September 9, the ninth day of the battle, was also the fifth day of Chiang Haoran's entry into Lashio. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Japanese bombers appeared over Lashio early in the morning, and although there was billowing smoke in mid-air, and there were still killers hidden in the smoke, and the anti-aircraft fire of the expeditionary force was waiting for them to dive and bomb, the Japanese fighters and bombers still came.

They began to drop bombs at an altitude of 2,000 meters, and with the Nandu River as an excellent reference, thousands of aerial bombs were accurately dropped on the first line of defense of the expeditionary force, plowing the entire defense line.

Immediately, the Japanese army launched a large-scale attack, nearly 20,000 Japanese troops set up more than a dozen pontoon bridges, rushed across the Nandu River in Uralada, and directly launched a cluster charge on the defense line of the expeditionary force.

But they did not expect that their bombardment would be unscathed against the expeditionary force, they had already withdrawn to the second line of defense, and as soon as the Japanese air raids stopped, they all rushed to the defense line again, and set up powerful fire points again at a speed ten minutes faster than the Japanese army, and nearly 200 unconscionable guns were still singing the leading role.

The pouring bullets harvested the lives of the Japanese soldiers, and the conscienceless cannon fairy exploded like a flower, so that the Japanese army completely gave up the attack, and one by one ran without a proper shape, leaving a large number of corpses on the north bank of the Nandu River in vain, and the two-day attack made the Japanese First Guards Division lose more than 10,000 troops.

Just when the 1st Guards Division was attacking, the Japanese army Tada Junbu on the Western Front and the Northern Front also took the opportunity to launch a large-scale attack, which was unprecedented in grandeur, but the feathers of the troops on the Southern Front made them immediately retreat like a tide.

On September 10, the Japanese army did not take any military action.

On 11 September, the Japanese army still did not move.

On 12 September, the Nandu River suddenly broke off, and nearly 50 meters of the riverbed bottomed out.

The Japanese army used two days to intercept the upper reaches of the Nandu River, diverting all the river water into a low-lying village, flooding fertile fields and countless houses.

At about 9 o'clock in the morning, the 1st Guards Division of the Japanese Army suddenly launched a large-scale artillery attack on the defense line of the expeditionary force, and 155 mm heavy cannons, 75 mountain guns, 80 mortars, and even 92 infantry guns opened fire on all fronts, covering the defense line of the expeditionary force in artillery fire.

Immediately, more than 50 Type 4 and Type 5 tanks of the tank wing rumbled across the dry Nandu River, and behind the tanks were densely packed with Japanese infantry, and then automobiles and armored vehicles, loaded with anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, rumbled forward.

His tactics were very effective, under the suppression of powerful artillery fire, the expeditionary force could not raise its head at all, could not build an effective defense system, machine gun fire nets could not be erected, and artillery without conscience was useless, they were okay against the Japanese infantry, but they were a little powerless against tanks.

The number of casualties of the troops rose sharply, and the five regiments of the first line of defense lost more than a third of them in the first round of artillery attacks, and these five regiments were all reinforced regiments supplemented by the Blue First Army, and the strength was more than 2,000, that is, their casualties had reached at least three or four thousand.

However, the number of casualties continued to rise sharply with the Japanese attack, and as soon as the Japanese artillery fire stopped, more than 50 tanks lined up, and the 75-mm main guns on the turrets, two 7.7-mm machine guns, and the Type 5 tanks also had one more 37-mm rapid-fire gun.

Often the machine guns of the expeditionary force can't finish a shuttle of bullets, and the enemy's shells fly over, and one shell is enough to finish the main and auxiliary shooters and ammunition men, and no matter how bad it is, the machine guns are firing wildly, so that you can't get out of the way at all.

Even the 12.7 mm M2 heavy machine gun of the expeditionary force is useless against the heavy armor of the Japanese Type 4 tanks of 35 mm to 50 mm and Type 5 35 mm to 75 mm (here referring to the armor directly in front of the Japanese tank).

The expeditionary force was still equipped with a large number of rocket launchers, but the cunning of the Japanese army was beyond their imagination, and at a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, the tanks stopped advancing, and the pestles were like more than fifty moving fortresses in the front line, using powerful fire to support the infantry charge, and not giving the bazookas a chance to strike at all.

The dense Japanese troops set up a charge formation and began to charge, in front of them were armed with MP40 German submachine guns and 100 submachine guns, and the back were all covered with bright bayonets, just waiting for the troops in front to rush into the defensive line, and the rear ones were ready to bayonet hand-to-hand combat.

However, the Japanese underestimated the tenacity of the expeditionary force, and even in this situation, the officers and men of the new 38th and 28th divisions still resisted stubbornly on the defensive line, and swept out the AK47 in their hands in the rain of bullets.

The biggest advantage of assault rifles is that you don't need to aim, like this kind of close-range combat, as long as you have the opportunity to spill bullets in the direction of the enemy, you can always bring casualties to the enemy, and if you don't pay attention to accurate shooting, the gap between veterans and recruits will not be too big, the difference is whether the recruits have the courage to spill the bullets, and the difference is the recruits' will to fight.

And at this time, Jiang Haoran's cleverness is reflected, each veteran brings two or three recruits, and there are veterans in charge of the recruits, there will be no situation where the recruits gather together, and there will be no large-scale rout, even if there are cowards and those who want to desert, they will be stopped by the veterans in time and kicked them back to the team.

Less than two hours after the battle began, the front of the expeditionary force was already strewn with corpses, and the Japanese army also paid a heavy price for the attack.

In the trenches of the expeditionary force, there was even more mourning, the corpses of blood-stained battle robes and wounded soldiers had been piled up in the second half of the trenches, most of them were missing arms and legs, and it was not uncommon for half of the body to expose the intestines and heart and lungs, and more of them were on the head and arms. His legs, chest and abdomen were tied with blood-stained gauze, and the dead were silent, and the living wailed and screamed.

What's even more terrifying is that in the corridor, the potholes are full of blood, millet flesh and bones, stumps and broken arms can be seen everywhere, logistics soldiers and medical soldiers bow their bodies and shuttle through it, splashing blood rain flying, and even kick out half of the head and cut off the arm from the blood water, this is no longer a battlefield, but a purgatory on earth.

And this purgatory has no sign of stopping, the first wave of Japanese attacks has just been repulsed, and in less than five minutes the second wave of attacks has come, they do not intend to give the expeditionary force a chance to breathe, the first line of defense they are already determined to win.

It was still grenades, artillery fire, machine gun suppression, infantry charges, and the Japanese army's shouts of "killing chickens" were all over the hillside under the hillside, and the hideous-looking Japanese soldiers even tied women's menstrual belts to their heads.