After receiving a request for artillery support from the Third Infantry Division, the Heavy Artillery Brigade directly under the First Mechanized Corps reported through the forward observation post that the Japanese assault troops had approached the area where the planes were being pursued, and the 155-mm high-explosive grenade had a huge killing radius, and it was no longer possible to block the fire of the Japanese assault troops.
This was the first unreserved brigade-scale firepower projection of the Heavy Artillery Brigade of the 1st Mechanized Army since its formation With the roaring bursts of artillery and violent explosions in the sky, the entire Japanese position in the south of the city suddenly fell into a sea of fire, and the brigade commander Major General Qingqiu Yeli could be said to be miserable, and the independent mixed 51st Brigade stranded in the position became the scapegoat of the 168th Infantry Wing, and the 72nd Brigade and the independent mixed team really enjoyed a shaking of the sky and the earth.
The Japanese attempt to capture the American crew was met with a fierce counterattack from the Chinese defenders, who used not only 75-mm and 105-mm field guns and howitzers, but also 155-mm howitzers.
Because it is not easy to supply 155 mm caliber high-explosive grenades, Song Yuhang formulated four situations for the heavy artillery brigade, one is to suppress the Japanese 105 mm artillery group, the second is that the main support point is attacked by the absolute superiority of the Japanese army and needs fire support, the third is that the city defense position is broken through by the Japanese army, and the fourth is to the enemy's command hub above the wing headquarters, ammunition and material hoarding centers and other strategic targets, these four targets can implement three to five rapid fire from each gun, otherwise only 105 mm howitzers can be used for fire support.
Four reinforced infantry companies led by Hou Bing and a fire support company with two American-made 2-caliber 05-inch heavy machine guns, six Browning heavy machine guns, and eight 60 mortars quickly used the terrain to set up weapons near the transport planes and began firing at the Japanese Ishihara Wing.
The 168th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army had no choice but to spread out a battle formation and make a detour to the two flanks of the Hou Corps in small formations After Hou Bing got in touch with the US crew who had made a forced landing, the four US crew members not only refused to retreat, but one of the US captains grabbed Hou Bing and eagerly drilled into the wreckage of the plane.
Entering the cabin, Hou Bing found that a U.S. pilot appeared to be stuck in his seat by the deformed bridge After quickly checking the injuries of the American pilot, Hou Bing looked at the American pilot who was stuck in the severely deformed bridge, and he knew that he might not be able to rescue him without the right tools, and the American pilot seemed to be losing blood To save or not to save Hou Bing knew that he could not make a decision with his position, so Hou Bing called on the medical corps to do his best to help the US pilot stop the bleeding and at the same time asked the signal corps for a walkie-talkie, and after adjusting the frequency, Hou Bing immediately reported the situation here directly to the division headquarters.
Song Yuhang, who had already arrived at the headquarters of the Third Infantry Division, hesitated for a moment, and then immediately decided: "Order the rescue team of the engineering regiment and the surgical team of the field hospital of the military headquarters to immediately join the rescue operation."
Bring people back at all costs."
The Hou soldier who received the order was a little worried in his excitement, and the medical soldier ran back to him with a red face and stammered: "Battalion, battalion commander, it's a woman."
"Woman" Hou Bing frowned.
Push aside the medic with one hand.
Muttered a word of rubbish.
Personally come to the side of the American pilot.
Sure enough, the halfway flight was untied inside the leather jacket, and most of the inside of the shirt was bulging.
A blonde hair fell with a shawl.
Hou Bing also didn't care about the difference between men and women.
He didn't understand English.
But he could hear the fear and unease in the other's painful moans.
The soldiers who have been wounded many times naturally know that if they comfort the wounded.
He gently shook the American pilot's hand.
Gently patted the back of the other's hand.
Then gently lift the blood-soaked shirt.
A cracked piece of aluminum stabbed diagonally into the abdomen of the American pilot.
After sprinkling some hemostatic powder.
Before the injury was known, Hou Bing did not dare to move the wounded easily.
And the hemostatic powder did not dare to sprinkle more.
He was afraid that the coagulated substance would interfere with the doctor's view of the wound.
Since the wounded could not move, the Hou soldiers could only lead their troops to hold on to the same place.
So the soldiers ordered each company to dig fortifications on the spot for defense.
The biggest headache for Hou Bing was that the four members of the US military crew did not cooperate with his arrangement.
He refused to retreat.
There are five people advancing and retreating together.
In desperation.
Hou Bing had no choice but to arrange twenty strong soldiers.
The four members of the US military crew who refused to obey the arrangement were knocked unconscious.
Immediately after being transported on a stretcher mixed with the wounded.
Ishihara Toshioka saw that the American crew did not immediately retreat under the cover of the squadron, and the squadron even began to dig fortifications in situ.
He immediately realized that something must have gone wrong on the side of the US military.
After that, lieutenants and radio soldiers continued to enter and exit the wreckage of the transport plane, which further strengthened Ishihara's own judgment.
The squadron's defensive posture was a good thing that Ishihara Toshioka couldn't ask for.
Under the watchful eye of division commander Saburo Takehara, the Ishihara Wing of the Japanese army began to slowly spread out a 180-degree encirclement formation.
Slowly approaching the squadron that was holding the wreckage of the transport plane.
The fierce battle in the southern city of Longling can be described as imminent, and both Chinese and Japanese armies are carefully arranging around the wreckage of the transport plane.
At this moment, Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Chongqing's official residence, was furious in thunder, and the First Mechanized Army, which was originally sent by himself to pick fruits, was surrounded by the Japanese army, and the reinforcements he sent were either defeated or pinned, and the Fifth Army, the 100th Army and other troops had not yet arrived in Kunming, on the other hand, the Japanese 150,000 troops under the command of the commander of its front army, Kawabe Shozo, had already approached the city.
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Chiang Kai-shek wiped the sweat from his forehead, blushed and looked at the portrait of the president on the wall, he suddenly found that the corner of the portrait had become yellow because of the dampness The First Mechanized Army Song Yuhang is the absolute first-class main force in Chiang Kai-shek's mind, Song Yuhang and his people are the same as his howling wolf cubs to reassure him that the First Mechanized Army will never do the kind of embarrassing thing that makes him surrender, Chiang Kai-shek believes that even if he fights to the last soldier and a bullet, his First Mechanized Army will never surrender to the Japanese, He thought that he knew Song Yuhang's temperament very well, and that the hot-blooded young man who had "no certainty of victory, but the determination to become benevolent" and dared to lead hundreds of remnants to launch a counter-charge against the 10,000 Japanese troops left a deep impression on Chiang Kai-shek.
Those bold words made Chiang Kai-shek's calm mind ripple, making him feel as if he had returned to his youth.
Chiang Kai-shek issued only one order to He Yingqin of the Ministry of Military Affairs, to rush to the aid of the First Mechanized Army at all costs, cut off the retreat of its 53rd Division and the 2nd Division, and strive to deal a annihilating blow to the above two divisions.
Chiang Kai-shek's appetite was indeed very big, so big that it frightened Minister He, Taierzhuang's Chinese and Japanese armies were killed by millions of male divisions that were bloodied all over the ground, and finally failed to give the Japanese army a annihilating blow to the Japanese division, annihilating the two divisions of the Japanese army in Longling and all the chips were going to fall on the First Mechanized Army surrounded by the Japanese regiments, He Yingqin's face was not very good-looking, in his opinion, the First Mechanized Army that implemented this plan was almost no different from suicide, if the plan began to be implemented, The first mechanized army is bound to be besieged by the Japanese army in four directions, once the first mechanized army is lost, many elites will be in the Japanese division and encirclement, if the main combat forces in western Yunnan are broken by the Japanese army one by one, and then the main force of the Burmese Front that the Japanese army is renovating at the moment is likely to drive in, repeating the Kunming battle at the end of 1942, and then paving the way for the attack on Chongqing, sweeping away the worries, the battle of Longling is likely to evolve into a complete fiasco.
Chiang Kai-shek's confidence comes entirely from his confidence in Song Yuhang, the Sino-Japanese war lasted for several years, but the squadron never gave the Japanese wing a annihilating blow, not to mention the capture of the Japanese wing flag, and Song Yuhang, who seems to be good at creating miracles, not only hit the Japanese army many times, but also captured two Japanese army flags under the city of Kunming, and defensive warfare is Song Yuhang's strength, so after Chiang Kai-shek thought about it repeatedly, he decided to continue to defend Longling with Song Yuhang's first mechanized army and cut off the Japanese army's rescue route.
The 53rd Division of the Japanese Army, which boldly penetrated into the rear of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, was separated from the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army.
Chiang Kai-shek's strategic planning and assumptions were indeed good, but in the complicated battlefield environment, the specific command of the commanders of the forward troops, the morale of the combat units, the comparison of the weapons and equipment of the enemy and our personnel, and all kinds of unpredictable and unpredictable unexpected situations constituted many uncertain factors in order to achieve the strategic goal.
As reinforcements, Du Yuming and Shi Zhongzhong both understood the meaning contained in the principal's instruction, who is Song Yuhang, and the First Mechanized Army is a unique existence in the sequence, if the elite armed by the most advanced weapons of the Americans is eaten by the Japanese, then the loss of the Nationalist Government is not just as simple as the elite troops of an army.
From a tactical point of view, the Chinese Expeditionary Force has lost the elite of the First Army, which is extremely combat-powerful, and from a strategic and political point of view, not only has the morale of the army suffered a heavy blow, but even the situation of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression throughout the country will be affected, and some wavering elements are very likely to be like the puppet government of Wang in Nanjing.
Therefore, the First Mechanized Army must be rescued, the anxious Du Yuming and others can't wait to put on their wings and fly directly to Longling to help Song Yuhang, as the central descendant troops, mutual rescue in danger and bloody help, everyone knows it, do things according to their conscience, people are doing it, the sky is looking at each other's mutual help and mutual help has become a tacit understanding between each other, and as the commander of the Kunming garrison, Song Yuhang's reputation and personality are very good, materials, weapons, and supplies have never been dominant, and they are basically beneficial to everyone.
In the face of more than 100,000 elite troops of the central elite of the Chongqing government army, Hebian Zhengzo did not dare to hold it up, and urgently ordered the Sixth Division and the 10th Heavy Artillery Wing to arrive within a time limit.
The ancient city of Longling in western Yunnan instantly gathered the attention of the world, and the small Longling became the center of focus: