After the Sichuan Army Corps was dispatched to Yiniu Ridge, Yu Division's people breathed a sigh of relief and no longer had to be constantly on guard against Jiqi Slope. However, just a few days after the good days, an attack order broke Jiang Fang's calm.
The Yu Division began general mobilization. The two division commanders Li and Wang in the nearby defense area followed the arrangements of the military headquarters and each assigned several thousand men to cooperate with the Yu Division in crossing the river.
Just when the Sichuan Army attacked with skirmishers and was about to arrive at the Chindwin River area, the coalition forces, which had been prepared for a long time, began to cross the river.
The attack plan has changed significantly compared to when Yu Xiaoqing conducted a sand table deduction. The attack time was chosen on a foggy dawn. The main force of the Yu Division was in the front, and the coalition forces of the Li and Wang Divisions were behind. The Takeuchi Regiment was set up on the beach. The first defense launched a surprise attack.
From the east bank to the west bank, you must first cross the river by bamboo raft. The water surface is wide, the tidal flats are flat, and there is a lack of bunkers. Fighting in this environment is tantamount to exchanging human lives for space. Lin Yue and the others kicked off the sand table deduction at the division headquarters. During the battle, Meng Fanley replaced more than half of the main force with one defense.
Now that the attack plan has been changed, the fog can affect the field of vision of the Japanese soldiers in the first defense trenches to the greatest extent, which is very beneficial to the attacker.
According to Li Mi, the commander of Li Division, the Japanese army now relies on geographical advantages, so we have to manipulate the weather and timing. The combat plan proposed by the military department is very good and practical.
Foggy days, dawn, and surging rivers.
The fog obscured the view. Dawn was the time for the Japanese troops to have meals and change defenses. The sound of flowing rivers obscured the progress of the soldiers of the expeditionary force.
All this greatly weakened the Japanese army's advantage.
Then, the battle started where the two sides were only about 20 meters away. The bulletproof board modified with river crossing equipment was held up in front, and soldiers with strong arms in the rear threw a large number of grenades to suppress the enemy firepower coming from the slope.
When they advanced to more than ten meters, the soldiers with submachine guns fired at close range. The commandos attached their bayonets, rushed out from the gap between the bulletproof boards, and entered the trenches to fight hand-to-hand with the enemy. In this way, the grenade launchers of Little Japan were useless.
At the same time, the division artillery conducted saturation bombardments on the enemy's secondary defenses to reduce the pressure on the landing soldiers. The personnel of the Li and Wang Second Divisions attacked from both wings and tried their best to control the enemy's gasoline barrel pipeline connecting the second defense.
The first defense, which took 2,000 casualties during the sand table simulation, was captured with less than 700 casualties thanks to good timing and troop formation.
After losing the tidal flat defense line, the Japanese army could only rely on artillery and secondary defense direct fire to threaten subsequent units crossing the river. In addition, US military aircraft dropped smoke bombs on the tidal flats, which naturally could not cause considerable casualties.
The combat plan from the military department is not like Yu Xiaoqing's combat plan, which emphasizes taking down the three defenses in one go. Zhong Bin's requirement is to proceed step by step, advance layer by layer, and erode the Japanese defense line bit by bit.
After crossing the river, the Yu Division soldiers began to widen the trenches, consolidate the defense line, and build bunkers such as sandbags, logs, iron sheets, and sand to the side facing the secondary defense.
Although the Japanese army was in a commanding position, the gasoline barrel tunnel was clogged. The first defense at the foot of the mountain was not like the second and third defenses. The Japanese army could not hollow out the interior, so it was difficult to launch a surprise attack through hidden tunnels. If they forced the first defense, the expeditionary force would dig deep and wide trenches. Soldiers would lure them deep into their positions, then break out from the trenches and the woodlands on both sides to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
In such a stalemate fight on such complex terrain, most of the grenades and infantry artillery that the enemy relied on to dominate were useless.
The 79 rifle is as good as the 38 rifle with its bayonet, and the M3 submachine gun, which is smaller and easier to control, can be well used in hand-to-hand combat. Even if the Japanese are brave and fearless of death, they cannot compete with the enemy who have superior numbers, superior firepower and high morale. Landing troops.
After the Japanese army charged more than a dozen times and left behind hundreds of corpses, Takeuchi Renshan understood the Chinese army's policy of using primary defense as the battlefield and fighting a war of attrition.
Using gasoline barrel tunnels to maneuver intensive firepower to the defense line at the foot of the mountain to kill a large number of enemy landing troops was a strange move for the primary defense arrangement.
Second mountainside defense line: There are a large number of bunkers, secret tunnels, mines, remote-controlled explosive barrels tied with nails and glass and other strange tricks.
Three lines of defense on the top of the mountain: the tree fort is easy to defend but difficult to attack, the two lines of defense on the reverse slope of the stone in the middle of the mountain are combined with permanent fortifications, and the bombable tunnel is used to lure the enemy deep.
But now, the attacking troops were on guard, and Takeuchi Renshan's powerful punch seemed to hit the air, which was extremely uncomfortable.
The front turned from confrontation to confrontation.
On the other side, what Takeuchi did not expect was that small groups of Chinese troops began to appear on the flanks of the Nantianmen battlefield. They were not looking for a road that could cross the second defense and directly threaten the third defense. Instead, they were conducting detailed platoons to investigate the terrain of the nearby forest area. And tried to seduce the Japanese squad to leave the defense line.
Takeuchi was a little confused and did not understand the intentions of the Chinese army, because doing so obviously could not disintegrate the well-disciplined Japanese Army and provide a breakthrough point for them to tear apart the secondary defense.
After this situation lasted for several days, he suddenly realized that the reason why China did this was not only to deliberately disrupt the military arrangements of the regiment, but also to accumulate advantages.
The so-called accumulation of advantages does not only include killing the enemy's effective forces and squeezing the target's maneuvering space, but also includes the application of the geographical environment.
The reason why Nantianmen is easy to defend and difficult to attack is because they have been operating here for several years, while the opposite side has only relied on US military reconnaissance aircraft to perform surveying and mapping operations for a long time, and the information obtained is not detailed enough. This information asymmetry can easily lead to an attack. Fang’s fate.
Now the enemy is not in a hurry, and is constantly collecting intelligence while fighting steadily. If this continues, the wing's information asymmetry advantage will be lost over time.
If this had happened a year ago, in cooperation with the Japanese troops stationed in northern Burma, Master Yu would have done so just like delivering food to his door. But now that most of the troops have been deployed to the Imphal Plateau to attack India, the order given to him is to defend the Nantian Gate. , do not let the expeditionary force on the Yunnan border pass through and disrupt the combat plan code-named "Ukraine".
In order to prevent the expeditionary force from controlling the terrain of Nantianmen and surrounding areas, Takeuchi asked a brigade stationed in Heshun to detach a squadron of troops into the mountains on both sides of Nantianmen to snipe the expeditionary force's scouts.
the other side.
Zenda Henlan Mountain, the coalition command post.
Yu Xiaoqing walked back and forth in front of the map, her hand behind her back holding the riding whip tightly, her face full of impatience.
He has been like this for half a month.
I can't stand or sit. I can only use walking back and forth to vent my inner anxiety.
Zhang Lixian stood near the door, staring blankly at his belief.
In front of the observation window stood a half-white-haired major general named Li Mi. On the seat next to him was Tang Ji. The person on Tang Ji's right was Wang Yexi. There was also a tall and thin man on the stool opposite Wang Yexi, who was from the military department. Here comes the staff officer.
Yu Xiaoqing stopped while walking.
"Li Bing!"
Zhang Lixian took a step forward: "Master, Li Bing..."
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