Chapter 1848: The Bloody Battle of the Fortified City

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Mawlamyine is an important port city in Madaban Bay, Myanmar, it is located on the east coast of the Andaman Sea, at the confluence of the Salween River, the Kien River and the Zami River, located in the alluvial plain, backed by the Bilao Mountains, and the southwest of the port has the barrier of Bilu Island, which has been an excellent haven since ancient times. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since the beginning of the war on 16 September, the situation in southern Burma has deteriorated rapidly, and the Siamese army has been fighting in the north, and since the capture of Garrobi by the 7th Motorized Infantry Division, southern Burma has been cut into two sections.

At present, of the 15 divisions of the Siamese Army, the 9th, 13th, and 14th divisions have been completely annihilated on the front line of the Zami River, three divisions have been stranded in the Tanintharyi area of southern Burma, and nine divisions have been left on the line of the Salween River, of which seven divisions have been killed by Phibun. Song Kan gathered in Mawlamyine, and resisted stubbornly.

In order to stop the An Jia army from attacking, Phibun. Song Kan ordered the bridge over the Zami River and the Huancheng River to be blown up, and on the other side of the Zami River and the Huancheng River, the Siamese army built a large number of trenches, including as many as three tunnels that served as anti-tank trenches! Pillboxes, bunkers and various firing points, all kinds of tunnels are connected vertically and horizontally, barbed wire and barricades are dense, and various firing points are arranged in depth.

On 23 September, the Third Army of the Central South Front, which was tasked with clearing southern Burma, officially launched a general attack on the city of Mawlamyine.

At the beginning, hundreds of 150mm, 120mm, and 105mm caliber cannons and howitzers, as well as one hundred and sixty-two 130mm 19-barrel rocket launchers, fired countless meteor showers at the Siamese army defense line on the other side of the Zami River and Huancheng River, and the people on the ground trembled violently as if they were standing in the center of an earthquake.

The 20-kilometer battle line surrounding the south and east of Mawlamyine Castle was like a volcanic eruption, and countless fires rose into the sky, and the entire river defense ring area almost turned into a sea of flowing magma and fire. The explosion of the shells became more and more intense, and the smoke and dust mixed with the firelight, spitting straight into the air, and the violent smoke almost blocked out the sun's rays.

In order to be able to effectively destroy the Siamese army's river fortifications, the front army headquarters specially issued an order to send the train guns specially used for coastal protection to the fortified city of Mawlamyine through the railway that the engineers had seized time to repair. The train gun is a 380mm caliber naval gun, with advanced electromagnetic guidance devices, which poses a great threat to fortresses and ramparts.

Today, the artillery suppression technology of the Anjia Army has made great progress, and the mortars of the regiments and battalions deployed on the front line are used to shoot at the opponent's trenches, the rapid-fire 75mm mountain guns and 105mm and 120mm howitzers sweep the barbed wire and minefields, and the long-range cannons and 150mm heavy artillery artillery groups are shelled at the enemy's depth to suppress the opponent's artillery counterattack.

The self-propelled mortar guns of more than 210mm are shelling those permanent fortifications that look extremely strong, and the explosions caused by each shell are like the sky falling apart, and the strong fortifications built by the Siamese army with reinforced concrete are like paper paste under the impact of such powerful shells, as long as they are hit, they will be blown into pieces.

In the air, artillery planes were constantly hovering at low altitudes to correct the firing coordinates of the various artillery positions in a timely manner.

The Siamese army was passively beaten, and finally could not bear to use anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the preset anti-aircraft positions to expel the annoying school planes. This kind of school-firing plane equipped with artillery units is mainly filled by wooden "Yun-I" transport planes, which are inexpensive and can take off and land on extremely simple sites, and the pilots do not need too many skills, but only need to be equipped with a special radio personnel to report the detected ground information to the artillery headquarters.

Under the fierce anti-aircraft fire of the Siamese army, the two collatorial planes dragged the thick smoke and glided into the ground to the south; when they were more than 200 meters in front of the touching ground, four parachutes were raised, and then the collatorial planes hit the ground, making a violent explosion. The remaining six school firing planes hurriedly evaded and quickly informed the air force command of the air defense positions of the Siamese Army on the ground.

Only five or six minutes later, a large number of planes swooped down from the southeast sky, and horizontal bombers threw a large number of bombs on those air defense positions that had burst out.

Of course, artillery coverage and bomber bombardment alone were not enough to destroy all resistance, and the soldiers of the Siamese army endured hard under the fierce blows of the An Jia army. These well-constructed anti-artillery holes, like living coffins, shook violently like chaff in the shelling, many Siamese soldiers leaned against the wall, were shocked to death, and a large number of Siamese soldiers were directly hit by falling shells, and all the people in the entire cave were buried alive, and many more people, under the bombardment of large-caliber mortars, were blown into minced meat, and there were no bones.

The artillery of the Siamese army only returned fire at the beginning, but it quickly fell silent under the bombardment of large-caliber cannons and heavy howitzers, and the occasional remnants of artillery also disappeared under the precise strikes of the Anjia Air Force, which had Jedi air supremacy.

After the artillery bombardment achieved the desired results, the 70mm infantry guns of each division, various 75mm mountain guns, field guns, and mortars all moved forward and concentrated on the banks of the Zami River and the Huancheng River, ready to suppress the Siamese army's firepower points on the other side of the river at any time to ensure the smooth progress of the siege.

At the same time, the train gun drove along the railway tracks, stopped behind the third front, and under the huge base of the turret, eight spider-foot-like brackets stretched out, and the 380mm naval gun, which was originally pointed to the rear, turned to the direction of the river defense under the control of the gun sighting system.

In this kind of siege warfare with moats and anti-tank trenches, tanks and armored vehicles cannot play a role in the first BO offensive, and can only rely on the infantry to break through the enemy's defense line with strong fighting will and flesh and blood, and then the sappers will open the way for the tanks and armored vehicles!

The defense line of the entire Mawlamyine City is more than 20 kilometers long, and it is impossible to bloom more and kill it from all directions, so that all the enemy's defense points can play a role, and taking this means to attack the city is purely looking for death. The correct approach is to choose a point, concentrate on the breakthrough, and then use this gap to spread out to the two wings and slowly expand the results.

Due to the shelling of both the eastern and southern fronts, the top brass of the Siamese army did not know that the An Jia army would launch an attack from that direction, so they could only distribute their forces evenly to the east and south flanks, but they paid more attention to the defense of the eastern front, because the defensive positions on the eastern front were all built on the plains, while the southern front was from south to north, with a gentle slope four kilometers long and an altitude of nearly 100 meters, and relatively speaking, it was easier for the eastern front to make a breakthrough.

However, Lieutenant General Fu Guanjie, commander of the group army in charge of the siege battle, believed that if the attack was from east to west, when the attack reached the central area of the city, the ridge nearly 100 meters high would suddenly appear in front of him, showing a situation of attacking from the bottom up. On the other hand, if the attack was launched from the southern front, because it was attacking along the ridge, the Siamese army would not be able to take advantage of the existence of this ridge to resist stubbornly.

With the extension of artillery fire, more than 2,000 officers and men of the 33rd Infantry Regiment of the Seventh Motorized Infantry Division began to launch a forcible crossing operation. Carrying rafts and rubber boats, they rushed out of their positions and came to the banks of the Huancheng River, where they lowered the rafts and rubber boats on the river, and the officers and men quickly jumped into them, and then began to paddle and march forward bravely.

When the soldiers rushed to the middle of the river, the Siamese army position, which had been silent on the opposite bank, suddenly shot out countless orange and yellow tongues of fire, bullets shot like a torrential rain on the surface of the river, countless small water columns rose from the river, and from time to time there were a burst of grenadier grenades and mortar shells, and in the huge explosion that hit people's eardrums, a large column of water rushed into the sky.

Many of the officers and men who were crossing the river were shot, some fell into the river from the rafts, some fell into the rubber boats, and some of the rafts or rubber boats were directly hit by the falling shells, and they were either ruthlessly overturned on the surface of the river or the rafts were directly scattered, and the messy logs floated along the surface of the river.

Where is the artillery that has been prepared for a long time to allow the opponent to go wild? A 70mm infantry gun, as well as 60 and 81 caliber mortars, opened fire on the frenzied fiery points on the other side of the river.

The gunners quickly loaded the shells into the chambers, pulled the launch ropes, and the shells whistled out, accurately hitting the target directly.

For a time, large and small fireballs and shrapnel flew from the Siamese army's position, frantically harvesting all the lives touched, and the flesh and blood fragments of the Siamese soldiers and broken machine gun parts flew into the sky together, and sandbags and the wreckage of fortifications were shot everywhere.

At the same time, hundreds of general-purpose machine guns that had reached the bank of the river began to rain a dense rain of bullets on the enemy positions on the opposite bank, hitting those positions that were already incomplete under the shelling, splashing sand and rocks, and many of the enemy were shattered by the dense bullets flying sideways.

The snipers, on the other hand, show their talents, look for targets everywhere, and shoot the heads of those enemies who dare to shoot one by one.

The commander of the Siamese army, Phi Boon Songkan, knew very well that if he could not hold Mawlamyine, his Siamese government would not only have no hope of recovering the country, but also could not even survive, so he arranged a large number of overseers on the front line, and when a group of people on the front-line positions died, another group of people quickly went forward to fill the positions under the guns of the superintendents, and they picked up machine guns and grenadiers, and continued to shoot wildly at the river.

Under the cover of artillery fire and general-purpose machine guns, the first batch of rafts and rubber boats of the An Jia Army had approached the other side of the river, and the officers and men jumped down one after another and rushed towards the position of the Siamese army. It is a pity that at this critical juncture, the skills and tactics of the Siamese learned from the devils came into play, and a row of melon grenades fired from grenadiers and a torrential rain of machine-gun bullets sprinkled like splashes of water, and many officers and soldiers who had not had time to disperse covered their mouths and fell on the way to charge.

"Kill!"

More landing officers and soldiers, shouting for killing, rushed forward. There was no way to hide on this riverbank, which had been cleaned up by the enemy, and if you wanted to survive, you had to fight to break through the enemy's defenses.

The Siamese army was clearly desperate, and despite the quadruple suppression of artillery, mortars, general-purpose machine guns, and snipers, the enemy fought to the death, and from time to time on the thick smoke and flames of the position, looming tongues of fire could be seen from time to time, constantly splashing on the riverbank, and the battle was extremely cruel.

The artillery group once again aimed at the first-line positions of the Siamese army, and shells of various calibers rained down, often a fireball had not yet dissipated, and another fireball had risen, and the thick black and reddish flames were connected into a piece, and the entire first-line position of the Siamese army was repeatedly covered.

The most terrifying thing was the 162 130-mm 19-barrel rocket launchers, and after a round of firing, more than 3,000 rockets with tail flames roared down to the central area of the enemy's position, splitting the front and rear, and turning an area of several hundred meters into a death zone.

The first batch of more than 2,000 officers and men who crossed the river had already suffered one-third casualties, and the surviving officers and men, under the cover of artillery fire, rushed towards the enemy's defensive positions on the river.

In their rear, the second group of river-crossing troops had already begun to force the crossing, and the convoy of the engineer brigade began to move closer to the river, and the sappers began to build bridges while the infantry crossing the river had taken control of the river defense positions on the opposite bank.

The officers and men who crossed the river still used their squads and platoons as strike units to charge at the positions of the Siamese Army in a skirmish line, and in the air, the strong attack planes of the Anjia Air Force constantly used aviation machine guns to strafe the enemy's positions, causing bursts of bloody storms and rains in the enemy's trenches.

Soon, the officers and men of the 33rd Infantry Regiment rushed to the enemy's trenches, and rows of grenades were thrown into the enemy's trenches, and the violent explosions swept all the enemies in the trenches into the smoke of gunpowder.

At this time, the train cannon that had been silent suddenly let out a roar, and the 380mm caliber naval gun shell, under the electromagnetic guidance, roared down on the top of one of the bunkers, such a caliber of naval cannon shells, even the thick steel alloy armor of the battleship can be torn, not to mention these cement piers, almost in the blink of an eye, the bunker was overturned from the roof, the whole bunker is like sitting on a dirt plane, shattered bones, dozens of Siamese soldiers and a large number of light and heavy machine guns in the bunker were buried in the ground together.

The train cannon, which had been quickly reloaded by the power machinery, once again let out a loud roar, and the cannonball seemed to have eyes, opening the skylight of another solid fire. In less than a minute, the third half-hidden bunker had completely disappeared from the world.

"An Jiajun, rush!"

The overwhelming shouts of killing rang out, and the 2nd Bo River Crossing Force had already caught up with the 33rd Infantry Regiment, and the two forces converged and jumped into the trenches.

The officers and men who rushed to the front found that the Siamese army had deployed a firepower point at the bend of the trench, and immediately the flamethrowers in the strike team cleared the obstacles at the turn of the tunnel.

As the Burning Men appeared around the corner, the automatic rifle immediately unleashed a dense rain of bullets, killing all enemies who tried to carry out a suicidal attack.

The troops advanced along the trenches and wiped out all the enemy who tried to approach, by this time the machine gunners had occupied the enemy's trenches, using the existing fortifications, to suppress the enemy's counterattack, and the mortars of the two regiments that crossed the river were all concentrated and fired rapidly at the enemy trenches in the rear to block the way for their reinforcements.

At this time, the vehicles of the engineer brigade were already close to the river, and as the prefabricated elements were thrown into the river, steel bridges were soon built from scratch, connecting the river more than 100 meters wide.

And the assault sappers, who crossed the river in advance, have already begun to try to blast the embankments on the banks of the river to open the way for tanks and armored vehicles.

The commander of the Siamese army had apparently realized that the situation was not good, and with the loss of the Huancheng River, the tanks and armored vehicles of the An Jia army would definitely be in battle soon, although there were still three anti-tank trenches ahead, but there were sappers to carry out blasting operations, and the trench would also be turned into a thoroughfare, so he ordered a decisive charge.

Countless enemies rushed towards the front-line positions, and the grenadiers of the master's logo, Xing, fired dense melon grenades at the positions held by the An Jia army, blowing up shrapnel in the trenches, and many soldiers who were shooting died bravely.

The snipers, who had already crossed the river, quickly plunged into the battle, specifically looking for the enemy's junior officers in the charging ranks, while the mortars, under the guidance of the sky calibrators, inflicted heavy blows on the grenadiers of the Siamese army to suppress the enemy's firepower.

At this time, a group of helicopter gunships came to the sky above the battleground, first hitting those machine gun fire points with rockets, and then, the Vulcan cannon emitted a terrible tongue of fire, like the scythe of death, shooting all the enemies who tried to storm the positions of the Anjia army.

The rocket artillery swarm, which had been reloaded, let out a roar of death, and the dense rockets fell on the almost frantic enemy group, and the earth shook violently, and the continuous fireballs blew the hordes of enemies into bloody flesh and blood.

On the river, the infantry continued to cross the river, and more and more officers and men climbed the river bank and advanced to the enemy's deep positions.

The sappers followed behind the charging officers and men and began to blast the Siamese army's anti-tank trenches, and by the time the third anti-tank trench was taken, the first Leopard II tanks had already crossed the river and rumbled along the road carved out by the sappers towards the city of Mawlamyine.

Massive tanks and armoured vehicles were thrown into urban warfare, which meant that the Siamese army in Mawlamyine was at the end of its rope. After crossing three anti-tank trenches in succession, tanks and armored vehicles pursued the Siamese army who fled into the city in panic, accompanied by the infantry, and fired tongues of fire at the enemy, and shells whistled and exploded in the enemy's ranks, killing and wounding a large number of Siamese troops.

The tanks roared, crushing the Siamese soldiers under their tracks, and the ground was covered in flesh and blood.

In the city of Mawlamyine, most of the buildings were old-fashioned wooden buildings, and the Siamese army did not expect the city defenses to be breached so quickly, panicked, and in the face of the Anjia army's infantry and the precise destruction of all threatening targets by various strike groups, they soon fell into a state of collapse, and there were soldiers everywhere who raised their hands and surrendered.

These captives, of course, were guarded, and the tank and armoured units continued to move forward, covering the infantry with their own shells, while using tank guns and machine guns to eliminate the fire points hidden in the buildings. If you come across a stronghold that is so strong that even tank guns and bazookas can't handle it, you ask the air force for help, and as the bombs fall, everything will fall to dust.

The fighting in Mawlamyine continued until the next day, and the last building to be conquered was a six-storey building in the dock area, which had already collapsed in half during the previous air force bombardment, but the Siamese army remained hiding in it for the last resistance. After using tank guns to attack to no avail, the officers and men of the front line asked the train guns to solve the problem.

As a result, four huge shells of 380mm caliber fell in succession, directly blowing the building apart, and then collapsed with a bang. When the officers and soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, in a house on the basement floor, they found the commander-in-chief of the Siamese army, Phibun, who had been killed by the explosion of a shell. Song Kan, along with his loyal followers, has finally completely removed a cancer that has plagued the South China regime for a long time.

With the elimination of the command center of the Siamese army, the next war in southern Burma will be much easier, and the Siamese army, which has lost its spirit, will inevitably become mediocre, and it will be a matter of time before it perishes.

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