Isayama Haruki reported to Iida Shojiro: "Your Excellency, Commander, the agents lurking in Kunming, Myitkyina and Tingjiang have sent back telegrams saying that starting from last night, martial law has been implemented near these airports until
This morning, the martial law order has still not been lifted, and there appear to be signs of major Allied action."
"Baga." Iida Shojiro said angrily, "Martial law was imposed last night. Why are you not reporting it until now?"
Haruki Isayama shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Your Excellency, Commander, it is dark at night and our agents cannot conduct effective reconnaissance at all. After dawn, there is heavy fog at various airports. It is not until the fog dissipates that we can conduct effective reconnaissance."
Through long-distance observation through telescopes, we discovered that most airports in the China-Myanmar-India triangle were under martial law."
"So that's it." Shojiro Iida nodded and said, "Isayama-kun, what do you think the Allied Forces want to do?"
"The Allied forces simply want to concentrate their superior air force to eliminate the Imperial Army's aviation in order to completely seize air supremacy in Burma and even the Southeast Asian battlefield." Isayama Haruki said this, and then said, "Of course, it is not ruled out that the Allied forces have discovered A.
Part of the expedition team is currently in Yangon Port. If this is the case, then the Allies may be trying to bomb the Afghan expedition team in this operation."
"What did you say? Bomb the Abe convoy!?" Shojiro Iida felt a shiver in his heart when he heard this.
Although the atmosphere of continentalism within the Japanese army is getting stronger and stronger, Shojiro Iida always believes that the navy is the foundation of the Japanese Empire. As an island country with poor resources, if Japan does not have a powerful naval fleet, it can control its maritime power.
If the lifeline is protected, the consequences will be unimaginable.
At present, the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet has a total of more than 230 large ships, including 10 aircraft carriers, 10 battleships, 38 cruisers, 112 destroyers, 65 submarines, and more than 1,000 combat aircraft of various types.
Although the fleet does not have battleships, it does possess two medium-sized aircraft carriers, "Canglong" and "Flying Dragon".
Moreover, after the Battle of Pearl Harbor and the Coral Sea, senior Japanese military officials became more and more aware of the huge lethality of aircraft carriers, especially Commander Isoroku Yamamoto of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. He had clearly realized that the decisive force in future naval battles could only be
It's an aircraft carrier, not a battleship that can only fight at close range.
Therefore, the two aircraft carriers "Soryu" and "Hiryu" play an irreplaceable role for the Japanese Navy.
Once these two aircraft carriers are bombed and sunk by the Allies in Yangon Port, the combat effectiveness of the combined fleet will be severely damaged.
Because at this time, the United States has transferred all six aircraft carriers from the Atlantic battlefield to the Pacific. Nine escort aircraft carriers converted from battleships, civilian merchant ships, and oil tankers have also been built and launched. The number of aircraft carriers in the U.S. Pacific Fleet has reached an astonishing ten.
Five ships already constitute an overwhelming advantage over the Japanese navy!
What’s even more frightening is that more than 20 large aircraft carriers are under construction at major shipyards in the United States.
"Isayama-kun." Iida Shojiro suddenly turned around and said to Isayama Haruki, "Telegraph Abi's convoy team and ask them to leave Yangon Port immediately and enter the Amanda Sea to hide and wait." After saying this, Iida Shojiro
Then he said, "Order that all fighter jets of the 3rd and 5th Flying Groups take off immediately to intercept the Allied forces at all costs and cover the evacuation of the navy!"
Myitkyina, Fourteenth Air Force Headquarters.
The beautiful female secretary walked into the command center holding a folder and said to Major General Chennault: "Sir, the early warning team discovered an emergency on the 5th. More than 60 Zero fighter jets at Yangon Airport all took off five minutes ago and headed northeast.
Judging from their flight direction, they seem to be trying to intercept the transport aircraft group of the Tenth Air Force."
"Intercept the transport fleet?" Chennault shook his head decisively, "This is impossible!"
The Japanese do not have early warning aircraft, and there is no radar station near Yangon. It is impossible for the Japanese to detect the whereabouts of Allied aircraft. How can they implement an air interception? Unless these two old devils Iida Shojiro and Oda Eira are crazy, they will
It's impossible to make such an idiotic decision, no, there must be some mystery behind it!
Just as Chennault was thinking about it, another US military officer strode in and reported: "Sir, the Chinese Expeditionary Force Headquarters has just sent a secret message. All the fighter jets of the 3rd and 5th Flying Groups of the Japanese Air Force have taken off in an emergency and are preparing to fly to Yangtze River.
We intercepted the bomber group of the Tenth Air Force near Yangon to cover the emergency evacuation of the two Japanese aircraft carriers in Yangon Port."
"Bomber group? Did the Tenth Air Force dispatch a bomber group this time?" Chennault asked subconsciously, and then jumped up suddenly as if he had been stung by a wasp, shouting, "Oh, God, my
God, man, what did you just say? There are two Japanese aircraft carriers docked in Yangon Port!?"
"Yes, sir." said the US military officer, "that's what the telegram said."
"Great!" Chennault waved his fist fiercely and said excitedly, "Immediately forward the information to Dinjiang Airport. I think Brereton will go crazy with joy. If he can destroy the aircraft docked in Yangon Port
Those two Japanese aircraft carriers have made a great contribution, and I am afraid that the situation of naval warfare in the Pacific will also be reversed!"
"Yes, sir." The U.S. military officer saluted, then turned and left.
Chennault gave another high-five and said to his communications staff: "Order each flying group to leave two thunder and lightning squadrons for escort. The remaining fighter jets will immediately change their routes and fly to Yangon as quickly as possible. In the shortest time,
Annihilate the Japanese fighter group inside and find the two Japanese aircraft carriers!"
Since the Japanese did not know that the Chinese airborne regiment was going to land at Yangon Airport, why did they send so many aircraft to escort them?
The Japanese really shouldn't have let all their fighter jets take off so early, let alone pondering the Allied forces' tactical intentions. After all these fighter jets came out, how could the Japanese army rely on to protect the airport and prevent the Chinese airborne regiment from landing?
?Just the eight twin-mounted anti-aircraft machine guns deployed by the Japanese army near the airport?
Yangon, Japanese Army Headquarters.
Shojiro Iida is anxiously waiting for news from the aviation force.
As Chennault expected, the Japanese army had neither early warning aircraft nor ground radar stations, so it was impossible to detect the whereabouts of Allied aircraft from long distances. The only thing the Japanese aviation force could do was to send a large number of reconnaissance aircraft to carry out large-scale reconnaissance operations in the airspace near Yangon.
A wide range of patrols were carried out, and at the same time, all fighter jets of the two major flying groups were hovering in the air and on standby.
Soon, two Japanese reconnaissance planes discovered the Allied aircraft group in the airspace 20 kilometers northwest of Yangon.
"Your Excellency, Commander, the Allied aircraft fleet has been discovered!" Lieutenant General Oda Hideyoshi, commander of the 3rd Flying Group, strode into Shojiro Iida's office. He immediately put his feet back and stood at attention with a solemn expression, "At the Second Air Force Station northwest of Yangon,
There are about 150 Thunder and Mustang fighter jets in the ten-kilometer airspace!"
"More than 150 aircraft?" Shojiro Iida said solemnly, "The Fourteenth Air Force is out in full force!"
"Hai!" Oda Yingliang suddenly lowered his head and said, "In the past few days of air battles, the two major flying groups of the Imperial Army suffered heavy losses, but the Americans also suffered heavy losses. The Fourteenth Air Force now only has this little wealth at most.
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However, the two old devils Oda Hideyoshi and Iida Shojiro made a big miscalculation this time. They never expected that the Fourteenth Air Force had just added 60 brand-new Mustang fighter jets, and Uncle Sam's industrial machines were already fully operational.
Aircraft manufacturing capabilities and supplementary capabilities have exceeded the limits of Japanese imagination.
"Isayama-kun!" Shojiro Iida immediately turned back to Isayama Haruki, "Has Abe's convoy left the port?"
Isayama Haruki shook his head solemnly. The movement speed of naval battleships is not as fast as that of airplanes. It takes time to turn on the battleship, heat the furnace, set sail and speed up to escape, and it is a quite long period of time. This is different from that of sailors.
Quality has nothing to do with it, it is entirely determined by the characteristics of the watercraft.
"Order!" Shojiro Iida gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "All aviation teams immediately turned around to fight. Tell all pilots that the time has come to sacrifice their lives for the Empire and to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor. They must carry forward the spirit of death and do whatever it takes.
The price is to hold back the Allied fighter group for at least half an hour!"
Half an hour was enough for Al's convoy to escape.
That's all Shojiro Iida can do. However, compared with the two medium-sized aircraft carriers of Abe's convoy, the more than 60 Zero fighter jets are insignificant. However, the strength of more than 60 veteran pilots who have experienced hundreds of battles
The losses made Old Japanese Iida feel a little pained. Recently, the shortage of pilots in various aviation groups of the Japanese army has become increasingly large.
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Five minutes later, a U.S. fighter group and a Japanese fighter group encountered each other in the airspace northwest of Yangon, and a fierce battle immediately broke out.
In the fierce air battle, the U.S. Air Force used its absolute numerical and performance advantages to kill Japanese fighter planes, while guiding the Japanese fighter group away from Yangon to facilitate the Chinese airborne regiment to land at Yangon Airport. Five minutes later, a full load of
More than 80 transport aircraft of more than 2,500 officers and soldiers of the Chinese Airborne Regiment finally flew over Yangon Airport.
Amidst the sirens of "beep beep beep...", the doors of the transport plane opened one after another, and huge airflow suddenly surged in.
Under the raging airflow, the Chinese airborne troops, who had never received any high-altitude training and were unprepared for this, suddenly lost their footing and fell into a pile in the cabin. Fortunately, these are domestic battlefields.
Although the veteran who had narrowly escaped death became hasty, he did not show any panic.
Soon, the Chinese airborne troops resisted the desire to vomit and got up again and stabilized their bodies.
Then, the voice of Colonel Du Xuewen, commander of the airborne regiment, came from the communicator of each squad leader: "Attention, each squad, this is not a drill! This is not a drill! We have already flown over Yangon Airport, and our regiment's
The mission is to seize Yangon Airport, I order, start parachuting in ten seconds, start counting now, ten, nine..."
Yangon, Japanese Army Headquarters.
Iida Shojiro is anxiously waiting for news from each aviation team in the office. What he is most worried about is that the aviation team cannot hold out for half an hour. Once his worry becomes a reality, it will be difficult for the squadron led by Abe Koki to escape the alliance.
If the army pursues him, he may not have time to escape into the depths of the ocean.
When Iida Shojiro was anxious, Isayama Haruki suddenly walked in, his face pale.
"Isayama-kun, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that Isayama Haruki didn't say a word after he came in, and didn't put his feet back to stand at attention, Iida Shojiro suddenly frowned. This chief of staff is really becoming more and more ignorant of etiquette.
He was also completely ignorant strategically, and he made several strategic misjudgments in a row. It seemed that it was time to propose to the base camp a replacement for the chief of staff.
"Your Excellency, Commander." Isayama Haruki said in despair, "You'd better go out and see for yourself."
Iida Shojiro became more and more dissatisfied, and immediately turned around and walked out of the office. As soon as he walked out, the huge roar of the plane suddenly roared into Iida Shojiro's ears. Iida Shojiro suddenly raised his head, and then he was horrified to find that a large number of people were flying over Yangon.
Allied planes were circling, densely packed, like a swarm of locusts covering the sky.
What makes old Japanese Iida even more frightened is that countless small black dots are constantly spitting out from behind the buttocks of these Allied transport planes. In the blue sky, countless gorgeous little white flowers have bloomed, as if just now
The dandelion that separated from its mother body and flew into the air, no, this is not a dandelion, but an airborne soldier!
"Allied airborne troops!?" Old Japanese Iida's eyes widened and he shouted in extreme horror.
"Yes, the Allied airborne troops, their target is Yangon Airport!" Haruki Isayama's face became paler and he whispered, "Nearly a hundred Allied transport planes, nearly 3,000 people, although there are no heavy weapons
, but they have air fire support from the Allied Air Force, and there is only one garrison squadron at Yangon Airport, how can they withstand it?"
"Baga Yalu, we have fallen into the trap of luring the tiger away from the mountain!" Old Japanese Iida finally came to his senses.
"No, Your Excellency Commander, the Allied forces did not move the tiger away from the mountain." Isayama Haruki finally made the right judgment this time and sighed, "It was our own misjudgment. The Allied forces' target was Yangon Airport, but we
They mistakenly believed that their target was the Afghan convoy in Yangon Port, and it was a mistake to miss it by a thousand miles."
"Order!" Shojiro Iida calmed down, and then said angrily, "All aviation teams return immediately, guard Yangon Airport, and destroy all the Allied airborne troops and transport aircraft!"
"It's too late." Haruki Isayama sighed again, "Moreover, the fighter jets of each aviation team may not be able to come back. Your Excellency, Commander, you have just issued an order for a fight to the death!" The one who decided to fight
After the order was issued, the Japanese airmen had no way out. They had no other choice but to win or die.