"Didn't the 93rd Division say that there were 10,000 devils, how could it be that there were less than a thousand, and I didn't hear the rifle artillery, only the mortar." He watched and muttered to himself with disdain.

"Division, I can't believe the words of those wastes of the 6th Army, the main force of the Japanese army was in Meimiao yesterday, and they also divided their troops to Kokang and Jingdong, where are the ten thousand people." said the deputy commander of the 173 regiment.

"Where is Li Tianxia, is she grinding again?"

"The position of the 51st Division is the same as 6 hours ago, it is still in Panxian on the Yunnan-Guizhou border, and the military headquarters said that the heavy rain there caused the road to collapse, so the 51st Division delayed for a while."

"There is no Japanese plane on the head, and it is a shame for the party-state soldiers to not move forward for 6 hours. sent a report to Commander Wang, saying that the 51st Division was looking left and right and deliberately delayed. ”

"Master, let's change this wording that is deliberately delaying, right?"

"Don't change a word, send a report."

"Yes."

A few kilometers to the south, Hirai Nakasa, who was observing the enemy situation from his humble temporary headquarters, boasted to Iida on the phone that he had captured Haikou where Lashio had cut off the retreat of the expeditionary force, and that he had attacked from Mochi, and that the enemy had fled so much that he had divided his forces and went to Kokang; Before arriving at the city of Lashio first, seeing the enemy's loose garrison, the city should also take advantage of the situation to cause chaos, according to common sense, the Chinese army in the defense line outside the city should have collapsed quickly in the strong fear of the enemy, but how did it suddenly hold on.

He inquired about the enemy situation from the scouts, and said that the captured civilians said that there was only one regiment of the 93rd Division. Others had broken down from other places, most of them without guns, and some without even shoes; Of course, he knows very well how much combat effectiveness these miscellaneous cards of the Yunnan army have, and the Japanese advisers have collected a lot of information when the Thai army is engaged in the battle with the Yunnan army, in short, the machine guns of a division will not exceed that of a brigade of the Japanese army, and there is no way to talk about training.

However, the Hirai Wing is only a search wing, and the combat effectiveness is close to that of the infantry brigade, and in the face of a solid defense, earthwork is both time-consuming and not a specialty, so ...... The co-captain thought about it, so let's use the old way.

He ordered the newly arrived mortar unit to prepare to fire poison gas bombs outside the city. However, the wind direction is uncertain in the mountainous area, so he ordered to launch a few * to observe the wind direction near the target.

The Japanese army* fell from the sky and formed smoke in front of the national army position, but it drifted towards the Japanese position, and it seemed that the wind direction changed every kilometer, so it was necessary to be cautious before use.

Zhang Lingfu, the acting commander of the 58th Division, saw that the Japanese army used smoke bombs, and a group of miscellaneous troops on the position who had never seen the world thought that the Japanese had fired stink bombs, and they all stuck out their heads to look, and some laughed and scolded the Japanese troops on the opposite side; However, Division Commander Zhang has seen a lot, and he knows that the smoke from these shells drifts upwards lightly, and it is indeed just smoke, but it is only to observe the direction of the wind, and it is likely to be a preparation for those thick and heavy gas bombs that drift off the ground, but fortunately, the warehouse he opened was full of British and American gas masks, in addition to those used by people, but also for horses.

"Deputy Commander Guo, tell the warehouse to send out the gas masks quickly."

"Division, the troops in front must not have time to issue gas masks, it is better to withdraw first and use our troops in the deep defense line to resist. Let them reorganize in the back and go up again. ”

"No, the enemy's strategy is to use poison gas to launch a charge and crush us in one fell swoop, and now that the battle line is not stable, let them withdraw behind our machine-gun positions? If you think about it, then the defense will be chaotic, and you don't need to supervise those miscellaneous cards, and they will disappear in a blink of an eye, and you don't know it. ”

"But this ......"

"At the beginning of the text, the most jealous of fighting was the kindness of women, telling the machine gun position that when the enemy attacked later, if anyone dared to retreat, they would all be shot in front of the position, and they would not be tolerated." He said calmly as he looked ahead with a telescope, "What are you doing here?" Why don't you go soon? ”

"Yes."

Sure enough, the enemy began to fire again*, this time behind the flank of the position, and so carefully calculating the wind direction and speed was definitely not a check for ordinary shelling. The soldiers on the Chinese position were told to immediately cover their mouths and noses with a towel, which was the only useful information that Division Commander Zhang gave them, revealing that he already knew about the Japanese army's intentions. Of course, what is the use of these indigenous methods for irritating poison gas? And no one really knows.

Pity the strong men of these miscellaneous troops, most of them are reluctant to pee on the towel, and they don't know what will happen, they also find that there are not many Japanese troops on the opposite side, and the shells fired are not energetic and only smoke, thinking that the position has been stabilized.

The Japanese* began to fall continuously, much more violently than before, but still did not explode, only the smoke that drifted away, no longer upward, but drifted against the ground towards the Chinese soldiers' positions.

The asphyxiating red agent was only a rudimentary chemical weapon, and it was also a sharp weapon for the Japanese army to disintegrate the Chinese army, and they never used it against the American and British troops, because the Japanese army also knew that the other side had something more advanced, but China did not.

For a while, there was a howl of ghosts and wolves on the smoke-infected position, and it was obvious that the dirt method of towels and urine could not stop the murderous weapons of the industrial countries, and where the smoke did not reach, some people began to jump out of the trenches in panic and run backwards, everything evolved like Hirai's script.

Not far away, Hirai Nakasa watched this scene proudly, his original intention was to drive the Chinese army to disperse, so that he could wave his army from behind and capture two lines of defense in one fell swoop. If it's just to kill, of course, there are more vicious things, but those things that block the offensive line will cause damage to themselves is really worth the loss.

"Squadron Leader Harada, the enemy has crossed, you immediately launch an attack and pass through the gap there, remember that the tactical essentials are to follow closely behind the enemy's rout, don't drag on the first line of defense, and take down the deep defense line in one fell swoop."

"Yes."

Put on a gas mask, look at the Japanese army as hideous as a ghost, with a scattered formation to rush towards the Chinese army position, this charge, sure enough, there is no more dense fire backfire, only the sparse gunfire rang out. Most of the infantry of the 93rd Division were illiterate inland peasants, tied up in front of the army, and they had never seen the Japanese at all, nor did they know the murderous things of the outside world. They were immediately startled by such a scene and scrambled to jump out of the trenches and run back. After running for a while, I found that the people on the position of the Central Army behind him had also put on the kind of mask that looked like a demon, and even the mules and horses pulling supplies behind the position were also brought on.

A sergeant wearing an M35 steel helmet stepped on a sandbag and held a simple megaphone in his hand.

"Brother 93, go back immediately, there is an order from the peak, abandon the position and be punished for treason, and you will be killed."

His voice came out through the mask, and the urn sound was completely out of shape, and with his Jiangsu-Zhejiang accent, most of the local soldiers in Yunnan couldn't understand it at all.

The machine gun position saw the green uniforms of the Japanese army behind their own people, and those cold and shining bayonets shining in the afterglow of the setting sun, the Japanese did not rush to shoot, nor did they bother to assassinate the poisoned soldiers rolling in the trenches, they carefully hid behind the routed army and quietly advanced, trying to break through the second line of defense in one fell swoop, all the tricks were as Zhang Lingfu predicted. If there were a large number of mortars that could have thrown out a barrage and blocked the movement of the Japanese army, but no, the British warehouses were found*, but no mortars were found, and the Japanese spies blew up the warehouses with mortars.

There was a stalemate in the scene, and a fast horse, after rushing to the position, shouted to convey the order to the company commander and the others to the divisional seat, and immediately shoot, or military justice.

For a while, light and heavy machine guns opened fire together, sweeping the front with a half-height firing line, and such strafing was of course difficult to distinguish between friend and foe. After the Chinese soldiers were knocked down, it was the turn of the Japanese troops who were sneakily charging behind, and because of the poisonous smoke sticking to the ground, the view of the Japanese machine gun positions in the rear was blocked, and they could not provide effective fire cover. This time, behind the corpses of his compatriots, he also shot and killed many Japanese soldiers. completely dismantled their treacherous schemes.

"Good job." Zhang Lingfu in the rear put down the binoculars with a smile, "Give credit to Company Commander Wu of the Supervision Team." ”

"Shizao, as you expected, the explosion of the ammunition depot is indeed the so-called of the Japanese army, and the spy company just grabbed a few in the city and found some leaflets."

"The Japanese spies are always one step ahead of the division, and they have been playing this trick for many years, and they can't hide it from me." As he took the leaflet, the gunfire in the distance became more and more thin, and it was clear that the Japanese attack was blocked.

"Before the Tianchang Festival, the imperial army will definitely capture the Huitong Bridge. In the city, those who fly the Japanese flag and submit to the city can be protected by the imperial army. He smiled and rubbed the leaflet and threw it on the ground, "With me, don't say anything about the long festival and the short festival, even if his mother's dystocia dragged on to the Mid-Autumn Festival, it will not be able to pass." ”

"Division, the situation around us is not good, 93, 94 and 55 are all in disarray, and the main force of Commander Du is entangled by the 18th Division in Mandalay, and the losses are also very large. Division Li is the commander of the 51st Division, and Song Xilian's men and horses are also thousands of miles away. We're the only ones here. ”

"Deputy Head Guo, do you know the story of this place?"

"What?" Commander Guo was stunned for a moment, Division Commander Zhang has always been like this, you talk to him about military affairs, he talks to you about history, it seems that he wants to show off again.

"This place, Dali belonged to Yongchang when the country, and it was also the key point when Zhuge Liang crusaded against Meng Shu, the superior soldiers since ancient times, naturally have the same knowledge, Zhuge Liang knows that this is the key point of a husband and a wife, I naturally can't not understand. Therefore, as long as our troops occupy here, they can attack Mandalay, and retreat can return to Yunnan, and the so-called advance and retreat are safe. ”

"However, if the Japanese planes blow up the Huitong Bridge behind them...... Our retreat, Li Shi's advance channel will be cut off......"

"The bridge has been blown up for a year or two, and it's not still there. Feel relieved. Most of the 173rd Regiment arrived tonight, replacing the motley positions. I will definitely be able to hold it. Tomorrow, I will show the U.S. General Staff that we can hold northern Burma without the British. ”

"Master, the father and squire of Lashio have sent Wanmin umbrellas."

"I've only been here for half a day, why did I find something here? It's just nonsense. What is the use of this kind of feudal thing? Tell them that when I first arrived, I didn't have the size to do it, and I was too busy with defense to receive this honor. ”

"I heard that it was originally made for Commander Du, but now the situation is critical...... So the squires ......"

"Oh, there's still this ......" The division commander seemed to hesitate a little, "Well, after all, it's the father's heart, it's not cold, I see that those devils on the other side can't play tricks before they get backup, so let's go and see." ”

In central Burma, Lin Xiuxuan received strange information from Qin Xiaosu, he intercepted the Japanese army's emergency telegram and wanted to go to the main force of the 56th Division to immediately support the direction of Lashio, saying that they were blocked by the main force of the unknown enemy army and suffered heavy casualties.

In the end, what is the main force, the current situation is chaotic, and the command of the expeditionary force can't figure it out, naturally there are no more telegrams that can be eavesdropped by Qin Xiaosu, but it is a good thing, at least it can distract the enemy's command, which is conducive to the implementation of the plan by the special team here.