My Head of the Huaxia Expeditionary Force

Chapter 395 Break the deadlock
At the same time, the latest battle report from Lashio made Liao Mingyu excited.After more than half a month of confrontation between the army of the South Road and the 53rd Division, Long Wenwen finally opened the breakthrough.

Because the terrain of Lashio is mostly mountainous jungles, it is not easy for the armored troops and artillery to launch a battle, and the 53rd Division is very cunning, and has been hiding in the forest and constantly dealing with it. Therefore, Long Wenwen was not able to gain an advantage in the initial battle with the Japanese army.

Sneak attack, interspersed, joint encirclement... The Japanese army thought of many ways to break the deadlock, but Long Wenwen was not ambiguous.

Then again, the 200th Division today is different from the past. The strength of this legendary unit has long since lost its strength after several major changes. A T26 can still support the scene, and the infantry's combat effectiveness is very limited.

Coupled with the same inexperienced engineering regiment, it is quite good to be able to face a division of the Japanese army without falling behind.

But their mentality is completely different...

Long Wenwen is not in a hurry, his main task is to prevent a little devil from going north for support, and with the support of Nankan as a logistics base behind him, Lashio is as stable as Mount Tai.

The little devils are different. The telegrams from the Japanese army headquarters fell like snowflakes, all asking them to quickly break through the enemy's defense line to support Myitkyina, but the progress of the battle was extremely slow. That's called a watertight, but it made the head of the division, Kono Etsujiro, very anxious.

Moreover, Kono found that the opponent deliberately didn't use all his strength, and only sent a small number of troops to fight each time. Once the battle became anxious, he immediately retreated back, and after repairing, a new group of people came out to do things, as if treating them as a whetstone.

The dragon demon really thinks so, the strength of the soldiers under him is uneven, how can we do it without more practice?
But in this way, the battle between the two sides has turned into a tug-of-war. I can't do anything to you, and you can't do anything to me. The stalemate is very headache.

However, this is not the solution. After communicating with the headquarters, Kono Etsujiro decided to put all his eggs in one basket, and cooperate with the air power to break through in one fell swoop. Even if he paid a high price, he would have to defeat this group of Chinese people.

Long Wenwen seemed to have expected such a reaction from them. Since the Japanese army chose to take the initiative to attack when the Japanese army was in full swing, they got entangled with all the enemies in front of them, and within a radius of tens of kilometers of Lashio, there was an instant burst of artillery fire.

Just as the two sides were fighting wildly, a mysterious army quietly came from the south of the Japanese army.

At the same time, Long Wenwen suddenly ordered that the 200 regiment of the 1132th division, which was in full swing, withdraw from the battle and move back. However, this caused a huge loophole in the originally stalemate defense line.

How could the Japanese army let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Kono Etsujiro ordered all the troops to attack this gap with the cooperation of the fighter planes in the sky, trying to concentrate on piercing through the entire defense of the Chinese people.

The Japanese who didn't know what was going on quickly made adjustments and gathered the forces of the two regiments to attack this point. Soon they went deep into the hinterland and caused the 200th Division and the Engineer Corps to retreat in a row.

Seeing that the front was broken through, the surrounding Huaxia troops also began to flee backwards, not only gave way to the outer line of defense, but even the railway station and Lashio City were occupied by the little devils, and countless ammunition and supplies in the military camp in the city were seized by the little devils .

Kono Etsujiro was overjoyed, thinking that the opponent could not hold on to the pressure and began to collapse, so he immediately decided to increase his troops to expand the results of the battle, and even put all the reserves on the battlefield.

The balance of victory seems to be tilting towards the Japanese, and the result seems to be a foregone conclusion, but they don't know that all this is a trap set by Long Wenwen!
Just as the Japanese army raised the battle flag and celebrated with excitement for capturing Lashio, the mysterious army that had ambushed on the battlefield earlier suddenly attacked their weakly defended rear headquarters.

A team of thousands of people appeared out of nowhere behind their buttocks. They wore grass rings and animal skins, and they held various weapons. They looked like savages.

But it was such a guerrilla-like unit that caused a devastating blow to the Japanese army. Because of the lack of guards, almost all command posts and artillery positions were attacked.

Although the opponent seemed like a mob, they were better than the crowd, and the Japanese rear was in chaos in an instant.

After receiving the news, Kono Eijiro was also in a cold sweat. If he hadn't moved forward with the army on a whim, he might have been beheaded by now.

This team was the Nanyang Self-Rescue Army that was besieged by the Japanese in the Wa State area.

Due to the containment of the first regiment, the Japanese army gave up the siege and went north, and they took the opportunity to sneak into the jungle and disappeared. It was not until Fang Jingyao arrived in Lashio not long ago that he managed to get in touch with them.

Although this group of people did not have sophisticated weapons like the regular army, they were able to escape the siege and interception of the Japanese army many times, which fully proved that they still had some merits.

The keen-minded Long Wenwen immediately realized the way to defeat the Japanese, so he and Fang Jingyao joined forces and began to put on the show.

On the frontal battlefield, he first pretended to be invincible to reveal his flaws, and then opened a gap to lure the enemy to go deep. Long Wenwen was bold enough to use the military supplies hoarded in Lashio as bait to attract the opponent, because his side had already fled, so he put down his guard and threw all his troops into the battle. Into the "chasing".

Almost at the same time that the Japanese army was attacked in the rear, the 200th Division and the Engineer Corps, which were still "fleeing", immediately counterattacked.The regiments took the battalion and company as units, and adopted the tactics of dividing and encircling the Japanese army, forcing the opponent to be unable to look at each other from head to tail.

Only then did Kono Eijiro realize that he had fallen into the enemy's trick, but it was too late at this moment.

Because the front lines of the two alliances that the lone army went deep into were too long, it was too late for the various units to respond. After this period of time, the soldiers have been honed on the battlefield with real swords and guns, and they have been completely reborn. They cooperate with each other and act quickly , Completed the encirclement of the Japanese army in an instant.

There is no suspense in the next situation. Under the pincer attack of various troops, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, blood-stained corpses can be seen everywhere, and the whole jungle is full of piercing gunshots and shouts.

The two sides were already entangled, and the Japanese fighter planes couldn't help at this time, so they could only watch helplessly the situation that was on the verge of collapse.

The remorseful head of the Kono Division had to order each to break through, but the large forces had been dispersed by the Huaxia people, as if they could meet the upper figures of the enemy everywhere, and the Japanese army was also in chaos. There were no soldiers, and the scene was extremely chaotic.

In the end...the Battle of Lashio came to an end with the defeat of the Japanese army. The entire 53rd Division lost more than 4000 people, including two captains of the Dazuo Alliance.

It's a pity that I couldn't catch the big fish Kono Etsujiro, which was a bit of a fly in the ointment. Long Wenwen, a god catcher, wanted to catch another division leader and go back to claim credit. It can only be said that Sun Tzufu escaped, but was defeated. He also made him feel proud of the brilliant record of severely injuring the 53rd Division...

(End of this chapter)