Iida hung up the phone and pondered for a moment. Of course, he will not believe the assurances of the air force, yesterday they swore that they would turn Lashio into a sea of fire, although the imperial soldiers are not afraid of death, but sometimes the guarantee is too light. He immediately made another phone call to Keiji Aki Suzuki, an agency of the Southern Agency, asking him to activate the secret agent plan and make sure to blow up the iron bridge.

After completing these two deployments, Iida was a little relieved, despite the constant setbacks, but the time was still in his hands, once the door to return to China was closed, more than 100,000 Chinese troops would starve to death in this treacherous mountain forest in northern Burma, which was really comforting.

The 56th Division still launched an attack on Lashio during the day, and of course, after suffering huge losses, the attack was frustrated and several attacks were repulsed, and even the frenzied Japanese troops suffered their morale after being bombed by their own men one after another.

Lin Xiuxuan monitored outside the city for a while, confirming that the Japanese army would definitely not be able to set foot in Lashio today, but the bad news was that Qin Xiaosu heard the order issued by the 5th Flying Division to several subordinate bomber units to blow up the Huitong Bridge. It was only a matter of determination to make sure that the Huitong Bridge task force was powerless, and that Lin Xiuxuan knew that as long as the Japanese gave up their unrealistic illusions about that bridge, it would definitely be blown up.

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the two Japanese aircraft carriers crossed the narrow waterway between Bougainville and Choiseul Island and advanced rapidly south. They were supported by reconnaissance planes on Bougainville and pursued in the direction in which the United States aircraft carrier had disappeared, but the course turned west for a while, and then turned southeast after sunrise. Cheng Dayang observed these complex routines throughout the seabed, and he had to praise them.

After the Battle of Wake Island, the combat skills of the Japanese aircraft carrier group made great progress. Their battle plan, which was completely unburdened by the burdensome battleships, was rampaging across the ocean, followed by several fast-accelerating cruisers, which showed that their understanding of modern naval warfare had taken a step further, and the Japanese battleships were likely to withdraw from the first-line naval battle sequence and become a kind of coastal support ship.

The US aircraft carrier is approaching from Larnal Island, and the distance is not far away, and both sides seem to be waiting for one thing during the day, that is, to wait for themselves to be seen by the other side's reconnaissance plane, and then lure the other side over, and the test is more daring than yesterday, and it seems that the possibility of hitting it is a little greater.

In order to hide the conspiracy, the two Japanese Wyvern-class ships remained in the rear, neither participating in the attack on Port Moresby nor getting too close to the two Crane classes. However, sonar could detect a destroyer fleet set sail from Rabaul as it began to sail towards the Chomad waterway, which would turn westward, bypassing Cape Roned, the easternmost jutting point of New Guinea. In the event of an attack on Moresby, the fleet would be supported by the aircraft carrier Fengxiang, which was fighting alone, and the superiority of the Japanese forces would allow them to deploy their forces in the broken archipelago of northwest Australia, which would inevitably put great pressure on the American forces. Whether the U.S. military rushes to the 5th Air Battle with the aim of annihilating the Japanese aircraft carriers, or outflanks the Japanese destroyer fleet with the aim of saving tens of thousands of Australian troops in New Guinea, it will be at a disadvantage in terms of strength.

However, the coordination between the main fleets of the Japanese army is still not very tacit, although he has not yet taken the risk of stretching out an antenna to listen to the enemy's movements, but Cheng Dayang can make a judgment from the real-time routes between different fleets, at least two Wyverns remain silent on the radio.

"Political commissar, the Japanese army is still the back hand that must be saved, so no matter how cautious the US army is, it will still take the bait." Cheng Dayang said.

"The traverser must have made a very thoughtful suggestion to the Japanese Navy, if the American forces think that this place is too close to Rabaul and do not take the bait, they will take Moresby easily, and then the losses of the Allies will be comparable to that of the second Singapore."

"Yes, what an advantage the enemy has now, what an initiative, I really don't know how it was like that?"

Cheng Dayang shook his head and said, based on his judgment of the current situation, the Japanese army actually only needs to attack the camp step by step, and it is unlikely that it will turn the tables with two or three American aircraft carriers. Needless to say, the strategic significance of seizing New Guinea was also the possibility of mobilizing the U.S. fleet closer to the Japanese Navy's theater of operations. But it turns out that the Japanese in history also fought the first battle in the distant Coral Sea.

"The situation is now unfavorable to us, neither side has the will to engage at night, and our actions during the day are significantly limited, neither using drones nor detecting enemy communications with masts." The commissar said. 419 certainly wanted the two sides to come close at night, so that it would be beneficial for 419 to manipulate it. But in this era, it is obviously a troublesome thing for aircraft carriers to take off and land at night, so the two sides have reached a tacit understanding and obviously avoid it at night.

"Yes, now the enemy's 5th Air Battle is relatively far away from the 2nd Air Battle, and there are only a few second-level heavy cruisers around, which is the window of engagement, I think we should take a risk...... Stretch out the mast and give the Americans some information. ”

"I have a different opinion," Shu Ping, who had been silent, suddenly interjected, "Don't take this risk today, wait until the drone information is recovered in the evening, make a judgment on the weather situation tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and then implement the plan." ”

Cheng Dayang nodded, didn't say much, Shu Ping's caution is not unreasonable, if the sky is clear, there is no wind and no waves, the flying plane is likely to see the submarine at the depth of the antenna, especially only the mast is exposed, and the warning radar cannot be used, and it will take a long time to simulate the Japanese communication to simulate the telegraph between different ships, so that it can be like that. As long as there are low-altitude clouds, or rain or surges, the submarine is much safer near the surface during the day. Even though SCP-419's sensors can monitor the huge sea surface, as long as it is floating on the water, the submersible ship cannot escape her surveillance, but every time this submarine is close to the surface, there is a certain risk of exposure.

On the Nu River, on the Huitong Bridge, which is connected by seven steel and iron locks, a ten-* truck slowly drove to the opposite side. This iron-locked bridge is almost the only passage connecting China to the outside world at present, as a suspension bridge, it is really difficult to use for transportation, and only one truck full of goods can pass through at any time, so there are military police handles on both sides, one is responsible for controlling the order of the bridge, and staggering the vehicles through flag coordination, and the other is at the checkpoint two hundred meters away from the iron bridge, inspecting each truck, in addition to inspecting the passes issued by the military commanders, and also checking the personnel, this area is the key care area of the Japanese spy organs, Every day, a few spies who spy on military intelligence can be caught, but they can't stop the Japanese from buying them off in vain, and there are always people who take risks.

The truck was full of soldiers and prisoners with traitor signs on their backs, and these people were the agents of the Yugoslav agency who had indicated the targets for the Japanese bombers half a day ago, and except for the six leaders who were handed over to the military commanders for further investigation, the remaining ten people were here. When the truck reached the center of the bridge, it stopped, and the soldiers opened fire into the sky, attracting the attention of the soldiers and civilians who were rushing to repair the road on both sides of the strait and dig the defensive line. The bandit spy in the car had a premonition that his fate was not good, and began to cry and call his mother up. There was a buzzing roar in the sky, and it seemed that the damned Japanese planes were approaching again, unlike heavy bombers. As the air raid was imminent, there was no time to read the verdict of the military court, and the 10 traffickers were lifted off their cars and thrown into the Nu River one by one, and the soldiers and civilians on both sides of the strait applauded.

The neatly arranged Japanese light bombers emerged from the clouds, rolled down one after another, and quickly entered a near-vertical dive attitude, each of which could be seen hanging only one*.

The anti-aircraft positions on both sides of the strait began to fire at the same time, using Surothong or Erly anti-aircraft guns to intercept them, and as the enemy planes approached, some of the garrison Maxim also began to join in the fire. There is no doubt that this place is the most heavily defended place in the whole of China, and the density of small-caliber artillery definitely exceeds that of Chongqing. Of course, the Japanese also knew that high-altitude bombing was completely ineffective, so they had to send dive bombers to drill into the fire net. For the Japanese army, blowing up the bridge was not a problem, it just depended on determination, and the 5th Air Division could at any time find dozens of people who were willing to ram the iron bridge with their lives on the emperor's birthday.

99 bombers dropped * scattered on both banks, and the dense anti-aircraft artillery distracted the Japanese pilots and could not show accuracy. After being hit, the two bombers fled southeast with smoke, and they had to run as far south as possible to parachute, as long as the pilot fell to the ground of the Chinese, he would be shot to death by the people of the whole village with a flat shoulder at any time.

The gendarmes and anti-smuggling units of the military commander on the side of the bridge were taking refuge in all directions*, and there was some confusion in the scene. A truck queuing on the north bank suddenly burst out of the convoy and rushed towards the bridge, and it ran directly into the gendarmes blocking the horse at the intersection, and the soldiers next to it were unable to stop them with shell guns.

Seeing this, the 74th Army truck, which was driving away from the bridge, immediately increased its throttle and rushed over, and crashed into the suspicious vehicle 20 meters away from the approach bridge of the bridge. This decisive impact instantly detonated the car*. Two Japanese agents were wiped out along with a dozen Chinese firing squad soldiers aboard a Chinese truck.

When the garrison officers on the north shore saw this posture, they knew that the Japanese were here to fight hard.

The air defense sirens did not stop, and the second group of Japanese bombers roaring in the air arrived again and launched dive bombs again. But this time, American fighters with shark mouths sprayed on the nose arrived in time to join the fight. If the Japanese light bombers were to lose *, they could even maneuver with the P40, but how could the Japanese pilots be willing to throw them in advance*, they came down from a high altitude and only slightly corrected the target, making themselves like an ideal target that was not maneuvering at all. Soon three Japanese planes dragged black smoke into the river, and each Japanese plane tried to correct its course like crashing into a bridge before crashing, but they all missed by a fraction of a second.

The two Japanese planes that arrived later no longer carried out dive bombing from a high altitude, but dropped far from the altitude and rushed to the chain bridge close to the Nu River. The P40s at the heights really did not dare to come down, not because the Flying Tigers did not dare to engage at low altitudes, but because the US pilots were very afraid that they would be injured by the intensive anti-aircraft fire on both sides of the strait.

Most of the antiaircraft guns in the air defense positions on both sides of the strait were deployed on the commanding heights, and now there is a problem of insufficient firing range, and the Japanese planes are even lower than the muzzles of most of the antiaircraft guns. Only the infantry Maxim and DP machine guns could strafe them, but the armor of the Type 99 bombers could temporarily withstand such fire.

One plane pulled up in front of it and attracted fire, and the plane was destroyed and crashed into a nearby hill, while the other steadied itself and struggled through the remaining net of fire, crashing headlong into the middle of the bridge with a 250kg* one. After the huge explosion, the wreckage of the Japanese plane fell into the river, but the bridge still seemed to be between the two banks, and some soldiers were even ready to pounce to extinguish the fire, but then a steel cable on one side broke, and it fell heavily into the river, and then the second and third began to break, and the bridge deck began to tilt down to one side. As soon as the fire on both sides eased slightly, another plane fell from the sky, and even though it was knocked out of the tail as it penetrated the fire net, it still managed to hit the bridge, and this time the last four steel cables on the entire bridge broke in unison. As Lin Xiuxuan predicted, the fate of Huitong Bridge was already sealed after the Japanese decided to blow it up, and the Japanese army was almost certainly the craziest armed criminal group in the history of mankind.