The winter of 1943 was an extremely special and memorable winter for western Yunnan, when hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Japanese armies surrounded the small city of Longling in this lofty mountain range, and the blood flowed like a river of corpses all over the field.
There have been many bloody battles in the history of the Japanese army, including the Guannarcanal Islands, which are still in the tug-of-war, but the casualty speed of the Japanese troops in the bloody battle of Longling has made it very difficult to accept the Japanese base camp that has always regarded the lives of soldiers as a mustard number, since the official outbreak of the Battle of Longling on November 8, 1943, to November 11, in just three days of fierce fighting, the four divisions and four brigades of the Japanese Burma Front participated in the siege of the city and four brigades with a total of more than 26,000 casualties, creating a casualty record for the Japanese Army.
The rate of casualties of the Japanese army has exceeded its medical capacity by dozens of times, and a large number of wounded Japanese soldiers have died because they have not been effectively treated In the face of the fierce ground-to-air firepower of the First Mechanized Army, the Japanese army's previous meritorious means of charging into the long live, fighting at night with white soldiers, and continuous assault all failed, and the Japanese generals were strewn with corpses all over the field, suffering heavy casualties, and many squadrons and brigades were killed in battle.
This casualty rate made the Japanese high-level exclaim "Longling meat grinder", for Longling, the Japanese army was already in a difficult situation of riding a tiger, like a piece of fish meat swallowed to the throat with barbs November 11, 1943 was an extremely tragic day for the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army, and for its division commander, Lieutenant General Etsujiro Kono, it was the darkest day of his military career.
After receiving the order from Kawabe Shozo to flip and attack the east of Ryuryō Castle, Kono Etsujiro immediately deployed the 119th Infantry Wing to defend the position, and he led the 128th and 151st Infantry Wings, as well as the 53rd Field Artillery, Baggage, and Engineer Wing.
The chariot brigade took the lead, and the rest of the troops marched in four columns, with the artillery wing holding back, totaling more than 19,000 men.
The cold rain of the night made the march of the Japanese army very difficult, and from time to time the field artillery without mechanical traction sank into the pulp ground, and the infantry fell into the slippery muddy water from time to time, looking at the soldiers shivering in the cold rain.
Etsujiro Kono could only urge his troops to advance as soon as possible.
Trying to use running to keep warm.
The 1st Mechanized Division and the 2nd Motorized Rifle Division were attacking shoulder to shoulder along the road, the 3rd Battalion of the Heavy Artillery Brigade following, and the Mountain Infantry Brigade was scattered on both flanks to support the flanks and forward to search and advance, because if the Japanese moved in the direction of Longling in such weather, they would not be able to leave the road.
In order to prepare for the possibility of an encounter at any time, the 1st Mechanized Division and the 2nd Motorized Rifle Division concentrated all their armored forces at the front.
The battle broke out outside the town of Tuantian, and on the one hand, the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army rushed to Longling to try to make a contribution.
On the one hand, it was necessary to use the shortest time to defeat the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army, open up the Tengchong line of communication, and quickly reverse the main force of the First Mechanized Army that returned to Longling.
The battle broke out between scouts on both sides.
A squad of mountain infantry relied on superior firepower to beat a small squad of Japanese troops, but it failed to prevent the Japanese spearhead from sending the news of the encounter with the enemy, and both sides passed the news of the encounter with the enemy in time.
Just when Etsujiro Kono was surprised and was still analyzing and studying the enemy's situation.
The 1st Mechanized Division and the 2nd Motorized Division were under the cover of artillery fire from the 3rd Battalion of the Heavy Artillery Brigade.
A general attack was launched on the marching columns of the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army, which were stagnant on the road.
To put it bluntly, war is a life-and-death struggle.
The small one is related to the life and death of the soldiers, and personal honor and disgrace.
It is about the fate of the country and the survival of the nation.
There is no room for negligence.
Where is the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army opening the way with armored forces as soon as it makes a move.
All troops are put into work at one time.
Unreservedly launched a general offensive against the two main divisions of the First Mechanized Army The first to be breached was the first contribution of the Japanese Sakamoto Tank Brigade in the battle against the Twentieth Army.
In the face of the squadron, bravely interspersed and divided.
By the time Etsujiro Kono reacted, it was already too late.
The 53rd Division in just twenty minutes.
It is taken by the first mechanized division, the second motorized division from the front.
The mountain infantry brigade was cut into more than ten sections along the road from the flanks.
The squadron's ground armored units were even more lightning fast and directly cut through the Japanese army's marching columns along the highway.
Tanks and armored vehicles used side-by-side machine guns along the way.
Heading machine gun.
Anti-aircraft machine guns.
Tanks, main guns, and everything else can be used to project ground fire at the Japanese army.
Like a whirlwind.
Wherever there are figures, shoot at them.
Caught off guard, the Japanese infantry fell in platoon under tank fire.
Running all over the mountains, the Japanese troops were surrounded and suppressed by the Chinese infantry who arrived later.
In disarray, the Japanese forces were unable to organize effective resistance.
They were driven like sheep by the fire of Chinese tanks.
The 53rd Field Artillery Wing of the Japanese Army, which was behind the left side of the marching column, was even more unlucky.
The explosion of the ammunition truck that was hit on the ground knocked out more than half of the 53rd Field Artillery Wing.
Countless were injured by the explosion.
The burned wounded lay on the ground groaning in pain.
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Chinese tanks ran over them unconsciously.
The desperate wails of the Japanese soldiers were eerie.
In the face of his own division, the main force of the division was constantly divided and surrounded by the squadron, standing on the hill, Etsujiro Kono wept bitterly.
He knew that the tide of battle in front of him was irreversible.
The pride of defeating the 53rd Army in the squadron is long gone.
Along the road undulating between the hills, within a range of more than ten kilometers, the roaring sound of motors, the sound of cannons cracking the sky, the dense gunfire, the explosion of hoarse explosive packets, and the explosion of grenades constantly rose in the rain, all of which made Cui Zhijun, Xu Tu'an, Chang Tianfang and others stunned.
In just two hours, thousands of Japanese remnants, including Kono's divisional headquarters, were surrounded on a small hill outside the town of Danda, and all but a few who escaped escaped were annihilated on both sides of the road.
Be prepared and be unprepared.
The tank units of the 1st Mechanized Division played an unimaginably huge combat effectiveness in this battle, and Chang Tianfang and others, who were organizing troops to continue to encircle and suppress the remnants of the enemy, did not realize that they had created several firsts in the Chinese battlefield in this battle.
It was the first time to use armored forces intensively on a large scale to carry out tactical assaults, the first time to carry out infantry and tank coordinated operations, the first time to use tanks and armored vehicles as carriers to quickly project troops, and the first time to annihilate Japanese divisions and regiments in formation.
Etsujiro Kono, covered in mud, sat on an empty ammunition box in distraction, and the constant falling shells on the side could not touch his nerves, which were completely numb.
The adjutants, combat staff officers, guards, and others on the side all looked left and right in fear.
I'm afraid that at some point a shell will fly over and reimburse them all.
After recalling his life, Etsujiro Kono sighed, he knew that Kawabe Shozo would not send reinforcements, at this time, if he guessed correctly, Kawabe Shozo should concentrate on attacking Longling City with all his strength, and take Longling while the main force of the First Mechanized Army was wandering.
Later, he concentrated his forces to block the enemy at Longling, and then the main force broke through the Chinese Eleventh Army in the direction of Songshan, compared with Song Yuhang's First Mechanized Army.
The Eleventh Army was clearly a good bone to gnaw on.
Etsujiro Kono guessed very correctly, and after learning that the 53rd Division had been broken and trapped on a high ground outside the town of Dantian, Kawabe Shozo immediately ordered all units of the whole army to immediately engage in a general attack on Longling, and it was necessary to capture Longling before the main force of the First Mechanized Army turned around.
While the main force of the First Mechanized Army was attacking the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army, Cui Zhijun got in touch with Zhou Fucheng, commander of the 53rd Army in Tengchongdi, through the radio.
Zhou Fucheng immediately led the remnants of the 53rd Army and the newly formed 50th and 51st Divisions to attack the blocking troops deployed by the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army in front of him, intending to break through the Japanese defense line.
Achieve the goal of rapid reinforcement of Longling.
Due to the stubborn resistance of the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army, the battle for clearing and suppressing was not going smoothly.
The three regiments of the Second Motorized Division launched several charges in a row, and although they were all repulsed by the Japanese army, they also succeeded in compressing the Japanese defensive positions by more than half.
The muddy and soft slopes made it impossible for tanks and armored vehicles to move on them.
The cunning Japanese army gave up the defensive advantage of the ridge line and set up the defensive ring at the top of the hill within an area of a few hundred square meters.
As soon as the Chinese soldiers crossed the ridge line, they would be shot by the Japanese army's individual fire, and when they shot at the ridge line, they were easily hit by the Japanese grenadiers.
Time is losing minute by minute, Cui Zhijun gritted his teeth when he saw this and said: "What the fuck is it, if you don't catch it alive, how can you set up the 105 howitzer and all the mortars for Lao Tzu, and concentrate on bombarding the top of the mountain, I don't believe that the little devil really has three heads and six arms."
In the roaring cannonball, Kono Etsujiro and his nearly 1,000 subordinates all realized the so-called jade shattering, and it is extremely ironic that the place where Kono Etsujiro was killed was the Luopo Mountain where he had previously broken through the 53rd Army, and in less than a week, the aggressive invaders buried themselves in the place where they had achieved the so-called glorious victory.
A 105-mm grenade accurately hit the mutilated body of Etsujiro Kono, and the broken corpse pieces flew everywhere, and it was precisely because of this cannon that the whereabouts of Lieutenant General Etsujiro Kono, the commander of the 53rd Division of the Japanese Army, became an eternal mystery.
The Chinese side insisted that Lieutenant General Etsujiro Kono had been shelled dead at Luopo Mountain, 15 kilometers outside the town of Tuantia between Tengchong and Longling, but the Japanese base camp denied it, saying that Lieutenant General Etsujiro Kono had only been seriously wounded and was recovering from the breakout with his troops, and that the 53rd Division would also be reorganized.
Kono Etsujiro's life and death became a complete mystery, in order to carry out the lie to the end, the Japanese military intelligence department also forged a number of photos that made later generations controversial, until 1945, Kono Etsujiro's receipt records can still be found in the salary payment records of the Japanese army's base camp.
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