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Chapter 78 The Battle of Myitkyina

At 10 a.m., the battle to seize the airport began. The 50th Division attacked the airport at 150th, and the Galahad regiment was ordered to feint the city of Myitkyina. The ranger led by Wu Ming captured the nearby Irrawaddy Ferry.

Due to the secret operation of the Sino-US joint forces, the Japanese army in Myitkyina panicked and in chaos under the sudden strike, and the raid was completely successful. The airport was soon captured. In addition, although the Japanese army had more than 3,000 people, there was only one wing in Myitkyina city, and the other was in Ruili. Leibang warned the Menggong direction, and the rest were scattered around Myitkyina, and the troops were not concentrated, so they could not carry out a counterattack, which posed no major threat to the Sino-US joint forces.

At 10:50, after receiving telegrams from various departments and confirming that the operation was progressing smoothly and had basically achieved the expected goals, Brigadier General Mill immediately sent a telegram to Stilwell, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Army in India, in code, four hours ahead of the historical situation.

The 89th Regiment of the New 30th Division of the Chinese Army in India, which had already been prepared for departure, was immediately boarded the plane and set sail [:China. At 12:08 noon, the first two transport planes landed at the Myitkyina Long Airport. At this time, the battle to clear the remaining enemies outside the airport and the battle to feint the attack on Myitkyina was still in progress, and the sound of gunfire was still fierce. Throughout the afternoon, transport planes and gliders loaded with heavy weapons, ammunition, supplies and reinforcements were frequently taken off at Myitkyina Airport. Brigadier General Mir finally showed a relieved smile on his face. He immediately ordered the 1st Battalion of the 89th Regiment to go to the Irrawaddy River + the Movement to defend. The 2nd Battalion and the Third Battalion built positions around the airport to defend and defend. After clearing the remaining enemies, the 150 immediately turned to attack Myitkyina City.

Brigadier Mill was a cheerful and straightforward middle-aged man. Through Hunter's introduction, he met Wu Ming as soon as he arrived at the periphery of Myitkyina. Wu Ming's fluent English and familiarity with the situation in Myitkyina immediately made him feel good about Wu Ming. The more important reason here is that Wu Ming's style is very different from that of the National Army officers. Wu Ming had more foreigners in his time and had many dealings with local people. So he was neither humble nor arrogant in his conversations. It was very different from the Chinese in this era. Perhaps Wu Ming did not notice these, but it was these characteristics that allowed him to have no generation gap with foreigners like Stuart, Hunter, Mill, and generally get along well.

"Liu, our army is progressing so smoothly. I would like to thank you for the accurate information and the reasonable suggestions you made." Mir met Wu Ming in his tent with a smile on his face.

"General, are you too optimistic?" Wu Ming smiled and handed Mir a relatively delicate little frightened man who had just seized. "In a sentence from us Chinese, the revolution has not been successful yet, and comrades still need to work hard!"

"Haha, Liu, you still speak so directly." Mir smiled and took over the little Weichai and played for a few times. "We have successfully occupied the airport and have been supplemented by reinforcements and heavy weapons. It is just around the corner to capture Myitkyina!"

Wu Ming shook his head gently, walked to the map at the table, and pointed with his fingers, saying, "General, the number of defenders in Myitkyina is not too many now, but it will be difficult to deal with if the Japanese reinforcements are reinforced. Do you think it is easy to destroy the Japanese army in the wild, or to destroy the Japanese army with strong fortifications and stubbornly resisting the Japanese army. If you want to tell me, our army still has not enough troops, at least four more regiments must be transported over."

Brigadier General Mir's face became solemn. He carefully observed the map of Wu Ming's finger for a while, and nodded, "The four regiments stuck Japanese reinforcements in the east, south, west and north respectively. We have the airport in our hands to carry out air bombing on the Japanese army. We are very sure to annihilate the reinforcements of Japanese troops in the field. In this way, the Myitkyina defenders are at an absolute disadvantage in number, and even with solid fortifications, it is difficult to stick to them."

"However, I am very worried that the Japanese army in Myitkyina would break out or attack our army's blocking forces with reinforcements." Mir looked at Wu Ming with a smile.

"General, this is testing me!" Wu Ming blinked meaningfully, "First, the Japanese army pursued the 'Jade' defense, and they would not give up Myitkyina easily until the last moment; Second, isn't the Japanese army breaking through the siege exactly what we hope? Leaving the hard turtle shell they built, what else can we be afraid of? I think you want the Japanese devils to get out quickly, so that they can beat them in the wild, right?"

"Hahahaha." Mir patted Wu Ming's shoulder affectionately, "Liu, it's always a pleasant conversation with you. Your thinking and vision are very broad, and your language is humorous. This is very rare in Chinese people I have met. I now have some doubts whether you are Chinese."

"Your suspicion is untenable." Wu Ming suddenly lowered his voice, "You don't know that I already have two wives, right? How can you foreigners have such a lucky fortune!"

"It's not good, it's not good." Mir shook his head seriously and said, "God doesn't allow it. A man can only have one wife."

"Has God said this?" Wu Ming frowned and asked in confusion: "It's your wife who doesn't allow it, right?"

"Oh, she is my God." Mir said devoutly, drawing a cross on his chest.

"Haha, you are so happy. You sleep with God every day and let her listen to your snoring." Wu Ming teased.

Mir was stunned for a moment, staring at Wu Ming foolishly, and after a while, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Liu, I'll sort out your thoughts immediately." Mill smiled for a while and said seriously: "General Stilwell will arrive here at night. There are more than a dozen war correspondents who come randomly. I want to report this to him in person. I believe he will support it."
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