My Head of the Huaxia Expeditionary Force

Chapter 568
In a trance, Li Jie shook his handsome and dizzy head vigorously. Just now, two rounds of rocket launchers fired a volley, and even from a long distance, he could feel the power of destroying heaven and earth.

Although she had tried several times during training before, Katyusha's destructive power in actual combat was still shocking.

That shriek screamed like a god of death, countless flames illuminated half of the sky, one round after another left the enemy with no time to breathe, fortunately this thing belonged to my side, otherwise it would be hard to imagine the scene after a round of salvos .

"Reporting to the commander, all shells have been fired, please give instructions!"

The soldiers' shouts brought Li Jie back to reality. The task of their regiment was to attack the Panlagon Station with covering firepower. After finishing, they had to evacuate immediately, so as not to be targeted by the opponent's artillery.

"Notify all units to evacuate here immediately and approach the second main force of the third division!" Li Jie ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

Li Jie's team is a newly formed artillery unit. Every thirteen Katyushas form an artillery regiment, and a total of three regiments form the rocket artillery division of the new army.

At this time, the other two regiments were deployed on the side of the Third Division, and each regiment had its own independent logistics transport convoy and maintenance team, with very high mobility.

Liao Mingyu also used the legendary name of the Volunteer Army in history - the 21st Division. At present, the division has not yet appointed a division commander. It is temporarily under the direct command of the Heihe Military Headquarters, and the regiment-level units support troops at all levels in operations.

Panlagon's artillery attack was only the tip of the iceberg on the battlefield. The third division, armored brigade, heavy artillery brigade and various local troops all advanced from Baguzi to Yangon. The front expanded to cover the entire Bagu junction, and the scene became extremely lively.

Years ago, Long Wenwen's Central Corps had fought from Mandalay to Bago Province, and slowly pushed the Japanese army to Yangon. However, due to the lack of front-line troops, Long Wenwen specifically asked Liao Mingyu for instructions in the general attack this time. The engineering unit has been building road infrastructure in the rear.

You don’t need to know, you’re taken aback by the fact that there are as many as 6 or [-] people in the huge engineering and construction corps. When these people slowly came to the front line, Long Wenwen and his gang were stunned. Unknowingly, such a large number came out.

Since last year, the 88th Army has been vigorously developing the Construction Corps, which is unified under the engineer sequence, and most of them are used for road and bridge construction and local infrastructure construction, and they also need to share part of the logistical material tasks.

Most of these people are recruited from Nanyang laborers and civilians, and some veterans who retired from the front line because of their age or slight disabilities. Existence to supplement the main force.

Their individual weapons are mainly M1903 Springfield rifles supported by Yankees, with a small amount of Garand and M1 carbines. Most of them are weapons that have been eliminated from the frontline troops. Heavy artillery, mainly 80, 120 mortars.

Although the firepower is far behind that of the main force of the 88th Army, it is still much stronger than the ordinary troops in western Yunnan. This should be placed in Song Xilian's 20th Army, which is a proper standard of elite American equipment.

As a second-line force, the combat effectiveness of the construction corps may be a question mark, but it is more than enough for them to cooperate with the main force to pick up the cheap and make up for the gaps.

With the addition of this batch of fresh troops, the pressure faced by the Third Honor Division dropped sharply. The soldiers of the Third Division who were freed up attacked the weak points of the Japanese army. .

Aerial bombs poured down on the ground like heavy rain, and fighter planes in the sky also flew across the sky at this time. The two aviation squadrons of Nankan were dispatched to launch a joint attack on various strongholds of the Japanese army.

All the warring areas were bombarded, the Japanese army was beaten and retreated steadily, several front-line positions changed hands one after another, and the entire Yangon defense line was declared shattered.

The defeat was like a mountain, and the Japanese army did not expect the opponent's sudden offensive to be so violent. The various airports of the Army Aviation were hit by artillery fire to varying degrees, and some fighter planes were turned into a pile of scrap metal before they even took off.

Of course, the Southern Army Command would not admit defeat, let alone give up the last piece of land in Myanmar, so it stepped up the deployment of troops and dispatched some troops from Malacca and Singapore to Yangon, Ayeyarwady Province and other places.

HNA also has a Chitose-class light aircraft docked in the port of Yangon. Facing this situation, 20 Zero fighters and 8 ground attack aircraft scrambled into the air to support the army's operations.

Two Akizuki-class destroyers also rushed from Malacca to the Madaban waters in Yangon, along with a heavy cruiser "Ligan".

It turned out that this heavy cruiser was seriously injured in the naval battle of Knight Bay, the stern side of the ship was penetrated, and more than 900 sailors on board almost died in the sea.

After the war, the Tone, which survived the catastrophe, returned to the Malay area for maintenance. It was originally planned to return to the Japanese mainland for defense, but unexpectedly caught up with the Yangon crisis, and was urgently transferred to Madaban Bay to cooperate with Yangon. The Army defends the area.

In the next few days, Long Wenwen commanded the Central Road Corps to advance from Sayawady to Yangon Province. Counting the construction corps's troops as many as [-], they occupied the northern part of Yangon in less than three days, and the soldiers pointed directly at Yongsheng. town.

However, when the troops advanced all the way, the Central Corps slowed down the offensive, because the recovered Japanese army assembled the last air power in Southeast Asia, and the navy was also actively cooperating with the troop delivery. Several regiments were sent to the south of Yangon one after another. Strengthen the defense of the area.

All Army aviation airports in Malaysia are targeting Yangon Province, competing with the expeditionary force for air supremacy there. Due to the lack of air power from the US military, the two aviation squadrons in Nankan alone have no advantage in numbers.

In the air battles for several days, both sides lost each other, and no one could do anything to the other, but the Nankan Air Force still had a slight advantage, taking off from Mandalay and Heihe already had an advantage in terms of distance, with a large amount of ammunition hoarded and countless ground support Personnel have become the foundation of their continuous operations, and even if the consumption is huge, they can be replenished quickly, which is unmatched by the Japanese aviation.

A light aircraft carrier, a heavy cruiser, and two destroyers were waiting in full force in Madaban Bay. They even drove to the near port. As long as the enemy dared to enter the range, the dozens of large-caliber naval guns on the ship would deal a fatal blow to the opponent.

Naturally, this information cannot be concealed from the Heihe Command, so in order to avoid huge losses to the troops, Liao Mingyu immediately ordered Long Wenwen to delay the offensive to the south of Yangon, and first let the fighter planes and ground anti-aircraft guns consume the opponent's air power. Everything behind is much easier to solve.

The most important point is that the Japanese army has now determined that the main attack direction of the expeditionary force is the Yongsheng Town area. After all, such a huge deployment of troops is almost the majority of this old opponent's property, so they are constantly gathering in Yangon, intending to rely on what the opponent does not have. Naval ship power, turn this place into the final battleground.

It's just that all of this was in Liao Mingyu's hands. Before the battle started, he had begun to deploy a wave of bigger battle plans. Once successfully implemented, all the Japanese troops in Myanmar would be wiped out!
(End of this chapter)