Kuwazuka Castle Dasa, who was deeply reflective, and affirmed their loyalty and courage in daring to attack in the dark night, and then instructed the chief of staff to immediately come up with the plan to bomb the Huitong Bridge, don't wait, and put it into attack today, of course, during the day. If he can blow up the Huitong Bridge, the mistake of blowing up his own people in the morning is just a small matter, and he is not to blame in the past.

As soon as Kuwazuka Daisa heard that he could atone for his sins, he immediately became interested and swore to the commander that he would blow up this iron bridge today.