"Keep going, keep the stragglers, Myitkyina is ahead, everyone be vigilant, watch each other left and right, and if anyone gets distracted, then get ready to go to God!" Lenny, who was holding a carbine, shouted loudly, constantly reminding himself that these guys who looked a bit like a rabble on his side cheered up, and during the time when they were abandoned in the deserted village, the commandos did not lose confidence from top to bottom, but they all grew a pair of lazy bones.

"Lenny, don't worry!" At this time, Hou San walked over with a smile and said to Lenny, "This has to forgive the brothers, you can't expect them to be as energetic as those guys in the New First Army, but I guarantee that once they cheer up, they will definitely be the nemesis of the Japanese soldiers." ”

Ranny nodded at Hou San, but didn't speak, he was just angry in his heart, because these guys were so inferior that they couldn't tell that they were elite soldiers who had crossed the jungle several times. However, he also knew that Hou San would never assure himself indiscriminately, and he was also looking forward to seeing these guys adjust their state and become elite soldiers who could control the battlefield. Lenny's interest made Hou San very satisfied, and he reached out and patted Lenny's shoulder, "Lenny, I know that you also have good intentions, just to remind the brothers not to make unnecessary sacrifices." We must save our lives before we can exterminate the Japanese, and I agree with you. ”

The general attack on Myitkyina was unexpected by Tang Cheng and others, but at the same time, it was what everyone wanted to see. It is not that the expeditionary force and Myitkyina cannot afford to fight a war of attrition with the Japanese army, but every day I see many casualties of the expeditionary force soldiers carried down from the front line, and no one will feel good. Between May 25 and June 25, the Chinese and American forces besieging Myitkyina launched several large-scale attacks, but the results were not very satisfactory, during which the Chinese and American soldiers suffered heavy casualties and could only advance their positions 50 to 200 meters a day.

Commanding the June offensive was the chief of staff of the U.S. General Headquarters, Patno, a man whom Stilwell trusted so much that Stilwell had originally transferred him to Myitkyina only to coordinate the chain of command. But for some unknown reason, in the end, it became that Bertno set up a combat command post for the Chinese army in India in Myitkyina on behalf of Stilwell, and carried out the command on his behalf. With Macham as the field commander, he commanded the various units in Myitkyina; Hunter served as commander of the 5307th Regiment. The Chinese troops in Myitkyina were under the command of Hu Su and Pan Yukun respectively, and the temporary formation of the original Sino-US joint assault detachment was abolished.

Compared with his predecessor, Bertno had less actual combat experience and the ability to command large corps in battle, and he did not dare to go to the front line, and relied on the reports of liaison officers at all levels on the battlefield on both sides of the battlefield, and such reports were often false. Moreover, Patno has always been domineering and domineering, and has a contempt for the Chinese officers, turning a deaf ear to their reports and reasonable suggestions, and insisting on doing things his own way. It was precisely because of this, coupled with Patno's eagerness to seek merit, that the offensive was halted throughout June, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

Tang Cheng and them are just small minions, so it is naturally difficult to know the movements of the upper echelons of the expeditionary force, but they can't stop Mike and Lenny from having their own inside lines and friendships in the headquarters. Knowing that Stilwell's new round of adjustments had disbanded the Joint Commando on the spot, Mike managed to contact the U.S. Military Observer Group, and he didn't know what means Mike had used.

Because Patno failed to accept the Chinese officers' proposal to cut off the passage between the Japanese army and Mong Kung and Bat Mo, the Japanese army in Myitkyina was able to receive reinforcements from Bhamo and Mong Kung, which caused Stilwell's displeasure and removed Bhitno from his post on June 25 and replaced him with Weisel in Myitkyina, but the subsequent Myitkyina operations were actually under the command of Zheng Dongguo. After changing the command of Zheng Dongguo, the troops of the expeditionary force began to move into tunnel warfare and fight steadily, and at the same time quickly sent reinforcements to replenish ammunition.

Zheng Dongguo was particularly proud of the advance of the trench operation, and at the same time paid attention to the coordination of infantry, artillery, and air, so the casualties of the troops on the front line of the expeditionary force were greatly reduced. The commander of the 56th Division, who commanded the Myitkyina operation, was forced to command his troops to fight day and night, repeatedly attacked the British and Indian troops, and used the captured ammunition and supplies to persist in the battle.

The situation in Myitkyina was clearly unfavorable to the Japanese side, and in the week from June 25 to July 2, the Japanese fought back desperately, allowing the Chinese and American forces to advance only a few hundred meters. On 12 July, with the cooperation of air support, the Chinese and American forces launched another general attack on Myitkyina, and a total of 127 sorties of various aircraft dropped a total of 754 tons of bombs, which were 20 percent more than the artillery shells.

Although the Japanese army had made a desperate counterattack and thought of various means, the strength of the water troops trapped in Myitkyina was reduced to only about 1,500 men. The Japanese artillery fire was limited to less than six rounds per day, and the number of grenades was only enough for each Japanese soldier to be allotted two, so that the Japanese had to use white-knuckle combat many times in battle.

In order to replenish the troops as much as possible, Minakami Genzo, who commanded the Japanese army, ordered his intelligence director, Lieutenant Hachie Masayoshi, to sneak out of Myitkyina with five men in the rain, find the branch of the No. 2 Field Hospital in Waza, and command about 400 wounded and sick to break through the blockade and join the main force of the Myitkyina garrison. Even so, the water forces that held Myitkyina suffered casualties, and by late July, the water forces had been reduced to 1,200 men. A large number of positions and facilities were completely destroyed, the officers and men on the front line were in a state of complete exposure without cover, and the trenches were full of rainwater, and the Japanese officers and soldiers could only soak in waist-deep water.

Knowing that the Japanese army was in difficulty in supplying and scarce troops, Zheng Dongguo immediately changed his strategy against the enemy and began to organize a number of small units to carry out armed attacks on the Japanese army in Myitkyina. Mike was now under the banner of the U.S. Observer Corps' Independent Operations Team, so it was easy to get an order from the command to allow the attack, and after selecting among his soldiers, Tang Cheng and Mike reorganized a 120-man squad to go to the front to fight.

Interspersed with harassment and rapid attack, these are Tang Cheng's best skills, when the other raiding troops are still looking for opportunities, Tang Cheng has exchanged fire with the Japanese front line several times in a row, and successfully broke through a section of the Japanese defense line. The scout who had been sneaking at the front sent a message back with a walkie-talkie, saying that he had found a place where Japanese troops were stored, and Tang Cheng led people to rush over to take a closer look, and found that there were indeed Japanese soldiers hiding in these buildings.

"Third brother, Lanny, come here." Hou San and Lenny were holding binoculars to observe the brothers in front of them, but they heard someone next to them calling him, it was Tang Cheng's voice, and he was waving to the two. Hou San and Lenny hurried over, he knew that Tang Cheng was going to make tactical arrangements again. "Lenny, I ask you to lead the first squad to quickly attack from the right, clearing every building of the Japanese along the way. It is best to divide into tactical groups, each led by an experienced veteran fireman. Tang Cheng whispered to Lenny beside him.

"Third brother, you lead the second squad to attack from the left, third brother, be cautious, don't take risks, just let the brothers remember the essentials in training. We don't have to be brute. Tang Cheng paused slightly, and deliberately looked at Hou San. After getting Hou San's affirmative response, Tang Cheng looked around at the others, "The three squads followed me, broke through the middle, and attracted the attention of the Japanese army. After a brief arrangement, seeing that everyone had no other opinions, Tang Cheng immediately ordered the operation to begin. Lenny followed Tang Cheng's instructions to divide the first squad into several groups, each group of five people covering each other, and attacked each building on the right.

"Boom!" The grenade exploded in the building, and then the screams in the house were heard, and a Japanese soldier stumbled out of the house, his hands were raised high, his face was covered with blood, and his mouth was shouting loudly. "Smack!" A gunshot rang out, and the Japanese soldier's head blossomed and he fell to the ground. The soldier who shot the Japanese soldier immediately turned his gun and aimed at the next target, following Tang Cheng for a long time, these soldiers knew that Tang Cheng never left a Japanese prisoner of war alive, rather than having to assign people to take care of the prisoners of war later, it was better to shoot the provincial people now and trouble the other brothers at that time.

Gunshots and explosions rang out one after another, and it seemed that Tang Cheng's plan to attract the attention of the Japanese army by assaulting from the middle was no longer useful, because the second squad led by Hou San had also been killed. Two squads of 80 heavily armed soldiers cleaned up the Japanese soldiers hiding in the building one by one. In the face of Hou San and Lenny's mercury-like attack, the Japanese army soon could not hold on, and the Japanese soldiers in the buildings behind them ran out one after another, desperately running backwards.

"The little devil is running away!" Hou San shouted, and then yelled at the machine gunner who was not far from him, "Machine gun, hurry up, find a commanding height to shoot, don't let them escape." Carrying heavy machine guns, two machine gunners desperately climbed onto the branch of a big tree, and finally the machine gun rang out, and none of the Japanese soldiers who tried to escape could run away under the strafing of the machine gun.