"Nani? The Eighteenth Division requested tactical guidance? After the Fifth Search Wing attacked Lashio, Yamashita Fengwen ordered the 18th Division to withdraw from the battlefield as soon as possible and move closer to Jingdong. The Thunder troops fighting against the Eighteenth Division are only four or five thousand people, although the Eighteenth Division is no longer as good as before, but if it gets rid of the entanglement of thousands of Thunder Troops, the Eighteenth Division should still be able to do it.

The order of the 25th Army's retreat had already been arranged, but it had only been a day before the 18th Division, which had already received the order to retreat, actually issued a request for tactical guidance. The Japanese army's tactical requests are generally issued when the troops are in a hard battle or when the officers suffer a large number of casualties, and Yamashita Fumimi does not know what the situation of the 18th Division is, but since they have already sent a request for tactical guidance, the current situation of the 18th Division should not be very good.

As Yamashita Fengwen worried, the 18th Division, which was entangled with the airborne troops under the command of Yan Wudao, was indeed in a desperate situation, and Yan Wudao, who took advantage of the smoke to attack at night, had already taken several high points around the col before dawn with the support of the follow-up troops after the initial hard battle. The attack of the Airborne Forces at night made the 18th Division retreating in the mountain col panic, but the thick smoke in the mountain col had not yet dispersed, and it was not a little difficult for the Japanese army to regain those commanding heights.

The troops on both sides fought in a ping-pong battle for half the night, and it was only after dawn that the 18th Division found that more than half of the commanding heights around it had fallen into the hands of the Thunder, and the 18th Division had already learned what kind of destructive power the Thunder's large-caliber heavy machine gun was. The six large-caliber heavy machine guns that had formed an angle blocked the southward retreat of the 18th Division, and there was no way out of the southeastern defense line, and if the 18th Division wanted to leave the battlefield and withdraw to Jingdong, the only way to retreat was to go west, and then turn south.

Tanaka Shinichi tried to command the troops to evacuate to the west, but the commandos from Qinglongping had already occupied favorable terrain and blocked the retreat route to the west, and the Qinglongping commandos only had 300 people, but they got a large number of weapons and ammunition from the rear guard camp of the 18th Division, and the 18th Division, which had lost its will to retreat westward, must first break through the interception line of the assault team. In the face of the strong interception of the Qinglongping commando, Tanaka Shinichi put forward the famous pig attack tactics of the Japanese army, and the four straggler lines with a width of more than 500 meters continued to attack the commando's defense line without interruption.

The non-stop attack of more than 3,000 Japanese troops put the Qinglongping commando under pressure, and the one-to-ten ratio of troops made the 300-man commando even more dangerous. If you want to resist the pig attack tactics of the 18th Division, the only way is to use strong firepower to fight back, but the number of Japanese troops is too much, even if the commandos get more weapons and ammunition, there will be a time to finish the battle. Although the 18th Division was forced into the col by the airborne troops under the command of Yan Wudao, their heavy weapons had not been completely discarded, and after the defeat of the first shot, the Japanese army mobilized all its artillery fire to attack the commando's defensive line, in an attempt to use artillery fire to destroy the enemy's interception position.

Half of the Qinglongping commandos are from poor people, and most of them have a blood feud with the Japanese army, although they were picked into the commando by Yu Dazhi with their outstanding skills, they are still mercenary novices who have only held guns for more than a year. The 18th Division was now in a hurry to get out, but in order to evacuate safely, it had to open the interception line on the west side of the col first, so the artillery under Tanaka Shinza used their strength to bombard the commando line.

"Retreat immediately, abandon the defense line and retreat" After receiving the news from the commando, Yan Wudao immediately ordered the commando to retreat, and the three were missing one, which was written in the ancestor's military book. The mountain col is just a place where Yan Wudao consumes the strength of the 18th Division, just like catching a wild boar alive, you must first chase the wild boar into a relatively narrow place to grind its temperament, and when the wild boar's temperament is almost grinded, the time to capture it alive will come. Yan Wudao received an order to fight with the 18th Division, to consume the strength of the 18th Division as much as possible, and not to let the 18th Division and the 5th Division converge before the pursuit battle began.

The firepower of the "kill to give" commando team suddenly weakened, giving hope to the 18th Division, and the Japanese army once again discharged the pig assault tactic. "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" The Japanese army rushed into the commando defense line, and the explosion like a landslide and a ground crack suddenly occurred, and when the commandos retreated, they buried all the captured Japanese weapons and ammunition and some explosives in the defense line, and the Japanese troops who rushed into the defense line inadvertently triggered the trick mines left by the commandos, and the trench about 100 meters long immediately turned into hell.

"That's right, the commando team is good at small-scale assault operations, and playing positional warfare with the Japanese army is not about taking their own shortcomings and strengths." Knowing that the assault team had safely retreated, Yan Wudao, who was on the high ground on the hillside, ordered the tail to chase after the 18th Division that had retreated westward. The Japanese army retreated west and could only enter the mountains, and their heavy firepower weapons were bound to be difficult to carry, first pulling out the claws and fangs of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army without the ability to dance and dance with teeth and claws was no different from the lamb to be slaughtered, as long as they dared to enter the mountain, the commandos and the mercenaries under Yan Wudao would have something to do.

The road ahead has been opened, Tanaka Shinichi, who was anxious to get out of danger, immediately commanded the remnants of the 18th Division to withdraw westward, and the Qinglongping Commando, which had already received Yan Wudao's instructions, did not intercept the 18th Division with strong firepower, and even if it exchanged fire with the Japanese army, it was only a short pursuit firepower. Although the 18th Division was defeated by the Thunder twice in a row, the camel that died was bigger than the horse after all, and no matter how the remnants of the 18th Division were much more than the assault team, if you want to completely annihilate the 18th Division in the mountains and forests, you have to peel potatoes layer by layer.

"If you want to keep the Fifth Division here, the best way is to gather them together first, we only have such a few people at hand, and if we have to divide our troops to pursue the various wings of the Fifth Division, we will obviously be at a disadvantage." Zhao Zhi's temporary pursuers were crowded with his officers, the 21st Wing on the periphery of the airborne field had retreated, the alarm was temporarily lifted, and Zhao Zhi's temporary headquarters was also lit with gas lights, and the map painted by Zhao Zhi with countless black and red dots was spread out on the table.

"The intelligence of the CIA and the military commander show that the Japanese base camp is urgently recruiting the 25th Army to retreat to Singapore, and the intelligence officers lurking in Thailand have discovered that the Guards Division of the 25th Army has secretly returned to Thailand, I think Yamashita Fengwen's next step should be to gather the troops of the Fifth Division to retreat to Jingdong, as for the Japanese army that rushed to Lashio, it should be Yamashita Fengwen's abandoned son who attracted our attention. Yan Wudao's troops have already bitten the 18th Division, and it is impossible for these remnants of the defeated army to easily shake off Yan Wudao, so our target is the Fifth Division that is being assembled. ”

The red pencil in Zhao Zhi's hand drew a circle west of Jingdong, "This place is called Rongdong, 50 kilometers away from Jingdong, it is the only way for the Japanese army to retreat from Jingdong, I have mobilized the airborne troops to set up an ambush in Rongdong to intercept the Fifth Division, at that time the fighter troops in Taunggyi will provide them with fire support, before we arrive at Rongdong, their task is to intercept the Fifth Division at all costs." "Zhao Zhi is now in a hurry to Rongyu, all kinds of signs indicate that this Yamashita Fengwen did not retreat to Thailand with the Guards Division, this old boy must still be in Burma, it is very likely to be in Jingdong.

The Fifth Division must be besieged in Burma, but compared with Yamashita Fengwen, Zhao Zhi is more inclined to capture Yamashita Fengwen, Rong is only 50 kilometers away from Jingdong, as long as it can be determined that Yamashita Fengwen is in Jingdong, Zhao Zhi can immediately order the bomber formation to turn Jingdong into a volcano. "In order to keep the 5th Division in Burma, I need everyone's full cooperation, and I would like you to hear your respective tasks clearly." Zhao Zhi also had to take care of the Japanese rout scattered in the jungle and the materials in the airborne field, so it was impossible for him to transfer all the troops.

"Yu Sheng, the battle against the 21st Wing is very good, I need a safe person to garrison the air defense landing field, and I will continue to clear the Japanese rout in the forest, now all the airborne troops in the airborne field are handed over to you for command, and the matter on Yan Wudao's side will be handed over to you later, and the airborne troops under him will also be handed over to you." Zhao Zhi's words made Yu Sheng couldn't help but show joy, staying in Zhao Zhi's headquarters, he was just an operational staff officer, but what Zhao Zhi wanted to give him command was more than 4,000 airborne troops, which had to be placed in the national army, and it had already exceeded the strength of a regiment.

"The people of the cleaning team stayed to cooperate with the airborne field to clear the remnants of the Japanese army, and before the follow-up troops arrived to take over the defense, the cleaning team should be responsible for the perimeter of the airborne field, and the airborne field here will give priority to replenishing your supplies." The commander of the cleaning team also expressed no objection to Zhao Zhi's decision, and the continuous transfer of battles consumed a lot of physical strength of the cleaning team, even if Zhao Zhi rushed to Rongyu with the cleaning team now, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the cleaning team to exert their original combat power.

"All the mercenary squads will follow me to pursue, bring less submachine guns, more Garand rifles and grenades, and the Qingfeng troops will also follow me, we will chase the troops of the Fifth Division to chase down and chase madness." After arranging the mercenaries under him, Zhao Zhi moved his eyes to the sniper squad again, "All the snipers also follow me, we have to make the fifth division not restless during the day and unable to sleep at night, long-range shooting is undoubtedly the best way." ”

Thunder's officers have long been accustomed to Zhao Zhi's final say, so everyone has no objections to Zhao Zhi's deployment, and individual disagreements are trivial matters. Two hours later, Zhao Zhi led 600 mercenaries in full armor into the forest, and the traces left by the 21st Wing when they withdrew were too many and too obvious, and Zhao Zhi's scouts easily judged the direction of the 21st Wing's withdrawal.