Chapter 1390: The Calm Before the Storm
The military jeep equipped by the independent division is Tang Qiuli's infantry combat vehicle standard equipped with the army units of various countries in later generations, and the back of the jeep is equipped with a multi-purpose bracket, which can be installed with recoilless guns, anti-aircraft machine guns or heavy machine guns, and a military jeep is an active fire support point, which is fast and fast, and has a strong assault force in an open area.
On this jeep, a 12.7 mm caliber heavy machine gun was installed in the division, the bullet belts hung down on both sides, and the heavy machine gun bullets like small sticks and mallets flashed with a cold light, neatly inserted into the cartridge belt, Chu Ziye pushed the bullet with a hideous smile on his face, and pulled the trigger fiercely at a guy who shouted the most.
"Dada-da-da!" The deafening sound of gunfire overshadowed the noisy crowd, and the member of the Burmese National Construction Committee, who was holding a portable horn and pulling his neck and shouting vigorously, burst out of more than a dozen large blood holes all over his body, and blood gushed out, almost being beaten in two by heavy machine gun bullets, and fell headlong into the pile.
Chu Ziye was unmoved, with a cold smile, the muzzle of the gun turned, and aimed at a few other guys who were obviously taking the lead, as soon as he pulled the trigger, he shot a long point, and a few spittle stars flew sideways, jumping to encourage the crowd, and the members of the Burmese National Construction Committee who attacked the Chinese soldiers turned into blood gourds and planted them in the pile.
It's just a matter of blink of an eye, from Chu Ziye shooting, to a few guys who worked hard to agitate, they couldn't die anymore, that is, a matter of tens of seconds, after the gunshot, the shocked crowd was silent, and the scene was eerily quiet, until a few bloody corpses fell into the pile, and the crowd "buzzed" with a fryer.
This group of thugs who are dominated by dark excitement, unscrupulously burning, killing, raping, plundering, and morbidly crazy thugs, will think of these Chinese soldiers. As soon as they came up, they shot at me, my God, it was terrible, and the mob was in an uproar. They were about to flee in all directions, and at this moment, dozens of riot backbone elements mixed in the crowd shouted loudly: "Compatriots, the Chinese have killed our compatriots, paid with blood and blood, fight with them!" ”
The thugs who were going to escape. Courageous by these inciting words, nearly a thousand men with all kinds of murder weapons at the front shouted, holding bloodstained murder weapons, rushed towards the soldiers like a swarm, and behind them were other thugs in a mess.
Chu Ziye smiled contemptuously. Standing on the jeep, he raised his right hand and commanded loudly: "All companies are ready." Raise your gun! Looking at the madness like chicken blood, the thugs who were screaming and shouting were getting closer and closer, slashing down with their right hands, and shouting: "Shoot! ”
Light and heavy machine guns, nearly 1,000 submachine guns, and a wild roar, the thugs who rushed to the front were beaten by the dense rain of bullets, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere, as if they had cut down sorghum stalks. fell to the ground, and then, surrounded by the thugs behind, the thugs who were unable to stop and were so frightened that they became the live targets of the second batch of shots.
Three hundred meters in front of the fighters. It became a net of death, and all the thugs who tried to get close to the net of fire were beaten to pieces, and after ten minutes, in addition to the bloody corpses of more than 1,000 thugs lying in a pool of blood, the remaining thugs scattered in a hurry, but with the momentum of the rabble, the ferocity put together, in front of the elite soldiers directly under the corps, like a flock of chickens.
Chu Ziye ordered again: "First company, second company, go catch a few bastards and come back, don't kill them, hand them over to the investigation department, they have a way to make this gang of miscellaneous people speak, and the rest of the troops, continue to march, in the center of the city, meet with other troops!" ”
The righteous gunshots that rang out in Mandalay gave the thugs who thought they could do whatever they wanted, and they learned what a squadron is, what is good and not to be bullied, and the troops directly under the corps did not arrive, before they arrived, the thugs had been raging in the city for a long time all night, and even the urban garrison was blocked by the thugs in the camp and could not get out, and could not control the situation. …,
The rioters believed that this was the Chinese soldiers, and in the riots that swept Mandalay, the weakness and incompetence of the Chinese, the helpless pleas of the necks and the hopeless pleas, the Chinese soldiers with guns, and the unarmed ordinary Chinese, were no different, and they could be recognized as wanton violence.
However, they found that they were wrong, very wrong, it turned out that the Chinese soldiers can also kill people, and the four brigades directly under the corps entered the urban area of Mandalay, and did not hesitate to carry out the orders of the division commander Tang Qiuli, and when they encountered the thugs who blocked and tried to impact the troops, they all spoke with bullets, and the guns rang out, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the ferocity and cruelty of the rioters were ruthlessly shattered by the bullets, and they threw away the murder weapons in their hands and hid like rats.
At about 10 o'clock in the morning of the same day, Chu Ziye's 4th Brigade was the first to drive to the urban area of Mandalay and joined up with Liu Hongzhang's 1st Brigade, which was advancing from the other direction. ”
Liu Hongzhang, commander of the first brigade of the directly subordinate corps, jumped out of the armored command vehicle, walked towards Chu Ziye with an ugly face, handed Chu Ziye a cigarette, and said: "Old Chu, what I saw on the way, it's really fucking miserable, the dead are all us Chinese, this gang of beasts, even a few years old children do not let go, I passed by a Chinese store, a family of six, all blocked in the house, burned alive, two daughters of their family, were ruined to death by dozens of thugs, really fucking!" ”
Chu Ziye gritted his teeth and said in a hoarse voice: "Lao Liu, I have seen it all, this is not a person, it is a fucking bunch of brutes, my troops, have arrested hundreds of thugs, and when the interrogation of the investigation department is over, Lao Tzu has to be an executioner, otherwise, he can't sleep!" I also wore this military uniform in vain! ”
After receiving Chu Ziye's telegram, Tang Qiuli did not show his joy at the field airfield on the outskirts of Yangon, and immediately called Chu Ziye back, "Chu Ziye, the task has been completed very well, immediately set about restoring law and order in the urban area of Mandalay, rescuing the wounded, extinguishing the fire, counting the casualties of overseas Chinese, and property damage, as well as the destruction of government offices, the casualties of the staff, waiting for the division's orders, assisting the Investigation Department and the Intelligence Department, and searching for the rioters, in addition, The commander of the garrison of Mandalay City was put on the spot. ”
In his opinion, when the riot first broke out, if the commanders of the garrison troops in various places decisively took iron-fisted measures and ordered the troops to suppress it, the riot would not have expanded, let alone last for one night and half a day.
This is a typical inaction, although it has something to do with Brother Qiusheng's order, but the commander's psychological element, the lack of ability to deal with emergencies, and the weaknesses such as looking ahead and looking backwards are exposed, which will lead to the trend of the riots intensifying, and there are not many troops stationed in the urban area, this is not a reason and excuse, the key is that there are not a few commanders who think like Chang Feng.
Therefore, Tang Qiuli's orders to all troops, without exception, added the commander of the garrison force, for these commanders, Tang Qiuli had to summon them personally, to put it bluntly, it was to correct their thinking, I am afraid that they were bound by the dazzling aura of the teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and most of them were bound to chase their hands and feet, and the mistakes they made were strict, and a batch of them were dealt with.
For example, Ma Chaoyang, the commander of the Indochina Peninsula Garrison Region, whose garrison area is stationed in Vientiane, and as soon as the riot started, Ma Chaoyang did not hesitate to order the garrison troops to resolutely suppress it. …,
As for the troops entering Yangon, Tang Qiuli didn't give the same order, Brother Kang Qiusheng? In front of the division command department, the hundreds of corpses of thugs lying on the ground illustrate Brother Qiusheng's attitude towards the riots, and the most important thing is that the mistakes made by Brother Qiusheng and Chang Feng are different, Brother Qiusheng is seeking stability and his methods are not ruthless enough, and Chang Feng is refusing to carry out orders, there is an essential difference.
By 12 o'clock in the afternoon of 4 March, the counterinsurgency forces of all walks of life had already taken control of the target city, and a great riot that swept the entire Indochina Peninsula lasted for one night and half a day, and was forcibly suppressed by Tang Qiuli with a thunderous iron fist.
For the whole day of 5 March, there were no independent divisions in various parts of the Indochina Peninsula to carry out large-scale arrest operations, and those thugs who had lost their murder weapons, put on ordinary civilian masks, and had their hands stained with the blood of overseas Chinese hid in the shadows, waiting anxiously for the thunderous wrath of the squadron, and they knew best in their hearts the crimes and atrocities they had committed.
Fear, fear from the heart, the bloody corpses of overseas Chinese, appeared in their minds from time to time, and the suffocating day passed, and what the rioters expected did not happen.
On March 6, there were no fully armed Chinese soldiers in the streets, and for the next three days, the squadron showed no signs of moving, and was busy cleaning up the ruins of the city after the riots, and five days was enough to relax the nervous and frightened hearts of the rioters.
The thugs came out of their hiding places, appeared on the streets and in public places, and even went to see the places where they committed violence, as if admiring their criminal achievements, they believed that the Chinese had forgotten this bloody massacre against them, otherwise, the squadron would not have acted at all, and gradually, the heart of fear was replaced by the pride of escaping punishment.
On 10 March, Tang Qiuli suddenly issued an order to convene a military meeting attended by all units and commanders at and above the regimental level in the Indochina Peninsula, and the meeting took place at the division headquarters in Yangon City.
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