Chapter 241: Matsuyama Deduction

Time passed gradually, and the flamethrowers and bazookas of the US military were familiar one by one.

The 11th Army was gradually replenished, and it seemed that it would be able to counterattack western Yunnan and send the Japanese army all the way back to Burma.

Then it flanked the Japanese army with the American and British forces, so as to drive the Japanese army out of Southeast Asia and establish a supply line.

Because the British army intends to keep its homeland and counterattack Europe, the plan will be constantly delayed.

It was not until the Japanese army attacked India that the British panicked and asked Lao Chiang to send troops.

The entire southwest of China came to life all at once, and after holding back his anger for more than a year, he finally had a chance to be ashamed.

The newly formed New Army even captured Myitkyina,

In April, the western Yunnan region was in the midst of troop transportation, and Zhang Ziwen was a little aggrieved when he saw others on the front line.

The guerrilla detachment was under the control of the expeditionary force headquarters, and his old boss had been replaced by Wei Lihuang.

In the expeditionary force system, except for He Shaozhou, who was far away in Baoshan, he didn't know anyone who could speak.

The guerrilla detachment was just forgotten and watched as the Twentieth Army forced its way across the Nu River and advanced south under artillery fire.

After the 20th Group Army successfully crossed the Nu River, the Chongqing Military Commission issued a telegram on 22 May:

"The expeditionary force will all cross the river to attack, expand the results, and the focus of the attack is on Longling. The 20th Army was then renamed the Right Wing Army, with the 53rd and 54th armies and the 2nd Reserve Division under its jurisdiction, and the target of attack was Tengchong. The 11th Army was then changed to the Left Wing Army, with the 6th Army (the 2nd Division under-reserved), the 71st Army and the 2nd Army, and the targets of attack were Longling and Mangshi. ”

After receiving the order, the 11th Army immediately changed its deployment, adjusted its defense, and actively prepared for an attack.

On 25 May, the army drew up a plan of attack. Its operational policy was: "In order to attack Longling and Mangshi, the group army decided to cross the Nu River with the main force from Huiren Bridge to various ferries in the Qidao River area.

Focus on the right flank, encircling and attacking Longling and Mangshi. The guiding essentials are: "1. All attacking units should be assembled in the vicinity of Panzhihua, Bizhaidu, Huoshidi, Calamus and Pingxia before May 30, so that they can hardly prepare for the attack.

2. At the beginning of the attack, first with a strong part, cooperate with the artillery on our shore of the Huitong Bridge, attack Lameng and Songshan to attract the enemy's attention in this area, and then go straight to Longling and Mangshi with the main force, relying on the cooperation of aircraft and artillery. Surround and conquer it.

3. After the attack was effective, it was to advance to Wan Town and Kutani with one section, and the main force was temporarily assembled in Longling and Mangshi to sort out and standby. ”

The 11th Group Army was also preparing to forcibly cross the river on 1 June, and He Shaozhou of Baoshan noticed that there was still a unit in Qujing while looking at the defense map.

"Jing Yuan, you said that this Zhang Ziwen suffered such a big loss, do you dare to go south?"

Wang Jingyuan on the side said with a smile: "When he was still in the 103rd Division, he didn't dare to do anything, he just followed the wrong person." When I passed by Qujing, I went to see where he was, there was no bald look, although there were no American instructors, but he was still in full swing, Du Luming treated him well, and asked Luo Zhuoying to give everything he should give. ”

"If it weren't for Luo Zhuoying's own stupidity, Du Luming would also be stupid, this kid would have been able to kill himself and return to China."

He Shaozhou laughed when he heard this, after all, he was the person he fancied, how could he be worse.

Guizhou's territory is still occupied by him, he should have become a general a long time ago, so let him be a general.

"Tell him, let him be the reserve of our Eighth Army, and I will gnaw on him if there are hard bones."

He Shaozhou did not belittle Zhang Ziwen, but Zhang Ziwen had a problem, and he didn't listen to him when he spoke well.

Tell him to come and mix military merits to give him generals, and he may be a colonel for the rest of his life, and tell him to fight hard bones, then it's different.

As a reserve, the Eighth Army had only two places to support, one was to attack Songshan and the other was to attack Longling.

It is impossible for Zhang Ziwen, who has run all over the mountains of Guizhou, not to run all over Yunnan, and it is useful to use it no matter how it is fought.

"Okay, I'll send him a telegram later, and tell him directly to fight the 56th Division. can avenge Dai Anlan, and I'm not afraid that he won't come. ”

It was the main force of the Battle of Tonggu that defended Matsuyama, the Japanese 113rd Wing.

The vertical drop from the main peak of Songshan to the surface of the Nujiang River is more than 1,500 meters, standing on the top of Songshan Mountain to look at the Nu River, as if looking down from the air, the Nu River is like a silver line in the deep valley; Looking up at the mountains on the east bank of the Nu River, it feels like it is in front of you, the straight-line distance is only eight or nine thousand meters, and it seems that you can hear a shout on this bank and the other side, but the journey is more than 60 kilometers.

The Yunnan-Burma Highway that winds from the direction of Baoshan Mountain circles down in a zigzag shape through the mountain on the east bank, reaches the bottom of the Nujiang Gorge, crosses the Huitong Bridge and then spirals up, first passes through the Lameng Village, and then stretches for thousands of meters around the mountainside of Songshan, and then turns to Longling in the southwest direction of the rolling dragon slope.

Because the mountains here are high and steep, there have always been sparsely populated, but it is the only way to lead to Longling and Mangshi in the east of the Nujiang River, there is only one steep and bent ancient post road in ancient times, the westward traveler goes down to the valley bottom from the east bank mountain, and then climbs up to the west bank mountain, often has to walk all day, and in one day to experience the hot summer at the bottom of the valley, the cool autumn on the mountainside, and the cold winter on the top of the mountain, it has always been regarded as a daunting road by pedestrians and horse gangs, not a last resort, never enter this high mountain sandwich, the road is narrow, and people and horses can not go parallel.

For the Nu River Gorge, Songshan on the west bank is a super bridgehead; For the Yunnan-Burma Highway, Songshan is the giant hand that chokes its throat; For Longling, an important town in western Yunnan, Songshan is a frontier barrier.

Its geographical location is so important that it is clear to those who are immersed in the scene, so Western reporters once called it Gibraltar on the Yunnan-Burma Highway.

"Songshan is a roadblock for the Eleventh Group Army, we can't take Songshan, and the back road is lost, today you will study how to conquer Songshan with the strength of our detachment."

Zhang Ziwen continued the important lessons of the day, deduction.

"Commander, you see that we can first concentrate artillery fire, smash the rolling dragon slope, infantry assault, cut off the rear road of the Japanese army, and ........."

Zhang Ziwen smiled and looked at Tang Song.

"The Japanese army took Songshan and Rolling Dragon Slope as its two strong strongholds in the east and west, and they were each other's horns. Its fortress group is systematic, scattered in the dense forests and grasses and complex hills in the north and south of Songshan.

The 113th Wing and Special Forces Brigade of the Japanese Army suffered more than 2,000 wounded soldiers and more than 10 light and heavy guns, and the front was about 4,000 meters from the eastern end of Songshan to Rolling Dragon Slope, forming a number of fortress groups as their main position.

Each fort consists of a firing device and a trench below, and a tunnel-like shelter below. The bunker is divided into four layers, from bottom to top, the first layer is 40 to 50 cm in diameter, the second layer is 30 to 40 cm, the third layer is 25 to 35 cm, and the fourth layer is 20 to 25 cm.

The top layer is cladding. It is surrounded by large gasoline drums, three layers of earth, and several layers of barbed wire with a depth of four meters. Except for the destructive power of direct hits of heavy artillery, mountain artillery is difficult to destroy. ”

Tang Song said, everyone sitting was speechless, and such a fortress seemed to have no other way than to fill it with appointments.