Chapter 172 Longling Offense and Defense (6)
Under the cover of the deep night in early winter, after paying a great price, the Japanese army finally broke into the fox pit line outside the main position of the Third Infantry Division in the south of the city as they wished.
The Japanese soldiers lined up in dense formations shouted and rushed towards the Chinese soldiers in the fox pit, urging with bayonets. Liang Chao's original intention of using the fox pit front was to serve as a warning position. Later, due to the abundant time, dozens of 360-degree fire support points were set up on the fox pit front, and a reinforced infantry squad was deployed in each support point to increase the defense column of the Third Infantry Division.
However, Liang Chao ignored one problem, that is, once the defensive front formed by foxgloves encounters a breakthrough in the enemy's army, both sides will inevitably be involved in a fierce fierce battle. For the troops deployed in the foxgloves, once the Japanese army breaks through the foxgloves and blocks, they have no chance to retreat at all, because as long as they retreat, it means leaving their backs to the Japanese. When identifying the corpse after the war, if there is no more than three people behind the scenes, they will not even get the pension. Moreover, as a member of the Ace Army, every Chinese soldier is proud and proud of being a member of the First Mechanized Army, and they are even willing to defend this honor belonging to the soldier with their lives.
Chinese soldiers lie down or squatted in foxgloves desperately shot at the heavy figures stacked in the dark!
"Change bullets! Cover!"
Among the flying bullets and shrapnel, the seven Chinese soldiers in the fox pit were divided into two groups according to the previous training, and alternately covered each other to maintain the consistency of firepower.
The Japanese army, who kept screaming and holding the bayonet, were hit and fell to the edge of the pit. Chinese soldiers directly mounted the machine gun on the Japanese corpse and fired violently.
Although the Browning heavy-tube rifle has strong lethality, its 20-round magazine cannot maintain the sustainability of firepower. At critical moment, two Thomson M submachine guns were stuck due to long-term continuous firing. The fierce firepower sprayed by the fox pit suddenly stopped.
Boom! Boom! After the flash of explosions of several grenades, all the Chinese soldiers in the fox pit fell into a pool of blood.
Although the 51st Brigade of the Independence and Mixed Brigade broke through the scattered front of the Third Division of the Chinese Defense Army from many places, the guns and bullets shot from all directions knocked the Japanese soldiers to the ground one by one.
Only then did the Japanese army discover that there were still dozens of Chinese army's ground-shaped fire support points on the scattered front that had not been removed? Unfortunately, the Japanese assault troops could only turn the direction and remove these ground-shaped fire support points into their attacking front.
The fire had been exchanged. The Japanese army discovered that these ring-shaped fire support points were arranged in an extremely clever way. Dozens of support fire points could support each other and could be used as separate combat units. Moreover, these fire support points were not on one axis at all. If you want to remove any of these fire support points, you would be blocked by at least 4-5 ring-shaped fire points nearby at 180 degrees.
In the night sky of the Japanese infantry's attack firepower was coordinated with abundant ring firepower support points. The result naturally shows that the Japanese infantry could only shout again and again, bravely moving forward with the rain of bullets and the mortar shells falling from time to time. The whistling rain of bullets, shells, and mines exploded. The Japanese army had already scared. In the past, the Japanese army regarded as treasure-like grenades by the Japanese army as the treasure-striking infantry attack, but were suppressed by a large number of mortars in the Chinese defenders. At the beginning of the battle, Liang Chao deployed several mortar companies behind the scattered defense front. Once a Japanese grenade launcher appeared in any direction, the Chinese defenders would immediately organize a mortar group to implement fire suppression according to the frontier report.
No matter how hard the Japanese army tried, they could never break through the defense line formed by the ring fire support point.
The fierce battle lasted for nearly an hour. The Japanese army only occupied several circular positions on the edge of the scattered defense line. The Chinese defenders in Longling City often blocked the firepower of the Japanese offensive troops in the south and north of the city.
Major General Wu Nan, the commander of the 51st Brigade of Independent Mixed, was very dissatisfied with the performance of the frontier troops. After scolding the captain of his subordinates, he decided to personally go to the front line to command the attack. He could give the greatest pressure to the Chinese army and force it to mobilize the reserve team to create attack conditions for the main attacking troops. It depends on the attacks in the south and north of the city.
Just in the south of Longling City and the north of the city, it was as if it was just like a pot. In the east of Longling City, the west of the city was silent. Song Yuhang stood in front of the map and looked at the enemy and us signs around Longling. Every day, the US military dropped a supply area at the same time. At the same time, it would airdrop a reconnaissance report on the same day and earth. This report was extremely important for Song Yuhang. He urgently needed to know the latest mobilization and deployment of the Japanese army.
"The 53rd Japanese Division, which was blocking Longling and Tengchong, is still building fortifications, while the 2nd Japanese Division still imposed oppression on the 11th Army? What do the Japanese want to do?" Song Yuhang frowned. Although the Japanese attack was extremely fierce at this moment, under the steady resistance of the defenders, the Japanese army did not achieve any results in the south of the city and the north of the city.
"Fight for consumption? The riverside Zheng San will not be so crazy. Any commander who has a little bit of rationality will not adopt this tactic of killing the enemy for 800 and losing three thousand by himself. The Japanese must have some plans!" Song Yuhang pressed his hands on the map to force himself to calm down. Xu Tuan, Wang Chongxian, Chen Zhishen and others also stood aside and silently.
Everyone knows the situation at this moment, reinforcements? Since the moment the First Mechanized Army was ordered to defend Longling, they have never expected it. The 11th Army was still suppressed by the Japanese Second Division, the 54th Army of the 20th Army was restrained by the Japanese army, and the 53rd Army retreated back to Tengchong. The 5th Army of Du Yuming, Shi Zhongcheng, sent by the Supreme Military Commission, dispatched the 5th Army of Du Yuming, the 100th Army of Shi Zhongcheng, and the 51st Division as a strategic reserve team, were gathering in Kunming.
This will mean that the first mechanized army, as the only mechanized force of the Chinese government, will be in a situation where there is no support in a short period of time!
"As long as the US military's airdrop is not interrupted, the First Mechanized Army can continue to fight!" Cui Zhijun said in one sentence that the First Mechanized Army's weaknesses. What if the airdrop is interrupted due to weather reasons? Due to the rapid issuance of the order from the Supreme Military Commission, the First Mechanized Army only stockpiled supplies and ammunition for ten days of combat in Longling City.
"If the airdrop is interrupted for ten days?" Song Yuhang threw the red and blue pencils in his hand on the map. Song Yuhang was very unaccustomed to placing his destiny on the US Air Force.
Wang Chongxian walked slowly to the map, skillfully picked up a pack of Song Yuhang's cigarettes by the table and lit one for himself. Then he easily put the cigarette in his pocket with the white ivory lighter he had stared at for a long time.
Song Yuhang glanced at Wang Chongxian with a little unhappy and said, "Director Wang, if you have any good plans, please don't hide your weaknesses, otherwise thank you for returning the lighter to me!"
In the contemptuous eyes of everyone, Wang Chongxian smiled and said, "Sorry, I didn't pay attention! I didn't pay attention!"
Suddenly, Wang Chongxian's expression changed, as if he had changed to another person, and said seriously: "The Japanese army's campaign attempts are obviously obvious. In India, they really can't fight, so they want to turn around and solve their worries first. Is there anything more attractive to them than to destroy our First Mechanized Army?"
Wang Chongxian's nonsense obviously made Song Yuhang very dissatisfied, but Wang Chongxian did not care at all and continued: "The Japanese army has now completed the tactical encirclement of our army, but looking at the strategic level, hasn't our army also completed the encirclement of the Japanese Second Division and the 53rd Division? The plan proposed by the military captain to deliberately make a breakthrough in the Longling defense circle and lure and annihilate a part of the Japanese army. I personally think it is very good, but I think the military captain is not brave enough. If the entire western Yunnan is regarded as a game of chess, then the Japanese Second Division and the 53rd Division are ours! "
Song Yuhang glanced at Wang Chongxian who was chattering, and after looking at Cui Zhijun for a while, almost everyone gathered in front of the map.
Wang Chongxian pressed the positions of the Japanese Second Division and the 53rd Division with his hands and said: "The locations of these two Japanese troops are very clever. The Japanese Second Division can attack the line of Matsuyama, which echoes each other with its garrison troops. Retreat can attack the west of Longling City, and the Japanese 53rd Division is even more so. Advance can attack Tengchong, and retreat can attack the east of Longling City, but these two Japanese troops are not the biggest concern of our army."
Seeing that everyone was irritated by him, Wang Chong naturally kept a secret and said, "I'm sure that after these two days of initial battle, the Japanese army must have realized that with their current 2.5 times more than my troops, it is absolutely impossible to eat our army, so the Japanese army must be mobilizing reinforcements!"
"Reinforcements?" Song Yuhang's eyes fell on the densely packed logo numbers on the map. Most of the main forces of the Japanese Burmese Front were used in India, and the rest were in battle with the Chinese Expeditionary Force. There was no intelligence recently showing that the Japanese army had increased its troops?
"Is it the 6th Division of the Japanese Army?" Song Yuhang frowned and relaxed. After the Battle of Kunming, the 6th Division of the Japanese Army had been quietly hiding in Myanmar to recover its vitality. As the first infantry 23rd Capital Regiment to lose the flag of the corps since the Japanese army fought against China, the 6th Division was the same hatred of the enemy. The huge shame made them try to compete with the 200th Mechanized Brigade that brought them shame. Unfortunately, the 200th Mechanized Brigade became the First Mechanized Army, but the 6th Division was deliberately forgotten by the base camp and even lost the opportunity to participate in the Battle of Impal.
Song Yuhang's greatest regret is that Song Yuhang's inability to annihilate him and the 18th Division under Kunming City. Song Yuhang said strongly: "As a Chinese soldier, it is a shame for Chinese soldiers to surrender or be eliminated by the Allied forces. They must be eliminated by the Chinese army!"
Chapter completed!