On October 20, 1943, the strategic deployment of the Japanese army was already very clear. With the support of the Japanese base camp, Kawabian Masao planned to draw the 53rd Division, the 49th Division and the Independent Mixed 24th Brigade from the direction of Impal, totaling more than 56,000.

The Japanese's determination is unprecedented. In order to eliminate the tactical goal of Song Yuhang's First Mechanized Army, the Japanese army would actually give up the so-called strategic goal!

This was also far beyond Song Yuhang's expectations. In order to annihilate the First Mechanized Army of the Chinese Army, the Japanese army mobilized most of the 55th Division, the first part of the 56th Division, the main force of the Second Division, the main force of the Second Chariot Division, the Yokota Rapid Chariot Detachment, the main force of the 53rd Division, the main force of the 49th Division, and the independent mixed 24th, 51st, 70th and 72nd mixed brigades. The Japanese Fifth Flight Division provided air support for them.

The Japanese army concentrated nearly 150,000 troops in just one week. The Japanese army, supported by artillery, tanks and other technical arms, is now ambitious, as if the First Mechanized Army located in Longling has become a lamb to be slaughtered.

For the sake of the Myanmar Front Army and the ancient times before, the Japanese army went all out to humiliate Kunming!

When the Japanese army was initially completed, Chairman Jiang, who was in Chongqing, finally understood the ultimate goal of the Japanese army. Longling wanted to surround the First Mechanized Army, which was intended to block the main force of the Japanese Second Division, fell into the Japanese anti-encirclement circle.

Tengchong, Longling, and Songshan are actually geographically oriented. If the Chinese army wants to remove the siege of Longling, they can only carry out reinforcements through the direction of Tengchong and Songshan. The main force of the Japanese Second Division and part of the 56th Division are blocking the only way for the 11th Army to reinforce Longling. It seems that the 11th Army and the First Mechanized Army blocked the Japanese Second Division and part of the 56th Division. In general, the First Mechanized Army was surrounded by the Japanese army.

At this moment, the situation in Longling is like Go. The two armies of China and Japan have intertwined, and you have me. I have you. The two armies are intertwined. Who can get one move in the end? The ones who are more powerful are not only the frontline troops and generals of the Chinese and Japanese armies, but also the coordination between the staff and command systems. In such a battle of hundreds of thousands of people, once the command error occurs, it will be difficult to regain the opportunity.

After receiving the enemy situation, Song Yuhang stood in front of the map and fell into deep thought. The First Mechanized Army was now in a dilemma. If the retreating Japanese army could take advantage of the situation to attack western Yunnan and divide and annihilate the 11th Army on the right wing. If you advance, you had to ignore the threat of the two Japanese divisions on the back and face the nearly 100,000 Japanese army, and basically had no chance of winning! The only thing that seemed feasible was to defend the enemy, wait for an opportunity to annihilate one of the enemy and break the enemy's encirclement.

Moreover, in the invasion of Longling, the Japanese Second Chariot Division made Song Yuhang a little confused. The Japanese Chariot Division was formed under the stimulation of the strong breakthrough and combat power shown by the German Armored Division. In the past, the Japanese Chariot Units had always been based on gangs, and the battalions or chariot detachments were used as separate combat forces to strengthen the division and brigade first-level combat units.

The Japanese chariot troops were concentrated on the scale of divisions, which had never appeared in the Japanese war history. Moreover, in history, the Japanese Second Division had never performed well throughout the entire war. The chariot corps under its jurisdiction were used scatteredly. When Japan surrendered, the division was still unknown and had almost no impression of Song Yuhang of the division!

Due to major changes in history, Song Yuhang annihilated the 14th Japanese tank corps under Kunming City before, which led to the establishment of the Yokota Rapid Tank Detachment. It also made the Japanese base camp determined to launch the Battle of Impal. It was for this reason that the Japanese Second Tank Division came to Myanmar.

Dogs bite people and do not bark. As the commander of the mechanized troops, Song Yuhang naturally needs to pay attention to his main opponent, the Japanese Second Chariot Division.

At this moment, Longling was in the eyes of the storm, but was extremely calm at this moment. He had previously pursued the 54th Army of the Japanese 29th Infantry Regiment, Yokota Rapid Tank Detachment, and four tank companies of the 1st Mechanized Division. When they received the order of the Supreme Military Commission to reverse the Longling Territory, they were already entangled by the Japanese army. The 29th Infantry Regiment and Yokota Rapid Tank Detachment, the 54th Military Tianmen were tightly held back.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, the sky immediately digs the ground and defends it. They draw a regiment from the two main combatants of their own land and draws out a regiment and three tank companies to quickly return to Longling.

The reinforcements finally arrived in Longling on the night. These reinforcements included three m4 Sherman medium tank companies and two main combat regiments of the 54th Army. They arrived in Tengchong with a heavy tank battalion and a large amount of supplies and weapons and ammunition in the escort of Lulong. These troops arrived in Longling after the Japanese army completed the encirclement of Longling. Such support was very timely for Song Yuhang. Especially the large amount of supplies and ammunition in Lulong brought. Song Yuhang relied on it.

Faced with the current situation, Song Yuhang boldly imagined that two divisions would first defend the Longling line with two divisions. He concentrated the army's first mechanized army, heavy artillery brigade, and the main force of the mountain infantry brigade. Cooperating with the 11th Army, Song Xilian's troops first quickly defeated the main force of the Japanese Second Division. He opened up the territory of the First Mechanized Army and Song Xilian's troops of the 11th Army. He put the First Mechanized Army in a powerful position where it can advance, attack, retreat and defend.

It is a pity that Song Yuhang's plan did not pass the review of the Supreme Military Commission. The First Mechanized Army is the main force of the first-class elite of the National Army. The Chairman's heart and soul are. This time, the Chairman's use of the dangerous land of Longling has already made the Chairman very upset, so the Supreme Military Commission can only make the most stable deployment. Song Yuhang can take risks because he is just a general, but the members of the Supreme Military Commission dare not take risks with their own political lives.

On October 28, the main force of the Japanese 53rd Division and part of the 55th Division strengthened a chariot brigade and heavy artillery to block the 20th Army reinforcements coming from Tengchong in Luopo Mountain north of the regiment.

The main force of the 49th Division of the Japanese Army, the main force of the Second Chariot Division, and the 24th, 51st and 72nd mixed brigades, formed the attack cluster in the north and south directions of Longling on October 29. The 70th Brigade, the independent mixed brigade, acted as the general reserve team of the battle and the front-line commander.

Since then, the "Longling Battle" which was unexpectedly beyond all military experts has begun! After the Japanese army launched a battle in Impal, India, achieved the initial purpose of the first phase, it actually gave up its strategic goal for a tactical goal?

This tactical battle that is incomprehensible and incredible seems to be only planned by Japan around the world. Song Yuhang, located in Longling, was very depressed. At this moment, he and his first mechanized army were at the forefront. The Japanese actually temporarily stopped their strategic goals for their own tactical goals?

Song Yuhang, the bosses of the Chongqing Supreme Military Commission, and the chairman, all ignored an important factor, that is, the Japanese army's bloody battle in the direction of Impal were fought to the death by the British and Indian troops, and the Japanese troops' troops' troops, technical equipment, and strategic material reserves had all dropped to an extremely dangerous situation. If it weren't for the light surprises of the Japanese 53rd Division and the 54th Division who seized Mountbatten's power to defend, and seized a large amount of British materials, weapons and ammunition stored in Kohima. I'm afraid that the Japanese army would still be worried about how to retreat at this moment!

The Japanese army received this huge batch of supplies in Kohima, including more than 60 brand new American m3 105mm howitzers and a large number of shells.

The Japanese base camp also realized that the three divisions fighting in the Impal direction were already exhausted, and the combat materials needed to provide subsequent operations were extremely short of combat. Moreover, after many days of continuous marching, the offensive troops were exhausted. Since they had made a breakthrough in the Kohima direction, they had achieved the battle goals set at the beginning of the Impal Battle and occupied a bridgehead in India.

Since the goals set in the previous battle have been achieved, the troops urgently need to rest and recuperate. Materials and ammunition need to be reserved, and the second phase of the Impal campaign still needs to be adjusted. Against this background, the Japanese base camp agreed to allow Kawabian Masato's "Tiger-killing" battle.

The failure to resolve the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which was composed of Chongqing elite troops, has always been the so-called "huge regret" of the Japanese base camp and the Myanmar Front!

Annihilated the elite first mechanized army of Chongqing, defeated the 20th Group and the 11th Group Army, and looked for opportunities to annihilate one of the enemy, severely damaging the extremely scattered units of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

Since Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Chongqing, agreed to the "Longling Battle" plan submitted by the Supreme Military Commission, he also frowned. This well-behaved tactical plan actually did not conform to Chiang Kai-shek's original intention, but the tactical plan submitted by Song Yuhang over the level was too risky. In between the two, Chiang Kai-shek chose a combat plan jointly researched and formulated by many senior leaders of the Supreme Military Commission.

According to the plan for the Battle of the Supreme Military Commission, the Chinese Expeditionary Force planned to reinforce Longling from Tengchong, the 11th Army strengthened the 36th Division, transferred one of the main force of the Eighth Army, and attacked towards Longling. Defeat the blockade of the Japanese Second Division, urgently dispatched Du Yuming's 5th Army, Shi Zhongcheng's 100th Army, and selected a new 50th Division. The 51st Division was assembled and supplemented to Kunming, stabilized western Yunnan and supported the Longling direction at any time. The US 14th Air Force cooperated with all its strength.

The Japanese army's hidden mobilization and advancement concealed the intelligence system of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. Although the British discovered the Japanese army's mobilization in the Impal direction, they had already become frightened birds, except for huddling and defending to death.

After many days of continuous marching, all the Japanese troops arrived outside Longling were exhausted. He boldly ordered the Japanese troops to rest under the noses of the Chinese army. Unfortunately, the Chinese expedition, specifically commanded by Wei Lihuang, failed to seize this rare opportunity and took the opportunity to defeat the Japanese army. Otherwise, the battle situation in Longling would immediately undergo a huge reversal.

After a bloody battle with Huipo and Shitang, breaking through the natural chasm of Zhai Gongfang, restoring Tengchong, and fighting fiercely, the Chinese Expeditionary Force sent troops to fight fiercely in western Yunnan for more than 20 days, annihilated nearly 20,000 Japanese troops. Although all units of our Expeditionary Force also suffered huge casualties, the victory in western Yunnan was an unquestionable fact. The victory in western Yunnan in Futu Kecheng made all the generals from Chiang Kai-shek, the Supreme Military Commission to Wei Lihuang and others intoxicated in the joy of victory. Almost all the people in the land estimated the combat effectiveness of the expeditionary force over high places and estimated the Japanese army over low places.

The Central Bank in Longling City was the only undamaged building in the city. In China at that time, the strongest building in all cities in China (including county towns) was the local central bank.

Song Yuhang set up his military headquarters in the Central Bank, and the field hospital was located in the east of the city. The mountain infantry brigade and the two regiments of the 54th Army were all deployed in the east of the city. The small town of Longling was mixed between the spiral mountains, and the south of the city was blocked by the spiral mountains. Due to the terrain, the Third Infantry Division, responsible for the defense of the south of the city, completed a 1.5-kilometer frontal defense deployment with only one regiment.

After patrolling the city's four directions to defend, Song Yuhang focused on inspecting the positions of the Second Motorized Infantry Division in the north of the city. Because the main attack direction of the Japanese army was in the north of the city, Qi Baiming, the commander of the Second Motorized Infantry Division, Fang Lin, deputy commander of the commander of the State Command, and Wang Chongxian, acting chief of staff, accompanied Song Yuanhang to inspect the defense of the Second Motorized Infantry Division.
Chapter completed!