Guo Wenchu immediately went down to prepare, and Zhang Lingfu began to mobilize troops for this plan. He had some understanding of the style of the Japanese commander on the opposite side, he was not a rude and reckless man, he liked to attack step by step, the infantry and artillery were well coordinated, and he liked earth work. When he was in China, this way of devils was his biggest headache, but he was not afraid of devils working hard. If the Japanese are all desperate, the Chinese have several times the number of human lives and their consumption, but if the devil is good at using firepower and does not hesitate to shell shells, then the essential difference between agricultural countries and industrial countries will be exposed, and how many lives may not be filled. He didn't want to send planes today, this place was very close to the Flying Tigers' base in Yunnan, and there were several P40s turning around his head at any time, which was his only guarantee.

"According to the report, the military commanders are active in the radio station in Wan Town, listening to the enemy's secret radio stations around us, and intercepting more than 10 times more messages than in the previous period." Someone from the Intelligence Service came to report.

"Immediately scatter the cavalry company and the spy company, the enemy must have destroyed it at night."

"Yes."

"How's the lighting control in town?"

"Don't worry, everything is arranged, and there will be no light."

"Reassured? How do you say so lightweight? With so many radio stations active, it must not be easy tonight. Send more men down. ”

"Yes."

Of course, he didn't dare to take it lightly, the enemy on the opposite side was stable, and he looked very confident, not knowing if he could turn the situation around with a sneak attack.

New death squads have been formed on the positions. The reconnaissance company was also not idle to make several trips back and forth to the enemy's front line to report what it had seen. Sure enough, the enemy is stockpiling artillery shells over there, and they are still digging passages. Judging by the signs that the enemy's field kitchens had been opened in advance and latrines were dug by the side of the tunnels, it was possible that an attack would be launched before dawn, and this attack would have been decisive.

The baggage troops searched the British warehouses like a whirlwind, looking for all kinds of things that could be used, and this time they had another harvest, and found a large number of British fragments*, the whole cast iron lump, much heavier than the M24, which seemed to be very unsuitable for the Chinese soldiers' physique, but they couldn't control so much and send it directly.

The Japanese army really didn't have any preparations, and they never found out that they were buried in the passage*, and tomorrow they will have the emperor's birthday, so they must give it a go, and they will not use these things that get in the way.

For many years, the Japanese army was extremely confident in their night battles, and over time, self-confidence became superstition, not only the Japanese, but also many Chinese soldiers thought that the devils at night were more powerful, and it was falsely rumored that the Japanese ate shark liver and had good eyesight at night, of course, there was actually no factual basis.

Suddenly, a shiny flare flew into the air, and the light and heavy machine guns on the Chinese positions began to fire, and soon the Japanese side also began to change planes. Tracer bullets flew over the heads of the soldiers in the trenches on both sides, and it was a spectacular sight.

Guo Wenchu stood in the trench, still explaining the essentials of the attack to several platoon commanders of the death squad.

"Is the helmet smeared with mud?"

"Don't worry, Tuanza, you're all set."

"It's all leisurely, these new British* don't throw it and don't blow it up, it's not German, it's not Gongzao, do you understand."

"Understood. It's much easier to use this way, but it's too heavy. ”

"Don't just say it's easy, this thing has fragments, throw it out and remember to lie down. Don't probe your head to see, let the shrapnel knock on your head. ”

After he finished speaking, he climbed into the trench and used binoculars to observe the enemy's firing points, and observed them during the day I don't know how many times, but now that the two sides are firing tracer bullets, they can see more clearly. You can see the Japanese firepower points all over the mountains, and in the past few hours they have come up with at least one brigade, so it is natural to judge that the Chinese army only has the part of defense.

"Brothers, it's enough to kill one, but we still have a few more to earn today, so don't die too soon."

The firing between the two sides on the position gradually stopped, and finally only sporadic cold guns remained, and the first test of fire after dark was declared to be over, usually repeated several times a night, and this interval also paralyzed the opponent.

Deputy Regiment Commander Guo was the first to break into the tunnel, and the rest of the mermaids followed, and they rushed towards the enemy position like an impregnable wall. After running about a hundred meters, he stopped suddenly, and everyone behind him also stopped. There was a clanging sound of shovels and pickaxes in front, and it was obvious that the Japanese were still digging tunnels, obviously preparing to dig a few more offensive routes, and put the offensive forces into action as soon as possible, so as not to give the Chinese army a chance to counterattack, which should be their lesson in the annihilation of a squadron in the afternoon.

The death squad slowed down and moved forward cautiously. The shouting of the Japanese soldiers is clearly visible. There will definitely be enemy machine-gun fire nearby, and they won't be unprepared at all. He looked at his watch, the time was almost up, and the scheduled flares were coming down.

Several flares fell from the sky, and the shining light automatically swept across the battlefield to the west, and the wind direction was slightly deflected with the flares. When the bright light shone into the tunnel, the Japanese bunker in front of it was exposed, and they simply blocked the passage with a half-body wall, and set up a few guns here. Several Japanese soldiers were completely defenseless, and they all looked up at the flares as fireworks. Two* fell to the ground over the low wall, and immediately exploded, and even blew up a heavy machine gun over the bunker, and a Japanese team was completely killed, and the defensive low wall was also blown out, and the death squad rushed up.

Two Japanese soldiers with sapper shovels hurriedly rushed over to check, their helmets did not use helmet covers, slightly reflective, Guo Wenchu saw first, the flashlight pointed there, and the back of several * strafed together, and the two Japanese soldiers fell to the ground shaking and shaking.

The gunfire revealed the counterattack, and the Japanese troops with bayonets swarmed out of the tunnels on both sides, but could not rush to the front in front of the dense fire net.

The death squad rushed all the way and gradually approached the vicinity of the Japanese artillery position, and the Japanese army recovered from the chaos and organized resistance. The enemy was also a little enlightened, no longer coming directly with bayonets, but using * to block them, and the 8 mortars of the division headquarters hit half of the base and carried out fire support, but it was still not enough to open a passage for the death squads with only light weapons to advance in depth.

Lin Xiuxuan sprinkled a bucket of gasoline on a pile of tree branches, and the fierce battle was in full swing in the distance, but judging from the gunshots, the firepower of the national army was unsustainable and fell into a disadvantage. This situation was expected, because the Japanese army had deployed a large attacking force at the end of the tunnel, and was waiting for the attack in advance, and if the national army attacked an hour late, the Japanese would have fought first; This surprise attack did catch the enemy off guard, but after all, the 56th Division was a unit known for sneak attacks, and its ability to adapt to sneak attacks was very strong. Now, the raid seemed to have turned into a positional battle, with the Japanese using gasoline cans, ammunition boxes, and dead bodies, and piling up makeshift obstacles in tunnels to block the attack. Not surprisingly, they will soon be able to find out the truth and push back.

Lin and his group traveled 120 kilometers in 24 hours, and on the way, the car was damaged, and a truck from the British army arrived to prepare for Mandalay. A few hours ago, Qin Xiaosu overheard the 5th Flying Division's plan to bomb Lashio at night, so the group quickly came here from Meimiao to the east, and made a bold countermeasure plan on the way, calculating that the enemy's bombing time was exactly at night, which was very conducive to the group to do some tricks in advance.

The commander of Watanabe's division, who was completely unaware of the operations of the special team, was standing at the headquarters, watching the pitch-black Lashio through the artillery mirror, completely oblivious to the close engagement under his nose. The enemy's sneak attack was not expected by him, but it was impossible to turn the tide except for some additional losses on him. The real decisive forces are in his hands, and he is waiting for them to come on stage.

Watanabe's determination is obviously justified, he is not only good at infantry and artillery coordination, but also good at air-ground coordination. He is willing to try all the fashionable styles of play that can open up the technical generation gap with his opponents. In his opinion, it is the most stupid thing to ignore the lives of soldiers and fight a bayonet battle with an enemy whose soldiers are ninety percent illiterate and have few guns. Therefore, when he planned to make a long-distance attack, he preferred to use aircraft to support the attack when necessary, as the Germans did during the Battle of the Ardennes.

Of course, in order to avoid the American P40s, which are very close to the airfields and have a high sortie rate, and to ensure that the bombers do not suffer losses, he and Iida set up a plan for night air raids. In order to compensate for the lack of accuracy of the night bombing, the bombing concentrated 90 bombers and took off from four airfields in Vietnam and Thailand, which is likely to be the second largest and more complex air attack plan since Pearl Harbor, and the bomb yield will even be higher than Pearl Harbor.

The scope of the attack included the warehouse area in the city of Lashio and the outlying positions of the 74th Army. Agents ignite in several directions, delineating the range. When the bomber arrives, he will find this range and drop bombs on his own, and he will use a sea of fire in Lashio to celebrate the emperor's birthday, and he will not open the passage for the main attack.

At this moment, Ma Qiang was preparing to light a fire somewhere a kilometer south of the Japanese headquarters, and Lin's plan was to expect these fires to lead the bombers over, he knew that the enemy's target designation method relied on ground agents, and he had already seen it in Shanghai, and with the technical level of the Japanese army, it was unlikely that the open space would be coordinated by other means. Since there is such a loophole, it makes no sense not to drill into it. At this time, Xu Chong wore a night vision device to chase and kill the Japanese agents, even if he didn't kill them, when everyone ignited the fire together, he would also be blinded by the plane in the sky.

Qin Xiaosu reported that he heard the conversation between the Japanese bombers and the tower, some planes had already taken off, and Xu Chong had already killed an enemy group and was still searching for other groups. According to the information leaked from the Japanese military radio, there were at least three other groups on the opposite side.

The difficulty of the bombing was navigation, but the new navigation station in Thailand made it slightly less difficult to attack at night. The entire bomber formation was very procrastinated, and it was disengaged for hundreds of kilometers before and after, which was of course also deliberate, in order to avoid the danger of the planes getting too close.

On the ground, Watanabe looked at his watch, and when he looked up, he saw a pile of flames suddenly appearing next to the pitch-black col on the opposite side, and then on the other side, another fire also lit up.

It seems that everything is going according to plan. The bomber only had to fly between the two fires to find the bombing passage, and a third fire should soon be lit.

According to his knowledge of the Chinese army, they are very unfamiliar with this high-tech combat method, and the Chinese army would rather fight for a trench with a company than turn a blind eye to a pile of real deadly fires that are close at hand. Maybe the fire won't go out on its own until the bombing is over.

But slowly, a fire in the distance suddenly went out, and he quickly turned to another fire, which was still burning, but it was no longer enough to indicate the target area.

The navigator on the Japanese bomber also saw the fire and guided the plane to fly to the firelight, but unlike the agreement, there was only one bonfire, and it seemed that the bombs could only be dropped indiscriminately. But then I saw two fires coming up far away from the opposite side, which ignited almost at the same time, which turned the bombing zone into a strange triangle.

The bombers did not hesitate to fly towards the new firelight, they could not circle a few more times and wait for the ground to be confirmed, the other planes were coming behind them, they had to drop bombs and leave cleanly, so as not to collide with each other.

Watanabe, who was waiting for the spectacular scene, was a little dumbfounded, hearing the roar of planes in the sky getting closer and closer, and the Japanese did not notice that someone was lighting a fire behind him to guide the bombers over.

Piercing screams descended from the sky and fell to the starting positions of the Japanese troops.