At noon, after more than four hours of intense surgical rescue, the American pilot was finally pulled back from the brink of death, and although his condition was still unstable, it was a great miracle that he was able to complete such a complex rescue at the front line of the war.
The Japanese army, which had been exhausted and suffered heavy casualties, finally stopped the attack, and the Hou Ying, who had been trying to attack as a defender, was also covered with scars, and in a morning of fierce fighting, under the command of Song Yuhang, the troops of four reinforced companies were supplemented to the Hou soldiers, and the Japanese troops on the opposite side were put into about two large groups in batches.
Under the artillery blockade of both sides, the reinforcements paid a terrible price in order to reach the area of exchange of fire between the two sides In terms of casualties caused by the reinforcements through the artillery blockade alone, the Japanese 49th Division far outnumbered the 3rd Infantry Division, and in order to rescue the trapped crew members of the transport planes, the US 14th Air Force dispatched more than 70 sorties of fighters and bombers in just one morning to provide effective air support for the waiting camp.
The sky of Longling has become the world of the Chinese, and the Japanese officers and men are all indignant, and in addition to scolding the army and naval aviation for waste, including the commander of the front army, Kawabe Shozo, is at a loss, and can only wait for reinforcements mobilized by the mainland.
As the scale of the troops invested by the Chinese and Japanese armies continued to increase, the center of the battle was also shifted from the forced landing point of the transport planes to the small high ground on both flanks.
The Japanese army seized control of the heights several times, but they were all defeated by the fierce counterattacks of the squadrons, and the Chinese and Japanese armies were also abandoned in the fire of artillery.
A morning of fierce fighting.
Around the high ground on the southern outskirts of the small Longling City, the Chinese and Japanese armies invested nearly 10,000 people, and the fierce fighting caused the Japanese army to lose at least 40% of its strength, and the number of casualties exceeded this, and the squadron also sacrificed nearly 1,000 people in the battle for the high ground on both wings.
The 168th Infantry Wing of the 49th Division of the Japanese Army was disabled by Song Yuhang's 3rd Infantry Division Saburo Takehara looked at Ishihara Toshioka, who tried to commit suicide for the second time and was stopped by his subordinates, the 168th Infantry Wing can be said to have lost all the face of the 49th Division today.
There were less than 1,000 wounded left in the entire wing, and the field hospital could be described as full of mourning.
Many of the wounded Japanese soldiers died before they could be treated.
Saburo Takehara calmly briefly reviewed the entire battle in the morning.
He waved his hand gently.
Persuaded: "Ishihara-kun."
Please calm down.
You didn't make a serious mistake in today's battle.
Your men are valiant and remember that your enemy is the most powerful 1st Mechanized Corps in the squadron."
The Japanese suffered heavy losses.
The Chinese defenders also suffered heavy casualties.
Just one morning.
The 3rd Infantry Division threw a regiment south of the city.
In the fierce battle, more than 1,500 people were killed and wounded.
The number of troops was reduced by as much as 30%.
Such a fierce battle.
It was the first encounter of the First Mechanized Army since its formation.
The rate of casualties was beyond the capacity of the commanders of the 3rd Infantry Division "Keep fighting.
One regiment will be wiped out in one day," Qian Guohua, the head of the sixth regiment, just muttered.
Liang Chao sank his face and reprimanded: "Call a fart to carry out the order" Qian Guohua hesitated.
It seems that the determination has been made.
The diameter came to Song Yuhang and said, "The military seat is Mingjian."
The subordinates are not afraid of death.
Second, it is not to retain strength.
It's just that the legal people are all dead like this, what do you want to guard Longling?"
"Retain strength," a faint smile appeared on the corner of Song Yuhang's mouth.
The First Mechanized Army was pulled up by his own hands after several efforts and countless painstaking efforts.
Before the war.
He could even name the young battalion company commanders.
Know their strengths and preferences.
I don't know how many of them will be left after this bloody battle, and how many people will be lucky enough to see the day of victory Song Yuhang sighed slightly.
After Luo Jiaxiang and Liang Chao glanced at each other on the side, they hesitated for a moment, and Luo Jiaxiang said worriedly: "Military seat, you can't fight like this, this First Mechanized Army is your hard work, this army exists because of you, and I am proud of you."
Song Yuhang was stunned for Luo Jiaxiang's brainless words at first, and then came to his senses, Luo Jiaxiang's words were not finished, the First Mechanized Army existed because of him, and it was precisely because of the existence of the First Mechanized Army that Song Yuhang was able to make solid progress, Song Yuhang gave the First Mechanized Army courage, and the First Mechanized Army gave him Song Yuhang's support, everything in China needs to rely on strength to speak.
For people living in peacetime, life and freedom may be much more important than life, there is an old Chinese saying that the green mountains are left without worrying about no firewood, this is the truth, but if it is replaced by the war years, living under the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders, living a life that is worse than death, I am afraid that no one will want to keep the useless green mountains Song Yuhang had already predicted the situation of the First Mechanized Army in Longling, but it was a pity that Chairman Chiang, who was in Chongqing at the time, was only bent on cutting off the retreat of the Second Division of the Japanese Army, and using heavy troops to encircle and suppress the main force of the Second Division sent by the Japanese army, thus creating a precedent for the formation and annihilation of the Japanese divisions and regiments, so that the First Mechanized Army, which played an important role in this battle, was covered with an aura of honor, which was a good explanation for both the international and domestic countries, and temporarily alleviated the deepening economic crisis at home and diverted the people's attention with a military victory.
Chiang Kai-shek was a little impatient, and the Japanese who were good at seizing the opportunity discovered this rare opportunity, and the Japanese army took advantage of the situation to encircle the First Mechanized Army in Longling, a small city in western Yunnan, while the various units and reinforcements of the expeditionary force on the outer line used Longling as a blocking point to form a counter-encirclement of the 53rd Division and the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army.
Song Yuhang has a very clear understanding of his position, so he rarely has a counter-touch to Chiang Kai-shek, and he only mentions most of the suggestions once, and has always treated every order from Chongqing with the attitude of obeying the leader and obeying the command, Song Yuhang knows that "Chiang" is not a mediocre person who is rigid and self-serving, and Chiang's identity determines that the military will always serve politics, and for politics, the military will sometimes pay unavoidable sacrifices.
As a soldier, Song Yuhang could only carry out the orders of the Supreme Military Council to the end This is also the main reason why the First Mechanized Army fell into the Longling predicament, Song Yuanhang seems to have been accustomed to this, he regarded the siege of Longling as the first training after the First Mechanized Army became an army, the first is not praised by people, but fought by blood.
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Song Yuhang's fierce gaze patrolled the faces of the officers above the regimental level of the Third Infantry Division to the division commander Liang Chao, Liang Chao, as before, all the expressions of private laughter were hidden, Liang Chao is a person who can distinguish the importance from the heavy, what Song Yuhang wants to say, he has already guessed seven or eight points from Song Yuhang's expression.
Song Yuhang straightened the Browning pistol on the belt on his waist, and said sonorously: "You think that my First Mechanized Army has been invincible since its formation, and it has really played the prestige of our people."
Suddenly, Song Yuhang changed his words and said: "But those achievements are simply insignificant to us, I want to train a heroic army, an iron-blooded army, and a glorious army, so that the Japanese will tremble and retreat when they hear the six words of the First Mechanized Army, and we will rely on our own strength to scare the Japanese, and let the Japanese know that there is a more terrible existence than death."
"Let us be the nightmare of the Japanese, ravage this lowly nation, destroy them spiritually, make them tremble, and make them fear us and worship us for generations," said Song Yuhang and waved his arm.
Then Song Yuhang's voice slowed down: "Of course, there are only two endings for our lone army to stick to Longling, the first is to complete the expected target strategy, our army has achieved a huge and brilliant victory while training the troops, and the second is that our army is isolated and helpless, and the city is broken, I Song Yuhang died in Longling like everyone else, but no matter what the result, I Song Yuhang will not retreat half a step, and all the officers and soldiers of the First Mechanized Army will live and die together, the First Mechanized Army will survive, and the First Mechanized Army will die."
How to smoothly transport the wounded US pilot back to the city became a thorny problem faced by Song Yuhang, although the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, but it did not give up its attempt to encircle the transport plane, and the Japanese field artillery was still carefully shelling the area around the transport plane.
Kawabe Shozo was furious at the defeat of the 168th Infantry Wing, and he couldn't believe that the dignified Japanese Imperial Army had been defeated again and again at the feet of the Shina army Hebian Zheng gritted his teeth with three faces and said: "If the Second Tank Division is transferred to the south of the city to participate in the battle, then it is impossible for the American pilots to be rescued by the Chinese people."
The terrain in the south of Longling Castle is complex and sloppy and low-valley, which was originally very unsuitable for the deployment of tank troops, but since the commander of the front army has issued a combat order, Imagawa Hongji, as the commander of the second tank division, can only carry it out unconditionally.
Imagawa Hiroji was reluctant to do so, but he still sent two tank brigades, Nishiki and Sakai, to cooperate with the 51st and 72nd Brigades of the Independent Mixed Brigade to attack.
The rugged terrain in the south of the city made the Japanese tank unit suffer a lot, not only the driver's vision was severely limited, but the Japanese tank driver even had to adjust the position of the vehicle several times in order to find a suitable shooting elevation angle.
The tank detachment sent by the 1st Mechanized Division also encountered the same situation, this tank detachment consisting of five heavy tanks, five 4 medium tanks and ten armored vehicles had an experienced commander who forcibly drove the tank to the slope and leaned back to shell Tang Zhiqiang of the Japanese bunker during the Battle of Gray Slope Tang Zhiqiang, who has already hung up the rank of lieutenant, can be described as high-spirited, and he can only feel his existence when he is commanding a tank, and he can feel that Song Yuhang can make an exception to promote himself, an overseas Chinese whose origin is not clear, he can be said to have an inexhaustible feeling in his heart: