Fierce fighting continued throughout the night in the mountains.

Obviously, what the Japanese hoped was to take advantage of their superior forces and the night battles they were good at to take the mountains.

The Chinese army's approach was very simple, they used the sea of fire against the Japanese army's man-sea tactics...... American-style semi-automatic rifles, machine guns, heavy machine guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., coupled with sufficient supplies, pressed the Japanese army under the mountain in pieces.

But this is not the only advantage of the Chinese army, another very important advantage is that the Chinese army can also fight hard battles, hard battles, protracted battles and even hand-to-hand combat.

Just as Stilwell thought before, the Chinese army and the US army have their own characteristics, the Chinese army is capable of fighting but lacks firepower after being weakly equipped, and the US army is equipped with advanced equipment, fierce firepower, and sufficient logistics, but its combat experience and fighting spirit are not tenacious enough; if the advantages of these two armies can be combined, then it will be an army that is not inferior to any other army in the world.

In fact, just as Stilwell thought, when the Chinese expeditionary force was equipped with standard American equipment and conducted a short training, it quickly defeated the elite divisions of the Japanese army in Burma.

This was especially true of the Chinese troops fighting in the Pacific at this time, who used the Yankees' tactics of fire to consume a lot of the Japanese army's vitality when necessary, and at another time when necessary, they could also rush forward with bayonets on their rifles to fight the Japanese in hand-to-hand combat...... And this is something that the U.S. military can't do, even a few years later, when the U.S. military was on the Korean battlefield against the Chinese volunteers. So much so that the veterans of the Volunteer Army commented on the US army: American soldiers are easy to fight, they will only shoot artillery at the back, rush up and kill a few people and then withdraw, and then shoot artillery......

But the Chinese troops would not do this, so the Japanese army met the opponent this time, and the two wings fought around the mountains all night and failed to gnaw it down.

The repeated tug-of-war caused the entire mountain range to be dyed red, so the soldiers named this mountain range "Blood Ridge".

What surprised Zhang Chi even more was ...... In the early hours of the next morning. As soon as Dongfang spit out the white belly of the fish, there was a "rumbling" motor sound in the gray sky.

"It's a tank!" Zhang Chi quickly made a judgment.

After fighting the Japanese army for so long, he was all too familiar with the sound of the motors of the Japanese tanks.

The fellow townsman nodded in agreement, and then added, "At least ten!" ”

This surprised Zhang Chi...... The surprise lies in the fact that the Japanese army still has the ability to transport tanks to Kuah Island with the supply situation, and it is not known how many supplies can be transported to these ten tanks, so it can be seen that the Japanese army has almost reached the point of madness in order to seize the Blood Ridge.

Zhang Chi guessed correctly, Maruyama Masao is indeed competing with this blood ridge.

This is not because Maruyama Masao is stubborn, but this Blood Ridge is located at the junction of the New Regiment and the US 1st Marine Regiment, and if the Blood Ridge is not taken, no matter how the Japanese army attacks the New Regiment from the direction of the Matanikao River. Or attacking the U.S. Marine Regiment from the direction of Mount Austin, it will shine its back in front of the Blood Ridge, so this Blood Ridge is a thorn in the side of Maruyama Masao, but no matter how the Japanese attack...... This blood ridge has always been firmly nailed there like a nail, but the two wings of the Japanese army are almost disabled.

In the end, Maruyama Masao had no choice but to ask the Navy to bring in a squadron of medium tanks...... This squadron of medium tanks consisted of two Type 95 light tanks and ten Type 97 medium tanks.

For this, the price Maruyama Masao paid was that the soldiers of at least two wings would not be able to eat tomorrow, but Maruyama Masao didn't care about so much, and as soon as the chariot squadron landed, he drove all the way along the Maruyama Road to the front of the Blood Ridge...... Actually, they arrived last night. It's just that because the Japanese tanks did not have the ability to fight at night, they could only wait until dawn.

Before dawn, the Japanese army couldn't wait to launch an attack on the Blood Ridge.

Maruyama Masao was fully prepared for this attack: tanks were only part of it, and Maruyama knew that Japanese tanks were like tofu in the face of the artillery fire of the Sino-American coalition. So it also requires the Navy to fight with the Army.

There is a saying that "a brother frolicks on the wall and is out of the woods", and the Japanese understand this truth.

Before, the navy thought that taking Kuah Island was a sure thing, so it was unwilling to fully cooperate with the army and even perfunctory the army. But until now...... The Navy did not dare to lose its temper with the Army anymore, because they knew very well what it would mean to them if the Army could not take Kuah Island: the Japanese Army on Kuah Island was not happy, but it was the Navy's turn to suffer.

As a result, the Navy also did its best to assist the Army in the war.

Assistance of the Navy to the Army. Of course, the large-caliber guns on seaplanes and warships. They were ordered to do everything in their power to suppress the enemy's artillery fire and to launch an attack on the mountain ridge with water planes in conjunction with the army...... Maruyama did not dare to ask the Navy to cooperate with him in launching an attack on the mountains, because the mountains were not large, and it was very likely that naval artillery would hit not the mountains but the Japanese tanks.

Maruyama's plan was to suppress the enemy's artillery with naval guns, suppress and cut off supplies and reinforcements from the ridge with hand-held aircraft, and then the tanks would cover a new force of a company to launch a fierce attack on the ridge...... No matter how iron you Chinese soldiers are, I am afraid that you will fall under the tracks of the tank.

It should be said that Maruyama Masao's idea is still reasonable, because the Japanese army has not had tanks all along, so the first battalion is not equipped with anti-tank guns, in fact, even if there are anti-tank guns, they can't be used...... The vegetation on the mountain ridge had long been stripped away, and a thing the size of an anti-tank gun was a target on the mountain.

Therefore, if the artillery was suppressed by the Japanese, then the only thing in the hands of a battalion that could pose a threat to the Japanese medium tanks was mortars...... THE TOP ARMOR OF THE JAPANESE TYPE 97 MEDIUM TANK IS ONLY 10MM, SO IT WILL BE VERY COOL IF THE MORTAR CAN HIT THE TOP, THE PROBLEM IS THAT IT IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE MORTAR TO HIT SUCH A SMALL AREA IN THE OPERATION, ESPECIALLY WITH MANY SEAPLANES FLYING IN THE AIR, AND IT IS A QUESTION WHETHER THE MORTAR CAN SHOOT SHELLS.

Zhang Chi soon sensed the danger, because the seaplanes flew in the sky like locusts, and from time to time they fired a few flares to indicate the warships to bomb the place, and those directions were precisely the artillery positions of the Chinese and American coalition forces.

"Tuanza!" After dodging a burst of strafing from seaplanes, the townsfolk asked Zhang Chi: "How to fight?" ”

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi set his eyes on the patches of Japanese corpses in front of the mountain......

(To be continued.) )