Chapter 1014: Jackals, Tigers, and Leopards
The special operations division set off quickly, and the tactical backpacks behind each soldier were bulging, and without strong logistics, they could only choose to carry all the supplies for the next few days on their backs. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Fortunately, they themselves are a group of demons, the elite selected from millions of troops across the country, and after two years of devil training, and they accept Jiang Haoran's modern concepts, it can only be said that they are well-deserved demons.
Fifty or sixty pounds of tactical bags were carried on their backs, and they ran faster than ordinary soldiers on flat ground, and in a few moments, the vanguard ran out of a few miles, and there was suddenly an illusion of a grass-green grass rolling recklessly between the ridges.
In this battle, they fought for speed, taking advantage of the fact that the 55th Division of the Japanese Army in Longling and the 4th Division of the Japanese Army in Tengchong had not yet come to their senses, with the momentum of a sharp knife, interspersed between the two divisions of the Japanese Army, as for the 56th Division of the Japanese Army in front, they could no longer be called opponents, and they would not be able to flee even if they ate leopard gall.
The establishment of the special operations division is 42,000 people, but this 42,000 refers to combat units, and other logistics establishments are not included in this list; since Baoshan has already built an important military base, other logistics and technical troops are quite a huge number, otherwise it would be impossible to maintain basic operations, and this number is so large that it exceeds the troops themselves.
Baoshan as an important military base, of course, there must be left-behind troops, considering that Zhang Linghu's brigade commander legs and feet are not flexible, this task fell on his shoulders, he led two regiments, one regiment to stick to Baoshan, one regiment to stick to Huitong Bridge, this move can be said to be not a little devil, but worried about their own people taking advantage of the fire to rob.
The remaining two regiments were incorporated into Li Bing's First Special Operations Brigade and Liu Bao's Second Special Operations Brigade respectively. Because the 10,000 people of the airborne brigade were all drawn from the special operations division, there are only 32,000 combat troops left in the division, and excluding the 5,000 troops left behind, Chu Zhongtian took only 27,000 people this time.
But the 27,000 men were definitely a tiger and wolf division, and in less than an hour, the forward troops caught up with the remnants of the Japanese 56th Division.
The vanguard officer of the special operations division was none other than Liu Bao, who was known as "Zhang Fei", and he took the lead in the charge, followed by thousands of erlang behind him, like a group of bloodthirsty sharks pounced on the delicious prey, AK47 swept all the way.
The 56th Division had just survived the catastrophe, and the soldiers had not yet come out of the nightmare, and they were still in shock, and where they could withstand this shock, they were scattered in an instant, and there was no fighting spirit at all.
They all say that the Japanese army is ferocious, and they all say that the Japanese army has strong combat effectiveness and an invincible will to fight? Yes, they are just a pack of wolves, a group of fierce wealth wolves, a group of fierce wealth wolves with no conscience and no moral bottom line.
However, I don't know if anyone has ever thought that the reason why they can become unscrupulous and reckless wolves is because they are facing a group of Mianyang. But once they encounter a tiger or a leopard, can their ferocity, their toughness, and their indestructibility still exist?
The special operations division in front of him is a group of tigers and leopards, a group of tigers and leopards who have sharpened their teeth and claws in the deep mountains and old forests for two years, no matter how strong the wolf is, it will have to be frightened, not to mention that it is just a group of lost dogs in front of them.
The special operations division crossed Songshan and rushed straight to Wan Town, on the Yunnan-Burma border, where they would arrive by night.
As soon as the special operations divisions left, the new 3rd and 5th divisions also stepped up their cleaning work on Songshan and restored road traffic as soon as possible; at the same time, they also had an arduous task, that is, to intercept the 55 th and fourth divisions of the Japanese army and remove the pressure behind them for the special operations divisions.
When the 40th Group Army attacked Songshan, the 71st Army in the direction of Tengchong and the First Army in the direction of Longling were not idle, and began to launch an all-out attack on their respective fronts, because Tengchong was in a remote position, and the Japanese army only had a brigade of the Fourth Division, and most of the other forces were concentrated on the Longling line.
The advance of the special operations division was actually almost passed through the defense line of the Japanese army in Longling, but at this time, the Japanese army did not expect that Songshan would be so vulnerable, and the rear line would definitely not have too many troops, and when they drew troops from the front to reinforce the rear line, it was too late.
At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Wan Town, the headquarters of the 15th Army of the Japanese Army.
The radio and telephone were all in one place, the staff officers and generals were solemn and hurried, and the entire command headquarters was already in a mess, and Lieutenant General Commander Shinichi Tanaka was even more anxious, and beads of sweat were pouring down on his face.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, he received a telegram that Songshan had been attacked, but instead of the 56th Division of Songshan that had been attacked, the message was sent by the 55th Division of Longling.
Shinichi Tanaka spent a difficult morning with anxiety in his mind, and finally received the devastating news at noon that Matsuyama had been lost, and that the 56th Division had been completely crushed in a morning, and that there were probably less than 3,000 troops that could be gathered.
And the special operations division is attacking the rear line of Longling with all its might, intending to advance towards Wan Town.
Tanaka Shinichi urgently ordered the 55th Division and the 4th Division to allocate all available forces to block the special operations division, but before the troops could complete the assembly, news came from the rear that the defense line had collapsed, and the special operations division had already passed through the Longling rear defense line.
Tanaka Shinichi had no choice but to retreat and ordered the two divisions to pursue with all their might, intending to use the garrison wing in Wan Town and the troops directly under the military headquarters to build a defensive line and flank the special operations division with them.
But just now, bad news continued to come, and the reinforcements of the two divisions were blocked by the new 3rd and 5th divisions of the 40th Group Army, and there was no possibility of breaking through in a short time.
This situation made Tanaka Shinichi not rush to the fire, the special operations division had already gone straight to Wan Town, and the two divisions in the rear were divided into two battlefields by more than a dozen divisions of the national army, and the situation was worrying, and the situation changed so quickly that Tanaka Shinichi was completely caught off guard.
In the anxious waiting, the telegram from the Southern Army Headquarters finally arrived, and it was expected that Tsukada Tsukashi would have superb tactical guidance, but to the disappointment of Tanaka Shinichi, Tsukada ordered him to personally lead his troops to hold Wan Town, and the time was at least three days, to buy time for Lashio's 16th Army and the 1st Guards Division to annihilate Chiang Haoran's troops.
At the same time, the 55th Division, the remnants of the 56th Division, and the 4th Division were ordered to make every effort to break through and move closer to Wan Town, and the headquarters would send a large number of fighters and bombers to provide sufficiently powerful fire support for the breakthrough troops, and would also give tracking strikes to the special operations division, and do everything possible to delay their marching speed.