Shells poured in the direction of the Japanese troops, kicking up patches of rain and corpses in the direction of the Japanese troops.

These artillery pieces were howitzers that Stilwell urgently transferred from Myitkyina to Lingbang, in order to be able to suppress the Japanese artillery and also to support the counterattack of the new 1st Division, so the artillery brought up this time was enough for a howitzer regiment...... This is three times the number of howitzer battalions that suffered heavy casualties under Japanese artillery.

Of course, a howitzer regiment has only thirty-six howitzers, which is not a lot, but this is in the jungle and also in the jungle in the rainy season...... It is not easy for a howitzer regiment and the shells it needs to be transported in smoothly.

At this point, the Sino-US coalition forces obviously have more advantages than the Japanese army, the reason is that the United States is an industrial power, and there are bulldozers, excavators, and so on.

Moreover, this highway was built wherever the soldiers on the front line fought, and the distance between the road in the rear and the front line never exceeded a day's distance after the whole battle.

This is also one of the characteristics of American-style warfare: the Yankees fight wars with firepower, or rain of bullets to wash the ground, and to do this, it is obviously not feasible if there is no rear road support to transport supplies.

Just like now, hundreds of howitzers, mortars, and other artillery pieces of different calibers on the entire defense line were bombarded indiscriminately at the Japanese defense line, coupled with the continuous dive-strafing and bombing of the air fighters, only the Japanese position was blown up by fire, and patches of large trees fell in the explosion, and soon the place that was originally a jungle was blown into a scorched earth.

Of course, this direction of Xujiacun is a place where artillery and fighters are "taken care of".

This is not only because Xujia Village is the key interspersed direction, but also because Xujia Village is surrounded by Japanese troops, and in some places the distance between the enemy and us is only 100 meters... As a result, this will bring some difficulties to the artillery unit, and if the shell misses slightly, it will hit the Xujia village and its own people.

However, the artillery unit had a good grasp of this point, and those shells only fell on the enemy's position as if they had eyes, but not a single shot hit Xujia Village.

Later, Zhang Chi learned that the reason why the artillery had such a high accuracy was because Stilwell specially sent two reconnaissance planes to guide the artillery over Xujia Village.

On the other hand, the Japanese army had long been exhausted by the previous attack for more than a month, and their morale was severely damaged when the supplies could not keep up.

But the Japanese army is the Japanese army, and even under such difficult conditions, they still organized a resistance.

When a battalion of Chinese reinforcements attacked Xujia Village under the cover of tanks, it was beyond the imagination of Stilwell and all the Americans...... Where it seemed impossible to see a living person, Japanese soldiers jumped out one by one, carrying explosive packs and cluster grenades, and rushed towards the tanks.

However, this was expected by the Chinese soldiers, who fired bullets from their rifles and smashed the Japanese into a sieve before they could get close to the tanks.

The words of the survivors of the Japanese army in this battle after the war can vividly illustrate the mentality of these Japanese soldiers: "Those actions that are considered very brave are actually many people who want to end their lives early because they have no hope of survival!" (To be continued.) )