Yamashita's head was about to crack, and according to the normal speed of travel, his wing should have passed through the Amo Pass at this time, but the actual situation now was that his Samo's wing was still cowering on the mountain path of the Amo Pass. More than 2,000 people were blocked on the mountain road, and the aggrieved mountain saw that he would want to die, and the headquarters of the front army sent several telegrams from Yangon one after another, with only one content, that is, urging himself to speed up and be sure to attack Tengchong before the thundering troops climbed the Gaoligong Mountain.

Yamashita knew that the order he received was no different from sending him to death, but he was just an inconspicuous wing commander in the reserve division. The infantry wings of other divisions and regiments all have an establishment of more than 3,000 people, but his Yamashita Wing, which was hastily pulled from Taiwan, has an establishment of 2,600 people, and the artillery assigned to him is only a few 75 mountain guns, and even the heavy machine guns and mortars are much less than those of other wings.

The military order is like a mountain, and the mountain does not dare to disobey the order, so he can only grit his teeth and rub forward a little bit, but the other party has planted too many mines here, and a whole noon has passed, and his wing has only walked out less than 2 miles. The hot afternoon sun made Yamashita feel sleepy, if he hadn't been forced to attack Tengchong, he would have taken a nap in that beautiful house in Myitkyina, sleepy-eyed and hazy, he subconsciously shook his head, it was wartime, as a wing commander, he should set an example for the soldiers.

The sappers of the Yamashita Wing endured the surface temperature of more than 60 degrees Celsius and lay on the ground, sweating like rain, carefully carrying out exploration operations with the lightning detector rods in their hands. Without much effort, the Japanese sappers who endured the high temperature used a ground probe to investigate nearly 200 meters, and found no traces of mine-laying, and the engineer team determined that this minefield was fake, so they got up and prepared to send a signal to inform the troops to continue advancing. "Damn the Shina man," Yokota, who had jumped in shock, waved to the large army 100 meters away to signal the troops to move forward, and he took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth and began to swallow the smoke to eliminate the depression in his heart.

Seeing that the sappers had already sent a safety signal, the large force of the sapper unit began to move forward normally, but Yamashita saw that this time he had a more heartfelt eye, and ordered his troops to distance themselves from each other in squadrons, even if there was an accident, it would not affect the other squadrons. The whole noon march was like this, and from time to time there appeared on the mountain road where it was suspected that mines had been planted, and among the sappers under Yokota's command there were already signs of heat stroke, and even he himself showed symptoms of dizziness and chest tightness.

"Yaga, damn the hell that he actually deceived us with an empty canned box" Yokota, who was lying on the ground with a sweaty face on his face, looked at the empty canned box he had just dug out of the soil, and his teeth itched with anger. Dozens of pits were dug out by Yokota and his sappers on the mountain road, which looked like a suspected minefield, and all that came out of them were empty canned boxes. "Bageya Road, we are all fooled, the Shina army did not bury mines here at all, they just wanted to slow down our march" Yokota kicked the pile of canned food boxes in front of him, and turned around with bruises on his head and waved to the troops behind him.

The continuous teasing of fake mines made Yokota's judgment and restraint skewed, and the sappers no longer carefully used mine detectors to probe the ground slowly, but straightened up and directly probed the ground with bayonets, and the speed of the troops was much faster. "Grandma's, these little devils really don't know whether to live or die, give them a good taste" Seeing that the Japanese squadron that was in the lead had entered the real minefield, the mercenary commander in charge of the minefield gave the order to launch.

The Thunder Sappers lurking on the periphery of the minefield heard three knocks from the walkie-talkie, and pressed the handle of the detonator as ordered, and a few seconds later, a series of explosions suddenly sounded on the originally quiet mountain road, and in the continuous explosions, the Japanese leading engineer squad and half a squadron of Japanese soldiers were shrouded in smoke. In the explosion of the landslide, the shrapnel flying everywhere devoured everything, and the thunder sappers who were lurking dozens of meters away from the explosion range were buzzing in their ears.

The Japanese troops outside the minefield were stunned by the sudden explosion, and looking at the severed limbs and fireballs flying in the air in the distance, everyone's hearts were cold. The mercenary commander who commanded the minefield operation of "sniper fire" gave the order again, and there were still remnants of Japanese troops in the minefield, and the thunder had never let the tiger return to the mountain, especially those sappers who could clear the mines had to be killed.

The remnants of the Japanese soldiers in the smoke and flames fell one after another, and the sniper rifles equipped with silencers showed their power at this time, and the sound of shooting could not be heard, so that the Japanese soldiers could not judge the location of the attackers, and the smoke in the minefield covered the sight of the follow-up Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers who rushed to the rescue could only watch their companions being suddenly killed in front of them. "Let's go, let's go, let's withdraw" The snipers fired an average of four magazines each, and the mercenary commander who commanded the minefield operation ordered the lurking troops to withdraw to the next minefield and continue to wait for the Japanese to come up and die.

The attackers withdrew, and the follow-up Japanese troops also rushed to the minefield, the hundred-meter-long mountain road was in a mess, the vehicles that were tilted and overturned on the side of the road were crackling and burning, and the wounded were groaning among the corpses scattered nearby, but no Japanese soldiers dared to go to the rescue, and God knows how many mines the attackers had laid. More than a dozen wounded men who had been thrown out of the minefield were dragged back, and the wounded soldiers, who cursed the incompetence of the sappers, did not know that the sappers had fulfilled their oath to the emperor, and that those who were not killed by the mines were also killed by the snipers' guns.

Yamashita was furious, and the commander of the engineer squadron, Chang Taira Maonan, who was temporarily assigned to him, first slapped him twice, and then scolded him in the face, saying that the casualties of the forward troops were entirely caused by the mistakes of the engineers. Nagahei Shionan explained aggrievedly, "The cunning Shina people used a large number of fake mines to consume the physical strength of the sappers, coupled with the hot weather, the Yokota team in charge of pathfinding will make a mistake in judgment, and I will send the best sappers of the squadron to explore the road for the rest of the road."

Yamashita didn't listen to Changping Maonan's explanation at all, and directly pointed at Changping Maonan and rebuked loudly, "From now on, your engineer squadron must always walk in front of my troops, and you will personally take the sappers to explore the road for the rest of the road, our time is running out, and there can be no deviations."

In this way, the bitter-faced Changping Maonan was pushed to the front line of demining and path-finding by Yamashita Mitsumi, and began his career of risking death to explore the road with a team of sappers carefully selected by him. Half an hour later, at a corner of the mountain road, Nagahira Shigeronami, who was receiving orders from the heralds, was hit in the head by a bullet fired by a lurking Thunder sniper. The Jewish artillerymen who were ambushed in the grass on the hillside began to bombard the mountain road, and the power of the American-made mortar was relatively greater than that of the Japanese-style mortar, coupled with the accumulation of hundreds of Garand rifles, the Japanese troops on the mountain road suffered heavy casualties.

The Yamashita Wing was not given in vain, they also had mortars in their hands, and after the thunderous shelling, the Japanese troops who reacted began to return fire with artillery fire. "The dog's artillery is quite accurate" Huang Erniu, who hurriedly evacuated the artillery position, was heeled by Qi Lang, and he didn't care to look back, Huang Erniu got up and drove the artillerymen who had run away into the grass. The Japanese artillery has always been very accurate, Thunder Zhun for this characteristic of the Japanese army, specially for the gunners under their command has been strictly trained, each artillery battle in the rapid fire of two rounds, unless there is a commander's strong order, otherwise the artillery position must be transferred, that is, this rule that has been strictly observed from the beginning of the training has saved Huang Erniu's life.

After the artillery pressed the position, Yamashita divided two squadrons to seize the high point along the slopes on both sides of the mountain road, and Yamashitami's tactics were very simple, first use mortars to suppress the position, and then use infantry to seize the high points on both sides of the mountain road, only by occupying the high points, the strong firepower of the Japanese army will play a role. The lieutenants who led the team held their command knives and led their soldiers to rush down the roadbed according to the squad to prepare to seize the high points of the hillsides on both sides, but this was just the wishful thinking of the mountain to see them, and the purpose of Yan Wudao's airborne arrival here was to use the terrain of the Amo Pass to defeat the Yamashita unit, how could it be so easy for the Japanese army to seize the high point.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom" Yamashita saw the telescope kept staring at his soldiers and rushed into the jungle under the hillside, just as the Japanese soldiers poured into the jungle on the right side of the mountain road, the explosion occurred, and a dozen flames suddenly rose in the jungle to startle Yamashitami.

The continuous explosions were mixed with heart-rending howls, but after a while, the frightened Japanese soldiers ran out of the woods. Yamashita saw more than 100 Japanese soldiers rushing into the jungle with his own eyes, and less than half of them could run back alive, and the smoky jungle was like a cannibalistic demon, devouring dozens of soldiers under Yamashitami.

"Order the troops to stop advancing" Yamashita immediately stopped the advance of the troops with a distorted face, and after counting the personnel, Yamashita was surprised to find that the troops had lost almost three squadrons of troops in the short distance of 10 kilometers into the Amo Pass, and these casualties did not include the half of the engineer squadron lost in the minefield.

"Bring the Burmese men in the baggage brigade and arrange for them to open the way for us in front before dark" Yamashita ordered the troops to temporarily stop advancing and defend on the spot, and ordered the Burmese men forcibly recruited from Myitkyina to be placed at the front of the wing. It was the consistent practice of the Japanese army to use civilians to open the way, and it was especially important to use this trick when there were minefields and unshakable Japanese positions on the route of advance.