With the end of the battle to defend Tonggu, the time has slowly passed to April 1942. It was in the small country of Burma that the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the Invading Army of Burma invested 200,000 troops to compete for it, and the situation on the battlefield was really changing rapidly.

On 5 April, in order to reconcile the selfish British [***] team and General Stilwell, who was too victorious, fought bloody battles on the battlefield but was finally forced to join the Chinese expeditionary force in the ancient city because of strategic failure, and a huge rift that had inevitably appeared in the three sides, in order to ensure the smooth flow of the Yunnan-Burma highway, Chiang Kai-shek, who was the commander-in-chief of the Burma Theater, arrived at the headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Meimiao, Burma, by plane, where he personally commanded the battle situation and redeployed the battle plan.

The commander of a country goes to a foreign battlefield in person, of course, this is an absolutely helpless move, but, at least...... On the battlefield in Burma, the contradictions caused by the political differences and different strategic goals of the three countries were finally temporarily alleviated because of Chiang Kai-shek's personal presence on the battlefield and his personal command.

The 200th Division, which had experienced the defense of Tonggu and was already exhausted by the elite backbone, was ordered to attack Tangji, which was occupied by the Yuben army, after a short rest.

At dawn on 25 April, the 200th Division, under the command of Dai Anlan, had already pressed the entire line outside Tangji City.

At this time, because the railway line was blocked by enemy bombers, and because of the urgency of time, the artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, anti-aircraft machine guns, and other heavy weapons that could not be delivered to the front line at the first time have all reached their masters through various means.

Looking at the dozens of tanks and armored vehicles at the forefront of the battlefield, ready to launch the most fierce group charge against the enemy's position at any time, looking at the rear of their position, on the artillery regimental position, lined up in row after row, the black hole hole cannon has been raised, as long as he gives an order, he will raise a ball of death flames and gunpowder smoke on the enemy's position, Dai Anlan has been calm since the 200th Division took the initiative to withdraw from Tonggucheng, and he can hardly find a trace of fluctuation on his face, and finally raised a smile that is not easy to detect.

In the battle of Tonggu, the 200th Division, which received the most brutal baptism of war, the 200th Division, which was finally armed with heavy weapons, the 200th Division, which has lost a long time on the battlefield, and the 200th Division, which has been resting for nearly a month, is now a fierce lion that smells blood, although under the command of his division commander, it can barely maintain stability, but it is definitely on the verge of breaking out!

"The 55th Division, led by Takeuchi Kan, was four times the strength of our 200 divisions, and with the support of air power, they stormed the ancient city for twelve days, but they did not break through our defensive line. Today, Feng Shui is turning, and I am attacking the city defended by their army with four times the strength of their troops! ”

Everyone was silent, quietly listening to what Commander Dai Anlan said, Commander Dai Anlan's gaze had already skipped over Tangji City in front of him, and fell directly on the deep black canopy in the distance, deeply inhaling the wisps of hot air unique to the southern country even in the early morning, Dai Anlan suddenly let out a roar that shook the audience: "Who is strong and who is weak, let's use the facts of war to speak!" The whole army is on the offensive!! ”

The sound of almost continuous artillery bombardment shattered the pre-dawn silence in an instant. Quietly looking at the clouds of smoke and bright flames on the enemy position in the distance, the officers and soldiers of the 200th Division who were about to charge the enemy position, everyone pursed their lips, but ...... Look into their eyes, in their eyes, not the horror of war, not the weakness of death, but the pleasure of revenge, but a kind of anger, all depression, will completely explode in an instant!

When the bombardment of the platoon artillery finally ended, there was chaos on the enemy's position, a moan, a scream, a smoke of gunpowder, a trace of hot and blazing sunshine, piercing the darkness, spilling the early morning sun on this battlefield destined to become a hell of sincerity.

It's finally dawn!

"Cavalry regiment, charge! Crush their defenses, crush their counterattacks, crush their obstacles, crush their bullshit bushido! ”

In the roar of the commander of the cavalry regiment, the cavalry regiment boiled, and they launched the first wave of attacks on Tangji with the terrifying momentum of thousands of troops galloping.

That's right, it's the momentum of thousands of troops galloping!

You must not think that the first batch of the first to attack Tangji, under the enemy's heavy machine gun fire, against the enemy's infantry sniping, a third of the enemy's A-class marksmen, with a fierce attitude of not afraid of death, with the most crazy straight line attack, the 200th division of the cavalry regiment that the whole army pressed the border, just like the cavalry squadron that captured the Junkergang military airfield, is a force composed of all soldiers on horseback.

Don't forget, the 200th Division is the first mechanized division in Asia and the fourth in the world! Don't forget that the most powerful thing about the 200 divisions is not only their fighting spirit, but also the incredible number of tanks and armored vehicles they are equipped with!

The first cavalry regiment to launch a fierce assault on the enemy, to put it bluntly, was a tank regiment consisting of tanks and armored vehicles, all wrapped in steel, and launched a fierce attack on the enemy's positions with the roar of diesel engines!

In the face of the attack of the 200th Division, the commander of the army defending Tangji was really stunned, stupid, and crazy! According to the convention, according to the reason, and according to the most basic military common sense, when the enemy attacks the cities they defend, especially when there are tank regiments and other fierce attacking troops participating in the battle, of course, it is necessary to concentrate superior forces, attack the points they are defending, and then use small forces to make feints in other directions.

But this group of enemies, like a group of crazy people who don't know how to write the word dead, they used the tank regiment to the east of Tangji as the main attack, and even placed the three infantry regiments in the west, south, and north directions at the same time, their commander just gave the order to attack, the dust from the platoon artillery bombardment was still fluttering in the air, the tank regiment had not yet launched the main attack, and those infantry regiments that should have feinted, assisted, and should have retreated as soon as they were beaten were already like a group of madmen, rushing over the mountains and fields. That kind of astonishing momentum, the earth-shattering shouting and killing, and the charge of the infantry regiment actually raised a murderous aura that was more fierce than the attack of the tank regiment!

is so unreasonable, so unscrupulous, and the whole army that doesn't even leave the reserves behind as soon as it makes a move, it is really dumbfounded and at a loss!

"Report, the outer positions of our army have been lost, and the enemy has occupied the western heights!"

"Report, Captain Sasaki sent an urgent telegram that the enemy launched a non-stop onslaught on the position with the whole regiment of troops before the shelling ended, and now the enemy and us have started a close battle, if there is no support, Captain Sasaki should lead the whole army to live and die with the position, and serve the emperor!"

"Report, the number of infantry artillery on the eastern battlefield of our army is insufficient to suppress the onslaught of the enemy's tank troops, and the supreme commander of the defensive outer positions on the eastern side, Captain Ono, has been martyred!"

"Report, the outer positions on the north side of our army have been lost!"

…… In the face of the information transmitted one after another, the captain of the army who was responsible for defending Tangji City was really going crazy, he pulled out his saber and slashed it on a hard rock, in the spark splash, this only an hour after the start of the war, he lost all the peripheral positions of the city in the southeast and northwest one after another, the enemy has come to the city, and the captain of the wing who must fight to the death is panting and roaring: "Which unit is this, and who is their commander?" Am I fighting against an army, or am I fighting against a bunch of crazy people?! ”

In the wing headquarters, a group of officers looked at each other, and finally a lieutenant, cautiously and uncertainly, said: "Judging by their size, it should be a division." Could it be that this unit fought with the 55th Division of our army for 12 days in Tonggucheng, and finally the 200th Division of the Zhina people was safely withdrawn? ”

Two hundred divisions!

No matter how high these soldiers are and how disdainful they are to the [***] people, but when they hear these three words, everyone's face twitches fiercely. At this time, everyone present, who doesn't know, the 200th Division is the trump card of the ace of the [***] team, a hard-blooded force that can fight tough battles and play with their lives, even the soldiers of their own country are dumbfounded and respected, and their division commander Dai Anlan is a super war maniac who dares to order the artillery regiment to carry out indiscriminate coverage and artillery bombardment against his own headquarters when the division headquarters is raided?!

Ammunition was replenished, soldiers were replenished, heavy weapons were replenished, spirits were replenished, and physical strength was restored, and the whole division, whether it was a grassroots soldier or a senior officer, rolled in the blood pool of war from beginning to end in two circles, so that such a unit returned to the battlefield again, and it is no wonder that the enemy forced them to the edge of a decisive battle as soon as they made a move!

"The cavalry regiment has completed its combat mission, giving way to the eastern side, if the enemy wants to flee from that direction, let them flee! As for the 598th, 599th, and 600th regiments, first seize the commanding heights on the west, south, and north sides, set up anti-aircraft machine gun positions, and prevent the enemy's air force from supporting, and then organize commandos to attack the city with all their might! ”

No one really could have imagined that in Dai Anlan's tough battle, there were also feints, and the troops he set up as feints turned out to be the tank regiment with the strongest combat strength and the strongest attack ability among the 200 divisions!

The heights on the south, west, and north sides were all occupied by the enemy, and the artillery of the 200th Division could directly smash the shells to any corner of Tangji City from a high position, but what gave the defense troops of Tangji City the most headache was the commanding heights on the south side occupied by the 598th Regiment led by the infantry commander Zheng Tingji. Like other fraternal units, the 598th Regiment also set up anti-aircraft machine guns and infantry guns on the commanding heights, but they gave new missions to the anti-aircraft machine guns.

Lei Zhen personally made a 12.7 mm antiaircraft machine gun imported from the Soviet Union, which has a theoretical effective firing range of up to 2,300 meters, and it is said that the bullet can shoot 5,000 or 6,000 meters away without considering the shooting accuracy. Under such a condescending situation, the city's defense forces had almost no means of counterattack, Lei Zhen turned the muzzle of the antiaircraft machine gun and used this antiaircraft machine gun to attack fighters, and through the sighting equipment on the antiaircraft machine gun, he slowly and methodically sniped at all moving targets that were exposed within the firing range. Lei Zhen, who is proficient in sniper skills, wasted more than 300 rounds of ammunition, and I don't know how many frightened soldiers were frightened, but there was no danger, and the sniping accuracy of his anti-aircraft machine gun finally got higher and higher. In the end, within the range of firepower from the commanding heights occupied by the 598th Regiment, no one dared to continue to move around in a big way.

The onslaught was launched from three directions, and then the deliberate withdrawal from the eastern defense zone left a retreat for the enemy. On the one hand, this kind of tactic can allow the enemy to retreat because there is still a way to escape, so that the dog will not jump over the wall and fight back desperately, and it can also constantly wear down their morale. Moreover, Dai Anlan must admit that although they have more than four times the enemy's strength, and although they have an absolute advantage in heavy weapons, it is definitely not easy to annihilate a wing of the enemy with the strength of one of their divisions.

His current task is to capture Tangji in the shortest possible time! Use this victory to alleviate the crisis of the expeditionary force on the eastern front of the Burma battlefield and boost the morale of the expeditionary force!

In the face of the incessant onslaught launched by the 200 divisions from three directions, and in the face of the escape door deliberately exposed by Dai Anlan from the east side, a tenacious counterattack still erupted from them.

The armies of both sides relied on the streets and houses to engage in street battles that were advancing one after another, interspersed with fierce enemy counterattacks.

We really don't need to talk about how tragic such a close battle was, and we don't need to talk about the counterattacks organized by the wing captain, we just need to know that Dai Anlan commanded the attack at the forefront of the line of fire, and when he had an absolute advantage and dominated the battlefield situation, one of his adjutants was seriously injured and one of his guards died, which is enough!

From the very beginning, the 200th Division violated the convention by leaving no reserves and pressing the whole army, and this kind of attack was of course the most violent, so fierce that the commander of the garrison stationed in Tangji, even if he knew in his heart that this could not be done, had to devote the strength of the entire wing at the beginning of the battle.

Neither force was left behind, and they were like two of the craziest wrestlers, roaring at each other, trying to throw each other to the ground in a battle for power. The troops on both sides did not have any rest, and the battle lasted from dawn until midnight the next day.

In the end, the captain of the wing, who defended Tangji, still chose to retreat. Led in just one day, has been 200 divisions have been fought out of half, everyone with irrepressibly tired troops, in the withdrawal of Tangji, the Burma battlefield, the first to lose the position, lost the defense area of the wing commander, turned around with complicated eyes, looked at the officers and soldiers of the 200 divisions who were not too persecuted, a little bit to drive them away, a little bit to occupy the whole city of Tangji, he was silent for a long time, he said in a low voice: "What a strong army, such a strong attack, in terms of fighting spirit, and led by the commander of the division of Lieutenant General Masao Watanabe." Compared with the Dragon Division, it is by no means inferior! Dai Anlan, I lost in your hands, don't be wronged! ”

In just one day, Dai Anlan led 200 divisions to conquer Tangji City, which was defended by a whole wing!

In the face of such an astonishing record, together with the collapse of the strategic plan of the ancient city, General Stilwell, who was extremely angry with the Chinese [***] team and the British [***] team, also said this in public in the face of Chinese and foreign reporters: "The person who has made meritorious contributions in modern times and raised the voice of the Han Dynasty is the first person to be the first person!" ”

Nearly a month after the end of the battle to defend the ancient city, Dai Anlan and the 200 divisions led by him once again became the focus of attention of Chinese and foreign media as soon as they reappeared on the battlefield, and General Dai Anlan became synonymous with the heroic and good fighting of Chinese [***] people in the Western media!

When the Chinese reporters who also attended the press conference sent the news of the victory back to the motherland by telegram in the shortest possible time, when the front page headlines were printed with a photo of General Dai Anlan and printed with the slogan "General Dai Anlan led 200 divisions to defeat the stubborn enemy, Tangji has won a great victory, and our expeditionary force has resolved the crisis on the Eastern Front," when they appeared in the streets and alleys of the city, reading, reading, reading, I don't know when it started, the people standing on the streets, holding newspapers in their hands, were already in tears.

If you haven't experienced the darkest era of the Chinese nation, and have not faced the pain and worry of losing on the battlefield again and again, watching them retreat again and again, and giving up China's land and cities to the enemy again and again, you will never understand what these Chinese are thinking in their hearts, and you will not understand the happiness and jubilation that bloomed in an instant from the hearts of their hearts that were numbed by failure!

(To be continued)