When the sun shines on the walls of the low-rise houses next to Dagon Airport.

The first to move was the air force assault group of the expeditionary force cluster.

"High, I'm off and waiting for my good news. This time, I will have to shoot down at least two or more little devil fighters before I come back. "Gao Jianwu's command actually received a telegram from Smith.

These international friends in the beautiful country are actually quite cute sometimes.

Gao Jianwu could imagine Smith's expression before he set off.

Dagon Airport, with the take-off of Colonel Smith, one by one fighter planes rose into the sky. Then they flew in a line over the battlefield of the trough, waiting for the arrival of the little devil fighters.

Almost at the same time, the Shanmana Lu Xingguo Flying Group had received an order to take off for combat. One fighter after another flew towards the coordinate area provided by Gao Jianwu.

Today's combat mission is to destroy the heavy artillery brigades of the little devils.

It's just that with the air force of the expeditionary force appeared over the battlefield. The fighters of the flying division on the little devil's side have begun to take to the trough area one after another, ready to meet the battle.

The elite pilots from the Allied forces are driving the fighters one by one at this moment, even if the number of little devil fighters exceeds them by nearly double, but these Allied elite pilots are fearless one by one.

The little devils who appeared in front of them were still piloting the old Type 97 fighters. This kind of fighter is simply garbage for Allied pilots, and there is already a generational difference in performance compared to the Mustang fighter.

So Colonel Smith led 40 Mustang fighters and dared to appear directly in front of the little devil's flying division.

Lu Xingguo's flying brigade, according to Gao Jianwu's coordinate area, lowered the altitude and went to look for the little devil's heavy artillery brigade within 20 kilometers of the east bank of the Xidan River.

After all, they still have a little bit in their hearts, in the face of the elite pilot group of the little devils, as a group of pilots who have just started, even if the performance of the fighters is much ahead, it is okay to be beaten, but if they single out the little devil pilots, they feel that it is more appropriate to hand over this combat mission to professionals.

No one is able to do this in this regard, after all, now their lives are not their own, but belong to this team, this country.

Now they all know very well how much it will cost to train a pilot, and they will never throw away their lives easily.

Fifteen Mustang fighters quickly swept dozens of square kilometers on the east coast.

"Boss, I saw it." On the public channel of the flight brigade, a pilot suddenly made a surprise report.

"Now my location coordinates are xx, xx."

"Roger, 13th, please keep hovering at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters to guard against enemy anti-aircraft artillery attacks. Brothers, pay attention to the order, we are preparing to fly to airspace 13 in groups of two to bomb it! Lu Xingguo ordered happily.

With Allied pilots to block the fighters of the Little Devil Flying Division.

Lu Xingguo's flying brigade was basically not in danger in the air.

So Lu Xingguo lined up the 15 fighters and began to search at a low altitude, and along the target area commanded by Gao Jianwu, they quickly found the target.

After all, a heavy artillery brigade, the target is too big, and Gao Jianwu has locked their area again, not to mention that they must also have a strong towing fleet and a huge logistics support force to support it.

In this way, even if you hide in the woods and cover the vehicle with branches, you can't cover it.

What's more, an artillery position covers a large area, and the roads needed by the little devil's heavy artillery are also very demanding, and they can be found along the main road.

When Lu Xingguo rushed over, the little devil's heavy artillery brigade had just packed up the artillery and was ready to transfer.

"Brothers, I'm going to attack first. Pay attention to the dive height, and don't let the little devil's anti-aircraft guns bite you. Lu Xingguo looked at the little devil heavy artillery convoy on the ground, began to lower the height, and swooped towards them.

While adding, he also commanded the follow-up fighter sequence. Fifteen fighters were in the air and soon formed two columns.

"Baga, hurry up, hurry up, the anti-aircraft guns are ready for anti-aircraft shooting, the enemy fighters are coming!" On the little devil's heavy artillery position, a wing commander Da Zuo looked at the fighter jets roaring in the sky and couldn't help but be shocked.

Hurriedly began to direct the anti-aircraft gunners, who had just entered the march, to hurriedly redeploy, preparing for an anti-aircraft counterattack.

It's a pity it's a bit late.

Lu Xingguo swooped down first, looked at the little devil on the ground and panicked, simply lowered the height, directly lowered to 500 meters below, aimed at the anti-aircraft gun that the little devil was deploying, and directly dropped two bombs.

After the two loud bangs, the four anti-aircraft guns of the little devils were immediately blown into the sky, and dozens of little devils who were waiting for the four antiaircraft guns also became a mess of meat and flew in all directions.

"Young! Captain, you're really good, the little devil is unlucky this time. The No. 2 machine, which followed Lu Xingguo, looked at the mess on the little devil's position, shouted, and also lowered the height and went away to the little devil's heavy artillery.

This time he played even harder, dropping the bomb next to a heavy cannon at an altitude of less than 300 meters.

This time, the truck towed by heavy artillery overturned directly to the ground.

One after another, the fighters aimed at the heavy artillery positions of the little devils roared one after another, some aimed at the anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns, and some directly aimed at the heavy artillery of the little devils.

But one way or another, they threw heavy aerial bombs on the positions.

When the remnants of the little devil's anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns finally deployed, they began to shoot desperately, but their numbers were not enough, and a brigade of 12 anti-aircraft guns had basically been blown up and crippled by Lu Xingguo.

In addition, the original hit rate of anti-aircraft guns hitting planes is extremely low, and there are not enough numbers to weave an air defense net, and for a single anti-aircraft gun, to hit a fighter plane flying at high speed, it is basically a lucky draw.

And this time luck was not on the side of the little devil, Lu Xingguo led the flying team to dive bombing and strafing on the little devil's heavy artillery position, and one after another heavy aerial bombs exploded at the little devil's heavy artillery position.

Although it is said that the deviation of some pilots' bombs is a little large, dozens of heavy aerial bombs were dropped, basically covering the entire little devil's heavy artillery position.

On this position, neither men nor heavy artillery could survive under such heavy aerial bombs.

The little devils are a heavy artillery brigade, except for the logistics baggage team who threw away things and ran away, the rest of the people who relied on the artillery were basically all blown up on the position, and many of them really realized the jade shattering this time!

"Nani? The enemy's air force attacked our heavy artillery positions? "Little devil forward command, General Kimura simply didn't believe his ears.

"Yes, Your Excellency, 15 enemy warplanes have indiscriminately bombarded our heavy artillery positions, and according to the telegram they sent, our heavy artillery brigade has been basically wiped out." The communications staff officer lowered his head and reported.

"Yaga! Disgusting! What are they doing in the Ninth Flight Division, are these fools just their fighters" General Kimura was blocking his throat with a mouthful of old blood at the moment, but he couldn't spit it out, he couldn't swallow it, and his face was flushed.

"A large number of Your Excellency's Ninth Flying Division, the whole army has been dispatched, but they have encountered the enemy's flying team, and they are fighting in the sky at the moment, according to the latest battle report, our situation is not optimistic, we have 10 fighters shot down by the enemy since the beginning of the battle!" The communications staff officer reported another piece of bad news.

"And what about the enemy's battle damage, how many of them were shot down?" Admiral Kimura asked.

"According to reports, the enemy has not been shot down so far," the communications staff officer lowered his head even deeper.

"Yaga! Burst! ”

General Kimura finally couldn't hold back this time, and a mouthful of blood spurted out directly.

Although he didn't have great expectations for the Air Force, he didn't expect them to be so useless that they couldn't stop the enemy's attack at all.

Now that the heavy artillery brigade is finished, and General Kimura's air dependence is about to fail, how can General Kimura endure it.

"Your Excellency, our current situation is very dangerous." Chief of Staff Shimoda said solemnly beside him.

"Without air protection and artillery support, the gap between us and the enemy in terms of firepower is huge. According to intelligence, the expeditionary force cluster has at least 100 heavy guns of more than 105 mm, and so far they have not appeared on the battlefield, but I am sure that they are in our immediate vicinity.

According to the previous battles, the enemy was simply brilliant in the use of artillery, basically destroying our defensive fire one by one with long-range artillery, with the presence of these 100 heavy artillery pieces of more than 105 mm, after we lost the heavy artillery brigade, there was no way to restrain it, then our troops would not be able to withstand the enemy's artillery attack at all! ”

Lieutenant General Shimoda Sakura and Senior General Kimura both came from army backgrounds, and of course they knew the power and role of artillery on the battlefield today. At this moment, Shimoda Saku pointed out the huge difference between the enemy and our artillery, and General Kimura also had a bitter face.

"Shimoda-kun, we still have two tank wings, order artillery observation posts and scouts, we must find out the enemy's heavy artillery positions, we use the tank wing to destroy them, this is our only chance." Admiral Kimura said in a deep voice.

At this moment, they did not know that the expeditionary force cluster was using more than 100 long-range heavy artillery pieces this time, but more than 200.

It's just that by now, the difference between 100 and 200 is not much for him, and the fate of failure is already in front of them.

The news of the bombing of the artillery positions of the heavy artillery brigade was transmitted directly to Gao Jianwu's headquarters through walkie-talkies.

"Everyone, the little devil heavy artillery brigade is finished, and now I announce, the encirclement plan, immediately start executing!" With Gao Jianwu's order in the walkie-talkie.

Chu Yunfei, Xu Shida and Zhang Dabiao, the three standby attack groups, launched operations almost simultaneously, the tank battalion was the first to open the way, the infantry followed closely behind, and finally the 75mm howitzer battalion of the attack group.

They each rushed to the pre-confirmed position, ready to cut off the back of the little devil!

"Heavy artillery regiments, according to the planned targets and shelling ranges, open fire!" After Gao Jianwu finished commanding the infantry assault group, he began to command the heavy artillery group to fight.

On the map in his mind, all kinds of information from all the observation posts were gathered, including the main force of the artillery wing of each division of the little devil!

This is the intelligence that the scouts took advantage of the late night and risked their lives to go deep into the enemy's interior.

This time, Gao Jianwu didn't have time to work on the map, and directly after marking the map in his mind, he personally commanded and deployed various heavy artillery regiments.

The four heavy artillery regiments took advantage of the night to enter the artillery positions designated by Gao Jianwu, and then aimed at their target divisional artillery wings.

Within a few hundred square kilometers in the southern part of the trough, the 4 divisions of the little devils formed an arc-shaped attack formation, ready to launch an all-out attack on the second line of defense of the expeditionary force cluster!

But they didn't expect that the second line of defense that Gao Jianwu commanded Ding Wei and they built was not to block the little devils.

Instead, take the little devils by the nose and let them line up in such a formation, so that they can deploy heavy artillery to launch a full-scale attack on them!

Sure enough, the little devil obediently followed Gao Jianwu's deployment and lined up the offensive formation along the second line of defense, just falling into the attack range of the heavy artillery regiment that had been deployed long ago.

With Gao Jianwu's order, nearly a hundred 155mm howitzers erupted into a roar almost simultaneously. The 155-mm heavy guns that fixed the artillery positions, they were troublesome to maneuver and transfer, so they were all lined up along the second line of defense in turn, and this time their targets were all aimed at the artillery wings of the various divisions and regiments of the little devils.

Hearing the heavy artillery bombardment of the expeditionary force cluster, General Kimura and Shimoda Saku, chief of staff, changed color on the spot, and of course they could distinguish the sound of several types of artillery in the expeditionary force cluster.

Now it is heard that the number of 155-mm howitzers alone is much more than the expected 50 units.

Even if they do not know the target of the enemy's attack now, but with such a large number of 155-mm heavy guns, they will suffer heavy losses wherever they attack.

At this moment, the artillery wings of the various divisions and regiments of the little devils had just deployed their positions, and when they heard the whistling of shells in the distance, all their faces lost their blood.

"Hurry up, shift, shift positions immediately!" The quick response of the little devil artillery commander began to transfer orders hoarsely.

The Type 41 mountain gun, which can be moved by two people, has become the most priority rescue target at the moment, and the artillery of the little devil is pushing the mountain gun everywhere like a burning butt, but how can the manpower run past the speed of the shell, and soon, the whistling 155 mm shell fell on the position of the little devil, and the killing radius of a shell is as high as 50 meters, and more than 20 shells of a heavy artillery regiment directly cover the entire position seamlessly!

After a round of artillery bombardment, the little devil's artillery wing was directly wiped out!

Only a very small number of fast-running little devil artillery became fish that slipped through the net, and soon, General Kimura and Chief of Staff Shimoda received bad news from their subordinate divisions, and one artillery wing was gone!

One worse than the other, the bad news made General Kimura and Shimoda Chief of Staff numb.

Before these artillery wings could even find their targets, they were wiped out one by one by the heavy artillery bombardment of the expeditionary force clusters.

Such a strange thing, no one dares to believe it even if it is said.

The heavy artillery brigade is finished, although General Kimura is uncomfortable, but it can be endured, after all, the heavy artillery brigade has completed the goal of suppressing the enemy's artillery fire and achieving the goal of successfully crossing the river, and there are not many places they need to attack next, and the heavy artillery brigade does not seem to play much role in addition to fighting against the opponent's heavy artillery troops.

Next, the Air Force Flying Division was unfavorable, and directly hit a 0 bar 10!

The dream of General Kimura to exchange quantity for the quality of the Allied Air Force was shattered, showing that in the air, the difference in technology is basically unsolvable.

Now it is even worse, under the precise command of Gao Jianwu, the artillery wings of each division and regiment were directly wiped out!

How can this Nima fight next, this battle is now, even the gods can't save it.

General Kimura and Shimoda were speechless, and their eyes were full of gloomy death at the moment!

Frankly speaking, when the artillery wing is wiped out, the little devils' divisions and regiments are like being pulled out by tigers, and such a unit still has some advantages in the face of the guerrillas.

However, in the face of the expeditionary force group armed to the teeth, the enemy still has a large number of air force fighters, tanks, and heavy artillery cluster artillery firepower to use.

In the face of the Sherman tank, of course, the little devils have a painful lesson, on the Pacific Islands, there are no heavy weapons, relying on primitive weapons such as grenades and Molotov cocktails, they can kill a Sherman with a hundred or so people.

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"Your Excellency, your Excellency, now that our 100,000 locust army is in danger, we must ask the Southern Army for tactical guidance. In terms of artillery, we have no way to replenish it for the time being, but in terms of the air force, I know that the Southern Army now has a Zero fighter squadron, which is the latest model of the Empire's fighter plane, and it is not inferior to the enemy's P51 Mustang fighter, and we must regain air superiority, otherwise we will not be able to compete with the enemy at all. In the face of extremely unfavorable circumstances, Chief of Staff Tasaku finally put forward a constructive suggestion.

According to the establishment of the Little Devil Air Force, a flying team is about 30 to 40 fighters, and if they put into a Zero fighter flying team, it will of course be a huge challenge for the air force of the expeditionary force group.

Senior General Kimura thought for a while, and finally agreed with Shimoda's opinion as Chief of Staff.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there has been an urgent telegram from the Burmese and British Front, so far, the heavy artillery brigade of the Burmese and British Front has been completely wiped out, the artillery wings of all divisions and regiments have been shattered, and the Type 97 fighters of the Ninth Flying Division are no match for the opponent, the situation is very dangerous, according to Kimura-kun's request, it is expected that we will immediately send a Zero fighter flight team to reinforce it, regain air superiority, and cover the withdrawal of troops back to Mao Yumian."

When the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, General Terauchi, heard the bad news, his expression was relatively calm, after all, he was in charge of the entire aspect of Nanyang, and although the Burmese and British battlefields were critical, they were not the whole story.

"Your Excellency, Commander, I think it is necessary to send reinforcements from the Zero Fighter Squadron immediately." said the Chief of the General Staff of the Southern Army Command, Numata.

"If we lose the Burmese and British possessions, then Siam, French Annam, and the Malay Peninsula will all fall under the threat of expeditionary forces. In Siam, our troops were not enough to hold them off. ”

As the chief of the general staff of General Terauchi, Numata Takazo naturally knows the reality of the Southern Army well, because the Burmese and British territories have always been controlled in their hands as the front line of the Little Devil Alliance, and the southeast peninsula is equivalent to the hinterland, and the defensive force deployed is far less than that of the Burmese and British territories.

For example, Siam only has one division and one independent mixed brigade, and the entire French Indochina (equivalent to the three countries of Lao, Cambodia and Vietnam in later generations) has a huge territory, that is, 4 divisions and two independent brigades, and according to the calculation of later countries, an average country cannot spread 2 divisions and regiments.

In the face of the attack of the expeditionary force cluster with this force, with their current combat effectiveness, the four divisions and regiments cannot be stopped, so it is conceivable what the result will be after entering the southeast peninsula next.

To this day, among the top echelons of the Southern Army, who would dare to despise this cluster of expeditionary forces in the Second Theater of Operations, which has sprung up?

"However, Your Excellency Numata, we don't have many Zero fighter squadrons, and in the Pacific Theater, our air pressure is even greater, and we will fight with the elite of the beautiful country in places like the Dutch East Indies and Luzon, relatively speaking, I think those places are more worthy of our reinforcements." A major general, Gao Shen, stood up and expressed his dissenting.

In fact, what he said was right, in the Pacific Theater, the little devils encountered the main force of the air force of the beautiful country, and they needed advanced Zero fighters for reinforcement.

"Takada-kun, things are urgent, now that His Excellency Kimura is in a predicament, we don't know enough about the enemy's air force in advance, the fighters of the Ninth Flying Division are already lagging behind, and we didn't even think that they can't deal with the Mustang fighters on the allied side. This is a gross dereliction of duty on the part of our General Staff. "Numata Chief of the General Staff unceremoniously educated Major General Takada Gao Sen.

Obviously, the Ninth Flying Division went to support the Burmese and British territories, which should have been the handiwork of Major General Takada, and when he proposed it at this time, it naturally slapped Major General Takada's face with a crackle.

Sure enough, Major General Takada blushed but didn't know how to refute it, so he could only sit down in dismay.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and Major General Takada is the most promising person to succeed the Chief of the General Staff of Numata, and the two usually have some disagreements, but at this moment, seeing that there is an opportunity, Major General Takada naturally wants to stand up and pour cold water on the plan of the Chief of General Staff of Numata.

It's just that he didn't think to lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot.

"Enough. I don't want to hear anything that has nothing to do with the situation in the British territories of Burma. Numata-kun, Takada-kun, you are all the pillars of the empire, and the pattern is bigger," the general waved his hand with a little headache, he couldn't control the open and secret battles of the people below, but he couldn't let them affect the entire team.

"Now it seems that we have underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Allied forces in the Burma British Territories, whether it is the Ninth Flying Division in the south or the 5th Flying Division in the north, they are now suffering great losses in the hands of the Allies, and the air superiority of the entire Burma and British Territories has long been in the hands of the opponent.

This has led to a reversal of the situation in the British territories of Burma, and we must solve this problem, Numata-kun, please request 100 Zero fighters from the base camp immediately after the meeting. Order the remnants of the fighters and pilots of the 5th Flying Division and the 9th Flying Division to temporarily retreat to Siam Air Base, wait for the arrival of the Zero fighter team, and then mix the Zero fighters to fight again! ”

The general of the temple made a final decision.

"Hey!" Numata Chief of General Staff and Major General Takada stood up at the same time.

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