Chapter Fifty-Seven: Cooperative Fighting

"Coming, coming, Xiao Qi, they are back, there are a lot of little devils chasing them, it seems that they have stabbed a hornet's nest" The lush bushes on the hillside on the side of the winding road shook, and a German-style M35 steel helmet poked out of the bushes. Unlike most German M35 helmets, this M35 is painted in non-reflective jungle camouflage, and the face under the helmet is also painted in a colorful green, and from a distance, the steel helmet and the face have blended in with the bushes.

Behind the bushes, there were several mercenaries dressed in camouflage, and in the grass not far behind them were a hundred or ten Burmese dressed in black. A Browning light machine gun was set up in the bushes, and the muzzle of the black hole was pointed at the bottom of the hillside, and at the figures who were running for their lives at the bottom of the hillside. To be precise, this light machine gun was not aimed at the few mercenaries dressed as American soldiers who were only running, but at the yellow clouds behind them, more than 100 Japanese soldiers in khaki military uniforms.

"Don't worry, when they get closer, let those Burmese and little devils play for a while" The machine gunner tried to pull the bolt to push the bullet to load, but was stopped by the people around him. Whispering a few words sideways, a mercenary who is proficient in Burmese slowly retreated to those Burmese, this group of Burmese gathered here did not resist the mercenary's order to attack, the more Japanese soldiers pursued here, the more weapons and ammunition that will belong to them, the number of bullets provided to them by Thunder is really small, the Burmese guerrillas want to expand their strength, no weapons and ammunition are absolutely impossible.

The grass on the hillside began to shake in the shape of a wave as the wind strengthened, and more than 100 Burmese moved down from the two wings of the hillside in two groups, trying to pinch the Japanese soldiers like two pincers of crabs. The mercenaries who were ambushed in the bushes on the hillside promised to provide them with machine gun support, so they didn't have to think about the front of the Japanese army, all they had to do was to outflank them from both flanks, surround and destroy the Japanese before they could react.

The Japanese soldiers who pursued them here obviously did not realize that they were about to fall into a critical situation, and they only saw the mercenaries who were desperately fleeing in front of them, and the Japanese officers who commanded these Japanese troops even gave orders to catch them alive. Thunder became famous, and no matter how strong or weak the Japanese troops they were fighting against, there was only one end, and that was defeat. The biggest purpose of the Sixth Division's entry into Burma this time was to defeat the Thunder, and these Thunder soldiers had no way to retreat, as long as they were captured alive and obtained information about the Thunder from their mouths, it would be a great merit.

"Seventh brother, these Japanese soldiers are really dead-eyed, they have chased us two mountains, do you say they are like this?" Sixi, who had a baby face, glanced back, and saw that the speed of the Japanese army was a little slower, so he couldn't help but shout to Xiao Qi who was running beside him.

"What you say is nonsense, if these Japanese soldiers are not dead-eyed, what are our people doing here in ambush, I said you kid run faster, be careful of the bullets of the Japanese army" Xiao Qi gasped and was a little faster, as long as he rushed to the hillside in front of him, they would be safe. Xiao Qi and his gang desperately rushed up the hillside to fit and fell into the grass and disappeared, and the Japanese troops who pursued them only realized that something was wrong at this time, but unfortunately they realized that it was a little late, and the Burmese guerrillas who came down from the hillside had already occupied the favorable terrain on both flanks, and they had been surrounded.

"Pap" "Pap" "Pap" Burmese shooting is a bit messy, but the accuracy is excellent, the long-term use of earthen guns in the jungle hunting life has made most of these Burmese mountain people practice a good marksmanship, coupled with the excellent stability of the Japanese 38 rifle, the first wave of shooting of the Burmese guerrillas cost the Japanese army more than a dozen casualties. Suddenly attacked from both flanks, the Japanese troops, who had been in high spirits and bent on capturing prisoners, immediately reacted, and while they returned fire with rifles, the four grenadiers had already removed their grenadiers from their bodies and prepared to bombard.

"Bang", "Bang", "Bang", "Bang", " "Snipers, they have snipers" The second lieutenant officer who commanded these Japanese troops grabbed his men who wanted to pick up the grenadiers, since the other side had snipers here, those grenadiers had obviously become bait. Saving your life first is the way to defeat the attackers, and now all you need to do is find effective concealment to avoid becoming a target for the opposing snipers.

In order to avoid the accurate shooting of the mercenary snipers, the Japanese army's counterattack was weakened, but the Burmese guerrillas on both wings seized the opportunity to come up. Before the smoke from the explosion cleared, the guerrillas armed with Burmese knives poured into the Japanese formations with smoke and strangled together with the Japanese troops who were in a hurry to meet them.

Stemming from strict training, the Japanese soldiers had a very high level of bayonet fighting, and in the bayonet fighting on the Chinese battlefield, it was often necessary to take the lives of 3, 4 or even more national soldiers to kill a Japanese soldier. So when the guerrillas dressed in black and holding Burmese swords rushed over, almost all the Japanese soldiers had a relaxed smile on their faces, they did not believe that there was a more exquisite means of stabbing in the Asian theater than theirs.

It's a pity that they were wrong, this time they faced the Burmese mountain people who were the best at using cold weapons, and these Burmese mountain people from the mountains had relied on simple cold weapons to survive in the mountains and forests for generations. Bows and arrows, Burmese knives and earthen spears are the lifelong companions of these Burmese hill people and their means of livelihood. "Ah" The moment the fierce Burmese guerrillas came into contact with the Japanese army, a Japanese soldier with a spear was cut off his head, the Burmese knife is not as fierce as the national army broadsword, but it also makes the gods elusive, wielding Burmese knives in the mountains and forests all day long, so that these Burmese mountain people know how to use the knife is the most powerful and most labor-saving method.

The sound of swords and guns clashing continued to sound after all the Burmese poured into the battle group, and during the time there were archers cruising outside to assist with cold arrows, the Japanese army's stabbing technique had lost its effectiveness for the first time, and the originally green grass was covered with thick blood plasma under the life-changing fight of the Burmese guerrillas. As the battle intensified, more Burmese and Japanese soldiers fell to the ground one-on-one, but the Burmese guerrillas who fought with blood showed fatigue over time, and the good training of the Japanese army began to show results, and the Japanese troops who were still alive began to besiege the Burmese in groups, and the balance of victory began to tilt towards the Japanese army.

"Alright, it's time for us to play, these Burmese can't all die, it's still useful to keep them" The mercenaries who had been lying behind the bushes and watching the battle planned to help. Zhao Zhi's strategy was to use the Burmese as cannon fodder to deplete the Japanese army's combat power, and all the Thunder troops that penetrated deep into Burma knew about this, and they supported Zhao Zhi's decision, especially the mercenary forces. The mercenaries were in favor of using the Burmese guerrillas to consume the Japanese army, but they could not let all the armed Burmese die until Thunder's forces were fully deployed, or they would rush to the front line to face the Japanese army.

"Da Da: The Browning light machine guns 100 meters away from the battle groups of the two sides began to roar, and the Burmese guerrillas in the melee immediately broke away from the entanglement with the Japanese army after hearing the gunshots, as for those companions who were stabbed to death by the Japanese army, they can only blame their fate is not good, survival of the fittest, this is the eternal law in the mountains and forests, so no one from the Burmese who left the battlefield looked back at those comrades who were deeply encircled.

After the Burmese broke away from the entanglement of the Japanese army, the extended machine gun fire rushed into the Japanese battle, and more than a dozen unlucky Japanese soldiers bore the brunt of the machine gun bullets into blood gourds. "Bang" "Bang" "Bang" "Bang" mercenary snipers began to pick up leaks, and the Japanese soldiers who dodged the machine guns became their targets, just dozens of Japanese soldiers who survived the Burmese fight, and the four mercenary snipers took very little time to kill them all, and the light machine gun shooting was just to reassure those Burmese people and make them feel that Thunder did not lie to them.

This ambush battle, which was not of a large scale on the outskirts of Mandalay, ended more than ten minutes later, and more than 100 Japanese soldiers who were chasing Xiao Qi and them were all killed on this slope. More than 50 Burmese guerrillas fell here, and the Japanese soldiers killed by them also reached more than 50 people, and the one-to-one battle damage was unthinkable for the Burmese and the Japanese army, and the mercenaries took timely action to solve the remaining more than 80 Japanese soldiers, among which the largest number of Japanese soldiers were shot and killed by the four mercenary snipers, who became the leading force in this ambush war.

When cleaning the battlefield, the mercenaries only took the grenades and grenadiers from the Japanese soldiers, and the rifles, bullets, and food in the Japanese backpacks were disposed of by the Burmese guerrillas. The Burmese people's heavy profit and greed were fully manifested at this time, and the contents of the pockets of every Japanese corpse were turned out by them, even the corpses of those comrades who died in battle, and even more for a few pieces of compressed dry food of the Japanese army, and the mercenaries who watched shook their heads with contempt.

The ambush war organized by Xiao Qi and his team is only a microcosm of the many battles in northern Burma, where the Burmese are now soldiers due to the emergence of the Burmese guerrillas. Zhao Zhi, who was assembling troops in Lashio, issued a timely bounty order, for every Japanese soldier killed and their identity badge was returned to Thunder, Thunder would reward 20 kilograms of rice or daily necessities of equivalent value, for those Burmese who struggled in poverty all day long, Thunder's bounty order was simply a god of life.