Meng Gong, the forward position of the expeditionary force.

Surrounded by Luo Zhuoying, Dai Anlan and other senior officers, Yue Weihan walked into the regimental headquarters of the 598th Regiment of the 200th Division.

Seeing a large group of golden stars entering the war room, the operational staff officers of the 598th Regiment Headquarters hurriedly stood upright, and the regiment commander, Colonel Zheng Tingqi, immediately strode forward, snapped upright, and saluted: "Zheng Tingqi, commander of the 598th Regiment of the 200th Division of the Fifth Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment welcome the headquarters to come to inspect and ask the headquarters to give instructions." ”

Yue Weihan waved his hand and said indifferently: "What should you be busy with, or what should you be busy with." ”

"Yes!" As soon as Zheng Tingqian waved his hand, the staff officers in the war room were busy again.

Yue Weihan immediately walked to the map hanging on the wall and asked, "Commander Zheng, tell me about yesterday's battle situation." ”

The expeditionary force built a total of three lines of defense in Menggong, the 200th Division was in the first line, and the 598th Regiment was at the forefront of the 200th Division, which can be said to be the most advanced force in the entire expeditionary force defense system, and the position of the 598th Regiment was still facing the road to the north of the Yue Army, so yesterday afternoon, the 598th Regiment was the first to be attacked by the Yue Army.

Regiment Commander Zheng Tingqian immediately replied: "Headquarters, the forward troops of the little devils arrived at about four o'clock yesterday afternoon, and immediately launched a tentative attack on the position of the 9th company of our regiment, which was repelled by our 9th company, and at about 10 o'clock in the evening, the main force of the devils arrived with more than 10,000 people, but the lurking post reported that the little devil's tanks and artillery were not found. ”

"Oh, no tanks, no artillery?" Yue Weihan's heart moved when he heard this.

"The highway dozens of miles south of Menggong has been destroyed by our army, especially the two small highway bridges have been bombed, so the devil's heavy equipment can't be used." Dai Anlan replied indifferently.

Yue Weihan immediately turned around and said to Hu Xianqun, the commander of the tank regiment: "Commander Hu, is the tank regiment ready?" ”

"Report to the General Seat!" Hu Xianqun stood upright and said loudly, "The tank regiment has all entered the attack position!" ”

"Good!" Yue Weihan nodded, and then said to Zhu Maozhen, the commander of the artillery regiment, "Commander Zhu, where is your artillery?" ”

"Report to the general seat, the artillery regiment is ready, and the shooting elements have all been calibrated!" Zhu Maozhen replied loudly.

Yue Weihan patted Zhu Maozhen on the shoulder, and immediately turned back to Dai Anlan and said, "Senior Commander Dai, is the 200th Division ready?" ”

Dai Anlan was born in the Whampoa Military Academy, and has been fighting on the battlefield since the beginning of the Northern Expedition, which can be described as experienced in a hundred battles, but it must be pointed out that whether it is the military school education he received or the battles he participated in, it has nothing to do with modern military affairs.

This is also the common weakness of all the generals of the Huangpu Military Academy, who only learned and came into contact with modern military theories and command skills at the Huangpu Military Academy, and this was determined by the quality of the instructors of the Huangpu Military Academy at that time.

Historically, Du Yuming, Liao Yaoxiang, Zhang Lingfu and other Huangpu generals were often annihilated by the entire and backward Communist army on the battlefield of liberation.

In fact, not to mention the [***] generals, even the generals of the Yue army of the same period did not know how to command armored forces.

It was not until Yamashita and others went to Germany to systematically study Guderian's blitzkrieg that the army initially mastered the command skills of armored units and quickly applied them to actual combat, and in the Southeast Asian campaign, the chariot units subordinate to the Southern Army shone brightly, and the commander of the 25th Army Corps, Yamashita Fengfumi, won the prestigious name of "Malay Tiger".

However, Yue Weihan did not expect Dai Anlan to command the armored forces of the New Fifth Army, he only hoped that when the armored troops of the Fifth Army were advancing, the infantry of the 200th Division would be able to follow up in time, and not let the armored troops become a lone army in front of the front.

Dai Anlan heard Yue Weihan's distrust of the 200th Division, and frowned at the moment: "Our 200th Division will never drag the Fifth Army back, let alone lose the face of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, don't forget, three years ago on the battlefield in Hengyang, our 200th Division also defeated the 5th Division of the Yue Army, which has the nickname of 'Steel Army'. ”

"Good." Yue Weihan nodded happily and said, "Those who are good at fighting have no outstanding achievements, the real famous generals and iron and steel heroes have never been shouted, but killed from the battlefield, Commander Dai, I hope that the current 200th Division is still the same army that participated in the Battle of Hengyang three years ago, an iron army that makes Kou fearful!" ”

Stilwell next to him was already impatient, and immediately said to Yue Weihan: "Yue, can you start?" ”

Stilwell is indeed a little can't wait, since coming to the Burma battlefield, this old American man has hardly been happy, no matter how he jumps up and down, waving the flag and shouting, the British just don't cooperate, the Chinese just don't obey, which leads to the continuous rout of the Allied forces in Mandalay and in the northern Burma battlefield, although Stilwell has no responsibility, but his face is also gloomy.

Now, because of Yue Weihan's arrival, Stilwell finally saw the dawn, the dawn of the counterattack!

At this time, in the European and African theaters, the Allied forces were still struggling to support, and the counteroffensive was still far away.

If Yue Weihan's adventure can be successful, then [***] in the Burma battlefield will become the first Allied force to turn into a counteroffensive in the entire World War II, and the Burma battlefield will also become the first to turn into a counteroffensive.

"Of course." Yue Weihan nodded happily, and was about to give an order when the sound of gunfire suddenly came from the front.

Immediately, an officer hurriedly entered and reported: "General, the army has launched an attack on our forward position!" ”

"Boss, the little devils have already started to attack, if we also attack, it will become an encounter, let's defend first, and then talk slowly, right?" Luo Zhuoying had a bitter face and tried to persuade Yue Weihan to give up the counteroffensive plan, but he was also in vain, because Chairman Jiang had already given him a secret order to suspend the counteroffensive plan of the expeditionary force as much as possible.

Although Chairman Chiang was far away in Chongqing, his eyes were never far away from the Burmese battlefield.

In Chairman Chiang's view, the British had already run away, and the Americans had no intention of directly sending troops, and it was absolutely impossible to defeat the Burmese army with the defeat of the 60,000 or 70,000 remnants of the expeditionary force alone, so the counterattack could only be self-defeating, and Chairman Chiang did not like the expeditionary force to follow Yue Weihan, a madman, to be wiped out on the Burmese battlefield.

Yue Weihan ignored Luo Zhuoying, just raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and said loudly: "Now start checking the watch, the time is 7:25 in the morning." ”

Dai Anlan, Hu Xianqun, Zhu Maozhen and other chief officials immediately began to check the table.

Yue Weihan immediately ordered: "At seven thirty o'clock, the artillery regiment began shelling; At eight o'clock sharp, the artillery regiment extended its fire, the tank regiment launched an attack from the front of the army, and the 600th regiment followed on foot; At the same time as the tank regiment launched the attack, the engineer regiment began to rush to repair the road, and once the road was repaired, the artillery regiment quickly moved forward. ”

………… Opposite Meng Gong, the 33rd Division of the Army is stationed in the war room.

Lieutenant General Sakurai Province, commander of the 33rd Division, was standing in front of the map with a two-handed pillar knife, and more than a dozen combat staff officers of the division headquarters were nervously carrying out work on the map, and the huge red arrow was already very close to Meng Gong, and Sakurai was very sure that by this afternoon at the latest, Meng Gong would be covered by the red arrow.

"Your Excellency the Division Commander!" The chief of staff of the 33rd Division, Murata Kyosheng Osa, strode to Sakurai's side, and immediately suddenly retracted his feet and stood upright, "The attack of the 215th Infantry Wing is not going well, is it not to suspend the attack, and wait for the mountain artillery wing and the search wing of our division to arrive before attacking?" ”

"There's no need for that." Sakurai waved his hand and said indifferently, "Order the 215th Wing to strengthen the attack." ”

"Hello!" Murata Kyosheng bowed his head suddenly, and was about to turn around and leave, when a deafening huge explosion suddenly came from the forward position, Murata Kyosheng listened attentively for a moment, and then his face changed greatly, "Your Excellency the division commander, it seems to be an American-style 150mm caliber field heavy howitzer group!" ”

"What, heavy artillery swarm!?" Sakurai's face changed in an instant.

"Your Excellency the Division Commander!" Murata said urgently, "Order the troops to go on the defensive, right?" ”

"Yaga Yaru!" Sakurai Provincial Three Splitters slapped Murata and said angrily, "Since the Shina Army has a large-caliber field heavy howitzer group, wouldn't it be waiting to be bombed at this time if it turns to the defense?" Only by intensifying the offensive and striving to break through the defense line of the Chinese army in the shortest possible time can the imperial army eliminate the threat of the heavy artillery group in China! ”

After saying this, Sakurai said again: "Order the 215th Wing, attack!" ”

"Hello!" Murata bowed his head suddenly, and then walked away with his saber on his shoulder.

………… Forward positions.

The sortie position of the 215th Infantry Wing of the Army is being heavily shelled by [***]!

The artillery regiment of the expeditionary force has 24 150mm caliber field heavy howitzers, and the lethality of this thing is much greater than that of the 70mm caliber 92 infantry cannon or the 75mm caliber field artillery, even the 105mm caliber field artillery of the Japanese army is far from being comparable to it.

150mm caliber shells fell, and as soon as they exploded, it was a big piece!

Within 10 meters from the center of the explosion, whether it is human or animal or steel equipment, they will be directly torn to pieces by the air wave, and people and animals within 20 meters will not be killed by fragments, but will also be shocked to death, and within 50 meters, the lethality of fragments is enough to penetrate any human body, and once it hits the vital point, it will basically be reimbursed.

24 heavy guns of 150mm caliber carried out cluster shelling, and the power can be imagined!

In addition, after the army arrived at Meng Gong, they directly engaged in the attack, and there was no time to build decent anti-artillery fortifications, when [***] began to shell, the devil soldiers couldn't even find a place to hide, after two rounds of artillery platoons, the attack position was already full of broken feet and stumps of the devil soldiers, and there were many seriously injured but still not dead devil soldiers were wailing miserably.

The piercing sound of cannonballs pierced the sky again, and a series ......of huge explosions followed.

A ghost soldier was cut directly from the waist by a high-speed rotating fragment, the lower half was left in place, the upper half flew out more than ten meters away, but after landing, he miraculously did not lose his breath, while killing a pig screaming, while desperately crawling back, trying to find the fallen half of the body back to pick it up, but only climbed less than two meters, the ghost soldier died of anger.

There was a ghost soldier who jumped into the crater before the shell landed, and a shell exploded less than ten meters away from him, and the ghost soldier was miraculously not killed by the fragments, but was buried alive by the soil raised by the explosion, and when the nearby ghost soldier arrived to dig up the crater, the ghost soldier had already lost his breath for a long time.

The headquarters of the 215th Infantry Wing was also shelled.

When the wing commander Harada Dong Dazuo struggled to crawl out of the ruins of the collapsed headquarters, he saw that the deputy wing commander and several combat staff officers of the wing headquarters had all been killed. ”

Harada Dong hurriedly took the telegram, and after reading it in a hurry, his expression was miserable in an instant.

The next moment, Harada Dong suddenly pulled out his saber and raised it forward vigorously, and immediately roared hoarsely: "Banner soldiers, order all major teams to attack on all fronts!" Sortie ......"

The Banner Whisperers quickly conveyed Harada's order.

The next moment, the ghost soldiers who were originally hiding from the artillery fire on the battlefield turned over and jumped up one after another, and began to charge to the death.

The 215th Infantry Wing of the Infantry Army is worthy of being the elite of a hundred battles killed on the Chinese battlefield, even if it was destroyed by the [***] heavy artillery group, the formation and formation of the infantry brigades have not been chaotic, although the devil soldiers have suffered heavy casualties, their morale has not been greatly weakened, and their fighting spirit still exists!

More than 2,000 devil soldiers quickly rushed forward in the face of fierce artillery fire, and in less than a moment, they broke through hundreds of meters, and they were about to break into the [***] position, but there was still silence in front, and the devil soldiers thought that [***] had fled under the cover of artillery fire, and suddenly became more and more excited, screaming and continuing to charge forward.

Holding his saber alof, Harada Dong took the lead in stepping on the [***] position!

Looking around, the [***] position was really empty, Harada Dong was suddenly overjoyed, he thought that the 215th Wing was going to be collectively shattered in the battlefield in northern Myanmar today, but he didn't expect the battle situation to take a 180-degree turn, and the [***] team with the advantage of artillery fire actually fled, these cowardly Chinese army, haha!

But soon, the smile on Harada's face froze.

Dozens of huge steel chariots suddenly came out of the jungle in front of them, they lined up, their tails spitting billowing black smoke, and rolled towards the army with the momentum of Mount Tai, at this moment, Harada Dong clearly felt that the ground under his feet was also trembling violently, and he said that the imperial army was in trouble, in big trouble!

(To be continued)