Chapter 185: The Battle of Conca
Feng Aiguo did not know that before he achieved this unexpected victory, that is, at 3 p.m. on 20 December, the 5th Battalion stationed in the Kangka defense line had already ushered in the first battle since the establishment of the military division, repelling the 1st Division of the 88th Division of the Weiding Army from Mu Jie. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Mujie is a border city across the river from Ruili, which was the largest city occupied by the People's Party before its defeat, and once became the capital of the People's Party. In order to seize the city, a large-scale battle broke out outside the city between the 88th Division of the Ruling Army and about 20,000 people of the People's Party, which ended in the rout of the People's Army, and also announced the decline of the previously vigorous People's Party forces.
After the headquarters of the People's Party retreated to the southern Wa armed territory through Guogen, Sister Mu, the town of Wan Town further north, and even Menggu, which is across the river from Menghai, also fell into the hands of the Wei Ding Army.
It was precisely because of the fall of Menggu that the military sub-district was forced to continue to the east, open up a mountain road to cross the Jiehe River, and then transit through Menghai to obtain supplies from the country.
After the army occupied Menggu, it could attack the town of Kangka through the Kangka River valley and cut off the choke point between the military division and the country. As soon as Kangka is lost, the military division will no longer be in danger to defend, and the floodplain in the south is completely a flat river, and the army can easily wave its troops to the south, and directly insert it along the river beach to take the ≈↖≈ ↖ ≈↖, m.→.c⊕om Zhigou Wule if he is tired and tired, and he is tired and dyed, and he is a sword and a sword. br/>
It can be seen from this that the importance of the Kangka Line is not only a transportation hub for the military sub-division to connect with the country, but also the last gate to keep the enemy out of the country!
In order to be able to hold this important level with a small number of troops, Guan Fei also racked his brains.
The first was to set up the defensive line twelve kilometres west of the valley from the wider town of Conca, and set up at the bend in the valley.
Most of the plateau valleys follow the direction of the mountains, flowing along the low places between the two mountains.
The same is true for Conca.
The town of Conka is located downstream of the river, and the upward channel is meandering and generally northwesterly. Tracing up to 12 kilometers, there is a twist, turning from northwest to due north, and the front and back channels are roughly at an angle of 60 degrees.
The road from Menggu to Kangca, on the right side of the river, is partly a dirt road formed by long-term trampling and tamping, and a small number of rock wall passages have been excavated. When the road reached this corner, it was also blocked by the mountains, and had to bend at a large angle, and then turn southeast along the riverside road.
The first line of defense was set up 70 meters behind the corner.
In winter, there is little rainfall, and the water surface of the alpine river is narrow, less than two meters wide, revealing a large area of river valley on both sides.
A platoon in the lead of the Wei Ding Army, along the road from north to south, turned southeast, and immediately left the protection of the mountain on the left side, directly exposed to the defenders.
As soon as the military sub-district determined Peng Degui's defection to the enemy, it immediately notified the Kangka and Longkang defenders and asked them to be more vigilant.
Therefore, the mountain observation post, which usually has only two people, was urgently increased to one squad.
When the army entered the valley, the observation post of the mountain spotted their tracks and immediately reported them to the headquarters of the 5th Battalion through the field line.
The Fifth Battalion had already obtained the temporary right to make a decision granted by the command, so on the one hand, it urgently called the headquarters to report the enemy situation, and on the other hand, it quickly ordered all units to enter the battle positions, evacuate non-combatants, transport combat materials, and take anti-artillery and fire prevention measures.
After receiving a call from the Fifth Battalion, Guan Fei ordered them to be given the right to shoot without thinking!
Just kidding, the enemy is all in front of you, is it necessary to fight with each other crookedly? In order to protect your own safety, even if your own side shoots first, as long as you win the battle in the end, everything will be over. If ...... is defeated, it will be too late to escape at that time, so it doesn't matter who shoots first?
As soon as the leading platoon of the Suding Army turned out of the foot of the mountain, on a mound less than 10 meters high 70 meters in front, two semi-buried bunkers poured dense bullets at them.
The army was so frightened that he couldn't possess his body.
There was an officer in a lieutenant's uniform in this leading platoon, who was not actually from this platoon, but a specially selected civilian personnel.
He was mixed in this platoon, and it was originally planned that he would come forward to negotiate with the defenders. In the name of the negotiations, the government army decided not to encircle and suppress military sub-districts by force, but the military sub-districts had to recognize the military government as the central government and pay taxes to the government. Then, in the course of the dispute, he would ask for the government troops to be allowed to enter, clear the accounts of the army's assets, collect the previous tax arrears, and determine the amount of taxes to be paid in the future.
This is, of course, just an excuse.
The purpose is only to paralyze the defenders in this way, and then then negotiate the opportunity, gradually get closer to the other side, and take the opportunity to cover the leading platoon to launch a surprise attack, and take this hillside in one fell swoop - the government army has not just watched over the years, what changes have been made in the military divisions, what forts have been built, they have also learned a lot through reconnaissance.
As long as the slope was captured, which was less than ten meters high, the large army would no longer have to worry about being attacked. With the help of this barrier, they can calmly mobilize forces from the rear, arrange artillery positions, and then gradually move forward, conquering other defensive positions behind them one by one.
The plan was good, but the results were unexpected.
He also thought that he was going to grind back and forth with the defenders for a long time, but in order to convince the other party, he also thought about what he wanted in his mind several times, considering how the other party would react, how he would respond, and how to debate with the other party, so that the other party would lose his vigilance......
I thought about everything very well, but I didn't expect the defenders to talk to them at all, and they just shot!
That's ridiculous!
Aren't these defenders afraid of starting a war and inviting a large-scale attack by government troops?
Even if they are bold and are not afraid of the army, are they not afraid that they will be punished by the high-level of the military sub-district for provoking the war without authorization?
In his view, the military sub-districts expressed to the military government through the country that they would concentrate on economic development, which meant that they would no longer engage in armed revolution in the future. In fact, the military sub-districts have also done a very good job in their economy, and their vigorous efforts to build new cities, bring in technical personnel, and constantly carry out product research and development are all manifestations of wholeheartedly carrying out economic construction and showing no interest in liberation by force.
At the same time, after the population of the military sub-division increased, they were also satisfied with the troops of a few thousand people, and did not continue to expand the army in the slightest.
On the contrary, the fortress complexes were constantly built and strengthened in Kangka and Longkang, and they were operated as fortresses.
All of this made it clear that Guan Fei and others were very satisfied with the benefits of doing business, and began to rest on their laurels and concentrate on building their own kingdom.
In addition, the ambassador to Yangon has repeatedly said that the military sub-district still nominally carries the banner of the People's Party, but in fact it is not a member of the same road with them, and they are peace-loving, so let the military not worry.
It can be seen from this that the upper and lower levels of the military sub-district certainly do not want to fight and do not dare to fight!
I don't dare to fight above, and of course there is a group of weak chickens below.
It was because they felt that they had seen through the psychology of Guan Fei and the others for fear of offending the junta, and they were sure that even if there was friction, Guan Fei would punish his subordinates first, and did not dare to get angry at the Ding army, so they dared to formulate this bold sneak attack plan, and were ready to take advantage of the opportunity to negotiate and wait for the opportunity to seize this crucial checkpoint, let the large army pass, and finally pacify Guan Fei and other rebels.
However, the actual situation is completely different from the script!
The defenders didn't even ask a question, and shot directly!
And this firepower is so fierce that the leading platoon was knocked over more than a dozen in the first round. Even the commander who led the platoon to launch a surprise attack had a bloody ball on his forehead after the first shot was fired, and he lay on the ground with his hands and feet facing the sky. The mortars, machine gunners and other heavy firefighters in the platoon were also hit by concentrated fire in this round of shooting, and countless blood holes appeared all over their bodies, and they fell to the ground with their hands and feet, and they did not blink to death.
Where is this warning shooting, it is directly a war, and it is a posture to wipe out all of them!
In this round of fire, the civilian officer who was lucky enough to escape was a little dizzy, and after being washed by the storm, there were less than half of the leading platoon left, and he stood in place in a daze, and still couldn't react to what was going on.
Why did the defenders defending the dirt slope shoot without asking a word?
It's just a matter of shooting, why is the firepower still so fierce?
According to the preliminary investigation, this slope less than ten meters high should not have so many people? Before he came, his superiors were with him, and there was at most one platoon here, and with him came the elite troops selected from the 88th Division, and they would definitely be able to easily take this position one-on-one.
But just now they were faced with a rain of bullets, and the gunfire was so dense that most of the platoon was reimbursed in the first round, not only a platoon, but also a company that was not so fierce!
The civilian officer was completely stunned, and the worldview in his mind that the government army was extremely powerful and the military sub-district did not dare to go to war completely collapsed, and after the first round of attacks, he still did not know how to dodge, did not know how to hide, and still stood stupidly and motionless.
The rest of the remaining soldiers didn't have as many ideas as him, and immediately after the first round of attacks, they subconsciously began to look for cover and hide.
However, at the turn of this valley, because the river has been washed over the years, it has accumulated a lot of sediment, and it is so wide and flat that there is not even a stone the size of a skull on the ground, where is there any place for them to hide?
Before they could decide whether to lie down on the spot, or turn around and flee, there were a few muffled bangs, and when the smoke dissipated, a few black ones flew out from behind the dirt slope.
Fly into the sky, and then suddenly plunge headlong into the crowd - there are no more people, just a place where there are relatively more people.
The flames were accompanied by a roaring explosion, and the two soldiers were blown into the air. The rest of the soldiers were also hit in all directions by the flying shrapnel, and with terrible screams, they danced as if they were dancing in the rain of bullets. As everyone knows, the Wei Ding Army is a well-known poor ghost, and it would be good to be able to equip the whole army with weapons, where can there be spare money to equip them with body armor and personal protective equipment within bulletproof inserts.
All the soldiers were dressed in cloth, and in the shrapnel that split into thousands of pieces, they convulsed, and the uniforms on their bodies instantly became full of holes, and then blood arrows flew out of the wounds.
By the time the explosion stopped, the turning point at the foot of the mountain was already strewn with corpses.
The plan to defraud Tupo was completely bankrupt before it could be launched, and the elite of the platoon sent out, together with the civilian officer who could understand the way, was completely annihilated without even having a chance to talk to the defenders!
This consequence was not expected by the army at all.
There is no quarrel, no verbal sparring, as long as they get close to the opponent's defense line, they will be greeted by a rain of bullets like water, and this result is completely unacceptable to them!
Annoyed and angry, the Wei Dingjun finally gave up their plan to take advantage of the trick and turned to the attack.
The second batch of troops dispatched was still a platoon - the mountain pass was about 100 meters wide, and there was no shelter, and there were too many people to spread it at all, and it would only become a target for the other side. Even if he brought a brigade of troops, it would be impossible to pile them all up. If you really do that, that's to give the other party a gift package, a machine gun with such fierce artillery fire just now, no matter how many people go up, they will all be finished!
If you want to set up a cannon and bombard, the defenders are again about seventy meters behind the corner, and the cannonballs will not turn around and fall on the opponent's head from the mountain pass.
Even though the Weiding Army has a lot of equipment, it can't be used in this special terrain, so it can only send soldiers forward and fight the other side with flesh and blood.
The platoon that went up in the second group did not dare to rush out of the mountain pass directly, so they lay on the dirt slope at the corner and shot at this side.
Judging from the sound of gunfire, there were indeed not many people on the slope, and they were only in a platoon.
The reason why the gunfire is dense indicates that the opponent is using automatic weapons. However, the Guardian Army is not inferior, and the M16 they are equipped with is also an automatic rifle.
With the same number of people and similar firepower, this time there is no chance for him to come out and be slaughtered, who wins or loses, this is not certain!
With this mentality, the soldiers of that platoon took advantage of the cover of the dirt slope at the foot of the mountain to shoot at the military division.
However, the results of the firing once again disappointed the commander: the opponent's firepower was not only fierce, but also very accurate, and in just two or three minutes, the platoon lost seven or eight soldiers, almost all of whom were blown in the head by the opponent, and died directly, and there was no need to save them.
And before he could withdraw the platoon, another grenade smashed down on the opposite slope, which exploded near the corner, and blew up the remaining twenty or so soldiers. Four people were directly killed, others were also hit by fragments, everyone was injured, two or three of them after the military doctor saw it, and then announced that it was no longer worth rescuing, and casually gave them a morphine injection to relieve pain, and then they were lifted aside to die.
The army attacked four or five times in a row, but more than half of them were killed or wounded, and no progress was made.
They once wanted to attract the enemy's firepower by firing at the other side, so they sent people to rush out of the corner and quickly set up mortars to bombard the opponent's position. However, the defenders were not blind, and when they saw the two artillery groups sent out, they immediately gave up the Wei Dingjun, who only dared to lie on their stomachs around the corner, put one shot, and then retracted their heads, concentrated their fire on these two mortar groups, and knocked them to the ground in an instant.
Subsequently, the army sent a tracked armored vehicle in an attempt to cover the deployment of the soldiers.
But this time, a group of heavy artillery shells flew out from the hill behind the left of the defenders, directly blowing the armored car into a ball of burning scrap metal.
People learn war in the course of war, and after several failed frontal assaults, this was abandoned, so they had to lower their requirements again, seek the near and far, and attack from other directions.
A company of the Omding Army wanted to climb to the hill on the right and overlook the dirt slope below from a high vantage point to attack.
However, as they climbed the mountain, they were completely exposed to the defenders' attack. Hundreds of bullets poured down from their flanks, and on the hill on the left side of the rear, the silent position also resounded with the joyful singing of light machine guns and heavy machine guns, and from time to time accompanied by the explosion of mortars and grenades, and exploded clumps of black soil, grass and trees on the mountainside.
After all, people are not emotionless machines, and under such fierce firepower, there is no one who can climb the mountain under pressure. Having seen the strong firepower of the defenders, most of the soldiers fled back to the corner in a hurry after the first shot, not daring to show their heads.
Those who didn't have time to come back were also lying dead behind the ridge, no matter how urged by the officers to kick and beat.
The brigade commander of the Vicious Army, who was in charge of the attack, was at a loss, and in order to occupy the heights, they had to occupy the top of the hill on the left.
The hill on the right side of the road is too steep, with a slope of at least 50 to 60 degrees, and the slope close to the peak is even around 70 degrees. From the telescope, you can see that some of the mountain walls have been blown up again, and it is clear that the military sub-district has modified it to make it impossible to climb.
The battle lasted until about five o'clock in the evening, when the sky began to darken, and the Wei Dingjun had no ability to fight at night, so they could only temporarily abandon the battle attempt to seize the corner. In order to fear a sneak attack by the military division at night, they retreated six kilometers in one go and retreated to the rear of Luo Mangzhai.
Taking advantage of the retreat of the Wei Ding army, the defenders on the dirt slope also completed the work of changing guards, evacuating the wounded, replenishing troops, ammunition and supplies.
Don't look at the fierce exchange of fire just now, but because the other side was unable to deploy troops and set up heavy firepower, the casualties of the second company and three platoons of the fifth battalion stationed in the two forts on Tupo were minimal.
Only two fighters were killed, and they were unlucky enough to be hit directly in the face by the enemy. Five other people were shot in the shoulder, forehead, and arm, and the soldier was seriously injured and unconscious, but the other wounded fighters were able to continue the fight after being urgently bandaged.
In this way, the menacing Wei Dingjun had to retreat temporarily after being hit head-on. wounds, re-planning the battle, preparing for the next offensive.