Hu Bin heard the staff officer say that Li Dalong had gone to sleep in the small conference room, he nodded, signaling them not to disturb Li Dalong, and he went to his place and sat down, looking at the combat report of the Air Force this morning, Hu Bin looked carefully, and then there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Send a telegram to Zhao Xiren, report the list of those who have merit, and I will give them a promotion, by the way, Wang Zhiwu, the captain of the first brigade, I found that he has served as an air commander in the last few operations, which is very good, and ordered him to go to Yan'an immediately to serve as the commander of the 7th Aviation Division, and he can bring 10 meritorious pilots over!" Hu Bin said.

"Yes!" The staff officer next to him immediately said.

When the other staff officers heard this, they were very envious of Wang Zhiwu, and they were directly promoted from the captain of the brigade to the commander of the division, which was too fast, and although they had many opportunities to be the commanders of various units, they were all promoted to the rank of military commander after participating in the battle.

Now Wang Zhiwu is the captain of the brigade, which is equivalent to a regiment commander, and then he was directly promoted to the division commander, skipping the brigade level!

Soon, the telegram arrived at Zhao Xiren, Zhao Xiren saw Hu Bin's telegram, and was very happy, his subordinates were promoted to division commanders, of course he was happy.

"Come on, go and call Wang Zhiwu to come over!" Zhao Xiren said to the communication soldier with a smile.

"Yes!" The communication soldiers immediately went out, and after a while, Wang Zhiwu arrived in Zhao Xiren's office.

"Commander, are you looking for me?" Wang Zhiwu came over and asked with a smile.

"Come, sit down, you're doing very well this time, the commander has noticed you!" Zhao Xiren saw Wang Zhiwu coming over, and beckoned him to sit down with a smile.

"This, in fact, is nothing, I also acted according to orders!" Wang Zhiwu said with a smile.

"Look!" Zhao Xiren took Hu Bin's telegram and handed it to Wang Zhiwu.

As soon as Wang Zhiwu looked at it, he found that the telegram was a telegram from the headquarters of the expeditionary force, and glanced at Zhao Xiren, who motioned him to continue reading.

When he saw Hu Bin ordering Wang Zhiwu to return to Yan'an immediately and serve as the commander of the 7th Aviation Division, he was stunned.

"Commander, I, I, this?" Wang Zhiwu stood up in surprise, looked at Zhao Xiren and said.

"Look at whose order is behind it!" Zhao Xiren said with a smile.

When he saw that it was Hu Bin's signature that gave the order, he was stunned again.

"Now is the high-speed period of the development of our Air Force, we have been lacking in the Air Force talents, you go to serve as the commander of the 7th Aviation Division, it is the most suitable, see what Brother Bin said, let you select 10 meritorious pilots in the past, it is for you to serve as a group leader and squadron leader, pick well, leave in the afternoon, go to Yan'an to form the 7th Aviation Division!" Zhao Xiren looked at Wang Zhiwu and said with a smile.

"Me! Teachers! Wang Zhiwu was very excited.

He didn't expect that he was a battalion commander of the infantry before, and after he arrived in the Air Force, he was promoted to the captain of the brigade, which is equivalent to the regiment commander of the infantry, that is, it was a matter of half a year.

In 8 months, he was promoted from battalion commander to division commander, how did this not make him excited, and the promotion to division commander was an order given by Hu Bin himself, and several division commanders of the Air Force had to listen to Hu Bin's opinions before issuing orders.

The 6 division commanders in front, although they were not very familiar with Hu Bin before, to say familiar, that is, they had been infantry officers under Hu Bin before, but being a division commander was to compete with the officers of many troops, and in the end, they must pass Hu Bin's level, and now Hu Bin directly appointed him as the division commander, which shows that Hu Bin recognizes his ability very much!

"Do a good job, you are the first division commander of our Air Force to train yourself!" Zhao Xiren patted Wang Zhiwu's shoulder and said.

"Yes, I promise not to embarrass the division commander and Brother Bin!" Wang Zhiwu immediately stood up and saluted and said.

"Now Brother Bin is busy, and he is also in the command center of the front line, it is impossible to come to our side to see you off, you can go back directly!" Zhao Xiren confessed to Wang Zhiwu.

"I want to send a telegram to Brother Bin!" Wang Zhiwu looked at Zhao Xiren and said.

"Ha, don't do this, if you send a telegram, you will probably be scolded by Brother Bin! Do your job well, Brother Bin will see, the air force is still under the management of Brother Bin, although most of it is in charge of the commander-in-chief, but the general direction is still in charge of Brother Bin. After you go back there, you should form your troops as soon as possible and let them form combat effectiveness! Zhao Xiren said to Wang Zhiwu.

"Yes! Rest assured! Wang Zhiwu nodded and said.

"If you encounter difficulties in the future, send a telegram to Brother Bin, good news, you don't need to tell Brother Bin, Brother Bin can know, remember to send a telegram to Brother Bin when you encounter difficulties, he will definitely solve it for you." Zhao Xiren continued to explain to Wang Zhiwu.

"I see, thank you, Commander!" Wang Zhiwu nodded.

"Go, go pick someone, Brother Bin will give you 10, and I'll give you another 5!" Zhao Xiren said with a smile.

"Ah, yes, thank you, teacher, thank you!" When Wang Zhiwu heard this, he said very happily that if a new unit, especially an air force unit, had enough experienced pilots as commanders, it would bring great confidence to the troops.

Soon, Wang Zhiwu went out, Zhao Xiren was very happy, at this time, he still had a telegram in his hand, which was sent by Hu Bin, who recorded a special merit for him, and ordered him to familiarize himself with air combat as soon as possible, and then a new command would be formed, and the new commander would be him, Hu Bin asked him to hurry up!

And on Hu Bin's side, after Hu Bin sent a telegram to the Air Force.

"Report, Xiang Feng's troops have been dispatched, and the armored troops have been dispatched first!" A staff officer came to Hu Bin's side and said.

"Report, the Air Force unit has been transferred to Mandalay Airport, the fighters on duty have taken off, and the bombers can take off at any time!"

"Report, Li Qinwei's troops have begun to act! Now on the march to Dagon! ”

"Report, Wang Changhe's troops have moved!"

"Report, Ding Wanzhong's ministry has begun to act!"

At 8 o'clock, the various troops began to officially march towards the devil's defense line according to the original plan.

"Order the air force side, fighter jets are ready to take off at any time, and the devils may send fighters and bombers to block the attack of our ground forces!" Hu Bin walked to the front of the map and said.

"Yes!" A staff officer answered, and then left.

At this time, on several positions near Mandalay, the armored forces were rapidly moving forward, while the ground forces were also beginning to assemble and rush towards their targets.

"Monk, it's not easy to fight this time, our casualties may be very large, your troops are better, they are all veterans, my troops, although they have also participated in several battles, but they are all finished, it is estimated that it is troublesome!" Lin Zeyu, the commander of the 251st Division, said worriedly to Li Qinwei.

"It's hard to fight, remember, to control the casualties, you can consume the ammunition at will, but the casualties must be reduced, I feel the pressure of Brother Bin, although Brother Bin didn't say it, but he must have this kind of worry, otherwise he wouldn't have kept emphasizing that he must control the casualties!" Li Qinwei looked at the marching troops and said.

"What pressure? Can't beat the devil? Lin Zeyu looked at Li Qinwei and said.

"What's the use of winning this battle, think about it, how many troops we have now, more than 300,000 people, how many devils are there, they can't consume us at one time, and they can continue to organize battles, but on our side, how difficult it is to replenish the troops, you also know how difficult it is to replenish the troops, and then there will be no troops to send in the hands of Brother Bin, and we must switch from attack to defense.

But whether it is attack or defense, it is the same for devils, they may grind us to death, therefore, Brother Bin emphasized that we must control casualties! Li Qinwei sighed and said.

"Hey, that's true!" Lin Zeyu heard it, looked at Li Qinwei and said in shock.

"So I said, you can consume ammunition by the way, now we have enough ammunition, we also have enough transport aircraft, and ammunition can be transported by transport aircraft, understand?" Li Qinwei opened his mouth and said.

Lin Zeyu and Wang Xiaoyi, the commander of the 244th Division, nodded seriously.

"Let's go, this time we are the main force of the attack, we must quickly break through the Dagon defense line, so that the attacking troops in our middle can be safe, otherwise the longer our side drags on, the devils will be able to send troops to the front line from behind, so it will really become a war of attrition!" Li Qinwei looked at the two of them and said.

"Understood, don't worry!" Wang Xiaoyi nodded and said.

Soon, the two of them took the car, and now they don't worry about the devil's bombers, they also have fighters on their side, so they dare to march at night, and from this side to Dagong, the infantry needs to march for 4 hours, and the armored troops have an hour enough.

When they get there, they will not attack, although they can raid the position, but the devils have already repaired the anti-tank fortifications, and it is impossible to succeed in the raid, after they arrive at the front line, they must use some machinery and equipment to dig simple fortifications, because behind them are the artillery units, and they also have to cover the artillery units to repair the artillery positions.

Now they don't have to worry about the devil's artillery firing, when they arrive in Dagon, there will definitely be Chinese fighters and bombers in the sky, as long as the devil's artillery position is exposed, they will immediately bomb the devil's artillery position!

Therefore, after the 2nd Panzer Division marched to a place 3 kilometers in front of the main position of the devils, they began to build simple fortifications according to the position they had chosen yesterday, while the armored troops were on guard around the position, so that the infantry of the armored unit and the engineers who came with them repaired the fortifications. (To be continued.) )