The smoke cleared, but there was still a strong smell of blood wafting on the hillside, and everyone who joined the battle group was splattered with blood on their bodies and faces. However, at this time, everyone had no time to take care of these, and the Japanese soldiers who were besieged just now were in a hurry, and one after another, Japanese soldiers with grenades and fierce beasts wielding sapper shovels died together. If it weren't for the concentrated fire of the elites, it is estimated that the beasts would have been forced down the hill by the crazy Japanese army.

A small squad of Japanese troops was completely annihilated, but the losses were also serious, 7 goats were killed, more than 30 foreign GIs were killed and wounded, and more than 20 elites were also killed. Fortunately, the Japanese mortars were quietly knocked out by Uncle Guo with a rifleman, or when the melee was over, the Japanese mortars hit the hillside, and it is estimated that Zhao Zhi and them were all wiped out. More than 200 people fought more than 50 Japanese troops, and so many people were killed and wounded, and the battle loss ratio was almost 1:1. The weapons are better than the Japanese army, the number is 5 times that of the Japanese army, and the soldiers of the advance battalion are all selected, and they will be beaten like this by more than 50 Japanese troops.

"Clean up the battlefield, only take machine guns, grenadiers, mortars and ammunition" Zhao Zhi asked the machete to replace the goats, and first took the rest of the scouts to search with walkie-talkies on their backs, he was afraid of being ambushed by the Japanese army again. The walkie-talkie is a new thing, Zhao Zhixin has been useless at first, and now he finds that this thing is indeed very useful. 3 of the 10 walkie-talkies distributed were damaged by the ambush just now, and the rest were divided by Zhao Zhidu, so that there was no need to shout and give orders.

Simply buried the soldiers who died in the battle, and took the ashes of the dead dogs, Zhao Zhi urged him to hurry up and get on the road, less than 20 miles away from Ledo, he didn't believe that the Japanese army would not go to Ledo. The British GIs, who were intercepted by Edward and then scattered by the Japanese army, were brutally collected by the old artillery and went directly into the advance camp. The lieutenant colonel just now turned into a pile of rotten meat during the first round of mortar bombardment, and Zhao Zhi now has the highest military rank and has become a veritable commander.

The more than 100 British soldiers who were forcibly incorporated into the team by Zhao Zhi awkwardly held Japanese-style 38 rifles and blood-stained Garand rifles, and followed the brigade through the woods at a loss, and Zhao Zhi no longer dared to take the avenue. The machete said on the walkie-talkie that they had at least found four places where Japanese troops were ambushed, and the targets were all avenues. Zhao Zhi wanted to take this group of people to bypass the ambush position of the Japanese army and go directly to the river outside Ledo.

Thirty tall and strong British soldiers were placed in the first line, all of them pitchers, grenade pitchers. The second platoon were machine gunners and submachine gunners, who were responsible for suppressing Japanese fire with concentrated fire. The real killer is the more than 20 riflemen of Uncle Guo, and the rate of fire and accuracy of the Garand rifle are the big killers of the riflemen.

Everyone was looking in Zhao Zhi's direction, waiting for the order to attack. Less than 40 meters away from them, a group of Japanese soldiers were surrounding a hole in the woods, not knowing what they were doing. In fact, the hole was the entrance to a British-style burial bunker, and the Japanese wanted to capture the British soldiers inside. Zhao Zhi wanted to bypass here, but the terrain occupied by the Japanese army was really favorable, and it just blocked Zhao Zhi's way.

Zhao Zhi waved his hand downward, and the pitchers stood up and threw out the grenades vigorously, regardless of whether they exploded or not, the pitchers who had completed the task flashed to the side with their heads in their hands, giving up the firing range to machine guns and submachine guns. There was no suspense in this kind of battle, there were only more than 20 Japanese soldiers on the side of the bunker, and the gunners only after the first round of firing after the grenade exploded, the order to stop shooting came from the uncle's side.

"Let's go, let's go" Zhao Zhi took a light machine gun from the dead body of the Japanese army, threw it to a British soldier, and took the lead and got into the woods again, marching in the direction of Ledo. After walking less than 10 miles, Zhao Zhi's team changed from two columns to three columns, because most of the British soldiers who were scattered by the Japanese army had the same idea as Zhao Zhi, and they all wanted to go to Liedo along the woods. Without exception, these British soldiers were all organized into the advance camp, and Zhao Zhi's team was like a snowball, reaching more than 500 people, two-thirds of whom were foreigners with yellow hair and blue eyes.

Across the river, Ledo was filled with smoke and the sound of artillery rumbled, but the shelling was not violent, because it was mainly because the Japanese fired only light mortars and grenadiers, and the gunners were also half-hearted, and the threat was far greater than the actual killing. Zhao Zhi felt that the Japanese army did not want to take more of the following, as if they were just trying to drive the British army to evacuate Ledo.

Zhao Zhi had seen enough, and handed over the telescope to Edward, he deliberately set aside time for Edward to see, he was not in a hurry, because the strong laborers he had just collected were digging trenches to facilitate ambush and defense, and by the way, he set up a few newly acquired light machine guns. Ledo was now full of smoke, some as a result of Japanese shelling, and some as the British burned supplies and ammunition supplies before retreating. Zhao Zhi is not in a hurry now, because it is useless to be anxious, the two suspension bridges on the Ledo river have been destroyed, and Zhao Zhi and they will not be able to cross the river for the time being.

He was waiting, because the Japanese army was preparing to erect a pontoon bridge. About 200 shirtless Japanese soldiers were busy by the river, cutting down trees and tying rafts with rope or rattan. In their opinion, Ledo's British troops had long been frightened to come out, and they could build pontoon bridges and swagger across the river into Ledo.

Zhao Zhi and they were in the woods four or five hundred meters away from the river, which was a place slightly higher than the river bank and the avenue, and Zhao Zhi decided to dig a trench here, preparing to wait for the Japanese pontoon bridge to be built, and then grab the pontoon bridge in one go. If they can't grab it, they will temporarily retreat to the trenches, after all, the Japanese troops who came to attack Ledo are only a small force of the 18th Division.

"Sir, the people by the river are all the Japanese troops, damn, they don't have sentry and follow-up support at all, it's just these more than 200" Xiucai looked dissatisfied. There are trenches digging on their side, and the Japanese army doesn't treat them as themselves at all. Not only were there no sentinels, but all the Japanese troops were busy tying up wooden platoons, and the Japanese were convinced that the British troops on this side of the river had been wiped out, and even if they were now stripped naked and went down to the river to bathe, it would be very safe.

"Damn, there's a squadron." Through the telescope, Zhao Zhi roughly counted the number of Japanese soldiers. Although there were no sentries, the Japanese had built a circular machine gun nest by the river, which contained 4 machine guns and several Japanese soldiers. All are light machine guns, which can be turned at any time and the direction of the blow can be chosen. There were few trees outside the machine-gun nest, and the entire stretch of the riverbank was within range of the Japanese machine-guns. Moreover, the nearest woods and hills were still four or five hundred meters away from the machine-gun nests, and at such a distance, it was difficult to inflict heavy casualties on the Japanese troops except by using artillery bombardment. If you want to take down the Japanese machine-gun nest, at least fill in more than 50 lives, Zhao Zhi doesn't want to do this.