Chapter 1013: Dancing in the Fire
One terrifying thing after another, the telegraph reported that the radio had lost contact. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Masao Watanabe's face was immediately like ashes, the electronic jamming equipment of the 40th Army was so powerful that the entire Southern Army was probably unknown to everyone now, and several divisions and regiments in Lashio were suffering from its poison, and this would fall on the head of the 56th Division again.
The methods of the army on the opposite side were quite vicious, and even their retreat for help was cut off, and now there were only two ways in front of Watanabe Masao, one was to continue to hold on, and the other was for the whole division to retreat immediately.
However, the abandonment of Songshan means that the locust army's defense line in northern Burma will completely collapse, and the army will march straight in, and the danger of Lashio will soon be lifted, and the entire six divisions of the locust army in northern Myanmar will fall into a desperate situation of having no food and grass and no rescuers.
But if they don't retreat, the lessons of the Dayakou Heights and the Dazhai Heights will be in front of them, and they may befall them at any time, and what awaits the 56th Division may be the tragic fate of the annihilation of the entire army.
Just when Masao Watanabe was in a dilemma, the soldiers made an urgent report, and the bomber group of the Sena Army was coming again, and the direction of the bombs was already approaching them, and there was a great posture of extending the bombing all the way.
"Retreat, Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, we won't even have a chance to retreat if we don't give the order again." The chief of staff of the 56th Division of the Japanese army pleaded.
A group of staff officers and generals have seconded the proposal, the troops no longer have the conditions to fight again, and there is only one way to die if they continue to defend it, and the warriors of the locust army are not afraid of broken jade, but they must not be buried in the ground like rats and die like this, besides, if the whole division and the whole army are annihilated, the 55th Division in Longling, the fourth division in Tengchong, the military headquarters, and even the general headquarters of the Southern Army will all be kept in the dark, which will definitely be a greater disaster for the locust army. Moreover, once we withdraw, we can still take advantage of the terrain of the mountain to continue to block the army, and if we contact the troops on the left and right flanks to support, there is still a possibility of blocking the advance of the army.
Masao Watanabe was not entangled, and ordered the troops to immediately withdraw from the fort, jump out of Matsuyama on all fronts, and use the advantages of mountains and jungles to block the enemy.
Ten minutes later, a large number of Japanese troops appeared behind Matsuyama, they threw away all their heavy equipment, and rushed all the way to the east with light equipment, and in an instant they converged into a yellow wave, rolling forward.
Masao Watanabe is also mixed in the team, running desperately, there are planes of the national army in the sky, the road is more dangerous, cars will become the key target, but the two legs are reliable, although shorter, but this wide hillside always has a place to avoid, more suitable for escape, as long as they pass through this slope of Matsuyama and enter the jungle less than a mile ahead, they will be safe, the only hope of Masao Watanabe is that the national air force did not find them so quickly.
But soon, his dream was shattered again, he could clearly hear the roar of the planes, and when he looked up, several bombers appeared not far behind him, and had already begun to dive, and then the scream of the bombs tearing through the air rang out.
A scene on the front edge of the big pass flashed in Watanabe Masao's mind like a flint, only to see him shrink his neck, spread his two short legs and start running wildly, but he never thought about it, because the turn just now affected the speed, and a soldier behind him who was not long-eyed hit him, causing him to stumble several times before he stood firm, and finally did not fall, but there was a tingling sensation under his feet, he glanced down, his shoes were trampled and lost, he couldn't care about it, and rushed forward with all his strength.
"Boom, boom!"
There were a few loud noises behind him, and Masao Watanabe suddenly felt a wave of heat rushing in, which lifted him several meters away, and he fell like a dog with a mouth full of mud, and before he could catch his breath, then several big feet stepped on his back, only to make him grin, but fortunately, the guards around him were powerful, and immediately found him, and two soldiers stepped forward, one left and one right took his arms and dragged him up.
Because the whole person was facing backwards, he saw clearly a scene that he could not forget in his life.
Several incendiary bombs exploded hundreds of meters away from him, but the scorching sensation still burned his face painfully, and his breathing was extremely unsmooth, as if he was about to suffocate, but these were nothing, the horror was that a group of locust warriors were dancing in the fire, waving their teeth and claws, rolling on the ground, the howls were heartbreaking, and the extremely distorted terrifying expressions made it impossible to look directly.
The most terrifying thing is that the fire seems to be contagious, often a soldier is on fire, and soon several soldiers around him will be stained, whether the soldiers who are stained are rolling on the ground or even fighting, the fire will get bigger and bigger, and it will not be extinguished at all, and the cat will jump and roar and scream, and soon they will become a burning fire.
The entire back of Matsuyama was almost completely covered by fire, the locust army suffered countless casualties, and the planes that dropped the bombs did not evacuate in time, but began to dive and strafe all the way, and the locust army, which had completely lost its air defense capability, had no other way but to flee like a lost dog.
Fortunately, a large number of planes of the Nationalist Army had just finished bombing the Songshan Heights, and they had not had time to return to reload, and there were not many napalm bombs thrown at the retreating Japanese troops, which gave the Japanese 56th Division a chance to breathe, but I am afraid that only four or five thousand people managed to escape from the battlefield.
Masao Watanabe is considered fateful, and he actually escaped for the time being.
The Japanese army was embarrassed, but the national army cheered and was excited.
The threat of Matsuyama is lifted, and the next step is naturally to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and it is urgent to support Lashio.
But when everyone calmed down and looked at the raging fire on Songshan, everyone was a little dumbfounded, this fire burned endlessly and did not have the slightest meaning of extinguishing, even if it was extinguished, so many napalm bombs covered it, I am afraid that the stones under the ground will be melted, and there will be no time to cool down.
There is no problem with the troops, and they can choose to go over the mountains and mountains to bypass them, but the armored brigade and the logistics unit are only dumbfounded.
The 40th Army has basically achieved mechanized logistics, and the following troops are used to living a prosperous life, and all kinds of consumption are not controlled, especially the consumption of bullets, AK47 splashes up a magazine and it is over in a few minutes, so there is no problem with their combat effectiveness, but they rely heavily on logistics.
The three division commanders of Chu Zhongtian, Su Peng, and Liu Dakun decided to make a detour to pursue the special operations division, and the new third and new fifth divisions followed up with logistics troops.
As for the armored brigade, after losing its rapid mobility, it has no value to advance, and with this bombardment, the entire Songshan road was almost completely paralyzed, and it was impossible to meet the standard of the passage of the Tiger tanks in a few days, so they had to be allowed to stay in Baoshan and be incorporated into the left-behind troops.