Chapter 16: Highland Warfare

Taunggyi, an important town in northern Myanmar. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoIn late April 1942, the Japanese captured Taunggyi and continued to advance northward in an attempt to cut off the retreat of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. The 200th Division was ordered to go to Heihe to attack Taunggyi.

This time I was still pitted by the horn, and I couldn't help but regret a little when I walked on the muddy yellow mud road, why was my hands cheap.

Several military vehicles drove by, splashing me with mud. The military vehicle was full of soldiers, they were carefully selected elite soldiers belonging to the 200th Division, their faces looked more ruddy than the "beggars" with us, the military uniforms were also changed British military uniforms, and the weapons were mostly American-made M-1903 and M-1917 rifles, although they were World War I guns eliminated by the US military, they were much better than the old sleeves and medium-sized guns in our hands.

The 200th Division is actually China's first mechanized division, with a tank battalion, an engineer battalion, an armored car battalion, an anti-aircraft artillery team, a motorcycle search team, and a combat defense artillery battalion.

Take the tank battalion as an example, its main equipment is the M3 tank, in the same period in the US army, the task of the M3 tank is to search and reconnaissance, and in the 200th division they are the main tank. The basic requirement of a mechanized infantry division is that soldiers move quickly through cars, tanks, and armored vehicles, while the 200 division is far from reaching this level, and the cars equipped are only enough for a few soldiers.

The Chinese Expeditionary Force was established at the request of Britain and the United States and other countries, but when they went to fight in Burma, they did not receive the support of Britain and the United States, on the contrary, they looked down on this army at all.

The 200th Division is a microcosm of the expeditionary force, most of the soldiers wear straw sandals, wear rattan "steel helmets", and the most ridiculous thing is that the British army's prize for rewarding the brave soldiers of the expeditionary force is a pair of rubber shoes.

At about 8 a.m. we came to the outskirts of Taunggyi, which was surrounded by high ground on three sides, and it was necessary to take these three heights in order to conquer Taunggyi.

My battalion's mission was to attack the high ground to the north, and the division headquarters pulled out three tanks to cover our attack, which gave me some confidence. The newcomers were very nervous, but fortunately no one was a deserter.

The newcomers are like a flock of frightened quails, where there are many people, they drill wherever they go. Looking at the crowd huddled together, I frowned.

"I said, the battle line is open, do you understand the stragglers? What are you doing squeezing together, every shell is reimbursed! ā€

I drove the newcomers backwards, and they didn't know how many were left in this fight.

"Hey, what are you doing, little ghost?"

A short soldier squeezed in front of me, and I pulled him in and asked.

"Who's the imp? I've been a soldier for 1 year, so it's not certain who the imp is."

The childish child's voice shook my heart, and I pulled him to my side to see, whose child is this, how did he get here?

The boy, estimated to be only 8 or 9 years old, was severely malnourished, wore a helmet on his head that covered half of his face, and wore at least seven grenades on his waist.

"You... How old are you? My voice trembled.

"I've just turned 10, what's wrong?" The boy put his little hand on his waist and said angrily.

I was silent, in order to drive away the Japanese army, we gambled on a whole generation of young people, 100,000 young people, 100,000 soldiers, thousands of miles of mountains and rivers and thousands of miles of blood, has it reached the point of overdrawing the next generation?

I didn't ask the child's family, if there were any relatives, he wouldn't be here.

"Follow me, don't run too fast" My voice has never been so soft.

I swore in my heart that I didn't care about anyone else, and I couldn't control it, I would definitely take this little guy out!

"Don't underestimate me, I'm terrible at throwing grenades," the boy was anxious.

At this time, the child's desire to express himself is always so strong, and it hurts to look at his thin arms. "Okay, you're amazing, you'll have to help me in a while" I pulled the boy down behind me, my body wasn't high, but I could stop him, and the bullets shouldn't hit him.

The shrill whistle of "Dididi" was heard, and the soldiers began to charge.

"Kill!" The boy's childish voice sounded and ran out around me.

"Slow down, you kid!" I hurriedly rushed in front of him. The team charged upwards, getting closer and closer to the top of the high ground.

"Semaiyo Plug Road"

The shouts of Japanese officers were heard overhead, and the sound of gunfire rang out on the Japanese defense line, and the rain of bullets met the charging soldiers. "Ahh I grabbed the little boy under my armpit, made a quick S-shaped maneuver, and approached the Japanese under the cover of a stone stump, and the Japanese machine gunners soon discovered my piercing presence.

"Da Da Da" "Da Da Da"

The bullet came like a whip from me, and I quickly ducked behind a rock.

"Let go of me, I'm going to throw a grenade!"

The boy struggled under my shoulder, I looked at it, there were still 50 meters from the Japanese army, and his grenade was estimated to have a better chance of rolling to us.

"Don't move, look at me"

I pinned him down with my legs and raised my gun through the cracks in the rocks to aim at the Japanese machine gunners, who were fighting happily.

"Bang"

The bullet grazed the Japanese helmet and flew over, and I quickly pulled the bolt to aim again, this time I shifted a little to the left, and the Japanese machine gunner's head hung down.

"Bang" "Bang" "Bang"

The bolt-action rifle in my hand was fired at the highest rate of fire by me, and the Japanese soldiers who showed their heads one by one fell into bad luck.

"Good marksmanship!"

I looked back and an expeditionary soldier had climbed next to me. I smiled at him and kept shooting.

"Boom" "Boom"

Two grenades were thrown near me, a few stones hit my head, blood ran down my cheeks, Made, find a real steel helmet to put on sooner or later.

"You're hurt!"

The expeditionary soldier took out a bandage to help me stop the bleeding, and I refused his kindness when I touched it very badly.

After looking behind, the tanks finally climbed up, the machine guns on the tanks began to suppress the Japanese fire, and more and more soldiers of the expeditionary force came behind me. I pulled a couple of grenades from the boy and handed him over to the expeditionary force soldier.

"Look out for him! I'll kill you if something happens! ā€

I pulled out a grenade, pulled down the fuse, paused slightly, and threw it with all my might.

"Boom"

The grenade exploded in the air, and several Japanese howls were heard from above.

"Up!"

I waved my hand and didn't care about anything else, and rushed out alone. I thought I was a squad leader in the U.S. Army, and there were more than a dozen soldiers under my command, but when I rushed into the Japanese trenches, I found that the soldiers of the expeditionary force behind me had not followed, and three Japanese soldiers found me and rushed over with their rifles with bayonets on them. I was already difficult to ride a tiger, so I had to face it head-on, and the brave man who met on a narrow road could win! Hand-to-hand combat is more ruthless!

I didn't have a bayonet, and the barrel was a little shorter than the Japanese one, which made me suffer. A Japanese soldier stabbed at me first, with a very standard posture and a fierce force, but unfortunately he met me. I slapped the bayonet across the barrel of the gun, and with a turn of the gun, the butt of the gun smashed the face of the Japanese soldier into the steel helmet.

"Yaga!"

A Japanese soldier in the back saw the sacrifice of his comrades and launched a stab with red eyes, I threw the unlucky guy who was already dead and had not fallen, and the attacking Japanese soldiers saw their comrades flying and stopped hesitantly, I waited for this opportunity, and directly stepped forward to knock him down. This Japanese soldier was also a good hand-to-hand fighter, and he directly dodged the butt of my rifle and stabbed me in the hand, so I had no choice but to drop my rifle.

"Hehe," the Japanese soldier smiled smugly, and stabbed me in the lower abdomen with a bayonet. Made, I have to take the white blade empty-handed again.

I didn't look at the bayonets, but stared at the shoulders of the Japanese soldier, dodging and watching for his tricks. When the Japanese saw me dodging, the bayonet turned to my side, and I seized the opportunity to retreat in the opposite direction to avoid the bayonet, and at the same time grabbed the Japanese soldier by the neckline, turned around and fell back in a standard. The pain in his back made it impossible for the soldier to get up for a long time, and I stepped forward and kicked him in the head like a football, and after a squeak, he tilted his head and died.

The last Japanese soldier did not dare to come forward in two trembling forces, and it seemed that he was not lightly frightened, and he raised his gun in a trembling manner.

What about the spirit of bushido, which Nima said was good? That Japanese soldier didn't retreat the bullets as they said in the infantry drills, and it was too late for me to pull out my pistol!

"Bang"

I was relieved by the sound of gunfire from behind, and the Japanese soldiers who raised their guns were shot and killed by the people behind them, and the soldiers of the expeditionary force behind finally rushed up.

I sat on the ground, and the next time I was killed by something that only a hero can do, I wouldn't do it.

"Well done, I'll give you credit!"

The soldier who was hiding behind the rocks with me came to me with a little puppet, and I looked up at him and ignored him.