At the end of 1980, the offensive operations launched by the Wei Ding Army into the mountainous areas of northeast China took a huge turn on the night of 27 July, which was enough to turn the tide of the war. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This period of time was very short, from 7:56 p.m. to 38 a.m. on 28 July, a short period of less than five hours, and the logistics bases of Lashio and Xingwei airfields, which were located 200 kilometers behind, were destroyed one after another by unmanned planes of the military sub-district. The 53 fighters, attack planes, transport planes, and communication planes of various types parked at these two airfields were all turned into a pile of broken copper and metal during the night attack.

The victory of this night attack was of course due to the factor of the army being inferior to the enemy, but in-depth exploration was the inevitable result of the collision of the old and new military thinking.

The armed forces of various nationalities, tribes, and people's armies in the country have always been confronted by the armed forces of various nationalities in the country, and the common characteristics of these armed forces are poor weapons and equipment, and their combat effectiveness is insufficient. Therefore, in this kind of low-intensity war, the Wei Ding Army relied on some World War II weapons received from the British army, which was enough to cope.

Although it has been 55 years since the end of World War II, the army still holds the old-fashioned concept of war as the guiding ideology for the training and operation of the troops.

Because the intensity of the battle is not high, the funds are scarce, the weapons and equipment are outdated, and the training is insufficient, they have not really learned how to carry out coordinated infantry and artillery operations, infantry and tank coordinated operations, and air-ground coordinated operations, and the protection of the rear airfield is even more a formality, and they have not built a strict air defense system, and even the work of defending the perimeter of the airfield is very lax, and after the airfield is attacked, they panic and cannot quickly send troops to search the surrounding area to find out the hidden enemy, but they directly lose their fighting spirit.

Although Guan Fei has limited chips in his hand, he is deeply imprinted with the shadow of information-based warfare in his mind, and with the limited resources at hand, he tries his best to imitate the corresponding tactics.

As far as drone night attacks are concerned, this is actually the same as the cruise missile attack mode that became popular later. It's just that in pursuit of accuracy, he personally played the role of a special force responsible for infiltration behind enemy lines, guiding drones to carry out precise attacks on key targets, thus successfully destroying the vital airfield on the front line in the northeastern mountains, and turning the equivalent of a quarter of the household belongings of the Air Force into raging flames.

Overnight, the Silent Army, located on the northeastern front, lost control of the sky in an instant.

The Wei Dingjun, who were accustomed to having planes covering their heads and could bomb enemy positions at will, but they were hiding in a safe area, suddenly found that they no longer had the planes of their own air force that they had complained about in the past and that they now missed so much.

At this moment, with the exception of tanks and armored vehicles, a few heavy weapons, for the first time in history, the armament of the military sub-division surpassed that of its opponents.

It is said that it is only a small country, with a total area of 675,000 square kilometers, roughly equivalent to the sum of the three provinces of Yunnan, Shandong, and Liaoning. It is only 1,000 kilometers in a straight line from Yangon, the southernmost point, and it only takes a day to redeploy fighters, and it will take less than a day to come from Mandalay, which is nearer. Considering that the airport needs to renovate the runway and communications to accommodate aircraft, then half a month at most will be enough.

However, the military sub-division firmly seized this unprecedentedly good opportunity and took advantage of the favorable opportunity when the Northeast Front was losing air protection and suddenly switched from strategic defense to an all-out counteroffensive.

First of all, the main force that cut off the Rolling-Xingwei Highway received Guan Fei's instructions and attacked at dawn under the leadership of Yu Bohai.

The first was the use of high-explosive drones to deal a devastating blow to the enemy's tank forces, destroying four American-made Sherman medium tanks and capturing five in one fell swoop, and only the last tank escaped. After destroying the enemy's most threatening tank unit, the whole army went out of the mountains and launched a full-scale counteroffensive, destroying one enemy armored vehicle with rocket launchers and recoilless guns, capturing three and another eleven fleeing back to Xingwei.

In this battle, four 25-pounder howitzers, more than 30 other small-caliber howitzers, mountain artillery, light and heavy mortars, and more than 5,000 rounds of shells were also captured.

In addition, more than 20 automobiles were captured, more than 600 people were captured, and the enemy troops coming from the direction of Xingwei were completely wiped out.

Subsequently, Yu Baihai sent the 1st and 3rd battalions to take the captured cars and go straight to Xingwei to meet the returning Guan Fei. The remaining 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 16th battalions turned to attack Rolling Lane, and in one fell swoop broke a brigade sent by the 77th Division to open the road, and then rolled up, pursuing the enemy for 17 kilometers, and did not stop until they reached the outer position of Rolling Lane.

In this battle, an enemy brigade was routed, more than 200 enemy troops were killed or wounded, 1,700 were captured, and the remaining more than 500 remnants fled back to the rolling defense line. Another 3,000 people broke up in the pursuit and fled into the mountains, and the military sub-districts were unable to enter the mountains to encircle and suppress. Anyway, most of them have discarded their weapons, and it is less likely that they will be able to return to the 77th Division around the mountains, and they have basically lost their threat.

At the same time, Sun Yaohua also led the second battalion stationed in Longkang and the two militia regiments of Geng Feng, totaling 2,800 people, to launch a counterattack against the frontal enemy. The same use of high-explosive drones destroyed the enemy's artillery positions, completely destroyed two tanks to assist in the battle, used a direct-aim grenade to kill and injure the enemy hiding in the fortifications, advanced 10 kilometers in one morning, penetrated the defense lines of Maika, Mengxi, and Banmei, and successively captured the two small towns of Maika and Mengxi, leaving Banmei isolated on the side of the Salween River, and it was only a matter of time before it was defeated.

In order to respond to the main force, a total of 2,000 people from the guard battalion and a militia regiment were gathered in the direction of Guogen to launch an active attack on the Qingshui River defense line, and the unprepared Peng Degui and a brigade of the 77th Division drove across the Qingshui River and fled in embarrassment in the direction of Rolling.

As a result, the military sub-division encircled the Qingshui River in the east, Maika and Mengxi in the north, and the Rollong-Xingwei Highway in the south, and surrounded the 77th Division stationed in Rollong. They had no way to escape but the mountains to the west. However, the west is controlled by the Wa armed forces, and even if they flee into the mountains, they will eventually be dead.

By 4 p.m. on 28 July, the 77th Division had lost one brigade on the Xingwei Highway, one and a half battalions on the Maika-Mengxi defensive line, and two battalions on the Qingshuihe defensive line, and the 77th Division, which had a total strength of 15,000 men, had lost more than 9,000 men, and the remaining enemy in the city was less than 7,000.

Also on this day, after joining up with the two companies of the third battalion that arrived first by car, Guan Fei bypassed Longmen Town, and the soldiers were prosperous. The troops climbed on a hill more than 300 meters northeast of Xingwei, began to build a position, overlooking the road from Xingwei to Mujie, and made the action of attacking Xingwei and cutting off the rear road of the 88th Division.

The 88th Division, fearing that the rear road would be cut off, had no time to withdraw the four battalions that were still fighting in Kangca, gave up a large amount of heavy equipment, and evacuated Mujie, an important border town, and the whole army poured out of the nest in an attempt to flee back to the rear before the military sub-division closed the road.

When they passed through the hills where the military division threatened the road, they found that there were not many people, so they launched several company-sized attacks to see if they could destroy them or drive them away.

However, due to the discarding of a large amount of heavy equipment, the loss of air support after the attack on the airport, and the fact that the number of the Guarding Army, which initially arrived by car, was only more than one battalion, and the civilian officers of the 88th Division and the headquarters of the two subordinate brigades were the mainstay, and only less than three companies of guard troops were followed by the car. It was a fool's dream for these people to destroy the two companies led by Guan Fei, who suffered heavy casualties in several successive attacks, but they were counterattacked by the commanders and fighters, and once drove the attacking troops off the road, completely closing this retreat route.

Seeing that there was no hope of opening the highway, and not knowing whether there would be reinforcements coming behind the military division, the commander of the 88th Division and his subordinates had no intention of fighting, gave up their plan to recapture the mountain, drove around this section of the road, and fled to Xingwei from the shallow hills farther away.

Xingwei is a valley road, facing the direction of rolling and flat, there is no danger to defend.

The commanders of these division headquarters and brigade headquarters were frightened by the fierce offensive of the army division, and they were not confident that after collecting their troops, they would be able to establish a defensive line here to block the attack of the army division. So they only stopped in the city for a while, and after replenishing the fuel, they left a small number of men to contain the troops, and the rest of them got into the car and continued to retreat, retreating in the direction of Lashio.

Guan Fei did not have enough troops at hand, and he didn't dare to go down the mountain for fear of bumping into the Wei Dingjun who came from behind, so he could only use binoculars to watch them disappear at the mountain pass.

This group of men ran very fast, but at best there were no more than two battalions.

You must know that the distance from Sister Mu to Xingwei Highway is one hundred and twenty kilometers, and they can't run two hundred and forty miles in a few hours anyway and escape to Xingwei in one go.

At this distance, even Guan Fei, who has a biological vicebrain, can't do it either!

On the contrary, it is only more than 30 kilometers from the 1600 heights to here, relying on more than 20 cars that have captured the Wei Ding Army to transport back and forth, and by six o'clock in the evening, Guan Fei has gathered all the men and horses of the third battalion, and the fourth battalion has also reached a small half, and it is expected that everyone will be able to arrive tonight.

The car also towed two captured 25-pounder medium howitzers, four six-pounder anti-tank guns, 12 81-millimeter heavy mortars and a large number of shells. Guan Fei was overjoyed and immediately dispatched gunners to build a heavy artillery position behind the hill and two anti-tank positions on the front hill.

He also took advantage of the fact that the enemy did not arrive and ran away with the car. After picking through several captured tanks, he selected a Sherman tank in the most mechanical condition, loaded with fuel and ammunition, and drove all the way to hide in the position on the side of the hill, ready to be used as a killer weapon.

That night, the last part of the commanders and fighters of the fourth battalion also arrived at the position, and the number of troops available to Guan Fei rose to 1,300 men.

After a night's rest, the commanders and fighters regained their strength and waited for the arrival of a large enemy force.

But they waited from morning to evening, and not even a single figure came. Guan Fei thought that the other party had finally woken up from the panic, and knew that the hasty retreat from Sister Mu would inevitably lead to the loss of organization of the troops, and the physical consumption of the soldiers would be too great, and they would not be able to escape smoothly, so they simply waited for help from Sister Mu.

He couldn't guess what the other party thought, but he didn't care. Anyway, he was just scaring the other party, and he had no intention of attacking it.

Since the enemy did not come, he simply moved his position forward and put a small number of troops at the foot of the hill.

The platoon closest to the highway was less than 400 meters away. Even without the use of heavy weapons, the fighters were able to inflict damage on the enemy with the Type 79 automatic rifles in their hands.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, they widened and strengthened their positions again, and the isolated individual bunkers began to be connected into a line, and they built rear ammunition depots, hidden soldiers, field hospitals, and other facilities to gradually improve the battle line. The distribution of firepower has also become more reasonable, the support has also been more sufficient, the infantry, artillery, and tank light and heavy weapons are complete, and the range of artillery threat has been expanded to more than 10 kilometers.

If the enemy does not come, then they will find that in two days these inconspicuous hills have become an impregnable wall, and they will surely break their heads and bleed.

It had been forty-one hours since Guan Fei threatened the road, that is, at four o'clock in the morning of the 30th, that two soldiers of the Guardian Army appeared on the road. When they saw the warriors rushing up from the road, they surrendered to them without the slightest resistance.

The two soldiers were unarmed, their faces were haggard, their cheeks were sunken, their lips were chapped, and they were clearly on the verge of collapse. When the fighters surrounded them, they lay on the cold road with their backs facing the sky, unable to move.

Later, they were given something to eat and drink, and it took more than ten minutes to gradually recover.

According to them, the eighty-eighth division has been completely dispersed.

Because the division headquarters and brigade headquarters were afraid that the rear road would be cut off, they ended up with the 77th Division, and the headquarters took the lead in escaping. When he left, he was in a hurry and panicked, and he didn't even arrange how to organize the retreat of the troops, the order of retreat, and the commander, so they ran away, so that the entire army lost its command and the group was leaderless.

The superiors all ran away, and the subordinates of course followed.

No one stayed behind to destroy the heavy weapons that were too late to take away, and only a seal was affixed to the warehouse where supplies, food, and ammunition were stored, and then they hurriedly retreated.

At first, everyone marched according to their battalions and companies, but as they walked, the queue began to be chaotic. Some people go fast, some people go slowly.

Those who walked fast were afraid that the retreat would be blocked, and they didn't care about other people at all, and ran forward with a dull head, crying and screaming in despair when they walked slowly, and under the panic of people's hearts, the originally good order began to be chaotic. All the departments were huddled together, the commander could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers could not find the commander, and finally collapsed completely.