The next morning, after resting, the Chinese and Japanese armies faced each other in front of the position, ready to continue the fight Chinese. (8) 8 (8) 1 Z (8) (1) C (1) O?M Now the 545th Regiment is defending the third position, and yesterday it lost two positions in one day, which is still extremely rare in the history of the 90th Division. Today, Zhang Lingfu originally wanted to use the 546th Regiment to replace the 545th Regiment, which had lost a battalion, but Zhao Fei insisted that the 545th Regiment could still continue to hold on, and Zhang Lingfu could only tell Zhao Fei for a while to let the 545th Regiment continue to hold its position outside the city.

Coincidentally, the 2nd Wing of the Japanese Army, at the request of the Wing Commander, still took up the main attack mission today. The 2nd Wing again assembled a large group of troops in the occupied positions, ready to attack after the artillery bombardment. The soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the 545th Regiment, under the leadership of the battalion commander Wang Chengwu, hid in various fortifications and bunkers on the position, waiting for the shelling before the Japanese attack.

With the bloody lesson of the 1st Battalion yesterday, the 2nd Battalion will no longer use the anti-artillery holes to hide from the Japanese artillery bombardment today, and everyone knows that under the bombardment of the Japanese heavy artillery, the anti-artillery holes will not only not be used to hide from the artillery bombardment, but will very likely be blown up, so that the officers and men in the anti-artillery holes will be stewed inside. But the ground fortifications could not withstand the heavy artillery shells of the Japanese army, and now the soldiers could only rely on luck.

At nine o'clock, the Japanese shelling began again, but this time the shelling lasted only a few minutes, and from the sky behind the position, the screech of shells flying past was heard. Hearing the screams, the second battalion commander Wang Chengwu understood that his artillery had begun a counterattack. Wang Chengwu slammed his fist on the wall inside the bunker and said, "Little Japan, do you think that you are the only ones who have heavy artillery? Lao Tzu also has it! Now it's time for you to taste our cannonballs!"

The heavy artillery brigade in Mandalay City obtained the bearing coordinates of the Japanese heavy artillery position and the bearing coordinates of the artillery wing of the melee division in the middle of the night last night, and this morning 50 13o heavy cannons were ready for shelling, and the long-range anti-explosive grenades with two bases per gun were also transported to the gun positions. After receiving the coordinates of the Japanese heavy artillery positions that the reconnaissance detachment had checked again, brigade commander Tang Yishi gave the order to open fire.

Fifty heavy cannons fired fifty long-range anti-explosive grenades in one shell. Although the explosion power of a projectile weighing more than 30 kilograms is not as good as that of the Japanese army's 24o caliber heavy artillery, fifty shells are enough for the Japanese army to drink a pot. The Japanese artillery did not react until the shells flew overhead, and met the defenders' artillery counterattack.

The commander of the Fourth Heavy Artillery Brigade, who was proudly observing the effects of his heavy artillery bombardment, changed his face when the shells flew overhead, and said hoarsely: "The shelling of the people of China!" But he reacted too late, and before his words fell, the shells had already exploded on the position. The explosion of a series of shells not only caused heavy casualties to the Japanese artillery on the position, but also knocked those heavy artillery to the ground.

This is not over, just after one round of explosions, the second round of blows has arrived. This blow caused the shells on the position to be detonated, and the Japanese heavy artillery position was immediately plunged into a sea of fire. Even the brigade commander of the 4th Heavy Artillery Brigade and the people around him were drowned in this sea of fire. Ten shells per heavy cannon of the heavy artillery brigade inflicted a devastating blow on dozens of heavy artillery positions on the Japanese heavy artillery positions.

After the latent reconnaissance detachment confirmed that the Japanese heavy artillery position had been destroyed, the 50 heavy cannons of the heavy artillery brigade adjusted their muzzles and bombarded the artillery positions of the Japanese Guards Division again, and only after destroying dozens of 15o field guns on this position did the heavy artillery brigade stop shelling. The counterattack on the Japanese artillery positions made the fighters on the positions cheer.

Although we could not see the tragic bombing of the Japanese artillery position 10 kilometers away, the black smoke in the sky and the fact that no shells fell, made the veterans of the 545th Regiment understand what was going on. The morale of the defenders was greatly boosted, and the Japanese were not having a good time. After the heavy artillery position was bombed, Commander Yamashita received the news that the 4th Heavy Artillery Brigade had been shelled by the Shina army, all 48 heavy artillery pieces had been destroyed, and the brigade commander and several thousand soldiers had been shattered.

After receiving the news, Commander Yamashita Fengwen sat in the headquarters and did not say a word for a long time. The Fourth Heavy Artillery Brigade is already a strategic force, and there are only six such heavy artillery brigades in Japan, and now the Fourth Heavy Artillery Brigade was destroyed here, and Commander Yamashita Fumimi could not explain to General Terauchi Shouichi.

Then the artillery wing of the Guards Division was shelled by the Zhina people, dozens of large-caliber guns were completely destroyed, and the news that the artillery wing was almost completely wiped out came again. For a long time, Yamashita Fengwen stared at his eyes, panted and said: "Send a telegram to General Shouichi Terauchi, ask for plane support, I want to destroy all these people!"

The Japanese artillery position was destroyed, without the support of artillery fire, the infantry attack also stopped, on the third position, Wang Chengwu had already put a company, and now there is no threat of artillery fire, Wang Chengwu transferred another company and a company of the heavy fire battalion. The morning was spent in peace, and the Japanese did not change their attack again. The officers and men of the second battalion also relaxed.

After lunch, Wang Chengwu, who was resting on the battlefield, suddenly heard a faint roar in the southern sky, and after listening carefully for a while, Wang Chengwu jumped up and shouted loudly: "The little Japanese planes are coming, brothers are going to hide!" The soldiers of the second battalion are all veterans, and they are also experienced in dealing with the bombing of Japanese planes.

Most of the fighters took advantage of the fortifications to hide, and the heavy machine gun group was equipped with anti-aircraft shooting tripods for the Type 67 heavy machine guns, and was ready to fight against the Japanese planes. As soon as the position was ready, the figure of the Japanese plane appeared in the sky in the south, and soon the plane approached the sky above the city of Amarabra, Wang Chengwu held a telescope in the bunker and looked at the air, and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

The Japanese army sent nearly 100 planes this time, and a large area of the sky was so black that even the sky was obscured. And the anti-aircraft weapons of the whole army are basically in the city of Mandalay, not even in the city of Amarabra, let alone on the positions outside the city. It is really difficult to say how much of a threat these dozens of heavy machine guns on the position can pose to the Japanese aircraft.

Wang Chengwu was still holding a telescope, and the Japanese planes had already begun to dive. Twelve bombers were the first to dive down, and dozens of heavy machine guns on the ground also began firing into the air. Chains of fire formed a network of fire in the air, covering the Japanese planes that swooped down. In just an instant, three Japanese planes were hit and caught fire, but many more rushed through the fire net.

These planes, which rushed through the fire network, dropped a string of bombs on the position, and the smoke, fire, and dust caused by the explosion of the bombs covered the entire position. This round of planes dropped bombs and pulled up, followed by twelve more planes began to dive and bomb. The air raid lasted for nearly an hour before all the planes dropped all their bombs and began to return.

In the nearly hour-long air raid, nine Japanese planes were shot down, and more than twenty heavy machine guns on the ground were also lost. Eighty-two people were killed and one hundred and sixteen were wounded. As soon as the Japanese planes flew away, an infantry brigade of the Guards Division went on the attack. Wang Chengwu led the soldiers to rush to the position to see that his side had lost one-third, and the key was that the number of heavy machine guns was insufficient. Wang Chengwu hurriedly transferred a company that served as a reserve.

Fortunately, the Japanese army lost artillery support, and the small artillery in the wing, the 545th Regiment could use the mortars in the regiment to confront them, and the soldiers on the position could also use their fire superiority to suppress the attacking Japanese infantry 150 meters away. In the afternoon, the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion heroically repelled the three Japanese attacks and firmly held the third line.

In the next three days, the 272nd Brigade was nailed to the city of Amarabra, and the two divisions of the Japanese army continued to attack the city of Amarabra under the cover of aircraft, but they were repulsed again and again. On the fourth day, the Japanese army was replaced by the 16th Division, and the defenders were also replaced by the 546th Regiment to continue to hold out. Both sides did their best, and both suffered a lot of losses.

In Mandalay, the logistics office finally completed the transfer of all supplies, and the heavy artillery brigade began to retreat along the Yunnan-Burma road after retrieving the trucks. In Mandalay, only one regiment of the 271st Brigade, the Armored Brigade, the Guard Brigade, and the military headquarters of the 90th Army were still there, and the rest of the troops had withdrawn from the city.

After receiving Wang Haitao's order, Zhang Lingfu, the commander of the 272nd Brigade, withdrew from the city of Amarabra with the 272nd Brigade at night, and Zhang Lingfu's brigade headquarters and guard battalion were the last troops to leave the city.

After the 272nd Brigade withdrew from Mandalay, the military headquarters, the guard brigade, and the armored brigade began to retreat.

When Wang Haitao's military headquarters was about to withdraw to Lashio, he happened to meet the 200th Division of the Fifth Army, which was also retreating, and General Dai Anlan, the commander of the 200th Division, saw that the military headquarters of the 90th Army was coming, so he naturally wanted to come to meet Wang Haitao, the commander of the 90th Army, and Wang Haitao had already heard of General Dai Anlan's name, and he was also happy to see him in person. In fact, Wang Haitao was even happier that he finally changed the outcome of the Chinese Expeditionary Force's first war in Burma, and also saved the life of General Dai Anlan.