Anti-Japanese heroic righteousness

However, Jiang Haoran did not hesitate at all. When the Japanese naval guns appeared on the Inovaddy River, he decisively ordered Ma Weiji to spread out the 29th Division in the direction of Yingduo to Menggong in units of companies and platoons. Search all possible places of landing, especially to ensure the safety of railway transportation lines.

As for the front line from Yingduo to Xidang, one division of the 28th Division is deployed along the river, and the 96th Division is deployed along the river facing Xidang, so this line is relatively safe.

Because of the emergence of naval guns, the situation of the expeditionary force immediately became severe, and Meng Gong was the first to bear the brunt.The Japanese naval artillery was obviously used to assist the Japanese army in the direction of Mina. With the strength of three divisions and now with the support of the naval artillery, although Meng Gong is a natural danger, his strength is only No. 70, five armies and three A remnant division, plus the new 38th division.Of course, there is also a heavy artillery regiment and a tank regiment, but even with these, the total strength is only over [-]. One can imagine the difficulty of blocking the Japanese planes, heavy artillery, and powerful soldiers from bombing and attacking in turn.

The situation in the direction of Xidang was not much better. The 28th and 29th divisions were transferred to Jiangfang, and only the three divisions of the Fifth Army were defending the enemy. But the battle line is long, there is no natural danger to station, and the two permanent divisions of the Japanese army have not suffered any damage. It is larger than the establishment in China, and whether it will be supplemented is still unknown.

In fact, there has never been a clear conclusion on the establishment of the Japanese army. In the initial structural design of the Japanese army, the division was the largest independent combat unit, which was equivalent to our army's group army, and the army was our theater-level command organization.

Divisions and independent brigades do not have a fixed scale and organizational system. They are classified into two types according to their purposes: combat type and security type. Combat type divisions mainly refer to permanent divisions and special divisions.

The basic organizational structure of the permanent division as the core force of the Japanese army is 2 infantry brigades. The basic strength of each infantry brigade is 2 infantry regiments, and 1 division has at least 4 infantry regiments.

At the beginning of the war, the permanent divisions basically had 4 infantry regiments. At the end of the war, the infantry brigades of some permanent divisions governed more than 5 infantry regiments. The divisions still only governed 2 infantry brigades, but the number of infantry regiments increased. Arrived at more than 10.

The minimum allocation of supporting forces for a permanent division is 1 field artillery unit, 1 logistics unit, 1 engineering unit, and 1 cavalry unit. There is no upper limit for the maximum.In short, the permanent division has only the minimum basic establishment, that is, four infantry regiments plus one each of artillery, engineering, cavalry, and logistics regiments, and there is no unified establishment.

The infantry wing of the standing division has never been reduced in number. On the contrary, as the war advances, the number of infantry wing is still expanding. The standing division can divide some infantry to form other special divisions, but It will also double in size.

Most of the ad hoc divisions in the 21-30 designation of the Japanese army were expanded by independent field infantry brigades. What is the standard size? Brigades and divisions are both combat groups. There may be a difference of 101 times between the large-scale and small-scale troops.

In terms of scale, the strength of the permanent divisions was between 1937-25000 in 50000, and it was 35000-100000 in the later period of the war.

特设师团不算少数几个超级特设师团，在1937年为22000至15000人之间，战争后期为35000-9000人。

The 8000 permanent divisions mentioned above were non-standard divisions before 1936, and there has been no standardization since then.By the end of the war, the strength of the standing divisions was larger, the strength of the 7th Division jumped from 3 to 10, and the strength of the Guards Division jumped from 5 to 8.

Therefore, right now, divisions cannot be used to measure the strength of the Japanese army. This is Jiang Haoran's biggest problem, and also the biggest hidden threat. Once the two sides start a war, the enemy's strength will definitely form a heavy army, and once the defense line collapses , It is bound to cause a situation where the army is defeated like a mountain, and the defeat cannot be reversed at all.

Now the only thing the expeditionary force can count on is armed helicopters, but the Japanese army will definitely try their best to seize air supremacy, and maybe, at this time, several aircraft carriers have already parked in the port of Yangon, naval carrier-based aircraft plus the fifth flight of the Army Aviation It is unimaginable how strong the air control ability of the brigade is.

The military meeting started at eight o'clock in the evening and did not make any progress until twelve o'clock in the middle of the night. It was obvious that tactics alone could not solve the problem under the situation of heavy troops, and the key was strength.

All the questions were posed, making the headquarters quiet, and everyone was helpless. Even Jiang Haoran folded his hands on his chest, his brows were deeply furrowed, and his eyes were drooping.

After a long time, Liu Bao suddenly slapped the table and said angrily: "Fuck it, in my opinion, you don't need to worry about anything else. Ye Zhaofeng's flight brigade will be called out tonight. Anyway, the Japanese army's aircraft are not capable of fighting at night, and we have Escorted by radar planes, search all the way along the Inowady River, find the Japanese warship tonight, and blow it up to pieces overnight, get rid of him first and then talk about it.”

Huang Jie said: "Brigade Commander Liu, it's easy for you to say. How could the pilots search for the Japanese ships from a high altitude with their naked eyes at night? Moreover, you must not fly too low. Come in, you must have taken sufficient precautions in air defense, maybe you were swept down by the Japanese anti-aircraft machine guns before you found them."

Deputy Commander-in-Chief Luo Zhuoying took over the topic and said: "Yes, what the Chief of Staff said is very reasonable. The Japanese army took a huge risk when they drove their ships into the Inowady River. If we had known this news in advance, setting up an artillery position by the river would be enough to make them invisible, but the Japanese army came at these risks. It can be seen that sufficient preparations must have been made in terms of prevention, at least in terms of air defense. It’s what they think is watertight, because once they lose air supremacy, a few aerial bombs can sink all of them to the bottom of the river, so the idea of ​​attacking from the air is definitely not feasible.”

Liu Bao went on to say: "Then we have to compete with them for air supremacy. Our No. 40 Army Flying Brigade can dispatch at least two hundred Mustang fighter jets. After the U.S. Air Force No. 14 Air Brigade is supplemented, the number of fighter jets has reached three to four hundred. If you fight, you may not have the capital to fight the Japanese army, but you will compete with him for air supremacy, how about it!"

As soon as Liu Bao said this, everyone turned all their eyes to Jiang Haoran. In fact, everyone felt that this was their only way out, but they all knew that the price they paid was definitely not small, not to mention letting No. The 40th Group Army's flight brigade was completely lost, at least it couldn't recover in a short period of time. This was tantamount to cutting Jiang Haoran's heart, so everyone kept silent about it.

The momentary silence made Jiang Haoran raise his head, looked at everyone looking at him, and quickly understood what everyone was thinking, but what he said immediately surprised everyone.

Jiang Haoran stood up and said: "Okay, today's meeting is over, the commanders at all levels should return to their command positions, and defend with all their strength. If there is a problem with the defense line due to a miss, don't blame me for not being sympathetic. I hope everyone Go all out, no matter how fierce the enemy's attack is, you have to block it for three days, and after three days, the battle will turn around."

A group of people peeked at each other, but they didn't know what medicine Jiang Haoran was selling in the gourd. The military meeting ended without any results. There was no trace of the turning point after these three days. Where is it?

Liu Bao immediately commented on the doubts in everyone's mind, but Jiang Haoran didn't bother him at all, and drove them out directly.

Only Huang Jie, Leng Rushuang, and the Mei sisters were left in the meeting room, Huang Jie said suspiciously: "Boss, your turnaround in the next three days is just a plan to delay the attack, please forgive everyone?"

"Hehe!" Jiang Haoran smiled secretively, and said: "Not all of them, it depends on whether Stilwell can persuade the US government? If the US army helps, our threat will be reduced immediately."

"Help from Mi Jun? How can I help you? Mi Jun doesn't have any troops in Burma or India?"

"Myanmar and India don't exist, but they can appear in the Pacific Ocean!"

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United States, White House.

Army Chief of Staff Marshall knocked on the door of President Roosevelt overnight, and Stilwell sent the latest battle report on Burma from India. The situation was so urgent that Marshall dared not slack off.

When Marshall returned from India, the U.S. Navy received two aircraft carriers from the Yangtze River Shipyard that day. The production drawings of the Cobra gunships had been distributed to various aircraft manufacturers. And it was reported yesterday that the design of the Hellcat carrier-based aircraft is very reasonable and almost impeccable after verification by experts, and it is completely designed for the advantages of the Japanese Zero fighter, and its performance has surpassed the Zero fighter.

What made experts praise the most is that the design drawings of Hellcat proposed the concept of installing radar on the wingtip rectifiers, allowing the same aircraft to achieve all-weather combat. At the same time, adding two missiles under the wings realized The accuracy of the aircraft is airdropped, and the firepower is also greatly improved.

Jiang Haoran's performance against the heavens shocked the senior officials of the US government, but what excited them most was the direct benefits Jiang Haoran brought to them. As for the seemingly unreasonable conditions proposed by Jiang Haoran, they all felt that it was irrelevant up.

Opening the door, Roosevelt was not surprised by Marshall's arrival. Compared with the Chongqing government, the pragmatic attitude of the Americans was not at the same level. No matter what time it was, government affairs were the top priority.