Chapter 962: The Peerless Battle
It is not difficult to build these fires, a few trees, a few barrels of diesel fuel poured on, as long as it does not rain, it will not be extinguished for a few hours, and tonight's Dragon King and Thor's Electric Mother seem to be scared stupid, forgetting the thunder and lightning, the clouds and rain, and the achievement of tonight's peerless battle.
Nearly 800 warriors joined hand-to-hand combat with bright bayonets and hoarse cries of killing, although they had always spoken with guns and were not accustomed to seizing people, and at this time, they used this method to tell their brothers that reinforcements had arrived, and at the same time, it could also bring a certain amount of panic to the Japanese army.
Sure enough, with their joining, the morale of the soldiers of the regiment was greatly lifted, and the more they killed, the more courageous they became, while the Japanese army retreated step by step, and the two exhausted tigers suddenly killed a group of wolves, which was quite shocking and threatening to the enemy.
In less than ten minutes, the Japanese army showed obvious defeat, and with a burst of Japanese shouting for retreat, the Japanese began to run all the way back.
It is very dangerous to retreat rashly from the battlefield of hand-to-hand combat, especially since the other side is not short of bullets, the Japanese commander naturally understands this truth, and will definitely not give this order easily, but he underestimated the shamelessness of the airborne brigade, and it was they who gave this "order" on his behalf, and the order to retreat was shouted by a few airborne brigade soldiers who spoke good Japanese.
And the officers and men of the airborne brigade who had been prepared for a long time, after opening a certain distance from the Japanese army, the AK47 in their hands also began to roar, and this pursuit and killing cut them to a piece like cutting rice, and the rest only hated their father and mother for having two legs, and they didn't dare to turn back in one breath.
In order to prevent the Japanese army from turning back and shelling back, the officers and men of the airborne brigade pursued the Japanese army for three or four miles before turning back, and it was naturally unrealistic to completely annihilate the enemy on such a night, although they knew that their biggest enemy Abe Jinwei might be in front, but for the sake of the overall situation, the soldiers still chose to give up and continue the pursuit.
By the time they returned to the battlefield, thousands of civilians had already poured out, and they carried the soldiers of the Airborne Brigade from the corpses in one place with torches, whether they were wounded or dead, and carried them back on stretchers.
More civilians, under the command of the soldiers, helped clean up the battlefield, and an hour later, except for a few tanks that could not be moved, other weapons and ammunition and food carried by individual soldiers were all moved back to the city.
At this time, the sky was already slightly bright, and all the people who survived the disaster poured into the streets, beating gongs and drums and setting off firecrackers, welcoming the expeditionary force into the city in the way they wanted, stuffing a few apples, a few bananas, and a few hard-boiled eggs into the hands and arms of the soldiers, and welcoming the arrival of their relatives in the most simple way, and even many old people hugged the soldiers and wept bitterly.
In a foreign land, under the trampling of the iron hooves of the beast army, they have lived in shame and reluctance for more than half a year, living a non-human life, not to mention that life is always threatened, and now they finally see their own country's army and their relatives come to save them, that kind of excitement, that kind of excitement, that kind of indescribable mood, can not be described in any words.
In a relatively remote part of the city, the airborne brigade found a civilian house that had not been destroyed by artillery fire, where the temporary headquarters was built, and the field hospital was soon established, a large number of wounded soldiers were in urgent need of treatment, and all the doctors in Lashio also joined the camp of rescuing the wounded on their own.
The results of the battle damage were also quickly counted, the two regiments totaled more than 6,400 people, 1,864 killed, 721 seriously wounded, 610 lightly wounded, 180 missing, a total of 3,375 casualties, and more than half of the battle losses had been lost.
"Brigade, Mr. Ne Wen has been here for a long time, and he has brought news of the Japanese army's supplies, do you think you will meet him first?" Knowing that Liu Xianwei was in a bad mood, even if it was good news, Chief of Staff Tang Hao said tentatively.
Liu Xianwei gritted his teeth, crumpled the battle damage report in his hand into a ball, and said in a deep voice: "Let him in!" ”
Soon, Bo Naiwen strode in, originally happy, but seeing that the atmosphere in the house was a little wrong, Liu Xianwei and Tang Hao's faces were not good-looking, the smile on their faces slowly faded, and told Liu Xianwei in a very peaceful tone that he found a local old hunter, and the old hunter told him that there was a mountain called Tiger Wolf Mountain ten miles northeast from the Japanese army's Lashio warehouse, which belonged to the edge of the Shan State Plateau. One of the old man's brothers is one of them, so it is almost a forbidden place, I have not heard of anyone who came out of it alive, folk rumors, there is a tiger cave inside, all the tigers live in it, how big is the tiger hole, how many tigers live in it, no one can say clearly. Other than that, I haven't heard of any other caves near Lashio.
Liu Xianwei suddenly felt that there was a drama here, no matter what poisonous insects and beasts, in front of the heavily armed army, it was not a thing, the most important thing was that the cave was really so big that it could store tens of thousands of tons of materials.
With this clue and direction, the next thing is much easier, so many materials have to be transported into the mountain, no matter how you cover it up, there will definitely be traces on the way into the mountain.
The spy company quickly assembled and ran directly in the direction of the warehouse to look for clues.
Taking advantage of this free time, Liu Xianwei asked Po Naiwin if there was any news of Aung San, now in addition to supplies, this is also what he is most worried about, more than half of the troops have been lost, if Aung San's people can't be killed as scheduled, this Lashio alone will not be able to hold on to these 3,000 people.
Bo Naiwen told him that he had sent someone to inquire about the news, and believed that there would be results soon, and asked Liu Xianwei to have confidence in them, this time Aung San had already made up his mind to form an alliance with them, as long as the news of Bourdain was brought in, Aung San would definitely come back with his troops.
Although Bo Naiwen swore that he was true, but before he saw Aung San, Liu Xianwei could not fully believe all this.
Calling the two regiment commanders, Li Chunqiao and Han Mufeng, Liu Xianwei redeployed the troops and ordered them to seize the time to build a defensive line, and at the same time release the top soldiers, the farther away the better, so as to keep abreast of the movements of the Japanese army.
Half an hour later, the spy company sent back the good news, they found a camouflaged road about a mile outside the warehouse, peeled off the camouflage, they found the traces of the car running over, along the road forward, the target direction pointed to Tiger Wolf Mountain.