At this time, Major Walker couldn't help but be surprised, and he hurriedly reported to Chief Instructor Hill on the walkie-talkie: "Colonel, we are attacked by a large Japanese army, and we are asking for reinforcements!" ”

"Are you sure it's a large Japanese army and not a bluff?" Chief Instructor Hill asked.

"Although we don't know the exact number of Japanese troops, their artillery fire is fierce!" Major Walker replied: "Our artillery suffered heavy casualties!" ”

"That's it!" Chief Instructor Hill replied calmly: "Major, this is most likely a bluff on the part of the enemy, you know, a small army in the jungle can easily be disguised as a large force. All you have to do is hold your ground and beat the Japanese back with all the rage! ”

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

Although he was not familiar with this "nominally" commanded by him, the soldiers of this army were all Chinese after all, so he stepped forward and said to Hill through the translator: "Colonel, I think the strength of the Japanese army is very likely to exceed our expectations, we have interrogated the prisoners, and found that there are two brigades of Japanese soldiers, and they also have hot air balloons, plus the Japanese artillery fire is so fierce, so it may not be one brigade but two brigades or even more......"

Chief Instructor Hill waved his hand and impatiently interrupted Chen Shanguo's words: "Obviously, if the Japanese army has so many troops, then it is impossible for a battalion to successfully take Lingbang or even hold there. ”

"But now all the circumstances show ......"

"I'll seriously consider your suggestion!" Chief Instructor Hill didn't give Chen Shanguo a chance to continue talking, turned around and walked away.

The more Chen Shanguo thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and finally had to make a phone call to his superior, Zheng Dongguo, the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, and then the matter reached the ears of Stilwell, who was in Chongqing for a meeting.

Stilwell never thought it was a big battle, he thought it was just a small-scale battle to test the combat effectiveness of the new 1st Division, and the battle plan was one regiment against one Japanese brigade, and in the process, let the other two recruit regiments go to the battlefield to hone their skills, plus the meeting on the Chongqing side was also very important. So he did not personally command but flew to Chongqing.

At this time, he heard that the Chinese and American generals on the Burmese side had made a fuss to the point of reporting the situation to the ******, so he had to fly back ahead of schedule.

In fact, Stilwell's purpose of flying back early was not for this battle, he always believed that the American instructor's judgment was correct, and believed that the Chinese officers were probably frightened by the Japanese, so they panicked and thought that the Japanese had more troops.

He flew back ahead of schedule because he found that the contradictions between Chinese and American officers had intensified...... Although he had a premonition that this would happen, he didn't expect it to be so soon, and this was his top priority, so he had to rush back.

Of course, Stilwell's coordination was more from the side of American officers, and he was determined to use this example to severely suppress those Chinese officers who did not obey orders.

It didn't take long. Stilwell rushed to the headquarters of the new 1st Division, and his first sentence was to question Chen Shanguo: "General Chen Shanguo, why don't you respect the chief instructor?" ”

Stilwell said this very cleverly, and he used "respect" instead of "obedience...... Although the two words have the same meaning, "respect" can avoid the suspicion that the US military instructors want to control the Chinese military, and the Chinese military does not need to "obey" the American instructors in the first place.

Chen Shanguo couldn't help but feel angry when he heard this, he was originally dissatisfied that he came here just for decoration, and now he was just about to be questioned if he just put forward some reasonable ideas, so he immediately retorted: "I didn't disrespect the chief instructor. General Stilwell. But the chief instructor did not seem to understand that the Japanese, like American soldiers, would not be unable to march because there were no roads! ”

Stilwell and Chief Instructor Hill were annoyed when they heard Chen Shanguo's words, but Chen Shanguo put on an attitude of "it's a big deal, Lao Tzu won't do it". Stilwell couldn't do anything about him.

However, after all, Stilwell was also an officer who had fought the first Burma campaign, and he also knew something about the Japanese army, and after listening to Chen Shanguo's analysis, he felt that what Chen Shanguo said was also reasonable, so he agreed to let the Chindit troops verify the intelligence and reconnoiter the enemy situation near Lingbang by the way.

Just when Stilwell and the others were competing for a match at the division headquarters. The battle on the front line developed as Zhang Chi feared, and the direction of the Japanese attack was not the defensive front of several battalions of the new regiment, but the junction between several battalions.

Of course. This was the result of some trial and error by the Japanese army.

The Japanese army did not rush to attack Lingbang, but sent a small force to make a feint, combined with the observation of high-altitude hot air balloons, so it quickly became known about the deployment of the new regiment. Then two troops were sent to penetrate the left and right flanks of Lingbang, cutting off the connection between Lingbang and other troops.

If the battle continues like this, then it is very likely that the entire new regiment will be surrounded by devils or even inserted into the rear of the new regiment to threaten its logistics supply lines.

And the logistics supply line is the most fatal weakness of American tactics...... The American style of tactics pays attention to the coordination of various arms, and the coordination of arms requires firepower, and firepower relies on powerful logistical supply, so the most taboo thing for the US military is that the logistics supply line is threatened, and once the supply line is cut off, the US military has only one choice, which can be clearly proved from the defeat and retreat of the US army again and again under the penetration of the Chinese army in the battle to resist US aggression and aid Korea.

Fortunately, the Japanese were indeed only small units, and although these small units achieved the goal of dividing the new regiment, they were not enough to threaten the logistics supply lines of the new regiment.

The reason why only small units were interspersed was not because of the lack of Japanese troops, but the reason was unexpected by everyone: two recruit companies were transferred to the junction of several battalions of the new regiment to garrison, they originally came up to experience the war and hone themselves, but they had never participated in actual combat, but they blocked the Japanese army's attacks again and again, so that the Japanese army did not dare to go deep...... If the Japanese army is desperate to go deeper, then their own logistical supply is in danger.

At this time, the latest information came from Chinteddi, and the result made everyone stunned: the Japanese army in the Lingbang area was not one brigade or two brigades, but two complete infantry wings of the 55th and 56th divisions of the Japanese 18th Division!

A regiment is on an equal footing with two wings of the Japanese army, and it is also a wing of an elite division, so even Chen Shanguo himself can't believe it. (To be continued.) )