The impassioned voice of "the Chinese Air Force will fight to the death in the blue sky and blue sky" echoed in almost all the radio stations of the First Mechanized Army, and the radio waves transmitted this bold and passionate rhetoric to the ends of the earth.
The sky was still so blue, and the cheers on the Japanese positions north of the city tended to get higher and higher "Order the heavy artillery brigade to fire artillery and indiscriminately bombard the Japanese positions north of the city, and see off the heroic spirit of the heroic and fearless Chinese Air Force" Song Yuhang's order did not pause at all, Chen Zhishen, who was standing beside Song Yuhang, hesitated for a moment, and now the artillery is obviously revealing its strength, if the Japanese planes in the air still have ammunition, and the US planes have not yet come to help, the heavy artillery brigade can easily become the target of the Japanese planes, this is a very typical order that does not outweigh the losses.
However, the spirit of the 22nd Squadron of the Chinese Air Force before that of not giving up to the death and fighting until all the people died was also deeply infected by Chen Zhishen, so he swallowed back the words that had reached his throat.
After receiving the order, the 1st Mechanized Heavy Artillery Brigade immediately sent its deputy brigade commander Zhang Wei to the artillery position and began shelling according to the pre-set Zhuyuan.
Many of the artillerymen who were infected by the death of the air force brothers were running back and forth with tears in their eyes, holding the shells, and the 10 rapid fire of the brigade took only two-thirds of the time in ordinary training.
The Japanese troops, who were still shouting frantically, were suddenly stunned by the fierce artillery fire falling from the sky, and Kawabe Shozo couldn't believe that his own eyes of the squadron dared to carry out artillery bombardment when his own fighters were in the air, and they were not afraid of revealing the location of the artillery positions The Japanese officers and soldiers stood in the trenches in almost a neat line to meet the artillery fire, and the flying earth and rocks mixed with the stumps and broken arms of the Japanese officers and soldiers were scattered all over the ground, and the abdomen was cut by shrapnel, and the Japanese soldiers covered the white intestines with their hands and howled in pain.
The heavy artillery brigade that had completed the bombardment immediately shifted its position, but the swarming Japanese planes were embarrassed to find that the previous fierce battle had not only exhausted their ammunition, but also brought their fuel to the SR point.
If I don't return, I'm afraid I'm going to make a temporary landing.
Suddenly, dozens of black spots appeared in the sky, and reinforcements from the 14th Air Force of the US Air Force finally arrived over Longling.
Compared with the previous spirit of the Chinese Air Force fighting to the death, the river was so angry that the attack originally scheduled for 10 a.m. was postponed.
As the direct supreme commander of the Battle of Longling, Kawabe Shozo realized that if he did not seize the air supremacy of Longling, it would become a luxury to capture Longling and annihilate the First Mechanized Army.
So for a whole day on November 5, the Japanese and US air forces launched a struggle for air supremacy around Longling, but the ground forces, which were supposed to play the leading role, became spectators.
Finally, General Chennault, commander-in-chief of the U.S.
Air Force in China, commanded the U.S.
Fourteenth Air Force.
Twentieth Air Force.
XXI Strategic Aviation Strategic Bombing Group. on November 5 at 4 p.m.
At the same time as the fierce battle with the main force of the Japanese Fifth Flying Division over Longling.
Under the ground guidance of the infiltration squad of the Special Operations Brigade of the 1st Mechanized Army.
Ninety B29 strategic bombers of the 21st Strategic Aviation Strategic Bombing Group of the US Air Force were escorted by 60 fighters.
Take advantage of the difference in the time of the return time of the Japanese plane.
The devastating bombing of five field airfields deployed by the Japanese army on the front line in Burma.
The Japanese did not expect this.
The U.S. military even used a surprise attack on Japan's local land strategic bombers to attack its field airfield in Burma.
Rows of Japanese planes were blown up by the US military on both sides of the runway or in temporary hangars.
So far.
The Fifth Flying Division of the Japanese Army, which had been greatly damaged, was no longer able to compete with the US Air Force in China.
The defeat of the Japanese Fifth Flying Division made Kawabe Shozo realize.
In the end, it is up to the ground forces to win the battle.
Song Yuhang in the interior of Longling City did not have as many troubles as Zhengsan by the river.
Soldiers are coming.
At this moment, the Japanese troops in the domestic battlefield did not move.
Although the international battlefield is changing dramatically.
However, the Soviet Union and Germany were still accumulating strength in the competition with each other.
Attempt to give the opponent a fatal blow.
The Germans were holding a solid front.
Massive use of the forces of the White Russian resistance, which was hostile to the Red regime.
These were dissidents from the three Baltic states and the Chechen region of Belarus.
There was also a large number of Russian ethnic landlords, rich peasants, businessmen, and bourgeoisie dissidents who had been suppressed during the Great Purges in the Soviet Union, forming the puppet army of the Russian Liberation Army.
In the battle against the Soviet Red Army, it burst out with amazing combat effectiveness, and even the elite German SS was praised at first glance. in North Africa.
Rommel Land Afrika Korps underwent a series of rests.
Plus the island of Malta has already been seized.
The unimpeded sea transport made Rommel ambitious.
It is actively hesitating on the offensive of new grounds.
And his goal was Cairo.
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Thereupon.
The eyes of the whole world naturally focused on the Chinese theater of operations, the battlefield in Asia.
For the first time, Longling, a small city in western Yunnan, attracted the attention of the whole world.
If we look at the world war situation, if we count from the center of the flashpoint of the war, then Europe is the center, and as we all know, if you want to solve the problem, you have to start from the periphery, and the periphery of World War II is Asia and Africa At 4 a.m. on November 6, in western Yunnan, the southwestern border of China, the main forces of the 49th Division and the 2nd Tank Division of the Japanese Army, as well as the 24th, 51st, and 72nd Mixed Brigades of Independent Mixed Formation, launched an attack in the north and south of Longling City.
The Japanese army first concentrated all its artillery fire and carried out a heavy artillery bombardment of the position of the 4th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Motorized Infantry Division under the 1st Mechanized Army in the western suburbs of the city After exchanging glances with Cui Zhijun and several people and receiving affirmation, Song Yuhang confirmed his judgment that the Japanese artillery group was mixed with at least one regiment of American-made 105 mm caliber artillery fire.
Even if you think about it with your toes, Song Yuhang can think of the source of these American-made 105mm guns, half a month ago, the Japanese 53rd Division and the 54th Division captured the British army's supply hoarding in Kohima, Song Yuhang judged from the time and consumption of continuous battles in the direction of Imphal after the Japanese captured Kohima, the Japanese army must have gained a lot in Kohima, but he did not expect the Japanese army's harvest to be so rich "Damn the British," Song Yuhang muttered Although the Japanese artillery bombardment seemed fierce, it was nothing more than a little dust that had been shaken off by the extremely well-prepared Chinese defenders.
The 106th Infantry Wing and Hongye Wing of the 49th Division of the Japanese Army, which were at the forefront, had all entered the attack position at this moment.
Wing Captain Hirono Shipo Osa is holding a telescope to watch the effect of the shelling, that burst of shelling is already commonplace for the battle-hardened position Hirono Shipo, he knows that today's opponent will definitely be extraordinary, and even has more expectations for the upcoming fierce battle, and the master's move is undoubtedly the most exciting.
Although this was the first meeting between the 49th Division and the 1st Mechanized Corps of the squadron, from the division commander Saburo Takehara to every soldier.
The 49th Division attached great importance to this battle, and the defeat of many previous units made Saburo Takehara realize that the 1st Mechanized Army of the Squadron was not an ordinary squadron, and it was not easy for the army that could rank first in the battle sequence in the army of a country.
The 49th Division of the Japanese Army was formed at the beginning of the year with the 64th Independent Infantry Group in Kyushu, Japan.
The 106th, 153rd, and 168th Infantry Wings and the 49th Mountain Artillery, Baggage, Cavalry, and Engineer Wings under its jurisdiction are the standard B divisions of the Japanese army, and the whole division has more than 24,000 people after being strengthened by the technical arms of the battle.
Undoubtedly, the 49th Division of the Japanese Army was a difficult opponent, and its division commander Saburo Takehara, who graduated from the Army University, was even more cunning opponent.
The Japanese artillery bombardment was short but intense, and it was clear that the Japanese were afraid of retaliation from the heavy artillery brigade of the 1st Mechanized Army, which was deployed in the interior of the city.
In terms of artillery range and power, the Japanese army's 75-mm field guns and 105-mm howitzers could not compete with the 155-mm howitzer group of the First Mechanized Army.
The Fifth Flying Division of the Japanese Army had already lost in the battle for air supremacy in the small city of Longling, and Shozo Kawabe had already asked the base camp for tactical guidance of the army aviation, but because the Japanese army had invested too much army and naval aviation forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Therefore, for a time, the Japanese base camp was unable to strengthen the air power of the Burmese Front.
The sky over Longling belongs to China, and the Fifth Flying Division of the Japanese Army, which was unwilling to be defeated, used the remnants of its fighters to change its group operations into a guerrilla mode of two- or four-plane formations.
Under the cover of a squadron equipped with Type 97 medium tanks of the Second Tank Division, the two brigades under the wing came to the position of the Fourth Motorized Infantry Regiment of the Second Motorized Infantry Division of the defending army.
Amid a burst of shrill trumpets, a battalion of the 4th Motorized Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Motorized Infantry Division immediately entered the position, and the position of the 2nd Motorized Infantry Division was formed after a week of painstaking preliminary construction by all of it and the engineer regiment directly under the army, so that the relatively flat north of the city could effectively resist the Japanese army.
The Second Motorist Division almost changed the topography of the northern part of Longling City.
The originally flat outskirts of the city were dug out three lanes eight meters wide.
The height difference between the first and third anti-tank trenches is about seven meters deep.
In the meantime, countless communication trenches, covered forts, hidden bunker groups, manti-type excavation artillery bunkers, deep tunnel systems, hoarding holes and so on were built.
After discovering the approximate defense system of the squadron through aerial reconnaissance.
The Japanese ground forces tried to reconnoiter in close proximity on many occasions, but because the Chinese defenders were well defended and extremely vigilant, the Japanese reconnaissance ended in failure, so the Japanese troops could only make deployment arrangements according to the results of aerial reconnaissance.
In the early hours of the morning, the Hongye Wing, which served as the first attack force of the Japanese army, made corresponding deployments, and the soldiers of the Japanese Hongye Wing, who thought they were fully prepared, carried the ladders they had made improvised and ran through the field.
The heavy wooden ladder rushed forward with the sound of heavy breathing of the Japanese soldiers, and approaching the other party's trench was victory, and every Japanese soldier ran desperately with the same idea.
Three minutes after the Japanese attack, only the artillery battalion directly under the division of the 2nd Motor Infantry Division suppressed the artillery fire of the Japanese attacking troops, although there was only one battalion of American-made 105 mm howitzers, but it still brought a lot of casualties to the Hongye Wing.
Due to the darkness before dawn, Hirono had no way of knowing the casualties of the attacking troops, but with each round of violent explosions, the figure that flew up made Hirono Funo's heart tighten.
Suddenly, an unlucky Japanese Type 97 medium tank was hit by a 105 mm high-explosive grenade on the side, the Type 97 tank was suddenly smashed out of a large hole, the fragments of the high-explosive bomb swept through a nearby squad of Japanese troops, and the explosive flames generated by the detonated ammunition gushed out from the hole in the chariot, and then, the turret of the Type 97 tank flew into the sky in the fierce explosion Shortly after the Japanese 49th Division launched an attack north of Longling City, the 24th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade also launched a diversionary attack in the south of the city.
For a moment, the darkness before dawn had been rendered into day by the artillery fire of both sides Longling, a small border town, is destined to be famous all over the world because of this battle: