Unlike the previous battles, the battle in Myitkyina was fierce as soon as it began...... By this time, the fighting in other directions in Burma was almost over, and the Japanese concentrated almost all their planes at Mandalay Airport and bombed Myitkyina in turn. At any given moment, there will be more than a dozen Japanese fighters or bombers roaring over Myitkyina in search of targets, and after finding the targets, they will dive down and strafe or drop bombs.

The Chinese army relied on anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns left behind by the British to return fire on Japanese aircraft, but on the one hand, the soldiers did not have much experience and training in using these equipment, and on the other hand, the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns moving at low speed on the ground would not have an advantage in the confrontation with fighters flying at high speed in the air...... It is difficult for anti-aircraft guns and the like to aim at enemy planes scurrying in the sky, and as soon as the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns below are fired, they will soon be discovered by Japanese pilots and become their priority targets.

So, just as the best weapon against a tank is a tank, in fact, the best weapon against a fighter is also a fighter.

It's a pity that the Chinese expeditionary force has no air power at all, so as soon as the battle begins, it falls into passivity...... Although a few Japanese fighters were disintegrated in the air or fled back in smoke by the Chinese army, the air defense force was also getting smaller and smaller, and it was soon insufficient to pose a threat to the Japanese warplanes.

As a result, Japanese fighters unscrupulously launched strafing and bombing the Myitkyina defense line.

The first to suffer were the ships on the Madeady River...... At this time, the Japanese army did not care about the friendship between Burma and Japan, whether it was the ship of the Burmese people or the ship of the Chinese soldiers, no matter how big or small, as long as it could float on the river, it would be sunk, and then it would be sunk, and at one moment there were screams on the Inovady River, and there were Burmese fishermen cheering at the Japanese planes one second, and the next second they fell into a string of bullets fired by the Japanese fighters.

A passenger liner was also attacked by Japanese fighters, and after a while, it was blown to the side. The Burmese people on the passenger ship had to jump into the water and shout for help, but no one dared to save them...... The Japanese fighters were already like crazy, and any boat that dared to appear on the river would be attacked, and even two Zero fighters swooped down and fired at the people who fell into the river, and with the splash caused by a string of bullets, the Burmese people who were still struggling to call for help just now quickly turned into dead bodies, and the Inovady River was also dyed red.

It should be said that the Japanese army was right to blow up the ships, because if these ships were kept, they would soon become a means of transport in the hands of the Chinese army as soon as it was dark. So from the point of view of war. There is nothing wrong with what they do, because war is meant to be done in an all-encompassing manner.

But...... To shoot those people who have fallen into the water, knowing that they are people who have little history of the war and still shoot at them, can only be described by the word "perverted...... You must know that the Japanese army does not have many supplies, and the Japanese pilots should save ammunition at this time, but they will waste ammunition on the people, this kind of behavior that harms others and is not beneficial to themselves actually alludes to the distorted heart of the Japanese army, they are venting a kind of killing.

At this time, the most uncomfortable will belong to the new 22nd Division.

The new 22nd Division was arguably the heaviest attack since entering Burma...... In front of it was the 55th Wing of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, as well as a mountain artillery wing and two tank squadrons. There were also Japanese planes in the sky that were constantly strafing and bombing the positions of the new 22nd Division. This made the Japanese army break through the defense line of the new 22nd Division several times, and the soldiers of the new 22nd Division could only fight these devils back again and again with their lives and bayonets.

Division Commander Xiao Yaoxiang sat in front of the map and looked at the map without saying a word under the artillery fire overhead, he was well aware of the importance of the position of the new 22nd Division...... The new 22nd Division only had to take a step back, then it would expose the flanks of Myitkyina to the Japanese 18th Division. Although the Japanese could not carry out river crossing operations without the means to cross the river for the time being, their artillery could directly pose a threat to the Myitkyina flank.

If the new 22nd Division is defeated, not only will the new 22nd Division have no way out and will be defeated again on Savage Mountain, but the Japanese 18th Division will also open a gap in the Myitkyina defense line and go around to the rear of Myitkyina to surround Myitkyina.

So the new 22nd Division cannot be defeated. You can't retreat, you can't retreat a single step!

However, the new 22nd Division now has only more than 6,000 people in the whole division, and it has been rescued since ancient times. He successively fought the Battle of the Sva, the Battle of Pingmanna, and the task of covering the retreat of the main force in the rear of the Fifth Army with the new 38th Division. At this time, the new 22nd Division was already a tired army. On the other hand, the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, its strength is several times that of the new 22nd Division, and it is still an elite division that has only fought a few small battles since entering Burma and is preparing to warm up...... The difficulty of this battle can be imagined.

More importantly, at this time, the new 22nd Division was facing a very embarrassing problem...... The Inovady River was blocked by Japanese fighters, so there was not a single reinforcement or ammunition coming from the Myitkyina direction, and if this continued, the new 22nd Division could only use stones to fight the ghosts!

After thinking about it, Xiao Yaoxiang connected Du Yuming's phone: "Junzao, we don't have much ammunition left!" ”

Du Yuming has worked with Xiao Yaoxiang for many years, and he knows that Xiao Yaoxiang will not easily ask for it if he doesn't talk much, and now he will say that there is not much ammunition...... That means that the new 22nd Division will not be able to hold out.

But at this time, Du Yuming was also very big-headed, he didn't expect that the devil would suddenly launch such a fierce attack on Myitkyina without any warning, which made the Fifth Army have no time to reload the British rifles captured by Myitkyina.

Therefore, at this time, not only the problem of insufficient ammunition of the new 22nd Division, but also the 96th Division and the new 38th Division were also facing this problem.

Of course, the problem of the new 22nd Division was more serious and urgent, because they were separated by a river, and this river was blocked by Japanese planes at this time.

After thinking about it, Du Yuming replied: "Brother Jianchu (the character of Liao Yaoxiang), you must hold on, I will find a way to send you ammunition immediately!" ”

Hanging up the phone, Du Yuming ordered the adjutant: "Order, the 96th Division urgently reloads British rifles, and reinforces the new 22nd Division with all the saved ammunition!" ”

"Yes!" The adjutant responded, but then looked at Du Yuming in astonishment and asked, "Military seat...... Japanese fighters have blocked the river, and this ammunition ...... How to transport it? ”

Du Yuming sighed and said, "Give this task to the sapper regiment!" (To be continued.) )