Sorry, due to some unexpected circumstances, the fifth watch became two watches, and the soldier will recover before breaking out!

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It's a bit ironic to say...... Since the Chinese Expeditionary Force entered Burma, the Chinese army has been planning to fight a big battle with the devils, but from the Battle of Tonggu to the Battle of Pingmanna to the Battle of Mandalay, it has not been successful, but it did not expect that in Myitkyina, it was a solid battle with the Japanese army.

The Japanese blockade of the Inovady River soon became Bengali, and later it even reached the point where civilian ships were converted into gunboats like engineering regiments and sailed on the river to show off their might...... Those civilian ships were requisitioned by the Japanese in Mandalay, and then loaded with a few cannons, and under the cover of aerial planes, they drove along the Inovady River to the flank of the new 22nd Division's defense line and opened fire, in an attempt to cooperate with the 18th Division's attack on the New 22nd Division in this way.

But it should be said that the Japanese army was too bold, you must know that those are civilian ships, and Myitkyina still has a large number of howitzers and cannons left by the British army, these artillery fire has not dared to open fire at ease because of the fear of the Japanese air power, but at this time it is not much to care about, aiming at the few "boom" of the ship, and quickly sinking it to the bottom of the river.

Of course, then the Japanese fighters swooped down and fired and bombarded our artillery positions, again inflicting certain losses on our artillery.

This also shows the importance of air power in modern warfare...... Originally, Myitkyina could be said to be firmly in the hands of the Chinese soldiers, and it also relied on its geographical advantages and control of the Innovady River to hold the initiative, but because there was no air power, the control of the Inouarwady River was quickly lost and changed hands to the Japanese army. Even the tanks and armored vehicles in the hands of the engineering regiment could only hide in the jungle and dare not move...... The speed of tanks and armored vehicles is too slow compared to airplanes, and the Japanese fighters only need to make a dive and then shoot a shuttle of bullets, which is the weakest top armor of the condescending attack tank, even the top armor of the Sherman medium tank is only 13MM, which cannot withstand the strafing of the fighters at all.

So. Modern military experts often have a saying, that is, "whoever has air supremacy will have victory." There is some truth in this statement, but it is not absolute...... The most extreme example is that the volunteers who did not have air supremacy on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea were able to repeatedly fight the United Nations forces led by the US army.

Of course, that has to do with the fact that the volunteer army, which has been in weak equipment for a long time, has developed a set of effective fighting methods.

At this time, the new 22nd Division was gradually overwhelmed by this kind of three-dimensional attack, which can almost be said to be sea, land, and air, in which the army had artillery, infantry, tanks, and other all-round arms moving closely.

But the warriors also knew that Myitkyina might be their only hope, and the only hope of the expeditionary force, and that they had no way out. As a result, in the face of a group of Japanese troops rushing up, none of them took a half step back. Rows of soldiers fell in the Japanese bombardment like a storm, and rows of soldiers were replenished, and they didn't have time to build a stealth body, so they hid in the crater, and when the bullet was gone, they got on the bayonet, and the bayonet pierced into the devil's chest and couldn't pull it out, so they ignited the grenade and rushed in the direction of the devil.

However, even so, the Japanese troops rushed into the defense line of the New 22nd Division under the cover of planes and tanks, and when the Japanese were about to break through the defense of the New 22nd Division. Suddenly, there was a dense burst of machine guns and explosions in the sky.

At first, the fighters didn't feel anything unusual, but they felt a sudden lightness of pressure on their heads...... It seems that Japanese fighters and bombers suddenly stopped shooting and did not drop bombs.

Then, when I saw the Japanese planes falling to the ground with black smoke, I felt that something was wrong...... The anti-aircraft fire of Myitkyina has almost made the devils beat it, and the sound of our anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns firing has not been heard. How could the devil's plane be shot down?!

When I looked up, I couldn't help but be ecstatic, there were more than a dozen fighters with shark heads printed in the sky fighting with the Japanese fighters, and their open blood basins made them like tigers with wings ferociously rushing towards the Japanese fighters. After a while, several more Japanese soldiers were beaten and fell with black smoke, and then two "shark heads" swooped down and fired at the Japanese tanks...... THE ARMOR OF JAPANESE TANKS WAS ALREADY THIN, AND ITS TOP ARMOR WAS EVEN MORE LIKE PAPER PASTE FOR THE 12.7MM CALIBER MACHINE GUN ON THE AMERICAN 40 FIGHTER. So in an instant, five or six tanks were hit with black smoke, and one of them may have been hit by a shell and exploded into a ball of fire! Two more fighters swooped down and dropped several bombs on the charging Japanese group...... With the explosion of "boom", piles of devils were lifted high into the air.

Then these fighters discovered the artillery position of the devils, so needless to say, they flew up and there was another burst of indiscriminate bombardment, and it only took a moment to dumb down the devils' artillery fire.

"It's our plane!" I don't know who shouted: "It's our plane!" ”

At this time, the soldiers reacted, and saw that the wings of those fighters were indeed printed with the blue sky and white sun logo, and they couldn't help but cheer and cheer to kill, and once again repelled the Japanese attack.

Where would the devil have imagined that the Chinese soldiers would suddenly have air power to help, only to be defeated and flee with a great defeat of losing their armor, and in the end, not only did they not break through the defense line of the new 22nd Division, but they lost a large number of aircraft, tanks and artillery......

It was the Chinese Air Force known as the "Flying Tigers" who came to help.

It is said that the reason why it was called the "Flying Tigers" was because some fighters had never seen sharks, so they mistook the shark teeth on the nose of the fighter for tiger teeth, and the tiger still had wings, which is in line with the Chinese idiom "like a tiger with wings", so they were called "Flying Tigers".

Its full name is "Chinese Air Force American Volunteer Air Force Aid to China", and its founder is Chennault, who is well-known in China. As soon as they cooperated with Song Xilian's troops in the Nu River area to block the Japanese army that was interspersed along the China-Burma Highway to western Yunnan, they immediately rushed to Myitkyina to support the expeditionary force, and they achieved very considerable results as soon as they came up...... Five Japanese fighters were shot down and two were damaged, and the remaining Japanese fighters fled when the situation was not good, and then the "Flying Tigers" poured the remaining ammunition on the Japanese tanks and artillery before they turned around and returned to the sea satisfied.

They are the first thing that Zhang Chi and so on.

Zhang Chi knew that the expeditionary force's occupation of Myitkyina was crucial to China, Britain, and even the United States, so they could not let the expeditionary force in Myitkyina be besieged by the Japanese army and remain unattended. (To be continued.) )