"I see!" When he heard that the reconnaissance plane had discovered the enemy's fleet on the Irrawaddy River, he said hatefully: "The Chinese are too cunning to think of interspersing along the Irrawaddy River!" ”

After a pause, he asked the staff officer beside him: "Yamano-kun, where is the Chinese's fleet now?" ”

"Judging by the position of the last report of the reconnaissance plane......" The staff officer then pointed out a location on the map and said: "The Chinese fleet should be here now, and if they are not stopped again, it will enter the Duandi Canal in a dozen hours!" ”

"Bastard!" Kawabe Shozo couldn't help but slam his fist on the table.

For more than ten hours, there was no time to organize defense in such a short time, because the second division of the troops stationed in Rangoon was basically emptied by him, and the four infantry wings either went to the southern coastline to defend against the possible landing of the British army or drove to the direction of Tonggu to deal with the Chinese, at this time the Japanese army in Rangoon only had troops directly under the direct jurisdiction of the front army, and if this unit was transferred away from Rangoon, Rangoon would become an empty city.

"Your Excellency, General!" The staff officer reminded: "The artillery regiment of the 24th Mixed Brigade is still downstream, you can let them block it!" ”

Kawabe Shozo nodded, and then gave a series of orders.

The first order was that the artillery regiment of the 24th Mixed Brigade would immediately rush to the banks of the Irrawaddy River and stop the Chinese fleet from moving south at all costs.

The second half of this order is actually an empty word, everyone knows that the artillery regiment of the mixed brigade will not be able to stop the Chinese fleet, and this is not only a problem of the quality of the mixed brigade is insufficient, but also a problem of rushing into battle and facing several times its own and most likely facing the air power of the Chinese army.

The second order was that the 29th and 30th Wings should return to Yangon immediately.

Of course, this order was correct, the 29th and 30th Wings were sent out by Shozo Riverside to prepare to defend the Chinese army from the south in Burma, and since the Chinese army was not interspersed with the southward movement along the road, then they would lose their original strategic significance, and of course they would have to return to Rangoon for defense.

But sometimes the troops are easy to release and difficult to take back.

First of all, there was the problem of communication, the 29th and 30th wings of the rapid march did not turn on the radio on the road. Therefore, unless it is the next radio contact time, this order will not reach the 29th and 30th wings.

But Kawabe Shozo also had his own way, so he sent reconnaissance planes to catch up with the 29th and 30th Wings, and then gave orders by radio contact after catching up.

However, it is quite coincidental...... Before the reconnaissance planes could catch up with the 29th and 30th Wings, they were shot down by fighters sent by the Yankees to be responsible for patrolling.

These fighters were sent by Stilwell to escort the fleet, which was nothing if it was not discovered by the Japanese before, but once it was discovered by the Japanese...... This means that it is very likely to be attacked by the Japanese air power, so the cover of air power is indispensable.

In desperation, Kawabe Shozo had to choose a local method and sent a correspondent to drive the side three wheels to chase the 29th and 30th Wings. However, these correspondents were ambushed by the Chindit troops, who had been lying in ambush on the side of the road, and failed to convey the order.

In the end, it took a few hours to wait for the contact point to be given an order for the 29th and 30th wings to rush back to Yangon as quickly as possible.

Major General Matsuyama Motoji, who commanded the 29th and 30th Wings, was confused when he heard this order, he had just been sent out last night, and he was still marching to the north of Tonggu to block the Chinese army, why did he rush back to Rangoon now? Isn't this back and forth tossing people?!

But Matsuyama didn't say much, and ordered the troops to turn around and turn back.

Not long after the troops turned back, they only heard a loud "boom" in front of them, and Matsuyama Genji, who was sitting in a jeep, knew that something was wrong.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the signal corps to run up and report: "Your Excellency, Major General." The Burmese blew up the road bridge! ”

"It's Burmese again!" Matsuyama Motoji couldn't help but grit his teeth with hatred.

The situation is completely different from the first Burma campaign, when the Burmese were doing everything they could to help the Japanese, and now the Burmese are causing trouble to the Japanese along the way, although these troubles are not big. But at the critical moment, it was still a headache for the Japanese army.

But this time the Japanese made a mistake, and it was not the Burmese who blew up the road bridge, but a member of the Chindit army...... Their task was to follow the Japanese army all the way and prepare to blow up the bridge and break the road behind them. So, the bombed highway bridge is far more than that.

"Order the sappers to repair the bridge immediately!" Matsuyama Motoji ordered.

"Yes!"

Matsuyama thought that he would only have to wait for a while, and the engineering troops would soon resume transportation.

But he apparently underestimated this attack by the Chinese and American coalition forces.

Not much. There was a faint "rumbling" sound of the airplane motor in the air.

At first, Matsuyama Genji and all the Japanese didn't care, because they were located in southern Burma, and there was basically no shadow of American planes here, so when they heard the sound of aircraft motors, they naturally thought it was the Japanese army's own plane.

But after thinking about it, Matsuyama felt that something was wrong, most of the Japanese planes were sent to Imphal to fight, and there were indeed some planes left in Rangoon, but that was also to prepare for the British landing, and it was unlikely that they would fly from north to south......

So Matsuyama Genji ordered loudly: "Hide, this is the enemy's plane!" ”

But it was too late, and with the whistling of bombs, aerial bombs fell from the sky like eggs, and then landed on the road with great precision, blowing Japanese tanks, armored vehicles and cars to pieces. Of course, along with this equipment, there were also groups of Japanese soldiers.

Several fighters swooped down, firing a stream of smoky bullets in a piercing screech, knocking out a single piece of the Japanese troops running below for cover.

One dive was not over after that, the fighter made a circle and then another dive...... The target of this dive was several Japanese tanks that were fleeing on the road, and the thin armor of the Japanese tanks could not block the 12.7MM machine guns on the P40 fighters.

……

After a long time, the US planes disappeared contentedly over the Japanese troops, leaving the Japanese soldiers with patches of corpses and various pieces of equipment that fell on the side of the road and were on fire.

Seeing all this, Matsuyama Genji only felt like crying without tears, and his mechanized infantry wing was beaten into an infantry wing in just the blink of an eye.

(To be continued.) )