Seventy-two mines

In Mandalay, the British set aside a place not far from their barracks for the assault battalion to station, and although they didn't have a house, they sent a lot of tents and food, and they were even more responsive to Snake Eyes' request for bullets.

Boxes of 9mm and 7.7mm bullets were almost piled up in a large tent, and a number of Mills grenades were sent as requested, which was one of the few masterpieces of the British, and it was better than the Mark grenade.

Snake Eye stationed the three companies in a zigzag pattern, with a special combat team and an arms warehouse in the middle. However, after the team members stayed, the special combat team was sent out by him to inquire about the news.

The next day, news came that there was a Chinese refugee camp ten kilometers north of Mandalay. When Snake Eye heard this, he immediately took about 20 people and rode a few mountain bikes over, and in order to get information, he also brought a lot of food and canned food as gifts.

After explaining the situation to the guards of Weikou, Snake Eye entered the convoy with a convoy, only to see hundreds of refugees living in rows of grass huts, they all fled from Hanoi, after the devils occupied Hanoi, they first looked for local Chinese to start, because they knew that the Chinese were quite rich in Vietnam, and they had a lot of real estate, and they didn't dare to resist!

The overseas Chinese who had their property confiscated had no choice but to escape on foot from the sad place, but fortunately, there were many poor Vietnamese people who worked with them on their plantations to help, otherwise they would not even have anything to eat.

When they arrived in Burma, they were not treated well by the British, and they were not allowed to seek refuge with relatives and friends, and they were all confined to refugee camps, but the food distributed was not enough to cover their stomachs. Now seeing the snake eyes, they are all Chinese, and they all run out happily, when the special team sees this group of ragged refugees, one by one can't help but shed tears, are the Chinese so bullied?

Snake Eye found one of the leaders of the refugees, named Zhou Xiong, who was running a rubber plantation in Hanoi, and the Japanese had nothing left.

Let the new captain of the special combat team, Scythe, take everyone to distribute food and medicine first, and talked to Mr. Zhou, he saw that there were no young men among the refugees, so he asked Lao Zhou what was going on, Zhou Xiong sighed, "They were all arrested by devils to open mines, even my son was arrested, more than 300 people, every day in that dark mine cave, only God knows whether they can survive or not" Snake Eye asked who was familiar with the mine, Lao Zhou said, "The mine was originally Lao Li's family, and now his family has also been driven out, I will call him over now." ”

As soon as he heard that he could save people, Lao Li rushed over in a hurry, and said when he met, "This sir, no one is more familiar with his own mine than me, on the west bank of the Li Xian River, I went back to see it when I left, there was only a small team of devils, and the others were a mine protection team composed of French and locals." ”

Snake Eye looked at the map, "This road is not easy to walk, do you know where there is a road?" "Yes," Lao Li pointed to a small road in the mountains, "We are walking along this road, although we can't take big trucks, but you can walk in small cars, and we have to cross the Mekong River and the Ma River along the way, and there are French troops stationed on the way." Snake-Eyes pondered for a moment at the map, "Then go this way, and if the French don't open their eyes, let them taste the power of the cannonballs!" None of the people who are in the company of the Japanese are good people! ”

A small road in the jungle was winding forward, and the special combat team and a company drove 20 mountain bikes, regardless of the road conditions, and rushed forward directly, but they scared Lao Li and Lao Zhou from the car, and kept asking, "Can this pile of rocky roads be passed?" ”

Snake Eyes smiled and said, "Please remove the last one" After speaking, he drove a mountain bike and climbed up the pile of rocks, although it was a little more upside down than just now, but it still passed slowly, and Lao Zhou couldn't help but raise a big finger "This car is really good!" ”

It took a little more time to cross the Mekong River, and I had to unload the supplies on the truck, wait for the mountain bike to cross the river, pull the rope, and then cut down trees to make a raft to pull it over. Although the Japanese army now occupies Hanoi and Haiphong, they do not have many troops, and they only need to avoid the French devils in the field.

The squad stopped five kilometers before Sannu, there was a battalion of French troops, and there were four 75 Miss 75 guns at the pass, sixteen Hatch Chase M1914 heavy machine guns, and more than 20 M1924 Shaterila light machine guns, plus the accuracy of MLE 7.5 mm manual rifles was also very good, so the armament of this French battalion was still okay. It's a point stuck in a traffic artery, and Snake Eyes they also have to take down.

More than 130 people all changed into devil uniforms, and then, under the leadership of several special combat teams who could speak Japanese, marched towards the pass with neat steps, and the special combat team members shouted slogans in Japanese for a while, and the French troops suddenly saw a large group of Japanese coming over and hurriedly reported to the battalion commander.

Battalion Commander Jean-Valdo was drinking red wine and teasing an indigenous woman, when he suddenly received the news that the Japanese were coming, and when he stood on the pass, a squadron of Japanese troops had already set up an offensive formation, "What are you here for?" Didn't you say that you can only be in Hanoi and Haiphong? ”

"The soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire were ordered to take over Sangnu" This French and Japanese are spoken in chicken and duck, no one can understand what the other party says, suddenly, the snake-eyed command knife pointed forward, only to hear a "poof" sound, Jean-Wado's steel helmet was shot down, the bullet still flew from nowhere, frightened Lao Rang sat on the ground, "This little devil is really uncivilized, just hit it!" ”

A company commander on the side said, "Battalion commander, didn't you notice that there are a lot of repeating submachine guns in their weapons?" Or is it something we haven't seen, could it be a special unit of the Japanese army? Jean-Valdo said, "Yes, they still have excellent snipers, if they really fight, they don't know how to die, forget it, surrender, anyway, the Vichy government has already reached an agreement with them, and it won't do anything to us!" ”

Lao Zhou and Lao Li were pleasantly surprised to see that a white flag was raised at the juncture, "Chief Snake Eye, you cow, just one shot, the French surrendered, haha, it turns out that they are also paper tigers!" ”

Snake Eyes left a squad of soldiers to guard Sangnu, and at the same time sent a telegram to the second company in Mandalay, leaving only the third company commander and some personnel and a radio station, and the others returned to Sangnu with the refugees first, after all, it was not a matter of being watched by the old British.

He led the team to follow up with the French battalion, mainly because the armored vehicles did not dare to let the French see it. One by one, the big men have now become transporters, and all the carriages at the pass have been requisitioned, carrying a large number of small arms and ammunition, and the road ahead has been repaired by the French, although it cannot be used by car, but the carriage can still pass.

In this way, we arrived all the way to the Majiang River and crossed the river in the same way, except that this time the wooden carriage was dragged across the river by a mountain bike, and the rubber tires were inflated, which could also replenish part of the buoyancy.

A few days later, a long line came to the mine. It has to be stopped here, there is only a sheep intestine trail in front, and the main road in front of the mine is guarded by devils, so Snake Eyes only sneaks in with twenty-five people from the special combat team, as long as the devils of a squad are solved, the French troops below will be persuaded to surrender by Lao Rang.

Lao Li led the special combat team along the path by moonlight, and finally came to a high dirt slope, pointing to the top of the slope and said, "Over this slope is the back of the mine, the last time I touched it, I found a lot of wood, I don't know if the devil has a sentry on it, if the sentry is built, it will be difficult to do"

Snake Eye observed for a while, and suddenly found a group of people along the top of the slope for a while, "It's the devil patrol, and they are the only ones with bayonets in the middle of the night." ”