Chapter 34 The Castle Rises

Yan Wudao was obviously overjoyed, and the cleaning team on Fengshan was busy for half a night, but he didn't find the so-called secret passage, and later found out that this was indeed the case, and there was no so-called secret passage on Laifeng Mountain. The bunkers built by the Japanese army in Tengchong and its surroundings have only just begun, and the materials for the fort bunkers on Fengshan are all obtained by the Japanese army on the spot, and the trail for transporting supplies was washed away by the rain a few days ago.

Zhao Zhi was awakened by the sound of artillery, the sky was slightly bright, Tengchong's Japanese army sent two squadrons of more than 400 Japanese troops to counterattack to Fengshan, several mountains around Tengchong to Fengshan is the highest, but also a place where the Japanese fortifications are relatively perfect, lost to Fengshan, Tengchong outside the city of the Japanese army fortifications are all exposed to the thunder, Tengchong City will have no danger to rely on. "Sir, the Japanese army in Tengchong has begun to grab the mountain, and the scout reported that the Japanese army is covering the infantry charge with three 75 mountain guns" Seeing that Zhao Zhi had already gotten up, Xiao Ziyun reported the information he had just received.

"Come well, I'm afraid that they won't come out if they hide in the city" In fact, Zhao Zhi's plan is very simple, a regiment of the 1st Infantry Division and two regiments of the 2nd Infantry Division have formed a siege of Tengchong County, which is firmly held by the Japanese army. There are still thousands of people in Tengchong City who were coerced by the Japanese army, and Zhao Zhi couldn't burn Tengchong to the ground with a fire, so he had to use Fengshan as bait to lure the Japanese army out of the city.

The Japanese army built a large number of bunkers, ramparts, covered communication trenches, concealed excavation bunkers, and tic-tac-toe defense ditches on Feifeng Mountain, but most of these fortifications were not completed. The strong attack launched by the sweeping team following the attack of the first division was too sudden, and the Japanese troops stationed in Laifengshan found that when the sweeping team found out, the soldiers of the sweeping team had already cut into the Japanese army's defense net, and the Japanese troops who were caught off guard had no choice but to retreat to Tengchong City in the face of submachine guns and dense grenades.

One night passed, the vigorous more than 400 Japanese troops opened an attack formation and launched a counterattack on Laifengshan, and the entire Tengchong front line can be described as gunpowder smoke billowing out, artillery rumbling, and the sound of dense firefights and shouts of killing shook the earth. The Japanese counterattack force outflanked the two mountains from the outflank, attempting to melee with the Jewish infantry companies that held on to Laifengshan, so that the Thunder's artillery superiority would not be able to exert its power.

The remaining squadron of Japanese troops lined up along the north-south axis of Tengchong City in the form of squads, and launched an attack from the south of Feifeng Mountain, which was relatively flat and less fortified, in an attempt to recapture Feifeng Mountain in one fell swoop and restore Tengchong's defensive posture to before the war. In the face of a large-scale counteroffensive by the Japanese army. The Jewish officers on the mountain were shocked and bewildered, and the Japanese attack was against tactical common sense, and the Japanese forces committed and their ferocious attack posture showed that this was not a feint. A normal tactically minded commander should gather his troops and use the terrain and firepower cover to use the leapfrog tactic to attack, instead of storming with great fanfare like the Japanese army is now doing.

In response to the unexpected attack method of the Japanese army, the defenders of Laifengshan even got in touch with Zhao Zhi's command, since the Japanese army had changed its tactical arrangement. Naturally, the thunder can't stick to the old ways. Zhao Zhi immediately stationed the Jewish company and sweeping team in Laifengshan to block the Japanese offensive, and at the same time suppressed and blocked the enemy's retreat with artillery fire, and then combined up and down to strive to completely annihilate this group of Japanese troops at the foot of Laifengshan Mountain.

On the Thunder's side, adjust the tactical deployment of the ground. The main attacking force of the Japanese army had already begun to attack Feifeng Mountain, which was held by the infantry company of the 1st Division. Under the cover of 60-mm mortars and 50-mm grenadiers, more than 400 Japanese troops formed three streams of people. From the two wings and the middle of the three roads straight to the main peak of Feifeng Mountain.

The Jewish infantry company that was responsible for the defense of Laifengshan took advantage of the foxholes and trenches dug by the Japanese army to conceal it, and relied on its own automatic firepower to put the Japanese troops into 50 meters before firing. For a time, the defensive position in the middle of Fengshan was filled with gunsmoke, and the Jewish soldiers used the dense firepower formed by automatic weapons to inflict huge casualties on the Japanese army.

In the stalemate of fire between the two sides, the Japanese army once again revealed its crazy side, and some daredevils with explosives strapped to their bodies in the flow of Japanese soldiers howled and rushed to the defenders' positions with "onboard". The human bullet was not the first tactic invented by the Japanese, but this mortal tactic was played to the extreme by the Japanese, the running and jumping human bullets in the vicinity of the defender's trench ordered to pull the fuse of the explosive package, in the roaring explosion, the Jewish infantry company was located in the defense line of the middle of the mountain to Fengshan successively appeared a breakpoint, the Japanese army who succeeded in the attack looked for a break point and tried to break through to the two wings, "heavy machine gun fire, heavy machine gun fire" The swarthy officers who were smoked by the gunpowder shouted loudly, Three streams of fire suddenly erupted from the slightly thin defensive line after the Japanese bomb raid, and the Browning heavy machine gun, which had been placed on the defensive line by the Jewish infantry company, finally opened fire. After the sweeping team took Fengshan, the Jewish infantry company that was ordered to garrison brought three Browning heavy machine guns, originally they could not expose the strong fire weapons too early, but the Japanese army's ammunition fortifications were too vicious, and if the heavy machine guns did not fire, their defense line might collapse.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" The 75 mountain guns in Tengchong City opened fire to cover the Japanese troops who were grabbing the mountain, and three clouds of smoke rose from the firing position of the Browning heavy machine guns, but the three sweeping fires on the mid-mountain position did not stop, and continued to shoot the bullets in the chamber at the attacking Japanese troops. "Nani?" The commander of the Japanese artillery team with a telescope was stunned, and the 75 mountain guns actually did not work against the enemy's heavy machine gun bunkers.

The commander of the unbelieving Japanese artillery unit ordered to continue to bombard the enemy's heavy machine gun positions on Laifeng Mountain, but unfortunately, the Japanese army had lost its last chance, and the Thunder Artillery Group, which had already been adjusted, began to roar at the Japanese mountain artillery positions. The dull whistling of four 105-caliber howitzer shells made the Japanese artillerymen who were loading the shells raise their heads in horror. Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! In the flash of explosions, the flying earth and rocks mixed with the stumps and severed arms of the Japanese artillery churned up, the fragments of tattered military uniforms and parts of the 75 mountain guns were scattered everywhere, and the miserable wails of the Japanese soldiers were also muffled by the violent explosions.

Just a round of salvo, the Japanese army arranged in a corner of Tengchong City to provide fire cover for the attacking troops 75 mountain artillery squadron was bombed into a pile of scrap metal, and then the thunder artillery fire immediately began to extend to Tengchong city defense, Tengchong County relying on the four watchtowers of the city wall is the main point of its defense. Obviously, the thunder's artillery surprise attack was also beyond the expectations of the Japanese army, at this moment the Japanese army and the thunder were tearing apart around the half-mountain position of Laifengshan, and after a round of artillery support from the thunder's heavy artillery group, it suddenly shifted the target, and the stormy shells fell intensively on the unprepared Japanese troops near the Tengchong city defense.

"Boom, boom, boom" The four watchtowers of Tengchong City were once blown up by howitzers, and the Japanese officers and men who were standing outside the bunkers and fortifications to watch the bustle were suddenly blown up and suffered heavy casualties. After the thunderous artillery fire destroyed the four watchtowers, the guns were shifted again, and the target was the Japanese army that was attacking Laifengshan, and with the explosion of large-caliber shells landing, the Japanese troops attacking Feifeng Mountain were cut into several waves by artillery fire.

The Japanese attacking troops, who had lost their support, still faithfully carried out the attack order, and launched attacks on the defenders' positions in the middle of the mountain in waves, just like Lang flowers beating on a reef. However, the defenders' positions in the middle of the mountain were as stable as a rock under the attack of the Japanese army, and even in the gaps in the defense, the defenders continued to organize sorties in front of the formation, killing and wounding a large number of Japanese troops in front of the formation. When these frantically screaming Japanese soldiers were shot and fell down the hillside, they suddenly realized that they were not strong, and the bushido spirit could not stop the pain, and they would all die under the bullets.

When they found that the attack was completely hopeless, the remnants of more than 100 Japanese troops began to retreat in an orderly manner, and the Jewish company in the middle of the mountain wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue it, but the retreating Japanese troops were very tightly defended, and the helpless defenders had to bombard a few times with mortars with little ammunition, and then watched nearly 100 Japanese troops flee to Fengshan. The fact that the defenders of Fengshan couldn't leave these retreating Japanese troops didn't mean that Zhao Zhi would watch them flee back to Tengchong City, but the sniper troops commanded by Ye Kong were already waiting for them.

The Japanese troops who had withdrawn from Fengshan had already seen the city gate open, and their great joy had rejuvenated their already exhausted physical strength, but just as they were speeding up and rushing towards Tengchong City, something strange suddenly appeared. The Japanese soldiers who were hiding in the hole of the city gate and shouting were also shocked by the strange scene in front of them, and those companions who had just withdrawn from Laifeng Mountain fell to the ground one after another at a distance of only 100 meters from them, and some of them burst their heads directly.

There was no gunfire, and there was no gunfire anywhere, and more than 100 Japanese soldiers who had withdrawn from Laifeng Mountain died abruptly on the way back to the city, and the fastest one was only 20 meters away from the city gate. The strange tragic situation outside the city stunned the Japanese soldiers in Tengchong City, and the use of silencers made Zhao Zhi's idea of establishing power for the Japanese army in Tengchong City perfectly achieved, Zhao Zhi wanted to make the Burmese Japanese army weak when they saw the thunderous flag in the future, and let them take the initiative to retreat when they saw the thunderous soldiers.