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The city wall is an ancient military defense facility. It is a military defense line composed of walls and other auxiliary military facilities. It is a defensive building for cities, towns and castles to resist foreign invasion.

In the era of cold weapons, city walls were the most effective means of city defense, whether in Europe or Asia.

However, since the emergence of thermal weapons, the role of city walls has become smaller and smaller, especially with the rapid development of cannons, which have made city walls almost like a piece of paper that can be torn with a single poke.

The same is true of the Great Wall, which the Tang Dynasty once used to defend against invaders from outside the Great Wall.

There are pros and cons to city walls!

That is, with the development of the Industrial Revolution, humans began to use a large number of machines to work, and the requirements for transportation became very high. City walls greatly restricted the development of urban transportation.

So starting more than 200 years ago, Europe began to demolish city walls one after another, and until now, European cities have almost no city walls.

The industrial development in Asia was relatively slow, especially in the Tang Dynasty. Even now, the level of industry is almost zero, so almost all cities still retain their city walls.

However, with the invasion of Japan, the devils tore down many city walls in the occupied areas in order to facilitate troop movements.

Apart from the Tang Dynasty, city walls are still preserved in some places in Southeast Asia.

With the advent of the Age of Exploration, European countries vigorously developed colonies, which influenced the cultural customs of many parts of Asia, naturally including British Burma.

Except for some unimportant small cities in Myanmar, most cities have demolished their walls, such as Lashio, Yingduo, Mandalay, Yangon, etc.

Without the obstruction of the city walls, the defending army can more easily mobilize troops for mobile operations, which is tantamount to adding pressure to the attacking party.

Of course, the premise is that the military strength of both sides is not much different. If the attacking party is too strong, it will not work. There is a saying that goes: In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is futile.

Especially in front of Xu's First Army, which had the nearly invincible Type 69 tanks, the lack of city walls actually provided them with greater convenience.

At the same time Xu Le returned to Bamao, the 3st Division, which had been bombarding Yingduo for three days, began to advance slowly to the north. The reason why it did not advance quickly was that the 101rd Mechanized Infantry Division in the east needed to cross the Yinovadi River to attract the enemy's troops!

Myanmar was also greatly developed by England. The number and quality of its bridges were much better than those of the Tang Dynasty. The troops did not need to force a crossing of the river. Even tanks could pass directly across the bridge.

Fortunately, due to a series of surprise attacks by the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division, the Japanese did not have time to blow up the bridge, but the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division's crossing of the bridge was not so smooth.

The Japanese gathered most of their artillery to the east of Yingduo, about 10 kilometers away from the west bank of the Irrawaddy River. Although the artillery regiment of the 4th Infantry Division suppressed the Japanese artillery from a long distance and their artillery could not reach the bridge, the Japanese were also very cunning. If they could not hit the bridge, they would hit the land next to the bridge.

This meant that although the 4th Armored Regiment of the 7th Mechanized Infantry Division was able to cross the bridge, it did not have much room to move around after crossing the bridge and could not advance.

Because the Japanese artillery included several heavy guns and a number of small-caliber guns, if the tank regiment attacked by force, it would be able to advance, but the losses of the tank soldiers would be quite large.

Although tank soldiers are not as valuable as pilots, this is a Type 69 tank. In order to enable the soldiers to proficiently use the fire control system in the vehicle, a huge amount of effort has been put into training.

Not to say that all tank soldiers are cultured soldiers, but at least the gunners in every tank squad have cultural background. The death of such a talent is one less in the Tang Dynasty!

Such a fearless confrontation is of no use, especially for the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division.

Therefore, at the request of Ge Yuecheng, commander of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division, Fang Yue had no choice but to take a risky move and ask Xu Le for permission to dispatch Air Force bombers!

As long as the bombers destroy the British and American artillery positions, all difficulties will be solved.

However, the three fighter squadrons were still familiarizing themselves with the J-3 and were unable to conduct air combat. It would be too dangerous to send out bombers without air superiority.

Xu Le agreed to the request to send out bombers without much hesitation. Although he did not have air superiority, his own bombers flew fast. If they could not beat your fighter jets, could I not run away?

Besides, even if an emergency occurs, the worst that can happen is to dispatch a squadron of attack aircraft. The Q-5 has already proven its excellent air combat performance, and a one-on-five fight is no problem.

As a result, two bomber squadrons were dispatched, and the J-5 also flew along to perform escort duties.

The Japanese were also determined to defend Yingduo at all costs, so when Kawabe Masamitsu learned that Xu's army's bombers had been dispatched, he immediately ordered a fighter flight regiment from Yingduo's 9th Flying Division to send out 100 Falcon fighters to meet the enemy's 36 bombers and attack aircraft.

At the beginning, Xu's army had the upper hand, and the J-5 shot down more than 10 Japanese fighter planes.

But soon after, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes arrived as reinforcements, and these hundreds of fighter planes were all new types of fighter planes, which gave the Japanese a slight advantage.

A few days ago, through the intelligence passed on by Keiko Yamaguchi, we also learned about this unknown model of fighter. This was secretly developed by the Japanese at the end of last year and is called the "Nakajima Type 3 Condor Fighter."

[The first type of aerial weapon appears. ]

It is a single-seat, single-engine propeller fighter with a maximum flying speed of 640 kilometers per hour, a practical ceiling of 9800 meters, a climb rate of 15 meters per second, and onboard weapons of two 20mm cannons and two 2mm machine guns. Apart from these, there are no other data. It can be seen that the Japanese have done a good job of keeping secrets!

Helplessly, Wang Yuqi could only temporarily order the bomber troops to return, but Wang Yuqi did not completely give up the bombing. Instead, he took advantage of the speed advantage of the H-6 to carry out bombing missions at an altitude of meters.

The ceiling of the Japanese fighter planes is less than 6 meters, so even if they discover the H-, they have no way to intercept it.

However, since the H-6 flew too high, even with the assistance of bombing radar, the bomb's hit rate was greatly reduced, but this was the only way.

As a result, the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division, which had been stagnant for a long time, could finally advance slowly.

As for the Japanese, when they saw that Xu's army did not dare to send out low-altitude aircraft, they wanted to send bombers to bomb the main force of the 4th Infantry Division. However, when only half of the first batch of 36 bombers they sent out came back, they gave up.

The tank's anti-aircraft machine gun had an effective firing height of 2000 meters. With hundreds of machine guns standing there, the Japanese had no way of bombing the armored regiment.

Their bombers had no bombing radar assistance, so in order to avoid being hit, they could only drop bombs at medium and low altitudes. However, facing the highly maneuverable Type 69 tanks, their hit rate was almost zero.

Yingduo's progress was a little slower, but Xingwei was much faster.

Since Fang Yue ordered the troops to launch the attack, it took only one hour for the 176 tanks of the two armored regiments of the 200th Armored Division to reach the outside of the city, and all the bunker defense measures around the city were lost.

Although the Japanese purchased anti-tank facilities such as anti-tank cones, the 69mm high-explosive grenade of the Type 105 tank could destroy several nearby ones with one shot.

Therefore, although the armored regiment's speed was slowed down a bit, it still entered the city a day later. The 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment followed in without any hindrance and participated in the street fighting!

The 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division was led by Wei Li himself, who outflanked Xingwei in an attempt to surround the Japanese in the city.

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