After a night of fighting, the area on the east bank of the North and South Rivers was bombarded by the devil's heavy artillery, rapid-fire artillery and mortars, and there were trenches and communication trenches crisscrossed between the potholes.

It was time to rescue the wounded, and screams were heard from time to time on the battlefield, in the opinion of the military doctor, not all wounded could be injected with morphine, many wounded could only inject general anesthetics, and could not make their nerves block the pain.

"Your Excellency, two brigades of the 146th Wing and some heavy equipment have arrived, and they only have two hours left."

On the west bank, Maruyama Osa finally received good news, and at the same time issued an order for battle.

"The attack began half an hour before dark, when there was no threat from the air; Urging the Engineer Wing to Speed Up ......"

The 114th Wing was making final offensive preparations, with reinforcements, and also from behind the Allied forces, he was very confident that he would break through the defensive line at night.

"No firing points were seen, and there were very few people moving on the positions."

The 146th Wing, of course, did not wait in place, and the scouts squirmed slowly in the woods, cautiously approaching the defenders' positions.

There were no people in sight, and the excavation marks and bombing points crisscrossed the position showed that the defenders here attached great importance to the position.

"There will be no one, the position is three kilometers long and horizontal from north to south, and two kilometers wide from east to west, and they can't hold it without more than one regiment of troops."

After the intelligence of the scouts was gathered, the chief of staff of the 146th Wing was the first to not believe that there was no one on the position.

"Our opponents are very cunning, they are trying to avoid the attrition of soldiers, and they don't even give us a chance to sneak attack; And their firepower will be very strong, otherwise the 114th Wing, with the cooperation of heavy artillery and rapid-fire guns, would not even be able to land. ”

As for the captain of the big Zuo United, it is obvious that he is looking further.

"Your Excellency, what should I do? Meng Heng is very important, and the defensive forces can no longer be deployed. ”

"Your Excellency, let the 114th Wing attack first, and we will wait for the defenders to concentrate their main forces on the front line of the river bank before attacking from behind, they will definitely fall into chaos, as long as we attack the position, it will be easy to win......"

The officers of the 146th Wing were discussing the battle plan for tonight, and it was not only Tanaka Shinichi's order to open the retreat channel, because this order was endorsed by the Burmese Front Command, and they did not dare to attack passively at all.

"Telegraph Maruyama Osa, at five o'clock in the afternoon, the 146th Wing will continue to advance, please control the time of heavy artillery firing at about seven o'clock, after the heavy artillery fires, attack on both sides at the same time within half an hour......"

The discussion of the 146th Wing quickly came to fruition, they wanted to take the Allies by surprise, whether it was Chinese soldiers or American soldiers on the opposite side, they were confident that they could destroy their opponents in a night battle.

The troops to relieve the siege were in place, but the unexpected situation on the battlefield was always faster than planned, and after the 113th Regiment of the New 38th Division attacked the occupied point from the northeast, it did not continue to expand to the left and right of the defensive line, and they turned directly to the northwest and came straight to Mengguan.

"Order the troops, speed up, our goal is to enter Meng Pass and capture Shinichi Tanaka alive."

In the sky, bombers and fighter planes were roaring back and forth, and on the ground, tanks were at the head, infantry were following, and the bunkers and concrete fortifications built by the Japanese army could not be carried at all, and they quickly fell one by one.

At two o'clock in the afternoon of March 4, 1944, the new 38th Division was only less than 10 kilometers away from the original airborne landing point of the commando team, and in front of them, there were only two last lines of defense left, and once the 113th Regiment took Panmai, the Japanese army in the Mengguan area would be completely blocked.

"Boom, boom......"

"Da Da Da ......"

"Bang, bang, bang......"

The attack of the 113th Regiment did not stop for a moment, but unlike the devastation in front, the 113th Regiment finally encountered hard stubble here, and a large number of steel bars were added to the concrete fortifications of the devils, and the tank guns could not be destroyed at all, and the shells exploded on the bunkers and semi-underground fortifications, and the biggest effect was to make the soldiers inside lose their hearing.

"Boom!"

Even if the bomb exploded near the bunker, this bunker did not move, of course, the devil soldiers inside could not survive, but the devil didn't care, one by one the corpses were moved out of the bunker, and the new soldiers continued to enter the fortifications to defend.

"Your Excellency General, please make a decision!"

Meng Guan, the headquarters of Tanaka Shinichi, he had already received a telegram that the Chinese army was coming, coming to block his back road.

"I believe in my soldiers, they will hold Panmai, and it is impossible for the Chinese army to surround us."

Tanaka Shinichi stared at the map, he couldn't retreat directly now, if he retreated first, it would have a greater impact on the determination of the defenders, so he didn't retreat.

"Regiment commander, the devils have a lot of firepower, they have too many bunkers, and the infantry artillery and mortars are out of nowhere, and the attack fails."

The Japanese 113th Regiment was thwarted in all directions, and their three attacks failed, even the Sherman tank, which they regarded as an artifact, was destroyed, and dozens of bloody corpses lay on the ground, caused by Japanese machine-gun fire.

"Call in air support and have the bomber formation replace the more powerful bombs and blow off their turtle shells......"

Liu Fangwu did not want to fight with the lives of his brothers, especially when there was a better solution.

"Regiment commander, division commander telegram!"

The communications soldier ran over with a telegram, and the 113th regiment attacked too fast, and it was already beyond the distance of the walkie-talkie.

"Call back: The 113th Regiment is currently advancing in a group, the Japanese army does not have the ability to surround me, before dark, I will definitely break the current stalemate......"

Liu Fangwu had the pride of all Whampoa soldiers, and in the face of Sun Liren's order to stop his advance and expand to the two wings, he chose to refuse, he wanted to kill the 18th Division, and he wanted to avenge the brothers who died on Burmese soil.

"Order the ground crew, immediately load 500 pounds of bombs for the 5th Squadron, reinforce the attack of the 113th Regiment, and wipe out the fortifications here......"

Sun Liren asked to stop the attack, but Stilwell and Paterno liked it very much, they had already seen the hope of trapping Tanaka Shinichi in Meng Guan, and they gave the greatest support to Liu Fangwu's request.

"The troops retreated 500 meters, and the mortars fired smoke bombs, indicating the bombers to the bombers, hoping that their aerial bombs would be accurate."

After receiving the reply, Liu Fangwu decisively ordered the troops to retreat, the 500-pound aerial bomb was too powerful, and they did not dare to stay within a kilometer at all.

"Boom, boom......"

The dense bombers screamed and rushed straight into the area indicated by the smoke bombs, and the power of the 500-pound aerial bombs The fortifications of the Japanese army, which had just been standing, disappeared into the smoke and dust of the explosion, and in the direction of the advance of the 113th Regiment, a blank area of several hundred meters appeared, and the entire position was full of smoke and dust.

"Attack!"

With the roar of the engines, the soldiers of the 113th Regiment set off again, following the tank, through the smoke and dust.

"Flamethrower!"

There were no living people in front of them, and the 500-pound bomb directly emptied all the devils in the explosion area, even if they were not dead, the shock wave was enough to shatter the internal organs of the devils in this area.