"Division commander, I'm sorry, I failed" The embarrassed Aihara Dreadnought held his command knife and bent down deeply at the division commander Watanabe Masao, and was driven out by the Shina army in the forest, this result was something that Ainohara Dreadnought could never have imagined. His 148th Wing is the elite of the 56th Division, and an elite wing of the Japanese army with a number of nearly 3,000 people was defeated by the Shina Army of more than 1,000 people, especially the 148th Wing is still a mountain wing, which makes Aihara Dreadnought very ashamed.

"Okay, I don't blame you, it's my fault that I underestimated the enemy" Masao Watanabe graciously picked up Ainohara Dreadnought and inserted the command knife back into the scabbard on Aihara Dreadnought's waist. Watanabe Masao did underestimate the strength of the opponent this time, when his 56th Division was fighting against the US army in the Philippines, he once used a brigade to chase 3000 US troops running around the mountains, this time they were only chasing 1000 that army, Watanabe Masao himself did not expect a siege and annihilation plus jungle war would be like this, and the 148th Wing, the most capable team under his command, was actually defeated by 1000 that army.

"Division commander, our casualties have been counted" Masao Watanabe's adjutant appeared beside Watanabe Masao with the counted casualty figures, and the numbers recorded on it may make the officers of the 56th Division collectively crazy, especially Yanagawa Takeshi and Aihara Dauntless Nosuke.

"Say," Masao Watanabe held his command knife in both hands and simply closed his eyes.

"According to statistics, in last night's attack, we suffered a total of 1,300 casualties, 1,100 of whom were killed and 200 of whom were seriously and lightly wounded. The Yanagawa Wing lost 600 killed and 700 wounded and incapacitated in the pursuit of the Shina Army, and the 148th Wing had already lost the battle just now, and it was determined that 800 soldiers were killed and missing, and more than 600 were wounded. Counting these casualties, plus the casualties we suffered when we were attacked by the Burmese at Yangon Harbor, our division has now suffered more than 5,000 casualties, which is already one-third of the strength of our division."

"Eight Ge Yalu, despicable Burmese, cunning Shina" may have been too many blows in a row, but at this moment, in the face of more than 5,000 casualties, Masao Watanabe did not get angry, but just muttered a few words and it was over. To the despair of Masao Watanabe and his officers, less than two minutes later, one of his combat staff officers rushed over with a panicked face.

"Division commander, no, we have lost contact with the 55th Division and the 18th Division, which have landed in Burma, the officer in charge of telecommunications just now came to report, and the radio station that stayed behind in the Taungoo defense line has also lost contact with us. I tried to contact the command of the dispatch army in Yangon, and they said that the 55th and 18th Divisions had left Yangon yesterday for the Taungoo defensive line, and I guess it would be the 55th and 18th Divisions that were blocked by Taungoo" The words of the combat staff officer were like a thunderclap, and the officers of the 56th Division were staggered and at a loss.

Losing contact with the 1st Division and the 55th Division that landed later, it means that the current 56th Division and the 22nd Division are likely to become the lone soldiers who left Mandalay, if it is just a problem with the equipment and the 18th Division they have lost contact, then the situation is not too bad, but if the 18th Division is really blocked on the front line of Donghu, then they will really become a piece of fat hanging on the mouth of the thunder, and they may be eaten by the thunder at any time, as soon as they think of this, a cold sweat oozes from Watanabe Masao's forehead.

"Continue to contact the 18th Division and the 55th Division, and don't stop until we can contact them" Watanabe Masao drove all his officers out, leaving only Miharu Oshirodo and him in the tent of the temporary headquarters. "Ayutthaya-kun, what should we do now? Moving on, Mandalay or retreating, and holding on? Watanabe Masao looked into the eyes of Miharu Oshiroto and asked slowly. It would be a big sin to change the plan of action and withdraw the troops without permission, and Masao Watanabe is going to pull Oshirodo Sanji to make this decision together, even if he is sanctioned by the base camp afterwards, there is someone to accompany him to talk.

"This, Watanabe-kun, you have the final say, our 22nd Division is just a Type B Division, you know" Oshirodo Sanji saw Watanabe Masao's intentions, but he didn't want to say anything directly, just played haha with Watanabe Masao, but he was angry in his heart. Your 56th Division has been looking down on my 22nd Division since it landed in Burma, so you will know that you will be soft to talk to me, and Oshiroto Sanji naturally can't let go so easily, but he is just messing around with Watanabe Masao. In the end, Masao Watanabe, who was still anxious, personally made a decision to return to the army, and only then did Shiji Shiran go back to gather his troops.

What to do with the woodland surrounded by the Yanagawa United? Watanabe's answer was to give up, the large army moved slowly back first, and the Yanagawa Wing once again faced the sweeping team, and only after the large force withdrew for 10 miles, the Yanagawa Wing could retreat and take on the task of guarding the troops. Yanagawa Takeshi, who was bitter in his mouth, couldn't help it, this was the order of the division commander, and he, the wing commander, could only obey the wishes of the superiors, looking at the sky was approaching the afternoon, the worried Yanagawa Takeshi had only one thought, don't be pursued by the Shina army in the forest when retreating.

Will the sweepers lurking in the woods pursue Yanagawa United? The answer is yes, in the first battle of the woodland, although the sweep team relied on the jungle and the bombs planted in advance to repel the 148th Wing, they also suffered a lot of casualties. Yan Jiuzhang, the squadron leader of the first squadron, was shot in the thigh, and the three squad leaders died in grenades thrown by the Japanese army, and the sweeping team killed nearly 100 people in the battle, and more than 300 people were injured.

Such a large casualty annoyed the rock dragon, and in just one battle, the cleaning team lost a third of its manpower, and his own brother was also injured, which he could not suppress no matter what. "Captain, the scouts on the periphery reported that the Japanese army seemed to be gathering troops, and it seemed that they were going to retreat" The cleaning team was surrounded in the forest, but they still had several teams of scouts lurking outside the woodland, and the walkie-talkie with a radius of 5 kilometers allowed them to contact the main force of the cleaning team in the woodland at any time.

Yanlong's teeth itched to hate the Japanese army, but he was not arrogant enough to use the sweeping team to contain more than 20,000 Japanese troops, and the order Zhao Zhi gave him was only to fight with the 56th Division to test the reality of the other party. The Liuchuan Wing was almost disabled by the sweeping team, the 56th Division was attacked at night and caused more than 1,000 casualties, and now the 148th Wing is also suffering heavy casualties, and the actual task of the sweeping team has already been completed. "Immediately send a report to the armored forces, the fish has been unhooked, is it withdrawn?"

The 56th and 22nd Divisions were ambushed and intercepted, which was the first plan of action for the joint operation of Joy and the sweeping team, and the original plan was for the sweeping team to attract the Japanese army around this woodland and use armored forces to launch a peripheral assault to crush the Japanese army in one fell swoop. However, Zhao Zhi sent a report to Joy to ask him to put the encirclement bigger, Joy mistakenly understood Zhao Zhi's intentions, and without notifying the sweeping team in time, he wanted to take a fork in the road to cut off the Japanese army, due to the unfamiliarity with the road conditions, the armored troops were still fighting against the rockslide on the fork in the road, and they could not complete the encirclement and assault of the Japanese army when the sweeping team returned to the woodland.

"Since the Japanese army wants to retreat, then we will give them a ride and inform the sweeping team and armored troops to retreat to Mandalay after 30 miles of pursuit" The information that the 56th Division and the 22nd Division wanted to evacuate was transmitted to Zhao Zhi's headquarters in Mandalay, and after thinking for a while, Zhao Zhi ordered the bomber formation at Mandalay Airport to immediately take off and bomb the 56th and 22nd Divisions. Air firepower is another reliance of the Thunder, the Japanese army in Burma has a pitiful number of fighters, the last time the Japanese airborne attack on Tengchong was still from Vietnam mobilized fighters, as long as the control of Burma's air supremacy, the Japanese army wants to defeat the Thunder I am afraid that it will take a lot of effort.

8 bombers and 12 fighters escorted roared into the air, Yanlong, who had already received the order, took the sweeping team to prepare for the pursuit battle, and Joey on the fork in the road also opened the road and was hurrying to the predetermined location, everything was waiting for the moment when the fighters appeared. When the fighters swooped down from the clouds, the Japanese army had just retreated less than five miles, and the machine guns cut the Japanese troops into several sections like a razor, and the military vehicles that were blown up by the machine guns one after another filled the road with thick smoke, and the scorching flames provided the best target guidance for the bombers.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom" The bombing hatch was opened when the dive bomber was pulled up, and the arrogant foreign pilots almost lowered the bomber to the lowest point before taking the bomb twist, which would be more accurate. The bombs dropped by eight bombers turned the three-mile-long road into a sea of fire, and the fighters who dived back and forth used the scattered Japanese troops as a target shooting game, and the bullets from the machine guns ploughed two long bloody paths in the crowd, and the pilots shouted loudly in the cabin to celebrate their accuracy.

"Boom", "Boom", "Dada" fighter troops have not yet retreated, and Joey, who was lucky enough to arrive in time from the fork in the road, commanded the armored troops to appear on the flank of the Japanese army, and the flexible mobility of the stalkers and the large-caliber heavy machine guns on the top became a nightmare for the Japanese army, coupled with the sharp fire lethality of the European tanks, so that the Japanese troops who had just been brutalized by the fighter units did not have time to organize the defense line and retreated one after another. "Rush up and kill them" The high-spirited Joey lifted the roof of the command vehicle and commanded more than 60 tanks and armored vehicles under the cover of 500 Jewish infantry to launch a cluster assault on the Japanese army.