my bright sword career

This time it was the P47 Thunderbolt fighter.

Although with the F6F Hellcat and F8F Panda fighters in service and the continuous improvement of the Zero fighter, the air combat performance of the P47 seems to be a bit behind the times, but there is one thing about the P47 that other fighters cannot replace.

That is its powerful ammunition load, its solid body and fierce firepower, which other fighters cannot catch up with.

When the leading six P47s dived down at a 60-degree angle, the anti-aircraft artillery fire on the ground almost frantically turned their muzzles to shoot at them.

But it was too late at this time. In the bursts of flames, sixty 127mm rockets rushed to the ground with a whistling sound.

"Boom...boom..."

Huge explosions sounded everywhere in Mandela, and the headquarters of the 33rd Army suffered the most, with more than 30 rockets falling on every corner of the headquarters.

Before Masai Honda and his party entered the air-raid shelter, a rocket flew towards him with thick white smoke.

"Your Excellency, be careful!"

Before Honda could react, he heard an exclamation from the side, and then Honda was thrown to the ground.

"boom……"

Amidst the earth-shaking explosion, Honda Masai only felt the ground shake for a while, and then a wave of heat passed by him.

After an unknown amount of time, Masai Honda woke up from a brief coma. He pushed away the things that were pressing on him with great difficulty and stood up staggeringly.

He saw a pile of corpses fell beside him, and the six guards who had surrounded him all fell into a pool of blood. His body blocked the powerful shock wave and deadly shrapnel when the rocket exploded, which saved his life.

"Zawamoto-kun...Zawamoto-kun..."

Masai Honda shouted the name of his chief of staff loudly.

"Your Excellency, I am here!" Sawamoto Rikichiro's voice came from the side.

And the image of the chief of staff at this time is not much better, a stream of blood is continuously flowing from his forehead, and the military uniform on his body has long since become tattered. Obviously, although the rocket bomb did not kill him just now, , but it also made him suffer a lot.

He panted: "Your Excellency, Commander, judging from the bombing situation of the plane just now, the Chinese have already grasped the location of our headquarters, otherwise the bombing just now would not be so targeted."

"Now is not the time to talk about these things, you should organize the air defense forces to counterattack immediately, and you must expel the Chinese planes.

No... Where did the Chinese plane go? "

Speaking of this, the two of them were shocked. The plane that was raging over Mandalay just now suddenly disappeared.

If it weren't for the groaning wounded, dead bodies and ruined buildings, some people would still think that the attack just now was just a dream.

"Look at..."

Suddenly someone pointed to the southwest, and someone with good eyes suddenly shouted, "That's the direction to the prisoner-of-war camp."

"A prisoner of war camp?"

Rikichiro Sawamoto and Masai Honda looked at each other, and their expressions immediately changed, "The Mandalay prisoner-of-war camp holds more than 1 Allied prisoners. If something happens, it might alarm the front army. Headquarters or even base camp."

"Commander, do you still remember that Major Kuribashibashi Tatsuyu, who was in charge of the POW camp two days ago, reported to the headquarters that the Chinese reconnaissance plane had approached the POW camp for reconnaissance?"

"I remember." Masai Honda's expression also became serious, "Kuribayashi Hashiryu said that China's reconnaissance plane also fired at the prisoner-of-war camp, killing and wounding more than a dozen soldiers.

It's just that these days our attention has been focused on the frontline warfare, thinking that this was just an accidental incident, but now it seems obvious that I was careless. "

"But it's obviously unreasonable."

Sawamoto Rikichiro said puzzledly: "There are more than 1 prisoners of war in the prisoner-of-war camp. It is not easy for the Chinese to rescue them all, not to mention that the nearest Chinese army in Mandalay has more than 100 soldiers. kilometer.

How easy is it to take more than 1 prisoners of war to a place more than 100 kilometers away? "

In fact, there is another sentence that Rikichiro Sawamoto did not say. The prisoners of war in the prisoner-of-war camp are all sallow and thin due to long-term malnutrition. Their physical fitness is very poor. Let alone escape more than 100 kilometers away, even a few kilometers may be difficult.

"No matter what, we must pay attention to this matter."

Masai Honda looked at Rikichiro Sawamoto, who was covered in blood, and the six guards beside him who were killed in the bombing to protect him, and his expression gradually became ferocious.

"Order Kuribayashi Bridge Dragon to immediately transfer all the prisoners in the prisoner-of-war camp."

"Transfer? Where will the transfer go?" Sawamoto Rikichiro asked.

"Shan State!" Honda spit out a place name from his mouth.

"hiss……"

Rikichiro Sawamoto took a breath. Shan State is [-] kilometers away from Mandalay. According to the physical fitness of the prisoners of war, if they transfer on foot, it would be good if half of them can reach the destination.

Rao Sawamoto Rikichiro never cared about the lives of prisoners of war, and couldn't help asking: "Your Excellency, Commander, is this really appropriate?"

"What's inappropriate?"

Honda's voice sounded like it was coming out of an ice cellar, "The Chinese want my life, why should I care about the lives of those captives?
And those prisoners of war are like a ticking time bomb. One day they are in Mandalay, and the attention of the Chinese people will be focused on us.

Mandalay will be safe only if those prisoners of war are sent away.

Also, didn't the Chinese want to rescue those prisoners of war?We just use these prisoners of war to divert their attention and disperse their forces, which can also reduce the pressure on the front line. "

The Japanese army moved very quickly, and the entire prisoner-of-war camp immediately began a large-scale transfer that afternoon.

It has to be said that Honda's move caught the expeditionary force headquarters by surprise.

The autumn wind is howling, and the cold wind is whistling across the sky and the earth.

In addition to suffering from injuries and illnesses, the prisoners of war also suffered from hunger and thirst. Their clothes were ragged and covered in mud, and everyone seemed lifeless.

On both sides of this huge team of prisoners of war, Japanese soldiers with rifles walked on both sides of the team. From time to time, Japanese soldiers passed by on both sides of the team. Pump it up, and let out wanton and insolent laughter from time to time.

What's even more frightening is that vultures and crows are constantly hovering in the air of the team, and even scavenging jackals are following by the jungle. These animals already know that following this team will get enough food. This march is very important for scavengers. Undoubtedly a feast.