Chapter 182: Fierce Battle in the New Plains (5)

Zhao Zhi held his leg and half-bent over, gasped for breath, and ran out of more than ten miles of mountain roads in one go, which was already Zhao Zhi's limit. After summoning Uncle Guo and the goat back to discuss, Zhao Zhi decided to throw away the old artillery and logistics team, and raid Xinpingyang with all the mobile forces. The Machete would bring the company of the infantry battalion over to join the old artillery, and escorted 6 mountain guns to Xinpingyang to meet Zhao Zhi.

The opportunity cannot be lost, the fighters on the battlefield are often just a matter of a moment, and Zhao Zhi does not want to lose the great opportunity to take the new Pingyang. The Japanese army had long been aware of the expeditionary force's action in paving roads in the Savage Mountains, so they sent small units to constantly harass the engineers. Then a large number of troops were assembled, and along the Savage Mountains to the Hukang Valley, layers of defense lines were set up according to the squadron level, in a vain attempt to intercept the expeditionary force on the periphery of the Hukang Valley.

The Japanese troops stationed in Xinpingyang also shot at the defensive line, and the unaware Ye Tian infantry battalion plunged headlong into the Japanese army's cobwebs. As soon as the Japanese troops in the first line of defense exchanged fire with Ye Tian's infantry battalion, they immediately notified the Japanese troops who were following behind, so waves of Japanese troops rushed over like flies that smelled blood. This is how Ye Tian's infantry battalion was defeated by the mixed forces of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army is still in hot pursuit, vainly trying to annihilate Ye Tian's infantry battalion in one fell swoop.

According to the prisoners' confessions, there are now only more than 200 Burmese puppet troops and dozens of wounded Japanese soldiers stationed in Xinpingyang. Although Zhao Zhi only has a few dozen people on his hands now, if he can take advantage of the night to launch a surprise attack on Xin Pingyang, the chances of winning are still very good. If you wait for most of the Japanese troops pursuing the infantry battalion to return, if you want to take Xinpingyang, you will have to fill it with human lives.

Ignoring the bitter pleas of Yuan Qingqing and Linda, and taking two Burmese captives as guides, Zhao Zhi went straight to Xinpingyang with mobile troops. Zhao Zhi walked in a straight line, through the jungle and straight to Xinpingyang, which was nearly a third of the way along the mountain road. Walking in the jungle has long been as simple as a common thing for doglegs, but Zhao Zhi also brought a few American sappers, which invisibly slowed down the speed of travel.

As soon as he crossed a mountain ridge and entered the forest, the goats walking in front of the group suddenly stopped, and then half-crouched down and made a dangerous gesture. Several soldiers behind him immediately scattered to find their own concealment, this kind of formation has long been a common thing in the training of the direct company, and Roger has deeply engraved the handling of emergencies in the minds of the soldiers. As soon as the platoon makes a dangerous gesture, the rest of the soldiers have to react to cover the platoon and the rear.

Zhao Zhi was pushed behind a tree by the dog, and they swarmed him up with steamed buns and protected him tightly. Zhao Zhi glared at them a few times dissatisfied, took off the submachine gun on his back, put it in his hand, and looked at the goat with a telescope. At this time, the goat stood up, the alarm was lifted, it seemed to be a false alarm, but no one dared to be careless, fighting, one step at a time.

"Questions?" Zhao Zhi picked up the goat and asked anxiously.

"I always feel that something is wrong there" The goat looked around the forest suspiciously, shaking his head helplessly. The goat's sense is always accurate, especially in the jungle.

Patting the goat's shoulder, Zhao Zhi called the steamed bun and asked him to inform the others to be vigilant. The closer you get to Xinpingyang, the more careful you must be, if you are not careful, you will lose your life, and the gain will outweigh the loss. After the false alarm just now, the soldiers all took a small rest and set off again, marching at a slight speed. The goat is still the vanguard, and the machete has not yet returned, so he has become the natural vanguard.

With Zhao Zhi's instructions, the soldiers on the march all widened their eyes and paid attention to the movement in the forest, for fear that they would suddenly rush out a few Japanese soldiers to attack them. "Hidden, hidden" The goat that was walking in the front suddenly turned around and ran back, lowering its voice to signal everyone to be careful and hidden.

Zhao Zhi crouched on the edge of a dead tree trunk, holding a telescope and looking around, he was in the shadows, otherwise he would not dare to look around with a telescope. Once the sunlight shines on the lens of the telescope, it will expose the position to the Japanese army. I looked in the direction of the goat several times, but I didn't see any danger. Yan Shijun, who was lying next to Zhao Zhi, just wanted to hold up his head, but was held down by Zhao Zhi, "hidden" Zhao Zhi opened his mouth and didn't speak, just used his mouth shape to show Yan Shijun.

Zhao Zhi: The place where they were crouching happened to be at the downwind outlet, and the breeze blowing from the upwind outlet was full of shadows with a smell, and the goat just smelled this smell and hurriedly retreated. At this time, Zhao Zhi also smelled this smell, which was familiar to everyone, and some people were smoking in the upwind outlet.

Fighting a war is cruel and torturous, and even a new recruit, after a few battles, learns to smoke without a teacher. It is both a time and a stress reliever, so cigarettes and weapons are equally important in the eyes of soldiers. If someone is smoking in such a barren mountain and wilderness, there must be Japanese troops in front.

Zhao Zhi took the telescope and climbed forward for a while, and crouched behind a section of rotten wood, the terrain here is slightly higher, and the vision will be better. The anxious dog followed closely, and lay down next to Zhao Zhi, and when Yuan Qingqing was separated from the team, Yuan Qingqing repeatedly told the dog to be optimistic about Zhao Zhi, but he remembered it very clearly.

Grabbing a few handfuls of blades of grass and simply weaving a grass ring and putting it on the steel helmet, Zhao Zhi slowly poked his head out from behind the rotten wood. In the middle of the afternoon, the light in the forest was very good, and he could see it clearly in the telescope, Zhao Zhi looked at the suspicious places around, but found nothing.

After making a few gestures, Zhao Zhi pulled the bolt, and the bullet was already pressed in the chamber of the gun, so that it could be fired at any time. After the guys lying on their stomachs saw Zhao Zhi's gesture, they all checked their weapons and quietly dispersed through the terrain. The scouts have advanced a lot along the flanks, and once they engage the enemy, the scouts on both flanks can act as surprise soldiers, firing at the middle of the flank and suppressing the enemy at any time.

After waiting for more than ten minutes and still not finding any movement, Zhao Zhigang took back the telescope and wanted to get up, but he saw the goat raise the submachine gun, and a spirit in his heart immediately turned around and retracted behind the rotten wood. Sure enough, Zhao Zhi looked at the grass for a long time and didn't find the suspicious bush, but at this time, there was a sudden change. I only heard the sound of brushing in the grass, and a few steel helmets emerged from the grass, and the steel helmets also buckled the grass circle like Zhao Zhi.

After all those people came out of the grass, Zhao Zhi saw the whole picture clearly, it was not the Japanese army, but the Burmese wearing the uniform of the Japanese army. With the sound of "Kara", Zhao Zhi secretly screamed, and a Burmese soldier who came out of the grass on the opposite side suddenly stopped, pointing at Zhao Zhi and they didn't know what they were shouting.

"Fire, fire" didn't care so much, let's talk about it first, Zhao Zhi turned over and half-knelt behind the rotten wood and shouted and pulled the trigger. The silence in the mountains and forests was broken by the sound of submachine gun fire, and the three Burmese soldiers walking in front had been hit by a rain of bullets and fell to the ground in convulsions. The remaining Burmese soldiers reacted, flinching their necks and rolling into the grass behind them, disappearing without a trace.

"Kill them, kill them all" Hearing Zhao Zhi's shout, the submachine gunners jumped out of the concealment, rushed forward at waist speed, and interspersed with each other to cover the advance during the run. Everyone couldn't see the situation in the grass clearly, and could only hear the sound of brushing in the grass, and it was the Burmese soldiers who were running.

The submachine gunners had no way to see the enemy's exact position, so they opened fire on the shaking grass and bushes, and the clatter of gunfire kept rang out, and the grass was cut by the extended bullets. Uncle Guo's riflemen helped each other to send a few snipers up a few trees, at least so that they could see more clearly.

In a battle, the side that shoots first often occupies the initiative on the battlefield, and this will play a great role in the heart. The Burmese soldiers were robbed by Zhao Zhi first, so they were blinded and fled and did not dare to fight back. "Bang" "Bang" "Bang", the snipers in the trees were already firing, and after a few screams from deep in the grass, the snipers stopped firing one after another, and the grass was silent again.

"Go in and have a look, others are on alert" The submachine gunners, who had long stopped shooting, saw Zhao Zhi's gestures, and they all gathered together in twos and threes and touched the grass. The Burmese soldiers were almost always captured by the Japanese army from the local mountain people, who were more familiar with the forest than the expeditionary force. The quality of weapons in the mountains and forests does not determine the quality of the battle, so it is better to be careful at this time.

"This one, still alive" "There are two of them, both are dead" As the shouts of the submachine gunners rang out, the bodies of the Burmese soldiers who were killed in the grass were found one after another. A total of 5 were killed, and 2 were injured and could not run. The goats that had chased out a large number of goats also retreated with the scouts, and they ran through the bushes, and found no other Burmese soldiers, so it seemed that there were only a few Burmese soldiers here.

The marijuana flower that was carried by the male soldiers all the way was carried over again, and there was no way, only the marijuana flower in the direct company could speak Burmese. Zhao Zhi didn't believe in the so-called Burmese overseas Chinese translators sent by the headquarters, he only believed in his own people, so when he set off to raid Xinpingyang, Zhao Zhi also brought cannabis flowers. Along the way, the marijuana flowers that had long been unable to run were all carried by the male soldiers in turn, and they were almost half-dragged and half-dragged here when they got to the back.

After a few screams, Marijuana began to speak to the captives in jerky, Burmese. When the captives didn't answer, Yan Shijun directly put on his big leather boots and kicked them a few times, and the captives whose faces were covered with blood immediately stopped talking, and Zhao Zhi's head was big when he listened.

According to the captive's confession: there is indeed only one Burmese squadron in Xinpingyang, numbering about 200 people, stationed in the mountain fortresses on both sides of Xinpingyang, condescendingly guarding Xinpingyang. The prisoners of the expeditionary force captured last year have been sent to Mengguan, accompanied by dozens of wounded Japanese soldiers, which is the main reason why there are only Burmese soldiers left in Xinpingyang, and the people who escorted the car to Mengguan are all Japanese soldiers. /AUT