"Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, something is wrong!" The situation was urgent and serious, and the devil's communication staff officer couldn't care about his face anymore, and said urgently with a sad face: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, the 18th, 19th, 15th, and 20th armies were attacked by the Chinese army at the same time, and the Imperial Army is suffering an unprecedented blow!" "Nani? You're not crazy, are you? Tell me again? ”

Seeing the panicked appearance of the devil's communication staff, Umezu Mijiro knew that there must be nothing good, but he never dreamed that it would be such a shocking thunder. Even so, Umezu Mijiro still didn't believe it, because before he closed the door and went to bed last night, all he got was that the Chinese army, including the Tiger Army, was retreating on all fronts. In the available information, Yangon City has long been emptied and has become an empty city, and Yang Fan is ready to escape.

The streets of the rear cities of northern Myanmar, such as Ringanqiang, Alan Mu, Yingduo, Bhamo, and Mi**, are full of wounded soldiers, and all hospital beds are full, medical services are tight, prices are high, and people are panicking...... All the information is clearly telling Umezu Mijiro that the victory of the Japanese army is imminent, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force is already barely breathing, and there is only the last breath left, as long as the Imperial Army increases its strength, the Chinese Expeditionary Force will completely collapse.

However, at this time, the devil's communication staff officer made this big thunder, and Umezu Mijiro said that he didn't believe that what he heard just now was true! At this time, the Devil's Communication Staff Officer could only satisfy Umezu Mijiro's request in a frightened tone again: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, the Imperial Japanese Army is suffering from an unprecedented counteroffensive by the Chinese army, and this time the Chinese army has used a large number of aircraft, tanks, and artillery,......

"Baga Ya Road! How so! Where will the Chinese army still have so much technical equipment? How can they be able to launch such a large-scale counteroffensive? This can't be, this can't be! Umezu Mijiro's head was a little down, a little dizzy, a little suspicious of life, staring at the devil's communication staff officer with frightened and expectant eyes, how much I hoped that he could answer himself in an affirmative tone: "Hai, Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, I was really crazy just now, I just made a joke ......"

However, the script did not go as Umezu Mijiro had hoped, "Knock Knock", when there was a rush of footsteps outside the house. "Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief!" A few seconds later, a terrified Hyotaro Kimura appeared in the living room and looked at the equally desperate Umezu Mijiro with desperate eyes. Stunned, Umezu Mijiro held on to the last glimmer of hope and asked urgently, "Kimura-kun, what's the situation now?" ”

Kimura Hyotaro said with a sad face: "Your Excellency, Commander, the situation is very bad! Perhaps, we really fell for Jiang Qiang's calculations, and the Huaxia Expeditionary Force is launching a full-scale counteroffensive with unprecedented attack intensity! "Yaga! How so! Hearing this, Umezu Mijiro's pupils constricted, and he wailed in pain, which was even more thunderous than a thunderbolt from the sky! Umezu Mijiro only felt that the sky was spinning, as if there was a basin of cold snow water pouring from head to toe on the top of his head, and even his heart was frozen to the bone, and there was no hot place on his body.

At this time, Kimura Hyotaro continued: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, the current battle situation of various armies is still being further verified and counted, but as far as the current situation is concerned, the Imperial Army is not optimistic! "Yaga!" Taking a deep breath, Umezu Mijiro roared at the devil's communication staff officer and said, "Quickly call the Imperial Air Force and ask them to immediately dispatch all combat aircraft to support the Imperial Army!" Hurry up and drop! ”

"Hello!" The devil's communications staff officer didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly turned around and ran. "By the way, the Imperial Navy must also move, and it can't just wander around the offshore area!" At this time, Umezu Mijiro seemed to be a person who was about to drown, even if there was only a straw in front of him, he would hold on to it firmly, not to mention that there was an extremely powerful Japanese naval task force in the sea near Yangon.

After a pause, Umezu Mijiro said as he walked out: "I have to send the telegram from the Navy myself, these feather-loving guys must let them know the seriousness and urgency of the situation!" Kimura Hyotaro nodded hurriedly and said, "Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief is wise, if the Imperial Air Force and Imperial Navy are fully involved, they will definitely be able to play a great role." The Imperial Army can not only turn the crisis into safety, but may even take this opportunity to severely damage the Chinese Expeditionary Force in one fell swoop and create a miracle of war! ”

"Shuffle!" After coming and going like this, Umezu Mijiro suddenly became lively again, and a strong desire to survive came to his heart, and he hurriedly said to Kimura Hyotaro: "Kimura-kun, please verify the battle situation of each army as quickly as possible, I want to know the most comprehensive and accurate battlefield information!"

There are still more than 400,000 elites in the Imperial Burma Dispatch Army, and we still have strong enough strength to not mess with ourselves, the more this time, the more we must be calm and composed! "These words are not only said to Kimura Hyotaro, but also to himself, because Umezu Mijiro can't afford to lose and can't lose!" Hello! The Great Japanese Empire will win! Kimura Hyotaro gradually regained his self-confidence, straightened his waist and walked out quickly.

"I hope the Imperial Army will survive this! Damn the Chinese commander, the Great Japanese Empire will definitely not let you go! Umezu Mijiro took a deep breath, although there were still two trump cards in the Air Force and the Navy, he still didn't have enough confidence and confidence, because he knew what kind of terrible opponent Yang Fan was!

Since this terrifying opponent has endured for so long, this tactical deception that he has carefully prepared will surely burst out with extremely terrifying energy. It's just that Umezu Mijiro hasn't figured out until now that Jiang Qiang's plan is not only to regain the lost territory of Myanmar by a counterattack, but to eat the entire Burmese army. If he knew Jiang Qiang's ultimate goal at this time, then Umezu Mijiro would definitely be shocked and burned!

Yangon, Headquarters of the Governor of the Burma Theater of Operations. At this moment, the ringing of telephones and the sound of sending and receiving telegrams in the war room resounded one after another, and the operations staff officers and communications staff officers were busy, and the room was a busy scene. But there was silence in the movement, and in the huge war room, the command platform in the northeast corner remained surprisingly quiet.

Jiang Qiang clasped his hands on his chest and his eyes were slightly closed, as if he was closing his eyes in boredom. Senior generals such as Stilwell, commander-in-chief of the Burma Theater, and Li Zongren, chief of staff, who were beside Jiang Qiang, stared at a military map, and the two of them did not even blink their eyes without saying a word, as if they were frozen. Knock knock, after a long time, a rush of footsteps came from far and near. Jiang Qiang Huo Ran opened his eyes, only to see a communications staff officer hurriedly walking with a red face, standing still when he was a meter away, and then standing up and reporting:

"The 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Air Force and General Chennault's U.S. Air Brigade have launched echelon attacks on Japanese positions and defense areas in accordance with the original plan, and the 1,004 combat planes belonging to our Air Force have completed two batches of combat missions and are preparing to carry out interception operations against the upcoming Japanese Air Force!

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, Armored Forces, Artillery Units, Burmese Garrison Units, the 22nd, 31st, 5th, 6th, 66th, and 71st Armies of the National Army, as well as the Red Independent Division, have launched a full-scale counteroffensive as originally planned, and the combat units are now progressing smoothly!

Special operations divisions, helicopter brigades, airborne regiments are ready to go into battle at any time! The Navy's submarine force is also sailing out of the naval base as planned and is heading to Madaban Bend at the mouth of the Sidtang River, and it is expected to be in combat state in three hours! "Okay, I got it. Go ahead! Jiang Qiang nodded lightly, secretly relieved in his heart, the current start is good and smooth.

However, "one drum, then decline, three and exhaustion", whether the next wave can be pushed to the high ground and directly burst the crystal is the key to this decisive battle. Because, compared with the Japanese Burmese dispatch army, the overall strength of the Chinese army is actually still in a weak position, if it cannot directly defeat the devil Burma dispatch army with a fierce offensive, it will form a stalemate.

The Burmese dispatch army that reacted will definitely retaliate like crazy, and then the entire Chinese expeditionary force will suffer unbearable casualties. "Yes!" The communications staff officer raised his head and pouted his buttocks, saluted solemnly, and turned to walk away. Li Zongren took a deep breath and said: "It's finally begun, it's been ten years, we can finally turn defense into offense, straighten our waists and start a frontal battle with the devil!" ”

"yes!" Stilwell nodded lightly and said: "The strategic counteroffensive on the Burma battlefield has finally begun, and the world's anti-fascist battlefield has finally shifted from passive defense to active offensive stage, which will surely become a great and conquering historical event." Stilwell is almost 60 years old, but he also has a hot heart and a strong sense of justice and mission.

Of course, "a soldier who doesn't want to be a marshal is not a good soldier", if he can add another star to his shoulders before officially retiring, become a four-star general, and write the most perfect footnote for his military career, then General Stilwell will definitely wake up laughing when he sleeps! As for the highest military rank in the history of the United States, only 10 people have obtained the highest military rank of special general (that is, the commonly referred to as five-star general), the United States has not yet established this rank.

The epaulettes of the "five-star general" were inlaid with five star insignia, equivalent to the rank of marshal in other Western countries, until it was approved by the US Congress in December 1944. Therefore, Stilwell's current highest goal and ideal is only a four-star general, and he never imagined that he would have more than four stars on his shoulders in the future, becoming one of the highest military ranks in American history!

If at this time, Jiang Qiang leaked the heavenly opportunity in advance and told Stilwell that in a few years, the U.S. government will set up an unprecedented five-star special general rank for theater commanders during World War II, and as long as your brother follows me and mixes well, you will most likely become a glorious special general in American history in one fell swoop in the future! I'm afraid that General Stilwell will definitely drop his jaw and even accidentally have a heart attack! ……

On the east bank of the Xidang River, Menghe Town, 50 kilometers away from the ancient city. This is the defense area of the 19th Division of the 12th Army of the Devils, and in the past month, the Devils have established an extremely strong and complete defense system here. In addition, this place is more than 30 kilometers away from the front-line battlefield, so it did not suffer heavy damage under the first round of saturation shelling, but was only bombed by large-scale passing aircraft bombing later.

It was 6:50 a.m., the sun had risen in the east, and it was completely bright. After more than two hours of fierce advance, Jiang Qiang's front-line armored troops of the Second Army marched all the way, tearing through several devil defense lines one after another, and advancing to the last strong defense line in front of the 19th Army headquarters of the devils. The 12th Devil Division, which had no way to retreat, could only fight with its back, and used all its strength to fight to the death with the armored troops of the Tiger Ben Army, which was in full swing.

Prior to this, the Devil's Air Force had already poured out of its nest, and at the same time, thousands of Devil's combat aircraft were divided into three routes to provide fire support to the Devil's ground troops, and at the same time, they were competing with the Huaxia Air Force for air supremacy. Just as Jiang Qiang said and demanded, put aside all scruples, even if it was to smash the pot and sell iron, he had to give him a vote, and burst out all his strength and potential.

In the face of the devil's air force, all the fighter pilots in the Burma theater, including the U.S. Air Force led by Chennault, threw themselves into this vigorous air battle. Knowing that the Burmese dispatch army had suffered the most serious existential crisis, the devil aviation troops were all red-eyed and took out all their belongings and worked hard.

The devils fought in close combat with their lives, disdaining the ground forces of the devils at all costs to decompress and provide fire support. The devil's bomber group also bombed the ground troops of the Huaxia Expeditionary Force regardless of it, and could no longer care about the threat of Huaxia fighters and ground air defense artillery, all of them were like incarnating into kamikaze death squads, even if they were injured and lost their ability to control, the devil pilots would drive the combat planes to the Chinese combat units on the ground at the last moment of their lives to play self-detonation and exert their last residual heat.

Later, even dozens of carrier-based aircraft of the Devil's Task Force were all put into battle. An unprecedented air battle unfolded over tens of thousands of square kilometers of airspace over Burma, and the air forces of both sides tried their best to inflict as much damage as possible on both sides of the enemy!

The devil's fleet broke into Madaban Bay and forced its way into the mouth of the Siddang River, intending to send troops along the Siddang River north to support the divided and besieged Devil Burma! The coastal defense line of the Asian People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the coastal defense batteries at the mouth of the Siddang River have arrived near the mouth of the Siddang River after two or three hours of stealth, and are quietly waiting for the Japanese fleet to approach the coastline under the artillery fire of the devil fleet.

The devil took out all his belongings and worked hard, Jiang Qiang also fought hard, no longer hidden, the navy, land and air forces were exhausted, and bloody battles were staged everywhere on the battlefield! The town of Tanderbin, the defensive position of the 9th Regiment of the Asian Liberation Army. "It's cool, it's still spiced beef jerky, it's delicious, it's hungry!"

Long Wenwen stuffed the last large piece of beef jerky in his hand into his mouth, and after chewing violently, Gaba Gaba took a big sip of energy drink, and then asked with a smile to Niu Bo, who was smoking Huazi next to him: "The regimental seat, the armored brigade, the 6th brigade of our division, and the brothers of the 4th division are all pressed up, when will our regiment be able to follow and eat meat?" ”

Niu Bo's eyes were bloodshot, and after spitting out a smoke ring, he barely squeezed out a smile and said, "Eat meat? Aren't you already eating meat in chunks? Why can't half a pound of luncheon meat and half a pound of beef jerky fill your stomach? Long Wenwen blinked his eyes and said, "Tuanza, you know the drop!" ”

"A big man, don't flirt with me! Why don't I want to rush out and kill the devil and avenge my dead brothers? Niu Bo waved his hand, and Zhengse said: "But more than half of the casualties of our brigade, and the rest of the brothers have been seriously overdrawn until now, so what are you going to fight with the devil now?" What's more, they are all out, and who will defend the safety of the ancient city and the military headquarters? ”

Niu Bo didn't want to rise up and chase after the poor guys, why didn't he want to follow the main force to kill all the devil soldiers, and vent the grievances accumulated in the past few days. But the strength doesn't allow it! "Hehe, it's still the group seat that can see far and through, I'm just talking about it! It's really time for the brothers to take a good rest! ”

Long Wenwen smiled brightly, then looked into the distance and said, "I hope the brothers can come back alive, we have shed enough blood!" Niu Bo took a deep breath and said: "Yes, our Chinese nation has shed enough blood, but the little devil is still strong, and the Axis Alliance still occupies an absolute advantage in the world."

We still have a long, long way to go, and may all our brothers live to see the day of victory! When the Anti-Japanese War is won, we will fight side by side and fight for the rise of the Chinese nation for life! "Standing tall and far-sighted, absorbing a large number of advanced knowledge and theories, under the long-term hearing and seeing, Niu Bo's outlook on life, world view, values, and life pattern is much stronger than most of the current Chinese people, and the words that come out are a set!

Menghe Town. "Bagaya Road, how can the Huaxia army have so many tanks?" "Didn't you say a long time ago that the Huaxia army was about to collapse and escape?" Standing on a small high ground holding a telescope, I saw that the battlefield in the distance was almost a one-sided massacre, and the commander of the 15th Army of the Japanese Army, Kawabe Shozo, was full of iron and blue, and his whole body was trembling! After being woken up at four o'clock in the morning, Kawabe Shozo saw a vast number of rocket launchers and drag light bombs, and then saw with his own eyes the "madness" of the Huaxia bomber group!

For three hours, all kinds of bad news continued, and every bad news came like a sharp dagger stuck in it. "Yaga Yaru!" Kawabe Shozo once again squeezed out a Japanese national scold from between his teeth, and a very ominous premonition instantly surged in his heart, it's over, this time he fell for Jiang Qiang's trick again! "Doesn't it mean that the technical equipment of the Chinese Expeditionary Force has been exhausted?" Doesn't it mean that the Chinese Expeditionary Force is about to lose its weight and want to abandon Burma? "Bagayalu, so many tanks, so many artillery, so many combat aircraft, this also means that the technical equipment has been exhausted?" "Liar, big liar! Can you be more shameless? What about good integrity? ”

"Yaga! I have long known that Jiang Qiang is not a guy who easily admits defeat, and I have long reminded the General Army Headquarters, why do you still insist on fighting a war of attrition with the Huaxia Expeditionary Force? "The river is full of resentment, and thousands of thoughts keep spinning in his mind, thinking quickly about what to do next, whether to continue to wait for help, or to run away decisively! Originally, the 19th Army and the 15th Army and the 20th Army attacking Yangon were only separated by more than 100 kilometers, and there were roads in between, so it took only two or three hours to rush to each other's aid by troop carriers, motorcycles, and other means of transportation.

Therefore, although the 19th Army's offensive did not go smoothly, the casualties and losses were huge, Kawabe Shozo was always at ease. He wishfully thought that even if Jiang Qiang wanted to play the routine of defensive counterattack, he could easily and happily hold on until the reinforcements arrived. Then cooperate with reinforcements to carry out counter-encirclement and annihilation. Therefore, after Kawabe Shozo felt that he could not successfully storm Tonggu, Kawabe Shozo began to repair the plank road in the open and dark, and the frontline offensive was not broken on the surface, but in fact, the intensity of the attack was greatly reduced, and an extremely strong fortification system was built in the rear.

However, the powerful artillery group, bomber group, and tank armored units of the Asian Liberation Army crushed Kawabe Shozo's wishful thinking. The Asian People's Liberation Army (PLA) advanced too fast and fiercely, breaking through five or six lines of defense in less than half an hour at the beginning of the game, and advancing as much as 17 kilometers all the way, as if it were in a no-man's land.

It was not until Menghe Town, a well-constructed defensive position that had not been subjected to saturation bombing, that the 12th and 43rd Divisions of the Devils, who had fought on their backs, were able to stop the pace of the armored troops' attack. The 14th Division and the 44th Division of the 19th Army have been divided into more than 10 small battlefields, and are currently being encircled and suppressed by the Asian People's Liberation Army, and it is only a matter of time before they are completely destroyed.

Even so, Kawabe Shozo was still full of hope for a while, and he was still ruthless with the strength of "willing to dare to pull the emperor off the horse", wanting to take this opportunity to drag the 2nd Army of the Asian Liberation Army. Because the Burmese army that attacked Yangon still has nearly 200,000 troops, and there are two trump cards of the air force and navy to play, Kawabe Shozo feels that there is a chance of "fighting for a bicycle to become a motorcycle".

But it didn't take long for the 31st Army and the 22nd Army to hit Kawabe to the bottom. After the decisive battle began, the 31st Army and the 22nd Group Army, which had retreated to the jungle area, formed a joint combat force and launched a general attack at the first time under the support and cover of Jiangqiang's rocket artillery units and armored tank units.

In just over an hour, the two armies successively regained the lost ground on the west bank of the Xidang River, and attacked the east bank in one go, cutting off the retreat of the 19th Army and blocking the communication arteries for the 15th Army and the 20th Army to support northward! In this way, the 19th Army was divided and surrounded, and there was a life-and-death crisis of being completely annihilated! After two hours of hard work, the Japanese Air Force, which Kawabe Shozo had high hopes for, finally came to the rescue, but what disappointed him was that the Huaxia Air Force had been prepared and intercepted it in advance before the Japanese Air Force arrived.

A large-scale air battle broke out in an instant over the 19th Army Defense Zone! Although during this period, the Japanese Air Force fought desperately and inflicted heavy casualties on both the Huaxia Air Force and the ground forces, it could not change the critical situation of the 19th Army being besieged and divided.

Yichikawa Yongji looked at the uncertain riverside Shozo, and persuaded again: "Your Excellency Commander, this time the Chinese Expeditionary Force has a great plan, they are not only our 19th Army, but the entire Burma Dispatch Army!" Now we can't count on the 15th Army and the 20th Army to come to the rescue, let alone the 2nd Army of the anti-encirclement and annihilation of Jiangqiang's expedition, because they are already too busy to take care of themselves! ”“……”

Kawabe Shozo gritted his teeth and didn't speak, because even if he decided to break through and escape now, it would not be so easy, and it was very likely that this decision would lead to a chain reaction, causing the Burmese dispatch army to suffer greater casualties! There were tigers coming down the mountain in the north, and hungry wolves blocking the way, and the 19th Army was left with only two breakthrough directions in the east and west. To the west is a relatively flat jungle area, which seems to be easy to run, but if you break through from here, you will only fall into a desperate situation of self-defeat.

Therefore, if it was decided to break through, then the 19th Army could only flee to the east of the Benlong Mountains, which were high and densely forested. It is a mountain range that stretches for hundreds of kilometers and can be reached all the way east to the territory of Thailand. If you take the nearest route, you only need to walk more than 100 kilometers of mountain roads to reach the plains of southeastern Myanmar. However, Hebian Zhengsan deeply suspected that in this mountain range with high mountains and dense forests, the elusive Chinese special forces had been ambushed in advance, and they were waiting for them.

For the danger of the jungle area and the disgusting jungle ambush battle, Shozo Riverside still has lingering palpitations! And even if they could cross the Ben Nong Mountains to the plains of southeastern Myanmar, it would be three to five days away. Who knows if at that time, the Huaxia Expeditionary Force would have advanced to that place, waiting for them to go out and die? Therefore, even if you choose to break through immediately, it will take great courage and determination. "Let's send a telegram to the headquarters of the General Army to ask for tactical guidance first!"

After thinking about it again and again, Shozo Kawabe still had no way to make up his mind, so in the end he could only throw the pot out and let the commander-in-chief, Umezu Mijiro, make a decision! "Hello!" Ichikawa Yoshiji could only nod his head, because the amount of information was not enough, and it was indeed difficult to make the most favorable decision.