The fighter plane is fleeting, and the point of the surprise attack is that the surprise lies in the fast, that is, to fight slowly with the fast.

If Davis had resolutely put all his forces into attacking Bamo when the surprise troops arrived at Bamo and took the airfield, instead of spending all his troops on the Japanese air raid that did not need to be defended at all, then the 3,000 patchwork Japanese troops in Bamo would not have been able to resist the attack of tens of thousands of well-equipped Sino-American coalition troops. Because the defense of the Japanese army was also barely organized in a hurry, according to the recollections of Hachie Shaozo after the war, the reserves available to him after the deployment were only 100 people.

But Davis let this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity slip away in his hands.

Due to Davis's wrong decision, the 113th Regiment not only failed to take Ba Mo but was beaten out by a Japanese counterattack, so the encirclement of Ba Mo by the Sino-US coalition forces cannot be called an encirclement.

Taking advantage of this time, the Japanese troops that were originally on the front line rushed back to help, and the first to retreat was an artillery brigade of the Japanese army...... The artillery was towed by cars, and it was also in the rear of the front line, so the retreat was relatively fast.

The return of artillery units greatly boosted the morale of the Japanese army in Ba Mo, and it also increased its strength a lot.

Then came an infantry brigade in reserve.

This infantry brigade did not even retreat to Ba Mo, but directly carried out a counter-encirclement of the 113 regiment that attacked Ba Mo.

At this time, Davis had not even woken up, and not only did he not send a single soldier to the situation that the 113th Regiment was surrounded, but he still ordered an attack.

"That's just an illusion of the Japanese army deceiving you!" Davis said, "They don't have that many forces to surround you, you should fight back!" ”

"******!" This time, Huang Weiming scolded directly: "If you are a ball, Lao Tzu is not blind, is the devil he sees all over his eyes still fake?!" ”

As he spoke, Huang Weiming dropped the phone, turned around and ordered: "Organize a breakthrough!" ”

Huang Weiming is not disobeying orders, but this order is obviously not in line with the principles of the battlefield, and if he still obeys orders rigidly in this situation, it is just a waste of his own lives and the lives of his subordinates.

And the Japanese army also made a miscalculation because the operation was too smooth......

Bajiang Shaozuo originally thought that Bamo might not be guaranteed. But I didn't expect that Ba Mo not only kept but could surround the enemy, and the enemy was surrounded and there were no reinforcements, which seems to indicate that the Sino-US coalition forces are insufficient...... Of course, this is not actually the lack of troops of the Sino-US coalition forces, but the wrong command of Davis.

So Bajiang Shaozuo resolutely dispatched a force of more than 500 people to attack the airport, but this amount of strength was like an egg to a stone for the defenders of the airport, and the Japanese army was quickly pressed back into the city after killing a Japanese lieutenant.

It was precisely because of the Japanese attack on the airfield that Davis realized that the Japanese army had more than a thousand troops.

If there were only 1,000 men, it would be impossible to send 500 men to attack the airfield while defending Bamo and attacking the 113th Regiment...... And the 500 Japanese troops who attacked the airfield were seen by the US troops with their own eyes, so they certainly can't be faked.

So in a hurry, Davis dispatched his troops to organize an attack on Ba Mo again.

But it was already too late, and the Japanese army in Bamo had increased from 3,000 to 5,000. The various highland points outside the city also fell back into the hands of the Japanese as a result of the breakout of the 113th Regiment.

Then the Japanese army returned more and more reinforcements, and even the airfield was useless...... As long as the Japanese army deploys anti-aircraft fire around the airport, the Chinese and American coalition forces will not be able to carry out the landing even if they have the airfield in hand.

All of this is manifested in the direction of relaxation, which is a sudden decrease in pressure...... Most of the Japanese troops have returned to help Bamo, so they will not face many Japanese troops.

It's just that the Japanese army still left many stragglers as snipers along the way, which made Zhang Chi and others not fight Ba Mo until ten days later, and at this time, Ba Mo's Japanese army had occupied various points and built strong fortifications, and even the airport was recaptured by the Japanese army...... Most of the equipment and preparation of the airfield was used for air defense, and there was no danger to defend the flat ground, and the Sino-American forces had to withdraw from the airfield under Japanese artillery fire.

It should be said that at this time, the strength of the Sino-American coalition was still much larger than that of the Japanese army. The new 22nd Division, the new 1st Division, and the interspersed troops totaled more than 20,000 people, while the Japanese army only had more than 10,000 people, but the Chinese and American coalition forces were sluggish and their morale was very low.

In the beginning, this negative atmosphere was limited to interspersed troops. But it soon spread to the whole army.

The reason for the low morale is not only the defeat of the war, but also the contradictions between Chinese and American officers that have been exposed after the defeat.

What made the soldiers most angry was that after this battle, Davis not only did not reflect on the mistakes he made in command, but instead put all the blame and responsibility on the 113th Regiment.

As Davis said to Stilwell: "We have solid intelligence to prove it. At the beginning, the Japanese army had only 1,000 troops in Bamo, including the wounded and sick, if the 113th Regiment could have fought more heroically and resolutely at that time. There will be no situation where Japanese reinforcements arrive later! Therefore, the incompetence of the command of the Chinese generals and the ineffective combat of the fighters were the main reasons for the defeat of this battle, and I propose to remove the head of the 113th Regiment from his post and transfer him back to China. ”

What Davis said seems ridiculous now, because we clearly know that the Japanese army in Bamo is not 1,000 but 3,000 people, and using the 113th Regiment of more than 2,000 people to gnaw at the defense of 3,000 Japanese troops is obviously contrary to basic battlefield common sense.

But at the time...... The Chinese Expeditionary Force and even the 113 Regiment on the battlefield could not prove it. Seeing is not applicable on the battlefield, because it will easily be criticized by the Yankees as collusion and making excuses for failure, and the confessions of Japanese prisoners of war are useless, because it is likely to be false information provided by the Japanese army in order to survive.

So Davis's words cannot be verified, or cannot be verified for the time being...... It's impossible to go to Bamori and ask how many troops the Japanese army had when the war began! This is military intelligence for the Japanese army, where can there be a reason for the enemy to know?!

This made the officers and soldiers of the 113th Regiment, who suffered heavy losses in this battle, furious: Lao Tzu went to the battlefield with his head in his hand, and he died nine times and lost so many brothers, and you Yankees said that there were not so many enemies with one mouth, and you also put all the fault on us...... I'm gone!

As a result, the officers and soldiers of the 113th Regiment expressed their desire to break away from Davis's command, and the performance of American instructors in the army was often as ridiculous as Davis's, so many soldiers even had to drive out American instructors, otherwise they would not fight. (To be continued.) )