One characteristic of Genghis Khan's battle is cruelty, and he is cruel to his subordinates to his cruelty. It is common for slaughtering villages and cities to massacre. In order to win a city, he unilaterally emphasizes courage and will regardless of the casualties of his subordinates.

Of course, it is often very useful to emphasize courage and will in the era of cold weapons. The reason is that the weapons and equipment in the era of cold weapons are not very powerful, and the enemy and us have to fight face to face, which makes soldiers need greater courage to face it.

The courage, murderous aura and cruelty of the Mongolian cavalry are almost unimaginable to ordinary people. Therefore, even if the pampered Song Bing is superior to the Mongolian army, he will be beaten to the point of losing his armor and losing his armor on the battlefield.

In this regard, the war of hot weapons is much better, and as individual soldiers become more advanced, the importance of courage and will is gradually decreasing.

As for Mudaguchi Ryokan, he saw that the Japanese army had the same characteristics as Mongolian cavalry: cruel, barbaric, well-trained, and a kind of Bushido spirit similar to the spirit of the Mongolian military. At this time, China also had the shadow of the Song Dynasty: corruption, cowardice, disunitedness, etc., so Mudaguchi Ryokan naively believed that as long as he fought like the Mongols, he could easily conquer China.

In fact, his tactics have been proven to be successful again and again on the battlefield, so he became more convinced that this tactic of emphasizing spiritual will is feasible without regard for casualties.

He once gave the soldier this remark: "If there is no bullet, are there still bayonets? If there is no bayonet, there is still fists! If there is no fists, you can kick them with your feet. Even if there is nothing, can you still bite them with your teeth?"

Therefore, his subordinates also gave him a nickname, "Ghost Husband Mutaguchi"... Even the brutal Japanese army and Mutaguchi's subordinates called him "Ghost Husband", you can imagine how paranoid this guy was.

Unfortunately, Japan was not Mongolia at that time, and China at that time was not the Song Dynasty at that time, and the hot weapons war was not the cold weapons war... This was finally proved by the disastrous defeat of the 18th Division in the Battle of Impal.

At this time, the one who commanded the Japanese army to fight against Myitkyina was Mutaguchi Ryoya, who was called "the ghost animal Mutaguchi". His 18th Corps under him had not fought many battles after being put into the Myanmar battlefield. They had only had a few short confrontations with the Fifth Army in Pingmanna, and since then they followed other Japanese troops as reserves.

From this point of view, the Japanese army seemed to have not yet exerted all its strength on the battlefield in Myanmar... There was a whole division and the elite division was not used.

But now he has finally arrived at the place where he works.

After Mudaguchi Ryokawa also took over the command, he looked at the terrain on the map for a while. Then he made the same judgment as Masazo of the Riverside: "Because the Chinese army has not yet established a firm foothold, it will be defeated, and the main attack direction is the east side of the Inowaddy River! The faster the attack, the better, and the Chinese cannot give a chance to breathe and rest!"

So the sound of cannons quickly rang out on the line of Myitkyina.

At this time, the Engineer Corps was resting in Myitkyina... Perhaps Du Yuming was grateful to the Engineer Corps for taking Myitkyina and saving the entire expeditionary army, so he did not send the Engineer Corps to the front line.

Of course, this is understandable. Because the Engineer Regiment is not the main combat unit.

But in fact, Zhang Chi felt that the Engineer Regiment was the one who should be sent to the battlefield at this time.

Of course, this is not because the Engineer Regiment has many tanks or armored vehicles. Although this is one of the reasons, it is more important because of... ammunition!

There was no problem with Du Yuming's deployment of troops, but the problem was that the inconsistent equipment of the national army was also incompatible with the arms of Myitkyina.

Speaking of the equipment of the national army, it is really a headache. For example, although all the troops located in Myitkyina are Chinese troops, the Fifth Army is the Soviet-Armed Army. The main combat units use Soviet-style equipment, while the non-main combat units use Hanyang. Then the new 38th Division is the German-Armed Division, and the Engineer Regiment has American and British-Armed Equipment.

So the Chinese army in Myitkyina had only more than 40,000 people. However, the equipment used included Soviet, German, Chinese, British and American, which almost all the weapons and equipment of major countries were concentrated together.

Needless to say, this can easily cause chaos. The most important thing is that the arms seized in Myitkyina are all British and American, among which the rifle ammunition is British. In other words, the ammunition of other equipment is less than one round, and there is no replenishment, with only the ammunition of British rifles.

This is why Zhang Chi believes that the engineering regiment should go to the battlefield more... The main forces are Sujia, German, and Sino-Air. Until now, they have few ammunition in their hands. Among them, the defense line of the New 22nd Division is still separated from Myitkyina by a river, which is easy to cause problems.

Therefore, the correct way should be: First, the Engineer Regiment, a unit equipped with British rifles, is stationed in one direction. The time and space for the main force to be replaced with British equipment... The large number of arms left by the British army can equip the three divisions of the main force.

There will be no big problem when the main force changes the clothes in batches and get familiar with them for a while before going to the battlefield.

But now...

Zhang Chi frowned when he heard the sound of cannons on the east bank of the Inowitis River especially fierce. It was obvious that the Japanese army also discovered the weakness of the Myitkyina defense line and grasped this weakness tightly and launched a targeted attack.

Zhang Chi still admires the Japanese army for this.

Their attack on the front battlefield seemed to be very stupid, except for charge or charge. Charge completely regardless of casualties. But in fact, they did a good job in some details. For example, in intelligence work, the Japanese army is likely to know that the Chinese army is chaotic and has no time to change gears in a short period of time, and even some troops are reluctant to change gears... There are many reasons why they are reluctant to change gears, such as the old rifle is used to using new rifles, and they are uneasy to bring new rifles to the battlefield, and they are reluctant to throw away the rifle before they finish shooting, etc.

But it is precisely because of this that a crisis in the Myitkyina defense line was caused.

Sure enough, the whole Myitkyina became nervous after a while.

Because the roar of Japanese planes soon came from the sky, and then bombs fell down with whistling sounds...

The Japanese army was very smart, even smarter than imagined. Their planes first bombed not the Myitkyina defense line, but the Myitkyina port and ships.
Chapter completed!