408 Destroy the Fortress Cannon
The tank group turned directly under the call of Chu Tingchang and turned into a remote path that was not marked on the map. Brooke, who had eaten all the way behind the tank, didn't know what to do with it, so he called on the radio and ignored it. He just heard Chu stop on the radio and discuss going to Sittwe Airport with several of his company commanders, but why didn't he go? The tank drove a kilometer, and a miracle appeared again, and a warehouse appeared in front of it, which was not indicated on the map, and judging by the huge cement shell, it was still an oil warehouse. The British army hid a lot of good things from the Allies in Burma, and many supplies were not even told by the Americans, but Brooke couldn't understand how Chu Tingchang knew.
The British outpost in front blocked the way and was not ready to let them in, so Chu Tingchang got out of the tank and beckoned to Brooke behind.
"Who, you're a family, go and tell those grandchildren that we need fuel."
Brooke hated him for treating himself as a junior son, but now that the overall situation is present, he can only endure it. He arrived at the British outpost, directly used the telephone there, and talked to the British superiors, and the Americans still spoke very effectively, and soon the front crossbar was pulled up and they were let in. At present, the fuel of the synthetic battalion is just enough to pour into the airport, but Chief Chu Ting expects that there will be mobile combat, so he has to replenish fuel first.
Then Chief Chu asked Brooke about the military meeting, which Brooke also wanted to know, but called the Shi headquarters with a high-power radio, where he said that from now on, any ground movement news could not be transmitted through the radio, and the radio could only coordinate air support. Chu Aiyun didn't know which of these people at the headquarters had made a mistake, and the Japanese couldn't decipher the code that the Burmese allies changed every week.
Zhou Youfu took advantage of the refueling to go to the British warehouse to loot, the British were anxious, and they wished that someone would come and pull them, of course, they would no longer be stingy with weapons and ammunition. The entire army replenished a lot of ammunition, and they were indeed in a hurry to withdraw from their positions in the morning, and they didn't have time to wait for replenishment, but relying on the information of the British overheard by Qin Xiaosu, they found this place and were able to replenish it.
Brooke spread out a map on the hot hood to check out the directions.
The Rakhine Mountains provided a good terrain support for the Allied resistance, but the problem was that there was no information about the enemy situation at all, only the exaggerated number of enemies ashore provided by the British. Brooke himself was born as a staff officer, and he did the work of statistics, and he also felt that the number of Japanese troops ashore was unreliable; It is said that there are 4 aircraft carriers staying in the coastal waters, but along the way, I have not seen any enemy planes over their heads. He raised his eyes and saw Chu Tingchang hanging Erlang leaning on the tank, still holding up his collar, and he didn't know what the hell he was thinking about again.
Chu Tingchang was receiving information from Lin's side, and he had an invisible headset hidden in his ears, which could be quickly replied through the answer button hidden in his watch.
It is known that the Japanese troops ashore were mainly the 58th Wing of the 31st Division, and the enemy had more or less leaked some telegrams. At present, the unit is dividing its forces to attack Sittwe airfield, and the enemy's heavy fire has no time to unload the ship, and there are only some light small guns, but they currently have two 230 mm fortress guns, and the deployment elevation is very large, and Sittwe airfield is within range. The enemy ashore did not have any vehicles, not even mules and horses. The deployment is relatively scattered, which is not conducive to the interception of armored forces. In any case, the Sittwe airfield was the last remaining Allied airfield on the Western Front, and if it was not secured, the British might have been frustrated and fled.
Lin Xiuxuan suggested that he wait until after night to attack, and now he will be beaten by those two cannons in vain. And the three of them may be able to use the advantage of night vision devices to take out those two deadly cannons at night.
Chief Chu agreed with this judgment, so he ordered everyone to rest in place for 4 hours. He also asked Zhou Youfu to get some flares and flare guns and assign them to each platoon.
Brooke looked fresh, but he had learned not to question Pavilion Chief Chu directly, because every time Pavilion Chief Chu did something unexpected, he could reap victory, and he often couldn't see the intention until after the fact.
"I said that the Japanese army could attack Sittwe airfield at any time." Brooke came over and said.
"Not so fast, you think the Japanese have all done marathons? That is, those two cannons hit far, and the infantry was still early. ”
"Are you afraid of those two cannons?"
"Yes, whichever route we take, it's within their range."
"I just got the news that Chennault's B25 bombers are going to attack these heavy guns soon."
"But I've heard that these cannons are mounted on rails, and in case of danger, they can be returned to the cave through the rails."
Brooke was secretly surprised, some of the details he had just heard from the headquarters, and Pavilion Chief Chu actually knew.
"yes, looks like we're going to have to pray together."
Lin Xiuxuan's trio was galloping west along the road abandoned by the British, and the British fled so fast that the Japanese on foot could not catch up. His drone could see that the Japanese army several kilometers ahead could no longer catch up and stopped to rest. The last South African troops, who had been withdrawn in trucks, could not stop shouting as they watched a lone Allied jeep bravely towards the enemy.
They drove the jeep into the jungle at a distance of a kilometer from the Japanese troops, cut down branches and hid the car. In the sky, the aircraft engine sounded, it was the bombers of the Flying Tigers who arrived, preparing to launch an attack on the two heavy guns that seriously threatened the Allied counterattack, they were in line with the purpose of the special team, if they succeeded, Lin Xiuxuan could stop the adventure, but these planes were not equipped*, they could only deliver bombs horizontally, and the success rate was difficult to expect.
The 4 bombers split up to look for targets, and because they were worried about the Japanese carrier-based aircraft force, the B25 flew very low. They dispatched in a hurry, without aerial photographs for the pre-war target identification arrangement, and did not have internal target indications, so they had to search for targets on their own. The Japanese artillerymen, having received the news from the forward observation post, found the bombers and immediately stopped shelling, which made it impossible for these bombers to find targets in the mountains at all.
After going around the mountainous area a few times and still not finding the target, the pilot began to worry that the enemy Zero fighter had taken off and was on its way, so he threw * indiscriminately in the ravine and went back. After a while, the heavy guns opened up to position through the rails and began to fire. It is easier said than done to destroy them, and without careful deployment, it is very difficult to find them.
Before it was completely dark, Lin Xiuxuan's group began to act. They have small drones that can reconnoiter the exterior of the fortress, and they don't know what's going on inside.
However, the drone found that a lot of ammunition had accumulated around the mobile battery of the first gun. If an ideal angle can be found, it seems that from a kilometer away, a tracer bullet can be fired to detonate the ammunition and thus destroy the heavy artillery. This can be done by one person, the only difficulty is how to climb the distant mountain with an anti-materiel gun. Ma Qiang's injury is not good, and this kind of simple work seems to be handed over to him.
The remaining position was more troublesome, although the position was also a mess, piled up with all sorts of things*, but there was no higher point than the highest point of the cannon on all sides, so someone had to touch it and install a timer*.
They began to split up. Lin Xiuxuan still had another thing in his heart, that is, Qin Xiaosu had not intercepted any valuable information all day, and both sides began to suspect that the other party might be eavesdropping on the radio, which made the special team hiding in the shadows suffer a big loss for no reason.
However, after nightfall, Qin Xiaosu still intercepted a useful piece of information, the source was not Burma, but the internal transfer order of the 51st Division of the 74th Army far away in Guizhou, and the order issued by Division Commander Li Tianxia should be scattered in Hunan and Guizhou The division's units begged to assemble quickly and prepare to take over the defensive position of the 58th Division near the Nu River.
The radio signal was very weak, but Qin Xiaosu intercepted it completely with the help of antenna gain. Based on this, it can be judged that the 58th Division of the 74th Army, which was originally guarding the line from Longling to the Lancang River, was about to be transferred or had already begun to be transferred, Qin Xiaosu sent the news, and Lin Xiuxuan could only temporarily forget about it, because the telegram could not read the current position of the 58th Division.
The worst-case scenario he could think of was that the expeditionary force would be discouraged and panicked by the Japanese landing on the west coast. If the 58th Division had already left its original position at this moment, and the Li Tianxia Division of the 51st Division in the rear was still thousands of miles away, a huge hidden danger would arise and it might be caught by the enemy hiding in the shadows. Thanks to Chen Zhiping, who is self-proclaiming, the news that the 56th Division is hiding on the Thai-Burmese border has not been delivered.
He and Xu Chong went up the hill from the steepest area on the side, where there was no garrison. Soon they reached the mountainside, and at the foot of the mountain, the Japanese and Indian soldiers were sitting around the bonfire, and the Indians were singing and dancing, which shocked the Japanese and applauded incessantly. Using night vision devices, they went up the hill along the thorn bushes along the main passageway, where loud noises were made about every 2 minutes. There was no garrison on the road. Outside the main entrance to the fortress, there are machine guns.
Lin Xiuxuan went around to the side and cut the barbed wire fence and got in. Just as he was touching in, the small door on the side of the fortress opened, and a shirtless Japanese soldier came out to urinate humming a little song, Xu Chong went up from behind and stabbed him to death. Although the two of them were wearing Japanese uniforms, they were already somewhat different from the newly issued combat uniforms of the 31st Division in the southern region, but they couldn't control it, and they were mixed up with their heads covered.
On the ground and on the wall of the fortress aisle, there was blood splattering, and there was a series of large but shallow craters on the wall, which were obviously left by * strafing, which showed that force was still used when seizing.
As they walked, the entire fortress began to shake with a new launch.
There was a whistle from a Japanese officer in front, and a team of people rushed up with their things, and the two of them followed behind and prepared to mix. Luckily, it's very dark, and it's not easy to see the subtle differences in their uniforms.
Walking around the corner, a flash of the horizontal light opened, and a bespectacled ensign came out, Lin Xiuxuan lowered his head, ready to pass by him.
"Sergeant, how come your cavalry wing is here?"
The second lieutenant said, still being seen through by someone with a heart.
Xu Chong pretended to borrow, went around from the side, suddenly turned around, and stuck the troubled second lieutenant in the neck with his elbow, covering his mouth with one hand, and Lin Xiuxuan had already stabbed him in the chest. They dragged the convulsive corpse into the dark passage where the second lieutenant had appeared, intending to hide the corpse first, but with a flashlight, rows of huge cannonballs were erected around it.
It seemed that they had broken into the right place, so they quickly fixed one* on a stack of * bags, timed it for 20 minutes, and then retreated along the same route, retreating outside to learn that Ma Qiang's side was moving smoothly and had occupied the ideal position.
As they reached the base of the mountain, just in time, there was a loud bang overhead, followed by a series of explosions, and huge stones rolled down, smashing huge pits into the ground.
A few kilometers away, Ma Qiang also began shooting. He had never shot beyond 300 meters, which was a major test for ballistic calculations and wind deflection calculations, and firing tracer bullets meant that the enemy would immediately detect them, but he had no more than one chance to shoot, and even if the Japanese found out about it, there was nothing they could do with him.