The Galahad interspersed troops should be said to be progressing very well, thanks to the excellent pre-war intelligence work.

When marching, it fully reflects the difference between the Chinese and American armies:

The U.S. forces began to abandon their equipment after the third day of the march...... This should be said to be normal for an ordinary US army, after all, the Yankees don't care about equipment, in addition to thinking that life is more important than equipment, there are many people who think that it is redundant to carry too much equipment in this kind of arduous march, and they have not encountered Japanese troops along the way, so it is better to march with guns than to march empty-handed, big deal, just wait for the airdrop equipment when you meet the Japanese army.

However, this is the Marauder unit of the U.S. military, a special forces unit with professional jungle warfare training...... The special forces also behave like this in the jungle, which shows how professional the US military is in jungle warfare.

The Chinese soldiers are different, although the training in Sun Brabang also tells the Chinese soldiers that life is more important than equipment...... This sentence is an empty sentence for most Chinese soldiers, because in the domestic shortage of materials, equipment is always more important than life.

For the Yankees, throwing a machine gun can be produced in a few minutes, but for the Chinese, losing a machine gun may mean losing a position and sacrificing dozens or even more soldiers, so it is definitely worth exchanging the lives of one or several soldiers for a machine gun.

Of course, this rule is not necessarily suitable for the soldiers of the expeditionary force under the logistics of the US army, but this does not mean that the expeditionary force will also abandon the equipment, they all know that the equipment in their hands is a life-saving thing in wartime, so they feel very strange when they look at the US army's behavior of throwing away their guns.

Moreover, the U.S. Galahad troops are well-equipped, and the equipment they drop is often submachine guns, machine guns, and even mortars, etc., and the Chinese troops are reluctant to let these things go into the "corpse wilderness" like this, so it is often the U.S. military that throws the Chinese army in front and picks it up in the rear, and the degree of equipment of the Chinese troops is different.

The entire operational situation developed exactly as Stilwell had conceived, with the new 1st and 22nd Divisions fighting the Japanese on the front, and both divisions using a large number of shells to advance layer by layer. Although the pace of progress was slow, it managed to attract the attention of the Japanese army, and the interspersed troops smoothly and stealthily interspersed through the jungle.

At this time, Stilwell had another great news, the Japanese planes at the Bamo airfield had all been withdrawn.

The news came from a crew of the Sino-American mixed air fleet, whose captain was an American, and the operator and navigator were Chinese.

The Chinese operator said: "The Japanese planes must have gone to fight on other routes, and they can't take care of us!" ”

The Chinese navigator replied with a few words: "Maybe the Japanese planes have withdrawn!" ”

The American captain liked to bet, so he responded: "No way, I bet." The planes of the Japanese certainly did not take off! ”

"Bet on it!" Not to be outdone, several Chinese followed the American captain.

Originally, it was enough to fight, but the American pilots were originally temporarily recruited to be stunned, with personalities, and they flew planes for money......

Several Chinese crew members snickered behind him: This Yankee is really stupid, if he loses the bet, he will give money, and if he wins the bet, it means that the Japanese fighter will come to intercept him, and he must lose his life. You can't win or lose!

However, the Chinese crew is the opposite: if you win the bet, you can take the line, and if you lose the bet, you will lose your life anyway, and you don't have to give money, you can win or lose.

But the Chinese crew was still a little frightened. Because they couldn't believe that the American captain really dared to drive the transport plane over Bamo, and it also turned around twice......

The American captain looked regretfully at the empty airport below and the sky where not a single enemy plane took off to intercept it, and unwillingly gave the money and drove the plane back...... He never thought that if there were really Japanese fighters, then his life would be over.

The news of the bet spread quickly. Then it reached Stilwell's ears.

Stilwell didn't even believe the information, but he sent a reconnaissance plane to reconnoiter and found out that it was...... This means that the Sino-US coalition forces can seize air supremacy in Bamo without much effort.

So Stilwell thought of another way to increase his troops...... Use the interspersed troops to occupy and control the Ba Mo Airport, and then the transport plane will use the Ba Mo Airport with a large number of equipment and soldiers to land.

The reason for the landing. Because only the Galahad troops could be airborne, and the Chinese troops at this time did not have paratroopers.

This is a good strategic idea, as it allows for quick replenishment of troops and equipment.

Stilwell did exactly that, and he had the 113th Regiment of the new 38th Division return to Myitkyina immediately and prepare a large number of transport planes and ****** for airborne operations...... This was the first actual airborne operation in the history of the Chinese troops.

The plan went well.

On the fifteenth day, the interspersed troops reached the outskirts of Bamo, after which the joint forces of China and the United States immediately launched an attack on Bamo.

The Japanese army did not expect that the Sino-US combined army, which was also equipped with tanks, would suddenly appear in the rear of more than 100 kilometers, and was taken by surprise, and the airport was quickly occupied by the Sino-US coalition forces and a large amount of supplies were captured.

Colonel Brown, who was in command at the front, immediately sent Davis a telegram of the "Merchant of Venice".

"The Merchant of Venice" was the code for the successful capture of the airport and the landing of the plane, so a large number of transport planes towed the ****** full of soldiers and transported them to Bamo.

At this time, it should be said that Ba Mo has already pinched the snail with three fingers, and even after Ba Mo is taken, the two wings deployed by the Japanese army north of Ba Mo will face the dilemma of being surrounded.

But Davis, who only had American tactics and textbooks in his head, made a series of mistakes.

The first mistake was that the equipment that was airborne to Ba Mo along with the transport planes was overwhelmingly anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns...... Davis thought that the Japanese fighters would soon be in battle, and these equipment would help the U.S. military combat power to seize air supremacy.

At this time, the U.S. military had a theory that whoever got air supremacy would win the war, so theoretically this was not wrong, but the Japanese army did not invest a single combat power in Bamo from beginning to end, so these anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns did not play a role at all.

The second mistake was that he thought that Ba Mo only had a small number of Japanese defenses, so he did not devote all his troops and only attacked the city with a Chinese infantry regiment. (To be continued.) )