In the middle of World War II, the Allied forces led by Germany gradually gained the upper hand in the war with the American and British camps, and Japan joined the Allied side by judging the situation, taking the United States and Britain by surprise, and swept through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in a short period of time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After the war, the division of power between the Eastern and Western Allies in the South Asian subcontinent was basically bounded by the 77th parallel, that is, Japan controlled more than half of the peninsula-shaped land south of the Himalayas, while the Western Allies occupied the Arabian Sea coast.

From 1934, when the US and British armies were completely defeated, to the summer of 1942, more than 400 million inhabitants of the South Asian subcontinent had lived in peace for eight years, but peace did not mean peace, especially in the central and eastern regions under Japanese occupation, whether it was the Hindustani, who accounted for the majority of the population, or the Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali, Burmese, Shan and other ethnic groups in a relatively small number, all of them lived in dire straits, and the Japanese army, which they regarded as the "liberators of Asia", In essence, it was no different from the European invaders, and the methods of rule were no less cruel, and each country that had nominally gained independence was nothing more than a puppet regime in the service of the Japanese rulers......

As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there will be resistance, and the oppressive rule and frenzied plundering of the Japanese occupation forces aroused strong dissatisfaction among the South Asian people, who gradually realized that non-violent means such as marches and strikes would only lead to ruthless suppression by the Japanese, so they began armed protests and actively sought assistance from the international community. Before Japan tore up the armistice agreement in 1940 and relaunched the war of aggression against China, only the United States and some international organizations in the name of non-state countries provided limited funds and materials to the underground resistance in South Asia, and at that time there were no more than 30 guerrilla groups that dared to take up arms against the Japanese occupation forces or puppet regimes, and after 1940, the Western allies and Soviet Russia, who were unwilling to sit idly by and watch Japan dominate Asia, break the previous confinement and send a large number of combat equipment, military instructors, and even independent ideologies to South Asia by virtue of their geographical advantages. Edward VIII, who voluntarily renounced the title of Emperor of India, also issued a declaration of freedom in Canada, calling on the peoples living in this land to fight bravely for true independence and freedom. In less than two years, hundreds of rebels have sprung up in the subcontinent's more than 4 million square kilometers, destroying railways, cutting power lines, attacking police stations, storming prisons, and even besieging barracks, occupying towns, establishing national regimes, and waging guerrilla warfare against Japanese troops who came to wipe them out. As a result of this armed uprising, the amount of materials collected by the Japanese army throughout South Asia fell by more than 30% compared with the same period in previous years, and the mining of mineral deposits and rubber cultivation were being negatively affected......

One day in May 1942, in the former northeastern state of British India, in the northern suburbs of the city of Digboy, now a vassal of the so-called Dai Thai Kingdom of Japan, which prospered due to oil production, Matthew Jedinak, a former Australian Army major, stipped a half-cigar cigarette and stared at the railroad outside the woods. The sturdy white man now works for an overseas branch of Ireland's intelligence agency called the Australian Renaissance League. It was established to help whites regain control of Australia - under the 1937 armistice agreement between the United States and Japan, New Zealand was placed under international condominium, Australia retained its independent national character, but accepted the occupation of Japanese troops, and was subject to the Japanese government militarily, politically, and diplomatically.

The Kingdom of Ireland and Australia may seem inextricably apart, but through the Australian Revival Alliance, the Irish government has recruited thousands of former Australian soldiers, scientists, engineers, medical personnel and more to work for itself. With the resumption of the war in China and the war with Soviet Russia in the Far East, an informal anti-Japanese alliance was quietly formed between Europe and the United States. In view of the fact that the current situation was not conducive to the great resistance of the Australians to the Japanese occupation, this secret alliance began in South Asia to weaken the Japanese occupation and control there, and induced the Japanese base camp to draw troops from Australia into this quagmire.

Major Jedinak was ambushed in the woods, which covered about 200 square metres, and was ambushed by 37 militants, most of whom were local guerrillas, some of whom had served in the British Indian army or police. In order to help these Dai armed personnel resist the Japanese army, the "Australian Revival Alliance" sent more than a dozen military instructors and weapons engineers to "join" the guerrillas in multiple groups. Just a few days ago, Major Jedinak's Dai guerrilla unit received information that the Japanese military governor and commander of the garrison in the Dai Kingdom, Hyotaro Kimura, had come to inspect the oil production and refining facilities in the city of Digboy, urging local officials to step up the delivery of oil. This person had been engaged in the development and development of field weapons and equipment in the Japanese Army for a long time, and was an "artillery expert" of the Japanese Army, and at the same time he was a ruthless murderer; since he became the military governor of the Dai Thai Kingdom, he instructed and connived at his subordinates to create many massacres, and was the executioner hated by the local people. Major Jedinak proposed an ambush for Kimura, and both local guerrillas enthusiastically agreed.

Major Jedinak brought two assistants, Sergeant Orr and Corporal Burns, both former members of the Australian Army, Sergeant Orr was a good demolitionist, and Corporal Burns was an excellent medic. Due to the rush of time, they did not have time to contact their superiors, let alone obtain timely assistance, so they had to find ways to take advantage of the existing conditions to set up an ambush. In fact, before the arrival of the last batch of foreign aid, the two local guerrillas fought the Japanese army, which was almost armed to the teeth, mainly by captured weapons and primitive shotgun crossbow arrows, and even now, the two guerrillas together had only about 40 modern rifles, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, and a handful of grenades - all the explosives were concentrated to make a large bomb, which was planted under the railroad tracks at night, and was detonated by Sergeant Orr himself, and the rest of the guerrillas were responsible for planning and covering.

From early morning to midday, they were accompanied by freight trains full of oil tanks, and attacking them, while disrupting the line for several days, was nowhere near as meaningful as killing a Japanese lieutenant.

After waiting for most of the day, everyone was already hungry. After nibbling on a few mouthfuls of homemade local food and two mouthfuls of cold water, Major Jedinak picked up his binoculars again. There was a railway bridge about two kilometers away, and Japanese sentries were stationed on both sides, and they were not only responsible for guarding the railway bridge, but also patrolling along the railway, and they only walked four or five hundred meters away from it twice in succession and turned back, but the Japanese squad that came out on patrol for the third time did not stop as usual, but continued to walk towards their ambush point. It wasn't long before a train from south to north appeared in view, shorter than the previous ones, and without a striking oil tank. When he got closer, the Major could clearly see the locomotive-pulled cars glowing with a metallic dull sheen in the sunlight, and one or two of them in front and behind were distinctively outlined.

"Sure enough, it's an armored train!" Major Jedinak muttered in a low voice, unsure that a few thousand grams of high explosives and a dozen kilograms of black powder could overturn such a target and kill the people inside. If the effect is not good, not only will they not be able to kill Kimura, but they are also likely to face the crazy attacks of dozens or hundreds of Japanese soldiers, and it will be a problem to get out safely!

With such apprehension, the Major cast his gaze on Sergeant Orr, who was prostrate in the bushes, his hands clasped on the bars of the square box, his eyes following the movement of the train. At this time, I didn't have a chance to confirm with him again, so I left it to fate......

Hearing the roar of the train, the three-soldier patrol stopped less than fifty meters away, and if they had gotten any closer, they would probably have noticed something wrong with the woods, or something unusual beneath the railroad tracks.

Major Jedinac retracted the binoculars into his bag, then gently unbuckled the holster, pulled out the cool Browning pistol, opened the safety, gave his right hand to his left hand, and then untied an oval grenade from the buckle of the shoulder strap, ready to open the bow left and right. Seeing the train getting closer and closer, he couldn't help but hold his breath and think about nothing in his head.

The northbound train passed by the tracks in front of him quickly, and at this moment, the major felt a flash of fire in front of him, and subconsciously buried his head and closed his eyes, and the violent explosion suddenly shook his eardrums. After a moment, he looked up and shouted "yes" in his heart, the explosion controlled by Sergeant Orr was just right, the Japanese armored train had derailed, the two carriages in the middle turned outward, the lower part of the front section was blown out of a huge gap, and the bottom and side of the back section were also distorted, which showed that the power of the explosion was still quite large.

was unexpectedly ambushed, and the first reaction on the Japanese side was the three sentries who were more than 50 meters away. Major Jedinak did not hesitate, raised his left hand and slammed a few shots, although the effective range of the Browning M1911 was within fifty meters, but it still killed and injured the target at a distance of fifty meters, as soon as he fired, the partisans next to him opened fire one after another, and in a blink of an eye, the three sentries were hung up. Stimulated by the sound of gunfire, someone in the overturned armored car glanced up, then retracted and did not dare to come out. Without hesitation, the Major drew the grenade fuse with his teeth, and threw a wonderful arc with his best right hand, and the Irish-made oval grenade fell impartially into the hole in the armoured compartment, followed by another boom......

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