Chapter 537
"Sikashi... The order of the general Terauchi requires us to hold the Siamese border, otherwise..."Jiro Kimura fell into deep thought.
Now the Southern Army Command is sending more troops to Yangon, trying to keep the last resource land and large port in Burma, and now it can't take care of them at all.
However, Terauchi Shouichi also ordered them to defend the northwest region of Siam to prevent the Chinese from bypassing from Siam to Kayin State and cut off the road traffic between Yangon and the Malay Peninsula, which was a strategic key point, so this was one of the reasons why Kimura did not dare to retreat.
"Your Excellency Commander, I suggest that we first withdraw to Nanbang City to allow the troops to repair and replenish, and then plan how to deal with the Huaxia, after all, the remaining military rations are less than ten days, and the wounded..."
The staff officer looked at Kimura anxiously, since the logistics route was destroyed by enemy planes, their supplies had been cut off for a week, coupled with the round-the-clock bombing, the number of wounded soldiers was increasing every day, and hundreds of people had lost their lives due to infection, and there was a lack of medical treatment... Many of the seriously wounded soldiers went to the field hospital only to wait for their death, and the situation is still getting worse.
"Is there less than ten days' worth of military rations left?"
Kimura Jiro began to be embarrassed, the staff officer's words were fine, and in the face of the situation that there were heavy troops in front of him and there was no support and supply after the siege, at this moment, even if he was confident, he would retreat.
The red arrows on the battle map touched people's hearts, and Kimura knew that his orders would determine the final outcome of more than 12,000 people.
"Air strikes by enemy aircraft!"
The soldiers outside the headquarters shouted loudly, and the howling sound in the air was like a desperate rush again.
"Your Excellency, Commander! Fast forward to the bomb shelter! ”
Kimura clenched his fists angrily, and through the observation port, he could already see that the dense dots in the air were gradually enlarged, and that damn old American was bombing again.
Several operational staff officers hurriedly cleaned up the documents on the table, and without saying a word, the adjutant picked up Kimura and ran to the air-raid shelter in the back.
Stop......
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble...
Because his warm mountain was once again covered by aerial bombs, but the difference was that this wave of air raids was also mixed with artillery bombardment, and the power was not the same as before.
The black bombs fell on the hill one after another, and the explosions that shook the ground continued so that the Japanese had to hide in their respective anti-aircraft bunkers and pray for God's blessing.
This time the bombardment covered a wide area, covering the sky and the sun like the end of the world, and without large-scale permanent underground fortifications, it was simply impossible to effectively resist the power of bombs and shells.
The sturdy pit was sifting ash like chaff, and the little devils hiding in it could only shiver, hoping that the bombs wouldn't hit their heads, otherwise they would really die...
It's just that what they don't know is... In addition to the US bombers, a formation of 50 C46 transport planes was flying south over Mount Intanuan.
Each C46 carries 15-20 soldiers from the Merrell detachment, as well as a variety of individual support equipment, and a total of more than 900 heavily armed "Sky Eagles" are about to spread their wings and soar into the sky.
In the cabin of a transport plane, a bearded Balsos leaned his head to the window, and judging by his mixed-race appearance and black hair, he was a typical modern South American.
The clouds outside the window slowly dissipated, indicating that the plane was flying downward through the clouds.
Beside him, a dozen or so soldiers sat on the bulkhead seats, dressed in uniform jungle combat uniforms, each carrying a heavy umbrella bag behind their backs, and some of them sorted out their equipment over and over again, as if to hide the tension in their hearts.
Balsos looked at it coldly but didn't say anything, but turned his head to look at one of the soldiers, and asked pretending to be relaxed, "Hey... Julio, I heard that you slept with a Burmese woman two days ago, and she still has hair on her chest? Right? ”
"Hahaha..."
"This guy has a really strong taste..."
"I think it's just a man with long hair..."
The nonsensical remark caused everyone to laugh and laugh, as if everyone knew about it, and their eyes couldn't help but look at the soldier named Julio.
"Fart! That's Potoro's nonsense, and you believe it!? Shut up fuck! ”
Julio, a young soldier with a few pigtails on the back of his head, blushed and retorted angrily, saying that this scandal had almost spread through the ranks, and it had become a stain on his life.
Balsos nodded with satisfaction, a short romp helped to dispel the fear, the tension before the airborne landing was normal, as long as the leader remained calm, others would not have too much psychological burden.
Ten minutes later, under the cover of the fighters, the transport plane formation began to reduce its flight altitude, the red indicator light in the cabin suddenly lit up, and the pilot came out of the cockpit and shouted to everyone:
"Alright, ladies, it's time to perform... Good luck, Lieutenant Colonel Balsos. ”
"All stand up! Start skydiving in five minutes! ”
Balsos gave a call, then walked to the middle of the cabin to inspect each soldier one by one, admonishing them with the necessary airborne essentials, and giving them a heavy pat on the shoulder in encouragement.
"Don't panic, remember your usual training essentials!"
"Jump off in order, not too early or too late, otherwise the last image that flashes in front of you will be your knees!"
"The secondary parachute drawstring is on your right hand, don't panic if the main parachute can't be opened, you still have a second chance, but remember not to fucking open the two of me at the same time......"
The hatch was slowly opened, the wind howled in an instant, and Balsos was the first to walk to the hatch, and the hundreds of meters above his feet were breathtaking, and his heartbeat involuntarily sped up a little.
"Altitude 800, wind south!" The pilot shouted loudly in the wind and gave Balsos a thumbs up, signaling for him to start.
Balsus didn't hesitate, he jumped out of the cabin, his body falling like a wisp of leaves, he let the wind rage in his ears, concentrated on adjusting his body angle, and quickly pulled the drawstring on the umbrella bag after a few seconds.
The soldiers jumped from the plane one by one following his pace, and the light gray parachutes bloomed in mid-air like blooming flowers, and after a while, a large echelon of parachutes falling down appeared in the sky.
The airborne area was twenty kilometers south of Intanuan Mountain, that is, the only way for the Japanese troops to retreat south, and at this time, many Japanese troops stationed here had already discovered the situation in the air.
This can blow up the pot, and now it should be the first time they have encountered the enemy's airborne attack deep into the rear, and in the panic, the devils had to set up machine guns and start firing at those targets in the air.
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Due to the lack of anti-aircraft artillery, these scattered Japanese troops could only rely on the existing weapons in their hands to strike, and those Type 99 light machine guns were so powerless in the face of air targets hundreds of meters away.
Seeing that there was an enemy on the ground to block the attack, they immediately roared down from the sky without saying a word, and made a sudden attack on the places where they were holding fire, or they would dive and bomb with aerial bombs.
Anyway, there is no threat of large-scale anti-aircraft artillery, they can act recklessly in the sky, as long as the Japanese army dares to expose the target of the firing point, it will not survive for five minutes.
Half an hour later, more than 900 soldiers were basically airborne, and the transport plane formation did not delay too much, and then returned to the Heihe base after airdropping the accompanying equipment of the Merrill commando, where there was still a second batch of airborne personnel waiting to be transported.