Chapter 104: Ruili's Great Victory
"How's it going, Weasel?"
At midnight, in the dense jungle of the Sino-Burmese border, a ghostly figure flashed in the darkness and touched a hidden grass, and the low voice was difficult to hear from a few meters away if it were not for a specially trained person. In the grass, a dark shadow that had been lurking for a long time also lowered his voice, "Captain! Nothing has changed, and the paralyzed British have long gone to sleep. The rest are the Burmese vigil. β
The searchlight swept around the camp opposite, and whenever the light shone at a certain angle, the lurking ferret suddenly picked up the binoculars beside him and reconnoitred the camp where the British were exposed to the light.
"Weasel, you continue to star, when the large army moves, pay attention to cooperate with the God of Wealth and sniper sentries." The captain of the squad told him again, and then he vigorously touched back to the back.
"The strength of the enemy's camp was probably a British company, a Burmese company, a large number of heavy machine guns, and in addition to nearly a thousand Burmese men. Our two companies in charge of the Dawn Raid will arrive around 4:30 a.m. This time the task was to cooperate with the main forces to completely destroy the temporary logistics base of the British. Understood, no!! The captain of the action team spoke very simply, without superfluous feelings, and the four people next to him nodded solemnly.
"Now I assign combat duty. The ferret is in charge of reconnaissance, and when he acts, he cooperates with the God of Wealth to deal with several sentinels outside, Luohan, Panda and I, and is responsible for taking out the enemy's commander. β
In fact, with the strength of the special forces of the Southwest Army, this kind of combat mission can be completed with only a group of more than a dozen people. But the problem is that in this border war, including the most elite dragon tooth special forces brigade, all of them are in urgent need of manpower everywhere on the Sino-Burmese border, the Ruili mountains, the Sino-Vietnamese border, and the coastal areas of Guangxi.
Although there are not many defenders here, there are many Burmese civilians, which greatly affects the efficiency of the operation, and the above combat requirements are to completely destroy the opponent's supply base, which is not something that a five-person action team can complete.
The captain raised his wrist, opened the watch cover, looked at the shimmer watch, the hands were already pointing to 2:20 in the morning, and ordered, "It's time, change your clothes!!" β
After a few people finished the time, they picked up the clothes on the ground and changed them one after another, and an elite special forces soldier dressed in the jungle instantly turned into a Burmese soldier whose clothes dragged down.
Ruili, although the former enemy headquarters of the Southwest Army has intelligence staff officers to collect and analyze all aspects of information, Zhang Shusheng is already a little big. Although the military system of the Southwest Army has been completed and matured, there is a prototype of a professional national army in later generations. Whether it is command, intelligence, staff, operations, logistics, etc., there are supporting one-stop rules. But he was still not at ease, after all, it was the first time for the Southwest Army to fight the British, and his plan was to make dumplings for them. At such a time, the coordination of various combat units, the coordination between the army and the air force units that are about to be dispatched, and the analysis and collation of various kinds of intelligence, if there is a problem in any link, the battle plan will be in vain.
It is the turn of the British, the French, and the people themselves, at least for the time being, no one in the Southwest Army can catch up with him. Therefore, Zhang Shusheng must go to the front line in person to ensure that this border battle is foolproof.
It is now 1925, and the Third Five-Year Plan has basically been formulated, and once the war goes well, the southwest will inevitably usher in a higher peak of development. After 10 years of lying on the back and trying to taste courage, not only did Zhang Shusheng climb from the head of a militia to the position of the king of the southwest, but the industrial strength of the entire southwest has been greatly accumulated, and education, science and technology, and basic industries all have the foundation for carrying out a revolutionary initial industrial construction.
Compared with the European and American powers, although the southwest has a vast territory, it is still backward. More factories need to be built, more education programs need to be implemented, and more policies to benefit the people, especially land policies, need to be strongly promoted. Of course, there are still more scientific and technological breakthroughs to be made, and more high-tech technologies to develop. More weapons and equipment need to be produced and developed, even submarines, aircraft carriers...... What is left for Zhang Shusheng is only ten years at most, and the premise is that the ghost beast does not start a full-scale war in advance.
"Well, the Air Force will complete combat preparations tomorrow, which is good." Zhang Shusheng put down the first document, he was in a very good mood, the reconnaissance behind the enemy lines of the special forces was very successful, and the heavy artillery units of the British would arrive at the front line in two days, and it would be best if they could get rid of them in this dawn raid, otherwise, the air force would bring them a different surprise. You know, the poor British, it is estimated that there are not even a few anti-aircraft machine guns, of course, even if there are, they will not be brought to China. In their original plan, the Chinese were still stuck in the era of shotgun warfare, and as for the vague information provided by Yue, it was perhaps thrown into the trash can by British intelligence.
Then, Zhang Shusheng checked the march of the combat troops. The 1st and 3rd Divisions of the main force have already made a detour from two directions on the Kunming and Yunnan-Guizhou borders. The Third Division is faster and will be able to reach the predetermined area of operations early tomorrow, while the First Division will be the slowest and is expected to arrive in the evening of the day after tomorrow.
In other words, the 2nd Garrison Division had to withstand the rapid attack of the British for two or three days alone. You know, the British, whose logistics are attacked, no matter how stupid, will choose to end the battle as soon as possible.
"Where did the raiding troops of the 2nd Division arrive?" Originally, according to Zhang Shusheng's idea, this raid mission was to be handed over to a special forces squadron called the Tiger in Mengmao Town. This unit was formerly the reserve of the Dragon's Tooth Special Forces Brigade, and after the expansion of the Southwest Army, it was reorganized into the Tiger Special Forces Brigade.
However, when he received information from the scouts that the British Royal Gurkha Regiment had signs of flanking and outflanking, he decisively ordered the LTTE squadron to be ready for battle and to deal a heavy blow to the enemy.
"Report to the Chairman that the operational forces will arrive at the perimeter of the temporary supply base of the British at 4:30 punctually, and the attack is scheduled to be launched at 4:50." The combat staff officer put his feet together and saluted.
"Well, keep in touch with the operation force at any time, and if the battle fails, immediately dispatch the air force, and be sure to blow up this only supply base for the British."
Although he didn't want to expose the news of the Air Force's arrival at the front line in advance, Zhang Shusheng still had to be prepared after weighing the severity.
"Drip!! All assembled, first level combat readiness. β
The empty field airfield was hastily built on a suburban field. In the past few days, the fighters of the Southwest Army have not taken out to fight, and this is also related to the fact that all preparations have not been completely completed. Imagine that the plane has landed, but it still has to fly up, and without the ammunition and fuel that have been transported at the same time, the fighter plane will never be able to go into battle with bare hands.
The few days that the 2nd Garrison Division held back the enemy also gained valuable time for the field airfield. With the reinforcement of the temporary runway, the arrival of fuel and ammunition, and the gradual attainment of various supporting facilities, the Air Force has become capable of actual combat.
At the airport at more than three in the morning, a team of people quickly ran out. The ground crew quickly pulled off the tarpaulin from the fighter, the pilot skillfully climbed onto the fighter, and the refueling truck also quickly drove over and connected the fuel pipe to the fighter. Then the bomb truck drove over, and the ground crew used a small cart to hang incendiary bombs, aerial bombs, aviation machine gun bullets, and small-caliber machine gun shells on the fighter plane.
Before four o'clock, the combat fighters needed to prepare the battle plan had already loaded all the necessary combat weapons, and just waiting for the order, this young air force unit was about to launch an early surprise attack on the British.
At 4:50 a.m. ββββββββ, on the Burmese side of the Sino-Burmese border, the supply base of the British.
Chen Jiheng looked at his watch for the last time, and when the hands reached 4:50, he shouted violently: "The attack begins!" β
"Puff puff ......"
At the beginning of the operation, the ferret spat out the chili scum in his mouth, and with the three extremely fast shots of the morning light, the three sentinels of the three sentry posts were easily eliminated. Judging from the qualifications of the mountain ferret in the Dragon's Tooth Special Forces, he is good at lurking, reconnaissance and shooting, and it is too easy to take down these Burmese soldiers who are almost asleep by the sentry posts.
Almost at the moment when the sentry fell, the action unit, under the command of Chen Jiheng, quickly broke through the peripheral barbed wire fence destroyed by the special squad, and took the lead in launching a surprise attack without even speaking a mortar.
At dawn, which was supposed to be the most sleepy time, as soon as the sentinels on the perimeter and the outpost were cleared, two companies of troops poured into this improvised logistical supply base, and even the mortar units followed.
The reason why Chen Jiheng was able to win this dawn raid mission was because the second battalion's combat performance was too outstanding, and of course, Dai Anlan made a lot of contributions to this. The company he led made many meritorious contributions, which can be regarded as a face for the second battalion. Many staff officers of the General Staff Department did not expect that the performance of a company of a garrison division could be compared to that of a company of the previous main force. Obviously, it shows the ability of Dai Anlan, a top student of the Chinese Military Academy.
The scope of the supply base is not small, and the whole camp is divided into two sets of stations, the front is naturally Burmese, and the back is the British barracks. When the Southwestern Army stormed the Burmese barracks and disarmed the sleeping Burmese one by one, the British in the back finally came to their senses.
"The captives are guarded on the spot, and if there is resistance, they will be killed!!"
The arrangement of the British and the Burmese has long been explained in the information that Dai Anlan got from the Dragon's Tooth Squad, which is also a last resort to take down the Burmese and then launch an attack on the British.
However, when Dai Anlan saw the situation on the other side from the specially issued low-light telescope, he almost couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Hahaha...... The British were so frightened that they crawled out without even having time to put on their pants. Dai Anlan saw clearly from the binoculars that the British had not built heavy machine-gun fortifications in the barracks at all, and the heavy machine-gun fortifications on the tower had long been knocked out by sharpshooters. The British, who were in a hurry, were so frightened that they didn't even have time to put on their pants, so they carried their old heavy machine guns, lay outside the barracks, casually found cover, and fired indiscriminately at the opposite side.
"One row and two rows detoured from the left and right sides, and three rows dragged the enemy frontally. The heavy machine gun team was responsible for fire suppression, and the bazooka team cleared the opponent's heavy machine guns. Dai Anlan gave the order quickly, and the British panicked at this time, although they kept running out of the barracks, one by one, they either forgot their clothes with their pants, or they only had clothes without pants, and some even carried their pants because they could not find their belts.
At this time, it was the best time to outflank, as long as the frontal attack was fierce, the British did not have time to pay attention to the two wings. They were already stunned.
As soon as the order was given, the heavy machine gun team quickly set up several CH24 machine guns that had just been replenished, which was based on the design of the German MG42, was easy to carry and had a very advantageous rate of fire.
"Hiss ......"
In the heart-numbing sound of tearing cloth, the CH24 machine gun with a rate of fire of 1,600 rounds per minute pressed the Maxim machine gun, which had a theoretical rate of fire of only 600 rounds per minute, unable to raise its head.
The British did not come to their senses at all, as the British who had just experienced World War I, from only a few dozen machine guns in a division before the war to hundreds of machine guns in a division after the war, it is enough to show the importance that the Empire attaches to machine guns, and the barbed wire and trench warfare at one station have proved the great value of machine guns, but at this time, it is not the British who suppress the barbaric and backward Chinese with machine guns, but the barbaric and backward Chinese who use machine guns to fiercely suppress them, and they can't raise their heads.
"What's that!!"
A British soldier saw through the crack in the window that two soldiers suddenly appeared on the opposite side, carrying a strange long cylinder, and then saw a fiery snake-like thing, in a strange posture, flying swiftly towards the barracks.
"Boom ......"
Several bazookas in a row blew up several improvised barracks into the sky in an instant, and the British, both hiding in front of and behind the houses, were killed and injured heavily, and the unfortunate ones were even buried in their houses.
"Tom ......"
Then, the mortar actually approached and spoke, and the muffled sound of the cannon flew over a very short distance, washing the vicinity of the barracks with blood again.
When the British, who were dizzy by the bombing, were ready to get up and fight back, they looked up and saw nothing but devastation, black muzzles of guns, and of course, groups of yellow-skinned soldiers dressed strangely.
Just as they were about to subconsciously reach out and touch the rifle shaft that had been blown into parts next to them, the British gentlemen were smashed by the butts of their guns head-on by the yellow-skinned soldiers, and their heads were full of gold stars.
"Damn, white-skinned monkey, try again, move again, send your turtle son to your God!" It has long been spread among the soldiers of the Southwest Army that these white-skinned monkeys love nothing more than to give everything to God.
It's a pity that today God is on holiday again, and the poor English gentlemen, who are smashed with the butts of their guns, and anyone who dares to stare angrily will provoke bayonets.
"No matter how ruthless you are, no matter how ruthless Lao Tzu is today, I will open a big hole in your chest and back."
Yu Cheng, as a squad leader, held up a Chinese-style rifle with a bayonet, forcing several white devils to squat on the ground, raising his hands high, although he couldn't understand what the other party said, but the murderous aura on the person's face and the cold bayonet were too terrifying.
No, great gentleman, should not face this barbaric Chinese...... "no, no, mygod!" dontshot,isurrender!isurrenderβ¦β¦β
At dawn's supply base, there were almost wailing surrenders everywhere, and at this time, no one laughed at the Chinese anymore, even the people who scolded the Chinese monkeys while drinking last night lowered the heads of the bullshit gentlemen, and life was the most important thing.
The Burmese are the most simple, when they see these troops who look similar to themselves, but the army is neat, full of murderous aura, and a lot of handsome, no matter how stupid they are, they guessed that the Chinese on the opposite side are coming.
There was no so-called resistance at all, and they simply raised their hands and surrendered, according to the international standard, with their hands raised above their heads, lying on the ground, trembling and praying that these Chinese would not shoot. The Burmese soldiers were timid and afraid, and the temporarily requisitioned men were even more panicked, and a soldier of the Southwest Army raised his gun, and hundreds of Burmese people knelt down in unison, no one wanted to die, and the soldiers were like this, let alone the peasants.
I usually bullied and bullied the Chinese mountain people on the opposite side the most, but I have never killed any Chinese, and the task of defeating the Chinese is still left to the great British.
The British were even more unlucky, a company of troops, was blocked at the door of the barracks, the heavy machine gun was pressed by the new heavy machine gun on the opposite side and could not raise its head, just wanted to rely on the building to carry out a stubborn resistance, but the other side shot a new weapon, I don't know what it is, more than 100 meters away, the barracks and the emperor [***] people were blown up into the sky.
The dead Britons felt very aggrieved, and the living Britons felt even more aggrieved, and somehow became prisoners, isn't this the rear? When did the Chinese become so bold? Dare to cross the border!!
Moreover, the great Emperor [***] people were actually defeated in the face of the other party's shameful sneak attack, and it was completely impossible to react to the combat method. Frontal suppression, flank outflanking, strange new weapons, and the stubborn resistance of a company are simply futile.
When Dai Anlan got the inventory report and got the detailed inventory data from the translator's mouth, he couldn't help it at all, and laughed on the spot.
Randomly inspected a material warehouse, opened the door of the field warehouse, and saw the boxes of neatly stacked war materials, Dai Anlan laughed again, the British, before defeating you, Lao Tzu personally bled you!!
Yes, this time the British, bleeding a lot!!
According to the British's inventory data, there were 350,000 pounds sterling for military salaries, more than 4,000 guns, more than 700,000 rounds of ammunition for rifles and heavy machine guns, more than 10,000 grenades, blankets, water bottles, cigarettes, and food...... And so on too many to count, and even 54 mortars!! Dai Anlan quickly ran to Chen Jiheng and explained the situation. This supply base, although the hoarding of guns to replenish the loss of guns, but other combat materials are extremely rich, worthy of the British with a big business, a combat operation, the inventory of the forward supply base alone can make people envious.
How nice it would have been in the event of a great war, and the British would have served as the captain of the transport brigade again and again.
"Well, good, great. Damn, unfortunately I can't take it all away. Chen Jiheng excitedly pulled off the military hat on his head, and was about to take them away, the Southwest Army is not as bad as the British. But the situation really does not allow it, this is Burma, not China, maybe the British reinforcements will arrive soon, and it will be too late to move.
"Damn, carry all the mortars away to Lao Tzu, don't lose a single one, it's all a good thing. The others were blown up by Lao Tzu as planned!! β
"Yes!"
Dai Anlan was overjoyed, as a soldier, the happiest thing is to protect his family and defend the country. And to defend the homeland and the country, the happiest thing is to cut off the enemy's rear route and burn their supplies clean.
Modern warfare is different from the era of cold weapons, without these war materials, the British, who still have the dream of not falling into the dream of a great empire, will face a nightmare end.
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