Scout Xu Chi led one of the reconnaissance teams into the depths of Monywa city and led the team directly into the west of the city.
There, Xu Chi quickly made observations, matched it with the location of a highway on the simple map in his hand, and confirmed his current location.
On both sides of the gravel road, under the faint starlight, Xu Chi could only make out the shadows of rows of low houses.
And on the highway, there was a line of trucks parked one after another!
Is this the Japs' second artillery unit? Xu Chi was surprised and happy for a while.
However, he did not rush to report, but started to carefully observe the surroundings around the truck. Sure enough, there were cannons being dragged behind the truck.
"I found you." Xu Chi quietly retreated into the distance with the reconnaissance team. After confirming that he had not been discovered by the Little Japanese Artillery Regiment, he started to turn on his walkie-talkie and call the headquarters to report his findings.
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Hearing that the enemy's second artillery regiment was still maneuvering on the road at any time, Gao Jianwu knew that it was the artillery reinforcements from the kid. As expected, Masafumi Yamauchi had saved the last trump card for a sneak attack.
But now this trump card will soon be completely destroyed.
According to the address reported by the reconnaissance team, a corresponding strike area was quickly formed on the map in Gao Jianwu's brain.
Gao Jianwu provided the corresponding coordinate value range, and Gao Jianwu found that they were still within the strike range of the main artillery position.
It's just that it's already a little close to the limit. It seems that the little devil has roughly locked the position of the main artillery position, and then keeps cutting in at any time on the edge of the strike to strike.
Gao Jianwu quickly ordered the main artillery to immediately stop the transfer operation and began to fully target the area of the Japanese artillery regiment.
However, in order to be on the safe side and prevent the Jaap artillerymen from having a chance to escape after the bombardment started, Gao Jianwu also mobilized the artillery battalions of the four major attack groups at the same time.
Those who can't reach the target now will immediately start maneuvering towards the target area. When they all can reach the target, they will launch artillery attacks at the same time.
Gao Jianwu wants to use a one-time saturation bombardment to kill the artillery regiment hidden by the Japs in one fell swoop!
More than twenty minutes later, each artillery group was in place, and according to the bombardment settings provided by Gao Jianwu, they opened fire almost at the same time!
In an instant, more than a hundred artillery shells screamed from different positions and flew towards the little Japanese target with scorching heat.
Before the hidden Japanese artillery regiment could figure out what was going on, they watched in horror as more than a hundred artillery shells fell from the sky, falling densely on the road, and even landed directly in the truck!
There are all kinds of grenades from 75mm to 155mm. After hitting the truck pulling the artillery shell, it directly triggered the explosion. Several nearby trucks and little devils were turned into pieces almost instantly!
Gao Jianwu used a round of concentrated fire to directly destroy the entire artillery regiment of the Little Japanese in less than a minute!
At the headquarters of the 15th Division in the city, Lieutenant General Masabumi Yamauchi heard the earth-shattering sound of shelling.
He didn't need anyone to report to him. He knew that his hidden artillery regiment was finished just from the direction where the sound of shelling came from.
The trump card that was originally hidden to give the opponent a fatal blow should now be completely scrapped.
"Takapin-kun, see you at Kudanzaka!" Lieutenant General Yamauchi Masabumi looked miserable. He no longer had any illusions, but the honor of a soldier did not allow him to retreat.
He could only rush forward with his last reserve team and die on the battlefield.
The high-ranking chief of staff also gave up his illusions and followed Lieutenant General Masafumi Yamauchi to prepare for the final journey.
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Chu Yunfei's engineering unit that built the pontoon bridge began to be attacked by the Japs.
There was no way around it. The little devils had hidden many secret sentries by the river. Although their attacks were not strong, they still kept a close eye on the movements on the river. When the rubber boat reached the other side, they discovered that the enemy was building a pontoon bridge. when.
The little Japanese's secret whistle immediately called the troops through the field phone to carry out a strike.
The first to attack the pontoon were the 92 infantry guns and 90mm mortars on the Little Japanese position.
It turned out that the machine gun firepower point of the bunker by the river had been destroyed by Gao Jianwu's heavy artillery before. At this moment, there was no reserve team to attack, so the captain of the Little Japanese Regiment in charge of river defense had no choice but to dispatch artillery to attack first.
At the same time, a large group of Japs began to gather and rushed to the river, preparing to intercept Chu Yunfei's troops who were crossing the river to attack.
Soon, under the guidance of the secret whistle, the Japs' cannonballs began to land near the pontoon, causing water to splash everywhere.
In the first round of exploratory bombardment, the shells were fired near the pontoon. The little Japanese secret sentry's observation ability was indeed very good. Without a map like Gao Jianwu, he quickly provided bombardment targets based on the opponent's relative position on the river.
But as the target was revised, the little devil's shells became more and more accurate.
Chu Yunfei, who was in the front, looked at the impact point of the opponent's artillery fire and began to calculate and find their position in reverse. As a top student in Huangpu, Chu Yunfei was also professional in artillery. Soon he basically locked the target of the enemy's artillery and began to command. His own mortar company counterattacked.
The engineering troops are also working hard to speed up the progress and continue to build the pontoon bridge under artillery fire.
After the first rubber boat rowed over and laid piles to tie the rope, the subsequent rubber boats lined up in a row and began to drive piles into the river to continuously reinforce it.
As for the rubber boats that were next to each other, the follow-up infantrymen began to lay frantically on the wooden planks. On the river a few hundred meters away, there were hundreds of rubber boats rowing desperately.
Occasionally, a rubber boat was hit by enemy artillery, and all the soldiers on the rubber boat died heroically.
But this did not prevent subsequent people from continuing their work.
After Chu Yunfei's troops were reorganized, they also underwent ideological transformation again and again.
Now, both discipline and fighting will have been greatly improved.
This was an activity that Chu Yunfei took the initiative to ask Gao Jianwu to carry out after seeing the huge difference between his own troops and the Lao Eighth Route Army. Now it has the desired effect.
Gao Jianwu was right, Chu Yunfei was just a pure soldier. In his creed, the interests of the country and the nation are the highest priority.
In the face of foreign enemies, he had no reason to refuse to improve his combat effectiveness.
The artillery counterattack commanded by Chu Yunfei finally began to bear fruit. The enemy's 92 infantry artillery had misfired.
There are still a few mobile 90mm mortars left that fire a few shells from time to time.
For the engineering troops erecting the pontoon bridge, this threat becomes very small. Although moving the position can increase the survivability of the mortar, changing the position also greatly reduces its accuracy.
As the rubber boats arrived one after another, the pontoon continued to extend at a speed of several meters at a time. Several hundred meters across the river, it was about to be completed.
The vanguard troops waiting for the attack were already waiting in line at Jiangxinzhou. As soon as the pontoon bridge was opened, they rushed forward at a trot.
One by one, they began to seize the target positions on the other side. When the leading assault company rushed over and established a temporary position, they soon used machine guns, mortars, and bazooka rockets to establish a controlled area of four to five hundred meters. Here we suppressed the little devil's counterattack against the floating bridge.
This caused the follow-up troops to rush to the other side like a tide.
After Gao Jianwu's heavy artillery destroyed the main permanent fortification bunker, under Chu Yunfei's attack, the little Japanese's riverside defense line seemed vulnerable.
Under the continuous firepower of the main company that rushed over, using mortars and bazooka rocket launchers, the little devils who had just rushed over with light and heavy machine guns as their main attack fire were retreating steadily. They were unable to form an effective counterattack and could not even resist it. The crazy attack by Chu Yunfei's second attack group, and their attempt to attack halfway, were subsequently destroyed by Chu Yunfei's tidal attack.
The first line of defense deployed by the little Japanese along the river was torn open with a big hole.
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Almost at the same time, after receiving the news that the Little Japanese Artillery Regiment had been destroyed. Ding Wei and Xu Shida's troops also launched an attack at the same time.
Without the deadly threat of enemy artillery, they could free their hands and fight.
On the east road leading to Mandalay, Ding Wei deployed two main companies to block the attack to ensure that the little Japanese could not escape eastward.
The north leads to the dense forest, and Ding Wei cannot block it all, so he can only open one side.
As for the remaining troops, Ding Wei and Xu Shida joined forces to attack from three directions!
Except for the Chindwin River, Monywa has no danger to defend. After the little devils deployed strong defenses along the river, there were only some simple fortifications behind them. Two of the three regiments were deployed along the river, and there was only one regiment in other directions.
How could this stop Xu Shida and Ding Wei from attacking together.
Originally, the company-level attack power of the Ping An Cluster was considered to be the peak infantry of Jindi, but now that it is equipped with a bazooka, the company's attack power has been further improved. It is equivalent to a mortar, and the bazooka is easier to aim at the target. A big killer with the firepower of the enemy's machine gun.
When you see the target and shoot it directly with a rocket, there is almost a 70% to 80% chance that it will be gone.
In contrast, only two or three mortars can achieve success. This high efficiency of destroying firepower points allows the company to advance faster.
The core strength of Ding Wei and Xu Shida's attack group came from the elites after successive wars. In this regard, Gao Jianwu did not use newly recruited soldiers to fill up the numbers. Although there were some newly added core group soldiers, all the core strength was He is a veteran of hundreds of battles.
This allowed the expeditionary force attack group to arrive in Imphal and quickly reorganize into combat effectiveness!
These veteran backbones basically serve as gunners, machine gunners and squad platoon leaders. They determine the lower limit of combat effectiveness within the company. After ordinary soldiers adapted to the Garand rifle, they found that it was easier to use it even if it was blocked by the 38-38. That combat effectiveness The improvement is not even a little bit.
The combat effectiveness of such a company has naturally increased and reached a new level again.
Seeing that the troops under his command were so overwhelming that they even called for artillery support less frequently, Gao Jianwu also relaxed and began to have time to brag with Colonel Smith...
Then there were waves of pleasant "ding-ding" prompts. Sure enough, with the addition of Smith, the commission for explosive items increased by 150% again!
This greatly made up for Gao Jianwu's regret of not capturing Lieutenant General Masafumi Yamauchi and Chief of Staff Gao Pin alive. These two little devils actually launched an onboard charge at the last moment!
So the frontline troops shot them directly without distinction!
