Shimofumi didn't know about the final decision of the base camp, because the front army headquarters of the base camp forwarded it, but directly sent the decision of the imperial meeting of the base camp to Naba, a decision like a thunderbolt from the sky, which made Tanaka Shinichi and Takeuchi Kan and others stunned.
Everyone knows that this is tantamount to giving the troops still in Naba an order to fight to destruction, and the most helpless thing is that this order is still requested by themselves.
The 18th Division and the 24th Mixed Regiment under the command of Shinichi Tanaka held the Naba Valley to block the Chinese Expeditionary Force advancing southward, while the 55th Division and the 26th and 1st Brigades under the command of Takeuchi Hiroshi attacked and advanced northward, breaking the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the direction of Mandalay and joining up with the 56th Division coming to Yangon.
The base camp seems to have repeatedly made mistakes in subjective will, first in the Guadalcanals, then in China, and now in Burma Compared with Takeuchi Kuan, Tanaka Shinichi and Takeno Ouchi are like the feeling of bathing in ice water in the wind on a cold winter night, from the top of their heads to the soles of their feet, this is not a blocking mission at all, but a death notice that came in advance, despite the thousands of reluctance in his heart, Tanaka Shinichi still resolutely carried out the order of the base camp, ordering the troops to bury on both sides of the Naba Valley and blow up the valley at a critical moment to block the enemy.
The three cracked and deformed 11 steel helmets on a boulder attracted Zhang Tiansheng's attention, and a large blood-soaked military officer ID was lying in it or scattered around, and Zhang Tiansheng roughly estimated that there were at least 200 copies.
Zhang Tiansheng rummaged through these bloodstained, burned or bullet-pierced documents with a slightly trembling hand, the heroic young people in the documents have now sacrificed their lives for the country, Zhang Tiansheng knows almost every document here, their laughter and words in the past seem to echo in Zhang Tiansheng's ears, especially several of them participated in the collective wedding held by Deputy Chief Song before the expedition, several people are still fresh in his memory, as a witness, he really can't face those young wives who have lost their husbands after more than a month of marriage, Almost all of these outstanding young officers were personally recruited or brought in by Zhang Tiansheng, and for this he offended almost all the people in the Sichuan Army.
"What the hell is this fighting" Zhang Tiansheng grabbed his hair and squatted on the ground, tears flowing silently.
The Japanese soldiers did not have so much spare time to collect the corpses, and the news that the troops might fall into the heavy encirclement of the Chinese army flew out of nowhere, obviously to rescue friendly troops, why the troops were surrounded by the Chinese expeditionary force Many Japanese officers and soldiers couldn't figure it out, and some adjutants even angrily scolded the Sixth Division for being a group of rice buckets, which deserved to be cut off by the people of China, and all the Japanese soldiers began to be a little frizzy, especially when the order to bury the corpses on the spot and collect the material backpack was issued.
Most of the Japanese soldiers who died in the battle were absent-mindedly looking for a crater, and then hastily shoveled a thin layer of soil.
It was clear that the Japanese were already showing signs of retreating, Zhang Tiansheng In a hurry, due to the damage of the high-frequency radio station, he and the headquarters of the expeditionary force, Song Yuhang's last order was to hold Naba at all costs and wait for an opportunity to entangle the main force of the Japanese army going north.
Zhang Tiansheng concentrated all the surviving colonel-level officers in Naba City, the mountain infantry division was expanded from the previous mountain infantry brigade, and its main officer structure was the old foundation of the Sichuan Legion, most of them were old brothers who had followed Zhang Tiansheng for a long time, and a small number were young officers who had been promoted from the line of fire.
Zhang Tiansheng looked around at these subordinates who were full of gunpowder smoke and unwashed, most of them were wrapped in bandages, he really couldn't tell his previous plan, since the enemy was blocked on May 6, the mountain infantry division has paid unimaginably huge casualties, the entire second brigade is now only less than one company, the division with the least casualties is also more than half of the casualties, more than 4,000 wounded and more than 3,000 tired soldiers are already all of this main combat division with a full strength of 15,986 people, Even with the 1,500 backbone cadres at all levels who were forcibly evacuated before the war, Zhang Tiansheng knew that his mountain infantry division was completely broken.
What is the division commander hesitating, the people attending the meeting are as clear as a mirror, several brigade commanders and deputy brigade regiments are silently smoking cigarettes, if it is in the past, they can now be very easy and glorious to wait for the meritorious service award after the war, the reason is very simple, the mountain infantry division has created a miracle, just with the strength of one division without any support and supply at all, the Japanese army of 80,000 people was blocked in Naba for five whole days, 120 hours, 2880 minutes of life-and-death battle, Almost every minute there was blood shedding for it, and the mountain infantry divisions were almost bleeding cleanly.
Now the little devil wants to withdraw, if they are stopped at this time, it will be a battle to the death, after a while, Huang Guohua, who was wrapped in bandages on his head, stood up, among the brigade commanders of the mountain infantry division, Huang Guohua is the oldest in seniority, and he is also a senior officer with the heaviest habits of a soldier and a warlord, especially the "you turtle son" who is on his lips, even in front of Zhang Tiansheng, he always jumps out uncontrollably.
Huang Guohua is not representative, all the brigade commanders and battalion commanders are nervously calculating the troops and ammunition materials they deliberately use, everyone knows that these 50,000 or 60,000 little devils who are like arrows must not be taken lightly, and in order to go home, the energy burst out by the Japanese may swallow the remaining thousands of people in the mountain division to the point that there are no bones left.
Huang Guohua obviously hesitated for a moment, he looked at the old guys he was familiar with one by one, he was very disappointed, the old guys were almost half missing, and they were replaced by those slightly immature new faces.
Huang Guohua sighed slightly and said: "Division, I originally thought that we had completed the task assigned by Deputy Commander Song, and the casualties of our department were indeed too large, and the Japanese army returned to the division, these are all unfavorable conditions and factors." ” As soon as Huang Guohua spoke, the officers present immediately discussed, obviously some people did not agree with Huang Guohua's statement, Zhang Tiansheng waved his hand to signal silence, he wanted Huang Guohua to finish speaking, because he knew that Huang Guohua represented the old foundation of the mountain infantry division.
Huang Guohua obviously didn't care about those discussions, he pulled off his clothes, revealing the bloody bandage on his chest, and said sonorously: "No one is a bad seed, the nameless heights were surrounded on all sides That night, Lao Tzu led the team to repel the little devil seven times with bayonets, and finally the little devil didn't dare to rush again Deputy Chief Song has these brothers in his heart, as soon as the sky cleared, the airdrop arrived, and he rushed to the division commander and Deputy Chief Song, my surname Huang's more than 100 catties will be put here today, and the division seat will speak to Dao Mountain, Sea of Fire, Oil Pot, I, Huang Guohua, blink my eyes, don't deserve to be a brother who has worshiped you. ” "You can speak to the division, give an order, division commander" The command headquarters suddenly became chaotic, and for a while it could be said that the crowd was excited, Zhang Tiansheng's tense heart also let go, and the left hand that had been holding the Xiuzhen pistol in his trouser pocket was naturally taken out.
Zhang Tiansheng looked around and said loudly: "I order, voluntarily sign up to form a battalion of death squads, tonight will surprise the Naba Valley, where the little devils are buried a lot, nothing can be said to let the little devils detonate, most of the main combat strength of our troops is mechanized, we need clear roads, and we must not let the Japanese army blow up the valley." ” "After taking Taniguchi and destroying the explosive device of the Japanese army, the rest of the troops will press and occupy Taniguchi on all fronts, and it is estimated that the main force of our army will arrive at dawn tonight or tomorrow, so that the little Japanese will easily die a happy death" Zhang Tiansheng slapped heavily on the map
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