Under the cover of the deep night of early winter, after paying a great price, the Japanese army finally broke through to the foxhole battle line outside the main position of the 3rd Infantry Division in the south of the city.
Liang Chao's original intention of using the foxhole front was to serve as a warning position, and later due to the abundant time, dozens of 360-degree fire support points were set up on the foxhole front, and a reinforced infantry squad was deployed in each support point, in order to increase the defensive column of the Third Infantry Division But Liang Chao ignored a problem, that is, once the defensive front composed of foxholes encountered the enemy's breakthrough, the two sides were bound to be involved in a fierce battle, for the troops deployed in the foxhole, once the Japanese army broke through the straggler line, they had no chance to retreat at all, because as long as they retreated, it meant leaving their backs to the Japanese, and when identifying the corpses after the war, those who were shot in the back could not even get a pension if they did not have more than three people to prove it, and as a member of the ace army, Every Chinese soldier is proud and proud to be a member of the First Mechanized Army, and they are even willing to defend this honor that belongs to soldiers with their lives.
Chinese soldiers, lying or crouching in foxholes, shot desperately at the figures stacked in the shadows "Reload Cover" Amid the flying bullets and shrapnel, the seven Chinese soldiers in the foxhole were divided into two groups and alternated cover with each other, as they had been trained before.
Maintain the coherence of firepower.
The Japanese soldiers, who kept screaming and raising their bayonets, were hit and fell to the edge of the pit, and the Chinese soldiers directly mounted their machine guns on the corpses of the Japanese soldiers and fired fiercely.
The Browning heavy barrel rifle is as lethal as it is powerful.
However, its 20-round magazine could not maintain the continuity of firepower, and the two Thomson submachine guns, which were used as supplementary firepower at critical moments, jammed one after another due to long-term continuous firing.
The heavy fire from the foxhole was suddenly stunned.
After the flash of explosion of several grenades, all the Chinese soldiers in the foxhole fell in a pool of blood.
Although the 51st Brigade of the Japanese Army broke through the straggler line of the 3rd Infantry Division of the Chinese defenders from many places, the Japanese soldiers were knocked to the ground one by one by fire from all directions.
Only then did the Japanese army discover that there were still dozens of squadrons of annular fire support points on the skirmish line that had not been removed, so the Japanese assault troops had no choice but to turn around and remove these annular fire support points that had cut into their own attack line.
There has been an exchange of fire.
Only then did the Japanese discover that these ring-shaped fire support points were extremely cleverly arranged.
Dozens of support fire points can support each other.
It can also be used as a stand-alone combat unit.
And these fire support points are not on one axis at all.
I want to remove any of these fire support points. will be blocked by 180-degree fire from at least 45 nearby ring fire points.
In the night when you can't see your fingers.
The Japanese infantry assault fire was matched with abundant circular fire support points.
The results are clear.
The Japanese infantry could only shout again and again, braving the rain of bullets and the occasional falling mortar shells.
Whistling bullet rain.
Shells and mines burst into flames.
It has long frightened the Japanese army.
In the past, the grenadier was regarded by the Japanese army as the treasure of infantry attack, but it was suppressed by a large number of mortars by the Chinese defenders.
At the beginning of the battle.
Liang Chao deployed several mortar batteries behind the skirmish defensive front.
As soon as the Japanese grenadiers appeared in which direction.
The Chinese defenders would immediately report according to the front.
Mortar groups were organized to carry out fire suppression.
No matter how hard the Japanese army tried.
They were never able to break through the defensive line formed by the ring of fire support points.
The fierce battle lasted almost an hour.
The Japanese occupied only a few circular positions on the edge of the skirmish defensive line.
The heavy artillery of the Chinese defenders in the middle of Longling City from time to time blocked the Japanese attacking troops in the south and north of the city.
The commander of the 51st Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade was very dissatisfied with the performance of the troops on the front.
After reprimanding the captain of the subordinate ground.
He decided to personally arrive at the front line and direct the attack.
Able to give maximum pressure to the squadron.
Forced to mobilize reserves.
Create conditions for the attack of the main attacking forces.
It depends on the attack from the south and north of the city.
Just when the south and north of Longling City were boiling like a pot.
The east and west of Longling were silent in silence.
Song Yuhang stood in front of the map and looked at the criss-crossing signs around Longling.
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Every day, the U.S. military airdropped supplies to Longling at the same time. will airdrop a day-to-earth aerial reconnaissance report.
This report is extremely important to Song Yuhang.
Holding on to the Longling Ground, he urgently needed to know the latest movement and deployment of the Japanese army.
"The 53rd Division of the Japanese Army, which is blocked between Longling and Tengchong, is still building fortifications, and the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army is still oppressing the 11th Army, what do the Japanese want to do" Song Yuhang frowned, although the Japanese attack was extremely fierce at this moment, but under the steady and steady resistance of the defenders, the Japanese army did not achieve results in the south and north of the city.
"It won't be so crazy to fight to consume Hebian Zhengsan, but as long as there is still a trace of reason, the commander will not adopt this tactic of killing the enemy 800 and losing 3,000 himself, the Japanese must have some plan" Song Yuhang pressed his hands on the map to force himself to calm down, Xu Tu'an, Wang Chongxian, Chen Zhishen and others also stood aside silently.
The situation at this moment is very clear in everyone's hearts, since the moment when the First Mechanized Army was ordered to hold Longling, they have never counted on it, the 11th Army is still suppressed by the Japanese Second Division, the 54th Army of the 20th Army is contained by the Japanese army, and the 53rd Army has collapsed and retreated to Tengchong, and the 5th Army sent by the Supreme Military Council Du Yuming's 5th Army, Shi Zhong's 100th Army, and the new 50th and 51st Divisions are being assembled in Kunming as strategic reserves.
This will mean that the First Mechanized Army, the only mechanized force of the Chinese government, will be in a situation where there is no help in a short period of time "As long as the U.S. army's airdrop is not interrupted, the First Mechanized Army can continue to fight" Cui Zhijun said in one sentence the weakness of the First Mechanized Army, what if the airdrop was interrupted due to the weather, what if the airdrop was interrupted due to the urgency of the order issued by the Supreme Military Council at the beginning, the First Mechanized Army only hoarded materials and ammunition in Longling City that could be used for ten days of fighting.
"If the airdrop is interrupted for ten days," the red and blue pencils in Song Yuhang's hand were thrown heavily on the map, and Song Yuhang was very unaccustomed to pinning his fate on the US Air Force.
Wang Chongxian walked slowly to the map, skillfully picked up a pack of cigarettes from Song Yuhang on the table and lit one for himself, and then easily put the cigarette into his pocket along with the white ivory lighter that he had been staring at for a long time.
Song Yuhang glanced at Wang Chongxian slightly unhappily and said, "Director Wang, if you have any good plans, please don't hide it, otherwise thank you for returning the lighter to me."
In the contemptuous eyes of everyone, Wang Chongxian smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention."
Suddenly, Wang Chongxian's expression changed, as if he had changed a person, and said solemnly: "The Japanese army's campaign intentions are obviously obvious, on the Indian side, they really can't move, so they want to go back and solve their worries first, want to solve their worries, what else can attract them more than defeating our First Mechanized Army?"
Wang Chongxian's nonsense obviously made Song Yuhang very dissatisfied, but Wang Chongxian did not have the slightest expression of concern, and continued: "The Japanese army has now completed the encirclement of our army at the tactical level, but at the strategic level, how could our army not complete the encirclement of the second division and the fifty-third division of the Japanese army, and the plan proposed before the military seat deliberately made a breakthrough in the Longling defensive circle and lured and annihilated the Japanese army, I personally think it is very good, but I think the courage of the military seat is not big enough, if the entire western Yunnan is regarded as a game of chess." , then the 2nd Division and the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army are in our pockets" Song Yuhang glanced at Wang Chongxian, who was chattering, and after looking at Cui Zhijun for a while, almost everyone gathered in front of the map.
Wang Chongxian pressed his hand on the position of the Japanese Second Division and the 53rd Division and said: "The position of these two Japanese troops is very clever, the Japanese Second Division can attack the front line of Xiaosongshan when it advances, echoing with its garrison troops, and it can attack the west of our Longling City if it retreats, and the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army is even more so. ” Wang Chongxian saw that everyone was whetted by him, so he naturally sold a pass and said: "I'm sure that after the first battle in these two days, the Japanese army must realize that with their current strength of more than 25 times that of mine, they will definitely not be able to eat our army, so the Japanese army must be mobilizing reinforcements."
"Reinforcements" Song Yuhang's eyes fell on the dense identification numbers on the map, most of the main forces of the Japanese Burma Front were used in India, and the rest were at war with the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and there was no recent intelligence that the Japanese army had increased its troops "Could it be the 6th Division of the Japanese Army" Song Yuhang's frowning brows stretched, after the Battle of Kunming, the 6th Division of the Japanese Army has been quietly hiding in Burma to recover its vitality, as the Japanese army has been fighting against China, the first infantry to lose the flag of the 23rd Capital Wing, the 6th Division can be said to be the same enemy, the huge shame made them hold back a force to try to compete with the 200th Mechanized Brigade that brought them humiliation, it is a pity that the 200th Mechanized Brigade has become the first mechanized army, However, the 6th Division was deliberately forgotten by the base camp in a low-key manner, and even lost the opportunity to participate in the Battle of Imphal.
Song Yuhang's inability to annihilate him and the 18th Division under the city of Kunming was Song Yuhang's biggest regret, and Song Yuhang said sonorously: "As a Chinese, it is a shame for the Chinese to let the Japanese 6th Division and the 18th Division surrender or be eliminated by the Allies, and they must be eliminated by the squadron."
"I really hope it will be the 6th Division of the Japanese Army" The oppressive atmosphere in the command post was swept away, and the First Mechanized Army was much more eager to look forward to the 6th Division of the Japanese Army than to the reinforcements
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