"We must rescue the surviving crew members of the US transport plane, including the remains."
Song Yuhang gave Chang Tian, commander of the First Mechanized Division, an order to die, and Chang Tianfang naturally did not dare to slack off in the slightest, so he hurriedly dispatched elite soldiers to form an armored assault team, which passed through the diameter of Longling City and headed south of the city.
The Japanese troops, who were relatively close to the place where the transport plane made a forced landing, first discovered the members of the US crew who were preparing to retreat, and at the same time they carried out fire blockade, they immediately reported to the commander of the front army, Kawabe Shozo, to capture the US crew members alive and carry out political propaganda.
The Chinese defenders are using artillery to shell Imperial Army positions near the area where U.S. transport planes have landed, and the Chinese defenders appear to be deploying rescue units with the intention of rescuing U.S. crews.
The US transport plane was forced to land in the defense area of the 168th Infantry Wing of the 49th Division of the Japanese Army, which was preparing to change guards with the 51st Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, so Shozo Kawabe directly connected to the command post of the 49th Division, first of all expressed his extreme dissatisfaction with the attack of the 49th Division last night in an extremely stern tone, and instructed the division commander Saburo Takehara to capture the US crew members alive.
"Hi, please rest assured, I will go all out" Takehara Saburo put down the phone with a blue face, for the strategic and tactical deployment of the commander of the riverside Shozo, Takehara Saburo thought that he had a lot of complaints, since the beginning of the Longling Campaign, the 49th Division has been assuming the role of the main attack, after three consecutive days of fierce fighting, the division has been reduced by nearly 40%, especially last night's bloody battle is the first heavy blow to the 49th Division since its formation.
Fierce battle until early this morning, Takehara Saburo did not know that his opponent's First Mechanized Army was different from the general squadron, before the first trench of the bloody battle, he recognized as a regiment of the Chinese army turned out to be just a battalion For the behemoth of the First Mechanized Army, Takehara Saburo did not have any mental preparation, he has been doubting the opponent's strength with an army.
But why maintain such a large scale of defense in depth Since the establishment of the First Mechanized Army, Song Yuhang has put the secrecy work of the troops in the first place.
The First Mechanized Corps has far more personnel and political requirements than ordinary troops, and it has implemented two sets of establishment standards, which it claims to be established in accordance with the US military's mechanized heavy divisions, and internally implements the existing five-five combat establishment of the main force.
Before the Battle of Longling, the First Mechanized Army had never participated in any battle as a whole on the scale of the whole army, and the Japanese army knew that the main combat force of the First Mechanized Army was the First Mechanized Division.
Although the division claims to be an American-style heavy division, its tanks, armored vehicles, and self-propelled artillery are far less than the standard equipment of an American-style heavy division.
The other two divisions of the First Mechanized Army are only the so-called resized divisions of the Central Government Army of China, and in addition to its heavy artillery brigade, which has relatively strong combat effectiveness, the so-called mountain infantry brigade can be ignored.
The Japanese army never dreamed that there were 60,000 people in the headquarters of the First Mechanized Army in Chongqing, which they besieged in Longling This information "punched out" made Shozo Kawabe so depressed that he almost vomited blood, and he even began to wonder if the Empire's intelligence department was operating normally, and he couldn't even figure out the true composition of the main opponent "Isn't it possible to distinguish between 30,000 and 60,000 people, this is equivalent to the troops of the two armies on the Chongqing side," the angry roar of the riverside Shozo made all the staff officers retreat in unison.
In fact, Kawabe Shozo was wronging the extremely efficient Japanese military intelligence agencies.
In Kunming City, the place under the jurisdiction of Song Yuhang.
It is as airtight as an iron bucket under the anti-espionage net.
The Japanese army still obtained Song Yuhang's detailed list of supplies from the Ministry of Military Affairs through various means.
Through this detail, the Japanese intelligence agencies accurately calculated the entire strength of the 1st Mechanized Army.
But the 1st Mechanized Army was really actually organized.
Only Chairman Chiang, who is sitting in Chongqing, is clear.
The supply of required materials has always been a priority, sufficient and special supply.
Even Wei Lihuang, commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, only vaguely knew that the scale of the First Mechanized Army was somewhat larger than that of ordinary army-level units.
In addition, the Japanese military intelligence agencies usually use elite spy personnel to form separate spy teams.
Heavy money lures local undetermined elements to serve them.
These ordinary local people who lack basic training will not attract the attention of the military commanders and the central commanders who are responsible for Kunming's counter-espionage efforts.
But it is precisely because of these common-sense mistakes of untrained intelligence officers.
Often misled Japanese military intelligence.
For example, this time.
If it is an experienced to senior professional spy officer.
It will be from the scale of the 1st Mechanized Army's dispatch of vehicles and troops.
Or the actual number of people in the first mechanized army is roughly judged in the number of material supplies.
It's a pity that in the eyes of these so-called spies who lack basic common sense.
A hundred cars is no different from two hundred cars.
In particular, there was a military police guard on the march.
Personnel did not dare to stay in the vicinity for a long time.
Moreover, the 1st Mechanized Corps marched mostly at night.
Therefore, the Japanese military intelligence agencies could only learn about "many, many cars" from the mouths of these so-called "spies."
A big long line.
There are booming tanks.
The big old gang is a bunch of people" and other concepts are vaguely informed.
These concepts are vaguely informed.
In the Japanese army's habit of underestimating squadrons.
As a result, the Japanese intelligence agencies made serious mistakes in their assessment of the combat capability of the First Mechanized Army.
The war is extremely fair.
Any mistake is made up for with a lot of life and blood.
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Squadrons so.
The same was true of the Japanese army.
In order to calm the anger of the masses and the independent mixed 51st Brigade, Kawabe Shozo had to order the unit to stand by, and if the 168th Infantry Wing failed to attack, it would be replaced by the 51st Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade.
Capturing alive the crew members of the U.S. transport plane was not an easy task for the Japanese 168th Infantry Wing, and the gentle hill on which the U.S. transport plane landed was an open field with excellent sightlines, which was tantamount to direct exposure to each other's fire for both Chinese and Japanese forces attempting to move to the wreckage of the plane.
In the defense in recent days, a large number of snipers of the front-line troops of the Chinese defenders gave the Japanese army precise and lethal accurate strikes, especially for the Japanese army's grassroots officers and non-commissioned officers, the backbone of the Japanese army's operations, while killing and injuring Japanese soldiers, it seriously hit the morale of the Japanese army, as long as the Japanese officers and soldiers left the trenches, they were often locked by several snipers who had been waiting for a long time.
A large number of snipers have been flexibly used by the grassroots troops, and the grassroots officers of the Japanese army have been frightened.
For the deadly and annoying snipers of the Chinese defenders, the Japanese forward troops at one point used field artillery to counterattack.
However, it was soon counterattacked by the heavy artillery group of the Chinese defenders in Longling City, and the Japanese army, which did not outweigh the losses, quickly gave up the confrontation with the Chinese snipers and honestly started to shrink their heads.
In order to thoroughly carry out the order of Commander Shozo Kawabe, Saburo Takehara personally arrived at the headquarters of the 168th Infantry Wing and gave Wing Commander Toshioka Ishihara an an order to capture alive the crew members of the American transport plane as much as possible.
Saburo Takehara lowered his voice, patted Ishihara Toshioka lightly on the shoulder, and said, "At a critical moment, use artillery fire to destroy the enemy."
The Chinese army must not be allowed to save the Americans. ” Ishihara Toshioka nodded lightly, Ishihara Toshioka, a little man from Sapporo with a small flat head and a round of legs, is a ruthless authentic butcher, these days he has been suppressed by the squadron has made him very unhappy, and the merit of capturing the American pilot will undoubtedly be a highlight in the Battle of Longling.
In order to reduce the casualties of the troops exposed to the open area, the cunning Ishihara Toshioka organized 50 heavy grenadiers to follow behind the two brigades of the Cheng Xian column to carry out smoke barrage cover.
Seeing that the Japanese army was using smoke barrage to cover, regiment commander Wang Huairen put down his binoculars and said to the first battalion commander Hou Bing: "Battalion Commander Hou, I'm afraid the rescue team of the First Mechanized Division will be too late, so I'll lead you to camp immediately."
Rush to the crash site before the Japanese army to build defensive support.
Defense at all costs until the arrival of the rescue team of the 1st Mechanized Division and cover their retreat.
I'll apply for artillery support for you. ” "It's to resolutely carry out the order," Hou Bing saluted, then turned around and left quickly.
Soon, a camp of Chinese soldiers quickly arrived at the front line of the first trench to assemble.
Hou Bing wore a Type 1 steel helmet and held a Thomson submachine gun with a 50-round drum.
He walked quickly to the trench, tugged at his collar and said loudly, "Brethren, the big nose of the United States has fallen from the sky.
They are our allies, risking their lives every day to drop food, drink and ammunition for us, and we Chinese are most particular about receiving the grace of people as a spring, and now they are in danger, do you say we can not save them?"
"No" The faces of the Chinese soldiers were filled with an inexplicable joy, in their opinion, they had always been the Americans who were high on the ground, and now it was finally their turn to show their faces, even your lives were saved by Lao Tzu, and the Chinese soldiers were very proud Although the Chinese soldiers were far away from the forced landing site, the Chinese soldiers had no scruples to brave the sporadic blocking fire of the Japanese army to launch a charge, while the Japanese soldiers who were closer used the smoke barrage to cover their movements slowly, but the Japanese troops fell behind the squadron.
Seeing this, Ishihara Toshioka hurriedly ordered the firepower of the wing to concentrate on intercepting and firing, and the Chinese soldiers continued to follow one after another in the rain of bullets, without the slightest intention of stopping and slowing down.
Ishihara Toshigang was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly urged his subordinate troops to speed up Whether it was Hou Bing and Ishihara Toshigang who put themselves in their shoes, or Liang Chao and Saburo Takehara who commanded in front of the battle, Song Yuhang who commanded the overall situation or Shozo Riverside, all of them did not expect that because of the accidental fall of the US transport plane, an unplanned tragic bloody battle was triggered, and this bloody battle even affected the development of the Battle of Longling, which was not expected by both the Chinese and Japanese armies
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