On the evening of the 6th, He Shaozhou convened a meeting of division commanders at the front. Pen %Fun %Cabinet www.biquge.info tactics have been improved: instead of just occupying the commanding heights, you must conquer the fortress and annihilate the defending enemy.

On the 7th, the third campaign began. The third battle was fought until the 11th, a full four days, and still failed. The Japanese army has already suffered some casualties, but its combat effectiveness is still strong.

On the 11th, Master Lin came to He Shaozhou and said, "Can your attack be slowed down?" Let's coordinate it. ”

He Shaozhou said: "Have you made progress? ”

Master Lin said: "The people have dug through the tunnels, and there are five tunnels dug into the underground fortifications of the devils. ”

He Shaozhou was overjoyed and said, "So fast? ”

Master Lin said: "There are many people, and if they are properly organized, they will naturally be fast. The soil here is hard, the rock is soft, does not need support, and is suitable for digging holes, which is naturally fast. We are widening the tunnels and preparing to send a thousand people in. Then attack with you. "The meaning is very clear, we dug the tunnel, we can send someone in to fight it. You cooperate with the attack, enough is enough.

The tunnels have been dug through. The news soon spread throughout the army, and the soldiers of the expeditionary force were encouraged to attack from the underground. During the month or so, the ground offensive had little effect, suffered heavy casualties, and morale was extremely low. Now it's all right, there's hope. However, the commander said that the militia is close to the underground tunnel, and we are still attacking on the ground. They were disappointed again.

In the early morning of the 12th, the expeditionary force began shelling. After more than ten minutes of shelling, the ground forces began to attack, shouting loudly. This time, they have hope in their hearts, they have to rely on, and they don't work very hard to attack, to put it bluntly, they are just waiting to eat ready-made meals.

By the time the shelling was over, the Japanese had already entered the bunkers and ground fortifications and began to shoot.

The attacking expeditionary force originally thought that the tunnel was open and could not be forced, but they did not expect that the Japanese army would be able to counterattack, so they had to continue the attack.

Soon after the start of the assault, the people of the expeditionary force clearly felt that something was wrong with the defending Japanese troops today, and several bunkers were fighting, and suddenly they ceased fire. Immediately afterwards, the devils in the artillery position also stopped moving.

The opportunity came, and the expeditionary force rushed forward, and soon reached the Japanese trenches. Miraculously, the counterattack in the trenches came to an abrupt halt, and then some guerrillas emerged from the trenches and beckoned to them.

The Japanese trenches led to their tunnels, as well as to the tunnels dug by the guerrillas.

The expeditionary force followed the partisans and went underground from the Japanese trenches. Most of the soldiers were afraid of the Japanese and could not believe in the local methods of the militia group, so they did not dare to move forward, and only a few dozen bold ones followed the militia and rushed to the front.

After a long and narrow passage, you will enter the main road. The main road, which can be up to two meters high and two meters wide, is supported by logs and is very spacious. Every short distance, there was a small turn, and machine-gun emplacements were set. The tunnels were littered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers, and the people carried the corpses and wounded of the guerrillas and walked down the mountain.

The soldiers of the expeditionary force were eye-opening, when did this Japanese devil build such a strong underground fortification? No wonder it couldn't be attacked for a long time.

More and more soldiers of the expeditionary force came in, walked along the tunnel, and soon arrived at the scene of the battle. In front of the hall is the hall, with stairs leading to the upper floor, where several Japanese soldiers are using rice bags as bunkers and machine guns are being strafed.

Rushing to the front was a **** company commander, who saw the guerrillas holding strange weapons and submachine guns with curved magazines. At the very moment when the machine gun changed magazines, a partisan unit fired from a submachine gun, and the bullets were dense, like machine guns. Another guerrilla unit carried a strange weapon, a barrel, and fired at the Japanese machine-gun position.

With a bang, the machine-gun emplacements exploded. A puff of smoke rushed out. The smoke was too strong.

The **** soldiers who rushed up didn't expect that the strange iron barrel-like weapon was a cannon. The artillery was fired in such a narrow place, and several people were shaken, and when the smoke and dust cleared, a dozen guerrillas were gone, and they rushed up.

The expeditionary force was greatly impressed by the fact that these guerrillas had good weapons and strong combat effectiveness. It's just as good as any of us trained by the U.S. military.

By noon, the iron barrel fired more than a dozen cannons, the first and second floors of the basement were occupied by the guerrillas, the headquarters was occupied, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, concentrated on the first floor of the ground, trapped beasts still fighting.

Today, the vast majority of the Japanese troops on the ground positions have been cleared, and the command staff of the expeditionary force has ascended to the surface positions.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, a group of Japanese rushed out of the most superficial positions. There were more than 30 of them, shirtless, with strips of white cloth tied around their heads, some wielding command knives, and some carrying 38 guns with bayonets. They shouted, the soldiers of the expeditionary force in the middle of the surface position.

The soldiers of the expeditionary force were about to shoot.

At this time, more than a dozen guerrillas stood in several tunnels. The guerrillas, all armed with their submachine guns with curved magazines, opened fire on the Japanese as if they were a dozen machine guns.

One of the guerrillas, led by a shout: "Stop shooting!" ”

The devils are dead.

One of the guerrillas was still shooting, and the leader said, "Stop shooting!" Sample! Don't you see that the devils are all dead? ”

The young guerrilla stopped, suddenly fell to his knees, and began to cry: "Brother, Ge Laozi, brother, I will avenge you." ”

The Japanese troops defending Matsuyama were the Lameng garrison of the 113th Infantry Wing under the 56th Division, and the commander was the commander of the 3rd Brigade of the 56th Field Artillery Company, Keijiro Kanamitsu.

The Japanese army was supposed to have nearly 3,000 people, but due to insufficient military strength, many people were transferred, and there were only 1,400 people in the Songshan position, who lived in Dazhai, Huangjiashuijing, Rolling Longpo, Yinshanshan, Dayakou, Hongmushu, Songlinbao, Loess Slope, Malutang, Zigaodi, and other places. These positions are connected by tunnels. The main position has one basement floor, two floors, plus surface fortifications, which is very stable.

Excluding logistics personnel, the actual combat personnel were less than 1,000.

Historically, from the beginning of June to mid-September, more than 20,000 people were dispatched, more than 7,700 casualties were killed, and more than 1,200 Japanese soldiers were killed, with a death ratio of 1 to 6. Ten battles against Songshan before seizing the position and annihilating the enemy.

In this battle, the guerrillas lost five, including the wounded, a total of 53 people, and the migrant workers did not die, only 15 were slightly wounded, nearly 1,000 devils were killed, more than 10 people were captured, more than 10 comfort women were rescued, and a Japanese flag was captured. When the numbers came out, no one believed them.

In the afternoon of the same day, the guerrillas buried the dead with a solemn ceremony. When they saw the graves of the guerrillas and migrant workers, the expeditionary force all sighed.

Before dusk, the US military observation group and reporters entered the battlefield, and by this time, the peasants had already walked cleanly. U.S. military observer groups and reporters photographed the tunnels, the corpses of devils, and the military flags captured by the guerrillas. They also filmed the partisans. When the guerrillas saw that the American troops were coming to shoot, they hurriedly put strange weapons into cloth covers. Still, the weapon was filmed.

Later, after expert research, the submachine gun was very similar to the design of the submachine gun sold to the US military in Northeast China, and their strange weapon was actually a bazooka, which was very similar to the new weapon of the US army, Bazooka.

Nanjing commended the relevant personnel of the expeditionary force, but forgot about the guerrillas. However, the guerrillas became famous in the first battle, and their deeds were circulated in the major newspapers and among the soldiers of the expeditionary force. The expeditionary force also spread their deeds, and the guerrillas were afraid.

Won the battle, no matter how it was fought, all sides are still happy. On July 13, Lao Chiang sent a telegram saying that he was "extremely relieved to learn that the Songshan position was captured by the 8th Army on July 12"; The telegram also ordered the 20th Army to capture Tengchong by 18 July.

Stilwell sent a message of congratulations from the Pacific to Brigadier General Donne, the top adviser of the expeditionary force, which was nothing more than an emphasis on the great role played by the advisers in the victory.

On July 14, He Shaozhou sent a telegram to the Military Commission, requesting that Liang Xiaozhai, chief of staff of the 8th Army, Wang Jingyuan, deputy commander of the 82nd Division, and Xiong Shouchun, commander of the 103rd Division, be awarded. The Military Commission approved it.

Historically, the Battle of Songshan was an expeditionary force that received equipment from the US army, and under the command of officers who received training from the US army, it failed to defeat the first war, the second battle, the third war, the fourth war, and the tenth war, and finally conquered the Songshan position guarded by less than 3,000 people led by the Japanese army Shaozuo, the so-called "ten swings and ten decisions".

Because of the participation of the US military, the information is very detailed, and you can take a look at how bad the **** battle is. The soldiers were brave, but the officers' command was monotonous, their tactics were dull, and with a tenfold advantage, they simply consumed the Japanese army to death.

The guerrillas did not take credit and took the comfort women away after the US military reporters had finished taking the photos. They left a message that they were willing to continue to cooperate with the troops and attack the Japanese.

Song Xilian was very embarrassed that he did not give credit to the guerrillas and did not give the guerrillas a bounty, so he communicated with Commander Lin, but Commander Lin could not be found. Song Xilian had no choice but to give the guerrillas some food as compensation.

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1. In the anti-Japanese counteroffensive campaign in western Yunnan, **** invested a total of 162,000 troops in 16 divisions, of which 115,000 people in 12 divisions in Longling, accounting for 71%. The whole campaign lasted 236 days, of which 156 days were in Longling. There were 50,474 casualties in the whole service, of which 29,803 were killed or wounded in Longling, accounting for 59%. 25,393 enemies were killed in the whole battle, of which 13,200 were in Longling, accounting for 52%.

2. In 1947, He Shaozhou and Li Mi built a monument to the fallen soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Western Yunnan Campaign in Yuantongshan Park, Kunming City, Yunnan Province. The obverse is engraved with an inscription: "The island is poisonous, and the pain is in western Yunnan." Who has no flesh and forbears the frontiers. Huan Huan soldiers, regardless of the hardships. Ten swings and ten decisions, willing to die like a glutton. Loyal and loyal, famous and monumental. Fearful of righteousness, show Laiz. ”

3, the Eighth Army of the Army in the Western Yunnan Campaign Memorial Cemetery has Bai Chongxi's inscription: "Dongyi is raging to invade our state, Erduoshi serves the strict frontier, Songshan fights my martial arts, and Kou Qi is both Jing and Liuhe." ”

4, the artwork based on the Battle of Songshan is the "My Regiment Commander, My Regiment". In the TV series, the solution of going deep behind enemy lines and attacking in underground tunnels was imagined, and he kindly helped the commanders choose all possible tactics. It can be seen from the Battle of Songshan that the reason for the low combat effectiveness of the Jiang army is not at all due to the quality of the weapons. They had American-style weapons, and it was still very difficult to fight the Japanese. The problem is that its tactics are rigid to the point where they cannot be overstated. Fighting a war is about killing people, not a joke. A tactic that fails once or twice, but does not want to change, uses the same wrong tactic for the third time, the fourth time, and continues to do it for the tenth time. What kind of spirit is this? It's just laughable.