Once the battle is at a stalemate, it is easy to get into a stalemate like trench warfare...... Neither side can help the other, the position is in your hands at this time, and the next second is in the hands of the other side, and there is no major change in the movement of the battle line between the two armies, what has changed is that the lives of the soldiers on both sides of the enemy and us disappear one by one, which is actually the addition and subtraction of numbers.

The first to be put into the attack on Bamo was Liao Yaoxiang's new 22nd Division.

There is a saying that "what kind of general there is, what kind of soldier there is", and there is some truth in this sentence.

This is not to say that the character of a general will affect and infect the soldiers, but that each general has his own style, which will affect the middle and lower officers and even the soldiers of the army in a long-term battle, so that the soldiers are familiar with the command of the general, and when facing a certain situation on the battlefield, they will naturally adopt the same or coordinated tactics as the general.

The expeditionary force was no exception.

The commander of the new 38th Division was Sun Liren, who graduated from the US Military Academy, so he was very determined to adopt American-style tactics, and most of the battles were carried out with artillery to bombard forward, and if he could not be recruited, he would try not to use the army.

Of course, Sun Liren's tactics are much more flexible than the American tactics used by the vast majority of American officers, because he also mixes some Chinese tactics, such as interspersed encirclement.

The disadvantage of Sun Liren's style of play is that the offensive speed is very slow, which is the origin of his nickname "slowly". The advantage of his troops was that the casualties of the troops under his command were very small, which earned him the reputation of "the father of small soldiers".

The commander of the new 22nd Division was Liao Yaoxiang, who graduated from the French Military Academy.

It should be said that the French military doctrine is biased towards passive defense, and they have always believed that defense is the best tactic...... This theory is supposed to have been derived from the trench warfare of the First World War, when the trench warfare developed into a state where no one could help the other, and the two sides only consumed each other's forces in the trenches, so this gave the French a misunderstanding. Thinking that future wars would not be able to escape this state of affairs, he then came to the conclusion that whoever had better and stronger fortifications would win the final victory.

Under such a military theory, the Maginot Line, which was later rumored to be a joke, was born.

So some things are actually not as simple as we modern people think. For example, we can easily take the Maginot Line as a joke in modern times, but that is on the basis of knowing or understanding modern military theories, if we are in a period after World War I when there is a lot of actual combat experience and experience in trench warfare. I'm afraid that more will still agree with the military doctrine of the French...... The French are not fools, they will analyze and study, but in the end they have formed such a line of defense with the intelligence of all French people.

Although Liao Yaoxiang was born in a French military academy, his fighting style is completely devoid of the passive defense of France.

On the contrary, Liao Yaoxiang fought very resolutely on the battlefield, he was more bold and interspersed on the battlefield, even if the defense was active defense, for example, he pioneered the drum defense in the Sva River blocking battle, Du Yuming admired this tactic very much. So this defensive tactic was also used in the face of the PLA on the domestic battlefield...... It's just that this kind of defensive tactics can't play a role in the face of the PLA: the Kuomintang has rolled back with three lines of defense, and the PLA has also formed three groups of people to fight forward alternately.

After that, the People's Liberation Army used the same tactics on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, but it was very effective in blocking the US military with strong firepower from the defense line.

It can also be seen that the same tactic is used in different armies against different enemies. Different or even opposite effects tend to occur.

At this time, Liao Yaoxiang, who received the order to attack, did not move immediately, he observed the terrain of Xia Ba Mo and the strength of the Japanese army on the map. He even personally inspected the Japanese fortifications on the battlefield, and he came to the conclusion that it was difficult for Bamo to take it down, and he should be prepared to attack it for a long time.

So he immediately sent a telegram to Patno, asking him to divide a regiment to go around the rear of Ba Mo and cut off the road from Lashio to Ba Mo.

This idea is of course correct, cutting off the road means cutting off the supply and reinforcements of the Japanese army, so that a large-scale encirclement of Ba Mo can be formed.

However, this suggestion was quickly rejected by Bertno.

"We don't have time to waste time!" Patno called back: "What you need is offense. Attack, attack again, as long as you concentrate all your forces to attack, Ba Mo will soon be destroyed by our army's aircraft artillery, and at this time their reinforcements are most likely still on the way! ”

Apparently. This is overestimating the power of American-style equipment and underestimating the resistance of the Japanese army.

It can even be said that Patno, who was born as chief of staff, was not a qualified commander, because he did not even have basic strategic priorities...... The offensive should also have the focus of the offensive, should it be mainly to destroy the enemy's living forces or to occupy positions and compress the enemy's living space?

He didn't know that as long as the Chinese army was willing to attack, the dilapidated houses of Ba Mo would soon crumble under the American equipment, and even the enemy would be blown up to the ground.

In desperation, Liao Yaoxiang could only obey the order to attack Bamo, and his tactics could only use the American-style fire tactics...... First, the aircraft artillery was indiscriminately bombarded against the Japanese lines, and then the infantry charged under the cover of fire.

The Japanese army had long been prepared for this tactic, and they initially arranged not many troops in the trenches, and most of them were hidden in the anti-artillery holes of the second line, so the indiscriminate bombardment of the Chinese and American coalition forces with planes and artillery looked huge, but in fact, it did not kill a few people.

As soon as the artillery bombardment passed, the Japanese army replenished the front line from the anti-artillery holes and quickly organized a defense, which just stopped the charge of the Chinese army.

Even the Japanese came up with a more cunning tactic...... They left dark passages on both flanks of the defensive line, and then deliberately ceded the defensive line and positions to the Chinese army, and when the Chinese army occupied the enemy position and organized the next attack, the Japanese suddenly appeared on both flanks, and then the Japanese army in front also launched a counter-charge.

The Japanese called this tactic "secret channel tactics", and it was clear that the purpose of this tactic was to kill and injure the living forces of the Chinese army.

This tactic was indeed very useful, and the Chinese army, which had suffered several secret losses, sometimes did not dare to easily occupy the enemy's position even after repelling the Japanese army, which made the Chinese army's attack on Ba Mo only advance more than ten meters a day. (To be continued.) )