Chapter 127: Turning to Karaka (8)

"Call the old artillery, smash all the shells on it, and by the way, notify the British army, send more manpower, surround the mountain ridge, and trap the Japanese army on it" Zhao Zhi pulled the steamed bun and ordered viciously, the Japanese army who was forced to fight back was very crazy, and Zhao Zhi's men had already begun to have casualties. When the shrinking Japanese troops retreated, there were always those who voluntarily broke off, holding smoking grenades or carrying explosive bags tied to their bodies and threw themselves into the pursuit line, and died together with the soldiers of the expeditionary force.

In order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers, the commanders of each unit ordered the pursuit to stop, thus losing the best time for pursuit. "Damn, won't you guys use it?" Zhao Zhi jumped straight to his feet, and the expeditionary force equipped with automatic firepower was actually forced back by several human bombs, and he was captured. The soldiers of the advance battalion were scolded by Zhao Zhi and were a little wronged, in the pursuit battle just now, Zhao Zhi's people rushed the most fiercely and achieved the greatest results.

"Holy shit, it's all you guys, otherwise, our commander wouldn't have reprimanded us" The soldiers of Zhao Zhi's advance battalion quarreled with the guys of the 114th regiment. The good pursuit just now was because the guys of the 114th Regiment were in a hurry to capture the prisoners, which delayed the best opportunity for the pursuit, and a great pursuit battle ended in a hurry.

The British troops on the main position only rushed out of the trenches and fought for a while at the beginning of the counterattack, and then retreated into the trenches to watch the battle between the expeditionary force and the Japanese army. The speed with which the expeditionary force defeated the Japanese army surprised Fleet, and the Chinese army could not defeat the Japanese army with the same number of people. Today's expeditionary forces, however, have changed Frilinger's view of the Chinese army, and he has to re-examine the combat strength of the expeditionary force.

After occupying the Japanese position, Zhao Zhi used a walkie-talkie to contact Yan Shijun, who was still on the side of the British army, and informed the British army of the situation of the battle. The British troops, who had been besieged for nearly half a month, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and the British soldiers, who had been bluffed by the Japanese army for several days, who had been almost sleepless at night, cheered in the trenches. However, the British army immediately sent a telegram to the headquarters, claiming that they had suffered heavy losses in the defense of Karaka, and that they could no longer continue to garrison Karaka, and requested the headquarters to redeploy troops to garrison Karaka.

The smoke had not yet cleared, and the position was in shambles, littered with corpses and screaming wounded soldiers. Trampling on the corpses and stumps and broken arms all over the ground, the soldiers of the expeditionary force began to clean up the battlefield, and Zhao Zhi's people were among them, after the battle, Zhao Zhi didn't want to restrain them too much. The 114th Regiment drew a battalion and surrounded the hundreds of surviving Japanese soldiers who lacked heavy weapons on the hill, without food and water, to see how long the Japanese could stay on it.

The doglegs did not participate in cleaning the battlefield, but were smoking and chatting in twos and twos by the cover fortifications. The soldiers have already been explained, as long as all the adjutant knives are handed in, the rest of the trophies are the recruits'. The machete and the goat's newly acquired adjutant knife have always been coveted by doglegs, and now everyone wants to carry an adjutant knife, and it is better to cut those annoying vines in the jungle.

Seeing that the Japanese army had been repulsed, many British expatriates and reporters left Karaka and went to the battlefield to welcome the arrival of the expeditionary force. Zhao Zhi, who saw these people from afar, turned his head and wanted to leave with the doglegs, but was blocked by a tall British woman, who had to see the commander of the unit that had rescued Karaka. "Mr. Major, how did you and your soldiers repel the Japanese army?" The female reporter grabbed Zhao Zhi with a small notebook, apparently seeing the rank of major on Zhao Zhi's collar.

A British expatriate next to him was trying to translate into Chinese, Zhao Zhi smiled faintly, waved his hand, Yan Shijun next to him replied in standard English, "Attack, and then repel" For Yan Shijun's answer, the other British people showed surprised expressions on their faces, in their memory, the Chinese army was still an old-style unit using backward bolt-action rifles and broadswords. Many officers and soldiers in the army were still smoking big cigarettes, and they couldn't imagine that the Chinese soldier in front of them could actually speak fluent English.

"Mr. Major, there must be a lot of people here, we heard that the battle was fierce?" The female reporter changed to Chinese and continued to chase Zhao Zhi to ask questions. Zhao Zhi laughed dumbly, the female reporter used English to ask questions before, she wanted to see Zhao Zhi's jokes. Seeing that Yan Shijun knew English, this time he switched to Chinese, and these foreigners didn't know what was going on in their heads. "We only have 3 battalions," Zhao Zhi answered the female reporter's question indifferently.

"What? Only 3 battalions? The British soldiers present and the female reporter were stunned by Zhao Zhi's answer. There were 2,000 British troops in Karaca, all of whom were overwhelmed by the Japanese army, and Caraca was about to be captured by the Japanese army. But Zhao Zhi and they only have 3 battalions, doesn't it seem that the British troops are too incompetent?

The female reporter was obviously very dissatisfied with Zhao Zhi's brief answer, and chased after Zhao Zhi to ask questions. Zhao Zhi, who was very impatient by her, frowned, and Wallace, who came up from behind, hurriedly took away the female reporter under the pretext of the danger of the battlefield. "Inform the brothers, hurry up and clean up the battlefield, and we will take all the heavy firepower" Zhao Zhi's advance battalion set off with only three light machine guns and two 81 mortars for the sake of flexibility in the jungle. When encountering this kind of positional warfare again, it is not possible to lack heavy firepower, and the collapse of the Japanese army is a weapon left, which makes Zhao Zhi have the idea of capturing weapons.

Although Zhao Zhi can call for airdrops, the expeditionary force has three battalions in Karaka, and the distribution of weapons and supplies is also a problem, and Zhao Zhi does not want to have disputes with other troops. Fortunately, the soldiers added by Zhao Zhi had all fought in China, and they were not ignorant of Japanese-style firearms. Looking at the firepower configuration of the Japanese attack just now, there should be no shortage of heavy weapons abandoned by the Japanese army.

"Sir, our people had a dispute with the guys of the 114th regiment, and they have already started?" The Iron Head ran over panting. On the west side of the battlefield, there were already a lot of soldiers around, and the shouting and scolding became a loud one. "Get out of the way" The doglegs squeezed through the crowd and squeezed out a passage for Zhao Zhi.

There were already more than a dozen soldiers in the crowd scuffling together, but fortunately it was just fists and boots, and no guys were used. "Wait first" Zhao Zhi stopped the dog and looked at the soldiers who were scuffling with interest. There is a tall guy who is very eye-catching, and one person resists 3 or 4 guys on the opposite side, and he is very brave in his left and right attacks. Zhao Zhi tilted his head and asked Uncle Guo beside him, "Who is this kid?" Looks like it's one of us, right? Uncle Guo squinted a few times and nodded, "Yes, it was just added this time, saying that he had worked in the 88th Division for a few days before, and was reorganized into a miscellaneous unit after being broken up in Songhu, this kid seems to be a machine gunner."

"Let them stop" Zhao Zhi gave an order, and the dog and the steamed bun picked up the butt of the gun and rushed into the middle of the melee with a burst of smashing. The soldiers who were smashed down still wanted to fight back, but when they got up, they saw Zhao Zhi with a smile on his face, and they immediately stood upright and didn't dare to move. What Zhao Zhi left on the 114th Regiment was the impression of a smiling tiger with a needle in the face, and even Zhang Tianxiang was deflated in front of Zhao Zhi, not to mention these small soldiers.

"Sir, the bullies of their 114th Regiment, the 92-type machine gun position was shot down by us, they came up and grabbed it, and they also injured our two brothers" A small soldier who was quite good at looking at the situation preemptively reported the cause of the incident to Zhao Zhi, this guy was not less than a soldier who attacked the other party in the back just now.

"Is that so?" Zhao Zhi was still smiling, turned his head and asked one of the sergeants on the other side, who was the largest among the guys on the other side. "Sir, this position was taken by us, and it was your people who came to grab it" Although the sergeant didn't dare to look at Zhao Zhi, he still stiffened his neck to refute the words of the little soldier. "Is that so? Then I don't understand, your 114th Regiment launched an attack from the north side, when did you bring down my attack area? Zhao Zhiyin removed the smile on his face, then narrowed his eyes, and his face gradually turned cold.

According to the previous agreement between Zhao Zhi and the two battalions of the 114th Regiment, almost all of the heavy weapons of the Japanese army were on the west side, because Zhao Zhi was supported by 4 mountain guns, so the advance battalion attacked from the west side. The two battalions of the 114th Regiment attacked from the relatively weak north, but this heavy machine-gun position was in the middle of the attack area of the advance battalion. If it was as the sergeant said, it was that the advance battalion only undertook less than half of the attack mission, and the Japanese troops outside Karaka were defeated by the 114th Regiment independently. Zhao Zhi didn't want his brothers to fight for a long time, but the credit was robbed by others.

In response to Zhao Zhi's question, the sergeant was speechless. "Leave all the Japanese equipment, send the people back, and let their commanders teach them well" Zhao Zhi didn't want to tear his face with the guys of the 114th Regiment now, and just wanted to solve this matter simply. After all, there are still some foreigners and reporters on the battlefield, and Zhao Zhi doesn't want to be seen by foreigners as a joke about the expeditionary force.

But Zhao Zhi's kindness backfired, just when Zhao Zhi took someone to count the weapons and seize them. The menacing Xue Changfu took the group of soldiers who had just fought to Zhao Zhi's position, with a look of indignation. "Zhao Zhi, you've gone too far, haven't you? Look at what my people have been beaten into? Xue Changfu pulled a few soldiers who were beaten with blue noses and swollen faces, and it looked like they couldn't hit clearly.

Zhao Zhi secretly scolded the dog and the steamed bun for not being serious, they all smashed it with the butt of the gun, but his own people were not willing to use heavy hands, and the butt of the gun almost smashed on the other soldier's body. "Battalion Commander Xue, it's just a fight between soldiers, and my people are also injured, didn't your people tell you?" Zhao Zhi threw Xue Changfu a cigar with a smile on his face, but his tone was extremely flat. Zhao Zhi also often does things to protect his shortcomings, but he will not be as unreasonable as Xue Changfu.

"I don't care, anyway, my people have been beaten, you have to give me an explanation" Xue Changfu relied on his own large number of people, so he had to divide black and white, and the British on the battlefield saw that there were a lot of people gathered here, and they also surrounded to see what was going on. "Say? They despise their superiors and beat their comrades, what should I say? What explanation should I give to robbing the spoils of war and deceiving the chief? Zhao Zhi looked at Xue Changfu coldly, ignoring Xue Changfu's darkening face, Zhao Zhi, who had the corners of his mouth raised, changed his smile and teased Xue Changfu, "Battalion Commander Xue, your people have all hit my position, and you still want me to explain?" I don't want the British to see the jokes of our expeditionary force, I want to explain, let's talk again in the evening."

Looking at Zhao Zhi who left, Xue Changfu's face was pale, and he kicked those guys with blue noses and swollen faces to the ground, and scolded in his mouth, "Guys who have no interest, so many people still let people beat them, are you all pigs?" The guys who were kicked down by Xue Changfu didn't care about wailing, and they got up one after another and hugged their heads. Xue Changfu, who was angry, still scolded, not because Zhao Zhi didn't give face and couldn't get the funds down, but because of the incompetence of his subordinates. More than 20 people beat 7 or 8 people, but they didn't get a bargain, and let Zhao Zhi take him back, Xue Changfu lost face this time.

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