Chapter 120: Turning to Karaka (1)
"Report" Yan Shijun stood outside Zhao Zhi's tent and shouted a report, the military uniform on his body was neatly dressed, different from the looseness of the dogs, Yan Shijun's usual words and deeds are one-eyed. Zhao Zhi and the others took Beishan with nearly one-sixth of the casualties, and the next day they captured a slope with Japanese garrisons, so that the Japanese troops at the Ghost Gate Pass had died down and did not dare to attack the engineer units again. The Sino-American Engineer Corps officially entered the front line of Savage Mountain and began the task of road construction, and Zhao Zhi and the others were idle.
In fact, there are four regiments of the Chinese and American Engineer Corps, consisting of more than 7,000 engineers, and along with the engineer regiment, a large number of laborers from India have been conscripted into the mountains. Savage Mountain is now very lively, full of tents and cooking smoke. Zhao Zhi and the others will rest here for a few days, and then they will continue through the jungle and rush to the plains before the rainy season comes. The intention of the headquarters was to build an airstrip on the plain before the rainy season, and to hoard a large number of supplies near the plain where there was no Japanese garrison.
An entire engineering company was assigned to Zhao Zhi's advance battalion, and they would follow the advance battalion to the plains and use the airdropped supplies to build an airstrip. Zhao Zhi's task was to guide the route of the engineer company, protect the safety of the engineer company and the alert of the airstrip, so the headquarters promised Zhao Zhi that the first batch of airdropped materials would be replenished by Zhao Zhi first.
The clearance and vigilance of Savage Mountain have all been taken over by the 38th Division, and the angry uncle scolded Zhao Zhi for having no ability, and his brothers fought desperately to bring down the situation, but the 38th Division took advantage of it. Zhao Zhi didn't care much about this, he was busy hiding in the tent with Edward and the others to play poker. fought two battles with the Japanese army in succession, and the doglegs looted a lot of loot. These things that seem ordinary to the doglegs are good things in the eyes of those sappers who have not yet fought the Japanese army, and the old cannon has already made a lot of deals with the sappers with Edward.
In particular, the sappers of the U.S. military directly used the money to sell those things as capital to show off when they returned home after the war. Lao Pao's business was very prosperous for a while, there was nothing in Savage Mountain, and everyone of the doglegs had made a lot of gains, so Zhao Zhi simply took the idle guys to hide in the tent and play poker all day long.
As soon as the tent was lifted, Yan Shijun was smoked out by the choking smell of smoke coming to his face, and the doglegs were all smokers. More than a dozen guys huddled in a tent to smoke, and the smoke in the tent was burning, and Yan Shijun, who had not yet learned to smoke, naturally couldn't bear it. Yan Shijun hated Zhao Zhi's laissez-faire, and he believed that a soldier should look like a soldier, and he should be different from those soldiers. It is true that Zhao Zhi's people can fight, but they must also pay attention to the appearance of soldiers.
Yan Shijun had come to send a telegram to Zhao Zhi that the British troops stationed in Karaka were surrounded by an unknown number of Japanese troops, and according to British intelligence, the attacking Japanese troops were the 114th Wing of the 18th Division. The past two battalions of the 114th Regiment only occupied the periphery of Karaka, the Japanese offensive was too fierce, and the 114th Regiment was unable to break through, and now the two battalions of the 114th Regiment can only protect themselves and have no spare strength to rescue the besieged British army.
The headquarters did not ask Zhao Zhi to go to Karaka, this was just a briefing, Zhao Zhi had less than 300 people, and he fought two battles with the Japanese, with more than one-sixth of the casualties, according to the US army, Zhao Zhi's troops needed to rest. Therefore, the headquarters ordered Zhao Zhi to rest in place, and then enter the jungle after the replenishment of troops arrived. The order road has been clearly stated, waiting for reinforcements, that is, the company temporarily allocated by the 114th regiment will be returned.
In the first battle on the northern slope, almost all the people who died were from the 114th regiment, and only a few of the goats under Zhao Zhi's scouts were injured, all of whom were injured by the grenadiers of the Japanese counterattack, and they only needed to recuperate for some time, so they would naturally be fine. When he came, it was a reorganized company, and when he went back, he brought back the bones of dozens of comrades, and the company commander who led the team was not very sad. Where are there immortals in the war, after all, it only used dozens of casualties to defeat a squadron of the Japanese army, which is also a great victory.
sent away the people of the 114th regiment, no matter how the company commander went back and explained to Zhang Tianxiang, Zhao Zhi was preparing to return to Ledo with the dogs. It is only more than 50 miles away from Ledo, and you can borrow a truck from the sapper regiment and return to Ledo in a few hours. The doctors in the jungle camp were all foreigners, and the treatment of the wounded was based on their rank. Zhao Zhi didn't want to stay there for a long time, so he simply used the excuse of sending the wounded and took all the people back to Liedo with all the preparations.
"Sir, the headquarters is in an emergency" The second lieutenant of an engineer regiment was chasing the truck all the way, fortunately there was a checkpoint, otherwise Zhao Zhi would really be back in the queue. ", what the hell?" Zhao Zhi angrily threw the emergency power to Edward. The besieged British troops in Karaka could not hold on, and the two battalions of the 114th Regiment could barely resist the Japanese counterattack, and there was no spare strength to rescue the British troops. The headquarters asked Zhao Zhi's advance battalion to rush to Karaka to rescue the trapped British troops.
"Isn't that a reversal? Didn't you say earlier that we don't need to go? How has this changed again? "Uncle Guo who learned the news was also very angry." Forget it, let's listen, let's prepare. Send the wounded back first, and then bring all the reinforcements from Ledo's side, if there are no soldiers, we won't go anywhere" Zhao Zhi got off the truck with his backpack and asked the truck to send the wounded back to Ledo first.
The truck left, and with the foreign soldiers in the advance camp, Zhao Zhi still had less than 80 people left, and this point of people went to Karaka to die. Zhao Zhi simply stayed again, waiting for his reinforcements in Leduo to come over. "Yo, isn't this Camp Commander Zhao? Pretty laid-back, huh? A male duck's throat drew the poker guys to look up, and standing outside the tent was Jiang Cheng, who had been humiliated by the dogs in Kunming.
It seems that Jiang Cheng is doing well in the 114th Regiment, his military uniform is clean, his military boots are clean, and even his face is very clean, unlike Zhao Zhi, who always doesn't wash his face for several days. Edward had never seen Jiang Cheng, scratched his head and asked the old cannon beside him, "Who is that?" Lao Pao pouted indifferently, "Lao Tzu doesn't know" The dog also shook his head and said he didn't know. Zhao Zhi simply lowered his head to play cards, ignoring Jiang Cheng.
Jiang Cheng stood coquettishly at the entrance of the tent for a long time under the sun, and couldn't help but get angry when he saw that no one took care of him. "Battalion Commander Zhao, didn't the headquarters order you to go to Karaka? Why haven't you started yet? Jiang Cheng decided to make a fuss about the order of the headquarters and suppress Zhao Zhi. Uncle Guo smiled and was happy at Jiang Chengcheng, "May I ask who you are?" Our advance battalion is directly under the command, and it seems that it is not under the command of your 114th regiment."
Uncle Guo's words were neither hard nor soft, which made Jiang Cheng eat a soft nail. Jiang Cheng took out an official document from his pocket, "I was sent by the 114th Regiment to your advance battalion, and I am responsible for your coordination with the troops of the 114th Regiment on the front line of Karaka" Zhao Zhi took the official document and looked at it and handed it to Edward, signaling Edward to contact the headquarters by radio to confirm the authenticity of this official document. After contacting the headquarters, Edward confirmed that this was indeed the case, and Edward reported the current situation of the advance battalion to the headquarters, and finally bought a day's rest time, and a day later received reinforcements, and immediately set off for Karaka.
Since it was a rest agreed by the headquarters, Jiang Cheng naturally had nothing to say, so he just left with his two escorts in a huff. Zhao Zhi's ammunition consumed by them is easy to replenish, and the engineer regiment has rich ammunition and guns, and Zhao Zhi can replenish it on the spot with the orders of the headquarters. Uncle Guo based on the principle of plucking the feathers of the geese, and scraped a stroke on the quartermaster of the engineering regiment, and the price was very small, just a command knife of the Japanese army.
The reinforcements came, and the bulls who had recovered from their wounds also came, leaving only the female soldiers and the rich man, the cook, and Roger in the camp. The rich man took advantage of his relationship with the stationmaster of the railway station Xie to secretly transport some of the materials hoarded in the camp to Ramgarh by train, and many foreign soldiers who were on vacation in Ledo were hired by Linda to escort the soldiers. Lamb Garna's face is Mao Tou and a wrench to pick up the goods at the train station, and then take advantage of the opportunity of the plane to Kunming to transport soldiers, and smuggle the materials to Kunming to the profiteers.
However, since the Japanese planes began to block the Sino-Indian voyage, Maotou was afraid of the danger of hump navigation, so he no longer allowed Catherine to fly, and the remaining supplies had to be stored in the airport first. The rich man thought about giving the materials to the locals in India at a low price, but was vetoed by Yuan Qingqing and Linda, in case the headquarters knew that the advance battalion was reselling the supplies, then Zhao Zhi would lose his head.
Da Niu brought letters from Yuan Qingqing and Linda, and reading between the lines, Xiucai's death made the two of them very worried about Zhao Zhi. But he didn't dare to persuade Zhao Zhi to avoid the war, so he had to persuade Zhao Zhi to pay more attention to his safety. Linda is a foreigner after all, she is bolder, and she writes hot love words all over the place, and Zhao Zhi, who watched it, was so excited that he could hardly sleep at night.
The supplementary soldiers given by the headquarters this time are good, they are all veterans, and there are actually guys from Uncle Guo's original 22nd Division, and they are all familiar with Uncle Guo. With weapons and troops in hand, Jiang Cheng began to urge again, urging Zhao Zhi to hurry up and march towards Karaka. In fact, Zhao Zhi was not prevaricating Jiang Cheng, he really didn't want to save the British army. A year ago, in this savage mountain, tens of thousands of expeditionary soldiers died inside, and it was the British army who caused all this, because the British army fled without a fight in Mandalay, and the expeditionary force was completely exposed to the Japanese army. The expeditionary force, which had no weapons and equipment, no flank protection, and no fire support, began a great rout.
Beginning in Mandalay, along the way of the expeditionary force's rout, the British army preferred to burn the hoarded supplies rather than provide them to the expeditionary force. Even after the expeditionary force rescued more than 7,000 British troops in Ringanqiang, the expeditionary force that fled into India was almost disarmed by the British army, for the simple reason that the British troops stationed in India were afraid that the defeated expeditionary force would be undisciplined and would cause harm to the Indian locals.
Zhao Zhi never thought of himself as a pure soldier, he was always eager to repay him. For the arrogant and timid British army, Zhao Zhi was never willing to get too close. At that time, the rescue of the British army on the plains was just to find a way for the brothers to survive. Since the British army in Karaka can still hold out now, then what is Zhao Zhi in a hurry, it should be that the British army is in a hurry.
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