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Chapter 1658 The Marshal died

The distance between Saja and Prachinburi is more than 80 kilometers, which is very important for the commander of the Central Cluster of the Siam Army at this moment. For Marshal Chunhawang, it was nothing less than a lifesaver. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At about half past eleven o'clock in the afternoon, after receiving an urgent telegram from Major General Mo Lai, the county guard general of Shalu County, "all the city is dead", Bing. Chun Hawang knew that his plan to use Sha Yu to delay An Jiajun for a day and night had failed. Originally, according to the plan, this time should be the time for the withdrawal of logistics and baggage troops, but with the loss of the sand bars, those materials such as ammunition, fuel, barracks facilities, and food that need a lot of time to move may have to be discarded. In order to keep these things, the pace of troop transfer has been seriously slowed down, and if this rate is followed, even tomorrow morning, the troop may not be able to complete the transfer and withdrawal, and the An Jia army may have already been killed by then.

In this case, Bing. Chunhawan immediately issued an order for all units to immediately reload equipment, fuel, tents, documents, and other baggage, and that the troops only need to take food and ammunition on the road, and in any case complete the evacuation before midnight.

Bright. Chunhawang came to the outside of the headquarters, only to see that everywhere was in chaos, the soldiers ran over, I don't know what they were busy with, the officers were shouting hoarsely, there were countless papers scattered on the ground, and as soon as the wind blew, they immediately floated up, and it looked extremely chaotic.

The Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Valsama, finished burning the documents and came to Bing. Chun Hawang's side, seeing the chaotic situation in front of him, shook his head: "Marshal, it's too chaotic here, can we take the first step?" ”

Bright. Chun Hawang was greatly moved, but after thinking about it, he was worried that the morale of the army would be affected, so he said hesitantly:

"Is that appropriate? The troops have not yet been withdrawn to a third of the army, so what if we go first and the rear team breaks up? ”

Valshama pointed to the scene of the people around him turning on their horses: "The task has been assigned, we can't replace those division commanders and regiment commanders in command, right?" We are still in such a chaotic position, which shows that it has not played a big role, and since this place may become a bombing site for enemy planes at any time, there is really no need for us to stay with the large army and take risks. ”

Bright. Chun Hawang pretended to be reserved, and a group of staff officers behind him persuaded him again and again, and then he relented: "Okay, since that's the case, let's take the first step!" Prepare the vehicle and let's leave in five minutes. ”

Around Bing. The generals beside Chun Hawang looked happy and hurriedly made preparations.

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Half an hour later, Bing. The convoy of Chunhawang and others appeared on the mountain road to Saraburi.

"It's hot, Varshama, please open the window for me."

Bright. As he spoke, Chun Hawang unbuttoned the collar on his military uniform, and the chief of staff, Valshama, who was sitting in the passenger seat, hurriedly opened the window, and the refreshing mountain breeze blew into the stuffy compartment, which greatly relieved Bing. The feeling of heat and dryness on Hawang's body in the spring.

"Marshal, now that the Chinese have occupied Bangkok, do you think their navy will go north along the river and block the Ayutthaya Bridge where we go west?" Varshama asked after opening the window.

"Yes, but along the Chao Phraya River, we still have many batteries and river defense units, which should be able to stop the enemy for a while, and the 16th and 17th Divisions are retreating to Ayutthaya by small road, and if there is any situation, they will inform us in time.

"What we need to worry about now is the pursuers behind, the Shalu defense line has the natural danger of the Bangba Gong River, and there are two divisions to defend, and it didn't even hold out for ten hours, the enemy's combat effectiveness is really terrible! In the future, it will be difficult for us to return here without external forces. "Bing. Chun Hawang said with some sadness.

"Marshal, I heard that at noon Ubon Ratchathani and Surin Provinces have been lost, and the situation in the central and eastern parts has completely gotten out of control, I wonder if His Excellency Luang Phibun will put the fault on us?" A look of worry crossed Walshamar's face.

"If Phibun hadn't gone crazy, he wouldn't have done anything to us, now in the four strategic clusters, his part is finished, I still have six or seven divisions here, Phae Ye Song and Ph Ye Lie are in charge of the Chiang Mai Army and the Udon Thani Army respectively, Phi Bun must have my support to secure his position...... Hey? What was that? ”

Bright. Chunhawang suddenly exclaimed, he heard a burst of violent gunfire fire, with years of experience in the army, he heard the sound of rifle fire, machine gun fire, and there seemed to be a sound of a small-caliber rapid-fire gun.

"Not good, air strike!"

Bright. The driver of Chunhawang suddenly let out a heart-rending exclamation, and then slammed the steering wheel to the right, and the Japanese-made Dasante sedan sedan rushed off the road with a violent bump. Several of the vehicles in the convoy behind had already been shot, and the rest of the cars had just woken up from a dream, and all of them took refuge on both sides of the road.

The sedan suddenly made a sharp turn, and the car was in the car. At the moment when the driver exclaimed, Valshama saw more than a dozen warplanes flying from the back of the convoy almost close to the ground from the rearview mirror of the car, and clouds of smoke erupted from the wings of the planes from time to time, which were the fireworks emitted by the plane's aviation machine guns and cannons.

More than a dozen trucks that fell behind could not dodge, were hit by machine guns, and immediately caught fire, and two small cars were hit by rockets and rolled on their sides, and the rest of the small cars were like frightened beasts, drilling into the woods next to the road.

Bright. Marshal Chunhawang's sedan dodged the strafing aviation machine-gun bullets and machine-gun shells, but it did not dodge the trees on the edge of the woods, and the sedan crashed into a big tree with a "bang" and suddenly stopped.

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"Everybody turn back and clean up the dog's day!"

Captain Ma Junwu, the leader of the Q1 Strike Aircraft Squadron, did not hesitate to give the order.

Ma Junwu led his squadron to patrol back and forth on the road from Prachinburi to Saraburi. Chunhawang's convoy, without any hesitation, Captain Ma Junwu immediately ordered an attack, under his leadership, the fighters lined up, swept from the rear of the convoy to the front in turn, but unfortunately several cars in front slipped away.

Ma Junwu knew that there must be big people in these cars, and those who could afford to sit in cars in this era could not be ordinary people.

"Everyone's attention, everyone's attention, concentrate fire on those cars and the people next to them, and not a single mouth can be left alive. The remaining trucks will attack later! ”

Captain Ma Junwu said and pulled up the plane, made a turn from the air, and began the second round of sweeping.

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"Marshal, how are you? Don't scare me! Wake up! "Valshama's chief of staff shook his head. Chun Hawang's body kept shouting.

When the driver turned the corner, Walshama, who was sitting in the passenger seat, first hit the car door, and just tried to sit firmly, the car hit the big tree on the edge of the woods again, and under the action of inertia, his head hit the front window again, and with a "buzz" sound, Walshama felt as if his head was about to burst, and his mind was blank.

After being in a daze for a while, Valshama's mind quickly recovered from the blankness caused by the collision, endured the physical pain, rushed out of the car, opened the rear door of the car, and tried to knock him unconscious. Marshal Chunhawang dragged him out, but he was also seriously injured in the crash, and his hands and feet could not use his strength at all.

The driver had already fainted in the crash, and Valsharma found that he was unable to take the fire on his own. Marshal Chunhawang dragged out of the car, and he glanced around and saw several guards jumping from the truck on the side of the road shooting in the air with rifles.

"Leave the plane alone, come and help me." Varshama greeted the guards.

Varshama's shout caught the attention of the guards, "It's the Chief of Staff!" The guards hurriedly took their rifles and ran towards him, but just a few steps after running, the guards suddenly turned around and rushed into the woods by the side of the road.

Seeing the movements of several guards, Varshama suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of crisis, and subconsciously turned his head to look at the sky, and found that two planes were rushing towards him in a zigzag, and where the bullets and shells passed, the stumps and broken leaves of the trees on the side of the road flew all over the sky.

No one is not afraid of death, seeing that he and the car are in the passage of the plane's strafing, Varshama was driven by instinct and left Bing in a coma. Marshal Chunhawang, in a flash, ran to the side, dodging the flying bullets and shells.

Varshama escaped death, but Bing. Marshal Chunhawang did not have that kind of good luck, and the bullets and shells fell on the car mercilessly, directly bursting the fuel tank of the car, and then causing a fire.

Looking at the car with flames and smoke in front of him, the desperate Varsharma couldn't hold on any longer, rolled his eyes and fainted.

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The city of Prachin Buri was also sacked by the Anjia Army Air Force at this time.

The overwhelming bombers, swept over the low altitude of one or two hundred meters, one bomb after another, like hens laying eggs, fell inside and outside the city of Prachinburi, Siamese soldiers who were preparing to burn food and supplies, panicked, no longer cared about the tasks assigned by their superiors, desperately fled to a place with few people, from time to time someone was hit by the falling bombs, and the bones were gone.

The Siamese army was originally in the process of evacuating, and there was chaos, coupled with the fact that the main general had just left, and the people's hearts were in turmoil.

A total of 150 bombers were dispatched by officers and men of the 1st and 2nd Air Regiments stationed in Saigon and Phnom Penh, and like a terrifying grim reaper, they threw bombs on crowded places, drove the Siamese soldiers back and forth like flocks of sheep, and when they gathered slightly, they fired at them with cannons and aviation machine guns.

Finally, someone couldn't stand it anymore, threw the gun to the ground, and fled to Siye for his life.

Half an hour later, the ammunition ran out, and the group returned slowly, and at this time, the entire Prachinburi was already full of ruins and ruins, and it was a mess until the officials at all levels cleaned up the personnel on the hour, only to find that nearly half of the personnel were gone.

Just when those officers were dejectedly preparing to gather their men and horses to carry out the retreat order issued by their superiors, the roar of the aircraft group was heard again in the eastern sky, and everyone subconsciously raised their heads, densely packed, and another wave of fighters had arrived.

I don't know who yelled "Lao Tzu is gone", and the teams that had just gathered dispersed in a hurry, and there were people fleeing everywhere inside and outside the city of Prachinburi.