On November 1, 1943, the gloomy sky seemed to be about to leak, and the damp and cold weather made the officers and soldiers of the First Mechanized Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force stationed in Longling feel less comfortable.
At 12 noon on November 1, the 20th Group Army, which was attacking and advancing from the direction of Tengchong, fought a fierce battle with the main force of the 53rd Division and the 1st Division of the 55th Division, which was a Japanese blocking force, at Luopo Mountain north of Tuantian.
When the vanguard of the 53rd Army met the main force of the 53rd Division, which had strengthened the tank brigade and heavy artillery of the Japanese army, the vanguard of the 5th Army was immediately defeated.
After the main force of the 53rd Army arrived, Huo Kuezhang, commander of the 20th Group Army, personally arrived at the headquarters of Army Commander Zhou Fucheng, and the 53rd Army adopted the tactic of leading the whole army with artillery fire in its first attack, and the artillery of the 53rd Army bombarded the Japanese position for only a few minutes before it was retaliated by the Japanese heavy artillery, and the few artillery regiments of the 53rd Army were suddenly lost.
The main forces of the 53rd Army, which intended to attack the main position of the Japanese army at Luopo Mountain, encountered a front-line counterattack by Japanese chariots accompanied by infantry.
Although the 53rd Army is a descendant unit, its weapons and equipment are naturally sophisticated compared with other units, but in the field situation, it encountered the counter-impact of Japanese tanks and infantry, and the 53rd Army, which lacked anti-tank firepower, was naturally unable to resist.
After a short stalemate between the attacking troops of the two sides, under the dense strafing of the Japanese tanks and machine guns, the Chinese soldiers fell one by one in the rain of bullets from the Japanese army in the gentle northwest in front of Luopo Mountain, and the Japanese heavy artillery immediately blocked the follow-up troops of the 53rd Army, and the attacking troops of the 53rd Army were immediately separated into several waves by the Japanese artillery fire, and the Japanese tanks cooperated with the infantry to quickly assault.
The 53rd Army's attacking force, which suffered heavy casualties, soon collapsed.
The corpses of Chinese soldiers were dumped all over the hillside, and the overlapping corpses were terrifying The offensive turned into a retreat.
The retreat turned into a rout.
The panicked Chinese soldiers fled in fear, and Zhou Fucheng, who led a gendarmerie battalion to try to intercept the rout, arrived at the side of the road only to find that the road was full of soldiers who had abandoned their weapons and looked panicked.
Zhou Fucheng, who was in tears, knew that his 53rd Army was completely finished.
Zhou Fucheng felt very unbelievable that the Japanese army had destroyed the will to fight of his troops with just one attack Shock, doubt, anger, shame, resentment, madness, all kinds of indescribable feelings are filling Zhou Fucheng's nerves, as the commander of the first army, Zhou Fucheng is very aware of the importance of reinforcing Longling at this moment, and Song Yuhang, who is sticking to Longling, has always been not thin on himself, and he is in law, affection, and reason, and the 53rd Army should do its best to support Song Yuhang's First Mechanized Army.
However, his own troops were defeated by the Japanese counterattack.
This is an unprecedented precedent in the history of the 53rd Army.
Ashamed, Zhou Fucheng was ashamed of himself.
He actually pulled out his pistol and prepared to cut himself Several staff officers and guards on the side threw Zhou Fucheng to the ground in time.
From his hand, he pulled out the silver Horse brand Browning automatic pistol, which was Zhou Fucheng's favorite on weekdays.
Looking at the silver Browning automatic pistol that had been snatched away by his own men.
Zhou Fucheng calmed down.
He patted the dust on his body.
Loud voice: "I command."
The remaining troops in Tengchong immediately organized to intercept the rout.
For disobedient and troublemakers.
Direct military justice is engaged.
It is necessary to severely suppress a number of people" Where does Zhou Fucheng know.
The Japanese army had already carried out a large number of surveillance activities in western Yunnan.
The information on the mobilization of the 20th Army was already known by the Japanese army.
For the actual strength of the army, only one has gone through a series of bloody battles.
It has not yet been replenished with troops.
The Japanese army was not intimidated by the big hat of the 20th Army on the head of the 53rd Army.
Major General Etsujiro Kono, commander of the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army, was very satisfied with the arrangement arranged by the commander of the riverside to arrange for his 53rd Division to defeat the 53rd Army of the Chongqing Army.
This was the first battle in the place where Etsujiro Kono was commanded and deployed as the commander of the combat unit.
He has always served as chief of staff of the 12th Army of the Chinese Dispatch Army and head of the Taiyuan secret service agency, and has always presided over the special agent rectification work.
The 53rd Division of the Japanese Army was formed in July 1940 from the remaining troops of the 16th Division, with 119, 128, and 151 infantry wings under its jurisdiction. and the 53rd Field Artillery Wing, which belonged to the outright C Division, which was reluctantly reluctantly become a B Division due to the addition of the 33rd Army of the Burma Front.
In this battle between the 53rd Army and the 53rd Division, the Japanese army, which had an absolute superiority in strength, first counterattacked the Chinese artillery positions with heavy artillery, and then put into the chariot unit with infantry to counterattack, and then used heavy artillery fire to block the squadron's offensive sequence, thus winning the victory in what was characterized as a field attack encounter.
The victory of the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army made Kono Etsujiro become blindly optimistic, and the battle was won too easily, so easy that Karetsujiro couldn't believe it, and Kono Etsujiro was even pleasantly surprised to find that he had such outstanding military command talent.
As a garrison division formed in 1940, the 53rd Division has not participated in the bloody battle of the Pacific Theater, nor has it experienced the bloody battle of Imphal, let alone the experience of fighting to the death with such an iron army as Song Yuhang's First Mechanized Army.
The previous battle of the 53rd Division in Kohima could hardly be called a battle, because when the two Japanese divisions attacked Kohima, the British and Indian troops stationed in Kohima walked into the Japanese prisoner of war camp almost with their hands held high.
When the news of the 53rd Army in the direction of Tengchong was broken by the Japanese army reached Song Yuhang's headquarters, it was already evening, and dinner was hot three times, Song Yuhang still did not have any appetite, he stood alone in front of the map and pondered.
The menacing arrival of the Japanese army has already shown their intentions, when in Tonggu, Song Yuhang led a remnant army and dared to fight fiercely with the two divisions of the Japanese army.
He now commands China's only mechanized army, although the number of tanks and heavy artillery is only as large as that of a tank regiment and artillery regiment of the United States.
However, the light weapons of this unit are all equipped with American-made individual weapons with powerful firepower.
The firepower of individual soldiers, subordinate firepower, and battalion firepower far exceeded that of the Japanese army, and most of the soldiers were experienced veterans, and the recruits had served for more than half a year, all of which were composed of young students and intellectuals who had been trained in patriotic ideas, and their officers were the best of the best.
Lead this hugely organized, formidable force.
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Song Yuhang had no possibility of being afraid, he was just quietly thinking about how to slowly incorporate the Japanese army into the "flesh mill" built in the north of his city, and Song Yuhang was no longer thinking about the reinforcements, because he knew that Chairman Jiang in Chongqing, the local bigwigs of the Supreme Military Commission, and Wei Lihuang, the commander of the expeditionary force, would think about it for him.
Now Song Yu is preoccupied pondering, how to tear off a piece of meat on the Japanese army's Tietong encirclement, the defense itself is not in line with Song Yuhang's character and style of action, the previous Tonggu and Kunming only made up for the situation is forced by the situation, now he has absolute strength, and the First Mechanized Army with more than 59,000 people is the guarantee of his confidence and strength.
In the end, Song Yuhang decided to take a more conservative approach.
The Japanese army's aggressive Second Division continued to exert pressure on the 11th Army under the command of its division commander, Lieutenant General Okazaki Kiyozaburo, and Song Xilian, who was unable to concentrate his forces on counterattacks in many places, cursed Okazaki Kiyozaburo almost every day.
At this time, the triumphant Okazaki Seisaburo seemed to have seen the hope of victory in the Battle of Longling, and in his opinion, the 11th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force was oppressed by its own second division and was never able to concentrate its forces to form an effective defense, while the 54th Army of the 20th Group Army was pinned down by the 29th Infantry Wing and the Yokota Rapid Tank Detachment.
Its 53rd Army had been crushed by the 53rd Division.
The First Mechanized Army of Chongqing, where Longling was firmly defended to the death, had become the bag of the Japanese army's "Tiger Slaying Operation".
How did Okazaki Kiyozaburo know that Song Yuhang had already regarded him as a bag.
What made Song Yuhang worry about it was not the Second Division elsewhere at all, but the main force of the 49th Division and the Second Tank Division of the Japanese Army that appeared in the north and south of Longling City. and the 24th, 51st, and 72nd Mixed Brigades, which consist of two attack clusters.
How to divide the three independent mixed brigades of the Japanese army, take advantage of the longitudinal terrain in the north of Longling City, make a gap in the defensive circle, let one Japanese army enter the city, and then close the breakthrough to eat one of them.
Song Yuhang's bold plan stunned Qi Baiming, the commander of the Second Motorized Infantry Division, Fang Lin, the deputy division commander, and the commanders of each regiment.
Deputy Army Commander Cui Zhijun, Chief of Staff Xu Tu'an, and all the senior staff members gathered in the basement of the Central Bank, and the plan put forward by Song Yuhang was too bold, so bold that Cui Zhijun's heart was shocked, because this plan to lure the enemy into the city required accurate cooperation between various troops, and the troops blocking the breakthrough would inevitably be in the realm of being attacked on their backs, and this force must be able to withstand the Japanese army's flanking attacks from both sides, until the Japanese troops in the city were all annihilated.
The atmosphere in the basement of the central bank was tense for a moment, as if it were condensed, almost everyone was muffling down all kinds of cigarettes or cigars, the meeting room was filled with smoke, and even the air in which people breathed choked with the smell of tobacco.
After a long time, Chen Zhi said meaningfully: "The plan of the military seat is indeed feasible, but if the breakthrough cannot be blocked in time, resulting in a large influx of Japanese troops, our army may be in danger, even if the breakthrough is locked in time, if the Japanese troops entering the city cannot be quickly annihilated, resulting in turbulence in the defensive line, or if the troops holding the breakthrough suffer heavy casualties from the enemy, the gains will outweigh the losses." ” Chen Zhishen's remarks were echoed, Cui Zhijun, Xu Tu'an and other old people who have been following Song Yuhang many times know that every time Song Yuhang proposes a plan, it means that it must be implemented, and the purpose of Song Yuhang's proposal is just to let everyone help him improve his plan.
Wang Chongxian, who participated in this kind of high-level meeting for the first time, listened to Song Yuhang's plan, his eyes lit up, and he hesitated for a moment and said: "Everyone, I think that the Japanese army chose the north and south of the city as its offensive direction, which is nothing more than the flat terrain in the north of the city, which is suitable for its tank troops, and the south of the city is full of woodland and potholes, which is suitable for its night battle sneak attack, and the west of the city is the retreat of the second division of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army regards its second division as a strange army.
Therefore, the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army in the west of the city is deliberately ignored and the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army in the east of the city is what we have to worry about, if the reinforcements do not stand for a long time, then the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army will inevitably change from reinforcement to Longling siege, and the east of the city is precisely where the weakness of our army's defense lies":