Putting down the phone, Jiang Haoran shook his head helplessly, he knew that he was a little embarrassed Ye Zhaofeng, like this kind of weather, it was not suitable for flying at all, let alone airborne at this altitude.

The water mist brought by the rain will affect the pilot's visual distance, hinder the pilot's line of sight, secondly, flying in low airspace in rainy days, it is easy to produce downdraft, so that the lift of the aircraft is reduced and the phenomenon of falling off the height, and most importantly, if the engine sucks in too much rainwater, it is easy to cause the engine to stop.

But Jiang Haoran couldn't take care of these, as long as he could reduce the casualties caused by the airborne brigade when he landed in the air, he would admit to losing more than ten or twenty planes, but more, he still hoped that tomorrow would be a sunny and good weather.

Unfortunately, God did not let him get his wish, and the next day it was still pouring rain, which also cast a shadow of unhappiness on this battle from the beginning, showing that its prospects must be a bloody storm.

But the established battle plan could not be changed, and when it was almost noon, the heavy rain still did not stop, but the wind had decreased a lot, and seeing that the time could not be delayed any longer, Jiang Haoran gritted his teeth and issued a combat order.

At this time, Jiang Haoran had already moved his headquarters to the bridgehead on the side of the Inovady River, where you can see the entire east bank of the Innovady River, and airborne, bridge-building, and river crossing can be completed directly under his nose, which is undoubtedly the best former enemy command.

Less than three minutes after the order to attack was issued, more than a dozen missiles swept over the Inovady River, and a few seconds later, the naked eye could see that one missile after another directly penetrated the main body of the pillboxes on the opposite bank, and then there was a loud "boom, boom, boom," and the pillboxes were torn apart in an instant, and the explosion scene was very spectacular, and the smoke clouds set off were tens or hundreds of meters high.

Liang Xiaotian really didn't brag, the smoke clouds dissipated, and there was no longer a towering pillbox in sight on the defense line on the east bank.

"Order, artillery fire is densely covered, time thirty minutes!"

"Order, the bomber group and the airborne troops will take off immediately, start bombing in thirty minutes, and start airborne in five minutes!"

Immediately, the heavy artillery regiment directly under the headquarters, the Jiang Defense Artillery Regiment temporarily formed on the defensive line, the artillery battalions of the three divisions, and all the artillery fire at the division, regimental, and battalion levels, and hundreds of large and small artillery pieces opened fire on all fronts, and the entire east bank was suddenly covered with the sound of artillery fire.

Cannonballs along the east (10) ▼ dǐng (10) ▼ diǎn (10) ▼ small (10) ▼ said, .2 ≯ 3.●os_ (); The fortifications of the enemy army on the shore stretched all the way forward to the jungle behind them, but wherever the artillery fire could reach, they were repeatedly plowed several times, and the logistical supplies of the expeditionary force all came from India, that is, they were completely provided by Britain and Michia, and it really verified the saying, "Shells don't cost money." ”

Half an hour later, a dense group of planes appeared in the sky, first bombers dived and bombed, plowed again into a jungle that was suspicious and might hide the Japanese ambush, and then the airborne troops began to land.

When the "dandelions" appeared in the sky over the east coast, it was also the time when Jiang Haoran was the most nervous, he raised the telescope and did not put it down, until the first batch of troops landed safely, the soldiers quickly scattered in all directions, and arranged the defensive line, Jiang Haoran cracked his mouth and smiled, "Okay, well, it seems that the Japanese army is still defenseless, and this battle has to be fought." ”

But he seemed to be happy too early, as soon as the words fell, the opposite bank suddenly sounded a dense gunfire, although across a rushing and roaring river, the sound of the water is magnificent and grand, but the sound of guns and cannons is still very clear, the troops have begun to parachute, naturally it is impossible for their own people to open artillery, only possible enemy.

Jiang Haoran hurriedly raised the telescope again, only to see that the entire airborne area was almost completely covered by artillery fire, and countless shells rained down on the airborne area from the jungle on three sides.

Moreover, the planes in the air and the airborne troops in mid-air were obviously also attacked, and from time to time the planes caught fire and smoked, and then dragged a black line down sharply and finally crashed into the jungle. And the airborne troops in mid-air, one by one "dandelions" swaying in the air, have obviously lost manpower control, and more, they have been beaten to pieces, and the soldiers have fallen in a straight line like iron balls.

But the nightmare did not end there, and immediately, in the jungle at the far end, dense Japanese troops covered all the way from three directions, and in an instant formed a thick yellow line, with a clear goal, and rushed straight to the airborne area.

The sudden scene made Jiang Haoran's face white, the beads of sweat on his forehead rolled down like rain, and the enemy's artillery group, anti-aircraft machine gun group, and a large number of infantry all told him a cruel reality, they were ambushed, in other words, his carefully formulated sneak attack plan had been leaked.

From the beginning of the airborne troops into the battlefield, he had no way to retreat, the airborne troops on the east bank were Zhou Benye's third regiment, and almost when they were airborne, the first regiment and the second regiment led by Liu Xianwei almost began to be airborne in Lashio, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the entire airborne brigade had all been scattered.

The enemy was very cunning, and the time of the attack was very accurate, just when the troops were airborne, there were soldiers of the expeditionary force on the ground, soldiers of the expeditionary force in mid-air, and planes of the expeditionary force in the air, and long-range artillery fire was completely useless, unless indiscriminate bombing was carried out.

Jiang Haoran could rely on fighter planes and bombers in the air, but fortunately, the air force in this campaign was very strong, and almost all the planes that could be operated by the 40th Group Army Air Force and the 14th Air Force were in the skies over eastern Burma.

As soon as an emergency occurred, Jiang Haoran's order was not needed, and the fighters and bombers immediately carried out a large-scale sweeping operation against the enemy's ground troops and various artillery firepower, and the effect was quite obvious, in just a few minutes, the enemy's firepower was contained, and the ground forces began to stagnate, and the third regiment of the airborne brigade finally completed the airborne mission, but Jiang Haoran knew that just this round of attacks had caused at least thousands of casualties in the third regiment, so to speak, The casualties of the 3rd Regiment had already exceeded a third.

This is Jiang Haoran's most elite troops, and it can be said that the real battle has not yet begun, and it has caused such a large casualty under his nose, and the impact and shock to Jiang Haoran are simply indescribable.

Moreover, although the 3rd Regiment had completed the airborne landing, the casualties continued to expand, and the enemy's underground bunkers began to exert their power, and torrential bullets came out from underground, frantically reaping the lives of the soldiers of the 3rd Regiment.

At this time, the exposed firepower, missiles and long-range artillery fire could only sigh with admiration, and the ground was full of their own people, and they could only rely on themselves.