Part 3: Rising Africa Section 34 This is not the end of the matter
When the convoy re-passed the temporary checkpoint in Bamo, the second lieutenant of the 437th Infantry Battalion of the government army questioned the driver, and then he didn't know what was unusual, and shouted a few steps after the convoy went out, "Shoot, stop them, they are spies." ”
The battle suddenly began, and the soldiers were in a mess, and the second lieutenant called out loudly, "Hit the last car, hit its tires." "The tires of the last truck were punctured by the machine gun that Ensign Pershan had snatched, and it came to a stop on the road with a few crooked turns, and the soldiers rushed up, and at this moment several rockets blasted at the crowd of people who rushed up to the side of the vehicle, and blew up the government soldiers who were anxious to grab the merit.
Six Mi-35 helicopter gunships and two K-8 trainers/light attack aircraft took off from the direction of Grape and participated in the air raid on Laha, the capital of the Keguo Organization, and the more than 10,000 light infantry of the Keguo Independent Army were distributed in seven brigades, and their air defense capabilities were limited, mainly using domestically made Type 54 and Type 85 12.7mm heavy machine guns. The Wa Confederacy Army, which has the HN-5 series of man-portable air defense systems, has signed a ceasefire agreement with the government, and unlike the Wa Confederacy Army, the Keguo Independence Army does not have any surface-to-air missile systems so far, so they fly very arrogantly.
This is a mountain pass, about a kilometer away from the government army outpost, as long as the pursuing plane shows its head, you will see a row of cars on the roadside on the road, the people in the car are standing on the roadbed, basically every person has a man-portable anti-aircraft missile, mainly Russian SA-16 anti-aircraft missiles, as well as "Hound Dog" MKII (Bloodhound) surface-to-air missiles, as well as several French "Mistral" missiles from Pakistan. The guys sat on the tripod and were very proud.
Because there was basically no danger in the theater and the field of vision was wide during the day, after the two K-8 trainer planes entered the war zone set by the Flying Dragons one after the other, they still formed a column and flew very low, and the rumbling sound of the plane was just overhead, and the plane was flying in a straight line as soon as it turned the mountain pass, so at the last moment, the crew members of the K-8 trainer plane saw the missiles coming towards the plane. The crew of the K-8 trainer plane was aware of the danger, and the two crews responded differently, and one plane immediately dived to the ground, and when it tried to force land the plane in the open field between the trees, the plane was hit by a Mistral missile in the abdomen. crashed on the ground, and the wing fell more than ten meters away; Another plane, trying to pull up the projectile decoy and escape, first hit a SA-16 anti-aircraft missile in the wing, and then successively concentrated the "Mistral" missile, exploded in the volley, and exposed to the onboard radar of its companion Mi-35 helicopter gunship.
A few minutes later, six Mi-35 gunships arrived on the battlefield in a two-plane formation, forming a loose echelon with a gap of about 500 meters. The first group was about a minute away from the last helicopter, which was on its way for fear of being shot at by small arms and suffering the same fate as a K-8 trainer. Flying at an altitude of about two thousand meters, Burmese pilots are most afraid of ground fire, which most likely comes from Type 54 and Type 85 12.7mm heavy machine guns equipped by the KKW Independence Army, as a K-8 was shot down by ground fire the other day. But they are not worried about surface-to-air missiles, and the KIAS does not have any SAMs until now, so they fly high. As a result, they were successively exposed to the guns of Russian SA-16 anti-aircraft missiles, as well as French Mistral missiles.
It was only then that the two Mi-35 gunships in front of them understood what was happening in front of them, and the burning K-8 trainer plane fell in front of them. As the helicopter formation approached, the Mi-35 gunship behind it began to fully turn the rudder in an attempt to evade it. It was too late, and the surface-to-air missiles opened fire one after another, hitting several Mi-35 helicopters somersaulting, some falling straight to the ground and exploding, others exploding in mid-air, and the rotor blades fell everywhere.
At that time, the remaining Mi-35 helicopter swooped down sharply, desperately trying to dive at a large angle and high speed, and the missile hit the cockpit of the helicopter directly, and the Russian helicopter exploded directly, and the fuselage circled and smashed straight to the ground. The crew who took off from the grape direction thought that they would finish their mission early and return to the barracks to drink a cup of hot coffee as usual, but they were completely wrong, and they were accompanied by the wreckage of the helicopter burning everywhere.
The soldiers at the government outpost were stunned one by one, they did not know which side of the army was lost, but the explosion in the direction of Myitkyina behind them still made their hearts tremble.
Suddenly, a loudspeaker sounded, "Listen to the soldiers in the front outpost, put down your weapons and walk out of the bunker, otherwise you will be killed, repeat, immediately put down your weapons and walk out of the bunker, otherwise you will be killed." ”
"Who do you think you are?" A soldier of the government army raised his submachine gun at the source of the voice, and it was a shuttle, "Scream, why don't you scream." ”
Li Huaibing looked at the bullet hole on the loudspeaker that had dropped the bullet and smiled, and with a wave of his hand, mortar shells, bazookas and grenades kept hitting the sentry positions of the Burmese government army. The bullets fired from the 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun in the Humvee slashed their heads and faces, stopped at a distance of 300 meters in front of the Burmese position, and used fire to sweep away these Burmese infantry with only light weapons.
The 46th Battalion of Keguo was still nested in their original Wawa Village camp, and Lieutenant Colonel Wu Jilin said to his deputy who kept urging him, "Brother, now we can't move a single soldier, and we can't go to watch the excitement, it's easy to cause unnecessary misunderstandings." ”
Zhang Qicheng, commander of the special operations battalion of the 657 Brigade who came here to train and recuperate the troops, said, "Lao Guo, you should stop, the people in the Mailishan area have made it very clear that our troops will be their enemies when they leave the barracks within the specified time, and they will think that we have declared war on them, and all the consequences caused by this will be borne by us." ”
"Isn't this a dungeon? Just those boys on the hillside, I took a squad in a few minutes, and there was not even a bunker sentry post, we are soldiers, not country aunts who dare not go out on the street after a few words of intimidation. The more Guo Kaidong spoke, the louder he became.
Zhang Qicheng asked strangely, "Old Wu, last time when your forty-sixth battalion taught the people of Mailishan a lesson, was this kid not there?" Or maybe this kid is trying to kill us. ”
"This kid is disgusting us, the armed forces in the Maili Mountain area are probably not much less than our Keguo people, don't look at us for so many years of fighting, but I don't know how they trained, one by one the recruits are like brainwashing, I sent people to contact these recruits, all the people sent were reported and arrested, and two soldiers on active duty broke their legs and sent them back, so I don't want to send people again." Lieutenant Colonel Wu Jilin said.
"There are at least three battalions of troops lurking on Heights 377 to the north, and five battalions of men and horses on the road to the west seem to be trying to meet something? However, strangely enough, there are also 2 regiments of troops in the direction of Maizayan. Zhang Qicheng kept staring at the map.
Guo Kaidong's face was a little pale, and he didn't joke anymore, "With this calculation and the necessary left-behind troops, I'm afraid that there are not eight or nine thousand professional soldiers in the Maili Mountain area, and the actual number of our Keguo Independent Army is on par with the actual number of our Keguo Independent Army, and there is no room for two tigers in one mountain, what should we do in the future?" ”
The attitude of the Myanmar military after learning of the important losses of the Northern Military Region can be illustrated in the words of the Myanmar Defense Minister, "This matter is not over!" ”
The Burmese Army transferred four infantry regiments from the border, as well as several Type 69 tank companies, and organized several howitzer battalions and emergency transfers to assemble Russian MIG-29 and K-8 trainer planes in the Mount Maili area. Under the cover of howitzers, the infantry of 4 regiments carried a reactionary large-scale counterattack under the cover of more than 60 Type 69 tanks, and more than 6,000 infantrymen armed with anti-tank missiles and light and heavy machine gun mortars poured like a tide to the western part of Mount Myli.
Today is the day of the official decisive battle between the two armies, the Type 69 tank is in front, with the 100mm smoothbore tank gun on the roof of the car to fire intensively at the infantry position of the Mount Maili troops, a grenade flew out of the tank gun, blowing up the position of the Mount Maili troops into a sea of fire, and then the tank launched an assault forward, With 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns mounted on the roof of the vehicles, the infantry followed closely behind the tanks, and with the fire support of the vehicles, the Burmese soldiers armed with AK assault rifles kept hitting the positions of the troops in the Mount Maili area.
During the battle, several Russian MIG-29 fighters and K-8 trainers dispatched by the Burmese Air Force dropped laser-guided bombs and cluster bombs on positions in the Mount Myli area. At this time, all kinds of surface-to-air missiles that had been prepared by the radar were in full swing, and a MiG-29 fighter jet fell headlong into the ground, and a huge explosion overturned a moving Burmese armored vehicle.
Immediately, the 240 mm caliber multiple rocket launchers, the 107 mm caliber Type 63 and the 122 mm caliber Type 90 multiple rocket launchers quickly and intensively fired, and the Burmese infantry suffered heavy casualties under the bombardment of rocket artillery, but the matter was not over, and the Type 69 tanks were still trying to fire forward. (To be continued......)