On October 20, 1943, the strategic deployment of the Japanese army was very clear, and with the support of the Japanese base camp, Kawabe Shozo planned to transfer the 53rd Division, the 49th Division and the 24th Brigade from the direction of Imphal, totaling more than 56,000 troops.
The determination of the Japanese can be described as unprecedented, and in order to eliminate the tactical goal of Song Yuhang's First Mechanized Army, the Japanese army would even abandon the so-called strategic goal In order to annihilate the 1st Mechanized Corps of the squadron, the Japanese army mobilized most of the 55th Division, the 1st Division of the 56th Division, the main force of the 2nd Division, the main force of the 2nd Tank Division, the Yokota Rapid Tank Detachment, the main force of the 53rd Division, the main force of the 49th Division, and the 24th, 51st, 70th, and 72nd Mixed Brigades of the Independent Mixed Division, and the 5th Flying Division of the Japanese Army provided air support for it.
The Japanese army concentrated nearly 150,000 troops in just one week, and the Japanese army, supported by artillery, chariots and other technical arms, was now ambitious, as if the First Mechanized Army at Longling had become a lamb to the slaughter.
For the humiliation of the Burmese Front in Tonggu and Kunming before the snow, the Japanese army went all out When the initial deployment of the Japanese army was completed, Chairman Chiang, who was in Chongqing, finally understood the ultimate goal of the Japanese army, and the First Mechanized Army, which intended to encircle and block the main force of the Japanese Second Division, fell into the Japanese army's counter-encirclement.
If the squadron wants to relieve the siege of Longling, it can only implement reinforcements through Tengchong and Songshan, and the main force of the Japanese Second Division and the first part of the 56th Division are blocking the only way for the Eleventh Group Army to reinforce Longling, and it seems that the Eleventh Army and the First Mechanized Army have blocked and surrounded the Japanese Second Division and the 56th Division, but in the overall situation, the First Mechanized Army is surrounded by the Japanese Corps.
At this moment, the situation in Longling is like Go, the Chinese and Japanese armies are scattered, and you have me.
In the end, who can compete with each other is not only the troops and generals at the front of the Chinese and Japanese armies, but also the coordination between the staff command system.
After receiving the report of the enemy's situation, Song Yuhang stood in front of the map and fell into deep thought, the First Mechanized Army had reached a dilemma at this moment.
The retreating Japanese army can take advantage of the situation to attack western Yunnan and divide and annihilate the 11th Army on the right flank, while advancing must ignore the threat of the two divisions of the Japanese army on the flanks and rear flanks, and meet the main force of the Japanese army of nearly 100,000 troops.
Moreover, among the enemies who came to attack Longling, the Japanese Second Tank Division made Song Yuhang feel a little confused, and the Japanese Tank Division was formed under the stimulation of the strong breakthrough and combat effectiveness of the German armored division.
Prior to this, the Japanese army's tank units had always been based on wings as combat units, with brigades or tank detachments as separate combat forces and reinforced divisions, regiments, brigades, and regiments.
The Japanese tank unit was used intensively on the scale of the division and regiment, which had never appeared in the history of the Japanese army, and the second division of the Japanese army had never performed well during the entire operation period in history, and the tank wing under its jurisdiction was used in a scattered manner, and until the surrender of Japan, the division was still unknown, and Song Yuhang had almost no impression of the division Because of the great changes in history.
Song Yuhang had annihilated the 14th Tank Wing of the Japanese Army under the city of Kunming.
This led to the formation of the Yokota Rapid Tank Detachment.
It also made the Japanese base camp determined to launch the Battle of Imphal.
It was for this reason that the 2nd Tank Division of the Japanese Army came to Burma.
A dog that bites is not barking.
As a commander of a mechanized unit.
Song Yuhang naturally wants to pay attention to his main opponents.
The 2nd Tank Division of the Japanese Army.
At this time, in the eye of the storm, Dilongling was unusually calm at the moment.
Previously, the Japanese 29th Infantry Wing and the 54th Army of the Yokota Rapid Combat Vehicle Detachment and the 4 tank companies of the 1st Mechanized Division were pursued.
When receiving the order of the Supreme Military Council to reverse the Longling Land.
They were already entangled in the Japanese army.
The 29th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army and the Yokota Rapid Tank Detachment dragged the 54th Army to the death.
Seeing that the situation was not right, the sky immediately dug into the ground and held on.
And from the two main combat divisions in their own territory, each drew a regiment and three tank companies to quickly return to Longling.
The starry night reinforcements finally arrived at Longling.
These reinforcements included three 4 Sherman medium tank companies and two main combat regiments of the 54 Army.
A heavy tank battalion rushed to the ground and Lulong escorted a large amount of supplies, weapons and ammunition, and the air defense regiment directly under the ground army.
These troops arrived at Longling after the Japanese army had completed the siege of Longling.
This kind of support is very timely for Song Yuhang.
In particular, Lu Long brought a large amount of supplies and ammunition.
It was Song Yuhang who insisted on relying on it.
Facing the current situation.
Song Yuhang boldly envisioned that he would first hold the front line of Longling with two divisions.
The main force of the First Mechanized Army, the Heavy Artillery Brigade, and the Mountain Infantry Brigade of the Concentration Army.
In cooperation with the 11th Group Army, Song Xilian's division first quickly broke through the main force of the Japanese Second Division.
Open up the passage between the First Mechanized Army and the Eleventh Group Army Song Xilian.
The First Mechanized Army was in a powerful position to attack, retreat, and defend.
It is a pity that Song Yuhang's plan did not pass the review of the Supreme Military Council.
The First Mechanized Army is the main force of the elite of the first class, and the chairman of the committee has a treasure in his heart, and this time the chairman of the committee has already made the chairman chagrined by the fact that the army is in danger of Longling, so the Supreme Military Commission can only make the most prudent deployment, and Song Yuhang can take risks, because he is only a general, and the members of the Supreme Military Commission do not dare to risk their political lives.
On October 28, the main force of the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army and a part of the 55th Division, reinforced a brigade of chariots and equipped with heavy artillery, blocked the reinforcements of the 20th Army at Luopo Mountain north of Tuantian.
The main force of the 49th Division of the Japanese Army, the main force of the 2nd Tank Division, and the 24th, 51st, and 72nd Mixed Brigades of the Independent Mixed Army, formed a ground attack group that appeared in the north and south directions of Longling on October 29, and the 70th Brigade and Regiment of the Independent Mixed Brigade acted as the general reserve of the campaign and the front commander of the front army.
Since then, the "Battle of Longling", which greatly surprised all military experts, has begun, and the Japanese army launched a campaign on the Indian side of Imphal, after reaching the initial goal of the first stage, it actually abandoned the strategic goal for the sake of a tactical goal This kind of incomprehensible and unbelievable tactical battle arrangement seems to be planned only by Japan in the world.
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Song Yuhang, who was located in Longling, was very depressed, and at this moment he and his First Mechanized Army were on the cusp of the limelight, and the Japanese really stopped their strategic goal for the sake of their own tactical goal Song Yuhang, the bigwigs of the Chongqing Supreme Military Commission, and the chairman of the committee all ignored an important factor, that is, the Japanese army's bloody battle in the direction of Imphal was met with desperate resistance from the British and Indian troops, and the Japanese troops' soldiers, technical equipment, and strategic material reserves had been reduced to an extremely dangerous situation, if it were not for the Japanese 53rd Division and the 54th Division's lightly armed surprise troops to seize Kohima, which Mountbatten was unable to hold, and captured a large amount of British materials, weapons and ammunition stored in Kohima.
I'm afraid that at this moment, the Japanese army will still have to worry about how to retreat The huge amount of supplies obtained by the Japanese army in Kohima even included more than 60 brand-new American-made Type 3 105mm howitzers and a large number of artillery shells.
The Japanese base camp also realized that the three divisions fighting in the Imphal direction were already exhausted, that there was an extreme shortage of combat materials necessary for the follow-up operations, and that the attacking troops were exhausted after many days of continuous marching and fighting, and that they had made a breakthrough in the direction of Kohima and achieved the campaign objectives set at the beginning of the Imphal campaign to occupy a bridgehead in India.
Now that the objectives set in the previous campaign have been achieved, the troops are in dire need of rest.
In the context of the need for supplies and ammunition to be stockpiled, and the second phase of the Imphal campaign still needs to be adjusted, the Japanese base camp agreed to allow the "Tiger Slaying" operation by the riverside.
The failure to settle the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which consisted of elite troops from Chongqing, in May 1942 has always been a so-called "great regret" for the Japanese base camp and the Burmese Front Annihilated the elite First Mechanized Army of Chongqing, defeated the 20th and 11th Group Armies, looked for fighters and waited for an opportunity to annihilate the enemy, and severely damaged all units of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which were extremely scattered.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Chongqing, also frowned after agreeing to the plan for the "Battle of Longling" submitted by the Supreme Military Council.
In fact, this modest tactical plan did not quite conform to Chiang Kai-shek's original intention, but the tactical plan submitted by Song Yuhang was too risky, and between the two, Chiang Kai-shek chose the operational plan that was collectively studied and formulated by many senior staff members of the Supreme Military Commission.
According to the Supreme Military Commission's plan for the battle, the Chinese Expeditionary Force planned that the 20th Group Army would reinforce Longling from Tengchong, and the 11th Group Army would strengthen the 36th Division and transfer the main force of the Eighth Army to attack and advance in the direction of Longling.
Break through the blockade of the Japanese Second Division, urgently transfer Du Yuming's 5th Army, Shi Zhong's 100th Army, and draw new 50th and 51st Divisions as strategic reserves, assemble and supplement to Kunming, stabilize western Yunnan and support the direction of Longling at any time, and the 14th Air Force of the US Army fully cooperates.
The concealed movement and advance of the Japanese army concealed the intelligence system of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and although the British discovered the movement of the Japanese army in the direction of Imphal, they had become frightened birds and they could only shrink back and hold on.
The courage and courage to attack have been lost.
After several days of continuous rapid marching.
The Japanese troops who arrived at the outskirts of Longling were exhausted, and boldly ordered the Japanese troops to rest under the nose of the squadron.
It is a pity that the Chinese expedition under the specific command of Wei Lihuang failed to seize this rare opportunity and took the opportunity to defeat the Japanese army.
Otherwise, the tide of battle in Longling will immediately turn dramatically.
After the bloody battle of gray slope and stone pond, breaking through the Zhaigongfang moat, recovering Tengchong, Longling fierce battle and reconquering, the Chinese expeditionary force sent troops to western Yunnan for more than 20 days of fierce fighting, a total of nearly 20,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, although the various units of our expeditionary force also suffered huge casualties, but the great victory in western Yunnan was already an undoubted fact, the great victory in western Yunnan in Futuke City made the generals from Chiang Kai-shek, the Supreme Military Commission to Wei Lihuang and so on are intoxicated with the joy of victory, almost all the people overestimate the combat effectiveness of the expeditionary force, and underestimate the Japanese army.
The central bank in Longling City was the only undamaged building in the city, and at that time, the strongest building in all cities in China, including the county seat, was the local central bank.
Song Yuhang set up his military headquarters in the central bank, the field hospital was located in the east of the city, the mountain infantry brigade and the two regiments of the 54th Army were all deployed in the east of the city, and the small city of Longling was sandwiched between the trending mountains, and the south of the city was blocked by the trending mountains.
After touring the four directions of defense in the city, Song Yuhang focused on inspecting the positions of the Second Motorized Infantry Division in the north of the city, because the main direction of the Japanese attack was in the north of the city, Qi Baiming, commander of the Second Motorized Infantry Division, Fang Lin, deputy division commander, and Wang Chongxian, acting chief of staff, accompanied Song Yuanhang to inspect the fortifications of the Second Motorized Infantry Division.
The terrain in the north of Longling City is relatively flat, and the few hills are not on the same axis, but the officers and soldiers of the Second Motorized Infantry Division work together to use a week to create a miracle in the Chinese soldiers who are frantically digging with the help of the engineer regiment directly under the foreign aid army
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