Sun Liren's offensive in central Burma paid off, as he successfully penetrated into the middle of the enemy's defense, leaving the enemy unable to respond. Like all north-south rivers in Burma, the Irrawaddy River narrows to the upper reaches of the river, but the more turbulent it becomes, making it more difficult for engineers to build bridges. In addition, the various information collected by the Southern Agency before the war, including hydrological data, was concentrated in the south, and the further north you go, the more inaccurate it becomes. A few days ago, the 33rd Division tried to build a pontoon bridge upstream to establish contact with the 55th Division on the flank, but the pontoon bridge was washed away in just one day, and half of the squadron was missing.

Another difficult decision for Commander Iida was that if the reserves were to be sent out at this time to deal with the Chinese offensive, this meant that this spring's offensive, which was planned to be won by surprise troops, was likely to turn into a war of attrition that would not even be able to be fought in Myitkyina before the rainy season.

At this time, bad news came one after another, the Chinese army in Mandalay began a full-scale counterattack, the 18th Division fought hard, and the flank of the 55th Division was threatened by troops with unknown numbers; The headquarters of the second mixed brigade was terminated, the whereabouts of the brigade commander were unknown, and so on. In a panic, he demanded that the 33rd Division immediately use the tank mobility of the 14th Wing under his command to rush east through Magway Airport to help, and he would use the transport-class aircraft of the 5th Flying Division to transport supplies for it. This transfer made the Japanese army's strength on the Western Front more and more thin, but because the British army could not understand the enemy's situation and did not dare to launch a counterattack, the illusion of the Japanese army's superiority on the Western Front was not punctured.

Chu Tingchang received a telegram from Du Yuming, asking him to assist his neighbors in blocking the counterattack of the 33rd Division; It seems that even if Lin Xiuxuan completely got out of the enemy's deployment through Chen Zhiping, Du Yuming still couldn't figure out the situation.

Du Yuming only pinned his hopes on the eastern front that the Chinese army would launch a limited attack on the 18th Division that had advanced to the vicinity of Yangmidin, and it would be enough to eat one or two brigades. He suffered too much from the Japanese, and did not dare to take risks, and every time he concentrated his forces to attack the more prominent enemy. This conservative approach was invisibly beneficial to the Chinese army, because the core of Iida's spring offensive was to use a small road on the Thai-Burmese border to carry out a far-reaching sneak attack on Lashio, which is why he preferred to mobilize rescue troops from the western front rather than use reserves. Of course, Du Yuming didn't know that the enemy had this hand.

The battle against the Lashio sneak attack has been a great success in the past, and it will inevitably leave a mark in the infantry lesson plans of various countries; Looking at the entire summary of the classic battles of World War II, no one dares to ignore the miracle of the Tianchang Festival that was fought entirely on two legs this time; This record of long-distance travel behind enemy lines was not broken until many years later in the Sino-Indian self-defense counterattack.

Of course, 419 knows this history, and their next stage of work, in addition to preventing the premature collapse of the British army, is to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy that led to the 100,000 Chinese elites trapped in Savage Mountain.

Chu Tingchang let his people go up the mountain to search for loot, he himself followed Zhou Youfu's department, and also hiked the mountain to observe the terrain, he expected that if the 33rd Division intended to rescue, it would come to his side, maybe it would stop at the Magway Airport not far away, behind him was the weaker 113th Regiment of the 38th Division, at this time Sun Liren's main force was cleaning up the 55th Division, almost annihilating two or three squadrons.

He observed the movement of the enemy in the west on the top floor of the house, and saw that the direction of Magway Airport was full of smoke and dust, and it seemed that there was a movement, and it was really troublesome to not have drones.

Zhou Youfu ran up to him from time to time to report the harvest, or showed him a Japanese saber, or took a few watches for him to pick; Of course, he knew that those were taken off by the hands of dead men, and he refused in one bite. In the end, the reconnaissance company commander came up with a gilded chiming bell to honor the boss, but was directly driven down by the battalion commander who was worried about the battle situation.

Chu Tingchang went down from the roof of the building, and he could see Zhou Youfu directing his people to go in and out, carrying those shiny pots and pans, metal tableware, table lamps, table clocks, radios, bedding and mattresses, and even the maid's clothes, which was a shame, but a few oil paintings on the wall were still hanging there.

The row of cars parked downstairs were all destroyed by Lin Xiuxuan, and he asked Tao Mingzhang to hurry up to repair the champagne-colored Rolls-Royce, and he had already sent someone to Luo Zhuoying to deliver it; Of course, the silver-gray Mercedes-Benz also had to be repaired and sent to Du Yuming, Du Yuming did not ask for a car, but he knew that he must not ignore these details in the officialdom. Before the war, he had put a lot of thought into this.

Qin Xiaosu eavesdropped on the movement of the Japanese army. The tanks of the 14th Wing had been dispatched, followed by an infantry brigade, which was running low on ammunition and fuel, and was ready to replenish it at Magway airfield.

The Japanese army really moved boldly from the front of the British line, and Alexander chose to be a turtle with a shrunken head and hold his troops still. The Chinese army can attract the Japanese army to the past, and he is naturally Amitabha.

Lin Xiuxuan looked at the overall situation and found that the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army was exhausted at the moment, and his life had gradually been exposed. The two divisions of the Japanese army on the Eastern Front were actually back-to-back, fighting more and more tightly, and the Nationalist Army on the Eastern Front had a 1.5 to 1 advantage in strength, and it was not very likely that they would eat all the enemies at once, but on the Western Front, the Allied forces had a strength advantage of about 3 to 1, and the fighters that ate the extremely long enemy pulled by this front were ripe. But no one in the entire Allied army was aware of this because of the confusion of intelligence. How do you get this information across?

In the past month, Lin Xiuxuan has discovered many shortcomings of Chen Zhiping's line, the worst of which is that Chen Zhiping will modify the information, and the very clear information will be plausible. The purpose of this vile practice is nothing more than to leave room for him, and once the information is accurate, he can take credit for it; If the information is not good, he can also find many ambiguous words to explain between the lines. The direct consequence of this behavior is that Du Yuming's command has a very low degree of trust in his intelligence, and generally only uses it for reference. Therefore, in addition to Chen Zhiping, Lin Xiuxuan must have a backup plan and a person who can intervene in the overall situation, and it seems that Stilwell's son-in-law is very suitable for this role.

Lin Xiuxuan and Chu Tingchang briefly exchanged views and formulated a bold plan. The first step of the plan was for the Synthetic Battalion to engage the 14th Wing head-on, and then feign a retreat, both as the first stage of the campaign to paralyze the enemy and allow Brooke to see the enemy's heavy movements, so that he would report the correct information to Stilwell, and Captain Chu would beat the side drum at the right time to guide them to see the fighters; Then, as long as the new 38th Division continues to show weakness on the banks of the Irrawaddy River, allows the enemy to build bridges across the river, strikes halfway across the river at an appropriate time, and uses the air force to destroy the pontoon bridges, it will certainly be able to annihilate the Sakurai Division, which cannot take care of each other, and the situation in the whole of Burma will inevitably change.

Qin Xiaosu roughly confirmed the movement position of the enemy's armored group through electromagnetic positioning, and determined that it was going to Magway, and the enemy's telegraph communication showed that half a base of fuel and ammunition were in short supply, and they needed to be replenished before they could attack.

When Captain Chu began to act, Brooke was reporting to his superiors that Captain Chu deliberately created friction and killed important British prisoners of war, strange things, Stilwell's command did not get an exact response from the British in many ways, not to mention any important prisoners, even the L detachment was dispatched, according to the British, the unit was still in North Africa. The British only admitted that they did lose one transport aircraft near the front line.

The major got down from the middle jeep indignantly, and muttered in his heart, why didn't the British help him to sit on this matter, so that Chu Tingchang couldn't eat and walked around? Could it be that the red berets I saw yesterday can still be fake?

Chief Chu's tank rumbled up to Brooke and looked at the major condescendingly. In the loud noise, Chu Tingchang even said with a gesture.

"Let's go, I'll take you to Magway Airport to see the Japanese."

He spoke with ease, like a father taking his son to the zoo.

Without waiting for the Americans to figure it out, he patted the turret, and the tank turned and rode south, forcing Brooke to follow.

This time, Chu Tingchang only dispatched half of his troops, and seemed to have reservations, he left Tao Mingzhang's infantry and 6-pounder guns in the mountain pass to set up an ambush, and asked to use the highway embankment built by Japanese engineers as a cover, only the height of the gun barrel was exposed, and the rear reserved space was withdrawn at any time. Then, he only took tank troops into sorties.

After galloping for 8 kilometers, the tank quickly occupied the commanding heights in the northeast corner of the airfield, where the airfield of emergency transportation could be seen from a distance, and the firing range was good. Of course, Brooke also felt abnormal, Chu Tingchang didn't look at the map much, but he always had a clear grasp of the terrain and enemy situation, rarely took any wrong paths, and never ran into an ambush. In fact, he seems to have taken advantage of the gap in the northeast corner left by the collapse of the 2nd Mixed Brigade, as well as the negligence of the Japanese command to disorganize the defense in time, which, in theory, is of course a serious mistake on the part of the defenders, but in actual combat, it is usually difficult for the attackers to seize such opportunities.

From this position, it can be clearly seen that 4.5 kilometers away, Japanese transport planes are taking off and landing on the runway. Chief Chu had no idea of occupying the airfield, he simply unfolded the tank group from this position, and then began to launch artillery strikes on the enemy's airfield.

The first row of shells destroyed the tower on the side of the runway, killing a captain commanding take-off and landing of the 5th Flying Division.

The tanks then began firing at the Japanese copycat transports that resembled DC3s, directly destroying 4 and damaging 3, which were enough high-value targets to condemn the captain of the garrison.

The Japanese airfield garrison was the 82nd Air Field Brigade under the command of Michio Kato, and the defensive circle set up by Shaosa according to the norms could roughly expel small groups of troops carrying mortars out of range, but it was not expected that someone would come with many 75mm doors to smash the field.

The shelling lasted for 3 minutes before the Japanese discovered the direction of the enemy, and the problems caused by the disappearance of Kagesa Zhenzhao caused by the connection of friendly and neighboring defenses surfaced.

Fortunately, the 14th Wing, which had just arrived at the airfield, could go into battle. Aizawa Nakasa observed for a while, and judged that it was the last time he carried his enemy from the front, because this army was the only one in the whole of Myanmar equipped with this kind of tank. The last time they suffered a big loss, it was because this unit happened to appear in a position that could be relied on on on the left and right, which made it impossible for the 97 tank to maneuver, but this time they took the initiative to come to the door to stir up trouble, which was asking for their own hardship.

Nakasa quickly studied the terrain north of the airfield, which was complex enough for his light tank to conceal and approach, and he devised a simple plan to outflank him left and right. Due to the loss of Grant's 5 cm thick armor in front of him last time, he strictly ordered all vehicle groups to outflank the enemy's rear before they could fire, and not to challenge the frontal armor at any distance.