Chapter 379 Staged Victory
"What the hell is it!?"
The two of them looked out the window at the same time, and saw that two f4u on the runway outside had taken off slowly and were climbing towards the high altitude at a high speed.
The group of pilots in the open space stood in two groups, but they all looked at the sky and kept cheering, dancing with excitement.
"These guys..."
Liao Mingyu frowned when he saw it. After a little analysis, he could find out the clues. Those men are really good at playing and started to compete when they first came into contact.
"Hehe, young people, it's a good thing to compete, but it's a bit of brain nerves to restrain them." Smith comforted with a smile.
"It's a good thing to have a spirit of confrontation, but it won't work for me if I don't organize or discipline!"
Liao Mingyu snorted coldly. Although Jamie's US pilots had outstanding abilities, his free and casual personality really made him unable to stand it. It seemed that it was time to catch the discipline issues of these Sky Guys.
"I wonder how they are treated?"
Liao Mingyu turned around and replied with his hands behind his back, "I am not as good as the Flying Tigers, but at least it is much better than the US Army Aviation."
As he said that, he stretched out four fingers: "Average pilots earn $400 a month, squad leader $500, ground technicians receive $200-300, and shooting down a Japanese fighter plane $500."
After leaving the 14th Air Force, Jamie and his friends were already free agents. When they came to Nankan, they were considered mercenaries at most, so the rewards they deserved were still indispensable.
The former may not care about these, but others are different. After all, friendship is due to friendship, and workers still have to have a salary to sell their work. What's more, they do all their life-long work. If they just let the horses go.
If you run, you won’t give your horse a graze. Who is willing to work hard under your hands?
"Well, if that's the case... maybe I can recruit you some retired pilots."
After hearing this, Smith nodded. The salary offered by Liao Mingyu is not too high, because at that time, the United States gave its own ace pilot a maximum monthly salary of no more than $300, and the shot down reward is far less exaggerated.
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Take the current 14th Air Force in China as an example. Their salary is far less than that of the Flying Tigers who were hired as mercenaries.
Therefore, many pilots who are not successful in their country, whether retired or active, are happy to serve such organizations with good conditions and treatment.
This news made Liao Mingyu really amazed. The old man also spent a lot of money and joked: "That's great! Haha, I definitely want to award you a medal."
"you know...I just hope you can drive away the Japanese in Myanmar as soon as possible so that I can complete the task and return to China to report my life. Not everyone wants to stay in this place."
Liao Mingyu smiled and refused to say anything. This old American man was really straightforward. He took great pains to return to China to retire early, but it didn't matter. He had his needs and I had my goals. Everyone should take what they needed.
An hour later... Smith was about to say goodbye, and the competition between the two people in the sky was coming to an end. Surprisingly, Ruan Ling was better in both the control of the fighter jet and the low-altitude battle. From the beginning to the end, John was unable to get rid of her.
Chase.
The latter may be because he is not familiar with the control performance of f4u, but no matter how he loses, he loses. There is no reason to say, so John also generously apologized to the other party.
After coming down, Jamie and others had to look at Andre and the others differently, and their attitudes were much more friendly.
A woman can have such superb flight skills, let alone these guys. No matter where they are... strength is always the most convincing thing.
But they soon became unhappy. Liao Mingyu, who had a bad face, gave an order, and both parties were locked up for one day and were banned from flying for half a month as a punishment.
Although the competition is exciting, it is quite expensive. The army is in terms of discipline. This kind of private flying of fighter jets without permission is explicitly prohibited, so it is hard to say anything, so we have to accept the punishment.
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With Smith as the person who was responsible for the logistics, Liao Mingyu was finally able to temporarily leave the Expeditionary Force supply system, and both speed and efficiency were more than a little higher than before.
At present, in addition to land, the airline undertakes most of the transportation tasks. The continuous flow of ammunition and medicine materials arrive at Nankan through transport planes. The trip that originally took half a month can now be completed in only half a day, which greatly shortens the transportation time.
The next action can also be carried out faster.
However, the defense of the two troops was still arranged by Long Wen and Fang Jingyao. If there were major military operations, they would also be discussed with Gao Jiren. After the latter agreed, they would take action.
The open-minded and upright Gao Jiren was relieved of this. No one was a petty person. The most important thing was to solve the current difficulties rather than to compete for the little face. Taking the overall situation into consideration is the top priority.
Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, it was early December, and the war situation in northern Myanmar had undergone earth-shaking changes again.
First of all, the Hukang Valley... It is called "the place where the devil lives" in Burmese. The mountains are high and dense, the rivers are crisscrossed, and the natural conditions are very harsh.
A year ago, when the Chinese Expeditionary Force retreated, it broke into this "Savage Mountain" in a radius of hundreds of miles, causing countless casualties in the army, and tens of thousands of Chinese heroic souls were buried here.
As early as last month, the 112th Regiment of the New 38th Division occupied the New Ocean and entered the Wild Man Mountain area of the Hukang Valley. The tragic situation here is particularly clear. Until now, the bones of the soldiers of the Fifth Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force can be seen everywhere, and there are often a bunch of bones.
The bones sat around the gun stand.
Such a scene is disgusting and very tragic, and it also inspired the soldiers of the new 38th Division to take revenge.
At the beginning of the month, the first and second battalions of the 112th Regiment, which had been in deep into the 112th Regiment, fought fiercely with the 56th Regiment of the 31st Division of the Japanese Army, Yusu, near the country. The 112th Regiment occupied the mountain and was condescending, and the mortars in the army were exerted.
An important role almost dominated the battlefield situation.
The Japanese army that attacked strongly always left a body and retreated. Colonel Hirata Ichiro, deputy captain of the 56th Regiment, who was commanding the battle, was killed on the spot. The Japanese army had to change their tactics and redirected to the rear of the position of the 112th Regiment of the Chinese Army with a brigade, waiting for an opportunity to act.
.Feed attacks and harassment by small groups of troops to consume the ammunition of the Chinese army.
In the following month, the material consumption of the soldiers of the 112th Regiment of the New 38th Division was almost exhausted. They confronted the entire Japanese army on the 30th, the 55th Japanese Army Regiment by cutting off banana tree vines to obtain water and the supply of air ammunition from American transport planes.
Nearly a thousand casualties were killed or killed, but they were unable to break through the positions of the two battalions.
At the end of the month, Sun Liren, who had reorganized the game, led the main force of the 38th Division to launch a full-line general attack on the Japanese army of Yubang. After six days of fierce fighting, the new 38 captured all the Japanese positions of Yubang and wiped out more than 2,000 enemies.
At the end of the month, the Japanese Daro position was violently bombed by US planes. The shocked Japanese army had not yet reacted. The tank battalion of the New 22nd Division's tank battalion rushed into the enemy's position like a torrent of steel, easily tearing open the Japanese combat defense line.
The armored chariots covered the Chinese infantry and violently swept the enemy's positions. The Japanese army cried and howled under the pursuit of tanks, making them lose their souls and injured countless deaths and injuries...
The other two Japanese regiments arrived late, and they could not stop Sun Liren's attack at all. With the close cooperation of the 38th Division and the 22nd Division, the defense line was thrown again and again, and the entire army was in a semi-defeated situation.
The tank column of the 22nd Division, with revenge, rushed to Daluo Town with all his might, braved the enemy's artillery fire... which is the location of the headquarters of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army.
Dozens of steel tanks crashed and crushed the Japanese division headquarters. Major General Hamasaki, chief of staff of the division, and dozens of officers were crushed into meat paste. Division commander Yukiichi Katani escaped from the town by chance, but the division guards were defended.
The seal was seized by Chinese soldiers.
The strong morale army stationed in India chose to continue the attack without hesitation.
On the morning of December 2, the day when Chen Jize attacked Bamo, the 113th Regiment of the New 38th Division, the 1st Battalion of the chariots and the US Lagahad Commando launched a general attack on the Japanese army occupied by Varuban. The No. 5 captured Varu and annihilated it.
After most of the Japanese army of the 33rd Division, the division commander Katsuki Katsuki was defeated and left the Wild Man Mountain and retreated to Myitkyina.
At this point, the Battle of Hukang River Valley ended with the complete victory of the Chinese army stationed in India. The 33rd Division was completely defeated, with casualties reaching 5,000. The Battle of Daro also became a great humiliation in the history of the Japanese 33rd Division.
At the same time, the Battle of Tengchong in western Yunnan also came to an end. With the retreat of the 56th Division, the 20th Army entered the Tengchong urban area and gradually advanced westward. The 11th Army continued to chase the butt of the 56th Division after crossing Fengshan.
Chase behind.
However, with the support of the 31st Division, the 11th Army's pursuit of victory did not have the expected effect. As the vanguard of the entire army, the 71st Army was ambushed by the Japanese because the vanguard was disconnected from the rear. Song Xilian was so angry that he was so angry that he was in a state of trouble.
The headquarters cursed.
Now the 71st Army is Yu Xiaoqing's army. His subordinates are not doing anything bad, so he, the commander, couldn't bear to worry about his face. He immediately led the Yu army to the front line, which was bound to regain his face for the past.
However, from a global perspective, the Japanese army's defense had completely collapsed and had to withdraw from western Yunnan to retreat to Myitkyina.
The entire Tengchong Battle finally ended in a month and a half. The 56th Division of the Japanese army suffered more than 18,000 casualties, and a large number of Japanese soldiers died of illness. In the end, one out of ten who escaped from China was not yet available.
Chapter completed!