"Sure enough, I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry!" Jiang Qiang sighed lightly, and after thinking about it, the most advantageous and sensible choice in the southern Burma battlefield at present is only this one way to go: that is, to wait patiently for the armored clusters of the northern Burma battlefield to arrive, wait until the air force can ease up and firmly control the air supremacy on the battlefield, and then cooperate with the ground and air to fight, and eat the three armies of the devil one bite at a time. But if you sit and wait like this, you may have a long night and many dreams, if the devil comes to a gecko with a broken tail and directly gives up the treatment, and starts to break through with all his strength now, then a large part of the devil soldiers will have a chance to escape and ascend to heaven.

And Jiang Qiang is most worried about this at the moment! Li Zongren, Sun Zhen, Du Yuming and others standing on the side were also worried. For such a big piece of fat meat in front of him, everyone is greedy, who can imagine that he can eat it into a big fat man! Because if we can really eat all the more than 400,000 Burmese troops in one go, then this long-planned strategic counteroffensive will undoubtedly come to a most successful end.

At the same time, as the main participants, they will undoubtedly add the most colorful stroke to the resume of their military career, which is not only to be promoted and rich, but also to be remembered for centuries! A proper bicycle becomes a motorcycle, one step to the sky, and the climax rhythm of life reaches the peak! Just thinking about these wonderful things makes everyone tremble, and what an intoxicating achievement and supreme glory it would be!

But everyone understands that just with the guy in front of him, there is really no way to eat such a big piece of fat with thorns! Blindly stubbornly using human life to fight, it will cause indigestion, and even stomach bleeding is life-threatening.

Now the only hope of everyone is that the devils still have illusions about turning the tables against the wind, and they are still fantasizing that as long as they continue to defend obscenely, the Chinese Expeditionary Force will inevitably be exhausted and even collapse on their own, and then they will fight back and push to Yangon in one go! But just like Murphy's Law, the world tends to be afraid of whatever it is. Just when everyone was silently praying that the devil soldiers would not run away in advance, a communications staff officer in the war room ran to Jiang Qiang quickly with a telegram, saluted heavily, and said:

"Report to the general seat, the front-line reconnaissance unit is in an emergency, the 15th Army and the 20th Army of the devils are building a large number of pontoon bridges, and the devils have obvious signs of retreating to the east bank of the Xidang River!" "Holy shit, I'm really going to give up treatment! This Umezu Mijiro just confessed like this? Jiang Qiang gritted his teeth, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart: It seems that this time it is still a bit too hasty, and it is impossible to achieve the effect of taking away in a wave.

But then again, it is already the limit to be able to endure until now, if you continue to show weakness and cowardice, the hometown in the rear of northern Myanmar will have to be taken away by the 18th Army of the devil, and the southern part of Myanmar should also be attacked into the hinterland of Yangon. Obviously, such a result can only be clever but mistaken by cleverness, and the best opportunity for counterattack is lost! As for the counteroffensive launched later in the southern Burma battlefield, it will also be difficult to get what you want, because once the Chinese Expeditionary Force shows its fangs in northern Burma, the ghost knows how the three devil armies in the southern Burma battlefield will react.

At this time, Meng Wuan hurriedly roared at Yang Fan and said: "General Seat, you give the order, let our 4th Army continue to attack the Guards Division, what we want to play is the devil's trump card!" Don't even think about running away from these dogs! "That's right, don't miss the opportunity!" "Boss, you just give the order, how can there be immortals in war!" "Yes! As long as I can die well, even if I am asked to charge into battle as a big soldier now, I will never frown! "It's hard to have such a good opportunity for annihilation, we must not miss it!"

"We must not let the tiger return to the mountain and let the blood of the brothers be shed in vain!" One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and as soon as Meng Wu'an's words fell, all the officers, including Li Zongren, Sun Zhen, and Du Yuming, looked at Yang Fan in unison, and made impassioned requests to attack immediately! "Okay, the military heart is available! Since everyone thinks so, let's completely break the jars and jars, and do it thoroughly! ”

Jiang Qiang is willing to let the tiger return to the mountain, since the most feared thing has happened, and the little devil wants to escape in advance, then at present, there is only one left to go into battle shirtless, play all the hole cards, and use all means to annihilate the devil's living force as much as possible.

Otherwise, how can you be worthy of yourself and the dead soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. "Good! We, the 1st Army of the Asian People's Liberation Army Expedition, are willing to be the pioneers! "We, the 4th Army of the Asian Liberation Army, ask to take the lead in the main attack, and the devil's guard division will be handed over to us!" "My 22nd Army requests an immediate attack!" "The 200th Division asks for battle!"

"The 31st Army did not hesitate to shed the last drop of blood!" After Jiang Qiang took a decisive shot of the board, the main generals of the various armies howled one after another, scrambling to be the main attacker and pioneer! "Order, the 4th Army of the Asian Liberation Army Expeditionary Force will take the lead in the main attack and attack the defense line of the Japanese Guards Division head-on." "Order, the 1st Army of the Asian Liberation Army and the 5th Army of the National Army will coordinate with the 4th Army of the Asian Liberation Army to launch attacks on both flanks of the Guards Division"

"Order, concentrate all artillery and carry out a non-stop bombardment of the Japanese positions until all the shells are gone!" "Order, the 2nd Army of the Asian Liberation Army will speed up the attack on the Japanese 19th Army and force it to flee towards the Benlong Mountain Range!" "Order, the 22nd Army and the 31st Army continue to hold the existing defensive line and cut off the southward escape route of the 19th Army of the devil!" "Order, helicopter brigade, immediately enter the battle and cooperate with the main attacking force, the 4th Army of the Asian Liberation Army, to launch an attack on the Japanese Guards Division!" "Order, the naval forces immediately go to the Xidang River as fast as possible to launch an attack on the Japanese ships and the troops crossing the river!"

After setting the tone, Jiang Qiang did not drag the mud and water, and after issuing a series of combat orders, he turned his head to look at Huang Hong and said: "Immediately send a telegram to Li Jinglin, so that they must overcome difficulties and continue to persist in fighting, and immediately mobilize all bombers to bomb the devil ships and pontoon bridges on the Xidang River, so as to cut off the retreat of the devil soldiers on the west bank."

In addition, all fighters should be mobilized to Tonggu Airport to prepare for battle, once the devil air force comes to support, they must take off and intercept at the first time, and it is necessary to ensure the safety of the battlefield airspace! Jiang Qiang also fought hard, and played all the cards that could be played, as for what kind of results will be achieved in the end, and how serious the casualties will be, it can only be a matter after the game.

"Yes!" Huang Hong solemnly received the order, and his heart was even more excited, and the strategic counteroffensive that had been carefully prepared for a long time was about to enter the most critical link.

Tonggu airbase. After reading the telegram, Li Jinglin said in a deep voice to Shi Zhihe, the communications staff officer of the Air Force, without the slightest hesitation: "Call back to the headquarters immediately, the Huben Air Force will always be a steel army that can fight when called upon, and will win in battle, and will ensure the successful completion of any task assigned by the headquarters. "Yes!" Shi Zhihe saluted solemnly, turned around and left.

After Shi Zhihe walked away, Rao Wujun, chief of staff of the Asian People's Liberation Army Air Force in the Myanmar Theater, said with an anxious face: "Commander, our air force has suffered more than half of the casualties today, and the remaining pilots are also overtired, I am afraid it will be difficult to support high-intensity air combat in a short period of time." "In recent months, the Asian People's Liberation Army Expeditionary Air Force and the Devil Air Force have been fighting with bayonets and attrition, and the crash rate of combat aircraft and the casualty rate of pilots are very high.

There are no more planes to build or buy, but it is difficult for the well-trained senior pilots to replenish them quickly in a short period of time. If it weren't for the fact that before the decisive battle, Jiang Qiang transferred nearly 200 ace pilots from Shandong to participate in the battle, and the outcome of today's unprecedentedly huge aerial decisive battle would have been really unpredictable! But even so, in the more than ten hours since the decisive battle began, most of the fighter pilots have carried out more than seven or eight hours of combat missions, and they have become extremely tired mentally and physically!

"I understand what you mean, and I understand that you are feeling sorry for our pilots, but now is not the time to talk about difficulties!" Li Jinglin raised his eyebrows, turned his head to look at Rao Wujun, and said in a resolute tone: "We are indeed very difficult now, but the devil is even more difficult than us!" Moreover, it has reached the moment of decisive battle, and the fraternal troops have to fight desperately with the devils, and our air force must not retreat because of the so-called difficulties! ”

"I also believe that our pilots will be able to overcome difficulties and achieve better results and complete the final blow to the devil's Burmese army!" "If there is really no one, then I will personally go up, even if I fight to the last soldier, our Asian PLA Air Force will never be abducted!" Li Jinglin ordered in an unquestionable tone: "Chief of Staff Rao, immediately convey the order, the bombers will take off in three batches, and immediately set off to the downstream to bomb the devil's troops crossing the river and the pontoon bridge!"

Remember the main point: the combat objective is to continuously bomb the Devil's pontoon bridge and the troops crossing the river to prevent the Devil's troops from retreating to the east of the river! As for the devil fleet downstream, let them run rampant for a while, and it won't be long before the naval fleet will clean them up! After a pause, Li Jinglin continued: "Order, all fighters are ready for battle, attack at any time to intercept the Japanese air force, ensure the safety of our battlefield airspace, and annihilate all devil combat planes that dare to come to support!" ”

"Yes!" Rao Wujun saluted solemnly, what he said just now was definitely not to preserve his strength or anything, but out of the duty of the chief of staff of the Air Force, he must tell the objective factors for decision-making reference! A seaside harbor near the mouth of the Sidan River.

"Report to the military seat, the general seat is urgent!" After receiving the telegram, Xia Shaonan, a communications staff officer of the Navy, came to Huzi for a while. At this time, Huzi had a strap hanging from his right arm and a strap on his forehead, which looked like a mummy at a glance. In the previous naval battles, the submarine detachment killed three submarines of the devils in one fell swoop, but it also completely angered the devil navy and attracted crazy revenge.

The submarine where Huzi was located was in danger many times, and was shocked by the devil's depth charge, and even Huzi was hit by someone in the violent bump and broke his arm, and his head was bleeding. "Haha! Okay, there's finally a chance to get revenge, damn it! Oops,......"

After reading the message, Huzi couldn't help but laugh excitedly, but suddenly pulled the wound, making him grin in pain. "Pass my order, all speedboats and escort boats immediately rush to the Siddang River to join the battle!" Huzi turned his head to Luo Faren, the leader of the submarine detachment, and asked, "How many submarines can participate in the war?" ”

Luo Faren hurriedly replied: "Report to the military seat, there are 4 submarines that are seriously damaged and need to be overhauled, and there are still 8 submarines that can participate in the war. "Good! 8 ships are enough! You immediately lead the submarine detachment to the Xidang River to participate in the battle, this time you don't need to sneak in the water, just drive over and do it! ”

Huzi roared excitedly: "Luo Mazi, this is a great opportunity for us to make contributions, you must cleanly overturn the warships of the little devils!" Damn, if it weren't for me, who was missing an arm and a broken leg, I would have to fight the devil for 300 rounds! "The submarine detachment is equipped with submarines with an underwater speed of only 8 knots, but the water speed is as high as 17.9 knots, which is more than twice the speed, and at this time, it is possible to reach the battlefield in one hour with a full speed attack.

"Order!" Luo Faren was also trembling with excitement, he was frantically chased and killed by the devil destroyer fleet before, so he surfaced and fought with the devil destroyer, and at this moment finally ushered in a positive and tough opportunity for revenge, where can he still hold it?

Soon, 8 submarines, 12 speedboats, and 8 frigates happily rushed out of the seaside harbor where they were hiding, and killed them along the coastline at the fastest speed to the mouth of the Xidang River, dozens of kilometers away. On the east bank of the Xidang River, the underground sheltered command post of the headquarters of the 15th Army of the Japanese Army. "Defeated! In this battle, the Imperial Army of the Great Japanese Empire was defeated after all! ”

Iida Shojiro held a telegram in his hand, looked at the other side of the river with his eyes distracted, his body trembled lightly, and his mouth kept breaking thoughts. It's as if this thin piece of paper weighed a thousand pounds, crushing the backbone of this battle-hardened old ghost and crushing his faith! The chief of staff of the 15th Army, Haruki Isayama, also had a black face, looked at the river with a few pontoon bridges in the distance, and said in a solemn tone: "This is not the worst, I'm afraid even if we want to leave, it won't be so easy!" ”

Iida Shojiro snorted coldly: "Isayama-kun, why did you say this? Isayama Haruki said in a deep voice: "Yang Fan has carefully laid out such a big situation, he will definitely not be willing to let the main force of the Imperial Army withdraw safely, maybe there will be some follow-up." "Humph!" Iida Shojiro suddenly became angry, and snorted coldly with great disdain: "I really hope that Jiang Qiang will order the infantry cluster to launch a general attack at this moment, and the angry Imperial Army will definitely make those damned Chinese soldiers pay an unbearable price!" ”

Although the defeat was decided, Iida Shojiro did not feel hopeless, but more boundless anger, unwillingness and grievance. was about to win a big victory, but suddenly he was inexplicably turned over by the headwind, and no one could stand it. After a pause, Iida Shojiro continued to vomit extremely unhappily: "Do you really think that the Chinese Expeditionary Force is still capable of blocking the withdrawal of the Great Japanese Imperial Army to Hedong?"

With this small river more than 100 meters wide, is it worthy of stopping the pace of the imperial army? "From the lower reaches of the Xidang River to the estuary, the river surface is indeed very wide and has thousands of meters, but it decays very quickly upward, and the average width of the middle and upper reaches is more than 100 meters. Therefore, Iida Shojiro is very confident that even if all the troops cannot be withdrawn safely, there is no pressure to withdraw most of the main forces.

It's still the old saying "pretend to be struck by lightning", and Shojiro Iida's words were still hot, and there was a thunderous motor sound in the sky in the distance. "Yaga! Damn the Huaxia bombers are here again, what a bunch of things that are not afraid of death! With just this little thing of yours, you dare to come out and die! Looking at the black dots flying in the distance, although Iida Shojiro's expression was slightly nervous, he was not very flustered.

After retracting his gaze, Iida Shojiro immediately yelled at the communication office in the command post: "Hurry up, send a telegram to the Imperial Air Force immediately, and ask them to come to support immediately!" The ground air defense forces hit hard and bombed down all these damn Chinese bombers! ”

However, Iida Shojiro really thought too much, not only could the Devil Air Force not be able to come to the rescue at all, but the little ground anti-aircraft firepower left by the Devil Army was also difficult to block the strong attack of the Tiger Ben bomber group. "Brothers, get to work!" "Don't even think about running away from any of these dogs!" "Pull down the height and me hard!" "The first and second squads are responsible for taking out the devil's anti-aircraft fire first, and the third squad is responsible for blowing up the bridge!"

"Understood!" "Roger!"

The first batch of 12 bombers of the Asian People's Liberation Army Air Force finally arrived at the battlefield after flying at a high speed for about ten minutes, and the pilots all lowered their flight altitude with red eyes, aiming at the pontoon bridges on the river and the nearby devil anti-aircraft guns bombarding wildly!

Bombshells roared out without money, and a moment later, the devil's anti-aircraft artillery positions exploded into gunsmoke, and several pontoon bridges on the river were also blown into several sections one after another under the dive bombardment back and forth. "Baga Ya Road! Hurry up! "Knock down all these damn Huaxia planes!" Knowing that the Huaxia Air Force would definitely come to make trouble, the devils set up air defense positions on both sides of the Xidang River where the pontoon bridge was erected, and the devils' anti-aircraft artillery and antiaircraft machine gun crews fought back with all their might.

But it is not so easy for an anti-aircraft shell with a delay fuse to accurately hit a bomber flying at high speed. The bombers purchased by Jiang Qiang are covered with thick armor in important parts, and those anti-aircraft machine guns with fast rate of fire and dense bullets are really not enough to see the lethality, even if they hit the bombers, at most they will cause skin injuries. The first wave of tense and fierce air raids lasted for more than ten minutes, and the bomber group of the Asian People's Liberation Army successfully blew up all the devil pontoon bridges at the cost of two planes, and also blew up 8 anti-aircraft guns and several anti-aircraft machine guns!

"Yaga! Damn the Huaxia plane! Hurry up, the sapper units continue to build pontoon bridges! Looking at the group of bombers that were heading away, Iida Shojiro was so angry that although he killed two bombers after a hard battle, all the dozen or so pontoon bridges that had been built with great difficulty were destroyed. Buzz, only ten minutes later, the devil sappers had just repaired several pontoon bridges, and the devil soldiers had just begun to cross the river on the pontoon bridges, and a new round of bombers came.

There was nothing to say, and the enemy and us once again launched an extremely fierce air raid offensive and defensive battle. After a burst of frenzied output, the Huaxia bomber group of the second round of air raids cleanly blew up all the pontoon bridges, and killed a few devil anti-aircraft guns by the way.

The price paid was that one crashed, one returned to the airbase with serious injuries! At this time, all units of the Chinese Expeditionary Force had launched an attack on the Devil Army on all fronts in accordance with the operational instructions. In this attack, Jiang Qiang concentrated all the tanks, armor, heavy artillery, and even the helicopter brigade used as a transport was all involved in the battle.

After a frenzied artillery bombardment, the infantry of the 4th Army of the Asian Liberation Army launched an attack on the obscene defense of the Devil Guards Division under the cover of more than 40 tanks and armored vehicles. The helicopter brigade followed the formation and advanced forward, responsible for air fire support for the targeted removal of devils, heavy firepower such as anti-aircraft guns and heavy machine guns. The helicopters were all modified, and while covering the armor to increase the defense, a twin Erlikon 20mm cannon was also installed in the nose, which greatly improved the defense and firepower.

The Erikon 20mm cannon is a small-caliber cannon with recoil effect developed by the Swiss company Erikon, which is easy to use and the barrel can be replaced in 30 seconds. In World War II, this artillery was widely purchased or copied by Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and other countries. There are slight differences between versions in different countries, and 60-round drums are usually used.

Jiang Qiang's twin-mounted Erikon 20mm cannon, which he purchased from the Weapons Research Institute in Shanghai, was a more advanced and improved version, which could be used as both an aviation cannon and an anti-aircraft gun for surface ships. However, because the Devil Guards Division was equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, the helicopter brigade did not dare to rush forward too much, and could only follow the brigade to assist.

As for the use of the helicopter brigade, there is actually another voice, that is, the airdrop troops to the east bank of the Siddang River to cut off the devil's retreat. But this proposal was directly rejected by Jiang Qiang, because it didn't work at all. Although the main force of the devil army is on the west bank, in fact, the devil army on the east bank has at least 20,000 troops, which cannot be done by two or three thousand airborne troops.

Therefore, the helicopter brigade can only play auxiliary in this decisive battle and cooperate with the ground forces to make a frontal breakthrough. "Report to the military seat! The front-line radar station detected that the Devil Air Force had entered the Myanmar border and was expected to reach the airspace over the Sitang River in 15 minutes! Sitting at the air base and waiting patiently for nearly half an hour, Li Jinglin finally ushered in the entry of the Devil Air Force.

After receiving the order to go into battle, Wei Lei, commander of the 1st Flying Division of the Asian People's Liberation Army, Li Tao, commander of the 2nd Flying Division, and Hu Gang, commander of the 3rd Flying Division, all personally went into battle and took the lead in leading the fighters under their command to take to the air to meet the enemy. "Brothers of the 1st Pilot Division, follow me, charge!" "Brothers of the 2nd Pilot Division, for the final victory of Armageddon, advance!" "All the 3rd Pilots are there! Advance! Advance! ……”

After forming three powerful fighter formations over the base, it was like three invincible swords that went straight to the devil group hundreds of kilometers away. "Brothers, the final battle is finally here!" "Let these dogs come and go!" "The opportunity to avenge the death of our brothers has come!" "Don't say anything, it's over!" "Just one word!"

Although everyone fought fiercely for a day, and they had not completely recovered their strength, but at this moment, everyone instantly resurrected on the spot, full of passion and fighting spirit, and drove their respective fighters into the distance at the fastest speed.

"It's a matter of success or failure! Brothers, you have to come back alive, and after this battle is won, I will give you a celebration banquet! Standing in the square of the air base, looking at the group of fighter planes that were gradually moving away, and looking at the airport that had become empty, Li Jinglin raised his right hand and saluted solemnly at the blue sky and white clouds.