Like all army commanders, the first thing that came to the mind of the commander of the Funa-Koetsu Division was a night attack, and any Japanese officer believed that the Japanese had an incomparable advantage in night fighting and trenching, and that his troops had no anti-tank weapons, but could approach their opponents step by step, so that they could get closer to the enemy tanks relatively easily, and Funakoshi had not yet made up his mind to make a real Banzai charge.

The Stuart tank gave the Japanese the impression that it was running too fast, and the defense was clearly not excellent, and if one * or * exploded near the engine, it could be destroyed, and in a night attack, the tank's vision disadvantage would be magnified. The division was accustomed to attacking British tanks of the same model at night, and many British tanks ran around in panic and overturned themselves in trenches and ravines. Funakoshi remembers this valuable experience vividly.

He Bisheng observed from afar that the woods where the enemy was hiding were foggy, the fire was lit, and he was cooking. Looks like there's still something to eat? The Japanese used tents to shield themselves from being spotted from the air, but they were not afraid to be seen from frontal positions. He Bisheng ordered the troops to fire flares every once in a while to prevent the enemy from sneaking up. His troops marched mechanized, except for not pulling artillery, and carried a lot of things with their vehicles. In addition to a large amount of food, there were also some infantry*, which he deployed 24 hours in advance, laid them at the front of the line*, and set fire to the bushes that obstructed observation, and although they were burned cleanly from time to time, it was difficult for the enemy to hide on a large scale. As soon as the Japanese hid at the front, it was likely that earthwork would be carried out, which was a big deal for him.

Here, the Japanese army actually had no food to eat for a long time, so they could only kill the last batch of war horses and distribute them to the troops for cooking. Of course, in order to let the Chinese army see their size, since the enemy has been prepared for a long time, it is not meaningful to sneak around, it is better to let the enemy see their own numbers, maybe they can scare them off, anyway, the ship Yue thinks so.

After nightfall, some more troops arrived, although all of them were not ghosts, but the number was 10,000, and it is believed that the rest of the troops will be in place later. His staff officer reported to him that having concentrated all the ammunition was still not enough, it was better to let the 15 Corps airdrop; In addition, the troops carried some poison gas bombs. Some of them are mustard gas bombs, and some are asphyxiating gases, but the wind is not in the right direction at the moment. Funakoshi was a little hesitant, using mustard gas would contaminate the path he had to pass, and he had a 5 to 1 advantage in strength, and it was obviously not yet time for the fish to die and the net to be broken.

While the Chinese soldiers were sitting in the trenches waiting for the battle, the Japanese songs wafted in the distance, and they were singing about how the imperial soldiers regarded death as if they were at home and walked into the Yasukuni Shrine, but no one understood it, but they just felt that their morale was not bad. The soldiers inevitably had some weakness, because the frontal enemy had another division and no artillery themselves. In the past, most of the victories under the command of the master actually relied on artillery.

The Japanese did not take a sneak attack, and in the middle of the night, stopped singing and began to shoot with mortars. Then about 2,000 enemy troops came out of the woods and stormed. Trying to rush to the edge of the trench in one fell swoop under the cover of insignificant artillery fire.

Sensing the enemy's attack, the Chinese army immediately fired a large number of hungry flares. From a distance, the Japanese army was rushing towards with a shout. Under the light of the flares, each Japanese soldier had several shadows, watching the number of people multiply.

He Bisheng fired signal flares, and the machine guns of the Chinese army fired together, and tracer catapults into the locusts that dominated the battlefield, immediately knocking down the enemy who rushed ahead. The charge was thwarted, and the enemy began to look for cover in a step-by-step manner. They weren't prepared to fight hard the first time.

The enemy still found a hiding place and counterattacked with grenadiers and machine guns, while he began digging trenches in an attempt to extend under the nose of the Chinese troops. Why Bisheng received instructions from Pavilion Chief Chu and held out until dawn to win, when the Allied air forces would blow up the enemy's trenches.

Even though the Japanese army still maintained high morale and high combat skills, the battle still entered the rhythm of He Bisheng, and Chu Tingchang's request to He Bisheng was to give full play to his firepower advantage to suppress the enemy and force the enemy into a war of attrition. The battle lasted for an hour, and the mortar fire from the rear of the enemy pulled up and stopped, and the machine guns began to stumble, apparently running out of ammunition. On the Chinese side, the firepower is still strong.

Funakoshi looked ahead with a telescope and realized that he was in trouble today, not because of the enemy's heavy fire, but because the enemy tanks that he was most worried about were missing. That is, they have not used all their strength. In the past, when fighting in China, the opponent had no cards to play except for being outnumbered and good at digging trenches, and had neither the ability to maneuver nor the firepower. Now that the situation has been reversed, it seems that he only has a few cards left in his hand, either to surprise his troops to find a way from the nearby mountains, or to make a decisive charge, or to use poison gas.

The first way, which he is already implementing, sends troops to look for a way around the rear of the enemy's flank, but this takes time, and he just does not have time now. He thought about using general asphyxiating gas, I'm afraid it's useless, the enemy even has tanks, so naturally there is no shortage of gas masks. The result of using mustard gas is to contaminate the channel and cut off one's own way out.

The U.S. P38 plane rushed to the scene, but because it could not distinguish between friend and foe at night, it did not strafe, but only stayed in the air and circled around a few times.

According to Chu Tingchang's intentions, the battle dragged on until daytime, and aerial reconnaissance found that the Japanese had dug trench nets in front of the positions of the Chinese army, but it was very shallow. More than a dozen B25 bombers flew over and carried out horizontal bombing of the exposed enemy troops, the Japanese discarded their machine guns and could not shoot in the air, and the US planes flew to the polar regions with extremely high accuracy. The dense * scattered the Japanese bombardment that stayed near the trenches, and the remnants of the troops retreated into the forest.

Throughout the night, He Bisheng's troops did not dare to slack off, constantly pouring bullets on the enemy, and the ammunition consumption was extremely high, estimated to be at least 5 to 10 times that of the Japanese troops in front of them. But transport planes then arrived, airdropped ammunition and food to the troops below, replenished them. The Japanese soldiers on the opposite side could see it clearly, and the roots of their teeth were itchy.

Vice Admiral Funakoshi counted the losses, losing 650 men in one night, without shaking the enemy's position at all. Although there was some progress during the night, as soon as it was daytime, it was cleared by American planes.

The troops he sent to explore the road found some mountain trails that could be crossed directly into Burma, but they could not pass through the army, and many of the troops sent to explore the road fell to death.

Time was running out, and he began to hesitate to use poison gas to open the way. Even though poison gas could contaminate the passage, it was better to be a lose-lose tactic than to be trapped alive by an enemy who had the advantage of terrain and firepower, and his scouts observed that on the enemy's side, less than a hundred wounded and sick were carried out of the trenches in the morning. It can be seen that the casualty ratio is unacceptable. He gave the artillerymen an order to be ready to shoot with mustard gas, but did not give the order to shoot immediately, waiting for a favorable wind direction on the one hand, and on the other hand hesitating.

A reconnaissance unit of Xu Chong has been wandering around enemy camps, looking for worthy targets. The unit did not receive complete training in jungle warfare, but received Xu Chong's guidance in actual combat, and its skills improved extremely quickly. At present, each of these units has enough skills to move freely among the enemy at night, and during the day can hide in the shadows and quietly observe and use intelligence.

The troops hid for two days, and the Japanese did not find it at all. Their primary goal was to find the enemy's headquarters and artillery, which could not be found, but the enemy artillery fired at night, so it was easy to find, but the vicinity was heavily guarded, and it was impossible to attack with a small detachment. The troops moved quietly, and according to Xu Chong's deployment, several smoke release points were established around the target, forming a rectangular zone of about 400X200 to indicate the target for the aircraft in the air. Of course, the timing had to be pinched very accurately, otherwise the enemy mortars would easily run away, which required good air-ground coordination, but fortunately they carried walkie-talkies and could make simple contact with the American liaison officers hiding behind the positions. Essentially, there are still too many intermediaries and too cumbersome, but the rudiments of modern air-to-ground support are already emerging, with the main difference being the replacement of laser pointers with smoke.

The 12 warplanes that took off from the U.S. military base in Dhaka quickly swooped down on the place, and the group consisted of 6 B25 bombers and 6 P38 fighters hanging*, and the P38 also served as an escort for the B25.

Although the test site has proven its effectiveness, the US military on the front line still does not quite accept such results. The P38 can carry three 500-pound* rockets, and it's hard to believe that 12 rockets with a total charge of less than 100 pounds can play tricks, so the main attack is still the B25 bomber.

The Japanese artillery positions had not moved, as if waiting for orders, and the scouts could see from the trees that shells were piled up near the headquarters concealed with camouflage nets, some of which were marked with special colors, and the soldiers were wiping these shells humming a song, they did not know that these were gas shells. The Japanese headquarters could always hear the activities of Chinese soldiers nearby through the radio, and the sound was very clear, indicating that it was not too far away, but the patrol team strengthened its vigilance and found nothing.

The plane flew over the forest, passed over the Scout's head, and then circled around and back, waiting for instructions from below.

After receiving orders from their superiors, the soldiers waited for the wind to weaken and began to release smoke in unison, and when they were done, they quickly evacuated - they were not very sure about the accuracy of the American bombs.

The U.S. pilots saw smoke rising into the sky from the forest. They quickly pounced on the rectangular area outlined by a few dots. The first was the B25 bomber, which flew at an altitude of 200 meters and quickly dropped bombs. The Japanese light machine guns below fired fiercely, indicating that the place was right. Due to the speed of the aircraft, the bombing error was still too large, and it only hit a corner of the artillery position, which could not be completely covered. Immediately, the P38 fighter jet, which swooped down from the sky, began to fire the * mending knife. The 72 rockets carried by the six planes flew like headless flies. Looking out from the pilot's field of vision, white smoke was flying in the air, and there was no accuracy at all, but these rockets flying indiscriminately were all covered in the indicated area.

A few of them hit the piled up shells, and the regular shells exploded first, and then a chain reaction erupted, detonating all the special shells piled up on the side.