The heavy artillery brigade of the 90th Army has been waiting for the order to retreat, and it was difficult for Wang Haitao to let them withdraw first, but the trucks of the heavy artillery brigade were all requisitioned by the logistics department, and the heavy artillery brigade was in a state of standby. I thought that the heavy artillery brigade would not be used again in this battle abroad, but I didn't expect that the order to prepare for battle at the last moment was personally issued by Wang Haitao.

After receiving the order, Tang Yishi, commander of the heavy artillery brigade, immediately ordered the whole brigade to assemble urgently, and then set up artillery positions on the spot to prepare for battle. The position of the heavy artillery brigade here in Mandalay City is ten kilometers away from the city of Amarabra, and it is even farther away from the Japanese heavy artillery position.

The heavy artillery brigade was quickly ready for battle, but it did not get the azimuth coordinates of the Japanese heavy artillery position, so it could only wait in place. On the position of the 545th Regiment south of the city of Amarabra, the Japanese heavy artillery was shelling the second line. On the position, the second company of the first battalion and the third company were defending together, and the second company of the heavy fire battalion was also on the position, and the commander in charge was Su Changxing, the acting commander of the first battalion and the former commander of the second company.

With the lesson of blood on the first position, this time the soldiers did not enter the anti-artillery hole, but lay tightly in various fortifications and bunkers, bearing the bombardment of Japanese artillery fire, and the soldiers on the position could only rely on luck. Fortunately, when digging the trenches, in order to prevent artillery, the trenches were dug into a zigzag shape, and there were individual bunkers dug in the walls of the trenches, which could effectively block the shrapnel flying indiscriminately.

If a soldier with bad luck is hiding in a position that happens to be directly hit by a heavy artillery shell, then even a complete corpse will not be recovered. The Japanese heavy artillery shelled for another 20 minutes, and the soldiers of the three companies on the position were directly reduced by one-third, and more than 100 officers and men spilled blood on the battlefield. The heavy artillery no longer shelled, and the artillery wing of the Guards Division took up the fire and continued to shell the second line of positions, which they were covering for the infantry attack.

The distance between the first line and the second line was 300 meters, and the ground for these 300 meters had been cleared and there was nothing, and it was an open field where the defenders' firepower could be used. But now there are one crater after another, and these craters have become the best cover for the Japanese infantry. The Japanese Guards Division, one of the most elite units of the Japanese army, made full use of these craters and launched an attack on the second line of positions.

Japanese artillery shells continued to explode on the position, and in the smoke of gunpowder, the officers and men of the first battalion fought back against the attacking Japanese troops. It's just that the quality of the Japanese army's individual soldiers is really good, and there are craters to use, although the position is full of firepower, the Japanese army is still constantly approaching the second line of positions under the cover of artillery fire. At 200 meters, 150 meters, and 100 meters, the Japanese artillery finally stopped shelling, and at this time the defenders on the position could enter the battle with less than 200 men.

There were more than 10 light and heavy machine guns that could still be used on the position, and the officers and men of the first battalion used these more than 10 light and heavy machine guns as a fulcrum to block the Japanese troops 100 meters away. On the Japanese offensive position, the commander of the 2nd Wing saw that the attack of the infantry brigade was blocked, and immediately ordered the mortars, 92 infantry guns, and 37-mm rapid-fire guns in the wing to fire at the machine gun fire points on the defenders' positions at the same time.

After the Japanese small artillery aimed at the machine gun fire, the machine guns on the position were soon destroyed by the Japanese artillery fire one after another. Having lost the machine-gun fire point, the fire on the position was weak, and the Japanese infantry took the opportunity to attack several dozen meters forward. Seeing that the Japanese troops were still 50 meters away from the position, the commander of the second company shouted, "Throw grenades!" Hundreds of grenades flew towards the Japanese infantry on the position.

The grenade only delayed the pace of the Japanese attack, and at this time there were more than 700 people in an infantry brigade of the Japanese army. At a distance of less than 50 meters, the Japanese captain pointed at the defenders' position with his command knife and shouted, "Kill!" More than 700 Japanese soldiers all launched a charge towards the position. Su Changxing, the commander of the second company, saw that the Japanese army had launched a charge, and coldly shouted, "Get on the bayonet!"

The soldiers of the first battalion also understood that it was time to fight hard, and those with broadswords on their backs drew their broadswords from behind, and those who did not carry broadswords attached their bayonets to the heads of their spears. The commander of the second company was the first to jump out of position after throwing the last grenade. More than a hundred fighters behind him also jumped out of the position with weapons in hand. The commander of the second company shouted "Kill!" and then rushed towards the Japanese army with a shell gun in one hand and a snowy broadsword in the other.

As soon as the soldiers of the first battalion rushed out of the position, the soldiers of the second battalion behind were red-eyed, and the battalion commander Wang Chengwu grabbed the phone and asked the regiment commander Zhao Fei to support the first battalion. Zhao Fei had already seen the danger of the second position, and was about to order reinforcements from the second battalion, when Wang Chengwu's call arrived. Zhao Fei not only agreed to the attack of the second battalion, but also sent the regimental guard company around him.

Wang Chengwu, commander of the second battalion, saw that the regimental seat agreed to the attack of the second battalion, and immediately led all the officers and men of the second battalion to rush to the second position. At this time, Su Changxing, the commander of the second company, had already led more than 100 soldiers to kill the Japanese army. More than 700 Japanese soldiers were killed by the soldiers of the first battalion before they came into contact with the defenders, and at this time, with 600 against more than 100 defenders, they had the upper hand steadily.

But the more than 100 soldiers of the first battalion are not weak, although in the face of several times the number of Japanese troops, none of them are timid, especially the dozens of soldiers armed with broadswords, a set of wind-breaking eight sword envoys are extremely proficient, and the Japanese army is not an opponent of one person. The more than 100 soldiers of the first battalion were desperate with the Japanese army with the heart of death, and even if they were seriously injured, they would also pull the glorious bullets on their bodies and pull a few Japanese soldiers to accompany them to the funeral.

The level of these soldiers of the Guards Division is also very high, and they have an absolute advantage in numbers, and the hand-to-hand combat lasted less than ten minutes, and the soldiers of the first battalion could not resist, and the commander of the second company saw that the comrades around him were constantly falling, and he was also red-eyed, and the water splashed by a big knife could not enter, and the five Japanese soldiers around him were hard to solve.

When Wang Chengwu, the commander of the second battalion, arrived with the second battalion, the first battalion had reached the last moment, and there were only more than 20 people left who could stand and fight. Wang Chengwu shouted, "The second battalion follow me!" raised his shell gun and pointed it at the Japanese army, and there was a shuttle in the crowd. The soldiers of the 2nd Battalion also pulled their knives and bayonets, shouting "Kill!" and rushed towards the Japanese troops.

As soon as the hundreds of fresh troops of the second battalion were put into the battlefield, the situation was immediately reversed, and the Japanese army began to be unable to parry, and it was more than ten minutes of fighting, and the captain of the Japanese army also died under the knife of Wang Chengwu, the Japanese army completely collapsed, and the officers and men of the second battalion beat the water dogs, and finally annihilated the Japanese infantry brigade in front of the position. When there is no longer a single living Japanese soldier on the battlefield, this hand-to-hand combat is completely over.

Wang Chengwu didn't care about resting, he didn't even clean the battlefield, and commanded the soldiers to support the wounded, carry the bodies of their fallen comrades, and hurriedly withdrew to the position, leaving only the corpses of hundreds of Japanese soldiers and a red mud field in front of the position. Only 21 people from the positions of the 1st Battalion survived this hand-to-hand combat, and all of them were wounded, and the 2nd Battalion also suffered dozens of casualties. And not a single infantry brigade of the Japanese army survived.

This tragic battle shocked the commanders of both sides, and the commander of the second wing of the Japanese army opened his mouth in shock, and he did not expect that the Chinese army, which had only more than 100 people, would block the attack of most of his infantry brigade in hand-to-hand combat. His hundreds of soldiers did not wipe out the Zhina army for more than ten minutes, but let the reinforcements of the Zhina people arrive, so that all of his infantry brigade was shattered.

Wang Chengwu saw that almost all the fortifications on the second line of positions had been destroyed and that he could no longer carry out effective defenses, so after the approval of the regiment commander Zhao Fei, he abandoned the second line of positions and withdrew to the third line of positions with the surviving officers and soldiers of the first battalion. It was already evening, and the setting sun hung like blood on the western sky, reflecting the battlefield even more blood-red.

After the day's fighting, the 1st Battalion of the 545th Regiment was basically wiped out, and the Japanese also lost an infantry brigade, and in the evening the 545th Regiment retreated to the third line of defense, and the Japanese also stopped the offensive after occupying the second line of defense. Both sides are recuperating and preparing for tomorrow's fight. Night fell on the earth, but in the night the reconnaissance detachment of the reconnaissance brigade of the 90th Army was intensifying its activities.

During the day, the Japanese defense was very tight, and the reconnaissance detachment never had a chance to approach the Japanese heavy artillery position. After several hours of careful infiltration, the two reconnaissance detachments finally found a wooded area only a few hundred meters away from the Japanese heavy artillery position without alarming the Japanese troops.

After determining that the Japanese heavy artillery position was in front of him, the commander of the reconnaissance detachment hurriedly began to calculate the coordinates of the heavy artillery position. After calculating the azimuth coordinates and verifying that they were correct, the detachment commander sent a telegram back to the headquarters of the Ninth Army. When the telegram arrived in Wang Haitao's command room, Wang Haitao had not yet rested, and when he took the telegram and looked at it, Wang Haitao leaned on the map to check it.

The distance between the Japanese heavy artillery positions and the city of Amara is 12 kilometers, and the distance from the city of Mandalay is 23 kilometers, and at this distance, only 130 heavy cannons of the heavy artillery brigade can directly hit the Japanese heavy artillery positions with long-range anti-explosive grenades, and the range of other artillery is not enough. However, the advantage is that the range of the Japanese heavy artillery is not enough, and the heavy artillery brigade does not have to worry about the Japanese artillery counterattack.

Considering that the artillery of the artillery wing of the Japanese Guards Division is a 150 mm caliber field howitzer, it is not as powerful as simply serving it in one pot. On the one hand, Wang Haitao sent a telegram back to the reconnaissance detachment, asking them to also find out the coordinates of the artillery positions of the Japanese Guards Division, and on the other hand, he ordered the heavy artillery brigade that the 130 heavy cannon regiment would use long-range anti-explosive grenades tomorrow morning to strike an all-out blow at the Japanese heavy artillery positions.