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Kunming, Yunnan. General Cai Ye temporarily retired.

"Report to the general, a telegram came from the flight brigade. Eight of our planes were ambushed by British planes on their way back from a bombing mission this morning, two bombers and two fighters were destroyed, and the remaining two fighters were damaged. Later, our flying group dispatched eight fighters into Burma, and according to the telegram, our planes were now close to the British base camp in Burma. ”

"What is the movement of the main forces of the British army?" Cai Ye said in a deep voice. Compared with the contest of the air force, Cai Yi attaches more importance to the situation of the ground forces. After all, the greater role of aircraft is to deter.

"According to the information from our intelligence officers in Burma, the size of the British army in Burma has reached 100,000, weapons and equipment are still being delivered, and the size of the British army on the Burma front has also expanded from about 10,000 to more than 30,000. There were even intelligence officers who discovered the traces of British tanks. The operational staff officer said.

"Tanks are not a cause for concern, and with the terrain of this southwestern border, the presence of tanks is not a great deterrent. Plus we also have bazookas specifically for tanks, and if British tanks really want to go to war, we will definitely let them go in vain. Cai Ye said indifferently.

"General, what are the intentions of the British, and why did they choose to provoke a war in this southwest, where the terrain is complicated. Wouldn't it be more advantageous to launch an attack on the coast with Britain's world's largest naval force? "A lot of people in the Wehrmacht don't understand why the British are so easy to do.

"We don't have a clue about this, maybe the British don't want to start an all-out war with us!" Cai Yi shook his head for this question. The Wehrmacht's top brass had also considered it, but had not received any useful information. It was as if the resolution was made by British Prime Minister Lloyd George. The British hierarchy did not agree with the Asian format, but Lloyd George used his influence to force it. There was also a lot of controversy within Britain about the conflict in the Far East.

"General, this is the battle plan drawn up by the headquarters of the Southwest Military Region, Commander Guo Shanhu, please take a look." The staff officer sent a copy of the battle plan from the headquarters of the Southwest Military Region in Chengdu to Cai Yi.

At present, the Sino-Burmese border is mainly the defense area of the Southwest Military Region, and Cai Yi, in his capacity as deputy chief of the general staff of the National Defense Forces, personally came to lead the frontline operations, and Guo Shanhu also had to obey Cai Yi's command.

Cai Yi took the battle plan and looked at it, and his brows couldn't help frowning. This operational plan of the Southwest Military Region is in a proper manner and fully implements Feng Yong's idea that it is his duty to defend the territory. The entire battle plan was mainly defensive and counteroffensive. It will not take the initiative to carry out large-scale attacks, let alone send large-scale troops into Burma.

"General, is there any problem?" The combat staff officer asked.

"Hmm. There are some problems that the plan itself can do, but doing so will allow the war to drag on for a long time. Cai Ye pondered. The people did not dare to disturb him. Whenever Cai Ye falls into deep thought, there are always good ideas that appear.

"Order the 5th, 9th, 13th, 18th, and 22nd Divisions to assemble in the Biyun Mountain area." Cai Ye said in a deep voice. After the operation of the Seventh Brigade, Biyun Mountain has become a solid front-line attack bridgehead for the Wehrmacht. The Sino-British contest is also mostly waged in this region.

"General, what do you want?" You know, a standard division of the Wehrmacht contains 25,000 men. Five divisions are 125,000 men, accounting for half of the entire China-Burma border defense force.

"The best defense is to attack, and now this situation is not good for us, and only active attacks can open up the situation." Cai Ye said in a deep voice. "General, you're not going to lead your army into Burma, are you?" The faces of the people in Cai's staff team changed greatly.

"Yes, our Wehrmacht is too easy to bully, Western people want to take a bite of us, and now it's just the British who do it, once the British taste the sweetness on us, Western countries will flock to us, and then we will really be embattled. Rather than that, it would be better to risk inflicting a heavy blow on the British and completely deterring the ambitious countries of the West. Cai Ye said in a deep voice.

"General, are you trying to make an example of the monkey?" Said a staff officer.

"Yes, but this operation is very risky, and although a rash cross-border battle can have a surprise effect, it is also easy to be ambushed by the enemy and annihilated. In this way, I immediately drew up an operational plan and asked the Southwest Military Region to fully cooperate. "As the level of firepower of the Wehrmacht increases, logistical pressure is increasing. Such a large-scale troop mobilization of more than 100,000 troops cannot be completed without adequate logistical support.

With Cai's order, the entire Southwest Military Region was surging. Cai Yi's battle plan was transmitted to the headquarters of the Beijing National Defense Force, and Feng Yong pondered for a long time, and finally agreed.

Yangon, headquarters of the British Army in Burma.

Lieutenant General Filinhot's face was rather solemn. The plan for the ambush was personally assigned by him, but the result was not satisfactory. Six fighters ambushed eight Chinese planes, which seemed numerically inferior, but Lieutenant General Filinhot knew that all six British planes were fighters used in air combat, while half of the Chinese planes were bloated and inflexible bombers. However, the results were not satisfactory, only two of the four Chinese bombers were shot down, and the remaining two left unscathed. In the battle of fighters, four Chinese fighters faced six British fighters, as a result of which two were lost, and the remaining two broke through after the fuel consumption entered the warning point. Instead, it was the British fighters, three of which were shot down, and the remaining three were also somewhat wounded. The result of such a battle made Lieutenant General Filinhot frown deeply.

After seeing the injuries of the three fighters returning home, the aircraft designers at the Yangon field airfield made it clear that the three planes must undergo major repairs, otherwise it would be extremely dangerous to go to the sky.

This undoubtedly told Filinhot that the six British fighters were almost completely useless. From the conflict with China to the present, Britain has lost 20 aircraft one after another. There are only five fighter jets left in the entire territory of Myanmar, and the remaining seven are bloated bombers. It can be said that the air power that Britain sent to the Far East is about to be lost. As a result of today's battles, British aircraft designers came to the conclusion that the Chinese aircraft was slightly superior in performance to the aircraft of the British Empire. As soon as this conclusion came out, even Dr. Thomson, who came to this conclusion, was a little incredulous. In the eyes of Westerners, China is an ignorant and backward country. Before World War I, the British had a lot of influence in China, and although China nominally had national sovereignty, for Britain and France and other countries, China was like a place for their raw materials and industrial products dumping, and they could come whenever they wanted. This is how the country, which was despised by the British, actually produced aircraft that were even more advanced than the British Empire, and if these flight data were not obtained by British pilots with their lives, I am afraid no one would believe it.

"Report to the commander, news came from the reconnaissance unit that a Chinese plane had appeared twenty miles north of Yangon. It was flying towards Yangon. ”

"What?" Filinhot's face changed drastically. In the past few days, Chinese planes have frequently bombed various parts of northern Myanmar. The British army throughout northern Burma cowered. Although Yangon is within the range of Chinese aircraft, it is also close to the flight limit of Chinese aircraft, so although Chinese aircraft have been rampant throughout northern Myanmar, they have not been seen near Yangon. ..., "How many are there?" How many bombers are there in them? Filinhot's face was a little pale. You know, Rangoon is the headquarters of the British army, and it is a symbol of the British Empire's rule in Burma. If Rangoon had been bombed, the British Empire's face in the movement would have been completely lost.

"There are no bombers, only eight combat units."

"Damn, order all planes to take off to intercept, Rangoon must not let Chinese planes appear!" Lieutenant General Filinhot said in a deep voice. Yangon is not only the headquarters of the British Army in Burma, but also a large number of Western journalists. These people were already interested in the Sino-British conflict, and if Chinese planes were found in the rear of the British army, the British would lose face.

"Commander, we have only eight planes left in Rangoon, of which only three fighters have just returned from their mission, and four of the remaining five are bombers. The other is a transport aircraft, and with such strength, we are probably not an opponent of Chinese aircraft. The staff officer said with a gloomy face. Dr. Thomson's conclusion that the Chinese aircraft were superior had spread through the British military's top brass and, though unbelievable, had to be believed.

"If you can't fight, you have to fight, order the troops to concentrate heavy machine guns, set up them for me outside the northern city, and as long as the Chinese planes appear, fire at me with all my might." Lieutenant General Filinhot said dryly.

At present, Britain does not have anti-aircraft machine guns, which are specially used against aircraft. After all, the British aircraft was the first to be put into real combat, because the threat was not expected, naturally there was no anti-aircraft machine gun for air defense. And China, although it has anti-aircraft machine guns, is not equipped with a large number of them. Since the British aircraft entered the war, they were damaged by Chinese aircraft. The airspace over the entire Sino-Burmese border has almost become the airspace of the Chinese Air Force, and British planes have hardly entered the territory of China on several occasions, so naturally they have no chance to taste the anti-aircraft machine guns of the Chinese planes specially used against them.

Although Britain does not have a special anti-aircraft machine gun, it can still pose a great threat to aircraft by mounting a large number of heavy machine guns. What's more, the Chinese planes that appeared this time were mainly fighters, and their purpose was most likely to take revenge on the formation of Chinese planes that were ambushed in the morning. If this is the case, the Chinese aircraft will not be overly entangled. Moreover, the British planes do not show up, and the Chinese planes have no way to take Yangon. It's just that considering the face of the British Empire, even the British planes in Rangoon will go to war, no matter how weak. Whether or not you can beat is a matter of ability, and whether you can fight or not is a matter of attitude. Influenced by decades of being the world's first, the pride in the bones of the British is unmatched by any country.

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