According to the predetermined plan, the three divisions launched an attack on their respective fronts at eight o'clock, the new 38th Division was the main attack, and the position was slightly ahead, and now the new 38th Division had been fighting for almost an hour, and the troops had advanced to less than ten miles from the city of Myitkyina, and the 29th Division on the northern front had also arrived at the predetermined location and was preparing to launch an attack, but the 29th Division in the middle was still more than 20 miles away from the predetermined location, and the vanguard of a battalion that had been in contact with them before was scattered by a Japanese charge. I don't know where to retreat now.

The two of them suddenly sweated like rain, no one can afford this responsibility, and now the biggest threat is not the six regiments that are scattered, but the command and the heavy artillery regiment are facing a huge threat, the six regiments are combat units after all, although the enemy may besiege it in a few ways, it is impossible to succeed in a short time, as long as the 28th Division quickly presses up, everything still has a chance to turn around, but the heavy artillery regiment is destroyed, there is no room for salvation, without heavy artillery, the battle behind will be more difficult to fight.

In fact, in this battle, Sun Liren made a big mistake, which often happens in the current national army, that is, there is no reserve left, and now in the face of this unexpected situation, there are basically no troops to adjust.

For example, three regiments of a division will attack, one regiment will attack as the main force, one regiment will contain the feint in another direction, and a regiment will be placed around to protect other units, such as artillery, engineers, baggage and other units, because these units are powerless to fight back in the event of a surprise attack, and they can also be used as reserves at critical moments.

Now Sun Liren is facing this embarrassing situation, of course, the most fundamental reason for this situation is that the 28th Division did not arrive at the scheduled place on time, resulting in the new 38th Division's ass being exposed to the Japanese army.

Under normal circumstances, when encountering an unpredictable attack by troops, Nakajima would usually shrink his troops to take a defensive position, but Nakajima Imago did the opposite, not only in the field, but also boldly dispersed his forces to attack separately.

Things have already happened, and neither complaining nor blaming will solve the problem, and this is also the time to test a commander's decision in the face of danger.

In any case, the heavy artillery regiment must not be lost. Sun Liren immediately ordered all the non-combatants of the guard battalion and the headquarters to urgently assemble and go straight to the artillery regiment position.

At the same time, the heavy artillery regiment was ordered to immediately fire orange smoke grenades into the surroundings and request emergency air support.

The orange smoke bomb is a signal for combat units above the regimental level to request air support in an emergency, and nearby planes will do everything they can to rush over to support after seeing it, and at this time in the airspace of northern Myanmar, the national air force has fully mastered air supremacy, and national army planes can be seen everywhere in the air, and there must be planes that can see and rush to support, I hope everything is still in time.

On the highway more than 30 miles away from Myitkyina, the 28th Division was marching unhurriedly, and the division commander Liu Bolong was sitting on a jeep with his head hanging and shaking, as if he was asleep.

A staff officer hurriedly chased after him from behind, stopped the jeep, and loudly reported an urgent message from the military headquarters.

Liu Bolong raised his head and rolled his eyes to look at the staff officer, and said unhappily: "What's the matter, didn't you just tell you that we have arrived at the military headquarters?" ”

The staff officer told Liu Bolong with a bitter face that the advance battalion sent out had been broken up by the Japanese army, and the army commander had found that they had not arrived at the designated location on time, that the enemy had passed through the predetermined defense area of the 28th Division, and that the old bottom of the new 38th Division had been copied, and that the artillery regiments were now facing the threat of being terminated by the Japanese army.

"What?" Liu Bolong shouted, jumped out of the jeep, snatched the telegram from the staff officer's hand, and immediately turned white, panicked and ordered the troops to advance at full speed.

At this moment, he was really panicked, originally thought that the national army was pressing the border, and the Japanese army would definitely shrink back in the city and resist stubbornly, he could let the first two divisions fight happily for a while, and then appear as a savior, earn enough face, and send a battalion to shout from it, who knew that the Japanese army actually made full use of the mountainous terrain to set up ambushes everywhere, resisted step by step, and even had a terrifying incident such as counter-encirclement, and it was also passed from its own defense area, this responsibility was already invisible.

?????? Bangkok, the headquarters of the Japanese Southern Army.

"Yo Xi!" Terauchi Shouichi held the good news message sent from the front, and his face was full of relief.

The two telegrams were sent almost simultaneously, and the 56th Division at Huitong Bridge successfully repelled two attacks by the special operations division of the Chinese Army.

The 16th Division of Myitkyina made full use of the terrain and topography to set up ambushes everywhere and divide troops to make surprise attacks, successfully breaking up the frantic offensive of the Chinese army.

The victory in the first battle filled the entire command with a festive atmosphere.

Tsukada Tsukada, chief of staff of the Southern Army, said with a smile: "It seems that Jiang Haoran really plans to advance east and west and reopen the road back to China." ”

"Hahaha, it's just a bunch of things that don't know whether to live or die." Shouichi Terauchi scolded with a contemptuous smile, and the room suddenly ushered in a burst of laughter.

As soon as the laughter stopped, Shouichi Terauchi said again: "Tsukada-kun, when will the Navy's planes be able to fly over northern Myanmar?" ”

Tsukada attacked: "You can arrive in an hour, this time the Navy Yamamoto 5*** will mobilize four flying teams, nearly 200 fighters, to carry out a round of air sweep of the China Army Air Force over northern Myanmar to help us regain air supremacy in northern Myanmar." ”

"Okay, with the addition of naval carrier-based aircraft, this battle will be much more exciting." After Terauchi Shouichi finished speaking, he seemed to suddenly remember, and said: "Base camp, is there any news about the latest weapons of the Shina Army in the base camp, and have they agreed to our request to rebuild the Fifth Flying Regiment?" ”

Tsukada attacked: "Yes, there was an urgent call from the base camp just now, and I haven't had time to report to you yet." After the preliminary analysis of our military experts, this is a new type of armed helicopter, and Germany and the United States have studied this topic, but the technology is not mature, but I didn't expect Jiang Haoran to break through this topic, and also produce products? According to the analysis of military experts, the two cylinders on the short wings of the helicopter are most likely two rocket nests, that is, concentrated rocket artillery, which poses a very terrifying threat to the infantry. In addition, the four bombs hanging may not be ordinary bombs dropped, but missiles, which can be aimed and launched, and the German army now has a small number of equipped troops, which are extremely destructive, and experts remind us to be careful. ”