The 22nd Division distributed its forces in Sagaing and Mandalay on both sides of the Yorawaddy River, put the 84th Wing in Sagaing for defense, and deployed the main forces of the 85th and 86th Wings towards the river in Mandalay.

Mainly to protect against Allied forces attacking from the west.

After sending out the artillery wing, Lieutenant General Saburo Yoshida, commander of the division, urgently requested a new batch of artillery from the 15 th Army, and a new artillery wing had just been formed, but this time it was basically composed of 75-mm mountain artillery and field artillery.

The strength is much worse than the original artillery wing.

The good news for the 22nd Division was that Mandalay was a must-defend place for the little devils, and after the occupation, they used heavy artillery to set up two fortress-style artillery positions, one on Sagaing Hill and the other on the Mandalay River.

There is an artillery position of 4 150mm cannons in the mid-levels of Sagaing Hill and a battery of 203mm naval guns on the banks of the Mandalay River.

These heavy guns all have a range of more than 15 kilometers, of which the 150mm cannon has a range of up to 18 kilometers, which is obviously a huge threat to Gao Jianwu, compared to Monywa, the Mandalay little devil defense position is much stronger.

Not only artillery with a larger caliber, but also artillery fortresses built of reinforced concrete protected the cannons, which could effectively protect against the bombardment of 155-mm heavy guns.

Unless a shell hits the muzzle in a small space.

But for long-range artillery, this probability is almost equal to zero.

Even if Gao Jianwu had a high-precision map to indicate the exact coordinate location, the shelling still had an error of tens of meters. Even with covered shelling, there is little use in the face of such a fortress-type battery.

When the little devil was designing, he also formed a firepower cross between the two fortresses, so that the two important places in Shiji and Mandalay were basically within the defensive range of the two fortresses.

Colonel Smith is still dutifully gathering all sorts of intelligence here. Gao Jianwu looked at Mandalay's defense system and felt that if it was just an army dispatch, it would be a real headache. But let's not forget that he now has an Air Force of 6 fighters.

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"No. 2, No. 2 I've already seen the enemy's fortress. Just on the right at 1 o'clock. I'm going to start dive bombing. Lu Xingguo said to his wingman.

As the main force in this bombardment of the enemy's fortress, Lu Xingguo took the lead in undertaking the first wave of bombing missions.

There were four warplanes in the air, waiting behind him to bomb these fortresses. If Lu Xingguo can't get it.

The Mustang fighter can carry two 500-pound aerial bombs, and in the face of such heavy aerial bombs, all fortresses are scum.

The air force of the Mandalay imps has been taken out by the Allied air forces.

It was like a turtle that had stripped off the air defense and appeared in front of Lu Xingguo.

Lu Xingguo took a fancy to the location of the fortress and began to dive towards him, and in order to ensure the accuracy of the bombing, it lowered the altitude to 500 meters. After calculating the amount of advance, seeing that he was about to approach the fortress, Lu Xingguo decisively threw the bomb down.

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Then quickly pull the fighter up. The anti-aircraft guns of the little devils on the ground began to shoot wildly, and the bullets whizzed through the perimeter of Lu Xingguo's fighter.

However, there is no use for eggs.

The lethal hit rate of anti-aircraft guns against fighters is really touching.

Lu Xingguo's wingman was behind to observe the effects of the bombing. The bomb was thrown next to the fortress, setting off a corner, but apparently did not blow the fortress back.

It's just that how much of the little devil artillery in the fortress will survive, then I don't know.

In terms of the power of the bombshell, there should be none left.

But if the battery is still there, their mission is not over.

Lu Xingguo's wingman was his comrade-in-arms who had fought together. At this moment, it was observed that the target was not destroyed in the back, and the anti-aircraft artillery fire was exposed, and without hesitation, he lowered the nose of the aircraft and began to dive.

The Mustang fighter roared and rushed towards the little devil's air defense machine gun position, and the four air defense machine guns next to the battery were frantically aimed at the Mustang fighter, but they couldn't keep up with the distance of the fighter plane's movement, so Lu Xingguo's wingman found an opportunity and threw the 500-pound aerial bomb down without hesitation before reaching the little devil's air defense machine gun position.

There was a loud bang, and the little devil's anti-aircraft machine guns and artillery instantly turned into a pile of fragments!

"No. 2, well done!" Lu Xingguo exclaimed loudly at his wingman.

Turning the corner, he turned the Mustang fighter back at the fortress battery, this time pressing the altitude even lower, and seeing that he might not even be able to reach 300 meters, he dropped another 500-pound aerial bomb!

This time the bomb landed right above the fortress. After a violent explosion, the entire battery cracked!

The 2nd fort battery was quickly taken out by the Air Force as well.

As long as there is no interference from anti-aircraft fire. That kind of fixed fortress battery is a dish of heavy aerial bombs.

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"Alright, guys, now the Air Force has done their job. It's our turn to get to work. "Gao Jianwu heard that the air force had solved the enemy's fortress battery. Begin to direct three attack groups to move forward.

This is the first time that Gao Jianwu has felt the benefits of air superiority, and after taking care of the fortress fort, the little devil in Mandalay has nothing to stop him from advancing.

The three major attack groups of Chu Yunfei, Xu Shida, and Zhang Dabiao immediately began to move forward synchronously according to the plan.

Chu Yunfei's second attack group advanced towards Sagaing Town, and his task was to take Sit Town and completely destroy the position of the 84th Wing of the 22nd Division of the Little Devil.

Xu Shida's 3rd Attack Group advanced to the north, and its mission was to build a pontoon bridge about 10 kilometers north along the Yinrawaddy River, bypassing Sagaing, where there were multiple river islands as springboards, and most of the river was 300 meters long, and it was relatively easy to build an improvised pontoon bridge.

It's just that the infantry has no problem passing through a stretch of wetland and sandy land on Jiangxinzhou, but heavy weapons like 105mm howitzers are very difficult.

Fortunately, the number of sapper rubber boats was sufficient, and the mountain artillery could be disassembled into several parts to cross the river with rubber boats.

Zhang Dabiao's fourth attack group followed Chu Yunfei's rear to outflank Sagaing Town, ensuring that the 84th Wing of the Little Devils was completely annihilated, and if conditions permitted, they directly pounced on the bridge and seized the bridge.

The battle for the general offensive soon began, and Gao Jianwu still commanded his artillery to fire shells at the enemy's positions. After eliminating the enemy's fortress battery fire deterrence, the 75mm mountain guns owned by the Little Devil Wing could no longer threaten him.

According to the positional information obtained from the previous reconnaissance, the long-range main artillery commanded by Gao Jianwu continuously poured heavy artillery shells on the position of the little devils.

Chu Yunfei's second attack group almost stepped on the landing point of the cannonballs and pushed forward. After the regrouping, a lot of ideological work was carried out, and most of the battalion and company commanders were replaced, and now the combat effectiveness of the second attack group is also very strong.

In addition, the main attack of the last time became a post-selection. The warriors were all holding their breath and now exerting this breath. The position of the 84th Wing of the little devil suffered.

Because in terms of artillery, they are not at all opponents. And the stationary fortifications were either baptized by long-range artillery fire, or directly bombarded by Bazooka rocket artillery.

When all the heavy firepower points of the fixed fortifications of the little devils were knocked out by the opponent, in the confrontation of the infantry, the little devils were even less opponents, and their 38 big covers were simply no opponents in the face of the Garand rifles.

Even if there were trenches to help them defend. But the number of mortars equipped with the infantry of the second attack group far exceeded the imagination of the little devils. Mortar shells rained down on the trenches.

The battle was unusually fierce, but almost all the artillery fire was poured on the little devil's position unilaterally. There is an absolute superiority in firepower, and in this war it is like slaughtering chicks, and the little devils are torn apart by artillery fire in droves!

There is no ability to fight back at all.

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On the east bank of the Yin Rawaddy River Bridge, Captain Yin Dong'an, who was responsible for the defense and blowing up the bridge at the wrong time, looked very nervous.

Sagaing was full of artillery fire, gunfire, and the sound of gunfire and shells.

He was guarding a field phone, sweat oozing from his forehead, and next to him were several detonators with buried explosives, and once he received the order to blow up the bridge, he would not hesitate to order the detonation.

However, the construction of the Yinrawaddy River Bridge is not easy, and the little devil is reluctant to blow him up unless it is absolutely necessary, knowing that this is the only bridge from Mandalay to Sagaing.

Yin Dong'an was just staring at the phone, and he didn't feel a roar in the air, it was Lu Xingguo's flying squadron that had completed the bombardment of the fortress battery, and was ordered to start protecting the bridge at this moment.

I saw them lined up in 3 waves of echelons, flying towards the bridge, and Lu Xingguo was the first to take the lead, only to see him lower the altitude to 300 meters and fly along the bridge!

The center of the bridge was empty, but it was guarded by the little devil's troops at both ends of the bridge.

The whole bridge is not too long, about a little more than a kilometer, at this height, Lu Xingguo is clear at a glance.

"No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, you follow me and fly straight along the bridge, and attack the defenders at both ends of the bridge at intervals of 1.5 kilometers in turn! No. 5 and No. 6 are hovering in the air! Lu Xingguo looked at the little devil's defense and estimated that 4 rounds of blows should be enough.

"Received on the 2nd!"

"Received on the 3rd!"

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When Lu Xingguo confirmed that all the team members had received the order, he rushed to Yin Dong'an's early bridgehead position without hesitation, and then pressed the fire button, and the four Browning heavy machine guns immediately sprayed hot bullets and flew towards the bridgehead.

Directly ploughed out the little devil who was defending on the spot and ploughed out 4 bloody ravines, Lu Xingguo pulled the nose of the plane, raised the altitude and swept through the position, turned in the air, and prepared to start the second round of attacks.

However, after he swept over, No. 2 came one after another, and Yin Dong'an, who had just managed to avoid Lu Xingguo's aerial shooting, was not so lucky this time, and the firepower woven by 4 Browning heavy machine guns killed nearly half of the remaining little devils.

However, this is not the end of the little devil dream demon, No. 3 and No. 4 line up to compete for the last bit of little devil head.

At this moment, on the west bank of the bridge, a team of fifty or sixty people suddenly appeared on the two sides of the bridge, attacking the two little devil squads guarding the bridge almost simultaneously.

Before the infantry charged, several mortar shells and Bazooka rockets opened fire one after another, sending away the little devils behind the sandbags in a wave almost with a single shot!

This is the vanguard assault team of Zhang Dabiao's fourth attack group, directly bypassing Sagaing Town, coming to seize control of the west bank of the bridge, and after they succeeded, they left more than a dozen team members to defend on the spot, and the rest rushed to the east bank!