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Chapter 142 Bloody Battle of Myitkyina
When the 18th Division of the Japanese Army was assembled, it immediately launched an attack on Myitkyina.

At the same time, Du Yuming also gave the order to stick to it.

The roar of artillery began to sound from the positions on the east side of Myitkyina.

There was no problem with Du Yuming's deployment of troops. There is only one problem at present, and that is the supply of ammunition.

Speaking of the equipment of the 5th Army, it can be described in one word - all kinds, including Soviet-style, German-style, Chinese-style, British-style and American-style, almost all the weapons and equipment of major countries are gathered together.

For example, the 200th Division is a Su Machinist, and they basically use Su-style equipment.

Another example is that the new 22nd division has American weapons and British weapons, and the new 38th division is German weaponry.

This makes the supply of ammunition very inconvenient, especially for the new 22nd Division. The defense line is still on the opposite hillside, separated from Myitkyina by a river, and it is even more difficult to transport supplies.

Gao Fei frowned when he heard that the gunfire on the east bank of the Inowady River was especially fierce.

In fact, Mutaguchi Lian had already figured out Du Yuming's formation, and knew that the new 22nd Division was on the other side of the bank as the front row.

And precisely because of this point, there was a loophole in the defense line.

The first Japanese attack must be the New 22nd Division!
"Buzzing..."

The battle started, and the roar of Japanese aircraft soon came from the sky.

Immediately afterwards, bombs fell from the sky with a whistling sound.

This is different from the previous battles in that the battle in Myitkyina entered a fierce and intense state as soon as it started.

At this time, the fighting in other directions in northern Myanmar was basically over. The Japanese army concentrated almost all the aircraft at the newly occupied Mandalay Airport and bombed Myitkyina in turn.

Ren Mutaguchi is also very shrewd, even more shrewd than Gao Fei imagined.

The Japanese planes first bombed not the river defense line of Myitkyina, but the port and ships of Myitkyina.

The purpose of Mutaguchi Ren also doing this is obvious, that is, to cut off the connection between Myitkyina and the new 22nd Division on the east bank of the Inowady River.

At this time, in the sky over Myitkyina, more than a dozen Zero fighter jets and a dozen bombers were buzzing like flies, looking for targets to attack.

"You bastard, it's just too bullying!"

Milong hid in the air-raid shelter, listening to the roar from the sky outside, he gritted his teeth with hatred.

Meng Fan rubbed his gun: "If you fall behind, you will be beaten. Who told us not to have a plane?"

Bu La put five grenades into the chest pocket: "Why not? Don't we have the Flying Tigers?"

The Flying Tigers were very famous at the time.

Ah Yi knew about the Flying Tigers, and explained: "Those planes were bought with a lot of money, I'm afraid I can't bear it."

Gao Fei said: "Now Myitkyina is the key. This battle is also a head-to-head confrontation between our army and the Japanese army! Therefore, our plane will definitely come!"

He suggested Du Yuming to fight this battle before, but he had actually taken the air combat factor into consideration.

He believes that Myitkyina is so important that the principal will definitely let the Flying Tigers come to help.

Krupp squatted beside him, muttering incessantly: "Battlefield Commander, let's shoot one shot? How about just one shot?"

Yaoma was so annoyed: "Krupp, do you know that our battalion has no artillery! What did you ask the battalion commander to give you to shoot a cannon?"

Hearing that there was no cannon, Krupp immediately fainted.

However, the 5th Army has anti-aircraft guns, which were left behind when the infantry retreated from Myitkyina.

The soldiers fired back at the Japanese planes with anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns.

But they don't have much experience and training in using these equipment, and it is difficult for anti-aircraft guns to lock the enemy planes scurrying around in the sky.

Moreover, in the confrontation, as long as the anti-aircraft guns below are fired, they will be discovered soon and become the priority target.

Of course, the best weapon against a fighter is a fighter.

It's a pity that the 5th Army has no air power at all, so it fell into a passive state from the beginning of the battle.

The Japanese fighter planes flew in the air unscrupulously, and the ships on the Inowady River were the first to suffer.

There were hundreds of boats docked on the shore, most of them were local fishing boats, and those who were killed were also Burmese who supported the Communist Party.

These fools even waved at the Japanese fighter planes, and were shot to death by machine guns in the next second.

There were screams on the river, and floating corpses were everywhere.

Although the Japanese army's method of bombing the ship was ruthless, it worked.

Because if these fishing boats are kept, as soon as it gets dark, they will soon become the means of transportation in the hands of the Fifth Army.

War is inherently omnipotent, so from this perspective, the Japanese army's approach is understandable.

Japanese fighter planes roared in the sky, and the New 22nd Division suffered the most violent attack since the expedition.

Its frontal attack was the 18th Regiment of the 55th Division of the Japanese Army, and there was also a Mountain Artillery Regiment and two tank squadrons.

There are also Japanese fighter planes constantly strafing and bombing in the sky.

Under the cover of these artillery fires, the Japanese infantry broke through the defense line of the New 22nd Division several times.

The artillery and tanks of our army in the distance shelled the Japanese army at the same time, which in turn relieved the pressure on the new 22nd division.

The soldiers of the new 22nd division can only use their lives and bayonets to kill these devils again and again!
It's a bloody battle!
Holding the binoculars, Gao Fei could see the new 22nd Division on the other side, and saw the soldiers bayoneting the devils, fighting bloody battles!

He was so anxious that he really wanted to take the advance battalion to help, but the two sides were separated, and the distance was too far to help.

At this time, the New 22nd Division was undergoing a three-dimensional attack from both land and air forces of the Japanese army.

Modern and modern military experts often have a saying, that is - whoever has the air supremacy will have the victory.

There is some truth to this statement.

But it is not absolute. The most extreme example is on the battlefield of resisting mildew and aiding Korea.

The Volunteer Army has repeatedly beaten the Volunteer Army without air supremacy to the ground.

This is related to the command of the Volunteer Army and a set of effective tactics that have been developed.

Liao Yaoxiang and the soldiers of the New 22nd Division knew that Myitkyina was their only hope, and also the only hope of the expeditionary force!
Backed by the river bank, there is no way to retreat!

Facing groups of devils rushing up, rows of soldiers fell down in the stormy charge.

The position was blown up, and it was too late to build a bunker, so the soldiers hid in the crater and fired.

When the bullets are gone, use the bayonet, and finally pull the ignited grenade and rush into the crowd of devils!
The booming explosion was shocking.

Gao Fei couldn't see this kind of scene, and always remembered some kind of memory, so he handed the binoculars to Meng Fan.

Meng Fan picked it up and saw that the Japanese army had broken through the third line of defense of the new 22nd Division under the cover of planes and tanks.

Division commander Liao Yaoxiang personally went into battle to kill the enemy.

Seeing that the Japanese army was about to rush into the division headquarters, there were sudden bursts of machine guns and explosions in the sky!

At first, Meng Fanle didn't feel anything unusual, but felt that the Japanese fighter jets and bombers above his head suddenly stopped firing or dropping bombs.

Immediately afterwards, when he saw Japanese planes falling to the ground with black smoke, Meng got annoyed and felt something was wrong.

Myitkyina's anti-aircraft firepower has already almost defeated the Devil's fighter plane. How did the Devil's plane be shot down? !
He looked up with the binoculars, and couldn't help but be ecstatic. There were more than ten fighter planes with shark heads printed on them in the sky, fighting with the Japanese fighter planes!

They are like tigers with wings, rushing towards the Japanese fighter plane fiercely!
After a while, the Japanese fighter plane was beaten and fled in embarrassment.

Two American 40 fighters swooped down and fired at the Japanese bean tanks!

The armor of Japanese bean tanks is inherently thin, and the armor on the top is like paper to the large-caliber heavy machine guns on 40 fighters.

"Da da da da da!"

In an instant, the two bean tanks were beaten up with black smoke.

One of them was very unlucky. It was hit by a shell, and the tank exploded into a ball of fire!
Two more 40 fighter planes swooped down and dropped five bombs on the charging Japanese army.

With the sound of "boom, boom, boom" explosions, patches of devils were killed.

"It's our plane!"

Bula couldn't help but shouted: "Come out and watch! Our plane is coming!"

The advance battalion soldiers hiding in the cave reacted and came out to watch one after another. They saw that the fighter jets had shark heads printed on their wings.

It is the unique symbol of the "Flying Tigers".

It is said that because some fighters have never seen sharks, they mistaken the teeth of sharks on the nose for tiger teeth, hence the name "Flying Tigers".

Its founder is the well-known Chennault.

The Flying Tigers had just cooperated with Yu Zhentian's troops along the Nujiang River to block the 56th Division of the Japanese Army along the Burma Highway to the banks of the Nujiang River.

After getting the order, he immediately rushed here to support the 5th Army.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese army was caught off guard, and five Japanese fighter planes were shot down, two were damaged, and the rest fled when they saw the situation was not good.

(End of this chapter)