So Songshan still has not been able to occupy, and the transportation line is not passable. Song Xilian was still struggling to raise supplies, and the bloody battle of Longling was about to begin.

Black clouds crush the city.

On the Yunnan-Burma Highway, the three reinforcements of Longling at Bankou, the Inose Brigade, the Miyahara Brigade, and the Takeda Brigade were equipped with chariots and cannons, and they assembled to Longling. The "Battle of Bengmiao" planned by the Japanese army is about to kick off on the outskirts of Longling.

On June 20, Sakaguchi moved the division command post from Mangshi to the front line of Longling, and set up a posture to fight Chen Mingren to the death.

On June 21, the fog was thick and there was no one to be seen ten paces away. Under the cover of heavy fog, the Japanese troops diverged to the deep ditch of the 87th Division, the Changlinggang position, and the empty tree slope of the 88th Division, and pounced on the dripping position.

Gunshots rang out in all directions, and there was an emergency everywhere. The first to be broken through was the 87th Division's Huitou Mountain position.

As soon as the hungry and tired soldiers of the 261st Regiment dug out the defensive fortifications, they heard a series of car honkings, and the white mist engulfed the car shadow, and the Japanese troops of the 113th Wing of the Japanese Army quickly rushed to Huitou Mountain by car, and attacked the position of the 87th Division with the overwhelming momentum of the army.

The Japanese then turned back to the mountain and attacked the deep ditch position. After hearing the gunfire of Huitou Mountain, the 259th Regiment garrisoned in the deep ditch was already prepared, but the ammunition was insufficient and the strength was limited, so it was simply unable to block the Japanese attack with all its strength. When the ammunition and food were exhausted, the regiment commander immediately led the remaining soldiers to jump out of the stronghold, counterattacked with white blades, and violently threw the knife behind the ** to kill, killing the bloodiest mountain of corpses and sea of blood. The corpses of the Japanese army blocked the road attacked by the devils and hindered the offensive, so they had to take advantage of the night to grab and drag the corpses, clear the way to charge, and push the flat-fire guns directly onto the firing line, and after about an hour or two, the fortifications had been completely destroyed, and the remnants retreated into the core position. The commanders of the 259th Regiment at all levels personally pitched in the line of fire, leading the white-knuckle charge, the company platoon commander was killed and wounded, and the infantry artillery battalion commander was killed. Among the battalion commanders who sacrificed, Battalion Commander Zhang Xiaolin, who tore devils with his hands, was the most tragic.

The 1st Battalion of Zhang Xiaolin's 259th Regiment served as the garrison of the southeast position, and the Japanese broke through the position, and the 1st Battalion suffered casualties, leaving only more than 20 remnants. Late that night, Battalion Commander Zhang led the last remnants of the army to counterattack with white blades, and in the fierce hand-to-hand combat, his left arm was cut off by the Japanese war knife and fell to the ground in pain.

The massive blood loss caused by the severed arm would put Battalion Commander Zhang into shock within a few minutes. Ordinary people must have given up their fighting spirit at this time, and their life experience flashed quickly in front of their eyes. However, with unimaginable perseverance, Battalion Commander Zhang concentrated his attention in the great blood loss, "tied his hands to his waist, faked death to the enemy's close body, and died with the enemy." ”

The throwing action of Gongzao wooden handle is very complicated, and it requires the cooperation of both hands. Hold the wooden handle tightly with your right hand, pull off the tape strip on the bottom cover of the wooden handle with your left hand, remove the cover, pull out the copper ring that connects the firing wire and put it on the little finger of your right hand, and then throw it with your right hand.

If he loses his left hand, Camp Commander Zhang can't throw his hand**. He must have taken off the strap of his hand on his chest with one arm, threw it around his waist with force, and then removed the cover with his right hand and put the copper ring on his fingers. When the Japanese soldiers approached, he pulled the palm of his right hand with a copper ring and completed the glorious mission of the soldiers. The reason why he bothered to hide his hands on his waist was presumably to prevent the Japanese soldiers who were close to him from discovering that he had hands on his body. If the hand ** is left on the chest, and the finger in the copper ring is found by the Japanese soldiers, it will lose the opportunity to pull a few more before the martyrdom. So when Battalion Commander Zhang lost a lot of blood, he used his last will to complete this series of complex actions.

After the Japanese army captured two positions in a row, it was violent, and then drove the chariot to increase the horsepower and directly attack Changling Gang.

After a day of fierce fighting, in the evening, the 2nd Brigade of the 29th Wing of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army broke through the position on the south side of the 87th Division's Changling Gang.

Changling Gang is in an emergency. Kongshupo and Jianshan Temple are also in danger.

The situation is particularly dire.

Chen Mingren hurriedly adjusted the Longling offensive, first dealing with the sudden appearance of a large number of Japanese troops, recapturing the deep ditch position, stabilizing the Changling Gang, and then concentrating his forces to besiege Longling.

General Chen immediately ordered the 260th Regiment to hold on to Changling Gang and counterattack to the deep ditch with the 259th Regiment. At the same time, the reinforced battalion of the new 39th Division near Huitou Mountain was urgently transferred to cooperate with the 261st Regiment of the 87th Division to flank Huitou Mountain, and the two units attacked the flank of the Japanese army together. The 261st Regiment once recaptured the Huitoushan position, but in the end it did not stop the Japanese army's several counterattacks, and the Huitoushan position, which was soon lost and regained, was lost again.

While fighting with the Japanese army for Huitou Mountain, the 261st Regiment unexpectedly attacked the flank of the Japanese army on Dapingzi and Menglianpo.

Each regiment fought according to the designated target people, and the two sides fought fiercely for several days, but in the end, the 71st Army did not achieve the expected results due to the strength of the Japanese troops and the abundance of ammunition.

The situation reversed rapidly, Changling Gang was in danger, and if the tide of the battle was not quickly reversed, the 71st Army would be dumpled by the Japanese troops who had come over to reinforce it. The Japanese troops besieged in Longling City prepared to take advantage of the opportunity to counterattack.

General Song hurriedly transferred the 227th Regiment of the 76th Division of the 2nd Army near Bengmiao to reinforce Changlinggang, and ordered the 228th Regiment of the 76th Division to quickly insert into Mukang Houshan and Bangwu Mountain behind Longling, occupy the road, and destroy the bridge to cut off the Japanese army's support.

The 1st Brigade of the 29th Wing of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army prepared to quietly reinforce Mukang Houshan behind Longling. Wing Commander Shizuo Slope sent an infantry brigade. When the Japanese army advanced to a distance of 400 meters from the front-line position, the observation post on the position showed the movement of the Japanese army.

The first battalion and one company of the 228th Regiment of the 76th Division were defending on the front-line position, and the observation post reported to the company commander that the Japanese army was advancing this way, and the company commander was still a little unconvinced.

After scolding, he shouted to the soldiers in the fortifications: "Little Japan has come up, and the brothers have entered the position and are ready to fight!" With his shouts, the fighters of the first company entered the position.

Behind the attacking Japanese army, the heavy machine gun position composed of eight Type 92 heavy machine guns was also full of firepower, but it was soon completely suppressed by the Tom type. Seeing that the attack was blocked, Wing Commander Shizuo Slope hurriedly ordered the wing's four Type 92 infantry guns and twelve mortars to aim at the machine-gun fort on the position and open fire. Because the Japanese artillery bombardment has not stopped, only a dozen machine guns in the bunker were fired at the Japanese army, and the machine gun fortress could not even withstand the mountain artillery of the artillery wing.

The shelling of the Japanese artillery wing ended, and the soldiers in the trenches on the position also stretched out their muzzles, and the semi-automatic rifles were fired at the same time, and more than a dozen sharpshooters in the company also began to use sniper rifles in their hands to name the light machine gunners and grenadier barrelers in the Japanese brigade. The number of Japanese casualties in this attack increased rapidly, and after a third of the casualties, the captain could only give the order to retreat, and the infantry brigade dropped hundreds of corpses and withdrew.

The 76th Division moved quickly and finally took control of the whole situation.