The war in China and the smoke of the Naba war made the Chinese Expeditionary Force famous again in the world, and the Soviet and German armies in the continental battlefield were accumulating strength in unison, while the U.S. army was organizing heavy troops to land in West Africa and outflank the fox den of the German Afrika Korps Rommel.
Looking at the Pacific theater, the Japanese army was gathering strength to prepare for a showdown with the American army, in India, the Japanese army attacking India was taking advantage of the victory to pursue and marching forward, and in Myitkyina, more than 30,000 people from the Chinese expeditionary group surrounded the 6th Division were beating fiercely, while in Naba, more than 10,000 lone soldiers of the Chinese expeditionary force were trapped in the enemy formation and desperately blocking the enemy.
When the European battlefield was calming down, the Japanese were jumping up and down at this time, and Song Yuhang saw very clearly that the Japanese army's stalls were obviously too large, and the garrisons in the Pacific Theater, the Chinese Theater, the Indian Theater, the Burma Theater, and the garrisons in various occupied areas, the Japanese were seriously overdrawing their strength and national strength, the overall quality and combat strength of the Japanese army were declining rapidly, and Japan's resources and industrial strength simply did not allow the Japanese army to fight on multiple fronts at the same time.
Song Yuhang is keenly aware that the strategic deployment of the Japanese is like a link linked to a ring, once there is a problem in one of the links, it is likely to trigger a domino effect at the strategic level, if you want to open the gap, there is an excellent opportunity in front of you, the main force of the expeditionary force needs to immediately complete the reorganization and restore logistics supplies after the encirclement and annihilation of the sixth division in Myitkyina, and then rush forward to meet the reinforcements led by Tanaka Shinichi on the Jinmin Plain under the Jinmin Mountains after Naba.
Taking advantage of the geography of the Kim Min Plain, the advantages of mechanized armored forces were brought into play to give the Japanese army a fatal blow.
And the main condition for all this is whether the mountain infantry division can block the offensive of the Tanaka Army from the east of the Japanese army, and then drag the Japanese army to the death, creating a time difference for the mechanized main force to cross the outflanking ground from the northern front, Song Yuhang has a great appetite, if he can eat or defeat the main force of the Japanese army from the source, then he is equivalent to solving all the main forces of the Japanese army west of Mandalay in one battle, and laying a solid foundation for the next eastward march to Rangoon or send troops to India to attack Hikoma or Imphal.
At the same time, in the city of Myitkyina, which was full of muddy ruins and abandoned corpses everywhere, the Chinese and Japanese armies, soaked and covered in mud, were engaged in a final battle, with different shapes of broken corpses and broken bayonets, broken rifle butts, and the sacrificed martyrs still maintained their expressions of blood and anger.
On the unnamed heights outside Naba, Chinese soldiers squatted in improvised anti-artillery holes or foxholes, enduring the overwhelming Japanese artillery fire, and whenever the artillery fire extended, the Chinese soldiers would quickly enter the position under the command of the whistle.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Chongqing's Huangshan official residence, was restless at the moment, and more than 100,000 of the most elite troops of the Nationalist Government were trapped in Burma, and the road to the frontier was interrupted due to the sudden torrential rain.
Once the supply is interrupted, Myitkyina can not be attacked for a long time, and the Japanese reinforcements from the east arrive under the city, then the defeat and retreat may be staged again, and Chiang Kai-shek will lose nearly 100,000 elite troops of the Central Army, but at present, he can't afford to lose the expeditionary force of Song Yuhang, the army is the foundation of the country, he has always been under the name of Wei Lihuang but has never let Wei Lihuang go to Burma, just don't want anyone to unnecessarily interfere and influence Song Yuhang's command and judgment.
Chiang Kai-shek immediately instructed Huo Zhang, commander of the 20th Group Army, to urge the Zhou Fucheng Division of the 53rd Army and the Tianbu of the 54th Army under him to immediately go to northern Burma in a combat posture to deal with the two flanks of Myitkyina, and make every effort to ensure the smooth and safe flow of communication lines.
All materials, weapons, and ammunition that have recently arrived in Kunming will be given priority to the use of the expeditionary force.
The situation on the front line is basically reported to him by the Intelligence Department of the Expeditionary Force every six hours.
What the battle has become?
Chiang Kai-shek still had a lot in mind.
He was very pleased that Song Yuhang had never complained to him. for a few days.
As long as someone mentions the war in Burma.
Chiang Kai-shek would praise: "Comfort is not chaotic in the face of danger."
Everywhere is not panicked.
The training was successful.
Well commanded.
He has the demeanor of a general, this son is loyal and courageous, regardless of personal honor and disgrace, life and death, and it is really a blessing for the nation and the country."
Since the chairman is happy.
A group of attendants and staff will deliberately continue to dig out Song Yuhang's shining points and strengths.
Everyone did what the chairman wanted.
As if praising Song Yuhang was their own responsibility, Song Yuhang seemed to have become a perfect person for a while, and his success and extraordinary ability were all inseparable from the wisdom and talent of the committee members.
Maxima is good.
But there has to be Bole to discover, Song Yuhang is more capable and has achieved extraordinary achievements.
It also became more and more evident that the chairman of the committee was very knowledgeable.
Chiang Kai-shek was paying attention to Song Yuhang.
And Song Yuhang is paying attention to Zhang Tiansheng.
Zhang Tiansheng was paying full attention to Huang Guohua Now.
Huang Guohua enjoyed the feeling of shaking the ground in the bunker.
From time to time, he patted the dust on his body and the sand and gravel falling on his head.
The 18th Mountain Artillery Wing was concentrated in the embroidery of the Inner Wide Divided into two artillery groups with the 55th Mountain Artillery Wing and the three mountain units of the three mixed brigades, they first carried out a fierce artillery bombardment of the first line of the unnamed heights, and then began to use artillery fire to block the access roads of the unnamed heights, taking advantage of the illusion of an extension of firepower.
Huang Guohua frowned and listened to the landing point of the shells extended by the Japanese artillery, and after a round of shelling, Huang Guohua turned to the chief of staff Xu Yong and said: "This cannon is not right, the little devil is not extending the artillery, he wants to cut off our back road."
Xu Yong stood in front of the position defense map and drew most of the circle with a pencil: "Could it be that the Japanese army wants to separate us from Naba City, and in that case, the pressure on the commander of the second brigade who is responsible for the flank will increase suddenly, and we can't just sit idly by." ” Huang Guohua pondered for a long time and breathed a long sigh of relief: "I'm afraid that the Japanese also want us to reinforce the flank, the so-called nameless heights we are holding on to now are actually just a large earthen hill with a broken mountain range, which seems to be easy to defend and difficult to attack, but in fact, this wide defensive front alone has added a lot of trouble to us, and the three ring positions from the half-waist to the summit have already involved too many of our mobile forces." ” Xu Yong threw the pencil on the position defense map, looked directly at Huang Guohua and said: "Then brigade commander, what do you say?"
Huang Guohua pondered for a moment and said: "Transfer the battle defense artillery company to the flank of the reserve position behind the main peak and stand by, where they can directly threaten the railway, and they can also indirectly support the second brigade. ” As soon as Huang Guohua's order was issued, the 112th, 43rd, and 1st Infantry Squadrons under the 55th Division of the Japanese Army had already opened up the straggler front, and in order to capture the nameless heights holding the railway pass as soon as possible, Xiu Neikuan did not hesitate to spend a large number of artillery shells to blockade the firepower, and at the same time, he invested all three infantry wings in the front of the nameless heights at one time, with the intention of increasing the unit area of troops to strengthen the troops' offensive force.
The 1st Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, Ichiro Yokota, can be said to be an old friend of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, first burned down almost the entire wing at Tonggu Airport, and then was ambushed north of Mandalay, delaying the final completion of the mission of the large army.
After that, the 55th Division and the 56th Division were transferred to the garrison because of their poor performance before, so they did not have the opportunity to participate in a series of subsequent battles, but the misfortune in the eyes of others turned into extraordinary luck, the 2nd Division, the 6th Division, the 49th Division, the 53rd Division, the 2nd Tank Division, the 72nd Brigade and a large number of other ace troops and their proud soldiers were all beaten to the ground.
Among them, the most miserable are the 53rd Division and the 72nd Brigade, which have all been defeated.
At this point, Ichiro Yokota, who had been unable to raise his head among his colleagues, finally held his head high, and no one in the Southern Army dared to speak of the 55th Division's rice bucket and the 56th Division's waste firewood.
Yokota Ichiro's 1st team as the second echelon, so today he was extremely nervous, the comfortable life of the Burmese garrison had already made his body start to bless, and he didn't go far before he was sweating profusely and panting, Yokota Ichiro looked at the three infantry battalions of the 112th Infantry Wing of the Southern Osa in a telescope and began to line up diagonally in turn, and the mixed 1st regiment, which served as a flank outflank, had begun to maneuver along the railway to the left flank of the unnamed heights under the cover of armored trains, The mixed 24th Brigade outflanked the right flank with the strength of two infantry brigades.
The fourteen-car so-called armored train is not the equipment of the Japanese army, but the masterpiece of the commander of the second division of the Japanese army, Okazaki Kiyozaburo, in fact, it is just a twelve-car modified carriage propelled by two locomotives reinforced with steel plates, the Japanese used their imagination to install the turret of the tank, because there is no power source, they can only rely on the eight soldiers in the carriage to shake, so it is very slow, in the battle of Nomenkan, the Japanese army has suffered a big loss of the Soviet armored train, After Okazaki Kiyozaburo's unit was transferred to Burma, during the adaptation training, Okazaki Kiyozaburo, who had nothing to do and loved machinery, led a masterpiece of his subordinates, this time to reinforce Myitkyina, Tanaka Shinichi was ecstatic to transfer these eighteen treasures from the second division, except for leaving two sections as a command train, the rest were for combat needs.
The length of the fourteen carriages, propelled by the two locomotives in front and back, was just enough to cover the flank of a Japanese brigade at a time.
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The machine guns placed by the Japanese troops on the armored train unscrupulously swept the flank defensive positions of the 2nd Mountain Infantry Brigade, and the Japanese grenadiers were also fired frequently from the carriages, and in the smoke of the explosion, several Chinese soldiers who were not able to hide were shot and fell into the trenches.
Due to the fact that the railway embankment was originally high above the ground, and because of the armored train, a movable fire fortress, the Chinese soldiers in the position could only watch the Japanese troops move troops into their rear and were helpless: