216. Battle of East Bengal 5
The trees shade the scorching sun in the sky.
In the woods beside the wide, unfinished and potholed road, groups of white soldiers gathered in a group, many of whom were lying directly on the ground and already asleep. The rapid march throughout the night exhausted all the officers and men, and even the hovering of the Chinese aircraft in the sky could not wake up.
Xia Fei looked at the sky from the gap in the leaves, and felt extremely uneasy in his heart, almost all the officers and soldiers who saw the Chinese aircraft group caused a commotion, which also made Xia Fei's inner feeling of unease stronger and stronger.
If the Chinese did not find them, then why did they refuse to leave for a long time in the sky?
Suddenly, he saw a formation of H-1 Thunderbird bombers starting to dive from the sky, the bomber's dive range was of course not large, and he could quickly identify that the target of the Chinese four H-1 formations was the woods where they lived, and he was almost stunned on the spot.
Xia Fei was not the only one observing the Chinese planes, and the entire forest shouted in horror on the spot, and a large number of officers and men fled in all directions.
Soon, the bombers continued to drop bombs, and some bombs exploded and missed, but more often they set off a bloody storm in the crowd, and a large number of exhausted Western officers and soldiers were blown to pieces in their sleep.
This tentative bombing exposed the officers and men of Xia Fei's headquarters, and soon the huge group of planes in the sky finally dived again one after another, countless bombs continued to fall, violent explosions continued to harvest lives, and the escort fighter group continued to dive and strafe into the woods.
The group raged for more than half an hour before it ran out of bombs and ammunition before returning home.
But. The ground is already like a hell on earth, although the casualties caused by this air raid cannot be compared with yesterday, but the casualties are also extremely heavy, the entire destroyed jungle can be seen everywhere bloody corpses and stumps and broken arms, and the bitter wails of the wounded are like the ghosts of hell crying wolves
"Your Excellency, Commander!" A call brought Xia Fei back to his senses, and a U.S. lieutenant general walked quickly towards him.
Xia Fei coughed and said, "It's General Paul." What is the situation of the troops now? ”
Paul smiled bitterly: "It's very bad, we are almost in a position of being completely beaten, and the morale of the officers and soldiers is very low. I have already made a preliminary count of the troops, and we have suffered about 3,000 casualties in this wave of air strikes. But an air raid of this magnitude. The Chinese can launch at least twenty or thirty times a day. We have to find a way to deal with it. Otherwise, such a continuous blow will crush our troops. ”
Xia Fei naturally knew this, but what could he do? At the moment, he said bitterly: "Then may I ask General Paul if there is any good way?" ”
Paul said helplessly: "There is no good way, the Chinese air force can completely estimate our itinerary and launch bombing." Just like they are now bombing this wood. But I thought. Can we evacuate as many troops as possible? At the very least, this will reduce the casualties of the troops. ”
"Okay." Xia Fei could only agree, and after a pause, "I think we can also let the troops march along the woods on the side of the road." Doing so will not only disperse the troops, but also speed up the march."
Soon, some of the troops began to march along the woods on both sides of the road, and soon the Chinese air force fleet arrived again, repeating the old tactics and launching continuous air raids, although the coalition forces scattered their ranks and evaded, still brought a lot of casualties, and every officer and soldier felt as if the "Grim Reaper" was close by
What they don't know is that dozens of kilometers away, a large number of Chinese transport planes came here, countless paratroopers fell from the sky, and empty boxes of mine bombs.
The airborne troops were quickly assembled, and with the simple assignment of the officers, a group of officers and men quickly occupied a favorable terrain in front and guarded it, and a large number of officers and men in the rear quickly laid mines and installed trigger bomb detonating devices on the roads and on the edge of the woods.
One by one, the mines were laid, and then they were swept back and forth with tree branches, and the floating soil and sediment covered up the traces of digging pits and burying mines.
In front of the Dong Pie Pass in the Rakhine Mountains, Chinese troops arrived in waves.
If the Dongge Mountain Pass is understood as a mountain beam, it is a big mistake, it is composed of a mountain group, in front of the main mountain pass there are many hills and forests with different heights, forming a number of peripheral defense lines, if you want to capture the mountain pass, then you must fight a line of defense to fight through.
Lake had seven lines of defense, and for that he was confident that he would be able to block again, and he had absolute confidence that one line would last an average day in such an easy and difficult position, although in his opinion the Chinese behavior was somewhat incomprehensible.
In fact, no one can understand China's actions, because the Chinese side has not moved for several hours, let alone launched an attack.
No aircraft were used to bomb, no shells were fired at the positions, not even a single shot was fired.
Lake even wondered if the Chinese judged the position to be impregnable, or whether the Chinese judged that they could not overcome it within the effective time that could form a pinching attack on the Burmese corps of Xia Fei and gave up the attack. After all, if the Chinese pursuers can't flank the Burmese army within the time limit, then the attack is almost meaningless, anyway, regardless of whether the main force of the Xia Fei Burmese army breaks through successfully or not, their troops are doomed to have no way to escape, and after holding out for seven days, their food will run out, and he doesn't think that the troops can run hundreds of kilometers on an empty stomach and break out of the encirclement.
"General, the Chinese are moving." His adjutant Ellison flew in.
Lake was taken aback, and quickly got out of his cave headquarters, came to the high ground of the position and looked with a telescope, and sure enough, from a distance, the Chinese camp was clear about a large open space, and on that open space, a number of strange big trucks slowly drove from behind.
This is a kind of truck that he has never seen before, and one car has ten wheels, so you can imagine how strong its load capacity is.
Lake frowned, he couldn't see what the car was doing.
Ellison was also surprised, and said to himself: "Could it be that the Chinese use such a super truck to come to heavy artillery?" I didn't see any heavy artillery. ”
Lake was awe-struck in his heart, and remembered that the Chinese Defense Forces seemed to have a powerful artillery with tail shells, and the power of this super artillery was no less than that of a 300-mm giant cannon.
Naturally, Lake didn't know about rocket artillery, he thought that what the Chinese side had put in was a kind of giant artillery, and these strange trucks were pulling the assembly parts of the giant cannon. Rao is like this, which also makes his face look very ugly.
Giant artillery and the army's heavy artillery are not at all the same concept. At present, the most powerful heavy artillery of the world's army is about 150 mm caliber heavy artillery, which is claimed to be able to clear a radius of several tens of meters with a single shell, and it is shocked to death without being blown up. But this is not absolute, such a heavy artillery strike, if there is a cushioning vibration design in the anti-artillery hole, or some veterans have some life-saving skills, it is not unbearable.
However, the power of the giant cannon is too great, and the normal standard anti-artillery hole is even more unbearable, and the power of the sonic vibration is far greater than that of the army's heavy artillery, and if it is hit by a near-miss bullet, the probability of surviving is almost zero. Thinking that behind the world war, Germany's "Paris cannon" caused a huge panic in the Anglo-French army, but fortunately, the German army only had one, otherwise many doors were aimed at a certain defensive line of the British and French forces A round of fire covered, the German infantry could easily walk over to accept the position.
As long as the giant cannon appears on the battlefield, it is impossible for the strongest position to withstand it, unless all the defensive lines are built like shore defense fortresses, in fact, even if the shore defense fortress is bombarded by giant artillery, it will only be destroyed.
If the Chinese really put giant artillery in the attack, even if it is only one, whether it can hold it for seven days, then Lake has no bottom in his heart, because in addition to the giant artillery, the Chinese can also use bombers to drop bombshells, the kind of bombshells that can destroy battleships, the power is only afraid that it is no worse than giant artillery.
While Lake was beating the drum in his heart, he saw through the binoculars that the Chinese soldiers had lifted the canvas on the strange big truck, and at first glance, he was relieved that it was definitely not the cannon he had imagined. But his heart soon lifted again, and no matter how he looked at it, he could feel that something was wrong with the pipe carried by the strange big truck, and that there seemed to be something in the pipe, and there seemed to be a tail in its tail, so that he could not think of what it was.
Minutes and seconds passed.
The Chinese trucks were prepared for about half an hour, during which people kept adjusting the direction of the pipes on the back of the trucks, and even the officers kept calculating, but they were ready for half an hour. At the same time, the Chinese army finally began to move, and began to slowly advance to about 500 meters below the first line of defense, and it was obvious that the Chinese defense forces were preparing to attack.
Lake was quickly attracted by the actions of the Chinese Army, but then he was attracted by the fire shining in the distance in his telescope, and immediately looked over, only to see that the strange truck position just now had been covered with a cloud of fire and gunsmoke, and hundreds of streamers with flames rushed straight to the first line of defense with a sharp roar.
"Ahh Lake's heart almost jumped out of his mouth, and if he didn't know it at this moment, he was an idiot. He never imagined that the "super artillery" that was rumored to be miraculous on the Chinese side would actually look like this, and he never dreamed that the legendary incomparably terrifying missile with a tail was actually fired from a vehicle, and the launch tube was actually just a tube that was not very long.
A series of violent explosions instantly submerged the main position of the first line of defense, and at the same time overwhelmed Lake's confidence.
He stared blankly at the explosion scene like a landslide, his heart was full of despair, the power of this super artillery of the Chinese side was really like a giant cannon, originally he felt threatened in the face of a giant cannon, but the Chinese side fired hundreds of shells like the power of the giant cannon in one round, how could he not let him break his heart and gall (to be continued......