July 12, 1941, Southwest

Although Wang Yue has almost no restrictions on material support, but the transport fleet on the Yunnan-Burma Highway is still around the clock, especially after the recovery of Hubei Province, Uncle Guo even came up with a plan to expand the Yunnan-Burma Highway, to increase the highway capacity by 300%, has completely solved the domestic material supply problem.

In this regard, the most worried is the Japanese, under normal capacity, that little material can support the national army to launch a full-scale counteroffensive, if it really increases by 300%, then pay it back? Therefore, after stabilizing the situation in the Chinese war, the Japanese Huaxia Dispatch Army began to plan to destroy this lifeline on which China depended.

In recent years, the Japanese have worked this road, but neither aerial bombing nor spies can completely destroy this road, but on the contrary, the Japanese army aviation has lost a lot of aircraft, and the input and output are completely disproportionate, and over time, the Japanese are not as active as they were at the beginning.

But now it is different, the emperor, the prime minister, the land minister, the sea minister, almost all the high-level people are very dissatisfied with the existence of this road, which forces the Japanese to fight to the death, even if there are many losses, they will destroy this road.

As a result, the Japanese Navy and Army Aviation began a new round of bombing of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and the Nationalist Army was naturally not to be outdone, and sent the P39 fighter fleet in its hands to protect several important bridges and transportation hubs.

Not to mention the Army's Type 97 fighters, even the zero combat transferred by the HNA will not work, and the so-called most advanced fighters of the Locust Army are simply vulnerable, and sometimes they can disintegrate in the chase without even exchanging fire.

The helpless Japanese had no choice but to launch their traditional skills - to ask for tactical guidance, but in the end they didn't know how to operate, so they actually asked Lieutenant General Yamamoto Kazuki of Taiyuan to be, in order to show their trust in Yamamoto Kazuki and Yamamoto's troops, the locust even awarded a medal to Yamamoto Kazuki in advance, forcing Lieutenant General Yamamoto, who was building the Iron Wall of Taiyuan, to turn his attention to the southwest region.

However, after studying the Yunnan-Burma Highway, Yamamoto Kazuki found that this matter was really not easy to do.

Continue to send warplanes to bomb important nodes on the Yunnan-Burma Highway? It won't work at all, unless the country can really come up with a new fighter to replace the Zero Combat before the end of the year, otherwise, how many fighters will be sent to the national army's P39 fighters in the past.

Let the special operations team infiltrate the airborne and blast those bridges? But the current national army has also been lit up with a new skill by the locust army, that is, repairing bunkers. There are bunkers and patrol posts everywhere along the Yunnan-Burma kilometer, and even if their own special forces can land safely, they may not be able to get close to their targets, and even if they break into it with great luck, they will still have to face the last line of defense of the military unification secret service organs, and for their own money bags, the military unification bureau is quite active on the Yunnan-Burma highway, and there are no less than 100 special service action groups that have been cracked by them.

There is also the ability to bomb minor road sections, but the bomb load of the Japanese bombers is really not flattering, plus the bombs are small, the power is poor, and the accuracy is low, even if the road is blown up, it can be quickly repaired, and the left and right are dirt roads, and there is no need for engineering equipment and personnel to repair, and a random chief of security and a group of peasants can do this thing.

Moreover, the consumption of emergency repairs is only a few baskets of wheat bran, and they can also pick up some good steel and go home to make farm tools, so that farmers in many places are hoping that the Japanese can fry them a few more times, because only in this way can they have the opportunity to earn some "extra money".

After thinking about it, Lieutenant General Kazuki Yamamoto felt that he had to jump out of the trap and adopt a completely new way of fighting to bomb the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and thus there was a large-scale bombardment of unprecedented scale.

The group of transport planes used to secretly transport supplies and personnel to Tianzhu was requisitioned by Yamamoto Kazuki, and then more than 100 plywood gliders produced by Taiyuan were towed into the air, and after flying over the target area, they were disconnected, and then the daredevils drove the gliders to directly hit the target with precision.

That's right, this cargo used a suicide attack again, the empty transport planes were loaded with nitrified starch produced by the First Army itself, each transport plane was a full two tons, and their target of attack was not roads, bridges, transportation hubs, etc., but to carry out precise bombing of the mountains on the landslide-prone section of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and then trigger a landslide, blocking the Yunnan-Burma Highway with a large number of earth and rock, this is not an ordinary bomb crater, in the absence of modern machines, only use manpower to clean up the dry.

The targets of the Japanese bombing were also concentrated in those locations far away from the inaccessible population, which further increased the difficulty of repair, according to Yamamoto Kazuki's calculations, even if it was replaced by Japanese sappers to rush to repair, it would take more than three months in the case of large machinery.

In order to prevent the Huaxia side from playing extraordinarily, Yamamoto Kazuki also bombed several dams along the line, forming floods and dammed lakes, further increasing the difficulty of repair, not to mention repair, even if it was to mobilize manpower and materials It would take a long time.

Only the first wave of bombing, the Yunnan-Burma highway was completely blocked, although not a single person was killed or a truck was blown up, but the Yunnan-Burma highway was really blocked.

However, the Japanese army still felt that this was not enough, after the success of the first wave of bombing, they carried out another bombing at noon, and more than 100 suicide gliders, this time their target was not the highway, but the small and medium-sized towns near the highway, where could these towns with no air defense force at all stop the Japanese bombardment, and for a time, almost all the external communication channels of the towns were completely blocked, and the materials and personnel could not be mobilized, and they could not even rescue the convoys trapped on the road.

The Huaxia Air Force also launched retaliatory bombing of the Japanese airfield after the Japanese launched two large-scale bombings in a row, but their traces have always been under the strict monitoring of the Japanese secret services, and when they arrived at the Japanese airfield for thousands of miles, the Japanese transport planes gathered here have long been gone, and heavy smoke has risen around the airport, and there is no way to bomb at all, forcing the B25 bomber group of the Nationalist Army to turn back to Changsha.

As for sending fighter jets to intercept, don't be kidding, the Japanese army has proved with tragic sacrifices that their fighters are not to mention dealing with fighters, even against this kind of thick-skinned bomber group, it is not enough, zero combat is better, and Type 97 is simply crushed by the other side in air combat, okay?

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