The Japanese army gave up Tengchong and resolutely defended the Longling transportation artery.

At nightfall, after several hours of alternating attacks, with 200 casualties, the Yechuan Army conquered the road pass on the other side. Now the only way to stop Yu's division from going to Longling is the road covered by a landslide, and it just so happens that there is no need to attack now.

In the early hours of the morning, already the defeated soldiers were retreating along the road. There were only a few people, only five or six hundred people, and they ran back in a panic over the road buried by rubble and mud, and finally they were all arrested and imprisoned.

Until dawn, there were defeated expeditionary soldiers on the road, who were already out of order. All of them were arrested and imprisoned, waiting for Shangfeng's disposal.

Early the next morning.

Hai Zhengchong of the main regiment and several colonel-level officers, together with officers above the battalion level of the Sichuan Regiment, gathered in tents, and lit torches and candles around them. A map sits on a large square table made of two small wooden tables, and in the corner Master Mai is still receiving instructions from the military department.

Ah Yi stood up and picked up a telegram and said, "I hereby order the two regiments of the Yu Division to hold the road east of Longling, and the friendly and neighboring divisions have moved south to block the Japanese troops reinforced to the north in Mangshi. Our troops are holding on to and waiting for reinforcements, and must stand firm, and must not retreat to the east without orders. ”

"This is an order from the military department."

Ah Yi picked up another telegram on the table and said, "This is an order from the division headquarters. The main regiment and the two divisions of the Sichuan Army must hold out for two days, and the second main regiment has been assembled, and will go to reinforcements with the rest of the friendly troops, and the division will personally lead the reinforcements.

We must hold on, our department is very large, if the road is occupied by the Japanese army, the consequences are unimaginable. ”

When the words landed, Ah Yi also put the telegram in his hand on the table, and the entire command fell silent, and the air was so sticky that it was impossible to breathe. The day before yesterday was a good situation, and now we have to move from the attacking side to the defending side.

"Ahem."

Chen Yu saw that no one spoke, so he stood up: "We still have tens of thousands of troops in Longling, and it is impossible for the Japanese army to send all of them to support, at most one mixed reinforcement brigade." One by one, the situation in western Yunnan has become overwhelming, the Japanese army can't make too many waves, and they have no troops.

I feel like we were being sold again, but we weren't sold. The division next door was also transferred south to block Mangshi to support the Japanese army, they can all fight, and you will give up? The east, south, and north sides were encircled, and it was just a matter of stabilizing the foothold, and when Tengchong was recovered and the main force went south, more than 10,000 Japanese troops in Longling City were all dead ghosts. ”

Dead dead said at the right time: "Don't use the pestle as wood here, and deploy along the high ground on both sides of the road." The Japanese army will come at the latest in the evening, and it is not a way to wait here, but it is important to hold on. ”

At this point, it is not appropriate to continue to sit in the tent.

Hai Zhengchong led his officers to leave and went back to start arranging. The Sichuan army also began to build fortified positions, and the high ground at the highway pass here was particularly important, so that it could attack Longling, and retreat could hold undefeated, and threaten Longling at any time.

The road that had been buried by the bombing was no longer cleared, and everyone began to get busy, carrying hoes, shovels, and sapper shovels and began to dig the ground. Repair the fortifications left by the Japanese army and wait for the Japanese counterattack.

Chen Yuhe climbed the high ground and saw the winding road spreading across the land, and there was almost no danger in front of him, and he also understood why the Japanese army would build semi-permanent fortifications here.

Between the low hills, the Burma Highway is in the middle of the jungle. The rammed highway could withstand the bombardment of small-caliber artillery, and countless migrant workers fell on the side of the road to build it.

During the excavation of the fortifications, the Sichuan army dug more than a dozen bone pits near the high ground, most of which were buried alive or shot with their hands tied behind their backs. More than a dozen bone pits, more than 200 people were all executed here after building fortifications for the Japanese army.

On the top of the mountain, Mi Long was carrying a light machine gun looking for a suitable firing position, and when he saw Chen Yu and Die Lai Lai standing together, he didn't say anything, just left here and continued to look elsewhere.

Dead, Dead, frowned, and asked, "What's wrong with the lost dragon?" ”

"He's just a sergeant, my colonel." Chen Yu said faintly.

"Unlucky."

"Hmm."

Dead Dead whispered: "How about you promote him to an officer, become a company commander, or let him be the company commander of the guard company." ”

"He's a machine gunner, let him be a company commander, and he'll be tired of reimbursing the whole company. You might as well let him be forced to retire after the war, what do you think? Chen Yu proposed.

"This is good, when the war is over, let him retire and go home to pick up his wife and children."

Chen Yu said again: "He has long been the quartermaster of the Sichuan Army, in fact, he doesn't have to carry a machine gun to fight, let him go down and look at the warehouse materials with Kangya." A few thousand people can't beat him a machine gunner, and if he dies, who will support his wife and children? ”

After saying that, dead and dead fell silent, and now the old cannon fodder is facing a problem. When the Sichuan Regiment became larger and larger, the establishment became more and more complete, and a large number of intellectual young officers joined the special service battalion, and those illiterate veterans could not climb up.

For example, Milong, who can't read a basket of big characters, and doesn't know how to command troops to fight, he just wants to be with his brothers and doesn't like to fight. He may be a qualified or even excellent veteran of machine gunners, but he cannot become a qualified company and platoon officer.

If you can't climb up, you can only be a big-headed soldier, an old cannon fodder official, the official position is getting bigger and bigger, and you can't take care of those low-level life and death brothers.

Chen Yu observed those old brothers for a long time, and Milong was not suitable to be a company commander. Even the snake butt has the rank of lieutenant on his shoulder to manage an infantry company, plus dozens of people who cook, and he can take a company to fight without being spicy, but Milong just wants to go home after the battle to accompany his wife and children.

Dead, dead, hooked his waist from the top of the mountain to the dragon: "What are you carrying a machine gun, the quartermaster is going to carry a machine gun?" Throw the machine gun to the others and go down to help Kang Ya carry the ammunition and supplies.

You are the quartermaster appointed by Ah Yi, the quartermaster does not need to carry a machine gun, get down! ”

Mi Long smashed his mouth, stretched out his hand to wipe the corners of his mouth, staggered down the mountain and glanced at Chen Yu at the top of the mountain, and then threw the light machine gun to his deputy shooter who didn't know how many. I don't know who the last secondary shooter was, but it must not be a bean cake.

Bean Cake has died in the battle at Nantianmen, and maybe there will be a tombstone in the future that reads 'Sergeant Valley Wheat', and it can only be like this.

Chen Yu tried his best to help those old brothers get promoted, but those veterans of inferior soldiers and senior soldiers, no matter how they were promoted to three levels in a row, they were still non-commissioned officers, and they couldn't cross the hurdle of officers.

At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, Japanese troops appeared on the winding road in the distance. Four tanks and armored vehicles rushed along the road as the vanguard, and there were Japanese soldiers behind one after another, and the appearance of heavily armed Japanese troops on the endless forest road was so dazzling.

The Japanese began to assemble outside the range of fire and began to send a small infantry team to search. They didn't know that the high ground had been captured by the expeditionary force last night, but the caution and caution were still shown, and the Japanese mixed reinforcement team in front of them was an elite unit.