"Operations must be coordinated with strategy, and even if we win the Battle of Lashio and see that we have joined the 56th and 22nd Divisions, we will still face a very difficult situation. , QВ (5), CoМ\\" Zhuang Jihua looked at the sky in the distance, and hurriedly worried in his voice: "It is their established strategy for the Japanese army to move south, and the Americans and the British will definitely put forward higher requirements." For example, the counterattack on Singapore; Neither the Americans nor the British will invest heavy troops in Southeast Asia, but only us, and we must draw troops from the country, which will affect our counteroffensive at home, and the Southeast Asian battlefield is destined to be a subsidiary battlefield. Our focus should still be on the country.

"So we just hold Mandalay, keep northern Burma and western Burma, counterattack Rangoon, the Japanese army will inevitably draw troops from Southeast Asia, and we will bear the main pressure of the Japanese army for the British and Americans, and. Don't forget the lesson of the Battle of Honghu, without destroying the naval superiority of the Japanese army, a counteroffensive against Rangoon is not feasible. ”

Zhuang Jihua's conclusive remarks made Yu Jishi fall into thought, the two of them had their own thoughts, and walked slowly in the yard, and there were faint bursts of artillery in the distance, and the ** squadron was strengthening the siege of Watanabe.

After resisting Zhuang Jihua's life, Sun Liren and Huang Botao coincidentally strengthened the offensive army, and the three divisions were divided into three routes to enter the depth of the 22nd Division, and the 22nd Division was divided and encircled; The offensive of the new 38th Division and the 58th Army was even more violent. Forcing the 56th Division to retreat step by step, unable to send troops to reinforce the 22nd Division, Watanabe had to ask Iida for help again and again, and telegraphed to Mandalay and Singapore one by one.

Iida Shojiro had no choice, and after the Thai-Japanese forces near Jingdong were defeated, the only troops who could relieve Watanabe were Shinichi Tanaka.

Shinichi Tanaka felt the pressure immense, and his attacks on Mei Miao became more and more violent. Four divisions, besieged on three sides, artillery shells covered the sky and the sun, the New Eighth Army fought fiercely on the whole front, and at the end of the day, the position of the New 44th Division was broken through, and Yu Cheng Wanjian sent a regiment directly under the army to counterattack, only to barely block the Japanese army outside Meimiao City.

In the evening, the New Eighth Army prepared to retreat on all fronts, and after Yu Chengwan decided to break off with an independent brigade, the New 44th Division and the New 46th Division retreated to the Moya River Valley. Give up the eyebrows. It was another extremely dangerous retreat, and Shinichi Tanaka did not stop his attack because night fell, but on the contrary intensified his attack. The artillery fire dyed the night red, and the gunfire broke the quiet Meimiao mountains.

All fronts are fighting fiercely, the retreat order can not be executed, Yu Chengwan led the military headquarters to withdraw from Meimiao, and the deputy army commander Shi Guantao led the military headquarters to retreat to the Moya River Valley, he took a group to stop at the mountain in the north of Meimiao City, looking at the surrounding fire-filled mountains, and was full of concern.

At the foot of the mountain, there was no trace of people on the empty road, and the entire Meimiao was empty. The mountain wind blew, and the moon, hiding behind the dark clouds, revealed his bright eyes.

Yu Chengwan was silent on the mountain, fighting fiercely continuously, the troops suffered great losses, and the independent brigade of Lu Ruishan won a small victory, and the morale of the troops was high, which was also the reason why Yu Chengwan chose the independent brigade after it was broken.

"Order the Independent Brigade to divide a regiment to take over the position of the New 44th Division, and send another regiment to take over the position of the New 46th Division, and the New 44th Division and the New 46th Division will immediately retreat."

After thinking for a long time, Yu Chengwan had no choice but to pin his hopes on the combat effectiveness of Lu Ruishan's independent brigade, and only played with them to delay for one night, and the two divisions could withdraw from Meimiao and retreat directly to the Moya River Valley.

Lu Ruishan received the order, and before he could speak, Deputy Brigade Commander Su Xiaojun couldn't help but complain: "Dare to love that we are not a unit of the New Eighth Army, do we use troops like this?" Drained us up. Save his troops, and the abacus is good. ”

"It seems that this battle has reached the point of competition." Lu Ruishan slowly raised his head: "The commander once said that there are people who eat meat and gnaw bones in any battle, this time we and the New Eighth Army are gnawing bones, good steel is used on the blade, and Commander Yu is using us on the blade." ”

Su Xiaojun and Shi Yuanxing were silent, and Lu Ruishan's tongue added to his lips: "Order the third regiment to take over the new 44th position, and transfer a battalion from the 4th regiment to strengthen the fifth regiment to take over the position of the new 46th division." Abandon all outlying positions and tell the brethren that this battle is very hard, and it may well be our last. ”

Lu Ruishan's last words jumped out almost word by word, and Su Xiaojun and Shi Yuanxing began to give orders to the troops with some heaviness after hearing this.

The troops quickly adjusted in the dark night, and the independent brigade first contracted its position, allowing the 3rd Regiment of the reserve to rush to the position of the new 46th Division on the right flank and accept the position; Han Xinfa's 5th Regiment rushed to the left flank to take over the new 44th position, while the remaining three regiments took cover alternately. Retreat to the last line of defense.

By dawn, the sound of cannon was approaching the walls. Troops passed in obscurity by the road at the foot of the mountain, heading north, behind them. The officers and men of the Independent Brigade were fighting bloody battles to the death, blocking the pace of the Japanese attack.

"Mom Laba! Why is there no one again! Han Xinfa shouted in pain, he took over the position of the new fourth division with a regiment, and he couldn't accept the position at all, so he could only put Zhang Ala near the wilting peak to block the infiltration in Meimiao City in the opposite direction.

From midnight to dawn, the Japanese army on the opposite side launched four attacks, each more fierce than the other, a company guarding the main peak had already suffered casualties, Han Xinfa gave him two supplements, and the regimental special service platoon was replenished before dawn, but once the attack came down, the main peak asked for help again. "Commander, I'll go." Yang Xingpeng, chief of staff of the regiment, looked grim.

"Guan Hu is already on it." Han Xinfa shook his head and said, his heart hurt to the extreme, Guan Hu was a tiger general he was extremely optimistic about, and he was on the main peak with the spies at dawn.

"Mom, this kid Harada is shaking now" Han Xinfa was very angry when he saw the artillery fire on the mountain, if he had pursued the 35th Division farther and dealt a greater blow to the 35th Division, then now the threat of the 35th Division is not so great: "Send the communication platoon up." ”

"Do you want to ask the brigade headquarters for help?" Yang Xingpeng suggested.

"The brigade commander doesn't have any soldiers." Han Xinfa shook his head and said: "We are now a brigade blocking four divisions, and the brigade commander has long been out of soldiers. ”

"Shall I go and see, what the hell is going on up there?" Yang Xingpeng insisted on going, Han Xinfa nodded after thinking about it: "Bring the guard squad with you." ”

"There is only this guard squad left in the regiment headquarters, and the devils are used to interspersing and detouring, and the regiment headquarters must not be guarded without soldiers." Yang Xingpeng shook his head and refused, took two guards and headed towards the main peak.

The gray sky was a little white, and the road kept encountering the wounded coming down from the mountain, and the members of the Overseas Chinese Volunteer Corps and the lightly wounded carried the seriously wounded down the mountain road carefully. Yang Xingpeng asked them about the situation on the mountain, and they told him with a blank expression that the devil's attack was very fierce. There were not enough troops on the mountain, and they were killed by the devils into the position several times, and the brothers tried desperately to suppress the devils several times, and the battalion commander Guan was commanding on the mountain.

Yang Xingpeng rushed into the shelter, and the Japanese attack began again, the shells crackled and fell on the top of the mountain, and the soldiers on the top of the mountain desperately jumped the crater, hiding behind the rocks, or hastily dug up the defense.

The shelter was built under a rock on the anticline. The sound of a violent explosion shook the dirt from the rocks. The expression of this entrance tiger was not as happy as it was a day ago, and he became very irritable.

"Battalion Commander Guan, why don't you follow the manual and withdraw the troops to the anticline?" Yang Xingpeng asked. He saw that there were no hidden troops on the anticline. It was known that Guan Hu had left all his troops in the position, and the tactical manual clearly stipulated that when defending, the main forces should be concealed on the anticline.

"Chief of Staff" Guan Hu looked back and saw that it was Yang Xingpeng, he was a little surprised, and then reacted and hurriedly said, "Chief of Staff, why did you come up." It's too dangerous here, hurry down. ”

"I'll take a look at the situation" Yang Xingpeng ignored him and continued to ask sternly: "Let's talk about it, why did you leave the troops at the peak?" ”

"Do you think I'd like to let the brethren eat devils' shells on the top of the peak, Momala's!" Guan Hu wiped his face and scolded irritably: "The little devil is now good at learning, follow the explosion point rush, every time we rush to the position from the anticline, the devil almost rushes into the position at the same time, I can't help it!" ”

Yang Xingpeng was stunned when he heard this, the little devil was desperate, the 35th Division had suffered losses in the previous two days of operations, and now it is so sparing no effort.

The commander of the 35th Division, Harada Kumayoshi, was indeed desperate, and after being defeated by the Independent Brigade, he was severely reprimanded by Shinichi Tanaka and Shojiro Iida, and Iida even clearly warned that if he could not relieve Watanabe, all the generals who were ineffective in fighting would be severely punished, and there was even a faint meaning in his tone that he would apologize for his guilt, which made Harada feel that he was in danger of being used as a scapegoat, and also prompted him to risk heavy casualties and adopt such an offensive method.

Yang Xingpeng quickly understood the situation Guan Hu was currently facing, and the positions on the two wings of the main peak were still in Guan Hu's hands. However, the forward positions have all been lost, and the Japanese army is concentrating the main force to storm the main peak, as long as it opens here, it can go straight to Meimiao and cut off the rear road of the frontal blocking troops.

Now the troops on the main peak are from three companies, and the number is only more than fifty people, and Guan Hu has no reserves in his hands.

For half an hour, the sound of artillery continued. As soon as the sound of the artillery stopped, Guan Hu grabbed the gun in hand and walked out, the officers of the battalion headquarters also grabbed their guns and rushed out of the concealment department, and Yang Xingpeng also pulled out his pistol and followed everyone to the position.

When he rushed to the position, the fierce battle had already begun, and the charging devils all showed their upper bodies, their heads were wrapped in white cloths, and they rushed to the top of the mountain more than ten meters under the leadership of the officer, only to be rained down by bullets on the mountain

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But the devil didn't care about the casualties at all, the front blocked the bullets on the mountain, and the back took the opportunity to pounce forward, rushing up the mountain at a huge cost, and a fierce battle immediately began on the mountain. , If you want to know what is going on, please log in to the muscle, more chapters, support the author, support the genuine reading of the concave said that the situation is a mustard umbrella

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