Davis's second mistake may be excusable.

Major Brown also raised objections to Davis for this reason.

"General!" Major Brown said with some surprise when he heard that only one regiment was attacking Ba Mo: "We have at least three regiments of troops, we can send two regiments to attack Ba Mo, and the other regiment will defend the airfield and serve as a reserve!" ”

"It's not necessary, Colonel!" Davis replied: "First of all, the focus of defense at this time is on the airport, the airport!" Do you understand? As long as we hold the airfield, then the equipment and personnel of our army will be sent to Ba Mo in a steady stream, so we need to organize a defense and air defense network near the airport as quickly as possible to resist the bombing and attack of the Japanese on the airfield. ”

"But the general...... replied Colonel Brown, "there is no indication of a Japanese air attack on the airfield." ”

"We can't fight unprepared! Captain! Davis replied: "When there are signs that the Japanese will attack by air, it will be too late!" ”

There is some truth in this, but no truth will be applied to all battlefields, for example, Davis was using Western military tactics theory to reason about the Japanese strategy in the East.

Of course, Western military theory is based on the air force, and almost without exception before the battle is to seize air supremacy, but the Japanese army has always been mainly infantry, especially Mutaguchi Yoshiya, who is known as a ghost animal, and it is even more exaggerated to say that the army has now reached the point of being the first in the world, so of course it will pay more attention to land combat.

Davis's method is to mistakenly use a large number of troops on air defense and only a small number of troops for land warfare after the success of the surprise attack.

However, at this time, Davis still did not realize his mistake, he paused, and continued: "More importantly, we have learned from the information we received from the Shantou people (another name for the Kachin guerrillas) and the Burmese that there were only more than 1,000 Japanese troops stationed in Burma at this time. The strength of a Chinese regiment is more than 2,000 people...... After the Chinese are equipped with American-style equipment, their combat effectiveness can already compete with the Japanese, and I believe that they can easily conquer Bamo! ”

"Yes!" Colonel Brown could only obey orders.

Davis's information may have been correct, it was true that there were only 1,000 Japanese troops stationed in Bamo, and many of these 1,000 were wounded and sick who had just recovered and were not fit for battle, and the rest of the troops were transferred to the front to fight the new 1st Division and the new 38th Division.

It was precisely because of this information and the fact that the initial battle was too smooth that Davis and even Colonel Brown had the mentality of underestimating the enemy.

However, the 1,000 men referred to in this information are the main force, and they do not include the personnel of the 18th Division Communications Brigade, the 12th Engineer Wing, the Japanese Railway Corps, the Military Police Detachment, the Guard Unit, the Ground Service Unit of the Aviation Division, and the Military Station.

These units consisted of 15 units totaling about 2,000 men. The intelligence officers automatically ignored these Japanese troops when gathering information, or the intelligence officers did not ignore them, but Davis did not count these Japanese troops in the resistance forces.

Although these Japanese troops did not belong to the main force of the Japanese army, the strict training of the Japanese army made them have military qualities that were not inferior to those of the main forces, not to mention that their task was to organize defense in fortifications, which did not require high military quality, but more required marksmanship and courage, and the Japanese army never lacked marksmanship and courage.

During this period, there was also an oolong, and some US troops mistakenly thought that they had occupied Bamo Airport after occupying the Bamo airport. So he told this "good news" to the Chinese troops, and a Chinese army of more than 1,000 people mistakenly believed the news, and saw that the city of Ba Mo was calm, so they led troops into Ba Mo...... Since it is stationed. So at the head of the line are the commanders, the flags and even the beating drum bands.

The Japanese could not understand why the Chinese army was approaching their line in this way, but after a moment of silence, the gunfire still rang out, and a rain of bullets passed, causing a large number of casualties among the Chinese army.

It was the 113th Regiment that had just landed in Ba Mo that had just landed in Ba Mo, and they soon discovered that Ba Mo was not just a thousand garrisons as the Yankees had described, and most of them were wounded and sick.

But despite their repeated efforts to report the situation to the top. But it didn't help...... Like the mistakes made by the chief instructor at Lingbang Hill before, Davis was convinced that the information he had received was correct, and that the Chinese's reports were just an excuse for their lack of determination and courage in fighting.

This can also be seen from this. It is indeed inappropriate for the Americans to command the Chinese troops, because they do not know the Chinese troops, or their understanding of the Chinese troops is still limited to the impression that a few Japanese cavalry can capture a city on the domestic battlefield, so when a front-line battle report reaches them, the first thing they question is not whether the previous information is wrong or omitted, but the Chinese army.

The Chinese have a saying that "knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible in a hundred battles", and the US commander's ignorance and distrust of the army in his hands eventually led to the Battle of Bamo, which could have been easily captured under a surprise attack, becoming a rotten battle.

Because he always insisted on his own combat deployment, Davis did not send reinforcements to the city of Ba Mocheng, and his response was to ask the Chinese army to launch a charge over and over again......

"I believe that what you are seeing is only a façade!" Davis said to the regiment commander Huang Weiming on the phone: "This is the Japanese have deployed all their forces on the periphery, as long as you break through this layer of defense, you will find that there is nothing inside, and then you will successfully occupy Bamo!" ”

“******！” Huang Weiming on the other end hung up the phone and scolded fiercely: "This **** has said this three times, but the devil is beating more and more!" ”

To make matters worse, the Japanese army's strategy at this time still seems to be deliberately relying on the terrain to deplete the strength of the Chinese army......

In fact, the Japanese army did not intend to do this, and it was the Japanese army who organized the defense in Bamo, and he began to think that the Chinese army would definitely put most of its forces into attacking Bamo City, so he had to take a defensive position.

But as we fought, we found that something was wrong, and the enemy who attacked the city was only one Chinese regiment, and it was almost exhausted in the attack.

So Bajiang Fang'an purposefully put the Chinese army inside, and then organized a counteroffensive...... This counteroffensive not only inflicted heavy casualties on the Chinese army, but also regained all the lost ground. (To be continued.) )