Chapter 294 Four Hundred**Annihilation of One Thousand Enemies

During the third airdrop, the US military also sent 8 flat-fire cannons. One flat-fire cannon was impartial and just smashed into a cooking pot of a squad. The iron pot was smashed into pieces, and the pot of good soup was drunk by the earth.

The American soldiers were so careless that they played a big joke on the Chinese soldiers when they were airdropping. They dropped a large number of poker and pictorials with beautiful women. As a result, the soldiers all suffered insomnia. When they woke up the next day, many people had signs of shaving on their faces.

The Japanese troops besieged the **, staring at the American planes in the sky, staring at them. The Chinese soldiers besieged did not take the Japanese troops of this regiment seriously at all. They pulled five layers of barbed wire around the positions, and a large number of mines were buried between the barbed wire.

As long as the Japanese dare to attack and rush to the forefront of the ** position, they will be shot by Chinese soldiers like water-splashed bullets. With sufficient ammunition, the Chinese soldiers will not hesitate to bullets at all. As long as the Japanese come up, they will be a shuttle. Anyway, the Americans are very humane, and their bullets are full of magazines. They can directly plug the magazines on the guns when they are unboxing. Chinese soldiers have never been so comfortable to shoot.

Colonel Maruyama's supplies had to be transported from Xinbingyang by car and horse-drawn carts to the front line. American planes bombed the Japanese transportation lines every now and then, and roads and bridges were often destroyed. The Japanese baggage troops abandoned the food and ammunition transported by hardships, which could not meet the needs of the Japanese wing for three days.

On that day, Colonel Maruyama suddenly realized that the baggage troops had not been here for four days to transport food and ammunition. The colonel sent telegrams to urge Xinbeiyang several times, but there was no news. An unknown shadow quietly rose in the colonel's heart. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, the colonel pretended to be useless to comfort the soldiers. "Warriors, American planes often bombed our supply lines during this period. The baggage troops had prepared abundant food and sufficient ammunition, and they came up soon."

What happened to Xinbeiyang? Something really happened. Didn’t Sun Liren decide to attack Xinbeiyang? The 38th Division of the new organization specially formed a fast column and dispatched a regiment of infantry to attack Xinbeiyang in cars and followed the tanks to attack Xinbeiyang.

When the Galasu Highlands reached the 6th day, the fast column of the newly formed 38th Division advanced rapidly along the Tanai River day and night. It was indeed difficult to march in the beaches of the valley. The tanks were better, and the cars were difficult, and soldiers often asked to get out of the car to push the car. General Sun miscalculated this time. In fact, the road conditions at that time were only relying on infantry, and the marching speed was faster.

From the marching of Langkpu to Xinbeiyang, only more than 100 kilometers, the rapid column actually walked for 6 days, which shows how difficult it is to walk in the Hukang Valley.

It was around 10 o'clock in the morning when the tank leader Cao Xingxian led 48 tanks outside the city of Xinbeiyang. The roar of the engines resounded throughout the sky. The Japanese soldiers in Xinbeiyang only had one baggage brigade, and the brigade leader Nagaoka Shinchen Nobuo reacted very quickly. He immediately ordered the soldiers to close the city gate and enter the battle position.

Commander Cao drove the tanks outside Xinbeiyang City, 1,200 meters away from the city wall, and the tanks began to fire. 48 tanks lined up, and the tank guns were aimed at Ximen and bombarded violently.

The Japanese army on guard did not have weapons such as flat-fire cannons. Machine gun bullets were tickling for the 32-ton Sherman tank. The front armor of the tank reached 50mm, and the light weapons almost did not pose any threat to it.

The 48 tank guns were concentrated and bombarded hard. Soon, the west gate was blown down a 3-meter-wide gap. An infantryman who was accompanying him immediately stepped on the ruins of the breakthrough and rushed into the city.

The Japanese army gathered about 100 people at the breakthrough and relied on the broken walls to resist. Chinese soldiers rushed to the ruins and lay on the collapsed bricks and stones. The carbine in their hands "bang" fired a string of bullets. The Japanese army set up three light machine guns and a heavy machine gun here, and frantically fired bullets to the Chinese soldiers charging from both sides of the breakthrough.

A tank moved forward 200 meters away from the breakthrough. The tank's gun barrel slowly lowered, and a "boom" muzzle flashed, and a stream of white smoke rose. Then, the Japanese heavy machine gun on the left side of the breakthrough was immediately blown away.

The tank continued to rotate the turret, and the guns shot out from time to time, and the shells were aimed straight at the Japanese army behind the ruins. As the explosion sounded, all the Japanese machine gun fire points were blown up.

The Chinese soldiers pressed on the ruins of the breakthrough immediately rushed into the city with carbines. The city gates opened wide, and tanks rushed into Xinbeiyang with a rumbling rumbling.

Nagaoka Shin-ken No. 2 Middle School organized soldiers to fight to the death, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force entered the city and developed in depth along the city walls on both sides of the east and west. The 800 Japanese baggage troops, regardless of their individual combat capabilities, were not as good as those of formal infantry, and their weapons were basically mainly light weapons. In the face of Zhongzhao's strong attack capabilities, they gradually lost their resistance.

The Chinese tanks followed the infantry and knocked out the Japanese firepower points blocking the road with vehicle-mounted machine guns and artillery at any time. Some tank soldiers simply aimed at the hidden Japanese buildings and directly hit them. The 32-ton iron guy hit them at full speed. The houses in Xinbeiyang were basically brick and stone structures, so how could they withstand such violent impacts?

The tracks of Chinese tanks crushed the ruins of the houses and crushed the Japanese army. There were Japanese soldiers who were not afraid of death, holding bags, or cluster grenades rushed out of the corners of the houses or streets, trying to blow up Chinese tanks. The infantry walking in front of the tank easily shot through the Japanese ** with their carbines in their hands.

The gunshots of Xinbeiyang gradually stopped, and the soldiers counted the battlefield. Xinbeiyang hoarded a large number of weapons, ammunition, medicines, and food from the Japanese. Commander Cao immediately reported the victory to Commander Sun Liren using a vehicle-mounted radio station. Sun Liren was overjoyed and immediately ordered Commander Cao and his subordinate infantry to defend Xinbeiyang.

The main force of the New 38th Division detoured from east of the Galasu Highlands, and joined forces with the defenders to attack the 114th Japanese Regiment inside and outside.

In Galasu Highlands, Colonel Maruyama Fang Nobu was in a dilemma and was defeated continuously. He was shaken in his heart. The strong combat power of the Zhongxun team was completely in his expectation. The Colonel was just waiting for an opportunity to retreat that he thought was decent.

The battle in the Galasu Highlands lasted until the eighth day. At noon that day, the Japanese attacking troops who had just been repelled retreated. Suddenly, fierce gunfire sounded behind them.

A Japanese staff officer hurried to the colonel, "Your Excellency, it's not good! The Chinese people, the Chinese people surrounded them from all directions."

Colonel Maruyama asked calmly: "How many people are there?"

"I guess there are more than one division of troops, and there are gunfire and cannons everywhere! Your Excellency, we..." The staff officer said stutteringly.

Before the staff officer finished speaking, the colonel waved his hand and interrupted his words, "Don't panic, is there any news about Xinwenyang?"

The staff officer looked at the colonel and said hesitantly, "It has been 5 days, and there is no news about the new posthumous news. Depending on the situation, it is estimated that there will be a lot of danger."

Colonel Maruyama carefully listened to the sound of guns and cannons on the battlefield. The shouts of killing in the southeast should be slightly weaker. Colonel decisively ordered: "Immediately shrink the troops, gather on the right side of the 132 Highland, destroy confidential documents, immediately! Mountain cannons and infantry cannons should be demolished as much as possible, and do not leave them to the Chinese. At 1 pm, everyone will break through to the southeast."

The staff officer was stunned, "Colonel, it's a mountain, and the roads in the mountains are difficult to move. I'm afraid the troops..."

Before the staff officer finished his words, Colonel Maruyama glared, "Baga! Is it more difficult to climb a mountain than to fight with the Chinese people?"

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese army of the 114th Regiment concentrated their forces and their firepower broke out to the southeast. Fortunately, Colonel Maruyama had rich practical experience, accurate judgments, and decisive breakthroughs. The defeated general of the 114th Regiment of the Japanese army finally broke out of the encirclement and entered the vast mountains.

Colonel Maruyama did not dare to go back to Shinbuyang, so he had to retreat to Deluo Town. Behind him were the corpses and wounded soldiers of a thousand Japanese troops. Colonel Maruyama, who had hurriedly broke through, threw down his compatriots and heavy weapons, and ran wildly in a panic.

The Battle of Galasu Highlands became a nightmare for the 114th Japanese Army Regiment. The Japanese army suffered more than a thousand casualties, but they could not do anything to the Chinese teams of the two battalions. The military strength comparison was 10 to 1. The Chinese team's new tactics and high fighting spirit and powerful combat power impressed the Japanese army too deeply.

In the report to his superiors, Colonel Maruyama said: "The Battle of the Galasu Highlands is an unprecedented battle example. The changes in the enemy are amazing. I hope it can attract the attention of the superior..." The commander of the army, Yoshiro Iida, to the commander of the front army, General Kenyoshi Ueda, all regarded this battle as a case by case, and required senior Japanese generals to change the inherent understanding of the Chinese team in their hearts, which required them to pay a heavy price of repeated blows and failures.

A week later, the American engineers of Ronkoppo sent a regiment to Xinbeiyang. Soon, a large airport appeared in Xinbeiyang, and the Xinbeiyang Tanai Valley turned into a noisy air force base in a blink of an eye. Oil depots, warehouses, barracks and anti-aircraft gun positions were displayed in Xinbeiyang like magic tricks.

Stilwell used the Xinbeiyang as a springboard for attacking Myitkyina and was also an important transit station for the Limi Highway. The US and British Air Force Wing 48 fighters, 12 bombers and 36 transport aircraft entered the Xinbeiyang Airport, greatly shortening the flight of the air strike against Myitkyina.

After opening up the Hukang Valley, American engineers could build roads calmly. In order to ensure the safety of the road building army, the newly formed 30th Division drew an infantry regiment to take on the escort mission.

The 38th Division of the new unit was transferred to the renovation in the new unit, waiting for the arrival of the main force of the new unit 50th Division and the 30th Division. In accordance with Stilwell's order, Sun Liren lived to serve as the 3rd Battalion of the 114th Regiment to take on the garrison mission of the new unit.
Chapter completed!