What Liao Mingyu didn't know was that because of the emergency in the Yangon area, the Japanese occupation in Burma was about to lose everything, which alarmed the base camp and the high "His Majesty the Emperor" early

In addition, Terauchi Shouichi spared no effort to publicize the threat of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which caused the Japanese cabinet to have different opinions, and a dark cloud shrouded everyone's hearts.

At the very least, it is called a strategic regional failure, and at a large level, it is the impact on the direction of the entire national fortunes.

One is the plundering of important resources on which the country depends, and the other is the last gateway to the country, and the two equally serious battlefields of Rangoon and the Ryukyu Islands are at risk of defeat, making it difficult for the Japanese military to make a choice in a short period of time.

For Burma and even Southeast Asia, the Japanese army is inseparable from the plot, after all, the island country has limited resources, oil, rubber, minerals, etc. need to be imported on a large scale, and this is an important place for them to plunder war resources.

Therefore, in the initial battle of Rangoon, the base camp did not hesitate to mobilize the already insufficient naval fleet to support.

It's a pity that the cruisers and destroyers that came over finally suffered two or three serious injuries, and they had no choice but to withdraw from the battle.

The original plan to allow the Yamato to participate in the Battle of Okinawa was also shelved by the wavering base camp earlier, so that the Yamato was not given clear instructions after the battle.

Although the Ryukyu Islands were finally taken by the U.S. military, the Yangon crisis was not resolved, and the funniest thing is that Terauchi Shouichi added fuel and vinegar to pour bitter water, and successfully made the base camp remove him from his position as commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, and replaced him with the old devil Seishiro Itagaki in advance.

As for this active planner of the "918" incident, I believe there is no need to introduce more, in the original history he was transferred to the Japanese Southern Army shortly before the end of World War II as the commander of the 7th Front Army, in Malaya, the Dutch East Indies commanded the Japanese army to fight, in September of the same year after the Japanese emperor announced the unconditional surrender, in Singapore led the troops to surrender to the British army.

However, because of the defeat in Burma, the Southern Army has performed poorly for a long time, not only Terauchi Shouichi, but also a large number of senior officers of the Southern Army including him have been replaced, and Seishiro Itagaki has also been arranged in advance to this position.

Liao, a little butterfly, unconsciously changed a lot of things that should have happened.

And the first thing Seishiro Itagaki did after taking office was to prepare for the emergency rescue of tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers trapped in Yangon.

In his view, Burma has become an enclave, and there is little point in holding on, and the priority is to rescue the remaining troops as much as possible and use all available living forces to move to the defense of Malaysia.

Therefore, sending a fleet led by the Yamato to Singapore became a top priority.

Because this mission was not a suicide attack, little Japan still equipped the Yamato with some of the frigates it should have, including the medium aircraft carrier "Katsuragi", two light cruisers, and supporting escort destroyers.

The size of the fleet is not large, but this is also the only hole card that the Japanese Navy headquarters can get its hands on, originally there was also a "Dragon City" aircraft carrier of the same level parked in Kure Harbor, but now there is not so much naval aviation at all, and even the fleet crew and fuel supplies are not enough, so they can only retreat to the second.

As everyone knows, the whereabouts of this fleet have long been discovered by the US military, and in order not to startle the snake, the Yankees only sent a light cruiser to follow them from a distance, and reconnaissance planes were at high altitude to detect the movements of the Japanese fleet.

After the route deduction, it was roughly determined that the destination of the other party was Malaysia or Singapore, and it should be that they wanted to reach the Andaman Sea in the south of Myanmar through the waters of Malacca.

"Junza, should we follow the arrangement and follow the Americans?"

Seeing Liao Mingyu sitting on the stool as if pondering, and there was no movement for a while, Meng Fuzai couldn't help but step forward and ask, "If you want to cooperate with them, what should you do here in Yangon?" ”

"Hehe, what should I do?"

Liao Mingyu silently opened the second telegram, and said leisurely while reading: "Coordination is not the point, Stilwell's old guy probably just wants to see my attitude." ”

Meng was annoyed and rolled his eyes, and he understood the mystery in a moment when he was shrewd, and then said: "Then are we going to disobey the yang and the yin, or are we just looking for an excuse...?" ”

"No need to do that, now that there are enough planes in the Heihe base area, our students should also go to the battlefield to sharpen and sharpen."

"Ahh Meng was a little surprised, and asked puzzledly: "Can you send some raw melon eggs... I'm afraid it's..."

I'm afraid there will be no return.

He didn't finish the last sentence, because he stayed in the Heihe base area to manage some military affairs at the earliest, and knew that there were factories and flight academies there, not only working overtime every day to produce equipment, but also training various flight cadets on the aviation brigade.

Despite the fact that World War II aircraft are far worse than modern jets, the selection and training of pilots is still extremely difficult.

From ancient times to the present, experience is the most rare thing, and if you want to become a qualified fighter pilot, in addition to physical fitness and a certain level of education, you need to fly at least 200 hours to go to the battlefield, otherwise you will be a target for artillery fire.

This is also the reason why Germany and Japan, even before the defeat of the war, had a large number of fighter groups, but did not participate in the battle, purely because the training of pilots was far from keeping up with the rate of consumption, and no one piloted the planes became useless scrap metal.

Although Meng is annoyed and doesn't know much about aircraft, he knows the difference between rookies and veterans, although the Heihe base has been forming a flight training group for several months, but it is still not optimistic to send those novices directly to the battlefield.

Who knew that Liao Mingyu smiled indifferently and asked rhetorically: "Who told you that you want to send them to participate in the hunting and attack operation?" ”

"And what do you mean?" Meng was annoyed and puzzled.

The Expeditionary Force's air combat force now consists of four fighter squadrons and one bomber squadron, of which Jamie leads the 1st and 2nd squadrons based at Mandalay Airport and is mainly responsible for supporting the Forces nouvelles fighting in Ayeyarwady Province.

Andrey, on the other hand, led the 3rd and 4th Squadrons and the Bomber Squadron in the activities of the Black River and Taunggyi Squadrons, and was responsible for air strikes on the Yangon battlefield.

Don't look at the fact that each squadron has 18 fighters, but aside from the planes parked at the airport for daily maintenance and post-war repairs, there are not many that can go to the battlefield every day, and they have to support multiple combat targets, in fact, they have to rely more on Stilwell's side to replenish.

If the existing air squadron were to be transferred to cooperate with the actions of the Americans, it would inevitably result in a lack of air strike capability on the Rangoon side, and perhaps the offensive of the ground forces would be affected somewhat.

(End of chapter)