589 Swift Attack

He bypassed the main forces of the enemy and waited for dark. At this time, the Wingate troops were approaching, but the British were cautious, and they still carried too many mules and horses and heavy firepower (mainly 4 3-inch mortars and ammunition, which was the most needed firepower for Xu Chong), and it was obvious that 15 kilometers of jungle could not be completed in one night.

The enemy's army really had a set, relying on the cavalry in and out to deliver letters, completely without telegraph communication, and actually supported the command. However, it is impossible for such a primitive command method to be free of weaknesses, the command is very meticulous and difficult to grasp the very detailed dynamics, and there is no timely feedback on the whereabouts, the troops are gradually chaotic in the primeval forest, and some of the main forces of the division and regiment gradually move away from the division headquarters in order to pursue the clues (mainly left by the British). Xu Chong divided his reconnaissance troops into a mess, but these people with radios, or hiding in the mountains or hiding in trees, could be very effective in reconnoitring the enemy's movements, and then sending them to the relay station through a complete radio station, and then summarizing them for evaluation. Of course, more importantly, he has a map that was updated just 8 hours ago.

The Japanese army has always been able to detect all kinds of communications and voice calls in the vicinity, and the Japanese military radio station is silent and does nothing, knowing that there are Chinese and British guerrillas operating nearby, and the size may be two airborne companies or one or two hundred Kachin guerrillas.

Therefore, the commander of the Maruyama Division decided to be careful, of course, after the attack on a bridge, he was not worried that his headquarters would be terminated, he expected that the enemy guerrillas would not have such a good mouth, he was worried that the enemy would find out in several other directions of march and destroy the bridges and roads. So on the one hand, he controls the communications and does not let the enemy know where he is going, and on the other hand, he presses the main forces forward, ready to crush the enemy's attack on the sappers at any time. He was somewhat overlooked, his command was somewhat disjointed; Xu Chong went the other way, not attacking the road construction troops in front, but aiming at his head. If he succeeds, he will be in the 200th Division or the 5th Army in the future, even if he has a foothold, such a credit can be equal to Zhou Youfu, otherwise, it would be too weird for Chu Tingchang to immediately promote himself.

He rode one man and one horse, constantly tracking the enemy troops, updating their positions, and after nightfall the enemy camped in the glades, and obtained the following general information: the enemy headquarters followed an infantry brigade with an unmanned brigade, as well as communications and baggage units, two field hospitals, and the accompanying wounded, numbering about 2,000 men, but only half of the combatants.

Most of the troops did not have heavy weapons, but another squadron of machine guns, but the deployment was hasty, the heavy weapons did not unload the carts at all, and did not occupy all the commanding heights near the headquarters, the warning circle was large, but there were few patrols, and it was clear that the enemy was not prepared for a possible attack.

After nightfall, he tied his horse to a tree in the field, and infiltrated the enemy's camp alone, preparing to shoot the enemy's high-ranking officials during the day.

Despite not carrying night vision devices, his basic skills in night infiltration were the best of all 419 people, and even with the help of moonlight and leaves, he could still easily penetrate the outer defensive circle of the camp and further verify the enemy's weapons, the number of horses, and the location of the headquarters.

At the same time, the British army was still getting closer. Wingate kept calling to inquire about the size of the enemy, and sure enough, he was a little afraid of attacking the headquarters of the enemy wing. After hearing that Xu Chong had made his first contribution to destroying a bridge, he also wanted to pick a soft persimmon to pinch, but his main sources of intelligence were aerial reconnaissance and radio eavesdropping, and aerial reconnaissance was very ineffective in the dense forests in this area. Therefore, so far only a few lost Japanese cavalry have been eliminated.

Xu Chong gave him a general piece of information, saying that there was a company headquarters that had left the combat unit, and he had no choice but to come in a fool's way. There may be two or three hundred more men in the vicinity of the headquarters of one of the enemy's wings, including baggage squadrons and other troops, although there are many non-combatants, but such a size is the upper limit when considering the feasibility of an attack. The ideal target he wanted to attack was an enemy who was far smaller than his own forces, preferably by destroying a squad at a time. This is the reason why he repeatedly asked about the strength of the enemy. Xu Chong could guess the cowardice of the British, because Wingate and Slim spent the whole day talking about these tactics on the radio, about how to fight the Japanese with three to five times the number of troops. So he deliberately concealed the strength of the coming enemy. If he knows that the enemy has another 2,000 people, he won't scare the out.

But Xu Chong accurately grasped the essence of the enemy, the combat troops, just three squadrons, none of which were bigger than grenadiers, the British's four 3-inch guns, ten 51-mm mortars, and a large number of automatic weapons were enough to knock the enemy out of.

At dawn, his troops began to move closer in accordance with his deployment. His elite lurking squad also easily penetrated the enemy's outer guard and occupied a favorable hill. The Japanese army was preparing to eat and then march, and the alert troops had begun to shrink, and they looked completely fearless.

Judging from the surrounding situation, the nearest enemy infantry brigade was 15 kilometers away and separated by two mountains, which meant that it was difficult for the enemy to quickly detect and rush to support. Of course, the premise is that the enemy's communications forces must be annihilated at the first time, so that they do not send reports. Xu Chong handed over this to his black gunners, and he asked to shoot anything that looked like a communication device, the first shot to hit the radio, and the second shot to hit people nearby.

Early in the morning, the Japanese troops were having dinner, and the headquarters of the 2nd Division had a regular meeting, and their warning circle was spread far away, and Xu Chong stayed in the warning circle, relying on his divine disguise.

He climbed on the tree and could see the heads of the enemy in a meeting, because the weather was hot, and the tent was only one roof.

Dressed in shirts and shorts, Japanese officers sat in front of a blackboard discussing actions with maps hanging from it. Xu Chong was about 350 meters from the headquarters, and a patrol with military dogs walked under his feet every 10 minutes.

He was quite interested in checking the enemy's combat deployment, and he could roughly see the enemy's deployment with an 8x telescope, of course, Xu Chong wanted to know who among those people was Lieutenant General Maruyama, because they were all wearing shirts and had no rank mark. It had to be judged by age and demeanor, but the Japanese army was highly hierarchical, and he felt that he could judge it from this aspect.

The nearby field hospital began to dry bandages, the sick people routinely went to the nearby woods to diarrhea (there was no toilet for so many gastrointestinal patients), and the field kitchen was not far away with cooking smoke, creating a peaceful atmosphere away from the war.

He took the huge Motorola walkie-talkie out of his backpack and gave up his night vision device in order to take something and a camera with him. From Xu Chong's eyes, this thing is almost a waste, many times it can only communicate at a distance that the eye can see, and it is not possible to have a little ground object to cover it, and once it speaks, the nearby Japanese radio may hear it more clearly, but fortunately, one of his communication groups is on a hill 2 kilometers behind him, and there is no cover. His disposition, can be communicated to the rest of the troops.

He asked the British about their location, which was still 3 kilometers away, which meant only a 2-hour journey, and he hoped to direct the British through the radio to set up positions and launch an attack due west, without having to have a meeting or something, first, to waste time, and second, to coax the British to fight an encounter with the Japanese army, so that they could overcome their fears.

He continued to observe the enemy's headquarters, and soon confirmed that it was not the division commander who was standing in front of the blackboard and pointing, because he stood straight, and from time to time bowed slightly to the person who spoke below, at most a lieutenant.

The two people sitting at the front of the table below may be the division commander and the division chief of staff, full of style, there are no teacups in front of others, they all have them, one of them is still shaking a fan, from time to time a signal soldier comes to them, waiting for them to issue orders, each time the two of them sign together, and then the herald retreats. It seems that Lieutenant General Maruyama is most likely between these two people and has to be solved at once.

He decided to wait a while, waiting for his troops to attack, shoot them in one fell swoop, and then take advantage of the chaos to withdraw. He used the American-made Kodak camera he carried at all times to take pictures of the enemy's headquarters as a evidence, in case he tore up with the British after the war, and it was impossible to tell who killed the enemy commander.

Startled, Wingate's troops were separating from pack horse units to the west of the enemy headquarters, erecting all four 3-inch mortars and deploying a skirmish line, preparing to attack the Chinese at the same time as Xu Chong had planned.

Wingate immediately noticed that something was wrong, and the marks left by the stampede on the ground were not left by a force of two or three whites at all. He wanted to verify the enemy situation and send his own reconnaissance unit.

But there was no such time, Xu Chong had already fired the first shot, he used the Japanese rifle, one shot hit the back of the first target who shook the fan, and the second shot hit the second target who was standing stupidly standing on the side in a daze, a total of five seconds to solve everything.

He jumped off the tree and ran to one side, unable to stand in the way of the offensive line of his own troops, he was clothed in leaves, and he was easily injured by his own people.

The Chinese troops immediately went on the offensive. Under a large number of automatic fire, rush to the enemy headquarters. The British heard the gunshots, knew it was fired, and also attacked.

The shells fired from 4 mortars at Wingate hit directly near the enemy's field hospital, causing great chaos. The Japanese lost command and were attacked from both east and west at the same time, making it difficult to judge for a while. The garrison can only fight on its own. Due to the fact that heavy fire placed on the cart did not decompose, the machine-gun battery could not immediately function. The rest of the troops were waiting outside the field room to eat, and Xu Chong chose this time quite trickily. Because the Yun Guibing of the precision marksman platoon had little knowledge, they mistook the Japanese field kitchen for a communications unit and concentrated their fire on the stove and the nearby cook, causing Xu Chong's plan to encounter an unexpected small setback.

The Japanese could not distinguish between priority and priority, and the troops responded according to the intensity of the fire and pounced in the direction of the Chinese troops, who were blocked after quickly assaulting the enemy's first row of tents, and the two sides began to stalemate.

The British advanced in great stride, encountering only two patrols, and easily reached the undefended rear of the Japanese camp and occupied the commanding heights. Wingate saw that the dense enemy in front of him was running around, he couldn't help but gasp, and quickly analyzed the situation in his mind, after all, he had suppressed the Arab uprising in Palestine, and knew that once the troops fell into chaos, a large number would be a trouble, so his opportunity came. Saying that this is a wing headquarters is obviously a misjudgment made by the Chinese army because they lack the common sense to read the enemy's situation, but they have created an opportunity by rushing into it. Maybe there is a Japanese lieutenant general here? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.