As soon as Zheng Dongguo came up, he made two orders and issued two orders.

One is to order the new 22nd Division to cut off the road from Lashio and Mandalay to Bhamo and even the mountain road.

The correctness of this point is beyond doubt, and it can even be said that it is common sense, because the reason why the American commander did not do this before was because he was too light on the enemy and believed that he could break through the Japanese defense line and capture Ba Mo in a short time.

This is obviously unrealistic, although the Chinese and American coalition forces have more advanced equipment and more ammunition supplies, the Japanese defense and tactics are not something that the sea of fire can quickly break through.

Another order was to order the new 1st Division, which was besieging Bamo, to fight steadily and steadily, mainly to consume the ammunition and living forces of the Japanese army.

This is actually a complement and cooperation to the first command.

Theoretically speaking, it is only a matter of time before the Chinese army attacks Ba Mo if it continues like this, and one day the Japanese army in Ba Mo will run out of ammunition and food and be surrounded and annihilated by the Chinese army.

Of course, this is just theory.

The situation of Ba Mo is much more difficult than imagined.

Zheng Dongguo was in front of the map, his eyebrows tightly locked, and he was at a loss.

Zheng Dongguo is worried about two aspects.

On the one hand, "changing commanders before the battle is a taboo for soldiers". And this taboo of soldiers has appeared twice in a row on the Bamo position, first Davis was replaced, and then Patno was replaced, and now although he is a Chinese officer to boost the morale of the Chinese troops, but the confusion caused by the two changes of commander is endless. For example, in the new 22nd Division, there was a battalion of troops who were ordered to stand by in the jungle, and as a result, this battalion was forgotten alive by the command...... There was neither a supply nor instructions for its next steps.

Fortunately, this battalion was trained in jungle survival, and they were finally "remembered" after eating almost all the wild vegetables and live animals in the vicinity.

On the other hand, Zheng Dongguo received news from the Americans that the Japanese 33rd Division and the 56th Division were rapidly reinforcing Bamo, but they did not know the direction and location of these two support armies.

Zheng Dongguo was a graduate of the first phase of Huangpu and one of the first Kuomintang generals to participate in the War of Resistance Against Japan. The great victory of Taierzhuang, the Battle of Xuzhou, the Battle of Kunlun Pass, etc., was one of the most important military generals in Du Yuming's group, and he had rich experience in fighting the Japanese army.

Based on Zheng Dongguo's knowledge of the Japanese army, he guessed...... The reason why the Japanese reinforcements disappeared was not that they did not come to reinforce Bamo, but that they went into the jungle and tried to suddenly appear in front of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and beat the Chinese Expeditionary Force into chaos at a time and direction that the Sino-US coalition forces did not expect.

In other words, the Chinese army was running out of time, and they had to take Ba Mo and prepare for defense before Japanese reinforcements arrived. Otherwise, the Chinese army will face a situation of being "caught between inside and outside" by the Japanese army.

But......

The current Ba Mo does not have the conditions for a short-term attack, for example, the two orders he gave before were actually long-term battles, but judging from the reaction of the Japanese army, they did not seem to have much panic.

This may prove that the Japanese army in Ba Mo was confident that they would defend until the arrival of Japanese reinforcements.

How do you gnaw this hard bone?!

Zheng Dongguo was at a loss for a while.

At this time, the signal corps suddenly came to report: "Commander, the new regiment of our army has captured the Japanese defense line in front of it and successfully advanced the battle line by 100 meters!" ”

"What?" Hearing this, Zheng Dongguo couldn't help but be a little surprised, the current speed of the Chinese army is to advance more than ten meters a day, but the new regiment can advance 100 meters in a single battle.

"How did they fight?" Zheng Dongguo asked.

"This ......," the communications man scratched his head.

Zheng Dongguo didn't say a word. grabbed the phone and called the new regiment headquarters: "You have captured the devil's defense line?" ”

"Yes, Commander!" Wang Mazi replied.

"Well played!" Zheng Dongguo praised, and then asked again, "How did you fight?" ”

"Commander, we ...... It was shelled over! Wang Mazi replied.

"Hit by cannons?" Hearing this, Zheng Dongguo couldn't help but be puzzled. If it was so easy to hit it with a cannon, how could this Ba Mo fight for so long?!

The new regiment was indeed bombarded with artillery, but this artillery had changed tactics...... In the past, artillery was fired in a very regular manner, covering the infantry and then covering the infantry.

In fact, the Americans were as stubborn as the Japanese in this regard, because it was not until the Battle of Okinawa that they slightly changed the pattern of infantry charging after the fire.

But the stubbornness of the Japanese is really stubborn. The stubbornness of the Americans, on the other hand, is that they blindly believe in their so-called military theories that have been scientifically researched and are too lazy to change them.

But the new artillery fire changed the pattern, and when they fired one cannon and waited for the Japanese to come out of the bunker to the position, they fired another cannon violently...... So the Japanese found themselves fooled. They retreated one after another, and at this time the Chinese army launched another charge, and the Japanese army hurriedly moved up again, but the Chinese army's charge was fake, and the cold and fierce artillery fire caused the Japanese to suffer heavy casualties.

This was repeated several times, just like the story of "the wolf came", and the Japanese army did not even react much to the charge of the Chinese army, but at this time, the Chinese army launched a fierce charge...... As a result, the Japanese forces were annihilated in the trenches before they could deploy.

This is naturally another strategy proposed by Zhang Chi.

After hearing this, Zheng Dongguo couldn't help laughing: "Good way, give the devils a false reality, real reality, and see what other tactics they use!" ”

So needless to say, Zheng Dongguo quickly publicized this tactic to the whole army, and there were bursts of artillery and shouts of killing on the battlefield, which did not stop until it was dark.

This time it was bitter for those Japanese who were on the defensive line, they didn't know which charge of the Chinese army was real and which charge was fake, they could only drill out of the bunker again and were bombed round by round, even if they were not killed, they were tossed so that they could not rest, and at night there were even many Chinese troops who adopted more exaggerated tactics, that is, they did not prepare artillery fire before the attack, and launched an attack on the devil's defense line without a sound, When the Chinese troops approached the Japanese trenches, most of them even hid in the anti-artillery holes and waited for the Chinese soldiers to fire.

As a result of this fighting, the new 1st Division's attack on Ba Mo in all directions was very smooth, and the advance speed was ten or even twenty times higher than the original.

The battle line advanced all the way to the railway station, but was unexpectedly blocked by the Japanese army from the defensive line and could not move.

Here, the Japanese army used more than a dozen trains combined with sandbags and bunkers to build a seemingly impregnable steel defense.

(To be continued.) )