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Chapter 46 Tangji Sniper

+|An anti-fascist war was fought abroad. This battle ended with the failure of the allies, and the expeditionary forces suffered heavy losses.

Now, revisiting history and conducting careful analysis can learn from lessons, learn from experience, and prevent similar events from happening again.

At that time, China sent troops to Myanmar mainly based on China's own strategic interests. China's most important interest in Myanmar is to defend the Yangon estuary in southern Myanmar to maintain a relatively convenient transportation line for importing overseas materials.

However, when Yangon and Southeast Asia fell in the fall of Myanmar, this goal was no longer possible. Without the UK showing its determination to stick to Myanmar, China certainly was unwilling to marry Britain and assumed the obligation to defend all Myanmar.

Chiang Kai-shek's original intention was to concentrate the expeditionary forces in the Mandalay region. There are several favorable factors here. Mandalay strangles the throat of northern Myanmar and is a barrier to the vast area of ​​northern Myanmar. At the same time, it is also a hub for the railway transportation of China from north Myanmar to westward to India. It has a very important strategic position. Defending Mandalay can not only make the northern Myanmar region serve as a buffer for China's southwest region, keep the southwest region from direct threats from the Japanese army, but also protect China's foreign channel from Myanmar to India and maintain an indirect way to obtain foreign aid, which is in line with China's strategic interests. In other words, when Yangon falls, defending Mandalay is the greatest interest goal of China's war in Myanmar.

However, Stilwell's idea was very different from Chiang Kai-shek from the beginning. Stilwell was ambitious about his trip to China. He did not limit his position in China to Chiang Kai-shek's position as chief of staff from the beginning. Commanding the army to make achievements was Stilwell's goal. At that time, he did not have a comprehensive understanding of the quality, characteristics, and combat effectiveness of the Chinese and Japanese armies. In the absence of background knowledge, according to his personality of "the ability to make the most rigid conclusions at the fastest speed", the offensive battle was obviously more in line with his choice.

It is precisely from the above reasons that Stilwell disagreed with Chiang Kai-shek's comprehensive investigations on various parties in China to combat the local Myanmar. At the same time, he raised the issue of Sino-British coordination between Chiang, Myanmar terrain, rear contact, and the Fifth Column, etc., and did not pay attention to the difficulties in fighting in Myanmar. When he was ordered to be responsible for the command of the front line of Myanmar and took office, he completely put Chiang's plan behind him. Since then, until the failure of the Battle of Myanmar, Stilwell actually insisted on an offensive strategy that was completely opposite to Chiang's thinking. The series of problems arose in the Chinese Expeditionary Force are closely related to Stilwell's strategic thinking.

Therefore, compared with the Japanese strategic precision plan, the Chinese Expeditionary Force obviously lacked foresight, neither had an overall combat idea, nor was it wary enough about the large-scale roundabout operations that the Japanese army might launch.

The commander of the 56th Japanese division rushed in and successively seized Hebang, Tangji and other important places, making the gate of Larong open. This shocked Stilwell and Luo Zhuoying and immediately decided to transfer 200 to attack Tangji eastward. After Commander Dai received the order, he sent a cavalry regiment and a 598-attached armored vehicle company to set out first, occupying the important place in Tangji's west, to cover the main force of the guardian division, and to siege Tangji's enemy at dawn on the third day.

At this time, the Rangers led by Wu Ming traveled along the river and finally arrived near the Heihe River. Under the guidance of the Kunming Military Control Commission Radio, Yunnan, they established contact with 200, but they didn't have time to rest. They went straight to Tangji, and Wu Ming led the Rangers snipers to participate in the Tangji battle.

The war in Tangji was extremely fierce. 200 officers and soldiers and the Fifth Army directly under the direct team rushed hard despite the long-distance hard work and captured the Japanese army's warning position on the west side of Tangji, forming a situation of encirclement of Tangji in the north and south, attacking Tangji in the east and west. At dawn the next day, they siege Tangji's enemy. After a fierce battle for one day and one night, they broke into the city and launched a bloody street battle with the Japanese army.

In front of the last Japanese stronghold, the command center, the bombed armored vehicles were still burning. The thick walls collapsed to the ground, and the ground was covered with pits and depressions with blue smoke. Hundreds of corpses from both sides were lying on the ground in a row.

Wu Ming took the kettle and drank half of it. The remaining half was poured on his head. The cool feeling cheered up his tired spirit.

The city was filled with ruins and rubble, and unextinguished fires were burning everywhere. The few people around Wu Ming were so tired that they sat and lie on the ground.

"It's dawn, I can see more clearly. This will be the last attack." Wu Ming was pressing bullets into the gun while boosting morale. "Go harder and try to find the position. The key is that the Japanese commanders and machine gun shooters are all watching me closely and helping the 200 brothers eliminate the last batch of Japanese devils."

Half an hour later, the east was exposed to the white belly. The 200 officers and soldiers launched the final blow on the Japanese army, "Boom, Boom, Boom..." Various types of artillery bombarded violently at the Japanese positions, and then they shouted and quickly surrounded them.

With a gunshot, a Japanese man who was gritting his teeth and manipulating a machine gun was lifted off his skull, and his head fell down with a red and white dirt, and the machine gun spitting out the tongue of flames was paused.

Wu Ming quickly pushed the bullet and stared at the heavy machine gun that devoured life. Another Japanese man had just taken the handle of the heavy machine gun, and he was coldly shot the head.

As time passed, more and more middle commanders and machine gun operators on the Japanese positions were killed and injured by snipers such as Wu Ming, and the Japanese defense line became loose and chaotic. The soldiers of the Kuomintang took advantage of the momentum and rushed into the frontier positions of the Japanese army and began a close-knit fight. The fire of the grenade explosion was dazzling and gorgeous.

Wu Ming suddenly captured a Japanese commander on the front line in the scope. He actually got up, waved his command knife, howled, and organized the Japanese devils to charge back.

Wu Ming quickly put the Japanese into the scope and gently pulled the board. In the scope, a bloody flower appeared in the chest of the Japanese commander. He immediately stopped roaring with his hands and feet, looked down, and fell to the ground dejectedly.

The death of this commander made the anti-charge Japanese riots chaotic, and the soldiers of the Kuomintang kept rushing over, stabilizing their positions, and fired together with light and heavy firepower, continuing to attack in depth. A man's resistance to Japan is not ashamed of the world's Ying, and his spirit is Zi Nisheng Chapter 46 Tang Ji's sniper attack
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