Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Encounter

The strength of the Independence Army exceeded 150,000, but Zhuo Fei did not transfer all the Independence Army troops into Burma, and the only Independence Army troops fighting against the Japanese army were the 1st Independent Division facing the 55th Division and the 2nd Independent Division resisting the 33rd Division going north, and the other Independence Army units were still on standby in Ruili. With the retreat of the 55th Division, Zhuo Feiyou successively transferred more than 30,000 independent troops into Burma to stabilize the defense of the front line of Lashio.

Chen Geng, who came from the Eighth Route Army, was good at tactical strikes, while the Jewish officers who represented the interests of the Jews in the Independence Army were good at striking with strong firepower, and Zhuo Fei had always hoped that these two extremes in the Independence Army could be fully integrated. Transferring 30,000 reserve troops to Burma, Zhuo Fei returned the command of the 1st Independent Division to Chen Geng and others, not that Chen Geng and others expressed dissatisfaction, but that Zhuo Fei knew that he did not have the ability to really command the large corps to fight.

The 55th Division of the Japanese Army, which had lost a large amount of long-range firepower equipment, was simply unable to resist the coordinated strikes of the tank formations and rocket artillery vehicles, and Zhuo Fei, who had already seen the scene of strong firepower, immediately set his sights on the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, which was bent on going north. Compared with the 55th Division, which was already in a hurry, the 33rd Division, which had only had sporadic battles with the Second Independent Division, was obviously much better, but with the arrival of Zhuo Fei, the good days of the 33rd Division were about to be gone.

The sun was rising, and the dew on the blades of grass had not yet dissipated, so Zhuo Fei appeared on the flank of the 33rd Division with a team of scouts. Because of Angela's reminder, Zhuo Fei will form a reconnaissance team, and a large number of scouts will be assigned to the independent army, but Zhuo Fei is planning to form a special force. The scouts of the Independence Army are equipped with the most advanced weapons and equipment of this era, and the various performances of the reconnaissance troops since they entered Myanmar have made Zhuo Fei very satisfied. Zhuo Fei, who went deep into the front line, was not just to fight, but more to get close to these scouts in actual combat, and then select the best among them and secretly form a special force belonging to the umbrella company.

Signing to the scouts on his side, Zhuo Fei led Zhuo Yan to slowly crawl forward, and not far from them, by the riverbed, was a Japanese camp. The lush weeds provided the best cover for Zhuo Fei and the two, originally Zhuo Fei could have reconnoitred this Japanese camp through the map system, but he couldn't cheat in front of dozens of scouts, then he would reveal his little secret.

The camp by the riverbed was for the convenience of getting water, and Zhuo Fei quickly judged that this Japanese camp was actually an ambulance point or field hospital for the Japanese army. According to the internationally accepted Geneva Conventions, it is forbidden to attack wounded soldiers or hospitals of enemy soldiers during war, as such acts are inhumane. However, there is no so-called international practice and bullshit convention here in Zhuo Fei, and the Japanese army cannot count the number of people killed in China, most of them are unarmed civilians and wounded soldiers who have laid down their arms.

After roughly seeing the layout of this Japanese ambulance point, Zhuo Fei turned around and made an attack gesture to the scouts behind him, under Zhuo Fei's gaze, all the scouts were ready to attack at any time without hesitation, which made Zhuo Fei very satisfied. Not everyone can do it to attack the enemy's wounded soldiers and hospitals, and Zhuo Fei has always been worried that there will be such an outlier in his reconnaissance team, but now it seems that he is completely worried about it.

According to Zhuo Fei's sign language, the scouts dispersed, and slowly moved in the direction of the river bank under the cover of weeds. Dial out a few magazines from the space and distribute them to Zhuo Yan, Zhuo Fei slowly pulled the bolt and loaded the assault rifle in his hand. The signal for the start of the battle was not sent by Zhuo Fei, but two light mortars located a hundred meters behind them, and the mortar shells with the whistle burst to the ground, and the scouts who had already moved into place opened fire separately, including Zhuo Fei and the two.

The Japanese soldiers in the camp were apparently caught off guard, and a rain of bullets from across the river bank first brought down the Japanese soldiers with their weapons, and then the tents with the Red Cross emblazoned. The bullets made a popping sound as they passed through the tent, but heart-rending screams came from inside the tent, during which the wounded Japanese soldiers and ambulances who rushed out of the tent were all knocked to the ground by the barrage. The "boom" and "boom" mortar shells landed again, and a machine-gun nest in the Japanese camp was immediately thrown high by the air wave of the explosion, and the cover of machine-gun fire was lost, and a large area of blood mist immediately emerged from the entire camp.

The intense gunfire did not last long, and after the last tent was overturned by mortar shells, Zhuo Fei, who was lying on his stomach in the grass, got up and waved his arms to signal that the shooting would stop. A dozen scouts with assault rifles quickly crossed the riverbed and cooperated with each other to rush into the bloody Japanese camp, and after a careful search, the scouts standing in the Japanese camp turned around and gestured, indicating that there was no living mouth in the entire camp.

Zhuo Fei also crossed the riverbed across the other scouts and entered the camp full of corpses and bloodstains, and he knew that this was only a squadron-level ambulance point for the Japanese army, and all the wounded Japanese soldiers and ambulance personnel together were only more than a hundred people. "Gather medicines, take what we can use, and set fire to the rest." The order given by Zhuo Fei was very concise, due to the operational nature of the scouts, they were destined to not be able to carry too many things that had nothing to do with the battle, but medicine was definitely needed.

It was just a skirmish, too easy for these scouts, and it was like a daily field training. All the corpses in the camp were stacked together, and all the ammunition the Scouts could find in the camp was stacked at the bottom, including a triggered infantry mine. This was a gift from the scouts for the Japanese soldiers who rushed to the station, and it was also a method of killing the enemy that the scouts learned from the training camp, and in order to increase the lethality, the scouts even hid all the iron tools they found from the camp in the pile of ammunition.

"Go, retreat 500 meters, and wait to see the show." The sound of an outpost came from the walkie-talkie, and when he learned that a group of Japanese soldiers was already coming this way, Zhuo Fei ordered to retreat. Zhuo Fei's task was to find an opportunity to clear out the small unit of the 33rd Division, and finally had the opportunity to play against the other party, how could Zhuo Fei and the others let it go. Zhuo Fei and the others retreated across the riverbed again and disappeared without a trace, and the blood-filled riverbed was silent again, and no one knew that there were dozens of heavily loaded killers hiding on the opposite side of the riverbed.

Zhuo Fei's wait was not too long, more than ten minutes later, the sound of an outpost came from the walkie-talkie, and then, Zhuo Fei, who was lying in the grass, heard the movement of the large group of people and horses as they marched quickly. The Japanese soldiers at the forefront of the march saw at a glance the comrades who were stacked together in the camp, and in the camp full of fireworks and bloodstains, more than 100 corpses were stacked into a large pile, and anyone could see it clearly

"Baga" found that the Japanese soldiers in the pile of corpses did not immediately lean forward, but lowered their bodies and half-knelt on the ground, flat-ended their rifles, and looked around, their eyes were full of vigilance. "Da Da" has been able to confirm that there is no enemy situation around, but Cao Chang, who led the team among the top soldiers, is still not at ease, and immediately ordered the light machine gun to conduct fire reconnaissance around. The locust-like bullets rushed into the grass across the riverbed, but Zhuo Fei and the others who were lying in the grass remained motionless.

It was finally possible to make sure that the enemy who had attacked the camp had withdrawn, and the Japanese soldiers who had joined the rear team were relaxed, and a Japanese officer wearing the rank of second lieutenant was the most impatient, and he had already run to the side of the corpse. Reaching out and touching the side of the neck of one of the corpses, the Japanese second lieutenant seemed to feel a slight pulse, and immediately shouted loudly. The panting Japanese soldiers were overjoyed when they heard this, and they began to move people down from the pile of corpses, ignoring their exhaustion.

The blood-stained corpses were carefully removed one by one, and then carefully diagnosed one by one by the Japanese soldiers whether they were still breathing, and more and more corpses were removed and placed flat in the open space. Suddenly, a Japanese soldier standing by the pile of corpses and moving the corpse screamed loudly, and the other Japanese soldiers turned their heads to look at him, only to see that the Japanese soldier who was screaming was already stunned at this time, and his hands stretched forward as if to resist something. There was a muffled sound of "boom", and the pile of corpses with more than 30 corpses left suddenly rose upwards like a volcanic eruption, and there was another loud bang of "boom", and the entire camp shook violently like an earthquake, even Zhuo Fei and the others who were hidden on the opposite side of the riverbed felt the ground tremble violently.

When these Japanese soldiers moved the corpses, they inadvertently triggered the infantry mine, and the explosion of the detonated mine caused the explosion of those munitions, and the explosion formed a shock wave that was enough to tear everything apart, not to mention the ammunition and iron weapons that were scattered and exploded, and the combined power of these things was enough to destroy all life within a radius of more than 100 meters.

From the moment the first corpse was moved, the Japanese soldiers who rushed to the rescue had already stepped into a death trap, and this meaningless rescue operation made these Japanese soldiers too concentrated, and their mistakes also made the trap set by the scouts exert the greatest power. "Keep waiting, maybe we can carry out a second attack on them." In the map system that Zhuo Fei had opened, there were less than one-fifth of the red dots on the other side of the riverbed representing the Japanese army, and Zhuo Fei planned to stay here and wait for the rabbit.