The attacks of the Japanese troops on the North and South Rivers continued, while the 55th and 56th Wings surrounded the Waruban and were intensively perfecting the fortifications.

The tanks of the New First Army participated in the battle and quickly broke through the outer defense line in the Mengguan and Warruban areas, which really scared Tanaka Shinichi enough, and quickly arranged the defensive line, and decided to withdraw the main force of the 18th Division to Menggong, relying on the special terrain of Jianbu Mountain, which could well avoid the power of the tanks.

And in Waruban to wait for the north and south rivers to open, but also because of the special terrain of Waruban, three sides of Waruban are the Nayu River, the other side is a swamp, and it is relatively easy to break through the north and west, and the river must be crossed first.

The only access to the west is a concrete bridge, which connects Kunnianka on the other side, but by now, the Japanese have placed a large amount of explosives on the piers, and as soon as Kunnianka and Taipan are breached, they will blow up the bridge.

Well, the most suitable place to break through at the moment is the north. The Japanese were very strong at defending the north. It took more than a year for the Japanese to build defensive positions along the coast, deploying a large number of machine guns and artillery, as well as an unknown number of anti-tank guns. The Nayu River is so turbulent that it is not clear whether the bottom of the river is quicksand, and it is impossible to tell whether it can be crossed by tanks.

Even if they could force their way across the river, the tanks would inevitably move extremely slowly, becoming targets for artillery on the opposite bank.

What's worse is that even if the coastal fortifications can be broken through, there is still a distance of 4 miles from the river bank to the core position of Varuban, which is completely the in-depth defense system of the Japanese army. This is the edge of the jungle, and only a winding dirt road is passable. According to aerial reconnaissance, the Japanese army set up a large number of fortifications and hidden fire points here, and cut down large trees on the side of the road, forming countless obstacles in the middle of the road. Many of the large trees are more than 2 meters in diameter, and tanks simply cannot pass through.

The division commander Tanaka Shinichi was prepared for the current situation, and it was a fact that the Japanese army was now insufficient, so it was mainly delaying time at Mengguan, and Tanaka Shinichi was ready to retreat early on.

The Allied parachute troops knew that in order to avoid cutting off the rear road and forcing the entire 18th Division to a dead end, in addition to crossing the simple road of the North and South Rivers and passing through the river valley to retreat to Menggong, Tanaka Shinichi also ordered the engineer wing in advance to build two escape routes in the deep mountains of Chungnam Nakasa.

Of course, the reason why the road built in the jungle was an escape route was that there was no way to take away the heavy equipment, and their best choice was to retreat across the North and South Rivers.

That's why the 114th Wing is now attacking the North and South Rivers like they don't want to die.

Time was slowly passing, and more and more Japanese troops landed on the east bank, perhaps because they were on the riverside, and the air was getting more and more humid in the air under heavy artillery fire.

It was almost dawn, the airport in Xinpingyang, the cabin of the plane had been opened, the ground crew was nervously replenishing ammunition and fuel, and the pilot was eating breakfast.

"General, I'm afraid something is going to go wrong."

Paterno called Stilwell, who had just been lying down.

"What's the matter?"

Stilwell put on his eyes and sat up with his clothes on.

"Meteorological monitoring and warning, it's about to rain."

Paterno pointed out the window, in fact, there is no need for a professional weather monitoring officer now, as long as a local Burmese knows that at dawn, the northern part of Myanmar will attract a heavy rain.

"Doesn't the rainy season start in May?"

Stilwell didn't understand that if the rainy season started now, it would have a huge impact on the Allied counter-offensive in Burma.

"Before the rainy season, there are always a few heavy rains, but I don't know how long it will last."

Paterno nodded, this was the information it had received from the native Burmese.

"The plane will not be able to take off, and Unit 5307 will not be able to cross the river, which means that the defense line of the North and South rivers will be very dangerous."

Stilwell frowned, Feng Ye fought hard all night, waiting for air support at dawn, which could allow the commandos to take a breath, but now you say that the support is gone.

"Telegraph to Feng Ye that as soon as the heavy rain stops, I will immediately send reinforcements to make him hold on."

Stilwell frowned, now he only hoped that it would be too late for Feng to adjust his deployment.

"Kill and give!"

On the east bank of the North and South Rivers, the devils who had gathered more than a brigade finally launched an attack on the position, and the dense devils emerged from the bank of the river and crawled towards the position.

"Boom, boom......"

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

The heavy machine gun positions and artillery positions set up on the west bank of the North and South Rivers frantically tilted their fire to cover the attacking devil infantry.

"Devil infantry attack!"

Wang Ning shouted, reminding the brothers of their ideas.

"Sudden ......"

"Bang, bang, bang......"

A large amount of automatic fire poured out of the craters and broken trenches, firing at the shadows under the flares.

"Puff puff ......"

The devils did not stop at the sound of bullets piercing through flesh, they crawled forward as they shot.

"Abandon the first line of trenches and withdraw to the second."

Wang Ning shouted, faithfully carrying out the order.

"Puff, puff......"

The position of the second battalion is like a gap, more and more devil infantry are falling into the trenches in embarrassment, compared to here, the firepower of the first battalion and the third battalion makes them desperate, and they can't get into it at all, which has something to do with the bombardment area of the artillery fire, the positions on both flanks are not continuously bombarded by artillery fire, and their fortifications are better preserved.

"Commander, the devil has entered the first trench, the brothers are organizing fire to resist step by step, the devil does not pay the price, don't want to occupy the second trench."

Wang Ning shouted over the walkie-talkie, Wang Ning's position was in the middle, and the two trenches that had been used as bait had been destroyed in the artillery fire.

"Commander, telegram!"

At this time, the communications soldiers braved the artillery fire, ran frantically in the traffic trenches, shouting to approach.

"Pay attention to the control of casualties."

Feng Yi hurriedly stopped the call, at this time, the signal soldiers could send the telegram, it was definitely not a war report.

"He's so unlucky?"

Through the faint light of the flare, in the explanation of the communication soldier, Feng Ye finally understood what the telegram said.

"Wang Ning!"

Feng Ye immediately broke the brother who was carrying the walkie-talkie next to him, and almost snatched the walkie-talkie's microphone with a grab.

"Second Battalion!"

Feng Ye was a little anxious and continued to shout in the walkie-talkie.

"Leader, I'm Wang Ning; A large number of Japanese troops were entering the first lines of trenches and craters, and they were expanding to the flanks. ”

Wang Ning's voice came out.

"The plan is stopped, immediately organize the troops, and drive the devils out of their positions; I'll let Rhoda bring a reconnaissance company to reinforce you. ”

"Min Fei, Zhang Chuan!"

Feng continued to shout on the walkie-talkie.

"One battalion can send two platoons to support!"

"The third battalion can draw a company to counterattack!"

Min Fei and Zhang Chuan's voices came.

"You immediately press the devils who have entered the position from both flanks, and cooperate with the second battalion to drive the devils out; From now on, try to press the devils on the pontoon bridge and not allow the devils to get close to the position. ”

Feng continued to give orders.