Dubian's answer made Tanaka Shinichi directly silent, and after a good meeting, Tanaka Shinichi sighed and said: "Dubian-kun, tomorrow will still be attacked by your division, and my mountain artillery wing will still provide artillery support for your division. =≤≈." Dubian Pifu also sighed and said, "Okay, let's let our division attack again, but I hope that Tanaka-kun can ask His Excellency the Commander for air support again." ”

Shinichi Tanaka agreed, and sent a telegram to Commander Shojiro Iida overnight requesting air support. Not long after the telegram was issued, a reply was received from Commander Shojiro Iida, in which he first reprimanded the incompetence of the 56th Division, and then made it clear that if the anti-aircraft weapons of the Shina army could not be cleared of the positions of the Shina army, no more planes would be sent for air support.

This reply made the commander of Tanaka's Shinichi Division dumbfounded while indignant. The anti-aircraft weapons of the Chinese were all placed behind the positions, and if they could be cleared, what air support would they need? They had already captured the positions of the Chinese and stormed the city of Amarabra. Looking at the telegram, Shinichi Tanaka couldn't help but scold: "These idiots, idiots!"

Commander Shojiro Iida can't be blamed entirely on this, because he had just been scolded by General Shoichi Terauchi, commander of the Southeast Asian Front, for losing a large number of planes, and he was choked with a bad breath in his heart, and he received a telegram from Tanaka Shinichi, so how could he have a good face for Tanaka Shinichi who hit the muzzle of the gun?

Shinichi Tanaka knew very well that without air support, if he wanted to capture the defenders' positions without the advantage of weapons, he would have to fill them with human lives, and this battle would be very difficult. Then it is a matter of course to let the 56th Division consume some more Chinese troops. However, these situations must not be made known to the officers and men at the grassroots level, otherwise they will lose their morale and will not be able to fight this battle without their fighting spirit.

The next day, without air support, the Japanese 56th Division still attacked. The mountain artillery wing of the 18th Division provided artillery support for the attacking Japanese troops. Although there were no planes to bomb before the Japanese attack, the officers and men of the 210th Division did not dare to be careless and made preparations for air defense. When the Japanese attacked, only some mortars were used to counterattack.

In order to destroy the barbed wire fence in front of the position, the attacking Japanese army mobilized an engineer wing and laid wooden planks on the barbed wire in the rain of bullets. In a whole day, the Japanese attacked six times, at the cost of thousands of men, and the result was a 50-meter road with barbed wire, and 20 meters of planks. The planks were stained red with the blood of Japanese soldiers.

This attack continued for another three days, and the two infantry wings of the 56th Division were again lost more than half. The division commander Bian Pifu found Tanaka Shinichi and, in an almost pleading tone, asked the 18th Division to replace the 56th Division, which was really unable to attack. Tanaka Shinichi knew that the 56th Division was already a strong crossbow, so he thought about it for a while and agreed to Dubian's request.

Here in the 461st Brigade, after a few days of fierce fighting, the 874th Regiment also lost half of its officers and men, but the losses were basically infantry, and the field artillery battalion in the regiment did not lose any of these units. Brigade commander Liu Mingde withdrew the 874th Regiment into the city to rest and recuperate, and pushed the 875th Regiment up. The field artillery battalions of the two regiments were combined into one to form a temporary reinforced field artillery battalion.

After replacing the 56th Division with the 22nd Brigade of the 18th Division, Shinichi Tanaka sent two more telegrams to Lieutenant General Shojiro Iida, commander of the 15th Army, again requesting that planes be sent for air support. After a few days, Lieutenant General Iida Shojiro's anger was almost gone, and considering that the victory or defeat of the Burma campaign was at stake, he again asked General Terauchi for air support.

When the news that General Terauchi had agreed to send another plane for air support reached Tanaka Shinichi's ears, Tanaka Shinichi couldn't help but lift his spirits, completely ignoring the sad expression on the face of the man next to him. The commander of Tanaka's Shinichi Division called the brigade commander of the 22nd Brigade, Major General Tong Meihao, and told him that before the attack tomorrow, the Imperial Air Force would bomb the position in China, and asked Tuo Meihao to lead the 22nd Brigade to fight the prestige of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Early the next morning, the roar of planes sounded again over the city of Amarabra, and the air defense units of the 210th Division immediately entered their respective combat positions, and the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were pointed at the sky in unison. Ten minutes later, another large fleet of planes arrived in the skies above the city of Amarabra. This time, the fleet did not have the huge figure of a large bomber, but was completely composed of Zero fighters and Type 97 medium bombers.

In the face of the huge fleet of planes that the Japanese army came again, even if the officers and men who fought in the air had combat experience, they were still a little nervous, and after losing a lot of anti-aircraft weapons last time, division commander Tang Hongming only replenished dozens of antiaircraft machine guns, and the antiaircraft guns could not be replenished because of the limited number. As a result, the air defense is still somewhat weaker.

After the Japanese aircraft group arrived, it was still the same as last time, and the Zero fighters attacked the ground first. This time, these Zero fighters did not rush down and attack and leave, but shuttled back and forth under the fire of antiaircraft machine guns, waving their fast and flexible characteristics, and constantly attacked the existing antiaircraft machine gun fire points with their airborne machine guns.

For the Japanese army's nimble and fast Zero fighters, the anti-aircraft machine guns were not very powerful, and in ten minutes, the Zero fighters pierced back and forth in the fire net of the anti-aircraft machine guns, until one of the anti-aircraft machine guns was lucky enough to hit a Zero fighter, and the rest of the Zero fighters were pulled into the air. Then the Type 97 bombers carried out dive bombing on the positions in waves of four.

Seeing that the Japanese bombers began to dive, the anti-aircraft fire on the positions was in full swing. Although there were not many anti-aircraft weapons, it was the more than 20 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns that directly threatened the Japanese planes. The two sides started another battle between the ground and the air in the city of Amarabra. The Japanese planes already had an understanding of the air defense capabilities on the position, and they also made targeted evasions, so the results against the Japanese planes this time were not as good as the first time.

After nearly two hours of fierce fighting, eleven Japanese planes were shot down, 26 anti-aircraft machine guns were blown up on the positions, eight self-propelled anti-aircraft guns were blown up, 46 soldiers were killed, and 32 were wounded. However, the bombing by the Japanese planes this time caused serious damage to the fortifications of the position, and most of the barbed wire, trenches, and bunkers in front of the position were blown up, and the entire position was covered with large and small craters.

Not long after the Japanese planes flew away, the shelling began again. Not long after the shelling began, the Japanese infantry went on the attack. The individual tactical quality of one of the infantry brigades in this attack was obviously much higher than that of the soldiers who attacked a few days ago. These Japanese soldiers pulled away from the skirmish line and bent down to make some evasive tactical moves 400 meters from the position. When they entered the 300-meter mark, they were more scattered, in groups of a dozen people, alternately covering forward.

Such a scattered formation greatly reduced the power of the machine guns on the position, and it was difficult to defeat the Japanese soldiers easily in the past. On the contrary, the Japanese soldiers used accurate marksmanship to inflict more casualties on the defenders on the position. Zhang Sanli, the commander of the 875th Regiment, observed the attacking Japanese soldiers with binoculars on the position behind him, and couldn't help frowning when he looked at it.

Zhang Sanli said to Lu Xiang, the commander of the first battalion beside him: "Battalion Commander Lu, the little Japan that came up this time is very different from the other day, it should be replaced by the elite troops of the 18th Division. We must find a way to suppress little Japan, otherwise I am afraid that the previous series will suffer. In this way, you send the second company up, and use all the sharpshooters of your battalion to shoot the grenadiers and machine gunners of the little Japanese. ”

Lu Xiang replied: "It's a group seat, I'll take the second company up immediately." After saying that, he saluted and turned away. After the reinforcements of the second company went up, dozens of sharpshooters wielded their effects, and they were unanimous and focused on the Japanese machine gunners and grenadiers. This move was really good, and it suppressed the Japanese army at once. The commander of the 55th Wing, who was in charge of the command of the Japanese army, saw that so many sharpshooters appeared on the position of Zhina, suppressed his infantry brigade, and hurriedly commanded the artillery squadron in the wing, pushing up four 37 mm caliber guns.

This artillery was originally intended to deal with combat vehicles, was small in size, light in weight and fast in fire. It uses armor-piercing shells when firing flat at a distance of five hundred meters, and ordinary fortifications are really difficult to withstand. The four guns continued to fire at the sharpshooter's position, and several sharpshooters fell under its muzzle. Zhang Sanli saw a company of several sharpshooters who had been trained with great difficulty sacrificed under the muzzle of the small Japanese gun, and the anger came up at once.

Ignoring the continued shelling of the Japanese army, Zhang Sanli shouted to his subordinates: "Order the artillery battalion, use heavy mortars to kill the small Japanese cannons!" With the order, the waiting and anxious artillery battalion immediately prepared the 120 heavy mortars, and immediately moved after one cannon fired three rapid shots. Just these dozens of mortar shells also blew up four Japanese guns into the sky at once.

Seeing that the artillery battalion was using heavy mortars, Lu Xiang also ordered the mortars in the battalion to fire, and dozens of mortars opened fire at the same time, which made the attacking Japanese army suffer a big loss. This artillery bombardment took out more than 100 Japanese troops and the heavy machine-gun positions of this infantry brigade. By the time the Japanese counter-attacked, the mortars had already finished firing and moved their positions.

Two hundred meters before the Japanese entered the position, semi-automatic rifles and front guns from the position opened fire. Although the 210th Division did not fight many battles, its training in peacetime was very strict, and these soldiers used bullets to feed them with good marksmanship, and their accuracy at 200 meters was no worse than that of the Japanese army. The Japanese also launched a confrontation with the defenders after finding cover, and for a while no one could bear the other.