Xu Chong left the enemy and quickly turned to the other side, he noticed a two-person machine gun team with light machine guns approaching, and the machine guns on his side also began to fire, suppressing the nearby enemies who might pose a threat. The Japanese machine-gun crew was quickly dealt with by him, and because they were unprepared and did not know the intention of this enemy to fall from the sky, the Japanese were completely out of the way for a while.

Problems with Takeuchi's position began to appear, and the fortifications he had built on a steeply steep hill were intended to use the mountain to protect against air raids, but the rocks also blocked the upward view and firing range.

Inside the artillery position, 150 cannons fired at a rate of one round every two minutes. The field gun weighed 4 tons, and in order to install it on the mountain, a large number of manpower (mainly prisoners of war) had to be excavated in the mountain, and then a gantry crane had to be built on the mountain, and several sets of pulleys and winches were used to slowly lift the parts up before they could be assembled. The installation progress almost did not catch up with the battle, because the division commander had also hesitated to retreat, so these heavy guns were left on the ground for a time in a state of march. Fortunately, the enemy was timid and did not attack immediately, so that these heavy artillery and the minefields in the valley were completed in order.

Now the value of these heavy guns is reflected, as long as the enemy's 155* guns dare to shoot, these 150 guns, can take advantage of the greater range brought by the elevation advantage, to give the enemy a devastating counterattack, and the enemy is difficult to pose a threat to it. Of course, if the enemy's attacking forces were gathered in the distant valley, it would be a massacre. All possible areas where targets can be assembled have been demarcated and can be fired quickly. The only problem was that the ammunition base was insufficient, so most of the time there were 75-mm field guns in the nearby gun chambers to fire at the enemy, and these 150 guns fired only at the most important targets.

The firing range of the Japanese 90-test 75-mm field gun was a little longer than that of the 150 gun. Once these guns are deployed in tricky positions and wheels removed, their high muzzle velocity and sufficient pitch angle make them suitable for anti-tank guns, and the rate of fire is extremely fast. Of course, due to its heavy weight, it was also very cumbersome to deploy in the mountains, but Takeuchi regarded the defense project as a masterpiece of engineering, and he demanded excellence, so that these two guns could appear at impossible heights and constitute his main firepower against the enemy's armored forces. He also had some 90 mountain guns, which weighed only half of the Type 75 field guns, which were deployed on the ground. This lightweight, more curved artillery was suitable for the ground and could quickly shift positions.

As for the firepower deployed in the rest of the various fortified bunkers on the mountain, from 20mm machine guns to 47mm anti-tank guns, as well as various light and heavy machine guns, Takeuchi also spent a lot of energy, together with his friend engineer Shosa Hashimoto, to form a complete network of fire. As soon as the enemy enters from the valley, both tanks and infantry will experience the most terrible massacre.

Takeuchi dared to give up the opportunity to retreat after the defeat in the field and leave the remnants of the division in Myitkyina, not to go crazy, but to be carefully considered as the optimal solution. He was almost playing the role of the 58th Division on the side of the Japanese. His terrain is somewhat worse than Songshan in terms of danger, but his firepower and ability to build fortifications are far stronger than Zhang Lingfu's. The 55th Division not only had an independent engineering unit, but also several thousand prisoners of war to drive, and at present the prisoners of war were almost all dead, and his fortifications were largely completed. Now here 9,000 Japanese soldiers are patiently waiting to harvest the lives of the enemy.

Winters platoon, down from above. Every time you descend a distance, you can feel a great shock, it is the enemy heavy artillery firing. The hasty planning led to a vision of how to capture these emplacements, without specific details. Brought*, including blasting canisters and plain plastics* as well as some* and initiating equipment. As they descended from the cliff, they thought about how to destroy the heavy artillery, but either way, it had to be fast, and the Chinese above knew how long they could resist.

The Japanese in the gun emplacements were covered by the deafening sound of artillery, and they could not detect that people were coming down, but in fact, these people had stepped on a lot of rubble when they came down.

The commander has been answering calls from the forward observation post to relay new ruler data to the gun emplacement. In this way, his line is occupied, and he cannot receive calls from friendly neighbors to alert him. Winters threw a smoke grenade into the gun emplacement, and watching the smoke emerge from inside, he took the lead and jumped into the massive firing port. In front of him were more than a dozen coughing Japanese soldiers, most of them shirtless and unarmed.

He strafed the enemy with *, and the rest of the soldiers came down one by one, and someone began to stuff * into the barrel of the enemy's cannon*, the barrel bore could withstand pressure of several hundred megapascals, and the best thing to do was to destroy it with thermite*, but the plan was hasty, and it could only be filled with ordinary C4* and then detonated with electricity* or *. When the group attacked the gun chamber on the other side, someone detonated*. Blow a cannon barrel into eight pieces. It took the Japanese months to deploy the cannon, but only 10 shells were fired before it was destroyed. According to Takeuchi's calculations, each cannon here can kill at least 2,000 people before being destroyed by enemy fire.

The Japanese artillery on the other side noticed that the enemy had infiltrated and began to counterattack, but they only had some shovels and pickaxes in their hands, and they were quickly annihilated by the American paratroopers. The Americans did the same and eliminated the second 150 heavy gun. From here, 2 75 field guns and 2 mortars of unknown caliber can be seen side by side on the platform below, firing rapidly, and these fires blocked the entrance to the valley. The paratroopers poked out most of their bodies and could shoot at these positions with rifles, but the Japanese began to counterattack and direct fire became very dangerous.

Winters decided to detonate the ammunition of the 150* guns piled up in the gun chamber to see if he could blow up part of the mountain and use the falling boulders to destroy the Japanese. He immediately used the ammunition set on the Japanese army, and after all the people were transferred out, the fuse was lit.

A few dozen seconds later, a huge explosion destroyed the gun chamber, blasting the rocks apart, and some of the rocks rolled down with the heavy artillery, smashing into the fire point below.

Winters used his walkie-talkie to shout to Allied units that might be heard nearby, and he had solved the main obstacle. Tao Mingzhang immediately got the news, and he ordered his bulldozers, which had been reinforced with sandbags, to be dispatched to clear a passage from the enemy's minefield before the main attacking force attacked, and of course as a fire reconnaissance, which he needed to rely on to attract enemy fire. He expected that it would be difficult for the bulldozer members to leave alive, but he had no other way to kill them.

The bulldozer was temporarily modified, and the front shovel bucket was replaced with a minesweeper. It is theoretically possible to sweep away the Type 93 anti-tank * of the Japanese, or the British anti-infantry * captured by the Japanese. But it's not insured either. In particular, it is necessary to beware of enemy fire.

Several bulldozers went out in turn, and sure enough, they attracted enemy fire, but their direct fire weapons were still not enough to destroy the 5-centimeter-thick armor and sandbags in front of the bulldozers.

Inside the bunker, the Japanese watched as bulldozers swept a passage and approached the giant puller* that they had buried under a layer of soil at a depth of one meter and was converted with 250 kilograms of aviation*. Takeuchi knew the methods of mine sweeping and obstacle breaking in the past, so he had some preparations. But these * are not much.

With a loud bang, a bulldozer led by it was blown up several meters into the air, and the sandbags piled up on the bulldozer instantly scattered and fell, and the bulldozer rolled several times when it landed.

The rear bulldozer drove directly through the huge crater left by the explosion and continued to move forward. The Japanese did not have enough aerial bombs, deployed a very dense minefield, and saw that the bulldozers did not retreat, and killed all the way, and the Chinese troops in the rear launched * to cover the bulldozers' advance. This is also the preparation made by Tao Mingzhang's department in advance.

The Allied forces on the hill continued to expand their successes, successively destroying artillery observation posts and ammunition depots set up by the enemy. The passage up and down the hill was very narrow, with only one person carrying ammunition boxes up and down in many sections, which made it impossible for the enemy to quickly deploy forces to retake the position, and the 60-man assault team took advantage of the condescending position to block these passages, making it impossible for the enemy to support upward. Xu Chong's troops attacked downward, and in the rubble, they found a working enemy 47mm anti-aircraft gun, and they turned the muzzle to shoot at the friendly positions on one side. Knock out several machine-gun emplacements one by one. At this point, their task was largely completed, and one last thing remained to indicate the target to the rear artillery from this commanding height with a good view.

Takeuchi, who had been hiding in the underground headquarters in Myitkyina, waited for the worst news, the massacre he expected did not happen, and he was shocked to learn that about 300 enemies had landed above his main position and destroyed his own artillery.

He personally drew up and supervised the implementation of the defense plan, and at first Commander Iida did not approve of putting a lot of resources on building a fortress here, but he was convinced. He was fascinated by engineering and regarded the defense of Myitkyina as the greatest achievement of his military career. He looked forward to the day when he would be able to tell his grandson, sitting on his lap, about his hard-fought victory in the defense of Myitkyina; Or from the memoirs of the enemy, see them recalling the hellish defenses around Myitkyina.

But only an hour into the battle, his main defense was about to be breached, and the enemy somehow went up to the cliff and destroyed the artillery from here. He had to immediately organize a defense, but the enemy's fire had extended to the outside of the city, blocking the maneuver of his reserves, and the condescending enemy began to play the role of observer for their artillery. The shells fell accurately and ruthlessly. Any movement of Takeuchi now is under the observation of the enemy.

At this time, Liao Yaoxiang's troops, who came to support, were still marching slowly in the primeval jungle, and it was expected to arrive in three days. The New 6th Army has made no achievements in the entire counteroffensive in northern Burma, and the number of enemies destroyed so far is only more than 200. But after he saw the information on the defense of Myitkyina, he didn't want to hit the granite with his head. It was a fortified fortress defended by 9,000 Japanese troops, and he mentally estimated the minimum price it would take to capture Myitkyina—at least 20,000 people. But he suddenly intercepted a telegram from Tao Minzhang's department that the outer outskirts of Myitkyina had broken through, and the tank troops were about to attack the city.

Liao Yaoxiang almost dropped his jaw in fright, he thought, what kind of mediocre talent did the Japanese send to guard Myitkyina? But Takeuchi is clearly the general who beat himself out of Mandalay and chased and killed all the way to northern Myanmar, and it was by no means a straw bag.