Seal push and add more chapters October 7, 1943, was an extremely difficult day for both the British and the Chinese Expeditionary Force Song Yuhang, who arrived at the headquarters to meet Wei Lihuang, found that everyone's expressions were very solemn, and there was no joy at all, and the headquarters guard regiment was removing the red flowers used for decoration in the venue, and the careful Song Yuhang did not find Song Xilian and the commanders of the Eleventh Group Army among the many generals Song Yuhang, who had turned around in the headquarters for a long time, was thinking about what to ask Wei Lihuang for in line with the principle of thieves not going empty, and before he could take a few looks, he was discovered by Deputy Commander Huang Qixiang, Huang Qixiang smiled and said: "My Commander Song, you don't want to look for it, now everything good things have passed through the Kunming Garrison Headquarters to your First Mechanized Army, this dignified expeditionary force headquarters is about to become called Huaziwo, you are holding a golden rice bowl and still thinking about the dinner called Huazi, not very kind."
Huang Qixiang's joking words contained something, how could Song Yuhang not understand, so he immediately greeted him with a smile and said: "My Deputy Commander, Lord Commander, the conscience of heaven and earth, Brother of American aid materials, I am conscientious, I dare not make the slightest deviation, your dignified Deputy Commander, Your Excellency is still scraping my oil, and I am afraid that you will be laughed at by the outside." ” "Shit you little bastard" Huang Qixiang said with a tense face: "I don't care, tomorrow you contact Kunming, two American jeeps, a passage road, I am getting a Chevrolet, preferably black, and then send a platoon of guards, my sister-in-law will play in Kunming for a few days."
You're in charge of safety and hospitality, and the two jeeps will take them when they're gone. ” was generous to Huang Qixiang, although it was only two American jeeps, but Song Yuhang felt uncomfortable, so he leaned up to light a cigarette for Huang Qixiang with a stammering smile and said: "No problem, Deputy Commander, I will take good care of you."
Huang Qixiang nodded with satisfaction, seeing that Song Yuhang had no intention of leaving, Huang Qixiang said bluntly: "Tell me what you want."
Song Yuhang smiled and said: "I heard that there are more than 300 new military academy graduates, how about giving me 100?"
"One Hundred" Huang Qixiang glared at Song Yuhang and said, "The whole expeditionary force is only three hundred.
Give you a hundred others and add that you don't say that your first mechanized army is a wanderer.
Tomorrow I don't know where or where the thirty will go.
Love or not" Three cars for thirty cadets.
Huang Qixiang took the initiative to send the door-to-door business, which made both of them feel that they had made a lot of money.
Song Yuhang got the much-needed replenishment of officers he desperately needed.
Huang Qixiang not only ran errands for his sister-in-law, but he also got a Chevrolet that he had been thinking about for a long time.
At the end of the expeditionary force, only Wei Lihuang had the history of Chevrolet cars.
The meeting was held as normal.
After Wei Lihuang, Huang Qixiang and others entered in turn.
Song Yuhang, Fang Tian and others stood up and saluted.
The depressing atmosphere of the meeting made Song Yuhang feel breathless.
The military seats below are also all ghost-headed toads looking at each other.
Wei Lihuang said with a gloomy face: "Self-professing the sky and the earth."
Let the people of the world laugh at it.
Lose the face of the middle.
The disrepute of the Eleventh Army was discredited. ” Really.
The Eleventh Army of Song Xilian had an accident when it captured Longlingdi On the evening of October 5th.
The main forces of the 87th and 88th Divisions under the command of Song Xilian and the new 39th Division of the 6th Army have broken into Longling City.
After a day and a night of fierce fighting.
The remaining Japanese troops cowered and entrenched in more than a dozen isolated strongholds inside the city.
On the evening of October 6, after Song Xilian received the news that the headquarters of the 20th Group Army had recovered Tengchong, he sent a telegram to the headquarters of the commander of the expeditionary force saying that Longling had been recovered, but in the early morning of October 7, despite the fact that the remnants of the Japanese army in the city had not yet been cleared.
The main force of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army suddenly appeared 10 kilometers west of Longling City.
The main force of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army, in cooperation with the 1st Division of the 56th Division, immediately launched an attack on the headquarters of the 87th Division, 88th Division, and New 3rd Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the interior of Longling City.
The Japanese army, which had not yet been cleared of the city, also began to counterattack frequently.
Song Xilian was caught off guard by the reversal of the situation in Longling, and the intelligence department of the Chinese Expeditionary Force was unaware of the secret deployment and roundabout advance of the Japanese Second Division.
As a result, the Longling battle situation fell into extreme passivity.
The recurrence of the Longling War is actually very normal, and the war is inherently extremely unknown and unpredictable.
However, the bad thing is that Chongqing has already publicized the restoration of Longling, and the chairman of the committee raised a glass to celebrate the recovery of Longling the day before, but the Longling was lost just one day later, isn't this a blatant slap in the face of Jiang someone Embarrassed and furious in front of the allies and the news media, Chairman Chiang shouted that he would severely punish those responsible for the loss of the Dragon Tomb and severely punish them as an example.
The most depressing reversal of the Longling battle situation was Song Xilian, who made the principal lose face and have good fruit to eat, thinking of the principal's thunder Song Xilian hurriedly thought of countermeasures, but the house leaked and it rained even on a rainy day, although the Chinese expeditionary force that was unable to fight resisted after withdrawing from Longling City, but the Japanese army did not have the slightest intention of stopping when the attack was successful, and rushed all the way, making the 87th Division, 88th Division, and New 39th Division under the command of Song Xilian bitter.
Just when Wei Lihuang was worried about how to support the Eleventh Army to quickly capture Longling In Tengchong's absence, Watanabe Shozo was annoyed and ashamed, and in his opinion, it was a great gift for the Imperial Japanese Army to let the Chinese army retreat in Kunming for a few more days, and these people who did not know the height of the sky dared to make a ghost behind the Imperial Japanese Army In particular, those squadrons that fled to India, who had been defeated by the emperor's army, dared to send a division deep into the primeval jungle of northern Burma to launch a fierce attack on the 18th Division entrenched in the Hukang and Mong Gong valleys.
"This is absolutely unforgivable," Watanabe howled as he slammed a teapot against the wall.
Although the Chinese expeditionary force rushed down Tengchong, Watanabe Shozo was not in a hurry at all, because he saw a golden opportunity, the squadron that captured Tengchong had been stuck in western Yunnan by the strong fortress of Songshan, and once the Imperial Army that penetrated deep into Imphal was victorious, then the more than 200,000 troops who crossed the Nu River and attacked Songshan would surely die without a place to be buried.
A bold and arrogant plan was conceived in the mind of Shozo Watanabe, using airborne troops to recapture Tengchong, which had just been occupied by the Shina army.
Moreover, if the forces were immediately concentrated in an attempt to capture Songshan and open the road to Burma, then the defense of Tengchong, which was an important logistical supply base for the Chinese army, should be very relaxed.
If the surprise attack is successful, it will be the second "surprise attack on Lashio, the battle of Ba Mo", the Burmese front will achieve a decisive and brilliant victory, thinking of this, Hebian Zhengsan can't help but feel a burst of excitement.
In order to change the paratrooper brigade's very inferior airborne record, the Kume Brigade Command, which received the order to take charge of the Tengchong airborne operation, quickly formulated a new airborne combat plan: The first wave of airborne assault was launched with the main force of 1,850 people in the first echelon, first occupying the field airfield outside Tengchong County, and then attacking the Laifengshan Heights to cut off the retreat of the Chinese expeditionary force.
Then the second wave of assault was carried out with 1,650 people in the second echelon.
Occupy the supply center in the interior of Tengchong County, and then develop an offensive in the south.
In order to ensure the smooth capture of the airport, the Kume Brigade also organized a 124-man commando team, carrying eight light and heavy machine guns and six mortars, to land directly at the airport to cover and cooperate with the follow-up airborne.
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The whole plan can be described as flawless, and the ambitious Japanese airborne troops are determined to create a "miracle" in the history of world airborne in Tengchong.
To ensure the smooth implementation of airborne operations.
The headquarters of the Japanese Southern Army also strengthened the armament of individual paratroopers, replacing the original single-shot rifles with German-made submachine guns with relatively strong firepower, and for the first time equipping the Japanese army's little-known 100-style submachine guns.
The development of this gun began back in 1935.
Later, it was rejected by the Japanese army base camp as too costly, "wasting ammunition" and affecting "the play of the bushido spirit", and finally after several tosses, it was finalized and produced in 1940, and "painfully determined" to distribute it to the airborne troops.
At the same time, Lieutenant General Xiao Yingliang, commander of the 5th Flying Division of the Japanese Army, was also ordered to be responsible for directing and supporting this airborne operation.
October 10th.
Lieutenant General Xiao, commander of the 5th Flying Division, received an order to carry out an airborne operation against Tengchong at dawn the next day.
On October 11, a very important day for the Chinese, on this day, the sky was not clear, and on the airport shrouded in night, the first batch of new Japanese "Zero" fighters serving as air cover began to enter the runway, and the motors on the entire airport roared and deafened.
And the group of paratrooper transport planes waiting for the take-off signal is also moving slowly on the airport runway like a giant python.
As three green flares take off from the tower.
One after another, the "Zero" fighters quickly rose into the air.
However.
This day seemed destined to be an unfavorable one, as the two "Baisi-type" reconnaissance planes returning home misjudged the direction in the dim sky.
The airfield command also failed to allow the reconnaissance plane to land on the alternate runway in accordance with the regulations, and as a result, it collided head-on with the "Zero" fighter group that had just taken off over the same runway.
Two exploded in volleys on the spot.
After the other two planes collided, they were planted on the airport together, and immediately burst into flames, killing several other planes before they took off, along with the nearby alert detachment and field personnel.
For a while, the screams of fire extinguishers and ambulances rang out, and the entire airport suddenly became a pot of porridge.
The junior lieutenant general, who claimed to be unfazed, was also stunned by this accident at this time, and he easily relieved himself, so he hurriedly commanded the Japanese troops to restore order and urgently clear the runway, but the airborne take-off time was delayed by two hours.
At this time, the anxious lieutenant general gave the order to take off again, and the first batch of 92 transport planes loaded with paratroopers finally took off one after another in a hectic situation.
Then, unexpectedly, when the group entered the sky above Tengchong and prepared to be airborne, they found that the entire airborne area was full of white fog barriers, and almost nothing could be seen except for the black mountain peaks.
Due to the heavy fog, the pilots could not find the ground target, and the entire group had to play a "circle battle" in vain in the air in an attempt to find an opportunity to land in the air.
In desperation, the junior lieutenant general had no choice but to order the cancellation of the original airborne battle plan and order all the airborne paratroopers to return immediately.
Unexpectedly, on the way back, it was repeated again.
First of all, two transport planes accidentally "kissed" and collided in the air, one of them was planted headlong with the plane at that time, and the other plane struggled desperately in the air after being injured.
As the group flew towards the airfield, another transport plane somehow suddenly caught fire, and the plane exploded during an emergency landing, resulting in the fact that none of the crew or paratroopers on board survived.
In the evening, when the paratroopers came to the canteen to eat, a returning fighter rushed off the runway due to mechanical failure, and plunged headlong into the paratrooper officers' canteen after breaking through the fence, resulting in the death of dozens of officers who were dining on the spot.
After a whole day of inhuman ordeal, the little lieutenant general, who has always been known for his strength, turned out to be in pain: