The main reason why Shozo Kawabe, commander of the Japanese Burma Front, used Yasumi Kurashige as the commander of Tengchong was because Yasumi Kurashige was very good at mountain warfare, and the troops under his command were the "Black Wind Team", a mountain force formed by lumberjacks from the mountainous region of Hokkaido In the face of the squadron's attack, Kurashige Yasumi first strengthened the defenses of the southern and Hokusai houses on the top of the Gaoligong Mountain, and deployed troops along the passes of Gray Slope, Tangxi Mountain, and Daezi, in a vain attempt to delay the attack of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and delay the arrival of reinforcements.
Let the sun flag of the Japanese army continue to flutter on the land, which is the greatest shame of the Chinese people, and the Japanese invaders burned and killed them, and did all kinds of evil.
China's territory continues to degenerate, and the masses of the people are in dire straits.
The Japanese army sent troops to China in an attempt to attack, while its Burmese Front aimed directly at India, trying to cut off the only route of aid to China, and then wield a two-way attack to annihilate China.
If we look at only a part of the Chinese theater of operations, there is every reason to be pessimistic and disappointed about the bleak picture of the war in front of us.
The changing international situation and the war situation are also gloomy, and news came from the Allied side that US Admiral Nimitz, who had been trying his best to belittle the role of China's theater of operations, was leading the elite of the US Navy in an attempt to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army at sea, and had several confrontations with the Japanese Combined Fleet around the waters near Kuah Island, and both sides suffered heavy losses.
MacArthur, who, like Nimitz, had been trying to belittle the role of the Chinese theater of operations, was now leading his Marines in a bloody battle against the Japanese army on Kuah Island.
Guadalcanal, the full name of Guadalcanal, is located in the southern part of the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean.
In June 1942, the Japanese began building an airfield on the island, threatening Australia, the base of the U.S. counteroffensive in the Pacific, and the sea lines of communication between the U.S. and Australia.
Due to the defeat of the U.S.
Navy in the Battle of Midway in 1942, the U.S.
Army was unable to launch a counteroffensive in the Pacific Ocean for a long time, thus giving the Japanese army sufficient time to build the airport and fortifications on Guadalcanal.
And in the country.
The two armies under the Chinese Expeditionary Force were like two daggers stuck into the Japanese army, and on the 13th, the 5th Army, the vanguard of the 20th Group Army, and the 7th Army, the vanguard of the 11th Group Army, were kicked on the iron plate.
Song Yuhang, who was standing behind Wei Lihuang, looked at Commander-in-Chief Wei who stood in front of the sand table for a whole hour without saying a word, obviously the strength of the Japanese army's defense exceeded Wei Lihuang's expectations.
The frustration of the left and right attacks at the same time made Wei Lihuang a little hesitant.
Although the Chinese expeditionary force mobilized on a large scale, the Japanese army must have been aware of it.
But the Japanese army judged the main points of their attack so clearly.
In the early stage, the 54th Army, the 7th Army, the 8th Army, and other units made roundabout feints, which were tantamount to wasted work, and the Japanese had such an accurate insight into their own campaign deployment and tactical intentions, and felt so frightened that Wei Lihuang broke out in a cold sweat in the hot command post.
When Wei Lihuang was thinking hard.
The vanguard of the 54th Army in Fangtiandi fought fiercely with the Japanese army on Gray Slope for a day without progress.
Extremely worried about the battle situation, Song Yuhang took the guard reconnaissance battalion directly under the army and the armored reconnaissance battalion directly under the First Mechanized Division to go straight to the gray slope.
Evening.
Fang Tian personally arrived at the front line to inspect.
In order to summarize the main reasons for the defeat of the offensive on the day.
When Fang Tian came to the headquarters of the 14th Division.
But he found that there was no chief officer, and when he walked out of the headquarters, Fang Tian found that there was a large open space behind the small hillside.
The landlords of the 14th Division all stood silently on the hillside.
Climb the hill.
Fang Tian was immediately stunned by the scene in front of him The hollow behind the hill was filled with nearly a thousand corpses of the officers and soldiers of the expedition.
Fang Tian only knew that the 14th Division had fought a defeated battle.
But I didn't know that I had lost so badly Long Tianwu turned around and found the army commander and his party. hurriedly saluted a military salute and then said with a cry: "Military seat."
From morning to afternoon.
The 3 main regiments took turns at once.
The small gray slope is as if it were made of iron.
There are 2,000 casualties, and so far there are still hundreds of brothers in the high ground who have not been recovered."
Looking at the bodies of officers and soldiers covered with a white cloth soaked in blood, the muscles on Fang Tian's face twitched unconsciously "Let's go to the headquarters," Fang Tian yelled and turned around and left Fang Tian knew that he had thought too simply about attacking the front line of Gaoligong Mountain before, and his estimation of the defense of the Japanese army was seriously insufficient.
Just as Fang Tian was preparing to deploy troops to attack Gray Slope overnight, an operational staff officer suddenly reported: Commander Song of the First Mechanized Army has arrived "Night owls are coming," Fang Tian sighed, he naturally didn't have a good impression of this First Mechanized Army that was following behind him, waiting for his troops to open the passage with the intention of picking fruits.
There is another point that Fang Tian is extremely unwilling to face and admit, that is, the First Mechanized Army is far stronger than his 54th Army in terms of weaponry, equipment, officer and soldier quality, individual soldier skills, and morale.
As soon as Song Yuhang and Zhang Tiansheng, the commander of the Mountain Infantry Brigade, entered the headquarters of the 14th Division, they felt a strange atmosphere, although all the officers from Fang Tian to the 14th Division responded with a friendly smile, but this gave people a very hypocritical feeling Song Yuhang smiled slightly and laughed at himself: "Fang Junzuo, I, Song, have always been directly happy in doing things, no matter what Chongqing means, I, Song, as a junior, will definitely not do those actions to rob merit."
If someone erases the bloody achievements of the brothers of the 54th Army, I, Song Yuhang, will be the first to turn against him. ” Song Yuhang's self-confession made Fang Tiandi's old face blush slightly, and then Fang Tiandao said: "For the sake of the overall situation of the Anti-Japanese War, what is not the record, as long as you fight devils, you can do anything." ” The heavy losses of the 14th Division also surprised Song Yuhang, and if it continues like this, I am afraid that before it reaches Tengchong City, the 54th Army may be exhausted.
Song Yuhang understood that all the battle reports recorded in history were written by the victors.
Like all winners.
The results are exaggerated, and the losses are brushed off.
As described in a battle report that he had read that had been preserved from later generations, after nine days of fierce fighting, our army suffered heavy casualties and retreated, and our army also suffered huge losses.
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And the real battle situation is probably not only a huge loss that can be described in four words, but also a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Song Yuhang looked at the unkempt hair in front of him.
The emaciated man had a hard time associating him with a general who held a large army, and he remembered that Long Tianwu's 14th Division was originally going to be airlifted to Burma, but due to the butterfly effect, this unit was now left in the sequence of Y troops, and the American equipment that the 14th Division had been looking forward to was still in a British warehouse in India.
Long Tianwu, the commander of the 14th Division, frowned and recalled the daytime battle: "The terrain of the gray slope is dangerous, and it belongs to one of the several major roads in Gaoligong Mountain.
The Japanese army was condescending, and although most of the fortifications were civil structures built on the mountain, the firing range was extremely wide. ” Long Tianwu paused for a moment and continued: "The Japanese firepower is not very fierce, but its accuracy is extremely amazing, and the few battalion commanders who retreated in front reported that this little devil almost bit the flesh, which was very demoralizing to the attacking troops of our army. ” Fang Tian fell into contemplation when he heard this, while Song Yuhang looked out the window at the gray slope that had fallen into the night, only by opening up the line of Tengchong, Songshan, and Longling, his mechanized troops could play a role.
Before that, he didn't have much to do, and Song Yuhang, the only mountain infantry brigade that could be used for attack, was reluctant to invest.
Opening up the Yunnan-India Highway is a prerequisite for China to win the war.
For the sake of China's only remaining lifeline, the Chinese Expeditionary Force must not let India fall, but in the face of the stubborn resistance of the Japanese army, Song Yuhang knew that this triumphant road to victory was destined to be paved on the bones and flesh of the Chinese people.
In the early morning of September 13, the Heavy Artillery Brigade of the 1st Mechanized Army arrived and was ready for battle, and the Allied 14th Air Force sent three squadrons of fighters to provide air support for the Chinese Expeditionary Force attacking the Gray Slope.
At six o'clock in the morning, Song Yuhang stood beside Fang Tian, and in order to cooperate with the test firing of the heavy artillery brigade of the First Mechanized Army, all the artillery of the 54th Army was ordered to carry out five rapid fires on the Japanese position.
For a while, the artillery of the Japanese position rumbled, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the huge flashes of explosions rose from time to time.
Fang Tian glanced at Song Yuhang gratefully, before there was an order from the Expeditionary Force Headquarters, Song Yuhang ordered his heavy artillery brigade to put in fire support, Fang Tian knew that in such a situation, even if Gong fell into the gray slope.
I'm afraid the First Mechanized Army won't be able to reap any benefits.
The test firing of the heavy artillery brigade woke up the sleeping Japanese troops, and the Japanese troops who were in a hurry began to prepare in the tunnels under the command of the commander of the special detachment, Yukio Hiroguchi.
Yesterday's night was not a good night for Yukio Hiroguchi, the whole night Yukio Hiroguchi was arranging the troops to prepare for the night attack of the squadron, but unfortunately the squadron did not come, and in the early morning when Yukio Hiroguchi was most sleepy, a burst of heavy artillery fire woke up the sleepy Yukio Hiroguchi.
Yukio Hiroguchi, who was slightly depressed, seemed to hear several unusual explosions All the artillery of the 54th Army began to attack the routine shelling, because the caliber of the artillery equipped by the 54th Army was small, so it seemed that the shelling was very violent, but the actual effect was not ideal.
When the artillery fire extended, Yukio Hiroguchi hurriedly urged his troops to enter the bunker.
Although the fortifications were built in a hasty manner, the ash slope overflow.
However, because the gray slope is a steep valley that is difficult to climb on both sides, it creates a moat that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Just like yesterday.
The Japanese troops who hurriedly entered the position set up heavy machine guns, 92 infantry guns, 60 mortars, and 98 grenadiers.
Due to the relationship between the magnifications of Song Yuhang's telescope, he could only see a burst of restlessness on the Japanese position on the opposite hill, and he was embarrassed to grab Fang Tian's artillery mirror, so Song Yuhang could only wait patiently for Fang Tian.
Fang Tian saw that the Japanese army had entered the position, so he turned to Song Yuhang excitedly and said, "Brother Song, you can open fire."
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