When he was an hour, Kanda Masasang, who was surrounded by officers, climbed the rolling dragon slope, and looked at Okamoto Hoyuki with a ashamed face, and Kanda Masasan didn't say anything. The battle of the 13th Wing is like this, what is the use of talking about it, it is just an empty rolling dragon slope with more than 100 casualties, Kanda Masashi does not know whether to say that it is the cleverness of the thunder or the stupidity of Okamoto Hoyuki.

At dinner time, Kanda Masashi, who suddenly received a secret telegram from the base camp, was somewhat sudden, because this secret telegram was sent directly to him by the base camp bypassing the headquarters of the Burmese Front, which was really too special. When Kanda Masang finished reading the latest deployment of the base camp and the determination of the battle, he reluctantly put the telegram on the table, and Kanda Masasang, who endured the migraine, instructed the adjutant: "Send someone to ask the Maori Chief of Staff to come over, and say that I have something to find him."

Kanda was willing to rush to Lashio, use the superior forces to open up a posture to meet the thunder, and then follow the retreating troops of the thunder all the way to the southwestern border of China, and use this to respond to the offensive launched by the Chinese army in the southwest of China. But the secret telegram sent by the base camp was contrary to his own plan, and the base camp advocated putting the thunder into Burma and then fighting, in the words of the Zhina people, it was called closing the door and beating the dog, and using 160,000 troops to surround the 50,000 troops of the thunder, no matter how you look at it, it will be won.

The body is really not understanding what kind of considerations those fools in the base camp would make such a battle plan, and it is not difficult to see from the encounter of the 13th Wing that the combat power of this thunder is quite strong. Not to mention the quality of their soldiers, the weapons they use alone may be much more than the Japanese army, once such a strong army is put into Burma, coupled with the participation of Mackay Burma, it may not be so easy to contain them.

"Is this just nonsense?" Chief of Staff Maori slammed the message on the table, stared at the body with his eyes and shouted: "Your Excellency the division commander, please be sure to explain the reason to the base camp, this is really too risky" At the beginning of Kanda Masaku's plan, Chief of Staff Maori was a participant, and he defeated the thunder and followed the pursuit into the southwestern border of China, which was the consensus of all the officers of the Sixth Division, and if you want to act according to the orders of the base camp, the preparations made by the Sixth Division in the early stage will be in vain.

Kanda Masasan said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid that the base camp has been blinded by the huge benefits brought by the annihilation of the Thunder troops, and they can't listen to persuasion at all" Kanda Masa stretched out his hand and pointed to the map, "If we try to encircle and annihilate an army of the same size as Thunder in a short period of time, we only need to concentrate the strength of two divisions to achieve our goal." But the Thunder is different from the ordinary Chinese army, they are even more difficult than the US troops we met in the Philippines, if we want to encircle and annihilate 50,000 Thunder troops equipped with American-style equipment, we must concentrate five times their absolute superiority forces, otherwise the encirclement and annihilation will be just empty talk."

Kanda Masa stared at the red arrow representing thunder on the map, and after a long while, he said slowly: "Zhao Zhi has not tasted defeat since he soared into the sky in Shanxi, and he can be said to be extremely arrogant. After they crossed the Nu River, there were no backup troops behind them, and the Chinese army had no intention of sending troops, according to the investigation of the special high section, the materials and oil needed for Thunder's attack on Burma were all raised by Thunder himself, and the government of China only provided verbal assistance, but did not see substantial help, which shows the arrogance of Zhao Zhi."

"Maybe the base camp saw this and asked our Sixth Division to act as a bait to introduce Thunder into Burma and then surround them" Kanda Masang's words made Maori fall into deep thought, if Kanda Masang's analysis just now is correct, it is indeed a good way to lure the enemy into depth to encircle and annihilate it, the battle of 160,000 against 50,000 is not difficult to fight, and no matter how strong Thunder is, it will not be able to defeat an opponent who is more than three times his own strength.

After pondering for a moment, Kanda Masasa finally made up his mind to prepare for the battle according to the orders of the base camp, even at the risk of the collapse of the entire Sixth Division. "Order the 13th Wing to set off for Lashio immediately, find a way to skip Lashio and go to Wan Town to harass their supply lines, and the rest of the division's troops will leave Lashio tomorrow, ready to carry out the orders of the base camp to lure the enemy deeper"

Unbeknownst to Kanda, however, his order seemed to have been given a little too late, and by the time he gave the order, the Thunder's 1st Airborne Division had already prepared to board at three newly built airfields in Lashio, and they were going to carry out a parachute raid on Mandalay tonight.

The main reason for Zhao Zhi's temporary increase in parachute operations was that the infiltrator troops and the Burmese guerrillas who had penetrated deep into northern Burma had already established a foothold around Mandalay, and although the Japanese troops defending Mandalay resisted stubbornly, they could not withstand the frantic expansion and attack of the Burmese guerrillas. The Burmese guerrillas who provided weapons assistance to Thunder did not exceed 10,000, but now the number of Burmese guerrillas operating in the Mandalay area to target the Japanese army has reached 30,000, and according to the report of the infiltrator troops, the Burmese leaders in the entire Shan Plateau are already discussing a joint siege of Mandalay, and the number of Burmese guerrillas around Mandalay will exceed 50,000.

For the first batch of commanders who served as airborne assault missions, Haines, this was a very bold attempt, 40 Thunder transport planes have been lifted into the air, and the cabin is the first batch of 1,200 airborne troops to carry out airborne, and they are accompanied by Hans's fighter escort group, for this airborne operation, Zhao Zhi mobilized almost all the Thunder transport planes and half of the fighters.

"Wait, don't skydive" After a long flight, Haines's landline had already lit up a green light to indicate a parachute, but the pilot of the transport plane temporarily canceled the green light and motioned to the flight technician to close the hatch. The airborne troops waiting in the cabin did not know what was happening, and the pilot piloting the transport plane was also confused by the order from the headset, and the command of Lashio actually sent an order to change the place of parachute landing and order the transport group to be rerouted to Mandalay airport.

The Hans fighter formation, which was on the escort mission, was the first to discover the abnormality of Mandalay Airport, some men dressed in black were mixing with the Japanese troops in khaki yellow uniforms, and the two sides were fighting fiercely with the help of various covers, and the entire Mandalay Airport was filled with gunsmoke. Looking at the battle between the two sides, it is obvious that the men in black have the advantage, not to mention that there is a steady stream of men in black pouring into the airport outside Mandalay Airport.

When the roar of the planes resounded over Mandalay Airport, the anti-aircraft machine guns in the already battle-filled Mandalay Airport began to shoot at the planes, and the huge lightning signs on the wings of both transport planes and fighter planes had already made the Japanese recognize that they were enemy planes. Mandalay Airport, which was hit by the Thunder fighter group last time, suffered heavy losses in other facilities except the runway, if it weren't for the latest order from the base camp, maybe the Japanese troops guarding this place would have to abandon here, and the runway had just been restored day and night, and the Thunder fighter troops came to look for trouble again, this is not bullying people What is this.

"Children, it's time for us to go" The Hans fighter formation that escorted the escort roared and dived downward, and did not encounter a single Japanese fighter to intercept it during the entire flight, and the pilot who piloted the fighter was already holding back the fire in his stomach. With the whistle of Commander Hans, the whizzing fighter jets took the Japanese anti-aircraft fire on the ground as a target, the machine guns in the black hole began to roar and spit out a rain of bullets, and the airborne troops in the cabin of the transport plane could even clearly see the ballistic trajectory extending on the ground with the naked eye.

The back-and-forth strafing of the Hans fighter formations disrupted the anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese troops on the ground, and the speed of the fighters was too fast, and the Japanese anti-aircraft machine guns could not catch them at all, and with the anti-aircraft machine gun positions being blown up, the Mandalay airfield at this time had lost the ability to fight back, and it was completely like a woman who had been stripped of her clothes, just waiting for the airborne troops to pounce on her and ravage her.

A few minutes passed, and pure English came from the Japanese tower, signaling that the transport plane formation could land at Mandalay Airport. The pilot of the transport plane pressed the button to put down the landing gear of the transport plane and scolded hatefully, "Damn infantry, this time they have taken the lead again" The originally thrilling parachute operation turned into a non-threatening landing because of the appearance of the infiltrator troops and the Burmese guerrillas, and the transport aircraft formation hovering in the air landed at Mandalay Airport in turn, and at the same time that Haines, who had no choice but to get out of the cabin, stepped on the airport, the garrison Japanese troops in Mandalay Airport had been defeated by thousands of Burmese guerrillas.

"God, damn Joe, you made me and my children look like we were visiting Mandalay, and I reserve the right to accuse you to the command" Haynes hugged Jomer, the leader of the infiltrator force who came to greet him, and then the airborne troops who stepped out of the cabin also greeted the infiltrator members who knew each other. The infiltrator unit was also parachute trained and knew most of the airborne troops, and the sudden appearance of the infiltrator force was indeed a surprise to the airborne troops, according to the original plan, they should have appeared after the vanguard of Haines landed outside the Mandalay airport.

"Old man, it's not that we want to steal the credit, but something has gone wrong," Jomenu motioned to Haynes to look at the other side of the airport, "The Burmese guerrillas who fought with us inadvertently discovered a Japanese supply point nearby, and half of the Japanese troops in the airport rushed to the rescue, so we launched an attack on the empty airfield in advance." You hurry up and let the transport plane return to Lashio to pick up the rest of the airborne troops, how about half of our family of the loot at the airport? ”

"Joe, we're good friends, that's it," Haynes patted Jomer on the shoulder, motioning to his officers to inform the transport group to hurry up and return home. As long as Mandalay Airport is under their control, the original dangerous parachute operation will become a plane landing, not only the safety factor of the troops is also much higher, but the most important thing is that they control Mandalay Airport, which lays the foundation for Thunder's southward plan.