The war was not as smooth as Zhang Chi had imagined.

This is mainly determined by the contradiction between the terrain of Myanmar and the equipment of the Chinese army.

At this time, the Chinese army was a mechanized unit armed by the Yankees, and there were thousands of artillery, tanks, automobiles, and armored vehicles in the troops, especially artillery, which exceeded the number of American troops.

There is nothing bad about being well equipped, but being well equipped means that it is also dependent on the road, and now the Chinese army is now widely using the fire tactics in the American style of warfare, so the requirements for ammunition supply are also large, and this is even more inseparable from the road.

However, the terrain in Burma, especially in northern Burma and central Burma, is very unfavorable for mechanized troops, and the Japanese only need to occupy a few high ground on both sides of the road to block the road below the high road.

This made it almost impossible for the Chinese army to move an inch, and even though Stilwell sent dozens of fighters and bombers to bomb the Japanese indiscriminately, the speed of the troops was only measured in miles per day.

This is not to say that the Chinese army is not strong in combat, but that the Japanese army occupies a geographical advantage, and has built civil fortifications and made preparations for air defense and artillery...... This fully proves that sometimes even if there are aircraft and artillery in hand, the role that can be played is very limited, and the Yankees never believed this, and as a result, they fought one battle after another in the battle to resist US aggression and aid Korea, which was unbelievable and unacceptable to them.

This is not to say that the Chinese army will not be able to fight without leaving the road like the US army, in fact, in the process of fighting from Lingbang to Bamo, the Chinese army went into the jungle to chase the Japanese army.

The problem with entering the jungle to fight the Japanese army was still that the advance was too slow, and if this was done, the Chinese army would not reach Rangoon, and the Japanese army would celebrate the victory in Imphal.

......With a whistling sound, more than a dozen fighter planes flew over Zhang Chi's head, and then quickly launched strafing and bombing on the high ground where the Japanese troops were stationed in front.

Wang Mazi held the binoculars and observed for a while, then shook his head and said, "He's damn drop." In the past, I always envied the devil for having aircraft cannons, but now the aircraft cannons are in our hands, and we found that it was just like that! ”

Of course, what Wang Mazi said was angry, but what he said said was a truth, that is, it is not enough to have equipment, but also to supplement the quality and tactics of the troops.

"How many miles have we traveled in the past two days?" Wang Mazi asked.

Zhang Chi opened the map and looked at it, roughly calculated the distance from here to Mandalay, and replied: "Tuanza, start from the engagement...... It should be thirty miles! ”

"What? It took three days to fight thirty miles? Wang Mazi turned around in some surprise: "You're not wrong!" ”

"That's right!" Zhang Chi replied.

Zhang Chi can understand Wang Mazi's mood, these thirty miles have been gnawed down with cannonballs and life little by little, so it will naturally cause an illusion. I thought I had already traveled a long distance, but in fact, if I took a jeep, it would have been ten minutes.

Wang Mazi took the map and looked at it in disbelief, and then sat on the ground with a "sigh": "Ten miles a day, there are thousands of miles from here to Yangon, do you have to fight for a few months?" ”

"Tuanza!" A staff officer next to him said: "The rainy season will be in a few months!" ”

"I still need to fuck you!" Wang Mazi scolded angrily: "If Imphal is taken by the devil first, we may not even be able to wait for the rainy season!" ”

This is an exaggeration, but it is not unreasonable.

In fact, even if Imphal is occupied by the Japanese army, the supply of the expeditionary force will not be completely cut off, because the American transport planes will also bring a large amount of supplies to the expeditionary force.

But this creates a series of problems.

Like what. These transport planes were originally intended to transport supplies to China, but after being intercepted by the expeditionary force, they will inevitably have an impact on China's domestic war of resistance, and will it cause China to be unable to resist the attack of the Japanese army and collapse on the whole front?

For another example, the Japanese army will also set up anti-aircraft fire on the Imphal and Ledo lines. As a result, India's supplies to China and the direction of the expeditionary force will be further reduced, which will further reduce the living space of China and the expeditionary force.

What is even more terrifying is that the Japanese army will continue to attack India, and it is conceivable that the Japanese army will also use the so-called Indian National Army. In the event that Indian cities and airfields are captured one after another, there will be no longer any way for American transport planes to transport supplies through India to the expeditionary force or to China, and there will be only one outcome...... The expeditionary force and even China will be wiped out by the complete loss of foreign aid. In addition, dozens of divisions and regiments of the Japanese army in China can be withdrawn and transferred to other battlefields, so the entire history and even the ending of World War II will be rewritten because of this.

Therefore, this battle is a battle of great importance, which not only determines the fate of the expeditionary force, but even the fate of China and even the anti-fascist battle.

Just when Zhang Chi was thinking about this, Wang Mazi kicked Zhang Chi hard and said, "Why are you stunned? Pleasure for me to find a way! ”

Zhang Chi couldn't help but smile bitterly, what else can he think of in such a situation?

Zhang Chi didn't want to break the deadlock, especially when Imphal was getting more dangerous by the day.

But the Japanese army seems to have blocked all the roads of the expeditionary force...... Although the strength of a disqualified division of the Japanese army is not large, less than 20,000 people, and the Chinese army has three divisions of 40,000 or 50,000 people, but because the terrain is not suitable for the deployment of large troops, they can only crawl forward like a snail as they are now.

Zhang Chi even thought about using a ferry to transport the troops to the lower reaches of the Japanese army to intersperse, but the Japanese army was not a fool, of course they also took this into account, so the jungle along the coast was full of Japanese artillery...... At this time, the Japanese artillery was no longer on the front line to fight the Chinese army, the reason was similar to the tactics of the Mandalay search wing burying the armored troops in the ground as pillboxes, the Japanese artillery could not compare to the artillery of the Chinese army, plus the Chinese army still had air superiority, if the Japanese army pulled the artillery to the front line to fight, it would only be blown up by the Chinese artillery and American aircraft. So the Japanese army was very clever to put all its artillery into the jungle on both sides of the Irrawaddy River, and the Japanese sappers laid mines in the river to lay wooden stakes, and at night they would use searchlights to illuminate, so it was very effective to block the Irrawaddy River.

Just when Zhang Chi was at a loss for what to do, piles of branches, weeds and other floating objects flowing on the surface of the river caught his attention, which were thrown into the river by the sappers of the Chinese army while cutting down trees and building roads.

Seeing them flow down the river very naturally, Zhang Chi suddenly had an idea. (To be continued.) )