Chapter 140: Fierce Battle on Gray Slope
The main reason why Japanese Burmese Front Commander Kawabian Masazo appointed Kazunaga Shigeyasu as the Teng Chong Guardian general was that Kazunaga Shigeyasu was very good at mountain warfare, and the troops he commanded were the mountain troops "Black Wind Team" formed by lumberjacks from the mountainous areas of Hokkaido!
Faced with the attack of the Chinese army, Kazuo-Kanmei first strengthened the defensive power of the Hokage Public House south of the top of Gaoligong Mountain, and arranged troops along the passes such as Huislo, Tang Xishan, and Datangzi, trying to delay the attack of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and delayed until reinforcements arrived.
Let the Japanese army's sun flag continue to fly on the country is the greatest shame for Chinese soldiers! The Japanese invaders burn and kill ** and do everything evil. China's territory continues to fall, and the people are in dire straits.
The Japanese Chinese dispatched troops were preparing for the plan, while the Myanmar Front was aiming directly at India, trying to cut off the only aid route to China, and then attacked the troops in both directions to destroy China.
If we only look at the part of the Chinese war theater, there is no reason to be pessimistic and disappointed by the bleak war picture in front of us.
The changing international situation and war situation are also bleak. News came from the Allied forces that US Admiral Nimitz, who has been trying his best to belittle the role of Chinese war theater, was leading the elite U.S. Navy forces to fight the Japanese army at sea, and confronted the Japanese joint fleet several times around the waters near Guadalam, both sides suffered heavy losses.
Like Nimitz, MacArthur, who has been trying hard to belittle the role of the Chinese war zone, is leading his Marines to fight bloody battles on Guadalam.
Guadal Island is the full name Guadalcanal Island, located in the southern part of the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific. In June 1942, the Japanese army began to build an airport on the island, threatening the United States' counterattack base in the Pacific, Australia, and the maritime transportation line between the United States and Australia.
Due to the failure of the US Navy in Midway in 1942, the US military was unable to launch a counterattack in the Pacific Ocean, which gave the Japanese army enough time to build the airports and fortifications on Guadalcanal Island. The important geographical location of Guadal and the Japanese Pacific policies made the Japanese deployment in Guadal several times more than in history. The 6th Flight Division of the Japanese Army Aviation Corps was distributed at five field airports on Guadal to cooperate with the navy to fight.
In China, two armies under the Chinese Expeditionary Force penetrated into the Japanese army like two daggers. On the 13th, the 5th Army of the vanguard of the 20th Army and the 7th Army of the vanguard of the 11th Army were both kicked on the iron plate.
Standing behind Wei Lihuang, Song Yuhang looked at the standing in front of the sand table without saying a word for a whole hour. It was obvious that the Japanese army's defense strength exceeded Wei Lihuang's expectations.
The attacks on both left and right sides were frustrated at the same time, which made Wei Lihuang a little confused. Although the Chinese expeditionary army had to mobilize the Japanese army in a large-scale manner, the Japanese army had so clearly judged the key points of their attacks. In the early stage, the 54th Army, 7th Army, 8th Army and other units made roundabout and fake actions that were equivalent to wasting their work! The Japanese actually had such accurate insight into their own battle deployment and tactical intentions? I was afraid that Wei Lihuang had a cold sweat in the hot command post.
While Wei Lihuang was thinking hard, the vanguard of Fang Tiandi's 54th Army fought fiercely with a Japanese army on Huipo for a day without any progress. Song Yuhang led the army's direct guard reconnaissance battalion and the armored reconnaissance battalion directly under the army to head straight to Huipo.
In the evening, Fang Tian arrived at the front line for inspection to summarize the main reasons for the failure of the attack that day. When Fang Tian came to the 14th Division headquarters, he found that there was no chief officer there. Walking out of the command center, Fang Tian found a large open space behind the hillside. All the landlords of the 14th Division stood silently on the hillside.
Up the hillside, Fang Tian was stunned by the scene in front of him!
The depression behind the hill was filled with nearly a thousand corpses of the Expeditionary Army officers and soldiers. Fang Tian only knew that the 14th Division had defeated a battle, but he didn't know that he was defeated so miserably!
Long Tianwu turned around and found the commander and his group. He hurriedly saluted and said in a crying voice: "Military. From morning to afternoon, the three main groups took turns to go up. The small gray slope seemed to be as hard as iron. The little ones were injured and killed! So far, there are still hundreds of brothers' bodies under the high ground and have not been taken back!"
Looking at the bodies of officers and soldiers covered with blood-soaked white cloth, Fang Tian’s face was twitching unconsciously!
"Go to the command center!" Fang Tian yelled and turned around and left!
Fang Tian knew that he had thought too simply about attacking the front line of Gaoligong Mountain before, and his defense against the Japanese army was probably seriously insufficient.
Just as Fang Tian was about to deploy troops to attack Huipo overnight, a combat staff report suddenly came: Commander Song of the First Mechanized Army is here!
"Night Owl is here!" Fang Tian sighed. He naturally had no good feelings for the First Mechanized Army, who followed him and waited for his troops to open up the path to pick fruits. There is another thing Fang Tianji is reluctant to face and admit, that is, the First Mechanized Army, from weapons and equipment to the quality and individual skills of officers and soldiers, was far stronger than his 54th Army.
Song Yuhang brought Brigade Commander Zhang Tiansheng from the Mountain Infantry Brigade into the command of the 14th Division, and felt a strange atmosphere. Although all the officers from Fang Tian to the 14th Division smiled kindly, this gave people a very hypocritical feeling?
Song Yuhang smiled and laughed at himself, "Mr. Fang, I, Song, have always been direct and happy. No matter what Chongqing means, I, Song, will definitely not do those actions of robbing merit. If someone erases the achievements of the brothers in the 54th Army, I, Song Yuhang, are the first to turn against him."
Song Yuhangdi's self-confession made Fang Tiandi's old face turn slightly red, and then Fang Tiandao said: "For the overall situation of the War of Resistance Against Japan, no record of the record is enough to fight the Japanese."
Song Yuhang was shocked by the heavy losses in the 14th Division. If this continues, the 54th Army may have fought all before reaching the city of Tengchong. Song Yuhang understood that all the battle reports recorded in history were written by the winners. Like all the winners, the battle results were exaggerated, and the losses were overturned. As he had seen in a battle report preserved in later generations, after nine days of fierce fighting, our army suffered heavy casualties and retreated, and our army also suffered huge losses.
The real battle situation is probably not just described by the four words "The loss is huge", but it is difficult to describe it if it is not a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Song Yuhang looked at the man with a messy hair in front of him. It was difficult to associate him with a general holding a large army! He remembered that the 14th Division of Long Tianwu was originally going to be airlifted to Myanmar, but due to the influence of the butterfly effect, the force is now left in the sequence of the y unit. The American equipment that the 14th Division has been looking forward to is still in a British army warehouse in India.
Long Tianwu, the commander of the 14th Division, frowned and recalled the battle between heaven and earth, and said, "The terrain of the gray slope is dangerous and belongs to one of the several major roads in Gaoligong Mountain. The Japanese army is facing high and the fortifications are large. Although most of them are built on the mountain, the shooting boundary is extremely wide."
Long Tianwu paused for a moment and then said, "The Japanese firepower is not very fierce, but its accuracy is extremely amazing. The few battalion commanders who retreated in front of him reported that the Japanese were almost bouncing and biting meat, which greatly affected the morale of our attacking troops."
Fang Tian fell into deep thought when he heard this, while Song Yuhang looked at the ash slope outside the window that had fallen into the night. Only when the front lines of Tengchong, Songshan and Longling were opened, his mechanized troops could play a role. Before this, he had no choice. Song Yuhang, the only mountain infantry brigade who could be used to attack, was reluctant to invest.
Opening the Yunnan-Indian Highway is a prerequisite for China to win the war. For China's only remaining lifeline, the Chinese Expeditionary Force must not allow India to fall, but being able to face the tenacious resistance of the Japanese army, Song Yuhang knew that this triumphal road to victory was destined to lay the foundation on the corpses and flesh of Chinese soldiers.
In the early morning of September 13, after the arrival of the heavy artillery brigade of the First Mechanized Army, the horse was ready for combat without stopping. The Allied 14th Air Force sent three squadrons of fighter jets to provide air support to the Chinese Expeditionary Force on the attack on the gray slope.
At 6 a.m., Song Yuhang stood beside Fang Tian. In order to cooperate with the test firing of the heavy artillery brigade of the First Mechanized Army, all the artillery soldiers of the 54th Army were ordered to carry out five rapid fires on the Japanese positions. For a moment, the sound of cannons on the Japanese positions was rumbling, and gunpowder was filled with smoke, and huge flash of explosions rose from time to time. After learning that the test firing school of the heavy artillery brigade of the army was completed, Song Yuhang nodded against Fang Tian.
Fang Tian looked at Song Yuhang gratefully. Before the order of the Expeditionary Force Command, Song Yuhang ordered his heavy artillery brigade to invest in fire support. Fang Tian knew that under such circumstances, even if the tribute was sank to the gray slope, the First Mechanized Army would probably not be able to get any benefits.
The test-fire of the heavy artillery brigade awakened the sleeping Japanese army. The busy and disturbed Japanese army began to prepare in the alley under the command of the special detachment leader Yukio Hiroguchi.
Yesterday's night was not a good night for Yukio Hiroguchi. Yukio Hiroguchi was deploying troops to guard against the night attack of the Chinese army for the whole night, but unfortunately the Chinese army did not come! Just in the early morning when Yukio Hiroguchi was most sleepy, a fierce artillery fire woke Yukio Hiroguchi drowsy.
Yukio Hiroguchi, who was slightly depressed, seemed to hear a few unusual explosions?
All the artillery soldiers of the 54th Army performed routine artillery before the attack. Because the caliber of the 54th Army was small, the artillery shelling seemed to be very fierce, but the actual effect was not ideal.
When the artillery fire extended, Yukio Hiroguchi hurriedly urged the troops to enter the bunker. Although the fortifications of the ash slope overflow were temporarily and hastily built, the valley was steep and steep on both sides of the ash slope, which caused a natural barrier that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Just like yesterday, the Japanese army rushed into the position and put on heavy machine guns, 92 infantry cannons, 60 mortars, 98 grenade launchers, etc.
Due to the multiples of Song Yuhang's telescope, he could only see a stir on the Japanese position on the opposite hill and was embarrassed to rob Fang Tian's artillery mirror. Song Yuhang could only wait for Fang Tian patiently.
Seeing that the Japanese army had entered the position, Fang Tian turned around excitedly and said to Song Yuhang: "Brother Song, you can fire the fire!"
Song Yuhang nodded, picked up the phone and said aloud: "Fire the cannon!" On behalf of the cavalry, he asked for monthly tickets. Seeing that someone could still insist on typing when he was going out to work in the valley, he would still be able to keep writing. Book friends will support him this month.
Chapter completed!