The first battalion under the command of Guan Junce knocked down the First Regiment of the Japanese Mountain Infantry with more than 300 casualties. Captain Nitta Lianshan of the First Regiment of the Japanese Mountain Infantry sat on a piece of bluestone with a pale face.

, it was clear that victory had been achieved, but the sudden appearance of the Chinese expedition

The army pushed back his troops. Although he finally gritted his teeth and asked for artillery support, the troops behind him and a company of the Chinese counterattack troops were all shrouded in artillery fire. However, the British counterattack fire came very quickly, and the entire attacking hillside was covered by artillery fire.

The explosion was full of craters, and there were abandoned corpses of Japanese soldiers everywhere.

Guan Junce, who was holding his position, immediately ordered the reinforcement of the position, and began to shoot condescendingly at the adjacent positions on the left and right with the M2 heavy machine gun. The sound of the 0.50-inch caliber heavy machine gun burst was like a drum, making a dull thumping sound, and he was hit.

The Japanese soldiers were like amputees

, the inferior fortifications built by the British and Indian troops could not withstand the armor-piercing bullets fired by the M2 heavy machine guns. The Japanese army, which suffered heavy casualties, carried out several rounds of shelling on Highland 303. The shelling was fruitless, and under the counterattack of the British and Indian troops,

The Japanese troops were forced to retreat from their flank positions.

The Chinese Expeditionary Force showed off its sword at Imphal and demonstrated the majesty and morale of the Chinese soldiers in the first battle. In the past, the casualties suffered by the British and Indian troops on defense were greater than the casualties on the attacking side of the Japanese army. And this was even when the British army's firepower exceeded that of the Japanese army.

The Japanese army had always taken the initiative in the Battle of Pal, but in this battle for Highland 303, the First Battalion of the Chinese Expeditionary Force’s Heroic Regiment lost three soldiers.

Hundreds of officers and soldiers, but the Japanese Mountain Infantry First Regiment fell to more than 1,500 people. Such heavy casualties made the Japanese furious. However, Abe Norihide's Mountain Infantry Army had already surpassed the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

The experience of fighting, especially for the 1st Mountain Infantry Regiment, the main force of the battle, the commander of the regiment, Nitta Renzan, looked at Highland 303 with tears in his eyes.

Regarding the main force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force approaching from the side and rear, Yamashita Fengfumi optimistically estimated that he still had at least a week to defeat the British. After turning around to deploy defenses, the biggest problem facing the Chinese Expeditionary Force after crossing the Chindwin River was how to maintain the 20-plus

The logistics supply problem of Wan Dajun was also what he was most worried about before, so Yamashita Fengwen

Issue a general attack order to the troops on the front line besieging Imphal. On the one hand, they are preparing to invest three divisions including the reserve force to block the Chinese Expeditionary Force. Under the narrow terrain restrictions, the strength advantage of the Chinese Expeditionary Force will be limited to a certain extent.

, but the firepower advantage of the Chinese Expeditionary Force can be fully utilized, which makes Yamashita Fengfumi very helpless.

When the Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, the firepower of a Japanese Army regiment was equal to the firepower projection density of a Chinese Army Corps. Often an infantry regiment could defeat two or three Chinese Army divisions. At that time, the Chinese Army could easily lift

They surrendered, and their army was like a pile of sand. However, some fools used various excuses to reduce the burden. The mass slaughter made the Chinese soldiers increasingly unwilling to surrender.

The Chinese were not intimidated by the massacres. They learned to fight in the war. Now the Imperial Japanese Army is no longer in glory, especially the Chinese Expeditionary Force armed with American weapons. This is a rare and extremely powerful force in modern China.

With a powerful military, as the largest arsenal in the world, weapons produced by Americans are undoubtedly the best choice. Just thinking about the supply of American weapons to Chinese soldiers makes Yamashita Fengfumi break into a cold sweat.

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Since the war started, the United States has entered a wartime system, and its huge power has begun to be revealed. It took Japan more than a hundred years to build a huge combined fleet, but the Americans were able to build so many in just one year.

warships. The industrial strength of the United States is really terrible. They are only equipped with American weapons.

The Chinese Expeditionary Force with weapons gave him a headache. What if the Americans armed all the Chinese troops? I am afraid that all the existing North China, Manchuria, and even North Korea would be lost. Yamashita Fengfumi was very strange. Could it be that the headquarters and the staff headquarters

Don't those idiots see the stakes?

The five divisions of the Japanese army that besieged the Imphal Plateau and Abe Kihide's mountain army were exhausted from long battles. The British received supplies of airdropped materials and soldiers every day. They said they surrounded the British, but in fact they had been

The Japanese are also constantly consuming. Obtaining supplies from the Bay of Bengal port is undoubtedly a very dangerous thing for the Japanese to transport by car during the day.

Chennault's aerial hooligans would not mind strafing and dropping bombs on any Japanese vehicles or even individual soldiers they saw. The Japanese had never done such a luxury. Chennault could use all US aid supplies, including British ones.

The Royal Air Force in India had suffered very few battle losses, so Chennault became a nouveau riche. Never before had all kinds of supplies been so abundant.

Someone once joked with him that if these supplies were exchanged for silver coins, they would be enough to kill all the little Japanese. However, the vitality of the Japanese was as tenacious as that of cockroaches, so Chennault prepared a large number of napalm bombs for the Japanese army.

Nalotin is the latest product of the US military industry. It can be said that the Japanese are much luckier than the Germans. The US

They can be the first to enjoy the latest weapons and bombs. It was the crisis in Imphal that made the Americans add the 20th Air Force commanded by Major General Anderson from the mainland. Chennault unified the command of the 10th Air Force and

Twentieth Air Force, it can be said that this made possible combat plans that many of Chennault's previous ideas had not been able to realize.

However, the Japanese army still maintained air superiority on the Chinese battlefield. The counterattack forces fought fierce and fierce battles at three key points: Nanchang, Yibin, and Wuhan. The Chinese soldiers who relied on human sea tactics to carry out the offensive also paid a heavy price. They first used miscellaneous troops to consume the Japanese army.

This was Chiang Kai-shek's most typical tactic, and then focused on using his ace troops to deal a head-on blow to the Japanese army.

As a defensive side, the Japanese have to admit that on the Chinese battlefield, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese ace army, which has partially replaced its equipment and weapons, has made their defense feel weak. If the United States continues to supply the Chinese army with weapons and ammunition, it will help the Chinese to establish

If our own military-industrial system were to strengthen our own military-industrial system, the so-called advantages of the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield would suddenly disappear.

The operation in the Imphal direction was to completely cut off India's road to Myanmar, China's last international communication line, and completely strangle China's international aid routes. However, the scale of this operation exceeded the expectations of the Japanese wartime base camp.
Chapter completed!