In order to constantly overcome the unexpected, it is necessary to have two special surnames: one is the intellect that can still shine an inner glimmer to illuminate the truth in this vast darkness; The second is the courage to dare to follow this glimmer of light.

…… Clausetz was in the world's attention, Dai Anlan and Takeuchi Kuan, the two commanders with their own representative surnames, took the same ancient city as the stage, and finally collided with a knife-edge spark. Both of them knew the existence of the other from the mouths of the captives, and both deduced the personal habits and marching style of this opponent from the previous battle examples.

On the evening of March 24, in order to avoid the enemy's edge, Dai Anlan re-established the defensive line, ordered to abandon the outer positions of Echunke and Tantabin, and withdrew the main force of the 200th Division to Tonggu, relying on the fortifications of Tonggu City to repair and snipe layer by layer.

On this day, Takeuchi Kuan took advantage of the powerful heavy artillery of the 55th Division, as well as the advantage of air supremacy, plus a group of subordinates who were drunk by the spirit of bushido and were not afraid of death on the battlefield, and finally seized the outer position of the ancient city. Get ahead of the curve!

At dawn on 25 March, Takeuchi Kuan, who had successfully captured the outlying position of the ancient city, again issued an order for a general attack on the whole army. Most of the civilian buildings in the ancient city were destroyed by the bombardment and repeated shelling, but the defenders of the 200th Division hid in the completed fortifications and the damage was not serious. During the day, although he was forced to withdraw part of his position due to the enemy's strong firepower, during the night Dai Anlan organized an assault department and recaptured his position.

On this day, although the 55th Division under the command of Takeuchi Kuan was still violent, in the face of the fortifications that had already been built in the ancient city of Tong, as well as the officers and men of the 200th Division with high morale, they did not make any progress in actual life, and they were organized by Dai Anlan to carry out a counter-assault at night, and they also paid a considerable price. Although the two commanders didn't say it, they both understood that Dai Anlan was well prepared in the same ancient city and pulled back a game!

On 26 March, the commander of Takeuchi's Kuan Division mobilized three wings to besiege Tonggu City at the same time, and placed the main attack point in the northwest corner of Tonggu City. In the face of the enemy's absolute superiority and the onslaught of air support and artillery coordination, the position of the 600th Regiment of the 200th Division was broken through, and although several counter-charges were organized, it finally had to withdraw from the battlefield and the Nanyang Railway Station in the ancient city was lost. At this point, Takeuchi completely cut off all the air, waterway, road, and railway communication channels of the 200th Division from the outside world.

After occupying the Nanyang Railway Station, he blocked the other squadrons and entered the possibility of supporting the ancient city through the railway, completely isolating the 200th Division. As a famous general who is good at attacking, Takeuchi Kuan certainly knows the tactical essence of "embattled". On this day, Takeuchi finally tore a crack in the defensive net arranged by Dai Anlan and scored another point.

On March 27, Takeuchi Kuan continued to mobilize heavy troops to storm Tonggucheng, in the face of the enemy's too strong artillery support and air superiority, Dai Anlan decisively ordered the whole line to retreat, and the 55th Division rushed into Tonggucheng, but they soon found that they were surrounded by the middle [***] team, and they had to fight hard with the middle [***] team at close range!

The armies of the two sides were mixed up, and the air superiority of the armies, the artillery, and the rat throwers could not be used. Putting aside these factors, in terms of light weapons alone, the equipment of the 200th Division was no worse than that of the 55th Division, and it also had a greater geographical advantage, and the 200th Division dealt a heavy blow to the enemy. However, in the close-range melee, in the face of the fierce counterattack of the soldiers, the 599th Regiment, which was responsible for the defense, also paid a heavy price.

At the same time, the new 22nd Division of the Chinese Fifth Army finally advanced to the outskirts of Tonggu City, and in the vicinity of the Junkergang military airfield on the north side of Tongchengcheng, an encounter broke out with the 55th Division.

On this day, Dai Anlan judged the situation and was able to immediately take the initiative to abandon the position, design an ambush circle to force the enemy to directly engage in a hand-to-hand confrontation, so that the army lost the advantage of air power and artillery support, and although he did not recover Nanyang Station, he inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, and once again pulled the duel between the two famous generals to the horizontal line.

At this time, Dai Anlan's face finally showed a long-lost smile again. Tonggucheng is still firmly in his hands, as long as the 22nd Division recovers Nanyang Railway Station, they can be linked. The two divisions combined have nearly 20,000 people, plus they can rely on the ancient city to defend and counterattack, no matter how big Takeuchi's appetite is, how invincible, after ten days of fierce fighting with the ancient city, he should also know clearly that in this case, it is impossible to conquer the ancient city, right?

Coupled with Sun Liren's 38th Division, which is rapidly approaching the ancient city, the strength of the two sides will reach a balance, and I believe that if the stalemate continues, the strength of the two sides will continue to slowly reverse.

"If the main forces of the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army can really assemble in Tonggucheng, those British, who can run faster than rabbits when they see the bad situation, but can become more ferocious than wolves when they see that they are cheap, will probably turn around and join our camp to launch a fierce attack on Takeuchi's 55th Division, right?"

Leaning over again, carefully observing the huge combat sand table placed in the division headquarters, and quickly deducing in his heart the possible movements and possible battles between the enemy and us in the next few days, Dai Anlan gently rubbed his nose, at this time, his eyes appeared in front of him, although he was young, but he could fight in danger of the fierce soldiers, and the shells poured over them like raindrops, with a relaxed smile, the wine glass in his hand and the thunder that looked at each other, and smelled the heat, The best Moutai with the fragrance of rising wine.

"Takeuchi Kan, you are recognized as the best attacking general in this army, and now I really want to see if you are as invulnerable in defense as your attacks."

In muttering to himself, Dai Anlan narrowed his eyes slightly, and Major General Zhou Zhizai, the chief of staff of Major General Zhou Zhizai, who had been following Dai Anlan's side, and Gao Jiren, the deputy division commander of Major General, glanced at each other, and finally Chief of Staff Zhou Zhizai smiled and said: "If I were Takeuchi Kuan, what I would have to think about now would probably not be to attack, but how to retreat." ”

Dai Anlan nodded subconsciously at first, but he quickly shook his head again.

And it was at the headquarters of the 55th Division opposite the ancient city that Takeuchi was contemplating the huge battle map hanging on the wall, and his most powerful assistant, Takahashi Shinosa, was also standing quietly behind him. I don't know how long I stood quietly like this, but Takeuchi suddenly asked, "Takahashi-kun, what do you think?" ”

In the face of the fact that the 22nd Division of the Chinese New Fifth Army rushed to the outskirts of Tonggu City, was already near the Junkergang Military Airport, and the 55th Division broke out into an encounter station, and the 38th Division also rushed to the starry night, and the strength of the two sides was slowly tilting, even Zhou Zhizai, chief of staff of the 200th Division, said something like "If I were Takeuchi Kuan, what I would have to consider now would probably not be to attack, but how to retreat."

However, the corners of Takahashi Shinosa's mouth slowly raised, but there was a smile in his hand, and he said in a deep voice: "The 200 divisions are worthy of being the elite trump card in the hands of the Zhina, with only one division of more than 9,000 people, in the absence of air support and the lack of heavy weapons, they actually fought with us vigorously. I think that if we can completely annihilate this army in Tonggucheng, we will definitely be able to inflict irreparable damage on the confidence of the people of China, and create a good good thing for our 55th Division to enter Yunnan through the Yunnan-Burma Highway and successfully force the political axe of China to surrender to the empire! ”

The battle had reached such an extent that both sides seemed to have grabbed the sleeve of the goddess of victory, and both showed smiles that were in their hands. It was in this kind of thorough analysis and measurement, in the sporadic confrontations inside and outside the ancient city, in the course of 10 days, the ancient city of Tonggu, which had been devastated by war, with broken walls everywhere and in dilapidation, finally ushered in the day of March 28, 1942.

March 28th, sunny, monsoon!

The [***] team, which has been on passive defense, finally took the initiative to attack on the battlefield for the first time.

Under the command of division commander Liao Yaoxiang, the newly formed 22nd Division concentrated the main forces of the division and, under the cover of artillery, launched the most fierce onslaught on the Nanyang Railway Station occupied by the 55th Division. It was on this day that the artillery regiment of the newly formed 22nd Division even engaged in an artillery battle with the enemy's artillery and successfully destroyed the enemy's artillery position.

The bombers of the Yueben Air Unit, which was fighting in coordination with the 55th Division, took off several times in an attempt to bomb the artillery positions of the 22nd Division. However, in the face of the 22nd Division, which had made sufficient preparations and formed a dense air defense network with antiaircraft machine guns, these air forces, which had always done whatever they wanted in the skies over the Burmese battlefield, finally gnawed at the hard bones, and after several attempts, they were still forced to return home.

It was with the support of artillery that the 22nd Division launched wave after wave of attacks on the enemy in the Nanyang Railway Station, and by the afternoon, the 22nd Division had captured the Nanyang Railway Station and some surrounding buildings. But there were still troops who resisted stubbornly in the reinforced concrete structures near the railway station, which could not be destroyed by small-caliber infantry guns.

But in any case, the Nanyang Railway Station had fallen into the hands of the new 22nd Division, and although the two armies had not yet met, the desperate situation of the 200th Division, which was besieged and isolated by the enemy on all sides, was finally opened.

"Report!"

Major General Chief of Staff Zhou Zhi was really smiling at this time, he held up a telegram and said to Dai Anlan: "Division, I just received the information sent by General Stilwell, and our three-star general and deputy commander are really not in vain!" ”

Under Dai Anlan's gaze, Chief of Staff Zhou Zhizai quickly reported: "General Stilwell has been running back and forth between Driftie, Mandalay, and Meimiao recently, urging our troops to speed up their movements, and at the same time personally rushing to the British barracks, asking them to launch a support attack in the despicable area of the Western Front, so that the enemy's 33rd Division on the Western Front will not be able to support the 55th Division, which has been firmly tied up outside the ancient city of Tong, and after ten days of bloody battles, the offensive has been frustrated one after another, and its vitality has been greatly damaged!" ”

After reading this information, Zhou Zhi continued: "General Stilwell also specially reminded us that he has seen with his own eyes the British [***] armored troops, and they have already driven out of the Prome where they are stationed, and marched towards Ponde! ”

The British [***] team finally returned to take the initiative to participate in the battle! Whether it's for the sake of face or for the sake of face, or because it's really impossible to stay out of the matter, although it was just an attack to support the surname, the British [***] team finally stopped their rout all the way, and finally mustered up the courage to face the army again!

Hearing this most important news, Dai Anlan was silent.

All of this, one piece of information after another, shows that the battle to defend the ancient city seems to have really come to a perfect end in the end. And the development of the war situation was more as General Stilwell predicted...... The 200th Division went deep alone, held on to the ancient city of Tong, attracted the 55th Division to attack the enemy from the middle line, used defensive warfare to continuously consume the enemy's strength and morale, and finally mobilized superior forces to defeat the 55th Division outside the ancient city, thus opening up the passage to recover Rangoon!

The 200 divisions fought a bloody battle with the ancient city for ten days, facing the army known as the "Demon Sword Muramasa", and the generals attacked and then attacked the heavenly surname to the limit of Takeuchi Kuan, it was really heavy casualties, I don't know how many times, the defense network was broken by the enemy, the officers and soldiers of the 200 division, in the face of such a fierce attack, they used their unrepentant military soul and life, forced on the crack torn by the enemy, and re-woven a flesh and blood wall that would never be allowed to fall as long as there was still a breath left!

Only the people closest to Dai Anlan in the division headquarters clearly know what kind of pressure Dai Anlan has been under these days. By this time, the dawn of victory was already in sight, and it was no wonder that the people in the division headquarters, even the chief of staff Zhou Zhizai and the division commander Gao Jiren, who had always been calm and calm, couldn't help but smile on their faces.

"But, don't you think it's a little strange for Takeuchi to behave now?"

Dai Anlan pointed to the triangular paper flag inserted on the sand table to represent the distribution of troops between the two sides, and said thoughtfully: "Since Takeuchi Kuan sent an assault team to capture an officer from us, he should have understood the strategic intentions of our army ten days ago. He clearly knew that all this was a preset trap for our army, and he clearly knew that a large number of reinforcements were rapidly gathering in Tonggucheng, and he was desperately attacking a few days ago, wanting to conquer Tonggucheng before our reinforcements arrived, and this behavior was understandable, but now that our reinforcements had arrived, it was absolutely impossible for him to break through Tonggucheng and destroy our 200 divisions. In this case, Takeuchi should shrink his forces and fight us head-on, why did he still scatter his troops around the ancient city and continue to encircle us? You must know that the battle line is too long, and even if his division is more numerous than our two divisions combined, it will still be eaten by us by concentrating superior forces and eating it in one bite on the local battlefield! ”

Hearing Dai Anlan's words, Zhou Zhizai and Gao Jiren couldn't help frowning, and after a long time, Zhou Zhizai said: "Maybe it's because Takeuchi miscalculated the situation and thought that the British would not send troops, so they would have no fear." Under such circumstances, even if our Fifth and Sixth armies and 100,000 troops are all assembled, as long as their 33rd Division on the Western Front can arrive, in terms of strength, more than 40,000 people in the two divisions will be enough to fight with our two armies! ”

Dai Anlan nodded at first, but he quickly shook his head vigorously, "No, if it's just like this, Takeuchi Kuan is not qualified to be in the talented Yuben Military Department, known as 'Demon Sword Muramasa'!" There must be something we've all missed! ”

Leaving the combat sand table that covered all the terrain of Tonggu and its periphery, Dai Anlan walked quickly to the wall with a huge military map of Burma, when he could finally put down the local battlefield of Tonggucheng, and looked at the entire Burma battlefield with the eyes of a strategist, looked at the blue arrows on the map representing the main attack direction of the three divisions of the city, looked at the Yunnan-Burma Highway that used to pass through the entire territory of Myanmar and continuously transported all kinds of aid materials to China, looked at the countries around Myanmar, and looked at the territory of Myanmar and the international line. The mountains, the rivers, the jungles, Dai Anlan's brain was also spinning rapidly.

Obviously, the victory is in hand, and everything is progressing according to the plan, but I don't know why, Dai Anlan, who has experienced a hundred battles, smells danger in the air!

Suddenly, Dianlan's gaze froze on a certain location on the map. Because looking at the word "Xiangji", Dai Anlan thought of a piece of information he had received a few days ago, because that information did not have the most direct conflict of interest with himself, and Dai Anlan did not pay much attention to it.

It was on 24 March that an unknown force of the enemy, passing through the mountains of eastern Burma, suddenly captured the expeditionary force's flank and strategically important position of Chang Kyi, and seized a large amount of military supplies hoarded there. It is the gateway to China, and it is also the main artery related to the life and death of the 100,000 hot-blooded men of the expeditionary force, and it must not be lost. Du Yuming, commander of the Fifth Army, immediately led his troops to advance towards Changji, and after two days of fierce fighting, the army finally recovered Shangji when the army took the initiative to retreat. From the seized documents, it can be ascertained that this unit that rushed along the border between Burma and Thailand to attack Sang Ji was the third wing under the 56th Division of the Chinese Army.

If Lieutenant General Takeuchi is recognized by the Army Department as the best at attacking, then the 56th Division of the Army is recognized as the most elite and the most capable of creating war miracles!

All the officers and men of this division were composed of industrial workers from the Honshu shipyards, so they were also called the "Honshu Corps." A considerable number of these workers who relied on the shipbuilding industry for their survival had received professional education, had a strong sense of hierarchy, and their spirit of loyalty to the emperor was far higher than that of other troops. And their bodies, accustomed to tools and all kinds of work, are more powerful and stronger than those of farmers and fishermen.

This unit has even created a series of the most "glorious" glorious achievements in China, including the September 18 Incident and the Nanjing Massacre, which shocked China and the rest of the world, and created 300,000 Chinese people's souls! It is in the midst of wars and massacres that this army has grown up with blood and corpses all over the ground, until it has become an iron-blooded army that once it is put into battle, whether it is an officer or a soldier, it will fall into a frenzy!

It is because of their courage and good fighting, because of their fearlessness of death, because of their absolute fanaticism for the emperor, and because of their brilliant achievements, that they have won the title of "Dragon Division" that is absolutely worthy of pride!

The commander of the 56th Division, Masao Watanabe, graduated from the Tokyo Army University and was a master of mountain and jungle warfare. And his fighting style ...... If the commander of the 55th Division, Takeuchi Hiroshi, is the demon sword Muramasa who is best at frontal attacks, then this Lieutenant General Watanabe Masao is the battlefield wyvern who likes surprise operations the most and takes the theory of "soldiers' tricks" to the limit!

"According to the information transmitted by the British Allies, the 56th Division did not join the Burma battlefield, so how could their third wing appear in Changji? However, this kind of detachment from the supply line, the fact that the army goes deep alone without any logistical support, hits and leaves with one blow, and can fight tough battles when necessary is indeed in line with the style of the 56th Division and Masao Watanabe......"

Thinking of this, Dai Anlan's heart suddenly pulled up a lightning bolt that was extremely bright, and a chill that almost even the bone marrow was about to be frozen, spread throughout his whole body in an instant, and almost at the same time, a combat staff officer who grabbed the phone with a smile on his face, only listened to a few words, and the smile on his face was completely frozen.

After being stunned for half a minute, the combat staff officer woke up like a dream, at this time he had forgotten the most basic etiquette, just stared at Dai Anlan, straightened his neck, and shouted loudly: "Division, I just received information from the 22nd Division, and the 56th Division of the Yue Army has been found in the Nanpao Valley twenty kilometers north of Lawu!" ”

Dai Anlan only felt a spicy feeling coming from his scalp, sure enough, it was the 56th Division, a unit that was good at using strange soldiers, and without any logistical supplies, it was close to the Thai border and went deep alone, and played such a classic tactic of a 1,500-kilometer long-distance attack!

As the supreme commander of the 200th Division, Dai Anlan was the fastest to come to his senses, and he shouted: "How many troops does the enemy have? ”

If the information transmitted by Commander Du Yuming is not wrong, if the enemy is really only the third wing under the 56th Division, even if they are strange soldiers and can support Takeuchi Kuan, but they are only a wing after all, and their strength is limited, and in the face of the [***] team that is constantly gathering in the ancient city, it will still not change the final battle situation!

Just as everyone was watching, the combat staff officer who was holding the phone in his hand and still listening to the report on the other side had a trace of trilling in his voice: "It's the main force of the 56th Division, and their entire division is here!" No, the staff of the 22nd Division said that according to their judgment, this group of enemies was not only the main force of the 56th Division, but also equipped with heavy artillery regiments, automobile regiments, and tank regiments directly under the group army! In terms of actual combat effectiveness, they are likely to have surpassed two ordinary divisions! ”

Every word spoken by this combat staff officer was like the most powerful thunderbolt, which bombarded everyone's ears and shook the scalps of everyone present.

The day before yesterday, they were one division against one division of the enemy; Yesterday they were two divisions against one division of the enemy; To this day, I thought that the victory was in my hands, but who would have thought that the tide of the battle would be reversed in an instant, and it would become two divisions, two divisions and regiments of the enemy, plus a heavy artillery regiment, an automobile regiment and a tank regiment directly under the group army! This has not yet been calculated, in order to cooperate with the actions of the 56th Division, it is said that the 15th Group Army will deploy how many aviation units will be deployed for this "Dragon Division" for air support!

No wonder the reinforcements have arrived, Takeuchi Kuan still maintains the siege of the ancient city, no wonder he can have nothing to fear!

"Suzu ......"

Another telephone rang, Chief of Staff Zhou Zhi flew a few steps further, grabbed the phone, and after listening to a few words, he quickly reported to Dai Anlan: "Division, the search company of the enemy's 56th Division has crossed the Xitang River, and it seems that it is going to join forces with the 55th Division to completely encircle our army!" ”

"Suzu ......"

Everyone hadn't finished digesting this series of absolute accidents, and they were sent to the eighteenth layer of hell in an instant, and the third phone rang again, and this time it was the deputy division commander Gao Jiren who picked up the phone, he quietly listened to what the other party said, and his face slowly raised a weird expression to the extreme.

"yes, got it."

Interrupting the call in the briefest way possible, Gao Jiren said to Dai Anlan: "Division, that three-star Admiral Stilwell has made a new move, and he ordered the 96th Division to quickly rush to the vicinity of Ye Daxi, and join our 200th and 22nd Divisions to destroy the enemy forces attacking Tonggu. ”

Offensive?!

Hearing these words, the faces of everyone in the division headquarters became weird, and they were silent for a long time, and the chief of staff, Zhou Zhizai, gently supported the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said with a wry smile: "I finally understand today what American humor is." ”

"Humor?" Deputy division commander Gao Jiren snorted lightly: "I don't think this is humor, nor is it ignorance of the current situation. is not his own soldier, of course, there is no need to feel distressed, as long as there is a one-thousandth chance of victory, his old man will not give up, or continue to work hard to promote the grand strategy he formulated to annihilate the enemy army in Tonggu, and then recover Rangoon. ”

On 28 March, when the cards of both sides were opened, the balance of victory once again tilted in favor of the army.

The battle continued into the afternoon, and when the 56th Division appeared, the battlefield suddenly fell into a rare calm. Both sides are constantly redeploying their defenses, and everywhere you can see the queues of troops moving.

Whether it was for Dai Anlan, Takeuchi Kan, or Liao Yaoxiang and Watanabe Masao, this night was destined to be sleepless.

In the midst of the busyness and the depression before the mountain rain came, the time finally slowly moved to March 29.

At the same time, Masao Watanabe also commanded the 56th Division to launch a fierce attack on the Xitang River Bridge, forming a front and rear encirclement of the 200 divisions. The 22nd Division of the Chinese Army continued to storm the Nanyang Railway Station, and although it finally occupied the Nanyang Railway Station, it was still unable to join the 200th Division due to the stubborn resistance of the Japanese army and the slow progress.

Seeing that the 200th Division was under heavy siege and that the entire army would be destroyed once the ancient city of Tongcheng was broken, Du Yuming, commander of the Fifth Army, hurriedly transferred the 96th Division to the ancient city of Tonggu by rail, but when the military train arrived at Binwenna Station, it was bombed by the air force and the military train derailed.

It was under these circumstances that General Stilwell personally took a plane to the front line on the outskirts of Tonggu City and urged the 22nd Division to launch an attack on the 55th and 56th Divisions of the Japanese Army.

"Only by launching an all-out attack on the enemy can we save the 200 divisions that are under siege and win the final victory in the battle of Tonggu!"

Listening to General Stilwell's words, in the face of the three-star general's personal supervision, Liao Yaoxiang, the commander of the 22nd Division, shook his head again and again...... What kind of joke is he asking him to take the initiative to attack an ordinary division and a reinforced division with a strength of more than 10,000 men in one division against an enemy who is well-trained and well-equipped and has air supremacy?

What's the difference between that and hitting a rock with an egg?!

Being able to capture Nanyang Railway Station and defend this last life passage for the 200th Division is already the limit of what the 22nd Division can do when the strong enemy is around!

The 200 divisions led by Dai Anlan had already fought fiercely for ten days and ten nights in the same ancient city, facing an enemy four times his size and possessing absolute air supremacy, and had already squeezed out the last bit of strength. The whole army lacked food, ammunition, and medicine, and the only thing that was not lacking was the uncontrollable groaning of the wounded at night, and the corpses left behind by both the enemy and the enemy in the bombardment and fierce fighting.

Under such circumstances, Stilwell was still asking the 200th Division to stick to the ancient city, and the 22nd Division to attack on all fronts!

Liao Yaoxiang looked at General Stilwell, who was furious because he resisted the order, and said: "I'm sorry, Your Excellency General, I can't let the 22nd Division face such a powerful enemy, and take the initiative to fight with them, I am responsible for the lives of my subordinates!" Moreover, I must hold the Nanyang Railway Station, only in this way can the 200 divisions break out of the encirclement. ”

"Then you're not responsible for my orders?"

Stilwell, the deputy commander of his own country who did not dispatch a single soldier, could only mobilize the troops to implement the grand strategy according to his own intentions through constant running and constant mediation, and the pent-up anger and depressed flames for many days finally broke out when he heard the words "200 divisions can break out of the encirclement", he waved his arms and roared loudly: "You must carry out my orders, do you hear, if you dare to disobey the order, I will punish you with military law!" ”

Listening to these words, Liao Yaoxiang's eyes suddenly became indifferent. Although everyone has the same enemy, although Stilwell does have superior strengths and more fighting spirit than young people, Stilwell is after all a three-star general of the Americans, not a Chinese.

Stilwell didn't know that when he was still continuing to work hard to promote the "Battle of Tonggu" and was still trying to command the [***] team to launch a main attack in the form of eggs hitting stones, he ran for a long time before he finally persuaded and saw with his own eyes that the British [***] team that was going to the battlefield was actually just making a look in front of him.

The British [***] team on the despicable battlefield on the Western Front actually did not take any initiative to attack at all to support the battle of the [***] team. The humble army stationed in them remained motionless, and in a posture of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, they watched the 200th Division and the 55th Division of the Chinese Army engage in a fierce battle for more than 10 days in such a small place as Tonggucheng.

It was on this day of 29 March that the British [***] team met the assault troops of the 33rd Division of the Chinese Army at Pangde, 50 kilometers south of Beimu, and the British [***] team was once again defeated and overwhelmed, killing only more than 500 people and capturing more than 100 people, so the Japanese assault troops captured 22 tanks, more than 30 armored vehicles, more than 20 big words, and more than 160 cars!

was beaten so embarrassed, but on this day, the British Army Command in Burma even sent a report to the squadron, "Our army is now taking a local offensive to cooperate with the Allied actions!" ”

At this time, because of the difference in the combat strength of the Chinese and Yueben armies in the Burma battlefield, because the United States had promised to support the Burma battlefield, but in the end the 10th Air Brigade transferred to North Africa was not in place, because Stilwell, a three-star general who really wanted to win, because the British "allies" were selfish and wishful thinking, the two sides invested nearly 100,000 troops, and the battle to defend the ancient city for more than ten days was inevitably drawn to an end.

On the evening of 30 March, the 200th Division, which received the order of Commander Du Yuming to break through the siege, under the cover of the 22nd Division, fought a bloody road from the north side of Nanyang Station.

Under the protection of the special service platoon led by Lei Zhen and the guard battalion directly under the division, they crossed the Xitang River, Dai Anlan turned around, his expression was complicated and he looked at the guns and cannons that were completely covered by the sound of guns one after another, under the black canopy, a fire exploded from time to time, and I don't know how many people roared and struggled in the dark Tonggucheng, and was silent for a long, long time before he said softly: "We have died so many people and shed so much blood, and as a result, the British ran away, and the Americans used us as cannon fodder, and they didn't treat us as Chengren at all, What is the meaning of this battle? ”

"What is a momentary failure? As long as we continue to resist foreign humiliation, as long as our soldiers' vocation is not lost, sooner or later, we will use our own hands to snatch back what we have lost here! Just when Dai Anlan's body was slightly shocked, Lei Zhen stretched out his hand and pointed to the ancient city of Tonggu, which was constantly boiling in the artillery fire, and said proudly: "What's more, we didn't lose!" With only 9,000 men here, we withstood the onslaught of more than 20,000 enemies for more than ten days, and made them pay the price of at least 5,000 men! Although we have not achieved a strategic victory, while inflicting heavy losses on the enemy, we have made those who think they are above the top re-acquaint themselves with the Chinese and re-acquainted with the [***] people among us on the world stage! I believe that from the day the battle for the defense of Tonggu began, the name of Dai Anlan was destined to become famous in the world! ”

Dai Anlan shook his head again and again, but looking at Lei Zhen's eyes shining in the dark, watching him talk proudly, an indescribable warmth, or relief, slowly rose from the bottom of Dai Anlan's heart.

At this moment when the country and the nation are in danger, as a professional soldier, he is not afraid of death, but Dai Anlan is really afraid of the blood of himself and his subordinates, and it is meaningless to shed.

Lei Zhen is right!

In the battle to defend Tonggu, the army fought a bloody battle for 12 days, and finally not only transferred the 56th Division, but also put the 18th Division into the Tonggu battlefield. In the end, the three Chinese divisions were actually fighting with three divisions, but in this case, the army only gained an empty city that was bombed and almost turned into ruins.

Before withdrawing from Tonggucheng, Dai Anlan could still be in danger, and ordered Zheng Tingji, the infantry commander of the 200th Division, to carry out a feint attack on the 55th Division, and after attracting the attention of the enemy's main force, he still left a small number of troops to contain the enemy when he retreated. In the history of world warfare, this is a position dismantling battle that can be recorded in the annals of classic war examples.

Dai Anlan commanded the 200th Division, which was four times larger than himself in the absence of heavy weapons, almost no anti-aircraft firepower, and no air supremacy, and was also equipped with special forces and air force, in a fierce battle for 12 days, and finally annihilated more than 5,000 enemy troops. In the face of this achievement, the United States officially declared that the Battle of Dongkwa was "the longest defensive operation of all Burma defense battles, and won great honor for the division and its commander"!

And the military has to admit that the battle of Tonggu was one of the most difficult battles they have ever experienced, and they never imagined that they would encounter such a high-spirited and resolute army on the battlefield in Burma. Even Hideki Tojo, the general of the army and the number one promoter of the war, declared in public at the meeting that the battle of Tonggu had never been fought hard since the end of the Lushun War!

(To be continued)