November 8, 1943, a very ordinary day, history has never happened today, which is extremely special for the Chinese nation with 5,000 years of splendid civilization, it seems not easy to find a trace of peace in the slow history, especially for Longling, a small city in western Yunnan.
In the early morning of November 8th, the small city of Longling was as usual in the past, except for the bloody gunpowder smoke wafting in the air, the mist drifting from the ground set off the looming mountain peaks in the distance, and the stream that had flowed for thousands of years and nurtured countless generations of Longling people in the south of the city was still flowing, but at this moment the flowing stream had turned red, and the wide stream surface crisscrossed and killed nearly 1,000 corpses of Chinese and Japanese officers and soldiers.
At five o'clock in the morning, the moment when the darkness before dawn still shrouded the earth, the fierce battle in the south of Longling City entered a white heat, the Japanese army independently mixed into the 72nd Brigade Ozawa Wing, and the subordinate Ueda Brigade and Kuroki Brigade found the weakness of the defensive flank of the defensive flank of the Fourth Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division of the defending army in the upper reaches of the stream.
With the sound of explosions, the stumps and broken arms of the Japanese daredevils fell everywhere, and the wounded Japanese soldiers who had their legs and feet broken were lying on the ground wailing.
After about a squadron of more than a squadron, the Japanese finally cleared a safe passage five meters wide in the dense minefield, so the main force of the Japanese army stepped on this bloody road.
Everywhere you go, you can see stumps, severed arms, and visceral pathways when attacking.
The 4th Company of the 1st Battalion of the 4th Infantry Regiment stationed in the minefield and responsible for monitoring the place hurriedly reported to the regimental headquarters, and after reporting the specific situation, the 4th Company of the 2nd Platoon and the Fire Support Platoon immediately entered the position, held the position and tried to close the minefield, and the Japanese forcibly swept away the breakthrough in the minefield.
The Ueda Brigade and the Kuroki Brigade of the Japanese Army, relying on their superiority in strength, attempted to break through the fire blockade of the Chinese defenders in one fell swoop, and under the strafing fire of the Chinese defenders' Type 24 heavy machine guns, the Japanese soldiers continued to burst out with clouds of blood mist and then fell to the ground.
When the Japanese troops who were constantly rushing through the minefield began to attack the defenders' defensive positions from the left and right flanks, the positions of the four companies suddenly became precarious.
Chen Xinghua, the commander of the fourth company, faced the Japanese army that broke into the position, and in order to buy time for the reinforcements, he was only 22 years old and resolutely decided to lead the remnants to launch a counter-charge against the Japanese army.
The counter-charge of the fourth company can be said to have caught the Japanese army by surprise, and more than 70 Chinese soldiers followed behind the young company commander Chen Xinghua, and the Chinese soldiers formed a small triangular formation.
Using the heavy fire of automatic weapons, an attempt was made to close the Japanese open ground breach in the minefield.
At the narrow breach, the Chinese soldiers and the Japanese army were almost face-to-face, gun-to-gun, almost every second, people were shot and fell in a pool of blood, Chen Xinghua, who was holding a Thomson submachine gun, was hit by two bullets, half-kneeling on the ground and carrying his intestines back into his abdomen, still holding a gun to shoot at the Japanese army, until he was martyred, he kept shouting loudly for the troops to charge.
Under the sudden counterattack of the Chinese defenders.
The Japanese were beaten by heavy fire.
Dozens of Japanese soldiers even rushed into the minefield, and the air waves after the detonation of the bombardment mines were mixed with shrapnel and ran rampant However, the two brigades of Japanese troops quickly relied on superior forces to contain the counter-charge of the four companies.
Due to the huge disparity in the strength of the two sides, the fourth company was surrounded by the Japanese regiments on the breach.
The stubborn and desperate resistance of the Chinese soldiers gave the attacking Japanese a creep, when the last soldier of the fourth company pulled a cluster grenade.
The heroic counterattack of the fourth company finally came to an end, and the heroic martyrs who fought bravely believed that the heroes would not die, and their wisdom would remain forever In this war for the survival of the nation-state.
There are too many tragic and passionate heroic deeds.
And more often than not, like all the officers and men of the Fourth Company.
They were obscure, fulfilled their duties, and fought hard for the country until they succeeded.
They don't ask for fame.
Don't seek profit.
When the nation-state was in crisis, they said goodbye to their wives and children.
Farewell to my father and mother, and plunge into this unprecedented and tragic war without hesitation.
The 4th Company, at the cost of all the casualties, bought valuable time for the main forces of the 4th Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division to move.
While the Ueda Brigade and the Kuroki Brigade of the Japanese Army were happily reporting to the brigade headquarters about the occupation of the positions in front of the Chinese defenders.
The reinforcements came from the Chinese soldiers after three rounds of rapid fire from the heavy artillery brigade directly under the army in Longling City.
Screaming and rushing up Already dazed by the sudden and fierce artillery fire, the Japanese army was instantly involved in a white-knuckle battle with the main force of the Fourth Regiment.
Chinese soldiers with automatic weapons in their hands.
The division and encirclement of the two Japanese brigades was quickly completed.
Caught in separate battlefields, the Japanese army was still very fierce.
They rushed out of the darkness with their bayonets in their hands shouting.
The two sides engaged in a big scuffle around the stream.
Most of the Chinese soldiers after running out of bullets.
Often before they had time to change their magazines, they were involved in white-knuckle combat with the Japanese army.
In streams, in meadows, under hillsides, in hollows.
The officers and men of China and Japan used everything they could use as weapons.
They all have the same goal.
That is to kill each other.
In the midst of an extremely tragic melee.
The Chinese and Japanese armies also suffered heavy casualties.
Finally.
Liang Chao arrived in time with a battalion drawn from the Fifth Regiment of the Second Line Reserve.
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Directly blocked the retreat of the two Japanese brigades.
And with heavy artillery fire, an artillery fire barrier was formed.
Cut off the Japanese army from receiving the troops from rushing to help.
The retreat route was cut off, and the Ueda Brigade and the Kuroki Brigade of the Japanese Army saw that the situation of the battle was reversed.
So he hurriedly asked the brigade for help at the same time.
Concentrate your forces to fight the trapped beasts.
They contained the remnants as they retreated upstream of the stream.
Attempt to break through the encirclement formed by the squadron.
However, the Japanese attempt was discovered by the Chinese defenders, who used 050-inch caliber machine guns to block the retreat of the remnants of the Japanese army with heavy firepower, and the battle lasted until dawn, and the two Japanese infantry brigades that broke through the left flank position of the 3rd Infantry Division were annihilated except for a small part that escaped, including the captains of Ueda and Kuroki.
After Captain Ozawa learned that the two brigades that he had broken into the enemy formation were all shattered, his eyes were dark and he suddenly fainted Under the personal supervision of the commander of the Japanese Burma Front, Kawabe Shozo, the 49th Division of the Japanese Army was commanded by the division commander Saburo Takehara in person, and concentrated the 153rd and 168th Infantry Wings, the 49th Field Artillery Wing, the Independent Artillery Cluster of the Burmese Front, and the 24th Independent Mixed Brigade to carry out an intermittent attack on the north of Longling City.
It was the first time for Qi Baiming to see the Japanese army so completely and frantically that the Japanese troops participating in the attack carried out waves of attacks according to the pre-divided area and time, and what surprised Qi Baiming was that the unified and coordinated command of many Japanese troops participating in the attack was extremely smooth, with few interruptions in the middle, almost one wave after another to attack the first line of anti-tank trenches.
After receiving Qi Baiming's report, Song Yuhang was keenly aware that the Japanese army seemed to be fighting for their lives, so Song Yuhang immediately ordered Qi Baiming to withdraw a company of combat backbones from each battalion of all combat units to withdraw to Longling City, one is to save part of the combat backbone of the Second Motorized Infantry Division, and the other is to use these troops as reserves, and inform Qi Baiming that these seed troops must not be used lightly until the last moment.
As soon as the battle began, the two sides put on a desperate posture, which was very rare for the Chinese and Japanese armies to fight for many years.
After fierce fighting all night, the Japanese infantry was still unable to break through the blockade line of the second trench with the cooperation of the tanks, and finally had no choice but to retreat to the first trench.
After dawn, the Japanese troops, who were preparing to switch from offensive to defensive, were surprised to find that the first trench was actually more than ten meters lower than the ridged position of the second trench, and the drop of more than ten meters made all the activities of the Japanese troops in the first trench exposed to the fire of the Chinese defenders.
How did the Japanese know that these three trenches were excavated by the Second Mobu Division and the Engineer Regiment directly under the army by using the two mounds outside the city, and skillfully used the visual error of the human eye in the terrain, so that the stacked and arranged firepower seemed to be on a horizontal line, but in fact there was a difference of more than ten meters between the two.
The Chinese defenders in the second trench first frightened the Japanese with cold guns and cannons, and the Japanese also returned fire with grenadiers, and the Chinese defenders, who suffered a small loss, immediately organized a mortar group to cover the Japanese troops in the first trench.
In the sky, a group of small black dots spun at high speed and with a sharp whistling sound of mortar shells accurately fell into the main ditch and communication trench of the first trench.
Amid the undulating sound of explosions, the dense fall of mortar shells kicked up a fog of dust, enveloping the artillery-covered area over the artillery, and the Japanese soldiers were driven by artillery fire in the trenches like rats.
Saburo Takehara looked at the first trench where the sound of explosions was frequent, and his indifferent expression and frowning brows made many staff officers and wing commanders beside him tremble as if they were walking on thin ice.
"When did the Shina army become so tenacious, the 49th Division and the main force of the 24th Independent Mixed Brigade fought a bloody battle in one night, and only occupied the first trench" If it weren't for the officers and soldiers who participated in the battle fought bravely, one after another, Saburo Takehara would have been ready to shoot several officers who were ineffective in combat.
Doing its best to compress the squadron's defensive positions and capture its airdrop area is the only thing the Japanese army can do at this moment, and it belongs to the Chinese during the day; at the beginning of the Battle of Longling, the Japanese ground forces were repeatedly subjected to tactical bombing by the US Air Force; yesterday morning, the Japanese 49th Division Heavy Wing was also strategically bombed by the US B29 Aerial Fortress aircraft group.
In order to counteract the air superiority of the American army and the firepower superiority of the Chinese defenders, the Japanese could only deploy their attacks at night and during the day to consolidate the positions they occupied.
Of course, Song Yuhang would not let Kawabe Shozo's attempt succeed, so he ordered all units to adopt flexible defense in the face of the Japanese attack at night, and the scale was determined by each unit, and waited until daytime, with the support of American aircraft and heavy artillery, the tank unit cooperated with the infantry to regain its position and engage in a tug-of-war with the Japanese army
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