The correspondent's report made Wang Haitao relax, and General Stilwell, who was also waiting for the news beside him, shouted excitedly: "Great! General Wang, you and your troops have created a miracle! It's incredible, one of your corps has really wiped out two divisions of the Japanese army! I will immediately report this news to Washington." Bayi Chinese Network? (viii)."

Wang Haitao certainly felt good about the total annihilation of the two divisions of the Japanese army, but he was not too excited, first, he felt that it was not too difficult to completely annihilate the two divisions of the Japanese army with the strength of his 90th Army, and second, the 278th Brigade in Mitiera City was about to face an attack by more than 50,000 Japanese troops, and it was not clear what kind of losses this battle would bring to the 278th Brigade and the 2nd Guard Regiment.

While everyone in the headquarters was immersed in the joy of destroying the two divisions of the Japanese army, Wang Haitao was already thinking about how to deal with the attack of the 16th division of the Japanese army and the Taiwan brigade. There is a precedent for the 18th Division to be completely annihilated, and the Japanese army will definitely be more cautious in its actions below, and if they want to lure the enemy deeper, it will not have too good results in ambushing the Japanese army, so they can only fight a tough battle with the Japanese army with their strength.

The Japanese army was very determined to cut off the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and there were only two goals to cut off the Yunnan-Burma Highway, one was the city of Mandalay, and the other was Lashio. Now there are two divisions of the 66th Army and the 5th Army in Lashio, and the strength of the troops has reached 30,000. Besides, if the Japanese army abandons the city of Mandalay and goes straight to Lashio, it is not known whether they can quickly occupy Lashio, but once they are surrounded by the 90th Army in Mandalay City, they will inevitably be surrounded again.

In Wang Haitao's view, the Japanese army would not be so mentally retarded as to abandon the city of Mandalay and directly attack Lashio. Then the most likely plan for the Japanese army is to divide their forces into two routes, one to continue to attack Lashio, and the other to attack Mandalay. After thinking clearly about the Japanese army's next action plan, Wang Haitao can start to arrange tactics in a targeted manner. Wang Haitao asked Tang Yikuan's 90th Division to clean up the battlefield and count the figures of all parties. Let Tang Hongming's 210th Division retreat to Mandalay City to rest and stand by. Let Li Yuanhong lead the 277th Brigade to meet the 278th Brigade.

At the same time, a telegram was sent to the 278th Brigade, ordering the 278th Brigade to hold out for 48 hours, abandon the city of Mitiera, and retreat in the direction of Mandalay. As for Taunggyi, it also retreated to Mandalay after forty-eight hours. After the task was issued, Wang Haitao also withdrew to Mandalay City with the military headquarters of the 90th Army. Returning to the headquarters of the expeditionary force in Mandalay City, Wang Haitao learned from General Du Yuming, who stayed behind, that the new 22nd Division of the Fifth Army was also fighting well, and under the leadership of the division commander, General Liao Yaoxiang, the 55th Division of the Japanese Army was desperately blocked west of Mandalay City.

General Du Yuming naturally also knew about the 90th Army's total annihilation of the 56th Division and the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, and also knew that the two lieutenant generals and division commanders of the Japanese Army had been killed. Wang Haitao was naturally humble, waiting for his subordinates to report the results of the battle.

When Wang Haitao led the headquarters of the 90th Army back to Mandalay City, the attack of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army in Mytiera City began again. As Li Li expected, at 7 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army began shelling the gap. Although the field artillery wing of the 16th Division suffered a loss yesterday under the counterattack of more than a dozen 120 heavy mortars from the artillery battalion of the 571st Regiment, there were still more than 20 75-caliber field guns, plus the small-caliber artillery of the 19th Brigade and Regiment, the number was not small.

The artillery fire was concentrated near the gap, and for a time the vicinity of the gap became a scorched earth. Needless to say, the combat experience of the guard brigade is needless to say, although Li Li arranged the strength of a company, but he did not let this company stay on the position and be bombed. Unable to dig out the anti-artillery holes, Wei Song only put a few guard posts on the position, and the rest of the officers and soldiers hid in a safe place behind the gap.

The commander of the 19th Brigade, Major General Tsuzawa Panfu, who had been reprimanded yesterday, was determined to win the city of Mytiera today, and while ordering artillery shelling, he asked his 20th Wing to prepare for an attack. The wing commander of the 20th Wing, Yoshino Yoshimi Osa, was also scolded by the brigade commander yesterday, and he also had a bad breath in his heart, and immediately sent an infantry brigade to prepare for the attack after receiving the order.

With the support of artillery fire, the attacking Japanese army did not advance slowly, and it was not until it was less than 300 meters away from the gap that it slowed down, opened the straggler formation, and bent down and walked forward. The start of the Japanese infantry offensive was reported by the observation post to the battalion commander Wei Song via walkie-talkie. Wei Song gave an order, and all the officers and men of the first battalion rushed to the position under Japanese artillery fire. Several fighters, unlucky, were hit by flying shrapnel on the way to the position and fell.

It was a battalion and a company that rushed to the position of the gap, and after the soldiers entered the position, they were blocked by the smoke and dust, and they could not see the situation of the Japanese troops on the opposite side clearly. Just when the commander of the company did not know what to do, the roar of heavy machine guns rang out on the walls on both sides. The heavy machine-gun fire points on the city wall attracted most of the Japanese artillery fire, and the smoke of gunpowder in the gap only faded, and a gust of wind blew, and the officers and men of the first company could finally see the attacking Japanese troops.

The first company commander paid attention to it and knew that it was an infantry brigade of the Japanese army that had attacked, and just now due to the sudden blow of the heavy machine guns on the city wall, the Japanese soldiers were lying on the ground 200 meters away, and the light machine guns set up and the heavy machine guns on the positions behind them were counterattacking the city wall. There were no less machine-gun fire points on the walls on both sides, the main ones were those snipers and sharpshooters.

As Wang Haitao's personal unit, the guard brigade naturally has nothing to say in terms of weapons and equipment, and the snipers use imitation sVd semi-action sniper rifles with an effective range of 1,000 meters. One guard regiment alone had twenty snipers, more than a hundred sharpshooters. They were elusive, specializing in the technical arms of the Japanese army.

Snipers and sharpshooters fired one shot here and one shot there, and soon the Japanese army lost its temper, and although there were more than 1,000 people in an infantry brigade, there were only a limited number of technical arms and grass-roots officers, and once a large number of these people died, this infantry brigade would lose most of its combat effectiveness. When the captain of this infantry brigade was about to give the order to retreat, a bullet flying from nowhere hit his head, and his head cracked like a broken jar of dye, and blood and ** splashed on the faces of the people around him.

The captain of the group was killed, and the squadron leader of the first squadron took over the command, because there was a gun from the warlord behind him, and the squadron leader commanded the soldiers to charge in desperation. One hundred and fifty meters from the gap, the Japanese artillery began to extend and fire into the city, and the soldiers of the company at this gap finally did not have to endure the artillery bombardment. In the face of the Japanese charge, the commander of the first company gave the order to open fire, and all the weapons on the battlefield spat out tongues of fire.

Several light and heavy machine guns fired in a fan, coupled with numerous automatic weapons, forming a death zone, and the corpses of the Japanese soldiers were higher and higher 100 meters before the gap, and when the Japanese could not help but retreat, there was already a one-meter-high wall of corpses. A complete infantry brigade, under one attack, a group leader, a squadron leader was killed, and only a third of the soldiers were withdrawn, this result made the wing commander Yoshino Yoshimi Osa feel a chill from his back.

The situation was reported to the division commander, Lieutenant General Morioka Hayabusa, and Lieutenant General Morioka Hayabusa couldn't help but be taken aback; since the 16th Division entered the Southeast Asian theater, it can be said that it has been invincible and invincible, even in the face of the well-equipped US and British troops, it has not encountered such a hard nail, when has the army of the Chinese people been so difficult to deal with? Is this still an incompetent Chinese army?

Annoyed, Lieutenant General Morioka ordered to intensify the artillery bombardment and send troops to attack again. By noon, the Japanese had launched a total of three attacks, all of which were repulsed by the 2nd Guards Regiment. At noon, Lieutenant General Morioka received a telegram from Shojiro Iida, commander of the 15th Army, telling him to stop the offensive and put the whole army on standby. He also learned from the telegram that the 56th and 18th Divisions that were to be rescued by themselves were shattered. At this time, Lieutenant General Morioka Hayato knew that the opponent he was facing was the 90th Army, which was known as the First Army of China.

Lieutenant General Morioka Hayabusa, who was originally unimpressed by the 90th Army of China, which was known as the First Army of China, could not help but become cautious after learning the power of this China Army during the two-day battle. Since the 56th Division and the 18th Division were shattered, their own attacks were meaningless, and Lieutenant General Morioka simply ordered the troops to retreat ten kilometers and disengage from the squadron.

The sudden retreat of the Japanese army made Li Li, the commander of the Second Guard Regiment, confused. However, it is always a good thing for the Japanese army to retreat, and it can take a breath for itself. Although there was only one morning of fighting, one of his battalions had already lost two-thirds, and if the Japanese did not retreat, his regiment would have to be crippled in the evening. His second guard regiment is a personal unit of the military seat, and each soldier is a top soldier selected from each unit, and the loss is too great, and I am afraid that the military seat will be heartbroken.

After the Japanese army withdrew, Li Li was busy directing his subordinates to repair the fortifications and strengthen the position, and he was busy sending reconnaissance detachments in the direction of the Japanese retreat. I was busy until dark and didn't see the Japanese troops come up again, but waited until the 278th Brigade of the 93rd Division, which rushed all the way to the front. As soon as the brigade commander Huang Gang saw Li Li, he inquired about the situation of the Japanese army, and learned that the Japanese army had attacked fiercely for a morning and suddenly retreated at noon.

Early the next morning, the Japanese 16th Division, the 4th Heavy Artillery Brigade, and the Tank Brigade continued to retreat in the direction of Yangon, and the Taiwan Brigade was completely cut off. Huang Gang could not judge the purpose of the Japanese army, so he hurriedly sent a telegram to Wang Haitao, reporting the movements of the Japanese army, and at the same time, asking Wang Haitao for instructions on his next move. After receiving the telegram, Wang Haitao immediately understood that after he had completely annihilated the two divisions of the Japanese army, these Japanese troops had lost the meaning of attacking, and now they had to rearrange the battle plan when they were withdrawn.