The Reserve 2nd Division charged on the bare hillside, and the soldiers fell one by one under the Japanese fire net. All of this was really seen by Commander Huo from the telescope. Tactics must be changed, otherwise there will be more casualties.

On July 16, the Huzhu Temple in the north of Tengchong City was full of soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition, and the 20th Group Army was holding an operational meeting in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, which had always been spotless, and Commander Huo invited his army and division commanders to discuss how to capture Laifengshan.

These generals were facing a 1/100,000 aerial survey military map, and from this aerial map of the 14th Air Force, we could clearly see the landform of Laifeng Mountain: "The ravines are vertical and horizontal, and the peaks are towering." This was a very clever shooting technique at the time, but the Japanese army's hidden fortifications were still not visible, and the Japanese army's defensive configuration could only be preliminarily estimated based on two attacks. At the same time, judging from the 8th Army's ongoing attack on Songshan and the offensive on Laifengshan in the past two days, it can be expected that the Japanese army's fortifications are very strong, and the infantry alone will not be able to conquer this stubborn Laifengshan at all.

"Why don't you shell it?" Commander Huo glanced at every subordinate present with a sharp gaze.

These are all veterans of the battlefield who were born in the infantry, because the equipment of the troops was backward in the past, and the artillery was rarely used, and the cooperation experience of the artillery bombardment and infantry rush was far from enough, but on the contrary, the Japanese army used it more skillfully than the Chinese army. Now, the expeditionary force has American-style equipment, but because the Gaoligong Mountain is too steep, large-caliber ** artillery cannot be transported up the mountain, and only mountain artillery and mortars are accompanying the troops.

Commander Huo stopped his gaze on the face of Deputy Army Commander Que, the deputy commander of the 54th Army who graduated from the fourth phase of Huangpu, had used mountain artillery to repel the Japanese army who was desperately chasing after him in the Battle of Songhu, and had tasted the sweetness of infantry artillery cooperation. Under the prompting gaze of Commander Huo, he also made a bold suggestion: concentrate artillery fire to destroy the Japanese army's light and dark fortifications, and then the infantry will go to .....

Good! The Japanese fortifications had to be destroyed first.

The meeting unified the offensive and offensive tactics: Coordinated operations by land and air, first bombers were used to bomb the ground on the Japanese positions to destroy their fortifications to the greatest extent, and then fighter planes were used to dive and strafe and cooperate with artillery bombardment to further destroy the Japanese fortifications on the ground.

Commander Huo immediately made a decision: with the 2nd Reserve Division as the mainstay, the 36th Division and the 116th Division of the 53rd Army cooperated in advance, and at the same time transferred the heavy artillery of the two armies, and asked the American allied planes to assist in the battle, concentrate forces to attack together, and take Fengshan in one fell swoop.

Attack: Dawn on July 20th.

The dark clouds that had been in the sky for days were pressed down, and the leaves on the few remaining trees swayed wildly, but the flowers and plants on the ground trembled with laughter. Suddenly, there was a downpour, and the thunder became louder and louder, and the rain became heavier and heavier, and the water on the ground became more and more accumulated. For a moment, the water on the road overflowed the soles of people's feet, and they gathered together like streams that flowed into the ground.

Due to the heavy rain for several days, the plane could not take off, and in order to wait for the opportunity, the attack date had to be postponed.

On July 26th, the sun finally showed its face, a rare sunny day in the rainy season in western Yunnan, and the sky was blue and blue, which was very spectacular. The officers and men who had been in the nest for a few days were all excited, and everyone was waiting for the order, from dawn to the sun, and they had not yet received the order to attack.

"Damn it, when the hell is it going to attack!" I don't know which soldier suddenly came out of nowhere with such a sentence. Maybe the chief on the side also knew the reason why everyone held back for too long, and just smiled.

Commander Huo held the stopwatch without saying a word, he waited for the best time until 12 noon, and finally gave the order to attack.

The noon sun is closest to the ground, and the irradiation is also the most intense, looking at the sky above, the sun pierces people's eyes. The Japanese army waited for the Chinese army for a morning as usual, and there was no movement, and slowly began to relax, and a few brave devils actually came out of the damp bunker and lay down in the sun, letting the hot sun roast the musty smell all over their bodies.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, there are planes flying from afar, and the roaring sound makes people's ears a little unbearable, and some devil soldiers even put down their guns and cover their ears with both hands. 30 bombers and 27 fighters flew to Fengshan in four batches. The wings of the plane glowed dazzlingly in the sunlight, and a few daring devils actually took out their sun flags and waved them, thinking that their own planes were coming. By the time those devils basking in the sun saw the sign of the Allied planes and ran into the bunker in a panic, where could they still have time at this time, ** had been thrown like hail on the mountains of Laifeng Mountain.

The Allied planes roared past, and a thick smoke rose from the hills of Fengshan Mountain, which were left behind, and nearly 100 mountain artillery, field artillery, and heavy mortars of the 20th Army immediately roared, and nearly 5,000 shells hit Fengshan like a torrential rain. Heavy artillery fire blew up most of the Japanese fortifications, trenches, and machine-gun bunkers on the bare hills.

At 2:10 p.m., the 4th Regiment triumphantly occupied Yingpan Mountain.

The Japanese threat to the flank of our main peak attack force from the west hill was finally removed.

Division Commander Gu immediately mounted mortars and heavy machine guns on the high ground of Yingpanshan Mountain to support the 6th Regiment, which was attacking the main peak with all its might.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the 6th Regiment recklessly advanced, and took the lead in seizing the blind spot of fire when the Japanese army was overwhelmed by the fierce artillery fire, sealing the Japanese retreat into the city, so that the retreat of the Japanese army back to Tengchong County was also blocked. This group of outlaws fought desperately, the battle to capture the main peak was even harder, the Japanese army hid in the strong fortifications, from time to time from the gaps in the fortress, stretched out the black muzzle, one by one to the 6th regiment in the position of the back attack to carry out crazy strafing, the soldiers of the 6th regiment could only crawl forward, the newly blown crater of the shell became their best cover, they used the artillery fire, after the gunsmoke, the smoke was thick, under the cover of thick smoke jumped from one crater to another, braved the rain of bullets and bullets and finally finally approached the enemy's fortress, Taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese army was suppressed by our powerful artillery fire, the 6th Regiment finally climbed the main peak Wenbi Slope, and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, completely annihilated all the garrison Japanese troops in the position.

As soon as Wenbipo was lost, it would be difficult for the Japanese army to protect the Tengchong barrier. Kurashige Yasumi immediately organized the Japanese troops on other hills to make a frantic counterattack, trying to regain the lost Wenbi Slope. The saddle of the mountain from Fengshan here was unobstructed, and the Japanese troops on each hill passed through the secret communication trenches, and unexpectedly quietly touched the back of the 6th Regiment.