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Chapter 1762: The war resumes

No one expected that it was the Siamese Army that took the lead in igniting the war between Nanhua and ***. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Phibun. After retreating to Burma, Song Kan took root in southern Myanmar with the help of the first people, and reorganized the troops of fifteen divisions with the remnants of the former Siamese government army as the backbone, which mainly defended the border mountainous areas bordering Burma and South China, and played a role in early warning and buying time for the Japanese army when the Anjia army attacked.

Since retreating to Myanmar, Phibun. Song Kan's life was extremely difficult. As Nanhua's rule in Siam became more entrenched, he was increasingly questioned. Many people would have argued that if it weren't for Phibun. Song Kan was hot-headed and took the initiative to provoke a war with Nanhua, and he would not have fallen to the point where he is today.

Phibun. Song Kan was merciless, brandished the butcher's knife again, and carried out a resolute purge within the leadership, and after eliminating dissent, he also felt that it was time to have a victory to motivate his followers, and it happened that the Japanese army was successful in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and the United States and the *** government declared war on each other, and the Nanjing government and the South China government also declared war on ***, and the war was about to break out.

In this case, Phibun. Song Kan thought that he could not wait any longer, and only by taking the initiative of the war in his own hands could he have hope of counterattacking Siam, so after secret discussions with the staff officers, a large-scale night raid came into being.

On January 3, the 24th day of the 11th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, at 2 o'clock in the morning, the stars and the moon were bleak.

The Santaguan Pass on the border between South China and Myanmar is silent, and a dense crowd of people gathers along the railway north of Kronwa Town, about eight kilometers from the pass.

"Division commander, do you really want to prepare for artillery fire?"

The commander of the artillery regiment of the 5th Division of the Siamese Army, Colonel Ba Da Feng, whispered to the division commander Song Boon. Lieutenant General Tana, the chief of staff on the side, Major General Supan, looked worried.

"This night battle is better than suddenness, if the shelling is carried out in advance, won't it tell the other party that we are coming?"

Songwen. Tana shook his head, turned to the two regimental commanders standing in front of him, and said, "It's up to Colonel Base and Colonel Shahi!" ”

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

The two regiment commanders who led the night attack were both backbones of the Siamese nationalist radical political party "Siamese Blood Regiment", who had received strict military training in ***, and they almost stood up to Song Boon at the same time. Tana gave a military salute, then turned around and ordered nearly 3,000 Siamese soldiers, formed in five dense charging formations, to advance towards the mountain peaks ahead.

Noted the expression of Chief of Staff Su Pan Song Wen. Tana was a little displeased:

"Major General Suphan , the warrior of the Siamese nation, will surely be able to tear through the defense line that Chinese painstakingly managed with his own blood...... Now our railway and the Chinese's railway have been built to the Three Towers Pass, and we only need to connect the two railways together, and they can be put into use immediately. I believe that it will not be long before we can raise our Siamese military flag in the city of Sankaraburi and let the people know that we are back! ”

Major General Su Pan, who had seen the strength of the An Jia Army in the Siam series of battles, opened his mouth and saw Song Wen. Tana's expression became more and more impatient, and he had to keep his mouth shut in amusement, bowing his head and silent.

After the first Siamese army departed, the second two regiments of the Siamese army also went into the darkness.

The Siamese soldiers, who participated in the night attack and did not even dare to breathe, chose to concentrate on the assault, and the dim moonlight made people only faintly see the distance of more than ten meters, and all the Siamese monkey soldiers held the 38-type rifles with their bayonets folded, and quietly forced towards the position of the Anjia army several kilometers away.

The commanders of the two machine gun battalions, who were calculating the distance, ordered the machine gun battalion to stop about 250 meters away from the first trench of the Anjia Army, and twenty-four Type 92 heavy machine guns with *** assistance were quickly deployed.

The branches and leaves of the trees scattered in the mountains made a "creaking" sound when they stepped on it, and the Siamese soldiers in the advance did not say a word and quickly moved forward.

One hundred and fifty meters away from the position of the Anjia Army, many Siamese soldiers in the first column suddenly felt a stiffness under their feet when they landed their feet, and the sound of the collision of artifacts one after another made the entire Siamese Army's assault formation almost come to a standstill.

The officers, who did not dare to curse, carefully squatted, brushed away the soil on the surface, and touched it carefully, and the tentacles were all kinds of empty cans, glass wine bottles, bullet shells, and so on.

The officers and men on duty of the Anjia Army, who had been highly vigilant since the declaration of war, immediately heard the faint sound of the impact of utensils, and suddenly a series of whispered orders sounded in the trenches: "Pay attention, the enemy is touching!" ”

Mistakenly believing that these things in front of them were household garbage discarded by the An Jiajun army, the officers of the Siamese army waited patiently for a few minutes, and when they saw that there was no movement in front of them, they ordered the soldiers to continue their advance.

One hundred and fifty meters behind them, more than 50 crooked light guns and more than 50 grenadiers slowly spread out on both flanks of the formation.

Afraid of waking up the officers and soldiers of Anjia on the opposite position, the first column of Siamese soldiers who became more and more cautious were very cautious every time they put down their feet, and only after making sure that there was no metal or utensils under their feet did they dare to step on their feet.

When they were more than 80 meters away from the trench, more than 300 Siamese soldiers who tested that there was nothing under their feet stepped on their feet one after another, and the result was a sudden change.

At the moment when the military boots were solid, the more than 300 Siamese soldiers who rushed to the first column suddenly felt that their feet were empty, and their entire feet sank directly.

Before departure, the commander of the 5th Division, Song Wen. Tana, personally stressed to these Siamese army officers and soldiers who participated in the night attack that they must stay hidden before the charge is launched, after more than a year of rigorous training by the instructors, the quality of the Siamese soldiers has been reflected in this sudden change, more than 300 soldiers endured the fear of the unknown, and in the process of pouring their bodies, they unexpectedly remained silent.

In a few tenths of a second, more than 300 military boots stepped on the real thing again, and the owners of more than 200 of them felt in horror that something sharp had penetrated the soles of the boots and then directly penetrated the soles of their feet, and a penetrating pain was transmitted to the brain along the nerves.

No matter how strict the training and military discipline are, the monkey soldiers are monkey soldiers in the end, and in the face of this unbearable heart-piercing pain, they finally lost their restraint, "Wow! More than two hundred screams of pain quickly pierced the silent night sky.

It turned out that in order to prevent the night attack of the Japanese army or the Siamese army in front of the pass, the officers and soldiers of Anjia threw tin cans, glass wine bottles, shells and bullet shells in front of the pass, and dug a shallow ditch more than half a meter wide in front of the trench, which was filled with sharp steel nails and shrapnel, and then spread branches and wooden planks on it, and sprinkled with a thin layer of soil.

The howl of the Siamese army quickly revealed their position, and the commander of the garrison company of the Anjia Army, who found that the enemy was in front of his position, shouted while hooking the trigger of the automatic rifle in his hand, "Hit!" ”

More than a hundred automatic rifles, semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns, and general-purpose machine guns, which had long been pointed at the predetermined position, spat out hot flames almost simultaneously.

Thousands of orange bullet marks, cutting through the night, poured into the front of the position, rushed in the first column of more than 300 Siamese soldiers, mainly those who were pierced by steel nails and shrapnel on the soles of their feet, only then did they realize how lucky they were, because lying on the ground, the furious rain of bullets swept over their heads, fiercely hit the Siamese soldiers behind who did not know what was happening, 7.62mm caliber bullets, screaming and rushing into the crowd.

"Puff puff—"

The warhead carrying powerful kinetic energy easily shredded the skin of the human body, and the stalled warhead rolled and cut through the yellow fat, sliced the cyan nerves, and penetrated the pink muscles.

It was only after the internal organs in the body were torn apart that the nerves transmitted the severe pain to the brains of the Siamese soldiers who were shot, from officers to soldiers, and in the blood splashed, hundreds of Siamese soldiers fell to the ground screaming.

The defenders, who didn't want to aim at all, pulled the bolt desperately, and then hooked the trigger, and a particle bullet whistled into the darkness.

The general-purpose machine gunners, who had already received the order not to save bullets, simply hooked the board machine to the end, and in the muzzle flame jumping, fan-shaped fire chains rolled overwhelmingly into the screaming darkness.

The high rate of fire of the general-purpose machine gun was undoubtedly a nightmare for the Siamese army, and after two or three hundred people fell again, the rest of the Siamese soldiers quickly lay down, and a violent rain of bullets roared over their heads.

The first to counterattack were the two machine-gun battalions of the Siamese army.

"Fire—"

At the howl of the two battalion commanders, twenty-four Type 92 heavy machine guns roared at the same time.

Twenty-four tongues of fire fiercely swept towards the flame spout more than 200 meters away.

"Chirp chirp—"

The sudden rain of bullets screamed and rushed to the machine gun position of An Jiajun, and in a few muffled snorts, several light machine gunners fell into the trench one by one.

Without a hint of hesitation, the secondary shooters quickly dragged the general-purpose machine gun through the rain of bullets, turned the muzzle, and slammed the board machine, and the flames of revenge quickly covered the heavy machine gun position of the Siamese army.

The amman, who didn't have time to check on his companion's injuries, turned his head and yelled as he made up for the position of the co-shooter: "Medic—"

The two paramedics attached to the company quickly rushed over, turned the shooters lying in pools of blood one by one, and after careful examination, they reluctantly gave up the treatment of the three shooters whose heads were shattered. Another shooter was crushed in the right shoulder by an enemy bullet and lay there silently. The medic nodded encouragingly to him, hurriedly finished bandaging, and shouted to the standby stretcher soldier, "Carry it down!" Then he rushed to the place where he was shouting "medic".

Whether it is a crooked handle or a chicken-neck machine gun, the slow rate of fire is its best disease, so this counterattack, the rain of bullets released by the general-purpose machine gun, quickly beat the machine gun position of the Siamese army to the devil and howl.

However, there is a problem with the general-purpose machine gun, that is, the barrel will be red before it is long, and the barrel must be changed, and the Siamese army is better than the machine gun, and at the same time, they have also learned the style of their teacher *** people who are not afraid of death, and the alternate machine gunner quickly made up for it, and hundreds of tongues of fire formed an impermeable wall of fire, pressing towards the position of the An Jia army.

The dense rain of bullets made up for the lack of shooting accuracy caused by the darkness, and the tongue of fire passed by, and the general-purpose machine gun positions attached to the company were all raised in a blood mist, like the sound of tearing cloth, and it stopped abruptly.

The Siamese army was frantically firepowered, the defenders' firepower positions were dumb fire, and the sub-shooters and ammunition men who came up to fill the positions of the Anjia army could not raise their heads to shoot at all.

Now, the only way was to shift the firing position, but fortunately the general-purpose machine gun was light, and the sub-shooter quickly dragged the general-purpose machine gun down the trench and rushed to other places.

In the dark, the infantry on both sides fought fiercely, but with little effect.

Seeing that all the firepower points on the position of the An Jia army were suppressed, the Siamese army learned from the grenadiers of the devils and began to join the duel between the infantry.

The furious rain of metal bullets swept towards the ground, and dark red bullet marks in the air fell like meteors towards the trenches held by the An Jiajun.

"Boom, boom—"

In the sound of explosions one after another, orange fireballs continued to evaporate in the wide trenches, and from time to time officers and soldiers were thrown out of the trenches wrapped in the firelight, and before they could scream, they were cut into the sky full of flesh and blood by sharp shrapnel.

You must know that the one who is holding the position at Santaguan is Unit B of the Third Division of the First Group Army of Gu Changfeng's Corps, which is officially numbered as the 3B Division, which belongs to the Category B establishment. From the division commander to the squad and platoon commander below, almost all of them were held by the deputy positions of the original three divisions, and of course, after the formation of the army, political work cadres, corresponding deputy positions, and staff officers were supplemented, but because most of the soldiers were new soldiers, their combat effectiveness was not too strong.

"Brothers, hold on!"

The commander of the garrison company, who was desperate to show his head and strafe at all costs, desperately encouraged the morale of the officers and men, withstood the attack of a unit ten times his own with the strength of a company, and supported the officers and men to fight with an unyielding will to fight.

The companions next to him fell one after another, but they did not let the living officers and soldiers flinch, they still calmly pulled the trigger, and fired 7.62mm bullets at the enemy who could not be seen.

The fast-moving universal machine gun, in its new position, began to cry cheerfully again.

"Porphyry—"

A rain of bullets with the anger of the shooters set off a rain of blood on the Siamese army's machine-gun positions, but this quickly attracted a counterattack from the opponent's numerically superior machine guns, and the shooters continued to fall into the trenches with their bodies tilted and collapsed.

At this time, the mortars belonging to the company of the An Jiajun finally began to exert their power after holding back for a period of time to confirm that the other party did not have a cannon tail.

A total of 12 mortars, with no less than 12 fires per minute and an initial hit rate of not less than 70 percent, quickly shrouded the Siamese army's machine-gun positions and exposed grenadier positions in a blaze of fire and gunsmoke.

After two minutes of rapid fire, the mortar position had just been shifted, and it was quickly attacked by the grenadiers of the Siamese army and the infantry artillery that was finally keeping up.

The battle was extremely fierce, in less than half an hour, the company guarding the position lost more than half, just when the two regiment commanders of the Siamese army were about to charge, reinforcements from a battalion of the An Jia Army finally arrived, and more than 400 automatic rifles, semi-automatic rifles and 32 general-purpose machine guns were added, which quickly made the position that was about to collapse become solid.

At the moment when the battle began, the commander of the 3B Division, the commander-in-chief of Santaguan, reported the emergency situation to his superiors, and at the same time dispatched troops and generals to put the battalions under his command into battle in turn, delaying the enemy's offensive and winning valuable time for the main force to assemble for a counteroffensive.

......

Nanhua, Xinjing, Xiaonanhai.

An Yi was in the small conference room of the Xuanwu Building, listening to the reports of several intelligence officials.

Du Yi is introducing the situation in the United States.

After the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor time at half past nine in the morning and three in the afternoon Washington time, Roosevelt, Stimson, Knox, Hull and Admiral Stark, General Marshall, and Far East political special adviser Zhang Xi urgently held the first national defense meeting at the White House, and quickly issued a series of orders to surround military facilities and factories, all private jets to stop flying, all amateur radio amateurs to stop sending reports, set up a news censorship system, and order the FBI to arrest *** people in the United States, Concentrated in concentration camps in the Western Desert.

"At this meeting, Churchill made a special call to the defense conference in London to ask what happened to President Roosevelt, and Roosevelt said, 'We are in this same boat through thick and thin after the attack on Pearl Harbor,' and then the two discussed something on the phone......"

Liu Qing interjected with a smile: "The news we got was two and a half hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Churchill didn't know about it until two and a half hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and he heard it on the radio." At the time, he was spending New Year's holidays at his country house with two American guests, the American Lend-Lease Act dispatcher Averiel. Harriman and the ambassador to the United Kingdom, John Murphy. Wynant. It was nine o'clock in the evening London time, and they listened to the BBC newscast, and the announcer endlessly reported the German air raids across the United Kingdom, and at the end, the announcer finally broadcast the news that the Navy had attacked Hawaii and that the U.S. Navy had suffered heavy losses.

The two Americans straightened up from their chairs at once, and the ambassador to the United Kingdom, Wynant, suggested that the British prime minister contact Roosevelt immediately, so Churchill followed John Bush. Wynant went to the U.S. Embassy and then used the U.S. Embassy's phone to call the President of the United States, and finally confirmed the news. According to the British newspaper, Churchill's face was full of joy at that time, because Britain was no longer alone in the face of the aggressor, and the United States finally stood with him! It is said that Churchill slept soundly that night. ”

Seeing An Yi pondering, Xu Yichen introduced the information he knew:

At four o'clock in the morning Philippine time, MacArthur received a notice from the United States, and he immediately notified the American Air Force stationed in the Philippines, but the bad thing was that the unprepared American pilots did not know whether to bomb Taiwan, Hainan Island, or any target on the Lanyin Islands first, so they decided to send reconnaissance planes to conduct reconnaissance first. At 6:30 a.m., the carrier-based planes of the United States began to bomb the seaplane supply ship "William Preston" anchored in Davao Bay, and then the American air base in the Philippines was bombed by more than 100 Japanese fighters, and almost all the American planes were destroyed, and the tragedy of Pearl Harbor was staged again.

"At seven o'clock in the morning Tokyo time, the *** people learned for the first time from Tokyo Radio that they had won a decisive victory in the Pacific War, and the announcer Morio Miyano first broadcast an important news on the morning news briefing program: the Imperial High Command Army and Navy jointly announced at 6 a.m. today that the Imperial Army and Navy were engaged in a war with the United States in the Pacific at dawn today. Later that day, Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe made a speech, calling on all the people to do their best to defeat the Western powers, and later that morning, after playing military music on the loudspeaker, began to broadcast a declaration of war: The unfinished work of our ancestors and ancestors will continue to be completed, the root causes of evil will be quickly eradicated, and lasting peace will be firmly established in Asia and the Pacific, thus preserving the glory of our empire......"

An Yi smiled and asked, "Presumably *** people are excited, right?" ”

Xu Yichen shook his head: "It's not necessarily all excited!" When the news of the war against the United States was broadcast through the loudspeakers erected in the streets, the pedestrians stopped and were all stunned. However, when the unprecedented victory at Pearl Harbor was received and the Navy could directly threaten the West Coast of the United States, people began to applaud and cheer, chanting Long live the Emperor, and some people walked to Niju Bridge to pray for victory, with solemn expressions. In the interval between the continuous good news, the military song of "Crossing the Sea" has been playing on the radio: Across the sea, the corpse floats on the sea, across the mountain, the corpse is all over the field. Sacrifice your life for the emperor and treat death as if it were home......"

An Yi nodded: "It seems that *** people may not all be fanatical, and they are also worried about the sad end of defeat." What is the war going on elsewhere in the Pacific Theater? ”

Xu Yichen said: "According to the information from Tokyo, at twelve o'clock at noon on Wake Island, thirty-six *** bombers took off from Roy Airport in the Marshall Islands and attacked the island through a storm. The Americans were negligent in their defenses, the only seven fighter jets on the island were blown up, and a huge oil storage depot caught fire, followed by a violent explosion. Pan Am's Philippine Express giant seaplane escaped, leaving numerous bullet holes in its fuselage, and took off with 70 airline staff and wounded soldiers, followed by a formation of Japanese cruisers and destroyers to carry out a landing operation on Wake Island.

"At half past ten in the evening at Midway, the coral island, which the United States has praised as an aircraft carrier in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, was shelled by the *** destroyer fleet, and a hangar on Midway Island caught fire, killing a U.S. Marine officer. That night, the lights were imposed in San Francisco and Los Angeles on the west coast of the United States, and in Guam, there was no heavy artillery to protect the officers and soldiers on the island, and the night was a long night of despair. In Manila, MacArthur and his commanders began to gauge the day's military defeats and consider how they could repel an invading enemy at the beachhead without air support. It can be said that the best strategy has achieved overall success. ”

An Yi asked, "Hawaiian Islands, the Philippines and Australia, are there any new war reports?" ”

Several intelligence officers looked at each other and shook their heads.

An Yi was a little disappointed, and suddenly saw Shen Fengdao hurriedly walking into the room, his face was serious, and his heart was cold, and he knew that something big had happened.

After reading the urgent report handed over by Shen Fengdao, An Yi pondered for a moment, and then sneered: "I didn't expect *** people to have such a big appetite, and even the Americans didn't get it, so they wanted to take advantage of us!" We are not Americans, we are defenseless, and there is no way that what happened to Pearl Harbor will happen to us......"