In "My Regiment Commander My Regiment", Meng was annoyed that he had summed up the tactics of the Japanese army, artillery bombardment, infantry rush, infantry rush, artillery bombardment, just such a simple tactic, the Japanese army occupied most of China, you say that people are not angry. This is a fact, in the early days of the War of Resistance, the tactics of the Japanese army are like this, every morning at breakfast, the Japanese army began to raise a tethered balloon to observe the nationalist position, while observing, while shelling, found that the nationalist position has been blown up, the infantry rushed up to occupy, if it found that there were troops behind the nationalist position reinforcing, they called for aircraft to bomb and bomb.
Throughout the early and middle period of the War of Resistance, the Japanese army was this tactic, but there was almost no disadvantage, pointing to where to fight, the Nationalist army lacked heavy weapons, firepower was not enough to suppress the Japanese army, can only rely on flesh and blood and the Japanese army to die, really can not hold back and retreat. In this way, the Japanese army began from the July 7 Incident, to the Battle of Songhu, to the Battle of Xuzhou, to the Battle of Wuhan, and advanced step by step, until finally the Nationalist army was compressed to a corner of the southwest, the Japanese army encountered the lofty mountains, the heavy weapons began to be unable to play a role, and the attack began to falter. Whether it is field position warfare or siege warfare, the Japanese army is basically this set. The national army knows it, but there is nothing they can do, the skills are not as good as people, the instruments are not as good as people, there is no way.
After the expeditionary force retreated to Burma for reorganization training, it received a large number of US-aided weapons, and the situation finally changed greatly, the level of weapons and equipment was greatly improved, all kinds of heavy weapons were available, and the United States seized air supremacy and suppressed the Japanese air force, so when the counterattack in northern Burma came, the situation of the Japanese army and the national army was reversed, becoming the national army's artillery bombardment during the day, aircraft bombing, tank charge, and the infantry only needed to follow the tanks to rush up and occupy the position. The Japanese firepower was completely suppressed, and there was nothing they could do, so they could only counterattack at night like the Nationalist army in the early stages of the War of Resistance, but often rushed up and were driven down by the past.
For example, in the Battle of Bamo, this was the case. At that time, the five divisions of the Indian Army had been reorganized into two corps, the New First Army and the New Sixth Army, but because of the collapse of the Battle of Yuxianggui, the Japanese army successively occupied Changsha, Hengyang and Guilin in Guangxi, and advanced to Duyun, Guizhou, and Chongqing was panicked, so it ordered the New Sixth Army to be airlifted back to China and prepared to participate in the battle. First to Yunnan, but because the Japanese army returned to Guangxi, the New Sixth Army did not participate in the battle, and then in 1945 the Japanese army launched the Battle of Western Hunan, the New Sixth Army was airlifted to Zhijiang, Hunan, ready to participate in the war, but because the Seventy-fourth Army and other units withstood the Japanese attack, so the New Sixth Army still did not participate in the battle.
At this time, the only troops stationed in India left in the menggong and Myitkyina areas of northern Burma were the newly organized Thirty-eighth Division and the newly organized Thirty Division of the New First Army, and the Fifty Divisions of the New Sixth Army. In the counterattack on northern Burma and the opening of the Sino-Indian Highway, the New First Army attacked Ba mo to the south, while the Fifty Division and the British Army advanced south from Meng Gong along the railway to Mandalay. In the operation of the new first army attacking Bamo, the new first army adopted the original tactics of the Japanese army, and every morning the air force first bombed, then the artillery shot damage, and then the tanks charged with infantry and occupied the Japanese positions. Anyway, at this time, the rear passage of the Japanese army has been cut off, and the troops stationed in India are not in a hurry, so they advance a little bit every day and fight with the Japanese army.
At the time of the attack of the new Thirty-eighth Division, the First Battalion of Tanks of the General Headquarters Index Unit, three battalions of 105 Howitzers and 155 Howitzers, and the 150 Heavy Mortar Battalions reorganized from the Chemical Corps, so that the number of artillery battalions assigned to the new Thirty-eighth Division by the General Headquarters of the Indian Army alone reached four, and there was also a tank battalion, and the United States Air Force coordinated the attack, and a Japanese cavalry company stationed in Bamo was beaten to a pulp outside the city, and did not dare to look up during the day, and could only organize a counterattack at night. The fighting lasted for a month before the new Thirty-eighth Division invaded the center of Bamo.