After leaving the war hospital, Chen Yueyang hurried back to the camp with his subordinates. The trail was muddy and rainy, almost slippery step by step, but his face was not as gloomy as it had been when he came. People have aura, and Ma Chenglong of the Black Jungle Task Force is very able to influence the fighting spirit of the people around him. Chen Yueyang has not seen such a murderous guy for a long time, what kind of hatred has made Ma Chenglong what he is today, he is really curious.

Including this voluntary transfer of Matsuyama, many things are beyond their own likeness.

The situation in western Yunnan seems to have only been optimistic in the early stages, and the long-term attack on Songshan has been fruitless, and the 11th Group can only disperse its forces and outflank Longling City in a roundabout way. The units of the 56th Division of the Japanese Army, which had been transferred back from the border area, the strategic stronghold of Mangshi, and the Tengchong battlefield, blocked head-on, and the two sides engaged in fierce battles in the mountains around Longling.

The powerful firepower of the Japanese artillery blew the position of the 11th Army into a sea of fire, the smoke and black fog obscured the sky, and the rumbling artillery could be heard clearly even on the east bank of the Nu River. At the end of the position, the Japanese soldiers who launched the charge engaged in a white-knuckle battle with the Chinese soldiers, and the snowy bayonets stabbed in and out of the people's bodies, and the muddy pools of blood and convulsive bodies could be seen everywhere, and the struggle for every inch of land was extremely fierce.

The 11th Group Army could not secretly cross Chencang, but the Songshan behind it was still like a nail in the throat of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and the logistical supply was completely cut off. The arrival of the rainy season has made the situation even more severe, with countless wounded lying in damp field hospitals and even open trenches, unable to receive timely medical treatment and unable to be transported to the rear in time. The Chinese heavy artillery unit was stopped near Songshan, the front line ammunition consumption was huge and it was difficult to replenish, the firepower disadvantage made it difficult for the commander to organize an effective charge, even the new 39th Division of the 2nd Army that dared to attack was basically exhausted, the division commander was also martyred, and the entire 71st Army suffered heavy casualties.

The command of the expeditionary force naturally knew that the key to the entire Nujiang counteroffensive was to open up the Songshan section of the Yunnan-Burma Highway. If Songshan is taken, it means that the logistics line will be unimpeded from now on, and a large number of reinforcements will be driven straight into northern Burma. And if Songshan is not broken, once the Japanese army in Longling breaks through, it will inevitably break through to Songshan with heavy reinforcements from Mangshi, Shafang, Wan Town, Bamo and other places, and then it will press down on the Chinese army without support, and the Chinese side will have no support at that time, and the frontal river defense may be collapsed by the Japanese army in an instant. At that time, there will be no place to advance and no way to retreat, and tens of thousands of Chinese troops outside Longling will repeat the mistakes of the 1942 Burma Expeditionary Force. At the same time, the Chinese 53rd and 54th armies besieging the 148th Wing of the Japanese army in Tengchong were completely exposed, which led to the collapse of the entire front of the expeditionary force, and the Nujiang River was in danger of being defended by no troops, and the southwestern hinterland of the strategic rear would be completely opened.

The negative performance of the new 28th Division of the 71st Army in Songshan made the command of the expeditionary force sit on pins and needles and no longer have a choice, and the commander-in-chief was full of burning bubbles, so he had to pull the newly formed 8th Army of the general reserve of the expeditionary force into the battlefield. The 8th Army had not yet fully entered a state of readiness, and its forces were extremely scattered: the subordinate 103rd Division stood guard for the planes of the American Flying Tigers in Xiangyun; The 82nd Division was deployed on the other side of the Nu River; The 1st and 2nd Regiments of the 1st Honor Division attacked Zhen'an Street, more than 10 kilometers behind Songshan, in order to completely cut off the retreat of the Japanese troops garrisoned in Songshan, while the 3rd Regiment was stranded at Baoshan Airport, more than 100 kilometers away on the east bank, and the whole army opened a line of 500 kilometers. Such a hasty dispatch of troops undoubtedly revealed the dilemma that the expeditionary force headquarters was in in a deep position, and it was Commander He who was ordered to be in danger. Soon the scene described above took place.

When it comes to the 8th Army, one has to mention its ace troops...... Honor 1st Division. In February 1938, the 1st Honor Division was established in Liuyang, Hunan, which was adapted from the Honor Corps of the 29th Division, the Honor Corps of the 190th Division, the Hunan Security Honor Corps and the Honor Corps of the 50th Division. In the march of the national army, the soldiers who returned from injury were called honorary soldiers, and the entire division was a veteran recruited from various establishments, and they were all the kind that had once stepped into the ghost gate with half a foot, so you can imagine how strong the combat effectiveness of this unit is. Putting aside the rich combat experience, the momentum of the veterans who have been born and died in a hundred battles alone is incomparable to other troops.

In November 1939, the Rong 1st Division participated in the Battle of Guinan, when under the leadership of the division commander Zheng Dongguo, the bloody battle of Kunlun Pass, in the battle of Lianke Fairy Mountain, ** Ling, Wanfu Village, Luotang and 411 Heights, etc., Dai Anlan's 200th Division captured the Japanese army 653 and 600 two highlands at any time, and made great contributions to the national army's capture of the Kunlun Mountain position.

Subsequently, Japanese planes bombed the 411 Heights indiscriminately, and the infantry attacked in a big way, and the Rong 1st Division had one regiment and one battalion, and in the end only more than 100 people were left to hold their positions. Under the numerous important attacks of the Japanese army, some soldiers of the 1st Honor Division were blown off their legs and feet by planes, and their hands were tied to roll down the hillside, which simply stopped the enemy's charging line.

Early the next morning, the other two regiments of the 1st Honor Division were reinforced by other positions, and when they saw the tragic situation on the 411 heights, everyone was red-eyed at once, and they actually raised all the remaining forces to organize a counterattack, and the fierce battle lasted all day, and the casualties on both sides were uncountable. When Du Yuming mobilized the main force of the 200th Division and the 1st Division of the new 22nd Division to come to the 411 Heights, the Japanese army finally could not resist the defeat and retreat to Jiutang.

After the Rong 1st Division, which was almost beaten into an empty shelf, counted the casualties after withdrawing from the battle, the non-commissioned officers at the company and platoon level could not find a single person alive, and the tragedy was the first of all the participating units in the Guinan Campaign. Although the final outcome of the Battle of Guinan is regrettable, since then, when the name of the Rong 1st Division is mentioned, whether it is the Hunan Army, the Sichuan Army, the Gui Army or the Central Army, they will stretch out their thumbs and praise: "Niu X", and there is no one who is unconvinced. Although the soldiers of the iron-beaten battalion and the flowing water were later replenished by the Rong 1st Division, there was almost a major blood change, but this kind of courage and courage to fight and dare to fight has been completely retained.