Chapter 131: Take the initiative to retreat

"Don't worry, let this wave of little devils go first, and the troops on the outer defense line will clean them up" Yan Wudao patted the observer who looked a little nervous, the expected large Japanese army has not yet appeared, but some small minions can't make Yan Wudao interested at all. Nearly 1,000 Japanese troops were let go by Yan Wudao in this way, and there were 30,000 Jewish troops on the periphery of Lashio, and it was easy to destroy these 1,000 Japanese troops.

"Tsk, these little devils really don't know whether they are alive or dead, and they dare to swagger so much on Lao Tzu's territory, they are simply here to die" The shadow of the Japanese army appeared in the artillery mirror, which may be that the success of the forward troops has relaxed the vigilance of the follow-up Japanese army. More than 20,000 Japanese troops simply lined up and lined up in Yan Wudao's sight, "Mom, this time let Haig pick up a bargain" Yan Wudao scolded in a low voice, the Japanese army was so defenseless to appear in Haig's machine gun range, no different from sending him to death.

"Snipers, knock out their search teams and scouts on both flanks" Xu was aware of something unusual, and the Japanese suddenly slowed down and sent scouts and search troops to scatter along both flanks. Yan Wudao They were hiding underground, they were not afraid of the Japanese army's search, but Haig's machine gun company was hidden on the right side of the Japanese army, once the Japanese scouts went up the right side of the hill, they would definitely find those bushes in the cats, Haig's early exposure to this ambush was fatal.

"Da Da" may be based on the same reason, before the snipers under Yan Wudao opened fire and shot the Japanese scouts and search team, the machine gun on Haig's side had suddenly fired. "This idiot, I'll clean you up when the battle is over" Haig's early fire exposed Yan Wudao's ambush plan to the Japanese army in advance, and Yan Wudao, whose face was pale, almost didn't crush the artillery mirror in his hand. According to Yan Wudao's original ambush plan, Haig's machine gun company was responsible for lazily cutting off the Japanese troops, but now they opened fire in advance, and the range of the machine guns was only enough to cover the forward of the Japanese troops, and most of the Japanese troops were outside the range of machine guns.

While the forward troops were in the enemy's fire network, the Japanese light and heavy machine guns were also ready to return fire, and under the guidance of the officers, they fired fiercely at Haig's machine gun position. Perhaps a deliberate show of weakness, Haig used only a few heavy machine guns and half of the light machine guns in his first attack, which was nothing compared to the more than 100 light and heavy machine guns that the Japanese returned fire.

"Nani?" In the face of the accumulation of more than 100 machine guns by the Japanese army, the machine guns on the hillside did not pause at all, and there was no intention of jamming, which greatly surprised the Japanese army. Even the best soldiers in the world could not have suffered casualties in the face of a hundred machine guns, but it turned out that the machine guns that were firing at them at the moment did not pause. "Boom" "Boom" Japanese mortars joined the battle, and the smoke rising from time to time and the bullets shuttling back and forth made the open area full of danger.

"Nani? What's that? "The Japanese mortars temporarily stopped shelling the enemy's machine-gun positions, the smoke drifted away with the breeze, and what appeared in the Japanese telescopes were a dozen steel monsters reflecting cold light in the sun. The Japanese mortar bombardment tore through the camouflage on the machine gun bunker of Haig, revealing the newly developed steel fortress developed by the Jewish engineers, Haig and his people were hiding in the steel fortress that had been added to the 8th floor, the armor up to 16 cm thick was enough to resist the bombardment of the Japanese 75 mountain guns, and the bushes blown away by the Japanese artillery fire were only their cover.

More than a dozen steel monsters suddenly appeared on the slopes of the hill full of weeds and bushes, which made the Japanese machine gunners who attacked them a little overwhelmed, and the machine gun bullets they fired could not penetrate the armor of the steel monsters, and with the clanging sound of raindrops, the bullets they fired were not known where they were bounced. "Eight grid tooth road, damn thunder, it must be them, it's them" Mutaguchi Ryoya and Takeuchi Kuan, who rushed over after receiving the report, were dumbfounded, this thing is comparable to a heavy chariot, and it is simply invulnerable.

"Boom" "Boom" The Japanese army's 75 mountain artillery group began to make moves, and Mutaguchi and Takeuchi didn't believe that their 75 mountain artillery couldn't bombard these iron guys. The Japanese 75 mountain artillery shot was in line with Yan Wudao's mind, and the artillery observer who was idle on the side was dragged to the front of the artillery mirror, "Immediately calculate the position of the Japanese mountain artillery group, and tell our artillery group to knock them out" The Japanese ground troops relied on nothing more than chariots and artillery groups, as long as their long-range artillery was knocked out, the Japanese army was like a lame beast.

A few minutes later, a huge explosion sounded in a depression less than fifty meters from the Japanese mountain artillery position, and it was clear that this was a test fire of the Thunder British 25-pounder field artillery group. Less than a minute after the test firing, a dense rain of shells fell on the position of the Japanese mountain artillery group. Listening to the piercing shells whistling and deafening explosions in the sky, Yan Wudao's face showed a smile, he didn't know how many long-range firepower the Japanese army had like 75 mountain guns, but he knew that in the face of a salvo bombardment of a full 30 British 25-pounder field guns, the loss of the Japanese artillery group would definitely not be small.

After receiving the new coordinate adjustment data from the artillery observers in the front, the commander of the 25-pounder field artillery group decisively gave the order for the artillery group to continue firing a salvo, and the entire artillery position was also in a state of busyness at the first time. After three salvos, half of the Japanese mountain artillery positions were caught in flames, and more than a dozen Japanese-style 75 mountain guns and nearly 100 artillery personnel were completely engulfed by the fierce artillery fire. …

"Your Excellency Division Commander, something has happened" An operational staff officer of the 18th Division stumbled over.

"Nani?" They had already heard the constant explosions coming from the rear, and Mutaguchi Ryoya and Takeuchi Kanya had already sensed that something was wrong, but they had not yet paid attention to the mountain artillery group's position, and they thought that the thunderous artillery bombardment was just a tactical interception to cut off their retreat. Seeing the panic of his combat staff officers, Takeuchi immediately frowned and waited for the answer of the combat staff officer in front of him.

"Division commander, two minutes ago, the other side dispatched an artillery cluster to launch a counterattack on our mountain artillery position, at present, more than half of our 75 mountain artillery positions have been killed and wounded, 15 75 mountain artillery pieces have been scrapped, more than half of the artillery and auxiliary soldiers have been shattered, there are only 9 75 mountain guns we brought all the way from Yangon, and the commander of the artillery wing, Wing Commander Inoue, is moving positions" Before the words of the combat staff officer were finished, the officers present heard a series of violent explosions from the rear, There is no need to guess to know that the mountain artillery wing of the 55th Division is finished, and the big explosion just now may be due to the explosion of the artillery shells on the position.

Sure enough, several soldiers of the 55 th Mountain Artillery Wing, who were in a state of embarrassment, ran back to report that the explosion just now was the result of the shells on the position, and that all the more than a dozen officers, including the commander of the Mountain Artillery Wing, Kiyoshi Inoue, were shattered, and only a few of them survived on the position of the entire Mountain Artillery Wing, and all the 75 Mountain Artillery Wing had become tatters, and the Mountain Artillery Wing of the 55 th Division had been completely wiped out.

Taking advantage of his illness to kill him, Yan Wudao was not a serious soldier of eight hundred, before Zhao Zhi subdued him, Yan Wudao was just a man who ate knife food. Looking at the Japanese artillery position in the distance, which had been completely shrouded in flames and smoke, Yan Wudao, who had a serious face, immediately opened his mouth and ordered, "Inform our artillery team to draw out half of the field artillery and start bombarding the Japanese troops that are already in the coordinates, we just knocked out one Japanese artillery position, this is a combined army of two Japanese divisions, they can't have only one artillery position, and force their other artillery positions out to me."

Facts have proved that Yan Wudao's order was correct, and the British 25-pound mountain artillery group that Yan Wudao arranged in the rear had just eliminated the position of the mountain artillery wing belonging to the 55th Division, and the Japanese 18th Division also had a mountain artillery wing, and because of the size of the division, the 18th Division actually had a field artillery wing in addition to this mountain artillery wing. "Boom" "Boom" With the transfer of the target of the Thunder 25-pounder field artillery group, a large cloud of smoke began to rise in the Japanese front, and the originally dense formation became loose with the intensity and density of the shelling.

The fall of the Japanese mountain artillery made Haig's machine gun position regain its firepower, and the bombardment of the Japanese mountain artillery just now only peeled off a layer of external armor of individual steel forts, but the machine gunners in the fort were unscathed. The battlefield with constant gunfire had gradually been dominated by Haig's machine gun company, and the steel fortress, which was only half exposed on the surface, was like an invulnerable monster to the Japanese army, and the combined forces of the 18th and 55th Divisions were helpless about it.

"The Japanese army is retreating, they are retreating" The observer who had been lying in front of the artillery mirror shouted loudly, 30,000 Japanese troops were actually blocked here by Haig's machine guns, and the Japanese army, which could not break through the road ahead, actually made a move to retreat, and even Yan Wudao was confused by the actions of the Japanese army. Strange things happen every year, the Japanese army, which has always fought to the death and does not retreat, and is known as the heroic soldiers of Asia, will actually take the initiative to retreat, or retreat when facing a machine gun company, which has to make Yan Wudao ponder, he is considering whether this is a trick of the Japanese army.

The sound of the artillery stopped, the roar of the machine guns also stopped, and the whole battlefield fell into an eerie silence, except for the corpses and scattered craters everywhere, and the smoke and smell of blood that diffused with the mountain wind reminded everyone that this was the battlefield. The Japanese army really withdrew, watching the Japanese army withdraw from their sight little by little, Yan Wudao in the bunker under him also raised his heart little by little.