In a trance, Li Jie shook Shuai's stunned head hard, and just fired two rounds of rocket launchers, even from a distance, he could feel the power of destroying the world.

Although she had test-fired several times in training before, Katyusha's destructive power in actual combat was still very impressive.

The scream like the roar of death, countless fires lit up half of the sky, round after round so that the enemy had no time to breathe, glad that this thing belonged to his side, otherwise it would be hard to imagine the scene after receiving a volley.

"Report to the regimental commander, all the shells have been fired, please instruct!"

The soldier's shouting brought Li Jie back to reality, and the task of their regiment was to strike at the Panlagong station with covering fire, and after it was completed, they had to evacuate immediately, and fight and leave quickly to avoid being targeted by the opposing artillery.

"Notify all units, immediately evacuate this place, and move closer to the second main force of the third division!" Li Jie commanded in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

Li Jie's team is a newly formed artillery unit, with an artillery regiment for every thirteen Katyushas, and a total of three regiments constitute the rocket artillery division of the new army.

At this time, the other two regiments were deployed on the side of the third division, and each regiment had its own independent logistics transport fleet and maintenance team, and the mobility was very high.

Liao Mingyu also inherited the legendary name of the Volunteer Army in history - the 21st Division, which has not yet appointed a division commander, and is temporarily under the direct command of the Heihe Military Department, and uses regiment-level units to support troops at all levels in combat.

Panragon's artillery attack was only the tip of the iceberg on the battlefield, as the 3rd Division, the Armored Brigade, the Heavy Artillery Brigade, and various local units all advanced from Bago to Yangon, and the battle line expanded to cover the entire Bago Junction, and the scene became extremely lively.

Since the beginning of the year, Long Wenwen's Middle Route Corps has fought from Mandalay to Bago Province, and slowly forced the Japanese army to Yangon, but due to the lack of troops on the front line, Long Wenwen also specially asked Liao Mingyu for instructions this time, and mobilized the engineering troops who had been building road infrastructure in the rear.

Don't know, as soon as you are startled, there are as many as 50,000 or 60,000 people in the huge engineering construction corps, and when these people slowly came to the front line, Long Wenwen's gang were stunned, and their Junzuo actually made such a large number of people unknowingly.

Since last year, the 88th Army has been vigorously developing the ranks of the construction corps, which are unified in the engineer sequence, most of which are used for road and bridge construction and local infrastructure construction, and also share part of the logistics and material tasks.

Most of these people are recruited from the Nanyang laborers, and some of them are composed of veterans who have retired from the front line because of their old age or slight disabilities.

Their individual weapons are mainly M1903 Springfield rifles supported by the Yankees, with a small number of Garand and M1 carbines, most of which are still weapons eliminated from the front-line troops, and the establishment follows the standard of the three-regiment system, and the support firepower is not equipped with heavy artillery, mainly 80 and 120 mortars.

Although the firepower is a big difference with the main force of the 88th Army, it is also much stronger than those ordinary troops in western Yunnan, which should be placed in Song Xilian's 20th Group Army, a proper standard of elite weapons.

As a second-line unit, the combat effectiveness of the construction corps may have to be put under a question mark, but it is more than enough for them to cooperate with the main force in their actions, pick up cheap ones, make up for their shortcomings, and fight a tailwind battle.

With the addition of this group of new troops, the pressure on the Honor 3rd Division was sharply reduced, and the soldiers of the 3rd Division who were freed up to strike hard at the weak points of the Japanese army, adopted a tactical plan of breaking through points and summarizing the whole area, and the main force opened the breakthrough and went deeper.

Aerial bombs poured down on the earth like heavy rain, and fighters in the air also crossed the sky at this time, and the two aviation squadrons in Nankan were all dispatched to launch a joint attack on various Japanese strongholds.

The Japanese army was defeated and retreated one after another, several front-line positions changed hands one after another, and the entire Rangoon defense line was shattered.

The defeat was like a mountain, and the Japanese side did not expect that the opponent's sudden offensive would be so fierce, and all the airfields of the army aviation were hit by artillery fire of varying degrees, and some fighters turned into a pile of scrap metal before they even took off.

Of course, the Southern Army Command would not admit defeat, and was even more unwilling to give up the last piece of land in Burma, so it stepped up the deployment of troops and urgently transferred part of the troops from Malacca and Singapore to Yangon and Ayeyarwady provinces.

Faced with the fact that a Chitose-class light carrier docked at the port of Yangon, 20 Zero fighters and eight ground attack aircraft scrambled into the air to support the army.

Two Akizuki-class destroyers also rushed from Malacca to the Madaban waters in Yangon, along with a heavy cruiser USS Tone.

The heavy cruiser had been badly wounded in the Battle of Knight Bay, the stern side had been punctured, and more than 900 sailors on board had almost perished at sea.

After the war, the Tone, which survived the disaster, returned to the Malay area for repairs, and was originally going to return to the Japanese mainland for defense, but it did not want to catch up with the Rangoon crisis, and was urgently transferred to Madaban Bay to cooperate with the Rangoon Army to defend the area.

In the next few days, Long Wenwen commanded the Central Route Corps to advance from Xayawady to Yangon Province, counting more than 70,000 troops participating in the construction corps, and occupied the northern area of Yangon in less than three days, and the front of the army was directed at Yongsheng Town.

However, while the troops were advancing all the way, the Central Route Corps slowed down the offensive, because the recovered Japanese army gathered the last air power in Southeast Asia, and the navy was also actively cooperating with the troop projection, and several wings were successively sent to the south of Yangon to strengthen the defense of the area.

Malaysia's army airfields have targeted Yangon province to compete with the expeditionary force for air supremacy there, and due to the lack of air power on the part of the US military, the two air squadrons in Nam Kham alone have no numerical superiority.

In the air battle for several days, the two sides suffered losses from each other, and no one could help the other, but the Nankan air force still had a slight upper hand, and the distance from Mandalay and Heihe was already superior, and the massive ammunition and countless ground crews that had been hoarded became the foundation of their continuous operations, and even if the consumption was huge, it could be quickly replenished, which the Japanese air force was incomparable.

A light aircraft carrier, a heavy cruiser, and two destroyers in Madaban Bay were on standby, and they even sailed to the near harbor, and as long as the enemy dared to enter the firing range, the dozens of large-caliber naval guns on the ships would deal a fatal blow to the opponent.

This information naturally could not be concealed from the Heihe Command, so in order to avoid huge losses to the troops, Liao Mingyu immediately ordered Long Wenwen to delay the offensive in the south of Yangon, and let the fighters and ground anti-aircraft artillery consume the opponent's air power first.

The most important point is that the Japanese army has now determined that the main direction of attack of the expeditionary force is the area of Insein Town, after all, such a large deployment of troops is almost half of the old opponent's base, so they are constantly gathering in Yangon, intending to rely on the naval forces that the other side does not have, and turn this place into the final decisive battle.

It's just that all this is in the hands of Liao Mingyu, as early as before the battle started, he began to deploy a wave of larger battle plans, once successfully implemented, then all the Japanese troops in Burma will be wiped out!

(End of chapter)