The expeditionary army leaders such as Wei Lihuang and Song Xilian knew that if this continued, the entire western Yunnan would collapse in a full range.

Then, let alone crossing the border line, we will join the Burmese army stationed in India.

I am afraid that these troops who have already crossed the Nujiang River will re-enact the scene of the first expedition and be starved to death in western Yunnan.

And if you want to change this extremely unfavorable situation, there is only one way to go.

Take Songshan down!

Only by restoring the Nujiang Bridge across the Nujiang River and allowing the convoy to send supplies across the river along the Yunnan-Burma Highway can we save the western Yunnan Expeditionary Force in crisis.

Songshan, which was originally the key to the fight against the epidemic, has once again been upgraded to the lifeline of the western Yunnan Expeditionary Force.

If you take Songshan, you will be the student of the expeditionary army in western Yunnan!

If you can't take Songshan, the expeditionary army in western Yunnan will be destroyed!

At this critical moment of life and death, under the instructions of the Chongqing government, the commander of the Expeditionary Force in the West Yunnan fully established the current core of the Battle of Western Yunnan.

Even if the weather is not good, even if the heavy rain is hindered by traffic, even if the conditions are limited, the attack is difficult, even if the battle is bound to be too heavy, no matter how much it costs.

Songshan.

Must be taken down too!

On the afternoon of June 26th!

Wei Lihuang, the commander of the Expeditionary Force, was in charge and issued two emergency orders in a row.

The first step was to make two regiments of the Rongyi Division of the Eighth Army be prepared for the battle in Yu Chanda City and go to the battlefield immediately if necessary.

The second step was to let the commander of the 71st Army Zhong Bin personally lead the main force of the 84th Regiment of the New 28th Division and transfer to the main position of the Nujiang River Defense to supervise and command it personally.

No matter what method he uses, he must take down Songshan at all costs.

Seeing the two regiments of Rongyi Division in the city eager to move and the order to let him go to the front line to supervise the battle, Zhong Bin instantly understood the implicit meaning.

This is the opportunity someone gave him Zhong Bin and the last offensive opportunity.

If he cannot take down Songshan, then the task will be handed over to those who can do it, and he can only leave Songshan in shame.

As the commander of the army, Zhong Bin can also be said to be a person with a stance among the national army.

Thinking that if he couldn't take Songshan down, he would have to be replaced in a mess. The more he thought about it, the more he felt uncomfortable.

If you don’t compete for steamed buns, you will be a man at least.

Thinking of this, Zhong Bin also took the initiative and decided to give it a try in the end. No matter what the final outcome was, he still had to fight.

June 27th morning.

Zhong Bin led the command center to move to Henglan Mountain and personally took charge to start the deployment of the operation.

The 117th Regiment, the 71st Army's New 39th Division, the 82nd Regiment, the 83rd Regiment, the 71st Army's New 28th Division, etc. were ordered to attack the Japanese army in Songshan under the cover of the 71st Army's mountain artillery group.

This offensive plan highlights one word—

"bet"!

Instead of removing the outer sub-fortress groups one by one, they gathered all the troops of the three groups and directly attacked the main peak of Nantianmen from the Yinding Mountain direction.

This kind of stuart gambling style is the only "feasible solution" that Zhong Bin can think of.

If the main position of Matsuyama can be taken down, even if the remaining sub-fortresses are still controlled by the Japanese army, Takeuchi Lianshan will successfully hide in other sub-fortresses, and this battle will be destined to be recorded in history.

Because as long as the main position of Songshan is taken down, the Expeditionary Forces can start to repair the Nujiang Bridge.

Because the Japanese army lost the main position of the Nantianmen, they had no way to stop the expeditionary army from repairing the bridge, so they could only continue to hide in the mountains.

As long as the Nujiang Bridge can be successfully opened to traffic, the continuous supply of materials can be transported to the west bank of the Nujiang River and reorganize the decadent western Yunnan Expeditionary Force.

Zhong Bin's last wave of the battle, his idea of ​​junior high school is very beautiful.

But reality slapped hard.

The main peak of Songshan is the most solid and densely defended, and the mountain is steep and extremely inconvenient to walk. Even if three regiments are used to attack the main fort on the top of the mountain, it is impossible to hit the main fort on the top of the mountain during the military push.

Nowadays, there are continuous heavy rainstorms in western Yunnan, and all the soil on the surface of Songshan’s main peak has turned into mud.

People can't stand firmly on top, let alone rushing up against the Japanese gun line.

Under such extremely unfavorable conditions.

The 82nd Regiment had less than one battalion remaining, plus nearly 3,000 people from the 83rd Regiment and the 117th Regiment, and fought on the main peak of Songshan for two days. During the battle, it was exactly the same as the 82nd Regiment.

It is a hard-hitting method of rushing upwards without any chance and using his life to exchange for positions.

The result of the battle...

It was even worse than when the soldiers were pushing indoors. The three regiments took turns to attack the main peak of Nantianmen, but they did not even make breakthroughs in the second defense of the main peak.

On the other hand, the offensive units that fought back and forth had suffered heavy casualties in the past two days.

29th!

Zhong Bin ordered the division commander Liu Zhujun to be the front line commander, gathered all the remaining troops of the river crossing the river and carried out the last joint attack of infantry and artillery.

The ending is still a failure, and the main peak of Songshan is still in the hands of the Japanese army.

Faced with this ending that he had to accept, Zhong Bin fell on the chair as if in a silence, looking at Songshan without any movement.

He knows.

He was completely defeated.

He was defeated in a very embarrassing way, and he had no face to see the elders of Jiangdong again.

The dream of being promoted to the top of the rank of the rank of the chief clerk was completely shattered. What awaited him was to be kicked from Songshan and kicked back to the expeditionary army commander's office like a dog who was driven into the water.

There, he will face accountability from various departments such as the Central Commission for Administration, the Military Affairs Bureau, the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Military Law.

No matter what the final outcome is, the defeat of Songshan's battle will become a lifelong shame for him, and he will be written into history if he dies.

Zhong Bin couldn't accept this ending, but he had to accept it.

Because this has become a reality!

...

June 30!

The battle report of Songshan's battle was finally summarized, and the book was formulated and sent to the chief's office by a special person.

Under the command of Zhong Bin, several support points such as the Japanese army, including Zhuzipo, Lameng Street, Yin Mountaineering, and Redwood Tree were captured.

Only one of the 7 fortress groups!

But the price paid for this makes people shocked and shocked.

The two regiments of the 28th Division of the 71st Army suffered more than 1,800 casualties, and the 117th Regiment of the 6th Army's New 39th Division suffered nearly 1,100 casualties, totaling 1,925 soldiers and 763 injured; 50 officers were killed and 108 injured.

In contrast, the number of Japanese soldiers killed and injured by the combat units of the 71st Army was 596.

Let’s not talk about the authenticity of the number of casualties in the Japanese army. Even if this number is used as the truth, the war loss ratio between the two sides has reached an exaggerated 5:1.

If the moisture in it is removed, the estimated 3,000 expeditionary soldiers who suffered casualties will probably be less than 300 Japanese casualties.

Now that a Yin Mountaineering position has been taken, nearly 2,000 expeditionary soldiers have died.

This battle can only be said...

Fighting stupidly and miserable!

Unfortunately, these 2,000 live expeditionary soldiers who could have had more great achievements.
Chapter completed!