Chapter 300: Variables
"Chief Zhao, is it really difficult to find you? Look at these guard posts of yours, you won't let us come," the pockmarked face with a sweaty face was a little skinny, and he looked at Zhao Zhi with a smile on his face. Zhao Zhi suddenly missed Zhao Yuanzhi very much, although Zhao Yuanzhi is also a guy who is very underwhelmed, but every time he misses a hit, he leaves immediately, and he never fights with himself in words.
"Is there something wrong? We are studying sending a blocking force to the rear to resist the Japanese pursuit force, could it be that you see that the casualties on my side are too great, and you want to take the initiative to meet the Japanese army? Zhao Zhi took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, pretending to look at the pockmarked face expectantly, while Uncle Guo and Lao Pao looked like they were waiting to see the excitement.
Zhao Zhi's words made Mazi's face red and red, but fortunately, the round-faced staff officer took over the topic in time, "Ahem, Sir Zhao, you are laughing, those supplementary soldiers are not bad, and it is not bad to take them to meet the Japanese army." We are here to discuss with you Sir Zhao, I wonder if Sir Zhao has time now? The round face was official, but he didn't know that he was already smelling of sweat at this time, his face was full of oil and sweat mixed with dirt, and he looked like a homeless man.
"You say, I'll listen to what is going on, anyway, I will have time" Zhao Zhi took a cigarette in his mouth and found a comfortable place to sit down. Zhao Zhi's indifferent attitude made Mazi's face a little crazy, but now he had a request for Zhao Zhi, so he had to suppress his anger and say the so-called business in a slow voice, "The headquarters just sent a telegram, saying that when the US military plane was doing aerial photography, it found that a Japanese army appeared on our right side, and the headquarters ordered us to intercept this Japanese army immediately, and we could not let them turn back to Myitkyina, and they should be entangled and left in the jungle."
"So, you just want my people to go, don't you?" Zhao Zhi didn't look up at pockmarked face at all, just leisurely smoking a cigar. "I only have 100 people, and there are dozens of wounded and female soldiers in it, and there are only more than 50 people who can hold guns, so do you want me to take the wounded and women with me?" Zhao Zhiteng stood up, staring at the pockmarked face with his eyes, and the frightened pockmarked face couldn't help but take a step back, swallowing and foaming with difficulty to feel that his mouth was no longer bitter.
In fact, there were no Japanese troops found by the aerial photography of the headquarters at all, this was just an excuse for pockmarked face to get out, he wanted to trick Zhao Zhi into taking his people to continue marching deep into the jungle, and then send a small force to lead the Japanese army to entangle with Zhao Zhi, and then he fled with the supplementary soldiers. His plan has been agreed by a certain boss in the headquarters, and he promised that as long as Mazi Face can continue to mix Zhao Zhi and the Japanese army together, he will be promoted when he returns to Xinpingyang. That's why pockmarked face came to Zhao Zhi, for the sake of his life and future, he had to come.
"Chief Zhao, you listen to me finish speaking, I didn't mean that" Mazi gave Zhao Zhi a smile on his face, "I was thinking, can I borrow a small group of soldiers from you to serve as the vanguard and set off first, and then our rear team will follow behind, so that if the spearhead and the Japanese army have a firefight, the loss will not be too big, right?" And our rear team can also take advantage of the exchange of fire between the Japanese army and the top soldiers to quietly go up and fight their ambush" Mazi stumbled with a little weakness and said his fictitious marching plan, which was still what he heard from other combat staff officers when he was at the headquarters.
Zhao Zhi tilted his head and stared at the pockmarked face, there was obviously a slight smile in his black eyes, this pockmarked face's tricks were too bad to catch up with Zhao Yuanzhi, at least if Zhao Yuanzhi was forced to do this, he would decide to directly negotiate the conditions with Zhao Zhi for a showdown, instead of being full of lies like Mazi face. After a pause for a few seconds, Zhao Zhi smiled abruptly, his squinted eyes looked a little weird, "There are only 12 people left in my scouts, and they are all injured, you all saw it just now, I am now powerless." If you insist on sending out the spearheads, then I will be the only one who will bring them up."
Zhao Zhi's words were somewhat watery, at least the goats that were the scout leaders were still intact, and there was no need for Zhao Zhi to personally lead people to be the top soldiers. It's just that when Zhao Zhi's scouts retreated just now, they saw the bloodstains and dejected appearance on their bodies, and their pockmarked faces, so they knew that Zhao Zhi's words were very watery, but they couldn't refute anything. Besides, they are also thieves with pockmarked faces, and now they will not be full of faces with Zhao Zhi and them, after all, it is still up to Zhao Zhi and them to get out of danger.
Just when Zhao Zhi and Mazi were playing haha, there was a sudden fierce gunfire in the mountains and forests behind, and Zhao Zhi's people jumped up from the ground with a shout, each looking for cover, and the gunfire was the sound of the Japanese light machine gun, and the Japanese army was chasing after him. The bloodstained goat ran back, "It's the Japanese army chasing after it, there is an infantry squad, two light machine guns, no grenadiers and mortars were found, the old cannon with the broken brothers has already exchanged fire with them" As he spoke, the goat was already sitting on the ground weakly, and anyone who kept shuttling in the mountains and forests couldn't stand it, not to mention that the goat had just gotten rid of the Japanese pursuit in front of him.
"Chief Zhao, what should we do?" Mazi looked at Zhao Zhi eagerly, with a trace of panic on his face, and the reinforcements under him were even more agitated, and some guys were already quietly preparing to throw away their obstructive backpacks. The dogs just pretended not to see the behavior of the recruits, and the backpack was full of food and spare ammunition, and threw them all away, to see what they were doing to get out of the jungle.
"Send the goat to the ambulance team and hand it over to Dr. Linda for a good examination" Zhao Zhi waved his hand and let the steamed bun take someone to send the goat away, although his brows were already wrinkled, but he was very excited in his heart. When sending the goat to the back to prepare, Zhao Zhi had already made an appointment with him, if the Japanese army really caught up, the person who came back to report the news took off the steel helmet, if it was the opposite, the person who reported the news took the steel helmet, when the goat ran back just now, the right hand was holding the steel helmet, which means that the gunfire behind is made by the old artillery, don't forget that there are many captured Japanese light machine guns in the battalion.
"Inform the broken brothers, prepare to retreat, let's retreat to the mountains, I hope that once we enter the mountains, these Japanese troops will not continue to chase us" Zhao Zhi gave an order, and he didn't care about them with a pockmarked face, and turned around to leave. If Zhao Zhi said it, it would only be the suspicion of the bigwigs in the headquarters, so Zhao Zhi was forcing them to make a decision, anyway, Zhao Zhi himself could take other people to get rid of the pursuit of the Japanese army.
"Sir Zhao, Sir Zhao" Listening to the still very fierce gunfire behind him, Mazi's face was anxious, and he grabbed Zhao Zhi's arm, "Brother has a way to live, I want to discuss it with you, Chief Zhao."
Zhao Zhi was overjoyed in his heart, the meat drama came, and then he just turned to look at the pockmarked face lightly, "Living?" What do you mean? ”
"Myitkyina, let's turn back to Myitkyina, we have received a telegram from the headquarters, the Chinese and US commandos have captured the Myitkyina airport, and our task of luring the enemy has been basically completed. There are already our own troops in the direction of Myitkyina, as long as we can safely withdraw there, the Japanese army behind will not dare to continue to pursue us" Mazi stubbornly grabbed Zhao Zhi's hand and didn't let go, like pulling a life-saving straw. He has been circling around in this mountain forest for a long time, except for Zhao Zhi and his cronies, all of them don't know the direction at all, leaving Zhao Zhi and his people is a dead end, and the pockmarked face will naturally not let go.
The message of the pockmarked face shocked Zhao Zhi very lightly, the movement of the headquarters is fast enough, it has now entered the rainy season, if you want to take the Myitkyina airport, you have to have heavy weapons, could it be that what kind of commando team carried heavy weapons through the jungle to the periphery of Myitkyina airport? If this is the case, it will not be in vain that his own direct battalion will be used as a bait for them to lure away the Japanese troops on the outskirts of Myitkyina. Now that Myitkyina Airport has been taken, does that mean that Catherine's plane can fly back to Kunming from Myitkyina, Zhao Zhi's head is fast calculating, he needs to find a shortcut, a shortcut with the lowest loss.
The old cannon and the long hair came back with a puzzled face, it was the dog who went to find it, and the two Japanese light machine guns that were carried out were gone, and it was estimated that it was the old cannon and they threw it away after they finished shooting the bullets. "Notify all the officers to come over for a meeting, the others will rest in place for 10 minutes, and the troops will send a guard post" Zhao Zhi held his hands and paced in place and ignored the pockmarked face, since the pockmarked face took the initiative to say the latest battle situation in Myitkyina, it must have been instructed by the headquarters, since this is the case, it is better to withdraw them all, and it is naturally best not to be a deserter.
Zhao Zhi's officers rushed over one after another, and even Edward, who had not recovered from his injuries, was also carried over, Zhao Zhi's troops have always been mixed, there are ** officers, there are also US military officers, fortunately, everyone has long been used to it, and Edward speaks their Chinese very well, and there is no problem with everyone's communication at all. "I just received the news, the Chinese and US commandos have taken the Myitkyina airport, and our task of luring the enemy has basically been completed, so I asked you to come over to discuss the route and arrangements for us to withdraw to Myitkyina immediately" The hood looked around, and lightly told the news that the pockmarked face had just told him.
"Is the information reliable?" Edward's first reaction was that Zhao Zhi was making up nonsense again, since the last airdrop, Zhao Zhihe himself has never turned on the radio at all, where did his news come from? Looking at Zhao Zhi's eyes faintly glanced at the pockmarked face, Edward suddenly realized that when these guys landed in Xiali, they brought their own radio station, and this news must have been obtained from the headquarters, it seems that Zhao Zhi forced the pockmarked face to say their own life-saving card.
Except for Edward's question, the other officers of the direct battalion did not have much reaction at all, and were sent into the mountains and forests by the headquarters to be used as bait, which was unacceptable to everyone. When it comes to military exploits, not to mention the outstanding military exploits of the directly subordinate battalion, it must also be one of the best among the troops in northern Myanmar in the early stage of the expeditionary force. The officers were almost all old men who followed Zhao Zhi, and they had long been accustomed to Zhao Zhi making decisions with ideas, so everyone had no superfluous reaction to the new situation announced by Zhao Zhi at all.
"What else should I do? You are the chief, what you say is what, my old cannon has no opinion, my stomach hurts and Lao Tzu wants to go to make it convenient" The old cannon patted his ass and left. As soon as he came over just now, Lao Cannon saw Zhao Zhi winking at him, and he suddenly realized it after Zhao Zhi made a very vague gesture of knife chopping. The machete was the first batch of people who "died in battle" in Zhao Zhi's plan, and now he can meet Myitkyina generously, Zhao Zhi has to figure out a way to bring the machete back from the dead, and now it seems that this important task is handed over to the old cannon to solve.
Zhao Zhi motioned to the dog to open the map and spread it on the ground, "Look, our current location is probably here" Zhao Zhi pointed to a place in the northeast of Myitkyina, in fact, the current position of the troops is much closer to Myitkyina than this place, but Zhao Zhi doesn't want to tell them the real location, "This is a little far away from Myitkyina, and our supplies don't seem to be enough, so the most important thing is to find an open place to apply for material airdrops, and the location is to be found by my people, The matter of applying for the airdrop of materials will be handed over to the three operational staff officers from the headquarters to complete" Zhao Zhi tilted his head and looked at the pockmarked face, which was immediately on the lips, and the pockmarked face dared to be lazy, so he immediately patted his chest and promised that it would be completed.
Even Uncle Guo praised the pockmarked face's face for changing fast enough, and now not only did he shout at Chief Zhao, but also took the initiative to return the command of the supplementary soldiers to Zhao Zhi, with so much more free labor, Zhao Zhi naturally would not refuse. Among the remaining more than 200 people in the supplementary army, a group was picked up by Roger and Uncle Guo, and the rest were stuffed into the rich man's logistics team as porters, plus the one hundred and ten people in Zhao Zhi's hands, and the nearly 800 people in the direct battalion when they set off, there were only just over 400 people left.
The route for retreating to Myitkyina was only drawn up, but the order of the troops' retreat was never decided. He was still waiting, and when the airdrop from the headquarters actually landed, he would not believe that the headquarters really wanted them to retreat. Otherwise, he took the brothers who followed him to really become deserters, and went directly to Gaoligong Mountain and turned back to Kunming, taking off this military uniform and becoming a common man in a down-to-earth manner. ~