Commander of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Brigade of the British Garrison at Lambgar, John? Major Williams, seeing his deputy battalion commander, Major Vajpaka, was rude and rude, stopping what he had not yet spoken, and his heart was annoyed.

If it weren't for the fact that this stinking fellow, who was familiar with the situation in the Hukang River Valley, was the head of the land, and was still loyal and dutiful in managing the troops for himself, so that he had a lot of time and energy to spend all his time and energy, Williams would use the handle of his pistol to smash his head and tell the inferior Indians, who is the master of this land, who is the master?

Mr. Major was unhappy in his heart, and was about to show his temper, at this moment, Vajpaka stretched out his hairy hair, his big face full of beard, and whispered nervously: "Battalion commander, the Chinese patrol is coming, order the troops to prepare for battle, this time, we will slaughter a few more Chinese pigs, this is the glory of our first battalion!" ”

Williams was so agitated that he forgot about the smell of Vajpaka, and looked at him with admiration and jealousy, to tell the truth, Mr. Major had seen nothing in his eyes but a cloud of fog, and in his ears, he had heard nothing but the sound of ticking raindrops, but that did not prevent him from trusting his deputy's judgment.

This guy did have such a skill, and the order was quickly conveyed, and more than five hundred British and Indian soldiers, nervously ambushed, once again raised their criminal muzzles, but except for the Indian soldiers, the British soldiers' pale blue eyes were similar to their battalion commander, Major Williams.

More than 40 people from the patrol team of No. 59 post cautiously passed through a small forest, and gradually approached this valley, the smell of blood in the nose became even stronger, and the other soldiers could also smell it, and then marched forward more than a hundred meters, Qi Yajun felt uneasy in his heart. It became more and more obvious that there was something under my feet.

When he picked it up, it was a half-old harmonica, which was very familiar. Qi Yajun suddenly remembered that this was the patrol of the No. 58 outpost, the young cook Xiao Liu's, every time they met, he played a few songs for everyone, and it had become a reserved repertoire for the three patrols, Wu Zhiyou and they had arrived here!

Qi Yajun's heart. Suddenly realizing that Wu Zhiyou and they had been attacked, and the attacker, cleaning up the battlefield again, a dangerous trembling swept all over his body, and he shouted loudly: "Lie down on the spot, ready to fight!" ”

As soon as the words fell. On the three sides of the valley, fierce and dense gunfire suddenly erupted, and Qi Yajun saw it with his own eyes. The first group of fourteen fighters who served as spearheads were torn apart by light and heavy machine gun bullets, and they didn't even have time to shoot a bullet.

"Enemy!" Qi Yajun and the remaining soldiers were overwhelmed by the dense fire of the British and Indian soldiers, but the tactical maneuvers he took were undoubtedly correct, in an unobstructed valley, ambushed. If you retreat, you will become a live target for the enemy, and lie down on the spot, holding on as long as you can!

Williams scolded in annoyance, "Cunning Chinese," Vajpaca didn't expect either. The Chinese patrol, which had only about 40 people, was killed only a dozen or so under the sudden attack of a battalion of more than 500 people and dozens of light and heavy machine guns.

The battle reached the most intense Cheng dù in an instant, Qi Yajun rolled a few times, reached the side of the two signal soldiers, and hurriedly said: "Quick! Send a telegram to the Border Guard Command to report the situation! ”

Then, he said to a few soldiers around him: "Protect the communication soldiers," Xiao Zhao quickly turned on the radio and asked, "Sentry Commander, who attacked us?" ”…,

As soon as his words fell, a light machine gun bullet hit Qi Yajun's left leg, blood splashed, and he frowned in pain, yes, until now, I don't know which enemy ambushed him, how to report?

Looking at Xiao Zhao's urgent eyes, Qi Yajun suddenly thought that in the area of the Hukang River Valley, except for the British, there was no other armed force that dared to shoot at the patrol of the Independent Division, and the direction of the shooting was the direction of India, "Emergency intelligence, the patrol of Outpost No. 59, near Cosima in the Hukang River Valley, was suddenly attacked by the British army!" Sentry Commander Qi Yajun! He said eagerly.

Then, several rolls, hiding in a small dirt pit with a submachine gun in their hands, roared angrily, thanking the young lieutenant, whose judgment gave accurate information to the division command.

The "tick-tock" sound of the power building, just after sending the telegram, Xiao Zhao didn't have time to put away the radio, a few mortar shells, whistling down beside him, the broken parts of the radio station, Xiao Zhao and several soldiers' flesh and blood, in front of Qi Yajun, turned into a few clouds of black smoke, Qi Yajun closed his eyes in pain, he knew very well that he and these forty brothers could not go back today.

After firing a shuttle of bullets, Qi Yajun had just put on a new magazine, when he heard the whistling sound of mortar shells in the foggy sky, and a shell fell beside him, and then, Qi Yajun fell into boundless darkness.

After more than 40 minutes, the battle subsided, and the small valley was blown beyond recognition by mortar shells of the British and Indian troops, full of craters and broken trees, as well as tattered military uniforms and stained bloodstains.

Williams cautiously sent a dozen Indian soldiers to search the valley, until the signal of safety was sent, he got up from the ground, and whistled proudly, the deputy battalion commander Vajpaka, who had already counted the results of the battle, reported the situation with an ugly face, and killed a total of more than 40 Chinese soldiers, however, the battle was not very smooth, and the first battalion paid the price of more than 90 casualties.

Major Williams, who did not care much about casualties, was interested in the results of the battle, two battles a day, annihilating two patrols of the Chinese, and he said to Vajpaka: "Immediately report the battle situation to General Alexander, the first battalion under my command, annihilated more than 800 Chinese soldiers, and the troops continued to advance!" Triumphantly, he went directly past the brigade commander, Brigadier General Frans, and went to show off in front of Alexander.

Vajpakar was not in a good mood with him, this Chinese patrol was much more difficult to deal with than the previous one, and more than 70 of the soldiers killed and wounded in the battalion were his compatriots, and the hateful Francis put the Indian soldiers at the front, and as a result, they suffered a torrential rain of submachine gun bullets from the Chinese soldiers, while only a dozen British soldiers were killed or wounded.

It was obviously his own ambush plan, how did it become under his command, if you listen to this British swinger, the first battalion may lose many people in two encounters? Blocking bullets with his own compatriots, but the credit was taken away by this hateful fellow, in front of General Alexander, without even mentioning his own name, Vajpakar felt aggrieved, but where to reason?

On the day of 23 April, on both sides of the Hukang River Valley, along the mountain road leading to northern Burma, six independent divisions of the northern Burma border garrison were suddenly attacked by British and Indian troops, and the battle took place so suddenly that the other five patrols, without even sending out a single piece of information, fell under the guns of the British and Indian soldiers, and only the patrol of the Qi Ya Army was the only patrol that sent out information.

On the evening of 23 April, Major General Wen Rongcai, commander of the Command of the North Burma Border Garrison Area of the Indochina Peninsula Garrison Area of the Independent Division, was listening to the chief of staff report on the situation of the various garrisons in the border area during this period. …,

Suddenly, the chief of operations hurriedly came in, and said with a nervous face: "Report to the commander, I have received urgent information from the patrol team of the No. 59 post of the first garrison that they are near Cosima in the Hukang River Valley, and they have been suddenly attacked by British and Indian troops!" With that, he handed over a telegram.

"What?" Wen Rongcai's face changed, he stood up suddenly, took the telegram and read it quickly, and asked, "The combat department has not received similar reports from several other patrols near Cosima?" The patrol at Outpost 59 also has no follow-up information? ”

The Chief of Operations shook his head and replied: "No, several other patrols, which have not been able to be contacted, have asked the First Garrison Team, and the same is true, the patrol team at Outpost 59 has lost contact, and according to the judgment of the Communications Department, they may have suffered misfortune." ”

Wen Rongcai's face changed again, and he said hurriedly: "Order the first and second garrisons to immediately assemble their forces, and within five hours, they must rush to the front line of Xiduo in the Hukang River Valley to block the invading troops of the British and Indian troops, and tell them that no matter what the price is, they must also buy a day for the main force of the garrison area." ”

"Immediately report this situation to the division headquarters, and to Commander Ma Chaoyang of the garrison area, and report it to Commander Le Yiqin of the Southern Flying Group in Myitkyina, hurry! Also, the guard battalion of the garrison area, immediately go to Xiduo in advance, the combat office and the staff office, immediately form a front-line command, chief of staff, we should also go to the battlefield! ”

A series of orders made the garrison headquarters immediately nervous, and the chief of staff reminded: "Commander, after all, we have not received a report from the garrison area and the division headquarters, and it is too hasty to conclude that it was the British and Indian troops who invaded from the Hukang River Valley only on the basis of a telegram from the patrol of post No. 59 and without intelligence from other patrols?" ”

"You also know that the temper of the division commander is the most intolerable, the commander who is unclear about the situation and is in chaos, do we verify the authenticity of the information in many ways and then report it? This is more secure, of course, the troops still have to be dispatched normally, but you don't want to go, I will go to the front line to command the troops, you can sit at home, dispatch in the center, you can't do it without it! ”

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