Located 80 kilometers from Yangon, Bago is the intersection of several highways heading south to Yangon, and it is also the only way for Chinese troops to move south.

More importantly, there is a field airfield to the west of Bago...... After the First World War, the importance of the airport to the Chinese army is self-evident, at this time the Chinese army has American transport planes to serve it, once the Bago airport falls into the hands of the Chinese army, it means that the Chinese army and all kinds of equipment and supplies will continue to be transported through the airport to Bago.

In addition, the US fighters can also be transferred to Bago, and the Japanese air group in Yangon will no longer have any distance advantage.

In other words, once Bago is lost, then the defense of Rangoon will soon fall into a total passivity, and it can even be said that it is only a matter of time before Rangoon is lost, because the most difficult thing for the Japanese army now is equipment and supplies.

However, at this time, there were no more troops in Yangon, so what else could be used to reinforce Bago?

In desperation, Kawabe Shozo issued an urgent ****** to Yangon, organizing the logistics personnel, wounded soldiers, engineers, communication line guards, and even Japanese expatriates in Rangoon.

The commander of this force was Major General Kimura Hyotaro, and to his dismay, although his soldiers seemed to be quite numerous, some of them did not even have rifles, and even if they had rifles on their backs, Kimura Hyotaro noticed that the strap of the rifle turned out to be a hemp rope...... It is clear that the rifle was sent to Yangon for repair after being damaged by the baptism of war on the front line, and its gun belt was used for too long or broken during the battle, and in the Japanese warehouses, there was not even a gun belt and had to be replaced with hemp rope.

Kimura Hyotaro was a little skeptical that these rifles could still shoot a few rounds on the battlefield.

Another thing that bothered Kimura was that he didn't know anything about the Chinese army he was going to face: he didn't know the number, firepower, and strength of the Chinese army. I don't even know where they are now.

Kimura Hyotaro received only one order: he must rush to Bago ahead of the Chinese and hold Bago and wait for reinforcements!

The only thing that made Kimura Hyotaro feel relieved was that Shozo Kawabe finally gave him an artillery regiment and a tank regiment, and promised to let the flying brigade assist him in the battle if necessary.

But what good is that?

There are only more than forty aircraft in the flight group, and it is impossible to devote all of them to Bagu, so will they be the opponents of the US military aircraft?

If you can't seize air supremacy, the artillery regiment and tank regiment are not the target of the US fighter jets?!

Kimura Hyotaro looked at the troops who were driving to Bagu in a group of cars beside him, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of desolation in his heart: I don't know how many of these people who went up can come back. Even including yourself...... Life and death are unknown.

But even though he knew that the battle was auspicious, Kimura Hyotaro still tried his best to find a way to hold Bagu...... Because he thought it was a duty of a Japanese soldier.

So Kimura Hyotaro concentrated all the cars and sent the artillery and a brigade of infantry to Bago at the first time, Kimura Hyotaro knew that he was now competing with the Chinese army for time, if it was too late and the Chinese army had already occupied Bago, then the battle would be lost before it began.

This decision of Kimura Hyotaro was obviously correct, because the infantry and artillery he sent were indeed ahead of the Chinese army to Bago, and the Japanese even had a little time to deploy and build a simple defensive line.

It's just that Hyotaro Kimura made a mistake. He thought that the empty airfield was not safe to defend, so he did not send troops to garrison it...... In fact, this cannot be said to be a mistake made by Kimura Hyotaro, because with the quality of these soldiers led by Major General Kimura, if they were still stationed at an airport and had a tough confrontation with the Chinese army. There is a high chance that it will collapse due to a large number of casualties, so it is actually a last resort.

However, what everyone did not expect, including Kimura Hyotaro himself, was that the two mixed brigades of the Japanese army, which had been formed improvised and originally thought that they did not have much military quality and combat effectiveness, fought very tenaciously. Even surpassed the 18th Division, an elite unit.

That's all for later.

At that time, the Chinese army also rushed to the outskirts of Bago, and it can be seen that the local Japanese did not expect the Chinese army to appear here at all, when the tanks and convoys of the Chinese army drove by. A few Japanese women in kimonos and clogs cast curious glances at the soldiers, and when they realized that the troops were enemies, they hurried into their houses.

What made the Chinese army feel even more incredible was that when the Chinese army's tank "rumbled" into the Japanese military police squadron, a Japanese military policeman who had been woken up rushed out of the house, angrily blowing a whistle and making a gesture at the tank to stop advancing...... He also thought that in front of him was some novice of the Japanese army, who didn't know what to do, and actually drove the tank here.

However, the anger of the gendarmes did not stop the tank, and the fighters drove the tank over him and crushed it into a pulp. Perhaps, until the moment of death, the Japanese military police thought that he had died at the hands of reckless recruits.

Then the scattered gunfire soon rang out, and it was the Japanese military police who came from the attached area to fire into the sky, hoping to shock the "ignorant and bad" army...... But in the next second, they found that their gunfire not only failed to stop each other, but the opposing tank also sprayed a rain of bullets, and the tank turret also made a terrifying turning sound, and then several shells were fired into the middle of them with a "boom".

At this time, the crowd panicked, they screamed and ran around, and the Japanese military police finally figured it out...... It was not the Imperial Army that broke into this place at all, but the enemy, the enemy with tanks.

Until this time, some people couldn't believe it, and they were still asking again and again: "How is it possible, how did the enemy come to us?" ”

But everything in front of them told them that it was true, and that the Chinese army had indeed fought here.

Hearing the sound of gunfire and artillery, the 73rd Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, which had just arrived at the Bago garrison, knew that the Chinese army was close at hand, so it immediately launched an artillery attack on the target, regardless of whether there was still its own gendarmerie unit in front of it.

The Battle of Bago began. (To be continued.) )