The second mistake that Davids made may be said to be understandable.

Major Brown also objected to David.

"General!" Major Brown said with surprise after hearing only one regiment of attack on Bamo: "We have at least three regiments of troops in our hands. We can send two regiments to attack Bamo, and another regiment defends the airport and serve as a reserve team!"

"This is unnecessary, Colonel!" Davids replied: "First of all, the focus of defense is the airport, the airport! Do you understand? As long as we guard the airport, our army's equipment and personnel will be sent to Bamo continuously, so we need to organize defense and air defense networks as quickly as possible near the airport to resist the Japanese bombing and attack on the airport."

"But General..." Colonel Brown replied: "Now there is no sign that the Japanese army will raid the airport."

"We cannot fight unprepared wars! Colonel!" Davids replied: "It will be too late to wait until there are signs that the Japanese army will have air strikes!"

This is a bit reasonable, but no reason will apply to all battlefields. For example, David is using Western military tactical theories to reason about the Japanese strategy in the East.

Western military theory is of course dominated by the air force. Almost without exception before the battle, it was to seize air supremacy, but the Japanese army has always been dominated by infantry, especially Mutaguchi Ryoya, who is known as the ghost and animal. It is even more exaggerated to say that the army has now reached the highest level in the world, so of course it will focus more on land combat.

David's approach was to mistakenly use a large amount of troops on air defense after the surprise attack, and only use a small amount of troops to fight land warfare. This is tantamount to attacking the other's strengths with his own short-term attack.

However, at this time, Davis still did not realize his mistake. He paused and continued: "More importantly, we learned from the information we obtained from the Shantou people (also known as the Kachin guerrillas) and the Burmese people that there were only more than 1,000 Japanese troops stationed in Myanmar at this time, and the strength of a Chinese regiment was more than 2,000... After the Chinese equipped American equipment, their combat effectiveness could already compete with the Japanese. I believe they could easily conquer Bamo!"

"Yes!" Colonel Brown could only obey orders.

The information Davis received may be correct. There were indeed only one thousand Japanese troops stationed in Bamo, and many of them were wounded and sick who had just recovered and were not suitable for going to the battlefield. Other troops were transferred to the front line to fight against the New First Division and the New Thirty-Eighth Division.

It is precisely because this intelligence and the initial battle went too smoothly that Davidson and even Colonel Brown had the mentality of underestimating the enemy.

However, the 1,000 people referred to in this information are the main force, which does not include the communication brigade of the 18th Division in the city, the 12th Engineering Regiment, the Japanese Railway Corps, the Gendarmerie detachment, the Guards, the Aviation Division ground crew, the troop station and other personnel.

These troops had a total of 15 units, with a total of about 2,000 people. The intelligence personnel automatically ignored the Japanese troops when collecting intelligence. Or the intelligence personnel did not ignore it, but David did not count these Japanese troops into the resistance forces.

Although these Japanese troops did not belong to the main force of the Japanese army, the strict training of the Japanese army made them have military qualities that were not inferior to the main force. Moreover, their mission was to organize defense in fortifications. This did not require high military qualities, but more of a requirement for marksmanship and courage. The Japanese army never lacked marksmanship and courage.

There was also a mistake in this. After occupying Bamo Airport, some US troops mistakenly thought that they had occupied Bamo, so they told the Chinese troops this "good news". A Chinese troops of more than 1,000 people misunderstood the news. Seeing that Bamo's urban area was calm, they led their troops to Bamo... Since they were stationed, the commander, the military flag and even the drum band that beat and beat.

The Japanese army once couldn't understand why the Chinese army approached their defense line like this, but after a while of silence, gunfire still rang, and a rain of bullets passed and caused a large number of casualties to the Chinese army.

The 113th Regiment, which had just been launched to attack Bamo, was discovered that Bamo did not have only more than a thousand garrison troops as the Americans described, and most of them were wounded and sick.

But even though they repeatedly reported this situation to Shangfeng, it was useless... Just like the mistakes made by the head instructor at Lingbang Hill before, Davids firmly believed that the information he received was correct, and the Chinese report was just an excuse for them to fight resolutely and not bravely.

From this point, it can also be seen that it is indeed inappropriate for Americans to command Chinese troops. Because they do not understand the Chinese troops, or their understanding of Chinese troops is limited to the impression that a few Japanese cavalry can capture a city on the domestic battlefield. So when a front-line battle report came to them, they first questioned whether the previous information was wrong or some omissions, but the Chinese army.

There is a saying among the Chinese: "Know yourself and your enemy and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles." The US military commanders' lack of understanding and distrust of the army in their hands eventually led to the Battle of Bamo, which could have been easily captured under a surprise attack, turning into a bad battle.

Because he always insisted on his combat deployment, Davidson did not send reinforcements to Bamo City. His countermeasures were to ask the Chinese army to launch a charge over and over again...

"I believe that what you see is just a superficial phenomenon!" Davids said to the regiment commander Huang Weiming on the phone: "This is the Japanese deploying all their troops on the periphery. As long as you break through this line of defense, you will find that there is nothing inside. Then you will successfully occupy Bamo!"

"******!" Huang Weiming on the other end hung up the phone and cursed fiercely: "They have been saying this three times, but the Japanese are fighting more and more!"

What's worse is that the Japanese army's strategy at this time seems to be intentional about relying on the terrain to consume the Chinese army's strength...

In fact, the Japanese army did not intend to do this. The Japanese Major Hachie Fang'an organized the defense in Bamo. He began to think that the Chinese army would definitely put most of its troops into the attack on Bamo's urban area, so he had to take a defensive stance.

But as we fought, we found something was wrong. There was only one Chinese regiment attacking the city area, and it was almost exhausted during the attack.
Chapter completed!