Dai Anlan smiled and said, "What the military throne said is very true. I was really a little anxious before! At present, we should be quiet and not move. We have to see how the Japanese make moves first. It is not too late for us to come and take action later."

"That's right!"

Du Yuming nodded and said confidently: "As long as the Hu Ben Army can firmly lock the downstream Salwen River estuary and prevent the Japanese warships from going up the river, as long as they can equalize the Japanese Air Force, we will be invincible in this battle!"

Liao Yaoxiang agreed: "That's true. The most elite troops of the Expeditionary Force are guarding the river in the lower reaches of the Salwen River. If the Japanese want to break through the defense line from under our noses, they will definitely pay the price of bleeding.

I am just a little worried about the safety of our rear. The 18th Army of the Japanese Army has three full armored divisions!"

Yu Shao continued: "The 6th Army and the 66th Army on the front line of Jingdong, Taungzhi, and the 71st Army in Lashio. In addition, there are three troops of the Hu Ben Army in Darcy, Mandalay, Mi** and other places.

Although the 18th Army, which was attacking from the Shan State Plateau, was very powerful, it could not carry too many heavy weapons after all. I think even if they could break through the defense line of Taungchi Jingdong, they would never threaten the rear, let alone cut off the Yunnan-Burma Highway and threaten the industrial base in northern Myanmar!”

Liao Yaoxiang said again: "But what if the Japanese broke through the defense line of Jingdong, they did not attack the north, but went south along the highway and railway lines to attack Yangon and encircled us?"

"this!"

Yu Shao was speechless.

At present, the focus of the defense of the Chinese Expeditionary Force is on the Salwen River defense line, the Taungzhi-Jingdong defense line, and the large rear defense line established around the Yunnan-Burma Highway, the railway trunk line, and the industrial base in northern Myanmar.

If the 18th Army of the Japanese did not advance toward the direction of the Yunnan-Burma Highway and Lashio according to the script of the deduction, they would instead go back and attack south, and work with the other armies to encircle the defense line of the Salwen River, the 5th Army, the 22nd Army, the 31st Army and the 2nd Army of the Tiger Expeditionary 1st Army.

In that case, the whole situation will be a little passive.

"This possibility does exist, but it doesn't matter. The 18th Army did not have enough heavy equipment and enough supplies, which was equivalent to a tiger with teeth drawn.

Our Chinese Expeditionary Force is no longer weaker than the Japanese army in terms of weapons and equipment. The only thing that is that there are too many new recruits, and the overall quality of the soldiers is much worse than that of the Japanese army.

However, the 18th Army alone will not pose a fatal threat to our rear, and at most it will cause some trouble.

Unless the Salwen River defense line is broken through across the board, the Japanese army will not be able to form an effective force to encircle and kill!”

Du Yuming nodded lightly and said, "So, we just need to keep the Salwen River defense line with peace of mind. As for the rest, we can only take one step at a time!"

"There are all artillery positions, beat me hard! These damn guys are starting to cross the river again!"

"Quick! Send the shells here!"

At this moment, the artillery of the 22nd Army roared again and frantically outputted the third wave of Japanese crossing the river to fight against the third wave of Japanese who were attacking with all their might.

Although he had been bombarded by the Japanese bomber group and lost more than one-quarter of the heavy artillery, the heavy artillery troops of the 22nd Army were still fully preserved.

If it were the case before, Li Jiayu would have been reluctant to let the remaining heavy artillery be exposed again, but now, the Japanese soldiers launched a third wave of attacks like crazy. A large number of Japanese soldiers pushed rafts and wooden boats and other crossing tools into the Salwin River like dumplings.

In addition, the front line troops of the 22nd Army were fighting against the Japanese soldiers rushing to the west bank, and the two sides were hard to distinguish, and they could no longer worry about the Japanese troops crossing the river.

If the artillery troops do not use firepower to intercept, then you can only watch these newly joined Japanese troops rush to the West Bank intact.

So Li Jiayu had to give up his head, and threatened to be bombarded by the Japanese bomber again by the artillery position, so that the artillery troops could do their best to cover the fire!

The same recipe and the same taste, similar to the last time, the Japanese soldiers carried a large number of steel shields on the raft wooden boat, and after they got ashore, they also dismantled the raft to build a mudflat position.

In fact, the Japanese soldiers even used their compatriots' bodies to pile up flesh and blood bunkers, and used all kinds of ways to advance step by step.

At the same time, the more than 20 heavy artillery remaining on the other side of the Japanese on the other side of the river were not idle. There were still hundreds of mortars and infantry artillery roaring constantly.

The 22nd Army's defense line along the river was subjected to a huge test. The soldiers not only had to fight the life-and-death battle with the Japanese troops that were advancing forward, but also had to withstand the fierce artillery attacks from the Japanese.

Seeing that the third wave of the Japanese attacking troops had arrived in Jiangxin, they were about to break through the fire blockade of the heavy artillery troops, and the front-line troops had fought bloody battles with the Japanese for more than an hour, and the front-line casualties were extremely serious.

Yang Junqing was extremely worried and could not bear it anymore, so she asked Li Jiayu in great anxiety:

"Deputy Commander-in-Chief Li, when can we use the ace of the Rocket Launcher regiment? Our losses are already very serious, and the casualties are at least 3,000!"

The rocket launcher unit mentioned by Yang Junqing is a new soldier group affiliated to the Hu Ben Army. However, the total number is not large at present. Yang Fan can only allocate a rocket launcher regiment for the 22nd Army to temporarily listen to it, and can provide fire support and fire suppression at critical moments.

In addition, the rocket launcher is currently a secret new soldier and has always been in a strict state of confidentiality. Except for a very small number of army-level generals, ordinary division-level generals have no way to know.

In order to give the Japanese devils a big surprise at the critical moment!

"Don't worry! We have to wait until the Japanese send the 4th Crossing Army to the west bank before we can give this ace. It's so easy to kill!"

Li Jiayu's lips curled slightly and she smiled in a very good mood. Since he saw a rocket launcher test firing at the secret experimental base last time, he has been completely inflated.

With such a powerful killing weapon, it would be a daydream if the Japanese wanted to use infantry to break through the Salwin River defense line head-on!

Of course, there is a prerequisite that the rocket launcher has enough shell tubes, and the safety of the rocket launcher must be ensured.

"Yeah, that's right!"

"That's right, if you are afraid of the Japanese and they are hiding, it will be no fun, haha!"

"Today we must tear off a piece of meat from the Japanese! Otherwise, how can we be worthy of the dead brothers!"

Chen Dingxun, Yang Junqing and others nodded and agreed. Although the front-line troops are under great pressure and suffer heavy casualties, they are still able to deal with it, and generally they are much smaller than the Japanese!
Chapter completed!