When the Japanese troops all entered the range of fire from the side fire of the two flank positions, the two flank positions opened fire separately under the control of the main peak position, and the Japanese troops who were attacking the main peak on their back were suddenly blinded by the fire coming from the rear, and the Japanese soldiers who suffered a rapid fire attack suddenly fell into confusion, and the soldiers who retreated downward met with the flow of people attacking upward, and the Kumamoto Wing, the 13th Wing of the Japanese Army, which suffered heavy casualties in the chaos, saw that there was no hope of breaking through, so they could only temporarily retreat back to the starting position.
Seeing that the side-firing fire of the flank positions had made the offensive of his troops fall short, Kanda Masase, who was furious, directly connected the radio call sign to the 18th Division and the 32nd Division.
Kanda Zhengzhong can be described as dumb at the moment, and he can't say what he suffers from, and he knows the reason, so he has to end the call after some shouting and venting.
Although the 6th Division's attack on the halfway of the main peak was frustrated, its follow-up troops had stabilized the position under the mountain corner, and because the artillery of the main peak position was deliberately hidden and waiting, the Japanese army determined that the Chinese defenders lacked artillery fire according to previous practice, so the Japanese soldiers were unscrupulous and open outside the range of the defenders' machine rifles.
Because the Sixth Division's merit-grabbing behavior broke the previous agreement between the three division commanders, Kunming at this moment was like a huge cake in front of the three division commanders, and in anticipation of their attack on Chongqing, they must first capture Kunming, so as to ensure the smooth flow of logistics and back roads, and in the face of the isolated Kunming defenders, what they now have to consider is how to defeat Song Yuhang, an old opponent who has made a name for himself and brought shame to the Burmese front army.
Although the attack of the 6th Division in the morning hit the iron plate, the two division commanders of Nitta Nakaichi and Iide Tiezo stubbornly believed that since the defense of the main peak was very strong, the two flanks would inevitably be the weak point of the defense.
Beginning at 1 p.m. on 15 July, the 18th and 32nd Divisions of the Japanese Army launched a tentative attack on the positions on the left and right flanks of Taipingshan, and the 11th Provisional Division, which defended the left flank position, and the 12th Provisional Division, which defended the right flank position, fought steadily and steadily under the supervision of Cui Zhijun, infantry commander of the 200th Mechanized Brigade, and Luo Jiaxiang, director of the brigade's political department.
After carefully observing the positions of the Chinese defenders, the commander of the 55th Infantry Wing of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, Genda Moriki, suddenly a trace of an inexplicable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
After an afternoon of tug-of-war, in the evening, the Japanese 18th Division suddenly launched a fierce attack on General Ridge, a key point in the left flank position.
The 34th Regiment of the 11th Division, which was responsible for the defense of the left flank position, was blinded by the sudden attack of the Japanese army, and with the influx of Japanese troops, after a short trench assault white-knuckle battle, the windward line position of the General's Ridge was lost on all fronts.
Cui Zhijun, who discovered that the situation in Jiangjunling was in crisis, found out that the so-called attack of the Japanese army in the afternoon was actually to cover and send troops to the perspective breakpoint under the steep slope.
The Japanese troops occupying the frontward line position did not wait for the follow-up troops to stabilize their positions, and took advantage of the victory to pounce on the 2nd Battalion of the 34th Regiment, which was holding the second-line position.
The 2nd Battalion of the 34th Regiment did not expect the Japanese to break through the first line of defense so quickly, and the position of the 2nd Battalion, which was caught off guard, suddenly became precarious.
Cui Zhijun resolutely picked up the phone and went directly to Song Yuhang's central command post, asking the heavy artillery battalion directly under the brigade to carry out short firepower coverage of the front line of the military ridge, and cooperate with the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 34th Regiment to launch a counter-attack and recapture the frontward line position in one fell swoop. received Cui Zhijun's request.
Song Yuhang hesitated.
This heavy artillery battalion is a battalion formation.
In fact, it was an American-style heavy artillery regiment that was not yet fully equipped.
This large American-style heavy artillery battalion was the key to his defense of the key points outside Kunming.
It was not Song Yuhang's intention for the heavy artillery battalion to expose its strength prematurely.
But if on the first day of the engagement, the left flank position, the gateway point, was lost.
It will also be a major blow to the morale of the military.
Three minutes later.
Song Yuhang temporarily handed over the command of the heavy artillery battalion directly under the brigade to Cui Zhijun.
Time is of the essence.
Cui Zhijun immediately ordered the heavy artillery battalion to fire two correction shells at the previously preset secret position With two long whistling sounds, from far and near.
Two huge balls of earth fire erupted from the crowd of Japanese soldiers.
Immediately, a column of smoke from a height of more than ten meters rose into the air.
Clods of earth and stones and broken bodies fell from the sky one after another.
Dozens of meters near the point of impact, all the Japanese soldiers in the interior were shocked and bleeding from their ears and noses.
Groggily, holding a telescope and smiling, the 55th Infantry Wing Commander Genda Morikichi's pupils shrank suddenly.
It was the first time he had seen such a powerful bombardment, and a sharp uneasy thought arose from him.
The sharp roar resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the heavy artillery camp of the 200th Mechanized Brigade fired five rapid fires, indiscriminately covering the Japanese attacking troops.
Falling one after another, the cannonballs shook the General Ridge.
At the site of the explosion, earth and rocks flew and the mountains shook.
The smoke of gunpowder completely annihilated the Japanese attacking troops.
Genda Senmu was stunned for a moment, the telescope in his hand fell to the ground, Genda Senmu looked at the direction of the shelling with a desperate face, when the smoke dissipated, the Chinese soldiers on the second line broke out into a shout, and the yellow figures before were all gone, and the combat staff officer standing next to Genda Senmu was surprised to find that the legs of the wing commander were trembling unconsciously As soon as the rapid and fierce shelling stopped, the counterattack troops of the 34th Regiment took advantage of the situation to drive the Japanese troops from their positions, which had been blown up, and regained the lost positions in one fell swoop.
Following the failure of the attack of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army.
The 32nd Division of the Japanese Army could not be said to have achieved nothing in attacking the right flank, and to the shame of the commander of the Iide Tetsuzo Division, he had paid nearly 100 casualties and did not even understand the main defensive direction of the squadron.
Far from uniting the three division commanders who had suffered a setback in the attack, they were still making their own wishful thinking In the early morning of the 16th, the 6th Division, which had rested all night, could not wait to launch a fierce attack on the position of the main peak of Taiping Mountain, and in order to echo this attack, Kanda Masasan not only used all the artillery at his disposal, but also asked the front army for aircraft to assist in the battle.
While the Japanese Sixth Division was in full swing, the positions of the 18th and 32nd Divisions of the Japanese Army were unusually silent.
When the attack of the 6th Division was thwarted and fell into a dilemma.
The 18th and 32nd Divisions on the left and right flanks attacked one after another.
Xu Tu'an reported this strange performance of the Japanese army to Song Yuhang, who immediately realized that the Japanese attack force was likely to lack a unified command structure.
He did not think that the commander of the Japanese Burma Front, Shozo Kawabe, would make such a low-level strategic deployment mistake.
At noon, the 6th Division's request for assistance planes did not discover the 6th Division's ground guidance flag, but bombed and strafed according to the 18th Division's ground guidance flag.
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Kanda Masazun took the lawsuit directly to the headquarters of the front army, and then Kawabe Shozo learned of the chaotic situation ahead, and after reprimanding all the relevant personnel, Kawabe Shozo strictly ordered the three divisions to cooperate with each other, and urged the 60th Mixed Brigade to effectively ensure the supply of materials, weapons and ammunition at the front.
In the early morning of 17 July, after urgent consultations between the liaison officers of the three divisions, the total attack time was set at 4 a.m., which was the period when the human biological clock was most tired, and it was believed that after two days of fierce fighting, the squadron serving as the defense must have been very tired, and the darkness before dawn could effectively cover the movement of Japanese troops.
At four o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army concentrated all the artillery fire of the 6th Division, the 18th Division, the 32nd Division, and the 10th Heavy Artillery Wing from three sides and began to carry out a continuous artillery blockade of the positions on both flanks of the main peak of Taiping Mountain.
The Japanese army's fierce artillery fire woke Song Yuhang from his sleep, and when he learned that the Japanese army abandoned the main peak position to attack the two flanks respectively, Song Yuhang's expression changed, and he was puzzled by what the Japanese wanted to do, Song Yuhang stood in front of the sand table and stared at the terrain on the sand table, could it be that the Japanese army wanted to sweep away the side fire on both flanks of the main peak and occupy the positions on both flanks for the Japanese army had no value and significance, because the main peak of Taiping Mountain could completely block the Japanese threat to Kunming with its unique geographical advantages.
The 18th and 32nd Divisions of the Japanese Army threw their most elite wings into battle as soon as they came up, and still maintained artillery strikes on the defenders' positions during the attack, and the 11th and 12th Divisions, which served as the defense of the two flanks, thoroughly saw the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army this time, and the casualties of the troops suddenly rose geometrically, and the fierce battle lasted until 11 o'clock at noon, and some officers and men on the front line wavered in the face of the fierce attack of the Japanese army.
At this time, Song Yuhang's military police supervision teams deployed in various regiments and battalions played a role, and immediately stabilized the battle situation after shooting and killing dozens of officers and soldiers who tried to retreat on their own.
At 12 o'clock at noon, the Japanese artillery suddenly made adjustments, and carried out a fierce artillery bombardment of the main peak position, and the Japanese army focused the artillery bombardment on the fortification group halfway up the mountain, with more than half an hour of shelling that the sky and the earth cracked, the fortifications located in the middle of the main peak have been basically destroyed, and the stumps and broken arms of Chinese soldiers can be seen everywhere, and many Chinese soldiers were shocked to death in the anti-artillery hole.
After the end of the Japanese shelling, the locust-like Japanese troops jumped up in dense numbers, shouting slogans and swarming up, and at this moment the two companies of the 2nd Battalion of the 30th Regiment stuck in the fortifications halfway up the mountain were left, and a dozen surviving soldiers under the leadership of a platoon commander dug out a large anti-artillery hole.
The baby-faced platoon commander ignored the blood on his face, and together with several soldiers, he picked up the hot earth and rocks with his hands, even though his hands were cut by shrenchnel several times.
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