"North of the Da Long River to the Da Lo area, no Japanese troops were found, only a small number of Burmese search troops. Order the 112th Regiment of the 38th Division to enter the area in batches, occupy the line from the Dalong River to Daluo, cover the construction of the airstrip by the Allies in New Pingyang, facilitate the stationing of supplies and supplies and follow-up troops in New Pingyang, and accumulate combat strength for the counterattack on Burma."

This is the latest order of the Expeditionary Force Command, and it is the main task of the 112th Regiment and even the 38th Division in the coming months. As the elite unit of the 38th Division, the 112th Regiment had already entered the Hukang Valley in a company or battalion according to the order of the headquarters and confronted the Japanese army on the front line of the Dalong River.

Yu Bang, where the Danai River and the Da Long River meet, is undoubtedly one of the most important places in the Hukang Valley, where it is surrounded by jungle on three sides and faces water on the other, which is an important ferry port, occupying Yu Bang can control the Danai River and the Da Long River basin, and can also send soldiers to the other side of the Da Long River through the ferry. An infantry battalion of the 112th Regiment received an order to capture Yubang, and the 1st Company, which had the largest number of veterans, had already set off ahead of schedule as the vanguard, and most of the infantry battalion followed closely behind, advancing towards Yubang by night.

There were two Burmese guides in the 1st Company, both of whom had retreated to India with the expeditionary force last year, and their loyalty was very high, so there was no need to worry that they were spies of the Japanese army. The guides pointed out the way through the jungle and appeared from the side of Yu Bang, catching the Japanese by surprise. This plan was unanimously approved by the officers of the 112th Regiment.

The overwhelming jungle was full of tangled vines, and the 1st Company had to send a squad to open the way with a long knife in front. The jungle was hot and humid, but the soldiers did not dare to untie their collars and cuffs, and if they were not careful, the locusts fell from the trees, and once they were attached to their skin, they lost more than blood.

Most of the veterans in the 1st Company had walked through the jungles of Burma last year and were familiar with this situation, and they were not only sprinkled with insect repellent medicine issued by the US military, but also smeared with e-cigarette oil on their exposed skin. The biggest enemy in the jungle is not the Japanese army, but the ubiquitous poisonous insects and beasts.

In the afternoon, the 1st Company marched to a mountainside, and the endless lush jungle was still visible in the distance, and it had just passed the rainy season watering, when the trees in the jungle were well hydrated. "Let's rest for a while" Seeing that the soldiers were a little tired, the company commander Xu Zhao ordered the troops to rest in place, and not to be too far away from the brigade behind, once there was an emergency, there would be no rescue.

"Company Commander Xu, why don't you stop?" A voice rang out suddenly, and a red-faced officer with a wooden stick approached. He was Yu Kuijiang, an intelligence staff officer sent by the regimental headquarters, and went out with the 1st Company to collect the intelligence of the Japanese army's defense in Bang. Yu Kuijiang was originally from the tax police regiment, and he has also been in battle for a long time in China, and he taught Xu Zhao a lot of points in the march along the way, and the two got along very well.

"The brothers are tired, rest and go, otherwise you should be tired and lie down before you arrive in Yubang" Xu Zhao casually handed Yu Kuijiang a cigarette, and the two leaned on a dead wood smoking and chatting. A squad that had gone out of the guard was also scattered, and the other soldiers were also gathered together in twos and threes and scattered on the hillside to drink water and rest, and the smokers handed cigarettes to each other and gossiped and gossiped.

"Okay, let's go" After smoking two cigarettes, Xu Zhao drank a few more sips of water, then stood up and ordered the troops to set off. As soon as the team descended to the foot of the mountain near the edge of the jungle, the situation suddenly changed, and the mountain forest, which was still the song of insects and birds, suddenly fell silent, and the mountain forest in front of them was as silent as death, and the air seemed to be about to stop, and it was a little difficult for people who felt the heavy pressure brought by the dead silence to breathe.

"Hidden, hidden" The veterans in the 1st Company immediately lay on the ground, desperately shouting for the other soldiers to hide. Veterans are all too familiar with this feeling, and last year's disaster, such a scene was repeated countless times, a precursor to an attack by the ambushed Japanese army. Many of their brothers and robes were killed by the Japanese soldiers who suddenly appeared in such a scene, and this kind of scene they will never forget and remember.

It was too late, and with a mandrill-like cry, the jungle, which had been silent as death, suddenly came to life. Machine guns, rifles, and grenades rained down on the soldiers who were still standing in place, and the dense bullets formed an impenetrable web of death, enveloping the young soldiers.

"Poof", "poof", "poof" There was no time to shout, and the young soldiers were knocked down by bullets one by one, and the blood mist splattered from the bullet holes made the edge of the jungle full of blood, and the people who choked on the heavy smell of blood were out of breath. The inability to see the enemy made the living soldiers even more panicked, and the screams and pulls of the veterans were even more useless, and the soldiers were stupid, like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, knocked down one by one by bullets flying out of the jungle, screaming and convulsing.

"Retreat, retreat" Xu Zhao was also stunned, and hurriedly pulled Yu Kuijiang beside him to dodge, and the veterans also lowered their bodies and crawled to the place where they thought it was safe, in this case, it was safer to be alone than to gather together. The massacres continued, from time to time people were shot, and the expeditionary force was simply unable to organize an effective counterattack. The rest of the infantry companies were still five miles away, and by the time they arrived, they would have been slaughtered long ago.

After another round of grenade explosions, a group of barefoot guys in Japanese military uniforms rushed out of the jungle brandishing shiny Burmese knives and approached Xu Zhao and the others. "It's Burmese, not Japanese," a veteran soldier waved his rifle and scuffled with the barefoot guys. It's not the Japanese army, the guys with Burmese swords are all dark-faced, and they are a group of Burmese people wearing Japanese military uniforms.

Xu Zhao was furious, even the Burmese knew that there was an ambush, and his subordinates would be ambushed by the Burmese. The veterans had fought white-knuckle battles with the Japanese army in almost all of their homes, and the rifles in their hands were longer than Burmese knives, and they had not yet shown defeat for a while. However, as time went by, the expeditionary force was in a hurry to respond to the battle and did not have time to put on the bayonet, and the Burmese knife was a knife after all, which was much more lethal than the butt of the gun, and Xu Zhao's soldiers began to retreat.

Despite the shouts and curses of the officers, the soldiers gradually began to retreat and gradually retreated towards the mountain. There were no rifle bullets in the jungle, and the lone soldiers were shot one by one and fell, and the scene was chaotic, and the balance of war seemed to have tilted in favor of the Burmese.

A burst of machine guns came, and the Burmese, who were still brave and invincible just now, were shot and fell, and several tongues of fire pounced on the Burmese from the side of the jungle. It was their own people, and the veterans could hear it, it was the sound of Browning machine gun fire, which was only found in the expeditionary forces.

Sure enough, with the fire of the machine guns, more than a dozen agile soldiers rushed over, and the submachine guns in their hands never stopped, and the rain of bullets poured down on the Burmese, and the dense bullets knocked these vicious fellows to the ground in convulsions. The dozen or so soldiers who came to help didn't seem to stop at all, and the wind swept in front of Xu Zhao's eyes, and swooped down on the Burmese who were retreating into the jungle.

"Poor Kou Mo chase, be careful and deceitful" Yu Kuijiang shouted uneasily, but the dozen or so soldiers ignored him, and chased him in with submachine guns that kept firing. "Bang" "Bang" "Bang" A series of dull gunshots rang out in the middle of the mountain, slowly and methodically, and with the gunshots, the big trees on the edge of the jungle fluttered, and the corpses of Japanese soldiers fell like dumplings.

Xu Zhao and Yu Kuijiang looked back at the middle of the mountain, but they didn't see a single soldier, only the flickering gunfire was faintly visible among the dozen or so slightly raised weeds. The gunfire in the jungle never stopped, submachine guns, rifles, grenades, screams, and screams were intertwined, and the surviving soldiers in Xu Zhaolian were numb in their hearts. Fortunately, I didn't rush into the jungle.

"Defense, defense" Xu Zhao carried his pistol, shouting his subordinates to organize the defense line to defend, in his opinion, the dozen or so guys who chased into the jungle were more than lucky, it is estimated that most of them will not come back, and then they have to rely on themselves to wait for the arrival of the follow-up troops. The soldiers crouched in a panic halfway up the mountain, put their backpacks on the ground, and opened a rudimentary circular formation.

A whistle sounded, and the gunfire stopped, both in the jungle and in the middle of the mountain, as if they had been discussed. A group of Japanese soldiers with their hands raised in the midst of the barefoot Burmese came out of the jungle, numbering about 20 people, and headed straight for Xu Zhao. "Alert" Several veterans in Xu Zhao's company cautiously greeted him with submachine guns, if it was the Japanese army's fraudulent surrender, if they rushed into the defensive formation, the situation would be even worse.

"We are from the 112th Company, the 3rd Battalion and 1st Company of the 1st Regiment, which part are you from?" The veteran Wei Yong shouted loudly, escorting the captives out of the jungle were several soldiers wearing the uniforms of the expeditionary force, who should be their own people, but Wei Yong's submachine gun with grenade was not put down, and the muzzle of the gun was pointed at the captives.

A tall second lieutenant walking in front on the opposite side took off the steel helmet on his head, revealing his shaved and shiny bald head, and smiled with a mouthful of big white teeth, "We are a company directly under the headquarters, and our commander is still in the forest, where is your company commander?" Wei Yong was stunned by the other party's youth, this second lieutenant who was walking over was about 20 years old, and he looked like a child.

"Ah, I touched it from the Japanese soldier just now, don't dislike it" The little lieutenant who approached threw Wei Yong half a pack of Japanese cigarettes, his expression was extremely relaxed, as if he was talking to his own brother. Looking at Wei Yong, who was still stunned, the young ensign smiled, his eyes narrowed together with a smile, "My name is Yan Shijun, and the brothers all call me scholar, please take me to see your company commander."

Wei Yong suppressed the doubts in his heart, turned around and took Yan Shijun to find the company commander Xu Zhao, and secretly looked at the young second lieutenant beside him as he walked. Unlike the officers Wei Yong had come into contact with, although this young lieutenant was smiling, he had a strong murderous aura on his body, which was a murderous aura that only veterans of a hundred battles had, which was inconsistent with the young age of the second lieutenant.

Different from the soldiers who had slackened in Xu Zhaolian, the second lieutenant and his people traveled all the way, the gun was in their hands, and their fingers were always on the trigger, which was the vigilance and vigilance that only veterans have. But none of them are very old, they are all young people in their 20s, and Wei Yong is a little guilty again, how old can he start fighting to have such a murderous aura.

"Report to the chief, we are a company directly under the headquarters, and we were ordered to go out to reconnoiter the deployment of the Japanese army along the Dalong River" Yan Shijun rushed to Xu Zhao is a standard military salute. Edward and Roger are the ones who pay the most attention to the discipline of officers, the doglegs have been trained by them for half a month, and they also have the appearance and conduct of some officers, who would have thought that Yan Shijun was only a non-commissioned officer half a month ago.

Xu Zhao returned the salute, and his movements were much looser than Yan Shijun's, and the gap between the two was immediately revealed. Xu Zhao didn't feel anything wrong yet, but Yu Kuijiang, who was standing next to him, looked at Yan Shijun with great interest, "The company directly under the headquarters?" Is your chief Zhao Zhi? Yu Kuijiang suddenly asked, he had heard of this direct company when he was at the regiment headquarters.

"Our Chief Zhao is still in the forest, and it was Chief Zhao who led the team to pursue just now, please wait a while, our Chief will come soon" Yan Shijun smiled on his face, and he didn't see any slackness at all.

"Are these all captives?" Xu Zhao, who had been silent, pointed to the more than 20 prisoners who were escorted up behind, and asked Yan Shijun knowingly. "Our commander said that the direct company still has a mission, and you can't stay here for too long, so these prisoners will be handed over to you to deal with" Yan Shijun touched his nose and looked at Xu Zhao, he didn't know why this captain and company commander who had been keeping a straight face would ask such a question.

Yan Shijun's answer aroused Yu Kuijiang's great interest, you must know that the Japanese army is very crazy and will never take the initiative to surrender to the expeditionary force. Since the start of the counteroffensive in Burma, the 112th Regiment has also broken through many Japanese troops, but not a single living Japanese prisoner has been caught. The headquarters had already ordered the promotion and salary of the captured Japanese prisoners, and all the troops went crazy to capture the Japanese soldiers alive, but they did not succeed. This direct company was good, and it was given to Xu Zhao more than 20 prisoners at once, and there were at least 7 Japanese soldiers here.

"Is this what you Chief Zhao mean, or is it your own?" Xu Zhao's question was a bit tentative. Yan Shijun couldn't hear it, "This is what we mean by Chief Zhao, we really don't have the ability to march with so many prisoners" What Yan Shijun said is also the truth, the direct company has always been fighting interspersed battles, using the fast march to attack the Japanese army by surprise, if you take these prisoners, what else can you talk about with the fast march.

The order Zhao Zhi received this time was to go out to the front line of the Dalong River, reconnoiter the movements of the Japanese army, and see the right time to maneuver and attack. Infiltrating the flank or rear of the Japanese army to harass the enemy and facilitate the main force, all the British provided in the early stage had already made mistakes, and the command did not dare to believe all the intelligence of the British army anymore. /AUT