The second plan was to use the aviation force to open up a breakout path for the 6th Cavalry Division. This plan was only joined by Bai Liusu at MacArthur's insistence to calm the trouble. What MacArthur didn't know was that from the beginning, Bai Liusu I never thought about the need to launch this plan. In other words, Bai Liusu was confident that he would win this battle. The source of Bai Liusu's confidence had something to do with the students who had joined the former Osaka Fourth Division. It is precisely because their existence can provide her with first-hand information that she can know herself and the enemy from the beginning, so she does not worry about losing the battle at all.
Bigla seems to be far away from the battlefield of Grass, and it seems to have nothing to do with the Battle of Grass. In fact, because Koizumi ambushed about 100,000 Japanese troops in the area east of Bigla, this place actually became the decisive point of the Battle of Grass. From Bai Liusu's point of view, the reason why she assigned the 6th Cavalry Division to outflank and the 3rd Cavalry Division to defend Bigela was not because she wanted the Americans to be used as cannon fodder. In fact, she was He made this choice because he did not trust the 6th Cavalry Division. The reason why Koizumi dared to take the initiative to attack and provoke the Battle of Grasse was that the 100,000 elite Japanese troops lurking in the area east of Bigla were his greatest reliance.
The complex terrain of the Bigela area is very suitable for hiding troops. Not to mention Koizumi hiding 100,000 people here, it is not a problem to hide an additional 100,000 or 200,000 people. Once the Battle of Grass reaches a stalemate, lurking in Bigela If the Japanese army to the west can carry out a surprise attack, then the Battle of Grasse may really become the Waterloo of the Allied Australian battlefield.
The 100,000 Japanese troops lurking in the area east of Bigola were a secret that Koizumi had planted long ago. Let alone MacArthur, there was no way to know this information. Even among the top brass of the Japanese army, there were very few people who knew about it. Koizumi was in the Philippines during the Battle of the Philippines After suffering a defeat, he understood the importance of intelligence confidentiality and began to strengthen efforts in this area. However, he never imagined that as early as two and a half years ago, the Xuebing Army had penetrated into the Osaka Fourth Division. And because of his appreciation, some of them even became division and brigade-level military officers.
On the tenth day of the Battle of Grasse, the 6th U.S. Cavalry Division finally could no longer hold on. At this most critical moment, Bai Liusu dispatched a helicopter unit directly under the Marine Corps Command of the Expeditionary Force, using about 300 helicopters in one fell swoop. Smashed the Japanese and South Asian Co-Prosperity Army's offensive against the 6th Cavalry Division,
This is not the first time that helicopters have appeared on the battlefield of World War II. However, for some unknown reason, neither the Allies nor the Allied Powers, not even Japan, which had suffered heavy losses from helicopters, paid enough attention to this new type of fighter aircraft. This also gives the helicopter a chance to make a splash.
As the commander of the 6th Cavalry Division, Dane witnessed the sharpness of this new weapon with his own eyes. The American uncle was completely shocked: "... wherever the helicopter passed, the Japanese soldiers rolled over and chaos immediately broke out. As for the so-called The South Asian Co-Prosperity Army, due to the lack of armored troops, was unable to fight back under the attack of helicopters... I thought I would definitely go to heaven this time, but unexpectedly, in just over two hours, the Japanese army was completely The army was defeated." This is what Dane said in his report to MacArthur after the war,
The top brass of the U.S. military are no strangers to helicopters, but they don’t take them too seriously. At this time, Americans are only thinking about Golden Eagles, Thunder missiles, and surface-to-surface missiles. They simply don’t like this kind of limited range and speed. It was a new fighter aircraft with limited capacity, limited bomb load, and seemingly limited effects. After the Battle of Grasse, the Americans finally woke up. So, not long after, Roosevelt personally powered Ouyang Yun and sincerely requested China to provide relevant technology. ,
This is a story later. Returning to the Grasse battlefield, the appearance of the Chinese Expeditionary Force helicopter unit not only immediately saved the US Sixth Cavalry Division from destruction, but also forced Koizumi Toshiichiro to use his trump card.
When more than 100,000 Japanese troops appeared in the area east of Bila, the Americans collectively made a mistake. Only then did they understand Bai Liusu's real intention of sending the Third Chinese Expeditionary Division to Bila. It turned out that the Chinese women The general did not want to preserve his strength. It turned out that the female general in China had already anticipated this Japanese backhand.
Biggra became the new center of struggle. At first, the Americans led by Dane did not take it seriously. It was already recognized around the world that the combat power of the cadet army was stronger than that of the US military. Then, the 6th US Cavalry Division could withstand a hundred thousand soldiers with one against ten. Under the siege of the Japanese Army and the South Asia Co-Prosperity Army, the Third Chinese Expeditionary Division should of course be able to withstand the attack of 100,000 Japanese troops. I don’t know what their psychology is. Here, the Americans equate the Japanese Army with the South Asia Co-Prosperity Army, and Never mentioned that the helicopter unit directly under the Marine Corps Command of the Chinese Expeditionary Force provided support to the 6th Cavalry Division.
"Hell." "Meat grinder." "Is there any more brutal battle than this?"...The above are the evaluations of the "Battle of Haiti" by American and British war correspondents. "Haiti" is exactly what it said. The name of the town where the 6th U.S. Cavalry Division resisted the siege of the Japanese and South Asian Communist Army was considered the highest level of evaluation in terms of media language.
"Is there any battle more tragic than this?" The American war correspondent Busser used this sentence as the title to report on the "Battle of Haiti". Busser thought hard about this title for a day and night. For this reason, he was complacent for a long time, thinking that there was no better idea than this in war reporting. However, when he arrived at the Biggra battlefield three days after the Battle of Grass, he was faced with numerous , the corpses of Chinese and Japanese officers and soldiers were intertwined, and he realized that there was such a cruel war in the world, and that there was really a more tragic battle than the Battle of Haiti.
"Human language is no longer enough to describe the tragedy of the Battle of Bigla." This is the title that Busser came up with for reporting on the Battle of Bigla after thinking hard for three days and nights again. This time, after coming up with this After answering the question, he did not mean to be complacent at all, but looked towards the east with a very solemn expression, and Biggra was in that direction.
How tragic was the Battle of Biggra? In the Battle of Mongolia, the casualty rate of the 6th US Cavalry Division was 40%, and the casualty rate of the Japanese army and the South Asian Co-Prosperity Army was 20%. In other words, The 6th Cavalry Division suffered a total of about 4,000 casualties in this battle, and the result they gained was killing and wounding nearly 20,000 Japanese and South Asian Communist Army troops. This also included the number of enemies annihilated by Chinese helicopter units. As for the battle, post-war statistics showed that the Third Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force suffered 8,225 casualties and 109 others were missing, while more than 38,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded by them. You know, from beginning to end, the Third Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force has been fighting alone without any support.