The use of Burmese servants to fight against the Japanese army in Burma has always been an important part of Zhuo Fei's plan, and if he wants to successfully control Burma and all of South Asia, the key is to skillfully weaken the local indigenous population. War was an excellent way to provoke a conflict between the local natives and the Japanese army, and Zhuo Fei could sit back and watch the indigenous population of South Asia continue to decline, and those selected immigrants from Henan and Shandong would have been impatient waiting on the border.

The anger of the 4,000 Burmese natives has been stirred up, but Zhuo Fei can't directly send them out to fight the Japanese army now, these Burmese natives who are familiar with the local terrain and mountains and forests will not be the opponent of the Japanese army at all, Zhuo Fei wants to use them where they should be used. Zhuo Fei only gave the 55th Division 20 hours to breathe, and just after breakfast the next day, the vanguard of the 1st Independent Division appeared outside the town of Xib, and the 4,000 Burmese natives had already taken advantage of the night to return to the back of the 55th Division and were waiting for help.

The armored units of the Independent Army, the 55th Division had already learned a great lesson, and they knew that they were invincible, but the 55th Division still put on a posture to meet the battle, and this was exactly what the officers and men of the 1st Independent Division expected. It's still covered by artillery fire, but this time it's the rocket artillery unit that came from Wan Town overnight to play the leading role, and a full 40 rocket artillery vehicles have become the fierce gods who ravaged the town of Xibu. As the smoke from the tail of the rockets kept rising, the horn of death sounded in the air, and hundreds of rockets screamed towards the small town of Xibu thousands of kilometers away.

A few rocket artillery alone cannot pose a threat to the 55th Division at all, rocket artillery is a cluster attack weapon, in order to defeat the 55th Division in one fell swoop, Zhuo Fei made a bloody investment this time. "This is our newly equipped rocket artillery, although the range has not exceeded 5 kilometers, but it is better because of the high rate of fire, strong firepower coverage, and much stronger destructive power than ordinary artillery shells, which is most suitable for facing the enemy's large force buildup." As soon as Zhuo Fei's words fell, Xibu Town was already drowned out by the deafening explosion, and Chen Geng and the others were all dumbfounded when they saw the smoke columns and fires rising from time to time.

The covering blow of rocket artillery is absolutely terrifying, and everyone who has seen the coverage of rocket artillery fire will never think of how many people will survive under the coverage of fire of this intensity. After the explosion, the town of Xib was gone, whether it was the wooden houses left by the Burmese natives or the monasteries in the town, all of which had been razed to the ground. With the corner of his eye, he swept over Chen Geng and the others who were standing beside him, and the expressions on the faces of the others made Zhuo Fei very satisfied, and what he wanted was this shocking effect.

The rumbling armoured forces launched an attack on the ruined town of Xib, and a large number of infantry followed behind the armored body to act as cover, even though there were sporadic gunshots, but the armoured troops of the Independence Army still resolutely attacked the town, and the swarming Independence infantry had already flooded the entire town. Takeuchi Kuan's luck has always been good, when the first rocket was launched and rushed to Xibu Town, Takeuchi Kuan had already led people into the command post outside the town, Chen Geng and others were amazed by the power of the rocket artillery, and the frightened Takeuchi Kuan had been evacuated backwards.

It was only a strong fire covering, but it was not enough to make the 55th Division retreat, and the armored troops that then rushed into the town were the key, and the armored forces were followed by a large number of soldiers of the Independence Army. The part of the Japanese troops stationed in the town had no hope of saving, but the Japanese troops scattered outside the town were still counterattacking, but the bolt-action rifles in their hands were really no match for the semi-automatic rifles in the hands of the Independence Army.

Chen Geng and others, who were born in the Eighth Route Army system, have always been unable to see the independent army's live-fire training, and often say behind their backs that this is a loser's act, and the troops of the Eighth Route Army will only issue bullets to the war every time they fight, and they never exceed 10 rounds of ammunition. The Independence Army is equipped with semi-automatic rifles, and it is just a respite, and all the bullets in the magazine will be fired, which is also the reason why Chen Geng and others said that they were losers.

But at this time, when the soldiers of the Independence Army and the Japanese soldiers really exchanged fire, the officers of the Independence Army at all levels suddenly discovered the advantages of semi-automatic weapons. The Japanese soldiers were skilled in stabbing and the veterans were particularly skilled in archery, but the bolt-action rifles they used were slower. Most of the soldiers of the Independence Army are new recruits, and there is no way to compare with the veterans of the Japanese army in terms of archery, but the semi-automatic rifles of the Independence Army have a fast rate of fire, and often three or two semi-automatic rifles can suppress the fire of a squad of Japanese soldiers, and buy time for other means of attack by their comrades.

The Japanese infantry stations would use grenadiers, light and heavy machine guns, light mortars, and sometimes even Type 92 infantry guns, which were easy to move and conceal. In the past, the Nationalist troops were defeated by the Japanese army, and the biggest reason was that the Nationalist army did not have the aircraft and artillery that the Japanese army relied on, and the rest was because the front-line troops of the Nationalist Army did not have the ground firepower weapons of the Japanese army.

The Independence Army, on the other hand, was very different, with hundreds of thousands of Jewish workers gathered in Ruili producing a large amount of ammunition and weapons every day, and the Independence Army had already been armed to the extreme by Zhuo Fei, except for those allocated to the New Army. The Japanese army has grenadiers, the Independence Army is also equipped with individual rocket launchers and light 60mm mortars, the Japanese army has light and heavy machine guns, and the number of light and heavy aircraft in the Independence Army will only be more than that of the Japanese army. If the Japanese used mortars and Type 92 infantry guns in battles, then the fire armored vehicles in the Independence Army would become a nightmare for Japanese machine gunners and melee artillerymen, and the Browning large-caliber heavy machine guns equipped with fire armored vehicles were not decorations.

In short, the independent army and the national army in the memory of the Japanese army are two different existences, and the 55th Division has always treated the independent army as the national army of the past, how can it not suffer losses and be deceived. The officers of the Independence Army who were drawn from the Nationalist Army or the Eighth Route Army had never fought such a smooth battle, and after the overwhelming artillery fire, it was the charge of the armored troops, and then the all-out attack of the infantry, after these three axes, the spirit of the Japanese army was gone, which they had not experienced before.

With the advance of the 1st Independent Division, the Japanese troops who were still stubbornly resisting on the outskirts of Xibu Town were gradually unable to withstand it, and one heavy firepower point after another was destroyed by the tank guns of the Independent Army, and the positions were lost piece by piece, and the defense line full of holes in front of them was already unable to withstand the enemy's attack, and all units of the 55th Division had no choice but to retreat one after another. Takeuchi had been expecting good news from the 13th Division, which was heading north on the right, but he had no idea that the 13th Division had already been blocked by the independent 2nd Division and could not continue northward at all.

Perhaps retreating to Mandalay was a good choice, but in desperation, Takeuchi could only order the 55th Division to retreat to Mandalay, and in the case that the 13th Division could not go north, his 55th Division was actually alone. The various units of the 55th Division began to cover each other's retreat according to Takeuchi's order, but this time, the 1st Independent Division did not give the 55th Division a chance to breathe, and under the command of officers at all levels, the attacking troops of the 1st Independent Division began to use companies as units to implement ground wolf pack tactics against the 55th Division that tried to retreat.

Zhuo Fei's wolf pack tactics on land are the same as those of the German submarine forces, except that one is in the sea and the other is on land. Relying on the liaison advantage of the walkie-talkie company equipped, the tens of thousands of soldiers of the 1st Independent Division were divided into hundreds of field companies, and under the command of the officers, they constantly launched attacks on the retreating Japanese troops with weapons and equipment far superior to those of the Japanese army. Sometimes they attacked in groups, sometimes they fought alone, in short, they had only one goal, to shoot and kill the retreating Japanese troops as much as possible.

Kuroki's heart was very anxious, and he kept following the gunfire of their team without stopping, and the captain assigned his team to serve as a guard cover task, but from the beginning of the retreat to the present, in just half an hour, less than half of his team remained. The Kuroki team, which had already panicked, was lucky enough to join up with another guard team, and Kuroki, the highest-ranking military officer, temporarily served as the commander of the two broken squads, but the enemy army chasing them had no intention of stopping.

"Boom" With the smoke and flames from the explosion, the only remaining light machine gun in the team was blasted into scrap metal, and Kuroki curled up as hard as he could, so that he could better hide into the rock crevice behind him. There were not many pursuers in his sight, and if this was a Chinese battlefield, Kuroki might have already taken the initiative to attack the remaining soldiers on his side, but now, he couldn't do it. The weapons used by the opponent were obviously stronger than the bolt-action rifles of the Imperial infantry, and often two or three soldiers on the other side could suppress the fire of a squad of soldiers of the Imperial Army, and such an unequal battle was something Kuroki had never encountered.

Unable to suppress the opponent's firepower, and thus losing control of the battlefield, Kuroki no longer knew what to do, he now just wanted to hide himself in the rock crevice behind him. There was another explosion, several Japanese soldiers wailed and were swept to the ground by shrapnel, and there were less than 20 soldiers left on Kuroki's side, but none of them dared to stand up and pick up their rifles to face the pursuing soldiers.

"Damn, it's a group of boneless cowards." Company commander Hu Guangcheng, who personally led the pursuit of the team, spat at the bloodstained soil under his feet, and immediately ordered to stop shooting, and the division headquarters had an order early in the morning to accept prisoners along the road. Although it is not known why the division headquarters ordered the prisoners to be taken in, Hu Guangcheng and his soldiers still spared the 20 or so terrified Japanese soldiers, and Kuroki, who survived, did not know that in the next ten years, he and his companions would work to death in the rainforests of South Asia for their crimes.