Liangmiao River.

Strictly speaking, the Liangmiao River is not a river in the true sense, its upstream is the Jianbu Mountain Reservoir, the Jianbu Mountain is long and narrow, the mountain is even steeper, and the Liangmiao area is located in a low-lying area. Last century ago, when the rainy season came, large amounts of rainwater pooled, often leading to flash floods, and the nearby villages and fields were often swept away. Until 1886, the British occupied Burma, Burma became a province of British India, and the British began to invest a lot of money in Burma to control Burma's waterways and railways, and the floods of Liangmiao also became the target of treatment.

In 1990, a large number of cheap Indian laborers poured into Liangmiao, built a dam up to dozens of meters in the Jianbu Gorge, with a water storage area of thousands of acres, on the basis of the original flood channel, dug out the Liangmiao River with a width of 300 meters, before the rainy season, the water in the reservoir will be poured out, a large area of water storage, to ensure that the seedlings no longer have to worry about flooding, and in the current dry season, there are also sufficient water sources to irrigate tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, bananas, sugarcane forests downstream.

Now there are still two months before the rainy season, and it is far from the time when the gate is opened to release water, and the amount of water in the river is only to ensure the irrigation of crops downstream, so the water area is not wide, only more than ten meters, and you can basically cross the river by rolling up your trouser legs.

At this time, the middle section of the cement bridge on the Liangmiao River had been blown up, and a gap seven or eight meters wide had been vacated on the bridge deck, but the solid frame of the bridge was still there. The 93rd Division of the Expeditionary Force built a defensive line of ten miles on the south bank, but the bridge was still their main defensive position, and the gap of seven or eight meters wide could only prevent the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles from crossing the river, but the Japanese sappers were able to fill the gap in a short time, and then the soldiers charged across the Liangmiao Bridge.

The long and narrow sand fortifications have been stacked, and the soldiers of a battalion have put out all kinds of weapons in their hands, and they are already in full array.

Because when the Liangmiao River was discharged, the river was rushing and roaring, and the impact was not small, so the bridge was also built very strongly, and the seven or eight meters wide gap that was blown up consumed all the explosives of the 93rd Division. The convoy of the 75th Army had already reached Leva, and although they also tried to send another transport vehicle to rush over, they were destroyed by Japanese planes on the way, and the entire road was still the object of the Japanese planes' full "care".

At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese Motorized Wing finally arrived at the Liangmiao River, and an attack by the independent regiment made them arrive two hours later than the scheduled time, for which the wing commander Katagiri Kumaji was reprimanded by the division commander Tanaka Shinichi to be incomplete, and Tanaka Shinichi also ordered him to pass through the Liangmiao River before evening to open the pursuit channel for the imperial army.

At this time, the artillery attack of more than ten minutes had passed, and the warriors of the imperial army were attacking with all their might on the bridge deck, and twenty tanks and armored vehicles were already placed on the river beach, ready to attack at any time.

On a hillside on the north bank of the Ryomiao River, Kumaji Katagiri, the commander of the Japanese Army's Motorized Wing, was watching the battle situation ahead through a telescope, and in the small valley behind him, a tent had quietly erected, and about a squadron of Japanese troops had set up a cordon here, and cars had begun to enter and exit here, and fuel and ammunition needed in the battle had begun to accumulate here.

The road is too narrow, the long queue of cars has been placed several miles away, and it is too late to temporarily move strategic materials to the back, so the ammunition and material depots are also placed here.

Katagiri Kumaji withdrew his gaze from the binoculars, the expression on his face was very serious, the imperial army on the bridge had organized three attacks, but they were all repelled by the expeditionary force, although there were still a few fighters above the head of the expeditionary force to assist the imperial army in the attack, but the expeditionary force fought very tenaciously, and it seemed difficult to take the opposite position in a short time.

"Wing Commander, the water in the Liangmiao River is not deep, our chariots can drive through, the infantry immediately followed under the cover of the chariots, and chose a point to break through, the fortifications built by the Zhina army on the south bank are simply vulnerable, but why do we choose to attack the Zhina army at the bridge? You must know that the narrow bridge deck has brought a lot of difficulties to the attack of the imperial army, so isn't it easy to seek difficulties? The deputy wing commander of the Japanese army, Saito Keinakasa, said.

Katagiri Kumaji looked at Saito and smiled incomprehensibly, then pointed to the jungle on the south bank and said: "Saito-kun, the aircraft reconnaissance is clearly instructed, the army has only one division on the south bank, but you see their defense line, at least more than ten miles, the 75th Army has a total of less than 30,000 people, and the 93rd Division is at most 10,000, but they build a ten-mile-long defense line, how can 10,000 people defend it?" And you see, there is a jungle on the other side, and they seem to be afraid that we don't know that they have built a defensive line, and all the fresh loess is shoveled out of the jungle, what does this mean? It means that they are counting on the imperial army to pass over the river beach, and once the imperial army really crosses the river in tanbu as you said, it will not be too late for us to be completely annihilated? ”

"Ah, it's so serious, but I can't see where their killing intentions are?" Saito said.

"Humph!"

Katagiri Kumaji snorted coldly, waved his hand at the towering Jianbu Mountain to the west and said, "Where!" ”

Saito Kei followed Katagiri Kumaji's finger direction and looked at it for a long time, still at a loss. Katagiri Kumji seemed to be muttering to himself: "It seems that you can only choose the second battlefield?" Then he seemed to have made a decision, and said in a cruel voice: "Herald, immediately order the captain of the island to run over and report for duty." ”

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In the jungle on the south bank of the Liangmiao River, the temporary headquarters of the 93rd Division of the Expeditionary Force.

Lieutenant General Division Commander Lu Guoquan was sweating profusely, pacing back and forth in the headquarters, the fierce gunfire on the Liangmiao Bridge was clearly heard, the Japanese planes never left the bridgehead, and the officers and men who put in one battalion were basically disabled in less than half an hour, and now the second battalion has taken over the position, and if the fight continues like this, their division will be wiped out in less than a few hours, so he looks very anxious at this moment.

Wu Chaowen, chief of staff of the 93rd Division, was also anxious at this time, threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, and asked uneasily: "Division, do you say that the Japanese army has seen through our plan, otherwise their tanks will not be able to come by the river, but will attack repeatedly on the bridge deck, this is unreasonable?"

A trace of panic suddenly flashed in Lu Guoquan's eyes, and he said suspiciously: "This won't be this, right?" The Japanese army has not been in Burma for a long time, and the Japanese troops in the Liangmiao area have not yet fought here, so they may not be so familiar with the terrain here? Moreover, if we hadn't found out about the expatriates here, and we wouldn't have thought of using it to retreat from the enemy, could it be that the Japanese commanders were so cunning that they could see through our intentions to lure them in at a glance? ”