Chapter 574, The Battle of Burma 24
"This strategic counteroffensive is roughly divided into three phases: the first stage of the lightning annihilation war, using the powerful mobility and breakthrough power of combat aircraft, tanks, armor, and personnel carriers, first using aircraft and artillery units to bomb the Japanese army's important strategic facilities and communication centers, and then using ground armored forces to carry out lightning strikes on the devils. ……”
"In the second stage, after the armored forces completed the frontal breakthrough and division of the Japanese army, the infantry that followed closely followed carried out a war of annihilation against the devil soldiers in various battlefields with the cooperation of the armored troops and artillery units. ……”
"In the third stage, after completing the division and annihilation of the main living forces of the Japanese army, we will concentrate our forces on the counteroffensive against the remnants of the Japanese army and the Japanese occupied areas in the rear, until the Japanese army is driven back to the east bank of the Salween River!"
"This time, we must fight beautifully, and use an unprecedented victory to tell the Japanese devils and the people of the world that our Chinese nation is the greatest nation in the world and a great nation that no foreign force can ever conquer!" "Where there is a will, there is a way, 3,000 Yuejia can swallow Wu, and this time we will mobilize a full 450,000 combat troops!
I have every reason to believe that as long as our hundreds of thousands of Chinese expeditionary forces are united as one, the strength that we have erupted will be explosive and destructive, and we will beat the Japanese devils to the point of crying wolves and tasting the bitter fruits of war like never before! "This time, we have to put aside all scruples and do a thorough job to completely hurt and fear the Japanese devils!" "Do you have the confidence and determination to join me in killing him, and the devil's Burmese dispatch army will eat it cleanly?" "Not for anything else, just for the glory and duty of the soldiers, and for the future generations to be able to hold their heads high and be people, and not to be slaves of the country!" ……
How can you survive if you don't go crazy, this time you smashed the pot and sold iron, hollowed out your family's funds, and accumulated the strongest counteroffensive force in forbearance, Jiang Qiang just wants to put aside all scruples, use all means and strength, and create an epic victory! Of course, Jiang Qiang did not lose his mind because of this, and he knew very well how much he could do with the capital in his hands! The forces currently possessed, if properly applied, can indeed inflict heavy damage on or even annihilate the main vital forces of Japan's Burmese troops, inflicting unprecedented heavy losses on the Japanese Army.
But as for hitting Thailand and the Malaysian Peninsula in one go, and turning the entire war situation in Southeast Asia, that's how much you think! If you want to launch a full-scale counteroffensive in the Southeast Asian theater, you must at least wait until the Burma theater is fully developed and has at least one million male soldiers! But even so, after listening to Jiang Qiang's overall plan, the senior generals in the conference room were all fascinated and emotional!
"Good! You can say that again! "Breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, fighting against the water, life and death are at stake here!" "Zhuang is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Hun blood! For the sake of the Chinese nation, we are willing to smear our liver and brains! "That's it! If you don't kill the devil, you won't leave a piece of armor, and you will not give up! "Woo woo, it's finally time to counterattack!" "yes, it's been ten years, and I can finally breathe a sigh of relief!"
It wasn't until Jiang Qiang finished talking about the strategic deployment of the decisive battle and counteroffensive and finished saying a series of contagious bold words that everyone finally came to their senses and cheered loudly. Driven by waves of rhythm, all the participating generals, including Du Yuming, Gan Lichu and others, were completely enthusiastic, and everyone involuntarily stood up and raised their arms and shouted, and even many people began to shed tears!
Yes, since the 918 incident, the Chinese nation has been suppressed for ten years. During this long and difficult time, I didn't know that the Chinese hot-blooded men and famous generals of the Anti-Japanese War spilled their blood on the battlefield and sacrificed their precious lives for the Chinese nation. has performed countless heroic deeds that can be sung and cried. Everyone present is a veteran of the battle, and they have experienced countless life and death, and I don't know how many comrades-in-arms, robes and blood relatives fell under the guns and butcher's knives of the devils.
They and all the Chinese people have long been with the Japanese devils to form a deep hatred, in the past in the helpless passive defense, everyone has hatred and hatred in their hearts can only hold back, can only turn hatred and grief into strength, now in the Burma battlefield, the Chinese army can finally be a dignified all-out counteroffensive, can finally be accumulated still hatred and strength to vent out, this is how inspiring and joyful!
At the same time, everyone also vaguely felt in their hearts that this epic strategic counteroffensive would inevitably be a glorious stroke in Chinese history. And they are the participants and witnesses of this glorious history, and they will surely go down in history forever with this history in the future and become national heroes admired by thousands of generations.
People have left their names, geese have taken pictures! A soldier who does not want to be a marshal is not a good soldier! It is not shameful for people to have fame and fortune, but it is a positive energy, because it is actually the driving force to promote social progress, which is the source of faith that people with lofty ideals have shed their blood for the country and the people for thousands of years! "Finally, I would like to emphasize two more disciplines!"
After finishing the atmosphere, Jiang Qiang's hands were pressed to make the conference room silent again, and then he said with a solemn face: "First, keep it secret. From now on, all combat units must maintain a high degree of secrecy and never allow any telegram to be sent to the outside world for a decisive battle against tomorrow's counteroffensive! It is also necessary to be absolutely safe in internal communication to prevent the Japanese army from deciphering our army's telegrams and causing intelligence leakage!
If anyone makes a mistake, don't blame me Yang for being ruthless and taking his head to sacrifice the flag! At this point, I Jiang someone will definitely do what he says! "Yes!" "Please rest assured! If there is a bad pool, come and see you! "Understood!" "If anyone makes a mistake, it will be the national sinner referred to by Qianfu, and I will be the first to refuse!"
"Please rest assured Deputy Commander-in-Chief Jiang of this, we know the severity!" Jiang Qiang's expression was full of solemnity, and everyone naturally looked solemn, and patted their chests one after another to assure that everyone understood that if there was an intelligence leak at this juncture, it would definitely be an unimaginable catastrophe! "Good!"
Jiang Qiang nodded, and then continued: "The second discipline, that is, orders and prohibitions, all combat units must strictly follow the battle plan, and they must go all out!" If at this time, if anyone still wants to preserve their strength and play cautious, then in the same way, I can only say that military law is ruthless! "For this unprecedented lightning annihilation war, Jiang Qiang poured everything he had and mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized, so he would never allow low-level mistakes to occur due to internal reasons!
At 3:50 a.m. on June 25, the same ancient city. At this time, there is a crescent moon hanging in the sky, and the stars are twinkling in the sky, and the sky and the earth are like layers of thick black veils, although the clarity is not high, but the outline of the buildings and topography in the distance can already be recognized.
Zhao Zhengbi, Wang Ceshan, Li Jinglin, Fu Changming, Duan Zhongyi and other senior generals of the 2nd Army of the Asian People's Liberation Army were standing quietly above the city wall at this time, quietly feeling the cool morning breeze and feeling the quiet and peaceful morning. On the surface, everyone was calm and calm, but it was really turbulent in their hearts, because there were still ten minutes before they were about to officially start the magnificent epic strategic counteroffensive.
Not only that, Zhao Zhengbi and the others almost lost sleep all night last night, and excitement, excitement and nervousness plagued them all night, until they were too sleepy to sleep. "It's finally time to come!" Zhao Zhengbi glanced down at his watch, saluted at Li Jinglin, the commander of the Air Force and Nie Qingshi, the commander of the artillery brigade beside him, and said, "Commander Wang, Commander Nie can start your performance now!" ”
"Yes!" "Guaranteed to complete the mission!" Li Jinglin and Nie Qingshi saluted Zhao Zhengbi one after another, and then turned around and left to convey the battle order. "All bombers and the 1st Fighter Flying Regiment took off at once! Target Japanese 19th Army Barracks Station and Army Headquarters Station! ”
As one combat order after another was transmitted, more than 100 combat planes took off one after another, and then formed a powerful bombing formation in the air and flew towards the position of the 18th Army of the Devils dozens of kilometers away.
At present, it is in the stage of passive defense, so Jiang Qiang can only use good steel on the blade, and most of the combat planes of the air force are fighters, and there are only more than 100 bombers in total. But it doesn't matter, the main task of the fighter is air defense, but the same can improvise cameo bombers and attack aircraft, bomb and assault devil ground military targets at ultra-low altitudes, and directly support the ground forces of the army in combat.
"All gun emplacements are available! Extend the artillery fire cover after the shelling! "All rocket artillery have ,......," and after a long time of preparation, they have already calibrated the Zhuyuan heavy artillery units, field artillery units, and rocket artillery units to react even faster.
After Zhao Zhengbi gave the order for a general attack, in less than a minute, a series of earth-shattering explosions sounded from the artillery positions located in the same ancient city, and clusters of dazzling flames rose into the sky. Immediately afterwards, I saw a bolt of light shoot up into the sky, turning into brilliant ballistics in the black night, dividing the night sky into a giant grid. At the same time, rocket shells dragging long tail flames also rose from the rocket artillery positions in the city, like giant fireworks rising into the sky, and the bright tail flames lit up half of the sky.
"It's spectacular! It's amazing! "I'm finally lucky enough to see the spectacular scene of a thousand cannons firing at once!" "Damn, the decisive battle has finally begun!" "Pass my orders and get ready to fight!" "Brothers, raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a while, listen to me! As soon as the order for the general attack reaches our regiment, everyone will give me the strength to feed and kill all the damn little devils! ”……
The artillery units opened fire in full force, and the earth-shattering movement instantly spread to the eyes and ears of all the officers and men of the Asian People's Liberation Army in Tonggu City and the surrounding positions. This is like blowing the trumpet of the charge, and all the officers and men of the Asian People's Liberation Army are instantly like chicken blood, whether it is the 4th Division that is about to start the battle or the 3rd Division as the follow-up offensive force, all of them are rushing with adrenaline and ready for the final battle.
Zhao Zhengbi retracted his gaze, looked back at Duan Zhongyi and said, "Division Commander Duan, when the bombardment is over after the shelling, it will be your 4th Division's turn to play!" Whether you can defeat the frontal defense line of the 19th Army of the devil in one fell swoop and achieve the strategic goal of dividing, encircling and then annihilating them one by one depends on you! Duan Zhongyi saluted heavily and said: "Please rest assured, the 20,000 officers and soldiers of our 4th Division have been waiting for this moment for a long time, and we promise to complete the task, use all forces and means to eliminate all the Japanese devils who dare to resist, and fight to the end for the independence and rise of the Chinese nation!" ”
"Excellent! Very good! For the grace of the general seat, for the future of the Chinese nation, life is more than fighting! Zhao Zhengbi replied solemnly, his heart was surging, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.
Looking back 5 years ago, he was just an ordinary farmer in Zhaoyuan County, an ordinary person struggling for food and clothing all day long, but just five years have passed, and he has turned into a lieutenant general of the Asian People's Liberation Army who has mastered 50,000 elites, and has reached a height of life that ordinary people can't dream of.
Zhao Zhengbi cherishes, is extremely proud, and especially grateful for everything he has at present! "That's right, for the sake of the grace of the general seat, and for the future of the Chinese nation, what does it matter if our generation is full of liver and brain!" Duan Zhongyi looked at each other and smiled. Similarly, as a general who was excluded from power, he was able to re-lead the troops to fight on the battlefield and contribute to the independence and rise of the Chinese nation, and his heart was full of pride and gratitude!
Camp of the 44th Division of the 18th Army of the Devils. Senior Private Inayama Kei was in charge of standing guard and keeping vigil today, and he had been pacing back and forth for several hours, physically and mentally tired, and his mental state was extremely low, although he was still walking back and forth by inertia at this time, he had actually entered a semi-sleep state.
This cargo life is not ordinarily hard, and he has been attacked several times as cannon fodder, but each time he was able to survive with obscenity and super luck, and went from a private to a private. Beside Inayama Kei, there was also a recruit who had just been replenished, and he was pacing forward with his back to Inayama Kei. "Nani? What is that?! ”
At this moment, this devil recruit suddenly saw the ancient city of Tonggu in the distance suddenly burst into flames, and brilliant fireworks rose one after another. The devil recruits saw this kind of scene for the first time, and thought that the Chinese were setting off fireworks to celebrate something, so they were not surprised and hurriedly shouted at Daoshan Qing behind him: "Daoshan-kun, look, what beautiful fireworks!" "Nani? Oh no! Big things are wrong! ”
Hearing this, Daoshan Qing turned around, his sleepy eyes were instantly filled with bright light, and Daoshan Qing's spirit suddenly lifted. Rubbing his eyes, when he saw the situation clearly, Inayama Qing was instantly frightened, he had seen the terrifying scene of a thousand cannons rising into the air. Although it was daytime, and the long tail flame of the rocket launcher was far less striking and shocking than it is now, he will never forget that scene for the rest of his life.
And in front of him was not only a salvo of rocket artillery, but also an extremely fast heavy artillery projectile, and the rays of light that flew at great speed were more like death rays, which made Inayama Qing feel cold all over his body. "Yaga! You idiot! This is not fireworks! It's shelling! Super-massive shelling! Hurry up, warn! Inayama Qing was frightened again, and he couldn't care about much, so he quickly opened the safety and pulled the bolt, and then pushed the bullet and loaded it into the sky to shoot as a warning.
"Nani, is this shelling? How could so many shells be fired at once, and with such a long flame? "The devil recruits were blinded, staring at the sky in the distance stupidly, I really couldn't understand what kind of shell this was, and it would be so good-looking." Eight Ga Ya Road! You idiot, what are you doing in a daze? Do you really think that the Chinese are setting off fireworks for us? You idiot, if you don't want to die, wake up the Imperial Warriors and tell them to hide quickly! ”
Seeing that this stupid roe deer was still stupidly staying still, the angry Inayama Qing stepped forward and kicked him hard, and even really wanted to take advantage of the situation to blow up this idiot's head, so as not to stand next to him and be an eyesore. "Hello!" The devil recruit saw the veterans around him so panicked and angry, the devil recruit's heart suddenly burst out, and he immediately knew that the matter was serious: this was not a joke, but the real shelling was coming.
"Oh no! Big things are wrong! "Hurry up and drop! Shelling! The Chinese army has shelled on a large scale! "Imperial warriors, get up and take refuge in the artillery holes!" "Bang! Bang! Bang! The devil recruit immediately shouted in horror, and the rifle in his hand rang out. At the same time, the devil sentries who were on vigil in various devil positions and camps also discovered the situation one after another, and they all hissed and shouted warnings!
"Shelling! Shelling! "Yaga!" "Hurry up and get up!" "Hide!" "Quick, get ready for battle! The Huaxia army is going to attack! ”
The devil's front-line positions, as well as the barracks and barracks in various places, soon became chaotic, and the devil soldiers who had woken up were scurrying around under the shouts of commanders at all levels. The initial velocity of rocket artillery is slow, and it takes two or three minutes to fly to the devil's position, but heavy artillery and field artillery of small and medium caliber are not slow at all. In just twenty or thirty seconds, he fell into the devil's position and exploded wildly.
Boom, a cloud of dazzling flames rose into the sky, and the deafening explosion instantly suppressed the shouts and shouts of the ghost soldiers. The Japanese troops had a very good habit of paying great attention to the defense of the defense area and the barracks. Whenever they were stationed in the field, they would build fortifications in and around the camp, and in two or three days they could dig a trench around the position and the camp, and within a month they could turn the fortification into a fortress. Yes, it will be.
It has been a month since the 19th Army of the Devils attacked Tonggucheng, and the Devils are well aware of the power of the aircraft and artillery of the Asian People's Liberation Army, so the 19th Army has already built a complete enough fortification, with a large number of anti-artillery shelters and air-raid shelters. It's just that the anti-artillery shelters and bomb shelters are only temporary shelters and cannot be used as accommodation areas.
As for the fortifications on the ground, because of the lack of necessary building materials such as reinforced concrete, not only are most of them not roofed, but also the defense power is relatively limited. They can withstand frontal infantry attacks, but they cannot withstand heavy artillery shelling and aircraft bombardment. The violent overpressure shock wave and the fragments of the high-speed burst set off a storm of death, how could the flesh and blood of the devil soldiers and the fortifications of the civil structure withstand such a fierce saturation bombardment?!
Under the continuous bombardment of the artillery unit, the number of casualties of the devil soldiers began to rise, and even the fortifications on the surface of the devil collapsed and were destroyed one after another under the continuous shelling! After a few rounds of artillery, the rocket shells with long tail flames finally arrived belatedly, and smashed down on the periphery of the forward position of the devils who had been blown to pieces, and were swept again fiercely.
By the time the artillery units were saturated and the bombardment was over, almost all of the devils' forward positions and the defense area within a range of 2 kilometers to the rear were blown up, and the devils were killed and wounded, and all the fortifications on the surface were razed to the ground.
Boom, at this moment, a thunderous motor sound sounded in the distant sky, and a huge bomber formation finally appeared over the devil's position, bombing indiscriminately all the way towards the devil's defense zone in depth. "I am Duan Zhongyi, commander of the 1st Division of the 4th Army of the Asian Liberation Army!" When his own air force unit flew overhead, Duan Zhongyi picked up the walkie-talkie microphone and shouted loudly with all his strength: "Attention to all brigades and regiments of the 4th Division: I order all the combat units of the 4th Division to immediately launch a comprehensive counterattack against the 19th Army of the Devil in accordance with the predetermined battle plan!" ”
"Tank regiment received!" "First Brigade received!" "Second Brigade received!" Soon, more than 200 tanks, as the first batch of attacking troops, took the lead in rushing out of the Huaxia position, and crushed the devil's position a few kilometers away with full horsepower.
It was followed by hundreds of infantry armored vehicles and personnel carriers, which followed closely behind the infantry who fought in tanbu coordination. In the back, there is a heavily armed infantry brigade, who is responsible for clearing out the remnants and annihilating the divided devil soldiers one by one! At the same time that the 2nd Army stationed in Tonggucheng launched a counteroffensive on the whole line, the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Lashio, Xibu, Daxi, Bago, Wozhen, Keyan, Zangtu and other areas also launched a full-scale counteroffensive against the Burmese Dispatch Army under the cover of aircraft, artillery and tanks at the same time.
The strategic counteroffensive in the Burma Theater included the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th armies of Jiang Qiang's expedition, the Burmese garrison, the 22nd Army, the 31st Army, the 5th Army, the 66th Army, and the 71st Army of the National Army, as well as an independent division of the Red Regime, with a total investment of more than 450,000 troops.
After the start of the counteroffensive, the entire Burma theater directly entered an unprecedented climax, and the battlefield of thousands of square kilometers was filled with deafening artillery and explosions, gunshots like fried beans, and blood-boiling shouts of killing.
Tak Province, Thailand, General Headquarters of the Burmese Dispatch Army. "Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, something is wrong!" Just as Umezu Mijiro was sleeping with a comfort lady from her hometown of Tokyo in her arms, the bedroom door was violently knocked on by a devil communications staff officer. The thick wooden door made an extremely harsh noise under the weight of gravity, and it suddenly woke up Umezu Mijiro, who was having a sweet dream in Gentle Township.
"Eight Ga Ya Road!" After a pleasant night of hard work last night, Umezu Yoshijiro dreamed that His Majesty the Emperor would confer the title of Field Marshal on himself after the army broke through Rangoon and occupied the entire territory of Burma, but he was suddenly woken up at this time. Umezu Mijiro was naturally furious, and he couldn't wait to pick up a gun and kill this uninteresting reckless ghost. "Yaga!" Umezu Mijiro got dressed with a curse, then turned over and got out of bed and opened the door with a black face, staring at the terrified devil communication staff officer and asked sharply, "What the hell is going on?" It's so panicked! ”