More than a dozen B25 bombers, flying over the airfield at an altitude of 200 meters, carried out intensive bomb dropping, destroying the warehouse in an instant. A sea of fire engulfed the enemy's warehouse, and the stored poison gas bombs, mainly mustard gas, exploded along with the ammunition and fuel reserves. Contaminated near the airport.

Xu Chong saw the results of the bombing from afar, he had no means of anti-poison, and when he saw the clouds rising after the explosion from afar, he did not dare to stay long, for fear that the poison would enter the atmospheric circulation, and poisonous rain would fall within a day or two, so he quickly led people to evacuate. His next mission was to find a passage into northern Thailand, and Chu Tingchang was preparing to further expand the world war. He knew that Australia was not safe, the situation was chaotic, and he could not wait for the allies to establish maritime superiority, and then use the sea to attack the Japanese army in other directions, and only by opening up Thailand and using Thailand's railway and road facilities could he attack the Southern Army Headquarters in Da Lat, Vietnam, from the direction of Khmer. Once his troops swept across Indochina, threatening the Japanese army in Liangguang. At that time, no matter how much the Japanese Navy pounces, the defeat on land will already be a foregone conclusion. He hadn't talked to anyone about it.

When the news reached the Japanese headquarters, Kimura, who was waiting for the success of the surprise attack, stood in place like a basin of cold water poured from his head to the bottom. According to his staff officers' calculations, as long as the poison is thrown near the enemy's mobile troops, regardless of accuracy, it will definitely have the effect of hindering the enemy's maneuver. The contaminated area can save him a lot of troops and weapons, and if you only calculate the consumption ratio of blockaded areas in a short time, the poison gas ratio is 1,600 times higher.

The next step drawn up by his staff was all based on the enemy's tank group's combat effectiveness and operational capability.

Another serious consequence of the attack was the contamination of a large area of the Thai border, which severely hampered transport routes, and the extent of the consequences needs to be assessed. From a political point of view, it is also a major blow to the Thai government, which is trying to cooperate with itself, and only a few people at the top level of Thailand know about the use of Thai railways and airports to transport and store poison gas. Now it is bound to be full, and perhaps the political situation in this allied country will also be in turmoil.

He didn't know what bad luck he had recently taken, and the plan itself was formulated seamlessly. The chemical bomb arrived in less than three days, while the bomber was expected to stay for less than six hours. But the enemy captured such a small window of time and destroyed the bombers that had just landed from afar, along with chemical bombs. It is obviously impossible to say that the enemy does not have accurate information, and this is obviously the responsibility of the Yugoslav organs. Since he took office, the boasted miraculous Southern Organ has been making appearances.

In Tokyo, Japan, a bomber quietly landed at the airfield. Handcuffed, Makino struggled down the ladder of the plane and got into a car transporting prisoners.

As he had expected, he was arrested by the gendarmes within ten minutes of landing in Moresby that day, and in his opinion it was an awkward capture, the best way to escape the pursuit was to do so. He's been studying the signs of his opponent lately.

Asano was killed and the Kagoshima weapons test site was destroyed, and there was a gap of several days. He calculated the distance from Tianjin to the southern tip of Kyushu on a nautical chart, and found that the time interval was worth scrutinizing. Although this group of opponents is strong, they are not free to cross any area. To put it simply, he found an upper limit of the submarine's average speed from point A to point B, and since it has been confirmed that they are near Australia, then the mainland must be safe.

The army treated him as the most dangerous enemy, escorted by heavy bombers, and at any moment two gendarmes sat opposite him, staring intently at him, their hands on their holsters. Along the way, he had already thought about everything he had to say, and the destruction of the Great Eagle this time gave him a new reason to convince the other party, and there were two other people on board the Type 97* at that time, who should have seen the attack process under the surface of the sea. It was an attack that was clearly different from the tactical capabilities of our time. The pilots are veterans, and they can naturally see that they can serve as witnesses.

Now the whole logical chain can be self-consistent, enough to convince the audience, unless the other party is an elm head, of course, this possibility cannot be ruled out.

The car escorting him drove through the quiet street in the early morning, and it could be seen that there were no people on the street, but the street lamps were hung with small flags of Japan, Germany and Italy.

There are still some days before New Year's Day, and it is estimated that preparations are being made to celebrate the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He couldn't help but feel a chill rise in his heart, and before he knew it, it had been carried out for a year. He scoffed at most of Asano's views, but Asano agreed with one view, that there was a window to reverse the history of defeat, and that 1942 was the most important year.

Now that there is only one month left in 1942, the crisis facing Japan itself or Japan as a whole has not changed in the slightest, and has even worsened. The emergence of new strong variables caused Hasegawa and Asano to die in vain. However, the various new weapon systems that we have been immersed in developing are still in their infancy and need to mature slowly. Even if it matures, it remains to be seen whether these things will be able to turn the tide of the war.

While the car was waiting for the train to pass at the railroad crossing, an escort went down and bought a newspaper. Asano glanced at the huge headline of the Asahi Shimbun, which was again the kind of incendiary style published in the base camp - the heroic 5th Division successfully captured Cape York, and the subheadline was General Yamashita personally inspected the tank troops on the land.

I don't know what's going on in Burma, there seems to be no news in the newspapers at all, Makino knows the caliber of propaganda, no news is bad news, for example, you can't find a report in the newspaper that you just lost an aircraft carrier.

In northern Burma, Tao Mingzhang's 201st Division quickly moved closer to Zhou Youfu along the railway, and thanks to Sun Liren's blessing, the Moneva Highway was finally opened, so that the supplies that the Allied forces had hoarded in Sittwe could be quickly transported to the east, and the new transportation allowed Chu Tingchang to support the second division to march towards Lashio. The Japanese army was short of troops, and it seemed that there were no cards to play. The 4th Division near Mandalay and the 2nd Division near Ringanqiang did not counterattack. The Japanese army has been cut off from the north and the south, and although they can still send supplies to the troops of several divisions in the north through Thailand, the momentum of the elimination of the other's strengths has emerged. Tao Mingzhang went north this time, just to cooperate with Zhou Youfu, waiting for the Japanese army in the north to dispatch to find an opportunity to annihilate, if the enemy can't hold out, there is nothing to do.

His basic strategy is to attack and save. Tao Mingzhang's motorized infantry was about to attack Lashio, and the enemy obviously could not sit idly by and watch the Huitong Bridge be repaired. As long as Myitkyina's 55th Division moves south, the time to destroy the enemy is almost over.

According to the initial establishment, the Fifth Army consisted of three motorized infantry divisions and a number of aircraft battalions and tank battalions.

Stationed in Lashio is the Japanese army's 42nd independent military station area troops, as well as the 70th field antiaircraft artillery brigade and the 45th independent automatic vehicle brigade. This is exactly the soft persimmon that Tao Mingzhang wants. He personally went to the front of the main regiment to supervise the battle, and if the enemy's reinforcements did not come, he was ready to take Lashio in one fell swoop and open up the east and west.

As soon as the troops arrived at the city, the intelligence in the city of Lashio was sent, and the Japanese army's adjusted deployment in the morning was drawn into a defense map by the local people in the afternoon and sent to Tao Mingzhang.

The information is very detailed, in addition to the deployment of the Japanese army, there is also the configuration of weapons and other information. At present, there are a total of 2,200 Japanese troops in Lashio. The commander was Kaneko Yosuke Nakasa, who did not make active defensive preparations, but only reduced his forces to the commanding heights of Lashio and the surrounding areas, preparing to hold the road to the Huitong Bridge and wait for reinforcements from Myitkyina or Mandalay.

Tao Mingzhang attacked from several directions. Put his trump card in his hand, a battalion of 105 heavy guns, put into service. The enemy's outlying positions were built very strongly, and they were built according to the standard of 75 mm mountain artillery, the main firepower of the 5th Army, but they did not expect the Chinese army to be so bold and put in heavy firepower as soon as they came up. Today, Tao Mingzhang's troops no longer have the standard firepower of mountain artillery, which is a mule-horse army. A few hours later, the enemy positions were knocked into the breach. His main regiment, with some experience in infantry and artillery coordination, could advance 100 meters closely with artillery fire, so that the enemy did not have time to come out of the dugout and redeploy the heavy machine guns in a disassembled state.

The combat skills of the Japanese second-line troops were far from enough to deal with the main force of the 201st Division supported by heavy artillery, and the recovery of positions was slow, and they were quickly suppressed in bunkers by the Chinese troops equipped with blasting canisters and *, and several defensive lines on the periphery fell one after another.

The Allies were worried about the defeat of the defense of Cape York and Tunisia, and the anti-fascist war lacked bright spots since the Battle of the Volga, and for a while their attention was focused on Lashio. Although the loss of Rangoon has lost half of Lashio's strategic significance, the opening of Lashio means that the expeditionary force on the other side of the Nu River can rejoin the Burma battlefield.

The defenders of Lashio were surrounded on three sides and were forced to retreat into the city, randomly prohibiting the people of the city from fleeing. Lashio has no city walls, but Kaneko Yosuke knows that eighty percent of the Chinese here are kidnapped, and as long as they are kidnapped, the Chinese army outside will throw rat traps and stop shelling, so that at least they can use the streets and alleys to resist, at least for a few more days.

The Myitkyina 55th Division became the last mobile force of the Japanese army in the whole of Burma, and the New 6th Army, which was supposed to contain the troops, made slow progress from New Binh Duong, and could not threaten it here.

The commander of the Takeuchi Division noticed that the two armies were intertwined on the battlefield of the inner and outer fronts, which stretched for thousands of miles, and he himself became the key to solving the crisis. He was divided in the north, the telephone had been cut off, and it was estimated that the radio communication was unreliable, so he decided to inform Kimura and personally led the main force south, trying to take advantage of the chaos to break the Chinese army near Lashio, and then cooperate with the 56th Division on the outer line, and then annihilate the Chinese armored forces that entered the area from Longling to Kokang. His plan was somewhat taken for granted, and he calculated the possible countermeasures of the opponent's tanks according to twice the mobility of ordinary infantry, and he felt that he had expected the enemy to be lenient.

Chu Tingchang has been waiting, and the enemy troops hiding behind the strong defense have come out to intersperse themselves, otherwise Zhou Youfu's armored troops are really useless. U.S. aviation reconnaissance discovered the build-up of the enemy in Myitkyina and the construction of a pontoon bridge over the Irrawaddy River. However, the intelligence on all sides was chaotic, and the enemy was extremely good at using US aerial reconnaissance to deceive, so he did not dare to conclude all the intentions of the enemy for the time being.

As a contingency, he ordered the 201st Division, which stormed Lashio, to quietly replace the main force, and set off with the main force of the 202nd Division in Kokang, one south and one north to search west.