A kilometer away, Funayue turned his head to see a huge cloud of smoke rising, and he knew that he didn't have to make up his mind, and the artillery position was being held by the opponent. He didn't expect the enemy to cooperate in the open field to such an extent. What he has to do now is to quickly send out signal corps and tell all troops to evacuate quickly, so that every afternoon in this area, there will be heavy rain, so that there will be less chance of air diffusion, as long as you avoid the lower ground. What is hateful is that yesterday, in order to show their determination to break the boat, the horses of the communications corps were slaughtered together, and at this time some units without radio stations could not be notified (most of the brigades threw away radio stations)

The lieutenant general hurriedly began to deploy, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that things had changed. His experience was that the Chinese soldiers were illiterate, and the British and American soldiers were foolish, so when they cooperated together, they exposed their respective weaknesses, and in comparison, only the Japanese soldiers were invincible in the world. But now, his troops, with the cooperation of the Allied open space, appeared weak and ineffective.

There was no other way out, he ordered the forward troops to launch a fierce attack during the day, he had already tried the density of the enemy's fire, and he did not want to use this trick until the mountains and rivers were exhausted. But today there are no more war horses to eat, and we must rush out of a way to survive.

Before it got dark, the hungry troops began to enter the positions step by step. In front of them was an open field of about 200-300 meters, and the enemy arrived ahead of time and burned a large number of bushes, creating such a cemetery that was destined to kill many people. Fortunately, in the middle of the open area, it was a mess bombed by US military planes, and there were some bunkers to borrow. According to yesterday's statistics, the enemy in front has deployed about 40 to 50 light and heavy machine guns, half of which are on the commanding heights, which is simply a slaughterhouse made in heaven, and the enemy tanks that he is most worried about have not yet appeared.

The division commander organized his troops into a number of shock groups and designated different offensive routes, of course, not simply relying on bayonets to solve the problem, but hoped that each unit would occupy cover and advantageous features on the route in the course of the charge, and then deploy light machine guns and grenadiers. Suppress the enemy. He secretly planned to gnaw at this line of defense with three to one casualties.

At the moment the grenadier is his only effective firepower, but the range is insufficient, and it is necessary to advance 150 meters to reach the range. And the light machine gun must also be at a distance of 200 meters to have a better accuracy. From the analysis of the lessons learned last night, the enemy has sufficient ammunition and can sweep as far as possible, and the Japanese army has few bullets and cannot fight indiscriminately like that, so the effect of night fire support is not good. So Funakoshi was determined to attack during the day today, but of course there was another last resort, because with each passing hour, his soldiers became weaker and weaker. In fact, even if there were no Chinese troops to stop them, it would be questionable whether they would be able to cross the mountains and mountains all the way to the Japanese-occupied area of Rakhine.

He shook hands with the commanders at the grassroots level who were preparing to attack, and encouraged them to repay the emperor with their deaths, and the time had come for the enemy to show the bravery of the Japanese soldiers. Speaking of emotion, everyone was a little teary-eyed and misty, and they were having mixed feelings, but they smelled something wrong, as if it was the smell of Chinese pickles boiled in the US military's luncheon meat.

One of the effects of hunger is to increase the sensitivity of the person's sense of smell to food, and he can even smell the food slightly burnt, but it is still very fragrant. He couldn't help but look over the Chinese line and saw smoke filling the air, as if he was cooking. At this time, the wind was blowing to the north, just on the side of the hungry Japanese.

He Bisheng was a little careless, he thought that the Japanese would attack at night, and he was going to eat before dark, so that he could wait for a fight. There are no ingredients here, just some rice, sausages, luncheon meat, beans, pickles, and biscuits thrown by American planes, all of which are boiled in a pot. Since I didn't bring a cook, I mixed in the biscuits when I cooked the rice, which was actually a hodgepodge that made people lose their appetite when they looked at it. However, the smell was still very lethal to the Japanese army.

The Japanese troops who were preparing to attack couldn't help but have stomach cramps when they saw such a scene, but it also made their spirits more uplifted, and serving the emperor was actually a relatively distant thing, but if they rushed to the field kitchen behind the opponent's defense line, they could obviously grab a hot meal to eat, which was a top priority.

The vultures, who had been pecking at the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in the wilderness, suddenly noticed something and began to look around, and the Chinese soldiers who were lining up for dinner noticed that the greedy birds suddenly all took off and left. Experienced soldiers put down their rice bowls and buckled up their steel helmets. Suddenly, there was a scream, it was enemy artillery fire. The soldiers began to scatter and hide.

The enemy fire that came over was not fierce, and the mortars fired less than 20 rounds sporadically before they stopped. Then a spectacular scene ensued, as thousands of Japanese soldiers rushed out of the woods with shouts. The commander of each squad rushed to the front brandishing his saber. On the front, the Chinese troops immediately raised the alarm and all threw themselves into battle. The enemy dared to launch an attack during the day, obviously with the intention of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, and no one knew whether he could stop it.

When the Japanese rushed halfway through, all light and heavy fire was fired together. Countless bullets were spilled, and the enemy was knocked down in pieces. The riflemen began to shoot at the sabber-wielding officers.

The enemy, halfway through, having already lost quite a few personnel, began to look for old bunkers and set up machine guns and grenadiers, the 60 mm * of the Chinese army, constantly exploding in enemy formations, and due to the abundance of ammunition, these mortars fired rapidly at a rate of a dozen rounds per minute, and then quickly adjusted the firing range, continuing to fire at high speed. This is second only to machine guns as a weapon for high-speed killing.

Chu Tingchang has been anxiously waiting for the news from the front, he is a little worried about He Bisheng commanding such a scale of blocking battle, because about 500 people must be divided to guard the flank and rear, it is difficult to say whether the enemy will bypass, in the mountains, what kind of possibility exists. In addition, it was a part of the 49th Division that came from Burma to meet the attack, and the current location is unknown, which is also something he must worry about.

He didn't have any reserves at his disposal, and once the enemy broke through the defense line a little, it would mean the collapse of the entire defense line, and it also meant that the 2,000 men who had to win could be wiped out.

In fact, he has always had a battalion in Tingjiang to receive airborne training, which he took the initiative to ask for two months ago, but Stilwell has always wanted this unit to be independent and directly under the Allied command, that is, under the direct command of the Americans. However, why bother to occupy this place to block the attack, it is not ideal for airdrops, there are either forests or valleys nearby, and there is no place to airdrop.

He sent a telegram to Stilwell through his liaison officer to discuss the plan. Stilwell took it seriously and immediately set out to make a plan himself. He really regarded the unit as his own, and at the same time that the plan was formulated, US military planes began to airlift the unit from the distant Tingjiang River overnight to the Daka airfield to stand by.

On the battlefield, the Japanese army is still adoring. The US Air Force bombers had just taken off and were too late to arrive. He Bisheng panicked, drove his reserves, dozens of half-track vehicles, and used the 12.7mm machine guns on the vehicles to strafe the enemy troops. In the hands of Chinese soldiers, this is a powerful support weapon. But the Japanese responded by using grenadiers to fire at these weakly armored vehicles, quickly destroying several of them, causing them to burn in the passage where the Chinese troops moved.

The bravest of the Japanese troops had already rushed to a distance where they could overdraw*, and only then did they step on the Chinese army's burial*, and they did not rush to the front yesterday, not knowing at all that there was still a minefield. The stumps of the Japanese troops flew all over the sky, and many of them fell into the trenches of the Chinese army.

But the enemy went forward and followed, whether in the face of bullets or *, they never flinched, they occupied the front of the trench little by little, and then used the ground features and corpses to cover, the two sides were separated by more than ten or twenty meters to spread bombs and shoot, the automatic fire of the Chinese army had an advantage, but the enemy threw a large number of *, which caused great losses to the front-line commanders and machine gunners, He Bisheng quickly assigned 4 company commanders and 16 platoon commanders to make up for the casualties, this is not all losses, the loss of some squad platoon leaders, the forward troops replaced themselves.

Chu Tingchang heard He Bisheng scolding the US Air Force for not doing things well, why didn't he do it yet, he realized that the situation had reached a critical moment. But without the help of the 419 drone, he could not intuitively grasp the battlefield situation. So the liaison officer could only be pressured to take off more planes immediately. He also began to feel bottomless, did he bite too much and break his teeth? He immediately sent a report to Xu Chong, after all, there was such a person on the front line, and he had to find a solution.

According to Stilwell, the airdrop plan is not feasible for the time being, first, it cannot find an ideal airdrop site, and second, the number of planes is not enough. In addition to dealing with the supplies here, the US planes also had to fly over northern Myanmar to airdrop to the national troops in Songshan, which was really a bit overwhelming.

Funakoshi observed the front line with a telescope in the rear, and saw that his main wing was harvested by machine guns, losing more than half, and he estimated that in just 40 minutes, he had lost 1,000 men, not including the wounded who were lying in the field*, who were destined not to survive tomorrow. If there were a few cannons, why not, but heartache was heartache, and he still ordered a second attack at once, replenishing the two brigades into the meat grinder. Seeing that the enemy's position may break through, it should be filled with human lives, and it must be filled.

He Bisheng quickly transferred all the reserves to strengthen the weak areas, and did not care about the flanks and rear, but there were still some sections that were broken through by the Japanese army, and the two sides engaged in white-knuckle battles in the trenches. He was forced to change his deployment, in fact, he no longer had any reserves to mobilize, and there was only one company that he could not command, and he had to discuss with Chu Tingchang to transfer Xu Chong to plug the gap.

Xu Chong sent a report to Chu Tingchang, informing him that He Bisheng's tactics were problematic, and he would only fill in the weak points and compete with the enemy in firepower, so that sooner or later he would be overwhelmed by the number of Japanese troops. He had already observed that the Japanese firepower was specifically aimed at hitting the Chinese machine gun positions, and even if the main and auxiliary machine gunners were killed, they still kept firing, with the aim of breaking the machine guns. If He Bisheng pulls the tank over as a fixed turret, it will inevitably be consumed by the Japanese army little by little. The battle could not last until tomorrow morning.