The Japanese army attacked the main peak of Taiping Mountain and the positions on both flanks for 72 hours in a row, and the Japanese army's fierce artillery fire almost turned Taiping Mountain several times, and the only gain of the Japanese Sixth Division, which was responsible for the assault of the main peak, was that the list of dead personnel was lengthened a lot.
In order to maintain the offensive of three divisions and one brigade for half a month, the Burmese Front has done its best to supply the army, and although the front line is still complaining, the Burmese Front is indeed unable to maintain such a large-scale and long-term offensive.
The Battle of Kunming launched by the Japanese base camp mobilized three divisions and one brigade of the Burmese Front, and the daily supply consumption of more than 100,000 Japanese troops was an astronomical amount, and the huge amount of ammunition put the Burmese Front, which relied on sea supplies, into a supply crisis.
Kawabe Shozo, who had received the emperor's edict, could no longer sit firmly in Diaoyutai, so he had to go to the front line in person to put some pressure on his subordinates who were not motivated.
Kawabe Shozo ventured to take a gull-type small plane without escort and landed on a temporary field airfield, due to the turbulence of the small plane or the fear of being intercepted, Kawabe Shozo's face was a little pale when he stepped out of the cabin, and to his surprise, Major General Hosoda Shunji, the infantry commander of the 18th Division, actually organized a guard of honor outside the joint command to welcome his immediate superior.
He didn't care at all about the fact that none of the three division commanders came to welcome him, he knew that his division commanders were supervising the battle on the front line at the moment, and it must be that the division commanders wanted to use their achievements to welcome their arrival.
In the rumbling cannon sound of the front line, Kawabe Shozo inspected the honor guard that Hosoda Shunji had organized for himself, and Kawabe Shozo, who had always liked pomp and circumstance, was very satisfied with Hosoda Shunji's arrangement, and he proudly said to the reporters accompanying him: "The soldiers in front are fighting bloodily for the great cause of the imperial country, and no one can stop their progress."
A female reporter with short hair and glasses came to Shozo Riverside, bowed and said, "I am Takako Nagata of the Imperial Daily, may I ask Your Excellency the Commander what is the strategic purpose of our army this time?"
Kawabe Shozo glanced at the intelligence department's arrangement, cleared his throat and said: "Break the enemy in front of you with the ambition of tassels, occupy Kunming and continue to attack Chongqing, the seat of the government of China, and join forces with China under the city of Chongqing."
At the venue, the officer was shocked by Kawabe Shozo's answer.
How can such a major military deployment talk to reporters that Hosoda Shunji was ready to order the military police to control Takako Nagata, and when he noticed that Kawabe Shozo's expression was indifferent, he immediately understood that the so-called question was likely to be smoke released by the intelligence department, interfering with the military decision-making of the Shina government.
The cannon sound on the front line suddenly became intense, and the rumbling explosion made Kawabe Shozo feel a buzzing in his eardrums more than ten kilometers away, Kawabe Shozo could be sure that this cannon sound was definitely not the artillery that his troops were equipped with, and he turned his puzzled gaze to Hosoda Shunji.
Shunji Hosoda waved his hand to signal his subordinates to separate the reporter from his entourage.
Came to the riverside and said in a low voice: "The 200th Mechanized Brigade of the Kunming Garrison has a heavy artillery battalion of an American-style heavy artillery regiment.
The range of its heavy artillery far exceeds the range of our army's ground heavy artillery.
And the heavy artillery regiment was very cunning.
Positions were shifted immediately after each shelling.
The skies over Kunming are covered by the US Air Force from time to time.
We cannot obtain absolute air supremacy.
So it can't be destroyed yet. ” Hosoda Shunji tried to speak as easily as possible.
But Shozo Kawabe sensed something unusual.
Thinking back to the previous honor guard, the soldiers and officers were clearly after a hard battle.
A temporary change of clean clothes does not completely hide their tiredness and hopelessness Reminiscent of today's absence of three division commanders at the same time.
Kawabe Shozo realized that the battle of Kunming might be very difficult at the moment.
The battle reports compiled by the divisions and regiments below may also conceal the truth.
The roaring sound of artillery interrupted the train of thought of the three places by the river.
He decided to go to the front line to see it himself.
What kind of squadron was it that stopped the advance of the Imperial Japanese Army?
The three artillery groups of the Japanese army deployed on the outskirts of Taiping Mountain were frantically shelling the main position of Taiping Mountain.
Liang Shukui, the commander of the 32nd Regiment of the Provisional 10th Division, who was sticking to the main position, shouted to Liang Chao on the phone with a crying voice: "Little Wang Eight Lambs.
You still don't think I'll be your uncle, for your father's sake, send me some reinforcements, and the position has been exhausted.
All of my more than 2,000 brothers are left behind.
That's all the old and young men I pulled out of the town, if this position is lost, what face will I use to go down to see the brothers?"
In the midst of a violent explosion.
Has become black and thin.
Hair is in a mess.
His eyes were bloodshot, and his voice was hoarse, and Liang Chao seemed unusually calm at the moment.
Suddenly, several shells fell near the command post.
After a while, the mountains were shaken.
A strong smell of blood wafted from the mouth of the bunker.
Several cooking soldiers who delivered food to the division headquarters were bombed all over the sky.
Liang Chao glanced at the severed hand that fell at the door of the command post.
Holding the phone and saying loudly: "Didn't I call the division headquarters guard battalion to your two companies in the morning?"
Liang Shukui on the other end of the phone replied in a fluttering voice: "It's already gone, the artillery group of the little devil in three directions plus the plane bombarded me, just now the little devil pushed the chariot to the wind and bombarded my machine gun position, thanks to your guard battalion commander Qin led the death squad to blow up the devil's chariot."
Otherwise, the main peak will not be able to hold."
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Liang Chao hesitated for a moment and said: "I opened my mouth to ask the commander for reinforcements, but before the reinforcements arrived, I still said the same thing, the national war kills the enemy, and I lose my invincible position, don't say that I don't recognize you as an uncle." ” Liang Chao dialed Song Yuhang's direct phone, Xu Tu'an, who answered the phone, hesitated and ordered the orderly soldiers to wake up Song Yuhang, since the beginning of the defense of Kunming, Song Yuhang only slept two or three hours a day, and even did not sleep Chongqing sent several urgent telegrams a day asking to defend Kunming to the last soldier, in addition to constantly adding temporary troops.
Real reinforcements are far away At present, two or three new provisional groups arrive in Kunming every day.
At this moment, Kunming could not come up with any weapons to arm these new temporary troops, and most of the Chinese soldiers could only be given a large knife or two grenades, a row of bullets and the like.
They used the weapons of the martyrs to continue the battle after being accused of the position, except for the officers, who could barely dress neatly, most of the soldiers wore only a military uniform jacket or a military cap, and it was these disheveled soldiers who had been in the army for less than a week to defend Kunming and defend the last lifeblood of China.
With a haggard face, Song Yuhang took the phone from Xu Tu'an.
In the face of the Japanese army besieging the city on three sides and storming Kunming, the only thing Song Yuhang could do was to organize the new temporary troops to the position, these so-called new temporary troops were actually forcibly recruited from various counties and towns, and the town mayor was directly appointed as the colonel and regiment commander when 2,000 to 3,000 young people came out of a town.
The deputy mayor is the deputy of the regiment, and so on.
Song Yuhang couldn't remember clearly how many times Liang Chao asked him for reinforcements, the only thing he didn't expect was that in this extremely cruel bloody test, Liang Chao, the eldest young master who only talks about it on weekdays, actually survived the fact that Liang Chao, who was slightly injured today, shot a relative who tried to persuade him to surrender, and carried the coffin into the command post, and even ate on the coffin.
Facing Liang Chao, who was crying and begging for reinforcements, Song Yuhang fell into speechlessness, after half a month of bloody battle.
Now he, the commander of the Kunming garrison, has become an empty shell, the 11th and 12th Provisional Divisions have been basically disabled, and the most tragic thing is that the Provisional 10th Division has almost changed from division chief of staff to soldiers.
The new temporary supplementary regiment has been supplemented by seven or eight, and three of the five infantry battalions of the 200th Mechanized Brigade have been playing the role of firefighting teams, and the armored unit and two infantry battalions where the elite of the 200th Mechanized Brigade is located have been retained by Song Yuhang as a mobile reserve for the campaign.
After hesitating for a moment, Song Yuhang, who was ruthlessly determined, said in a deep voice: "Senior Commander Liang, I don't have any troops to send to you."
I am right behind you, and you must know that your enemy in front of you is the culprit of the Nanjing Massacre, and the 6th Division of the Japanese Army has no way out for the sake of the country and the people, and you and I would rather take a step forward and die than take half a step back."
Song Yuhang put down the phone and straightened his collar, picked up the steel helmet from the table, took off a Thomson submachine gun from the gun rack, and said loudly: "All non-combatants at the brigade headquarters are immediately fully armed and ready for battle, and follow me to reinforce the main peak of Taiping Mountain."
As soon as Xu Tuan wanted to say something to persuade him, Song Yuhang waved his hand to interrupt Xu Tuan and continued: "After I died in battle, the brigade infantry commander Cui Zhijun commanded the defense of Kunming in a unified manner, and no one or unit received an order to retreat, and if anyone or troops retreated without authorization, they would be punished as deserters.
Shot on the spot" As soon as Song Yuhang walked out of the headquarters compound, Wang Wei, the combat staff officer of the brigade headquarters, hurriedly walked into the compound with two colonels in their fifties, and Wang Wei was stunned at first when he saw the brigade seat holding a submachine gun and holding his sleeves up, and then hurriedly ran over and said loudly: "Wang Fusheng and Lu Yongjiang, colonels of the new provisional 90th Regiment and 91st Regiment, have come to report The two old colonels were also stunned when they saw Song Yuhang, and then hurriedly gave Song Yuhang a military salute from an unknown country with their fingers.
When he heard that Song Yuhang's face was not half happy when he heard the new provisional group, the two old guys standing in front of him were at least in their fifties, one was shriveled and had a scorched face, and the other was oily, fat, and big-eared.
The two colonel commanders saw that the young commander had a bad face, and thought that they were going to hold them responsible for the extra day of delay on the road.
When I thought of the ruthlessness of military law often sung in the play.
The two of them standing under the sun couldn't help but have a cold war.
With an attitude that it is better than nothing, Song Yuhang decided to take a look at the new troops first, because the new temporary troops were temporary.
The soldiers are almost all composed of peasants, and most of them can't even use rifles in their hands, if such troops are put into the front line and used improperly, it is very easy to cause a rout, and even lead to the collapse of friendly forces and the loss of positions, so Song Yuhang decided to select these two regiments first to cooperate with the military police to give priority to reinforcing the main position of Taiping Mountain.
The outbreak of strong push has passed, and the small rider travels far away, and needs to slow down, so save a lot of manuscripts for the next outbreak, hehe, please forgive me: