As soon as the two finished speaking, a boom and explosion came. A bomb exploded in the middle of the courtyard of the headquarters, and the glass in front of the office was splashed up.

Several guards hurriedly pounced on the generals such as Shozo and Saito by the river, and used their bodies to resist all kinds of shrapnel and glass flying in.

At this time, dozens of P40 fighters and Chinese-made dive bombers formed a formation and flew towards Yangon.

Air raid sirens sounded throughout the city. Before the Japanese air defense troops were in position, a large number of Burmese troops rushed towards them, and some of these people were beaten into a sieve by the officers and soldiers of the Burmese army uprising before they could enter the gun position.

After the plane formation entered the skies over Myanmar, it descended to carry out air-skimming precision bombing. The Japanese army headquarters, the ammunition depot and oil depot on the Yangon River, and the barracks of a Japanese brigade were all attacked to varying degrees at the first time.

The Burmese Front Headquarters building was one of the first targets to be attacked, and many* fell on the British-built Gothic building, and the sturdy concrete building became vulnerable at this time, and they all fell down with a clatter, splashing dust.

When the air raid came, if it weren't for the timely cover of a few guards around Shozo Riverside, I am afraid they would all be buried in the flames. But the other officers were not so lucky, and in the combat staff room, not a single Japanese officer who had time to be transferred to an underground anti-aircraft bunker was buried in concrete, and none of them escaped.

"Your Excellency, it seems that the Burmese have colluded with the Chinese people, and they did this on purpose." The grizzled Saito hid in the command post of the underground bunker and cursed with some righteous indignation.

The headquarters building of the Japanese army was the headquarters of the British army in Rangoon. There are underground bunkers built by the British, and there are perfect air defense facilities. After the Japanese moved in, the area was expanded and a complete underground command post was built. In addition to the storage of food and water and medicine, there are also communication stations and a command system, which means that this place can be regarded as an underground command system.

In addition to these, because these are the underground bunkers of the commanders, there are also many secret passages and tunnels to the outside built here in case of emergency.

Kawabe Shozo is not worried about the command of the outermost troops now, and when the air raid siren comes, the underground command system will be operational.

He was commanding troops thousands of miles away, and now he was most worried about not knowing what was going on outside Yangon.

What happened to the gendarmerie? What happened to the Nagasawa Brigade, which served as a guard? There is no definite information on this, as the communications corps has not been able to contact the two teams.

These two forces, the only troops they currently have in Burma, have been unable to be contacted, which is worrying.

Shozo Riverside was pacing back and forth in his office, a huge exhaust fan was blowing, the basement was dark and damp, and there were a lot of weapons and ammunition in reserve, in order to prevent moisture, naturally a lot of such exhaust fans were installed for ventilation.

Chief of Staff Saito was a little worried, "At the moment, it seems that we urgently need to know the situation above. Telephone lines at all levels of communication may now have been cut off. Your Excellency, I suggest that you send your soldiers out, and that the Gendarmerie and Nagasawa Brigade be found in order to suppress the current rebellion. ”

Kawabe Shozo nodded, and he signaled to send scouts to contact the gendarmerie and the Nagasawa brigade.

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When Yangon was hit by an air raid, Aung San and others were preparing to leave for the airport in Myanmar. When the air raid sirens sounded throughout the city, they went out and looked up to see a large number of planes carrying out precise bombing of various Japanese strongholds.

The bombardment began, and the bombed oil depot burst into flames, engulfing the Japanese officers and soldiers nearby into a sea of flames, and after a while, bursts of smoke rose into the sky.

Kun Sha said excitedly: "The general offensive has begun!" The general offensive of the expeditionary forces began. ”

As he spoke, he said to Aung San and Min Aung: "The two generals should stay here, I will now lead people to attack the Yangon airport, and you must command the troops to occupy the Japanese stronghold." ”

Aung San and Min Aung nodded in agreement with him, and no one wanted to go to the Rausch airport unless they had to.

Min Aung waved his hands excitedly, "According to this bombing, even if the reinforcements of the expeditionary force do not come, our Burmese army will be able to kill the Japanese troops in Yangon City independently." ”

"Yes, the air superiority is too obvious, and it is completely suppressing the Japanese army."

"It's still the Americans' planes that are ...... powerful"

Many Burmese generals were amazed, but they had praised the Japanese a few hours earlier.

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Although the generals of the Burmese army were excited at this time, in fact, the offensive of the Burmese army at this time did not have any great results. Because of the inability to make adequate preparations at the beginning, coupled with the incomplete and neat orders issued at all levels, the initial offensive of the Burmese army was very chaotic, and there was even a situation in which the Burmese army fired at the Burmese army.

Except for the attack of the Youth Corps, which still had some clues, the other units were still unable to occupy the destination as scheduled after several hours of continuous fighting.

When the troops of the 1st Division led by Wu Wenxiang attacked the Changze Brigade, the other side was already vigilant. Seeing that the Burmese army was fully armed and marching towards them, the Changze brigade immediately opened fire.

A fierce exchange of fire broke out near the camps of the two sides, and after hearing the gunshots, the Japanese soldiers who were doing afternoon exercises in the playground immediately grabbed the rifles around them and gathered in the whole team and began to rush to the front line.

In the end, the officers and men of the Changze Brigade were troops who had fought many tough battles, and their mobilization ability was very strong, and within 20 minutes, the 1,000 main forces of a brigade had been prepared and perfected. The group commander, Chang Zeming, divided the troops into two parts, one sent to the front line of the exchange of fire with the Burmese army, and the other remained as a reserve.

It is not clear how many Burmese troops there are, and he does not dare to move rashly.

The Japanese officers and men were indeed well-trained, and under the cover of the Type 92 heavy machine gun and the Taisho Type 11 light machine gun, the infantry jumped up one after another and launched a counteroffensive against the Burmese army.

On the other hand, on the side of the Burmese army, because of the unscientific arrangement of heavy firepower, several improvised heavy machine gun nests not only had shooting dead spots, but also exposed targets, and not long after the exchange of fire, they were blown up by the grenadiers of the Japanese soldiers. The heavy machine gunner was blown to pieces, and the two Type 92 heavy machine guns were also blown up.

The Burmese army, which had lost the cover of heavy machine-gun fire, suddenly reduced its offensive greatly, and under the shouting charge of the Japanese soldiers, their position was greatly disorganized. Fortunately, at this time, the air raid of the expeditionary force arrived as scheduled, and three dive bombers carried out hysterical bombing of the Japanese garrison, and the reserve troops on standby on the playground became a live target, and even the place where the two armies met was hit by a lot of shells.

The armies of both sides were stunned by this sudden air attack, and they simply retreated from the battle. However, because the bombing was carried out against the infantry camp of the Japanese army, the losses of the Japanese army were much greater than those of the Burmese army.

In this way, the advantage of the Burmese army is obvious. After the air raid, Wu Wenxiang continued to reorganize his troops and launched a second wave of attacks towards the Changze brigade.

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The Japanese gendarmerie, which the Youth Corps attacked, went much more smoothly. As the name suggests, the Burmese Army Youth Corps is a unit dominated by intellectual youth, which was built under the supervision of Aung San himself and was personally led by U Teng Win. So although it was hung under the name of the 1st Division, it was an almost independent unit.

Compared with other Myanmar independence forces, this force has stronger combat effectiveness because of its political ideas and beliefs to save the country and save the people.

At the time of the uprising, the officers and men of the Youth League immediately led their troops towards the Japanese gendarmerie station. The Japanese gendarmerie numbered less than 300 and was mainly equipped with light weapons, but they were stationed in urban areas, not only covered by reinforced concrete buildings, but also with a large number of barricades such as barbed wire to prevent horses, which made the youth regiment suffer a lot when attacking.

However, the gendarmerie is small in the end, and one sniper point is guarded by three or five gendarmes. The youth regiment immediately organized death squads, and after a few charges, they burst to the gate of the gendarmerie.

The gendarmerie was still resisting at this time, sandbag fortifications were piled up in the windows, barbed wire was pulled at the door, and light and heavy machine guns were pulled out.

However, in the end, the number of troops was small, the weapons and equipment were poor, and the youth regiment surrounded the gendarmerie. Light and heavy machine guns were set up at the door, grenadiers and mortars were desperately beckoning inside, and the gendarmerie was very stubborn at first and resisted for a while, but after dozens of minutes of fighting, their casualties continued to increase, and they were soon suppressed by the youth regiment and could not raise their heads at all.

Those veterans were not very afraid, but many of the recruits who had just been recruited from the country were in a mess first, watching the comrades around them turn into bloody flesh one by one, some of them were trembling with their rifles, and some of them simply cried, not at all the high-spirited appearance they usually have.

Such an attack was naturally much smoother, but the gendarmerie was not a rabble after all. They knew that there was no way out for such a stubborn guard, so they simply broke through from the backyard with more than 100 people. The youth regiment has a high sense of combat, but after all, it lacks a lot of actual combat experience, and when it encounters a breakthrough by the gendarmerie, it does not withstand the pressure, and is soon broken out by the gendarmerie.

In the same way, telecommunications rooms, substations, and other vital departments were also in contention between the two sides, and the Burmese army and the Japanese army opened fire on each other in the streets, and bullets rained down like bullets, and gunshots rang out everywhere, and the people were afraid to open the doors.

At this time, the incoming air raids made Yangon even more chaotic, and the street fighting between the two sides became fierce.

On the outskirts of Rangoon, the Japanese airfield garrison was attacked by Khun Sha's troops.

Yangon Airport is one of the largest military airfields of the Japanese army in Burma, where a large number of Japanese passenger planes and fighter planes are concentrated. The department also strengthened the anti-aircraft defense of the airfield, with as many as two squadrons of anti-aircraft guns stationed in it, as well as other anti-aircraft defense units, but they neglected the ground defense.

There were not many ground defense forces at the airport, only a garrison squadron was stationed, plus ground crews, etc., less than 100 troops, so when Kun Sha led his troops to attack, they had to respond in a hurry.

However, in the end, it was the defense of the airport, they had a large number of twin and single anti-aircraft guns, and when they encountered an infantry attack, the devil soldiers laid these anti-aircraft guns flat, aimed at the infantry and fired, and used them as heavy machine guns.

The lethality of this large-caliber anti-aircraft gun is amazing, and anti-aircraft artillery shells of more than 20 mm caliber can hardly defend against anything, and when they hit the human body, they will cut off the waist and break the person into a ball of minced flesh.

Kun Sha led the troops to rush several times, but could not move forward except for leaving more than a dozen corpses. Khun Sa ordered a temporary halt to the attack, these dark-skinned warriors were all low-level Burmese people, and it was really unbearable to watch them die one by one.

What's more, if he continues to fight like this, his brother will lose almost everything.