They carefully passed through the front line of the battlefield, in front of them were dozens of damaged Weeks armored vehicles and trucks, some of which were still burning, when the Japanese intercepted the British troops, the vanguard was on a motorized march, and one or two battalions escaped at that time, if the British troops were to turn back and fight, about a squadron of Japanese pioneers on bicycles could hardly cope with the attack from both sides. But those who were lucky enough to run out fled all the way north without looking back, and those who didn't go out were blocked by the Japanese army.

Throughout the afternoon, the British rushed several times, but unfortunately there were no tanks and were stopped by the Japanese, whose fire did not exceed heavy machine guns and grenadiers. In the following 10 hours, the Japanese army built a complete defense system, and during this time, General Alexander, in addition to sending out distress telegrams, organized several chaotic charges.

He and his command were waiting for the desert rats, who had just been replenished with American-made M2 tanks and had not had time to train at all, to save themselves. The worst plan for him would be to flee west to the sea, where the Royal Navy would send a submarine to pick him up, or the Air Force would have a liaison plane land on the encirclement grass and rescue him. This was a direct order from Churchill, not because the prime minister had a lot of friendship with Alexander, but because after Parvassy's surrender, the British Empire could no longer bear the humiliation of a lieutenant general's capture.

They followed the line of confrontation between the two sides all the way to the west, and the Japanese were very experienced, firing a volley of flares every minute or two, beware of someone sneaking past at night. They also know that their defenses are actually a little flawed.

Walking 1.5 kilometers, Lin Xiuxuan squatted down to check the map. It was confirmed that the breakthrough he had scheduled had arrived. The Japanese machine guns and other firing points were evenly deployed, but here a dry riverbed formed a blind spot in the field of vision on both sides, and naturally there were also shooting blind spots.

"You're all going after me, remember, don't shoot."

"Boss, this won't work. The Japanese must have had another deployment in the low-lying area, at least a few shots, and as soon as the flare hit their heads, they would be blocked there and beaten hard. Tao Mingzhang said.

"Don't worry, even if you do, it's not a problem." He said as he looked around at the platoon commanders next to him and said, "There will be an hour before dawn, and there will be no chance at that time." ”

Everyone sees that there is no choice, so let's fight with this guy.

Lin Xiuxuan led people to bend down and trot forward. Just walk through the open area where the two sides are facing each other. The only cover was the creek, and some veterans began to recall, were the Japanese soldiers they had dealt with so easy to fool?

As they advanced a distance, several flares were fired from the jungle opposite, and when they fell, they illuminated the ground of several square kilometers around them. If someone stood in the open, the shadow under his feet would be very clear, and experienced Japanese soldiers would even count the dead bodies on the battlefield to see if any scouts tried to get close by pretending to be dead.

Tao Mingzhang ran beside Lin Xiuxuan, and if he found something wrong, he was ready to knock down his life-saving benefactor at any time, even if he sacrificed himself. He was not convinced that the Japanese would leave a gap in the tight defensive line. He knew that the Japanese were a bit dull, but they weren't sloppy.

Seeing that they were getting closer and closer to the Japanese position, they were never blocked by a frontal attack. At the very moment when they easily broke through the enemy's lines, the last flare fell.

Tao Mingzhang saw at a glance that the machine ahead = a machine gun bunker a few meters away, and a pheasant neck with the muzzle facing the sky. He struggled to knock Lin Xiuxuan to the side, and then carried one*, jumped over the bunker, and was about to die together, only to find a five-person machine gun team lying inside, two of them were shot in the head, and the other three were bleeding from their mouths and noses, and they seemed to have been strangled to death.

He froze in place, barely believing his eyes. This machine-gun bunker was built in the riverbed, also in the blind spot of the British position, who killed them? This position could have blocked this narrow river channel by virtue of its geographical advantage, and according to his experience, even if it was a crooked handle, occupying such a small position, at least half a company of corpses would have to be piled up to have a chance for the bombardier to rush close enough.

"What are you doing? Come on. ”

Lin woke up the lieutenant. They actually broke through the long enemy blockade through this gap. It is unbelievable to cram a huge force of 300 men behind enemy lines without firing a single shot.

They continued to advance 150 meters, heard the handlebar-like cheers, a Japanese baggage force was transporting ammunition on the forest path, they waited for a while, let the enemy pass, and then continued on.

After walking a few hundred meters, it has entered the weakest area of the enemy's deployment. Lin stopped and began to assign tasks. He deployed everyone into 4 teams and attacked the rear separately and disrupted the communication command, with the aim of disrupting the enemy's deployment and preparing for a desperate breakthrough. He led the largest of them, and the target was the headquarters of the enemy's wing.

The plan stopped, and the crowd went their separate ways with high morale.

Twenty-four hours ago, this unit was still escorting the smuggling of profiteers and high-ranking officials, and everyone felt that they had been deceived by coming to Burma, and now each of them was convinced that they could give the Japanese army a little bitterness.

Lin Xiuxuan took Tao Mingzhang and headed towards the headquarters. Soon gunshots rang out behind him, and the battle had already started at Platoon Commander Sun, listening to the movement, *The firepower had the upper hand until the end of the battle.

They passed by the area where the enemy had temporarily piled up supplies, which was not an important target, and Lin Da quietly bypassed. But the enemy guards who heard the gunshots were alert, listening with their ears to the slightest movement around them. They heard someone passing by.

One of the military officers shouted, "Dinosaurs." ”

Lin hurriedly responded: "Mammoth." ”

He knew it was a new password issued four hours earlier.

"Which part?"

"Baggage is on the team."

"Didn't you just pass?"

"Lost a horse, still carrying a cannon, Captain Noma, let's come back and look for it."

Lin answered like a stream there, and Tao Mingzhang next to him was stunned for a moment. He suddenly sounded, not long ago, Chen Zhiping said that this person was a Japanese spy, but then he put this stupid idea behind him.

Lin had been wary of the other party's flashlight, but it seemed that there was none, and the Japanese sentry did not ask more, and the 100th was able to pass quickly.

Gunshots rang out in the distance, for a minute or two at a time, roughly the time it took to settle a group. Harada Osa's defensive position was cleverly constructed, and various firearms were deployed to form crossfire, forming a shallow and deep defense with a wide front, but after all, there were not enough troops, and there was no communication trench, so it was very disadvantageous for each other to support each other. This gave great convenience to the Chinese troops attacking from the rear. Now three more groups are blooming in all directions, inflicting great damage on the enemy.

The first rays of morning light shot into the jungle, and the jungle was filled with a thick morning mist. Lin Xiuxuan had already approached the enemy's headquarters, and the gray uniforms of the Chinese army did not seem to be very suitable for the environment here. He ordered the action to stop, and everyone took refuge behind a bush.

Not far away, the sound of the Japanese alert troops could be heard talking, and from time to time people and horses on bicycles set out from here to support various places where gunfire rang out. The British army had not yet launched an attack, but the infiltrated Chinese army had caused far more trouble to the wing commander Harada Dong than the British, but fortunately he had laid the telephone line in advance, and now wherever there was news of the attack, he immediately transferred manpower from the reserve to the rescue.

Tao Mingzhang squatted on the edge of the forest, he felt that his old experience had been subverted, in the past battles, the Japanese always occupied the intelligence advantage, and the national army was passively beaten everywhere, every time the peak intended to sneak attack, and finally fought into a frontal attack, the enemy always appeared at the worst opportunity, but after the captain of the 96th division appeared, miracles have been staged again and again,

"Sir, are you sure this is their wing headquarters?"

"yes, definitely."

"How many are there?"

"The direct subordinate unit plus an engineer squadron. About five hundred people. ”

He really couldn't understand how the captain knew so much detail, he even knew the enemy's password.

"There are so many enemies, then we can't gnaw on the hundred-ten."

"The enemy is sending troops everywhere, the number of troops will be reduced, and after a while, the artillery will be fired for a while, and it will be about the same."

Lin said with great certainty.

"Cannon?"

"Hmm." He raised his wrist to look at his watch. This hand he played with Chu Aiyun last time, and the effect was excellent, but this time it was more difficult, and he needed to use a communication system that spanned half of Myanmar to hack into the British artillery accusation network. Of course, it was not difficult to pretend to be a scout on a Humber reconnaissance vehicle and deceive the rear artillery to fire at the right target, but his group could not control the timing of the fire. If the British army can't cooperate, they can only hope that Ma Qiang can snipe the enemy's leader, and then he will take the brothers here to fight, but the casualties will inevitably be not small.

Qin Xiaosu in the rear was also waiting, he recorded a large number of calls from the forward artillery reconnaissance units overnight, and even knew the name of the commander's girlfriend on the Humber reconnaissance car, but he couldn't give orders directly to the British army.

In the forward village where the 7th Brigade advanced and arrived, Corporal Dodgson on the 4-wheeled reconnaissance vehicle was using his huge naval telescope to observe the jungle ahead, and after sunrise he was staring at the enemy situation in front of him, but the Japanese army was well camouflaged, so he really couldn't confirm any target, and he didn't dare to continue to move forward.

This left him at a loss, which was not the case in North Africa, when they were lying on the sand dunes and could see the enemy convoy emerging from the horizon, and of course the enemy could see their movements here.

On the radio, from time to time, there was a voice urging from his superiors, and he knew that the matter was not trivial, because Lieutenant General Alexander was in the encirclement.

The superiors were urging him to hurry, and he decided to find a random place to fire a few shots first, maybe the Japanese would be frightened and moved, so that they could see more clearly.

The corporal stood in the car, with a walkie-talkie around his neck and a pencil in his hand, spreading out a gridded map on the roof of the car.

"A small group of enemies was spotted in the C14C17 strip and a tentative, skirmished shot was requested. Complete. ”

He said that the place was a few kilometers in front of him, and he did see a small force of Japanese troops haunting the edge of the village, and after he finished speaking, his superiors did not respond, as if there was some sound, but it was quickly swallowed up by the background noise.

The commander of the artillery battalion, anxiously waiting for Lieutenant Colonel Sutter to finally receive the communication from the front, no doubt the voice of Dodgson, telling him to find an important enemy assembly area, giving a very specific location. Then repeat it. Confirm that it is correct.

The lieutenant colonel compared it on the map and found that it was a very deep area, and he didn't know how his cutting-edge eyeliner suddenly grew up and went deep into the jungle. Is there a mistake?

He asked again, and it was repeated twice. It's a bite to be.

He hesitated, then grabbed the phone and gave the order to fire to his artillery group.

At present, the most powerful artillery in the whole of Myanmar is undoubtedly 32 times the 150 guns of the Chinese army, but there are only 3 guns. This may be followed by Soviet-made 122 guns and Japanese 105 field guns, but they are also very small.

But here he had 24 25-pounder guns, which, although the caliber was on the small side, were plentiful in shells. If you start shooting now, you can shoot until the afternoon.