Although it did not completely annihilate the Japanese army in Longling City, the 71st Army attacked Longling City at the fastest speed after all. As long as you make persistent efforts and go down with one drum, you can conquer Longling City.

Misreporting the military situation made Song Xilian very faceless, not to mention that he was a report of overstepping, he was secretly ruthless, and he must quickly solve the battle of Longling to reverse Chongqing's opinion of him. Therefore, he immediately mobilized his forces and launched a second general attack on Longling.

On June 12, the 71st Army concentrated all its mountain artillery and mortars to bombard the positions of Yuanshan and Yizishan occupied by the Japanese army.

With a loud bang, a Japanese ** gun was hit by the 71st Army artillery fire, and the chain exploded. In the billowing smoke of gunpowder, the warriors of the 71st Army quickly captured the Yuanshan position.

It's not so easy on other hills.

Koho Shotaro and his garrison had been cowering in the fortifications, waiting for the Chinese army to come into their effective range. Our attacking troops charged many times, and the soldiers fell and went up one after another, but they could not take the enemy fort.

"Damn, put a cannon on Lao Tzu, see if that mother's little devil is still bear?" Against a strong fortress, artillery is the most effective weapon. However, due to the impassability of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, the behemoth of artillery could not be transported in at all, and only mountain artillery was the army that moved with it.

Chen Mingren yelled: "Mountain artillery, aim at Lao Tzu, release!" And it wasn't the sound of the cannon that answered him. General Chen's eyes widened in a hurry, and the chief of staff hurriedly ran over to report: There are no more shells!

"Blast!"

"Deputy commander, the regiments are in an emergency for ammunition!"

It is difficult for a clever daughter-in-law to cook without rice, even if Chen Mingren is a capable general, he has also encountered a hurdle that he can't get over. He had no choice but to order his troops to build fortifications on the spot and wait for the opportunity to fight again.

The war was at an impasse.

To make matters worse, food is running out of food, and logistics can't keep up. The further back it went, the worse the situation became, and hunger was threatening the Chinese troops besieging the city. Not only were the units of the 11th Army short of ammunition, but even the rations to fill their stomachs were running out. The Longling area is not rich, the mountains and highlands are narrow, and it is impossible to grow at all, and most of the local residents make a living by driving horse gangs, and it is almost impossible to collect grain on the spot. When crossing the river, the troops only brought a few days' rations, and the food had already turned into porridge, from three meals to two, and then from two meals to one later, and then only yams, plantain roots, and wild vegetables were enough to satisfy hunger. How to fight a war when you are hungry?

reported layer by layer, Song Xilian was deeply distressed.

In mid-April, the Chongqing Military Commission issued an order on the Nujiang River, making it clear that the focus of the attack was Tengchong, and in order to ensure the key points, the 11th Group Army of the defending army on the southern flank took into account the overall situation and had already transferred most of its transport forces to the 20th Group Army, which was responsible for the attack.

Unexpectedly, when victory was in sight, the supply of grain and grass went wrong first.

In fact, Song Xilian also made certain logistical preparations at that time.

Crossing the Nu River, the 260th Regiment attacked Zhen'an Town for the first time, and took the Japanese army's logistics warehouse to obtain supplies. Ammunition and food and grass were waiting ahead, and the pack horse team hurried on the road before it was ready.

This is not like Tengchong, where there is Zhang Wende's anti-Japanese **, here, it is already very good to have a military-civilian cooperation station.

In fact, what made Song Xilian beat his chest and stomp his feet the most was not the organizational problem of logistics and supply, but the bad weather one after another. Heavy rain for several days, muddy mountain roads, difficult transportation, pack horse team braving the rain to cross the rugged mountain road, dozens of pounds of artillery shells, one person can only carry one, nearly 10,000 migrant workers, more than 600 pack horses transport, the ammunition carried by the troops, only enough for the troops to fight for a few days.

Heavy rain hampered the pack horse convoy, and from June 11 to June 13, not a single ammunition reached the front line.

The sky is not helpful, so what can I do!

Song Xilian hurriedly asked the Allied planes to help, and they used parachutes to drop 75-mm shells, but it rained heavily for several days, and now it was white, and the planes were completely unable to complete the airdrop.

Faced with this situation, Song Xilian was anxious. Since the crossing of the river, the units of the 11th Army have not been able to receive timely supplies, ammunition is scarce, and transportation cannot keep up, and by June 13, only a few dozen shells were left in the various units. Without ammunition, how can you take Longling in a hurry?

The 71st Army had assembled its troops under the city of Longling, and the exhausted soldiers were waiting for supplies. No one thought that the battle of Longling would be stuck on supplies.

On June 14, 800 rounds of mountain artillery shells finally arrived at the front.

Song Xilian immediately issued the third general attack order.

On June 15, the units of the 71st Army, although hungry, had bullets, and all grievances were fired at the Japanese positions. With the roar of mountain artillery, bullets and bullets like arrows, and heavy rain, Chen Mingren commanded his troops to quickly launch an attack on the Japanese position. In the afternoon, the 87th Division had captured the block northeast of the Zhao family ancestral hall in the old city of Longling and advanced to the western slope. The 88th Division also conquered Mast Slope and Fengjia Slope. There are only more than 400 Japanese troops left in Longling City, stubbornly guarding the West Slope, Red Clay Slope, Guanyin Temple, Wenchang Palace and other small data points.

Seeing that Song Xilian's third attack was about to succeed. Then the war is unpredictable and unpredictable. A fierce battle is about to begin.

Judging from the fierce battles at Songshan and Longling that followed, the headquarters of the Expeditionary Force Commander was overly optimistic in estimating the strength of the enemy and our troops, and underestimated the combat strength of the Japanese army; although the troop disposition of Song Xilian's troops on the left flank far exceeded that of the Japanese army, the strategic preparations were not sufficient, especially in terms of logistical preparations.

Since the 20th Army was originally intended to be an offensive force and the 11th Army to be a defensive reserve force, the relevant logistics of the 11th Army had already been transferred to the 20th Army. After changing from a defensive unit to an offensive force, the 11th Army should have 5 pack horse brigades, but in reality there were only 3, and the transport corps should have 9 people, but only 4. In addition, the Yunnan-Burma highway is not passable, and the relevant logistics and supply are even more difficult. The underestimation of this factor and the lack of preparation caused the 11th Army to be greatly affected in the offensive.

"Before the soldiers and horses move, grain and grass go first," this basic operational element, has been ignored by most people because of the superiority of the Chinese army's apparent strength.

Along the way, I have paid a heavy price for this, and of course, the lessons learned are extremely profound!