Tunnel to Tunnel(2)
Wu Fatzi was ordered to shell the Sapo section to cover the attack of the 88th Regiment of the US Army. Wu Fatzi's artillery was so good that the American officers were amazed that his shells were dancing on the Japanese positions, dancing a dance of death. The soldiers of the 88th Regiment of the U.S. Army were not ambiguous, and after a burst of rush, they actually attacked the Sapo area! Just after Stilwell thought that his troops had opened a breakthrough, and before he could order the follow-up troops to follow, the American troops on Sappo were driven down by the fierce counterattack of the Japanese army. The Sapo position was gained and lost. Stilwell was furious, and the duck flew like this! "Go on the offensive! Take Sapo anyway! Stilwell shouted with his feet! The U.S. military continued to attack, but the Japanese army had adjusted its deployment, and a brigade of reinforcements arrived, and the U.S. troops suffered hundreds of casualties, but nothing was found! "Merrill, this idiot, was stupid at the beginning, so that now the Japanese still have reserves to reinforce in all directions, he should be hanged!" Stilwell was furious, but there was nothing he could do!
"Master, teacher, dig through! Dig through! Mu Zhennan ran over and hurriedly reported. It's true! After Liu Hai heard it, he went to the tunnel with Mu Zhennan. Outside the tunnel entrance that was about to be dug through, dozens of soldiers were waiting! "Where did you dig in?" Bangs asked quietly. "The place we dug seems to be an abandoned tunnel, but judging from the air flow, it should be figured out with the Japanese army's defensive tunnel!" The company commander who dug through the tunnel said. "Master! I'm coming! Liu Xiaoshan came from behind and said. You take a battalion in, bring more ammunition, and fight when you see someone, but try not to throw it*, in case it blows up, and after you have completely entered the defensive tunnels of the Japanese army, then let go of the fight, and I will let the chief of staff launch a ground offensive to respond to you! Bangs said. No problem! Liu Xiaoshan said excitedly. Good! Liu Hai looked at his watch, "I'm going to inform the chief of staff now, in half an hour, launch an attack, within this time, don't move, so as not to alarm the Japanese army inside!" "Yes!" Liu Xiaoshan replied. After leaving the tunnel, Liu Hai went straight to his artillery regiment position and called the ghost cannon and Wu Fatzi. "Ghost cannon! Wu Fatzi, you two must carry out the maximum firepower, give me a hard blow, keep up with the charging line of the troops, open the way for the troops, and in fifteen minutes, the chief of staff will attack! "Bangs are arranged." Good! Don't worry, my shells will definitely open a way for the troops! Fat Wu said immediately. Yes! As long as the devil's fire point dares to fire, my sharpshooter can kill him in a minute! Ghost Cannon also said. Good! Take it and get ready! Bangs said.
"Attack!" Sun Liren ordered his troops to start attacking, since the tunnel was dug through, then a two-pronged approach, I don't believe that his devil can withstand it. At the same time, Liu Xiaoshan also led the assault team to attack through the tunnel. The Chinese troops on the position rushed towards the Japanese position under the artillery fire of Wu Fatzi. The sharpshooter of the ghost artillery was firing at the heavy firearms unit of the Japanese army, and Sun Liren's flameman and demoman and assault group covered each other for an assault, and for a time there was a rain of bullets on the ground and in the tunnels! Liu Xiaoshan's assault in the tunnel was particularly successful, this abandoned tunnel was originally intended to be a warehouse, but because the Japanese army changed the layout of the tunnel and abandoned, when Liu Xiaoshan broke in, he found that his luck was too good, after going out, it was a brigade headquarters of the Japanese army, all the Japanese troops did not expect that their tunnels could drill out of the expeditionary force, the Japanese captain, the deputy captain, and some clerical staff officers, miscellaneous personnel, The entire underground headquarters of the Japanese army in Happy Valley was completely wiped out by Liu Xiaoshan with more than 1,000 bullets!
Eliminated the command, Liu Xiaoshan continued to assault, in the next battle, the Japanese army completely fell into passivity, the Japanese army on the ground did not expect that their back would drill out of the enemy, the Japanese army in the tunnel did not have time to react, was killed by Liu Xiaoshan with people, captured a large number of guns and ammunition, the most fatal is to occupy the hole in the munitions hoard, the result is that after the bullets in the surface position are exhausted, there is no replenishment, in the face of the Chinese soldiers rushing up, the Japanese army had to pick up the bayonet. But when the bayonet was facing *, it was basically a burning stick, and the Japanese soldiers who rushed out were swept away and killed! After an hour of stubborn resistance by the Japanese army, Happy Valley was conquered! Happy Valley was a key part of Myitkyina's western defense, and Happy Valley was killed, making the Japanese army's western defense of Myitkyina passive! Although the terrain of Happy Valley is not high, it can have an unobstructed view of the Japanese positions from Happy Valley to Myitkyina, and Happy Valley will be the key to breaking through and occupying Myitkyina!
The supreme commander of the Japanese army in Myitkyina is Minakami Genzo, this commander at the level of major general is very two-handed, when the reinforcements arrived, the most reasonable distribution and defensive deployment of Myitkyina's defense, after carefully arranging the troops, there were even three brigades left free as reserves! However, when Happy Valley was breached, the balance of defense was broken, and Minakami Genzo had to transfer all the reserves and launch a counterattack in an attempt to recapture Happy Valley. But Liu Hai and Sun Liren were not given in vain, after breaking through Happy Valley, they immediately notified the US army and the * division in the north of the west to launch a full-scale attack, under the superior air firepower of the allies, the Japanese army had no support from the reserves, plus Myitkyina was surrounded, foreign aid was basically cut off, and a lot of ammunition was consumed in the fierce battle and could not be replenished, and finally had to shrink the position, and the outermost north airfield and Sitapur were abandoned one after another! The counterattack of the Japanese reserves in Happy Valley was very unsuccessful, and under the absolute superiority of firepower, a large number of Japanese troops were beaten to pieces by artillery fire and * before they could touch the positions of Happy Valley, and had to give up!
Since whether Myitkyina could hold on was directly related to the deployment of the Japanese army, the Japanese army's devilish staff officer moved the political letter and issued an order that Major General Mitsui must defend Myitkyina. For the next entire week, Minakami Genzo commanded the garrison in a desperate struggle, allowing the Chinese and American troops to advance only a few hundred meters. A few days later, the Chinese and American forces launched another general offensive with air support. One hundred and twenty-seven planes dropped a total of 754 tonnes*, 20 percent more than the artillery shells, and the troops were ordered to retreat to the rear during the bombardment, and the bombardment stopped, and they immediately returned to their positions to resist the infantry attack.
The tenacity of the Japanese army was beyond the expectations of Liu Hai and Sun Liren, and Stilwell, a Westerner, couldn't figure it out, knowing that there was no foreign aid and no hope of victory, why did these Japanese soldiers not surrender! However, after a week of fighting, some results were achieved, especially for Minakami Genzo, the strength of the water force was reduced to about 1,500 men, due to the shortage of ammunition, artillery fire has been limited to less than six rounds per day,* only two per person, and white-knuckle combat is mostly used in battle. In order to replenish the troops, Lieutenant Masayoshi Hachie, the chief of intelligence of the Maritime Order, led five men to sneak out of Myitkyina in the rain, found the branch of the Second Field Hospital in Waza, and commanded about 400 wounded and sick men to break through the blockade and join the main force of the garrison. By the last few days, the number of troops on the water had been reduced to 1,200, the positions and facilities had been almost completely destroyed by artillery fire, and the officers and men of the first line had been left in a state of complete exposure without cover. The trenches were filled with rainwater, and the officers and men were soaked in waist-deep water. Lieutenant General Tanaka, commander of the Japanese forces stationed in Burma, learned that the fate of the Myitkyina garrison was in danger and decided to issue a certificate of commendation to the water and garrison in order to boost morale, but the reconnaissance plane could not fly over Myitkyina, so it had to be transmitted by telegram.
Just when victory was in sight, the American commander Bertno, a fool, actually rejected Liu Hai and Sun Liren's suggestion to cut off the connection channel between the Japanese army and Ba Mo, so as not to make the Japanese army replenish again, and asked Stilwell to remove Liu Hai and Liu Xiaoshan from their posts and send them back to China on the charge of disadvantage and interference with the Allied forces! This incident almost made the originally handsome Sun Liren half dead, and his face was deformed! Personally carried * to find Patno, to kill this idiot who couldn't do anything, ate nothing, and didn't have enough, but was finally intercepted by Stilwell. Before Stilwell could say anything, Sun Liren told him that if the Japanese army received reinforcements at one time, then the Chinese troops would withdraw from the battle and would never pay for the stupidity of the American army! But at this time, the news came that the four Japanese brigades from Wazar broke through the American defenses and entered Myitkyina from the southeast to reinforce them. Stilwell was really angry about this kind of retribution, and ordered that Patno be removed from his post and investigated, arrested and sent to a military court!
"Stilwell! Myitkyina has received reinforcements again, and we don't know how many people will die, so it's up to you to take care of this matter. "Sun Liren's anger has not subsided." General Sun, the Japanese army in Burma is only Wazar and Bhammo, and the total number of Japanese troops in these places will not increase, because our air force and navy have completely cut off their sea passages, so these Japanese troops are eliminated now, and it is the same as if they were eliminated in the future, and Myitkyina has become a dead city, I think it is not necessarily a bad thing if the Japanese army can transfer all the troops of Wazha and Bhamo to reinforce them! Stilwell said. Yes, there is some truth in what I said, but please excuse me, shoot a decent commander in the future, don't be like the emperor one by one! "Although Sun Liren is very angry, he doesn't want to magnify the matter anymore." Rest assured, my dear grandson, I will arrange a suitable person, and within a week, Myitkyina will be ours! ”