305 Murder and Silence
Climbing the bunker is the Burmese Independence Volunteer Army Detachment No. 1, one of the few elite of the tens of thousands of rabble, most of whom trained for a year on Hainan Island to learn explosives and shooting, while the more important leaders were sent to Japan to further their education in communications technology.
Under the battlements, a thin figure in a British uniform struggled to climb the cliff, climbing. Who would have imagined that, just a few years ago, this young man was just a weak university student and president of the All Burmese Student Union, but the war has fueled rapid growth, and in recent weeks he has personally executed 16 people, including colonists and their minions; The minions refer to the Arakan coastal Arakan people, the mountain people of the north, the Shan people of the east, and the ubiquitous Chinese and Indians.
For him, this is not the time to show weakness, and he is temporarily at the bottom of the list of candidates for the head of the independent government of Myanmar in the Yugoslav apparatus, and there are at least two strong contenders for the post of defense minister. So he had to be more ferocious than his competitors in order to make the Japanese look up to him. In order to increase his appeal among the people, he deliberately changed his original name, and now the guerrillas affectionately call him Dechen Aung San.
One of the benefits of the dark night is that you won't see how high the cliffs are when you struggle your way up the fortress.
Just as he was about to climb the fortress, a strong hand reached out from behind the battlements and dragged him alive. It was the inner response that lurked in the fortress; Internal response is the key to the success or failure of this operation. It was not unreasonable for the British to pursue a divide-and-rule policy, with the colonial army allowing only the northern hill peoples to join, but there were still some minorities who were happy to see British rule overthrown under the money offensive of the Southern authorities.
Within minutes, about 20 elite warriors climbed the fortress. Most of the warriors began to organize their weapons and ammunition, and they all used the Imperial Stern*, a crude, lightweight, powerful weapon that could easily blend in with the enemy. Commander Aung San and Ishii Akiho Nakasa squatted on the ground and looked at the map that should be provided with a flashlight; U Nu was imprisoned in the core of the fortress, and the garrison of this 17th-century fortress consisted of only 18 people, including two who had rebelled.
Coordinated Japanese artillery fire would soon be used to seal off the fort and prevent the British from coming to the rescue from the other side of the peninsula. At this moment, the 4 destroyers of the 2nd Japanese Fleet, led by the flagship cruiser Shentong, are making final preparations for firing, and the time of firing depends on the infiltration group of the Independence Army, and the time to ignite the firewood and grass to indicate the target.
This operation was finalized by the Yugoslav authorities after making special reference to several German agent operations in the European theater, and the requirements for communication coordination were very high. This is also a victory that the base camp urgently needs after several failed paratrooper assaults.
Lin Xiuxuan had already seen people climb into Shalian's prison, he didn't know how big the conflict would be, and he didn't know that important prisoners were being held here; All he knew was that his plan with 419's hasty decision was already bad. He hoped to get in touch with 419 immediately, but several calls were unsuccessful, and for some reason 419 still did not surface. During this period, he received active voice communications, and it could be determined that there were two radio stations in the vicinity that were talking in turn, and someone was using broken Japanese to communicate with warships in the open sea for fire support.
Now that the Japanese Navy was about to join the operation, Lin Xiuxuan could not confirm that the area on the beach was safe, and the enemy's shelling was likely to hit his neighborhood. He could only give up waiting for communication, pack up his things and find an anticline to avoid for a while.
Signal flares had already been raised in the north of Shalian, and the Japanese warships on the sea immediately began to shoot.
The 140mm guns of the Avatar immediately dominated the harbor, and the British army had no comparable firepower in the entire Rangoon, and 2 months ago, all the heavy guns were transported to Singapore.
Continuous shelling was fired on the road behind the prison, and some shells also landed on the beach to block possible support from other directions. The time for the agreed rendezvous with 419 was approaching, and Lin and his group were still scurrying around with the radio in the midst of enemy shelling.
The assault on the top of the pillbox began to synchronize operations. Aung San's team wore colonial uniforms and wore only white towels tied to their hands. They caused chaos after easily cutting off the prison's internal lighting circuits, and then rushed in screaming. They opened fire on everyone they bumped into.
The battle was one-sided, and the members of the detachment could speak both northern hill and English, and several times in the key area, using internal deception to win the defense, and the defenders of the team carried out massacres.
The firelight constantly moved from one window of the fortress to another, and Lin Xiuxuan, who had just hid behind the hillside, could judge that the assault was developing in depth through the movement of the firelight, and he didn't know if the Japanese army would occupy a bridgehead at Salian, but militarily speaking, it didn't seem to work, because the Japanese army did not have enough vehicles to land from the sea. So this should just be a special operation with an unknown purpose, and unfortunately I am deeply involved in it.
No. 419 finally raised the periscope, Cheng Dayang quickly turned around, noticed the artillery fire on the coast, he was worried that Lin Xiuxuan was trapped somewhere on the island by the sudden artillery fire, and was ready to continue approaching. Qin Xiaosu called a few times, and finally found Lin Xiuxuan, and sure enough, he was tied somewhere 200 meters away from the beach, in a dilemma.
At present, he is only about 1 kilometer away from 419 in a straight line, and it seems that he can send a small boat to pick people up. Cheng Dayang asked Lin Xiuxuan to make his own decision, if he wanted to be safe, he could give up tonight's action, and then wait for 24 more hours. However, he knew that Lin would not wait another day, he was the kind of guy who always believed in luck and was on his side.
Sure enough, Lin decided not to wait any longer, he was going to cross the beach 200 meters ahead, and meet the motorboat sent by 419 on the shore, if the time was pinched, they could complete the evacuation under the noses of the British and Japanese sides. The special team's low-light night vision devices allow them to occupy a field of view advantage of about 1 km on the battlefield, which is a major advantage worth fighting for. The only problem, which they could not anticipate, was the actions of both offensive and defensive sides on the peninsula. If you calculate the chance, there is still a chance that you will bump into each other.
On the foredeck of 419, the boatswain jumped onto the dinghy and started the engine, and he took one person back the special team. To prevent accidents, he carried an assault rifle with night vision devices installed.
Just as the small rubber boat set sail, the radar of 419 detected that a very fast boat was also released from the Japanese fleet in the rear, and from the size of it, it seemed to be a * boat. * The boat is rapidly approaching the shore and is apparently also coming to pick up people, but judging by the course, it does not coincide with the boatswain's dinghy. In a hurry, even if the risks are accumulating, they can only force the action forward.
After the special team ran onto the beach, he saw the minefield warning sign erected in front of him, which was the most discouraging of all the setbacks that Lin Xiuxuan encountered today, he almost felt that in the dark, someone was deliberately working against him, and reason warned him that he must immediately abandon the plan, but he had no room to turn back.
They quickly moved westward, trying to bypass the minefield, and there was a concrete road under the pillbox that led directly to the sea, and there could be no * on the road. Of course, the road is too close to the war zone to be an ideal evacuation route, but with a few minutes of window, they can easily pass through the minefield without having to make a great detour to the east, and even if you make a few kilometers of detour, you still don't know that there is no ground under the beach*.
They moved towards the swarthy bunker, and at the same time informed 419 and Lu Dacheng that they had temporarily changed the location of the pick-up, and 419 could only run for their lives and drive along the coast towards the new pick-up place. Cheng Dayang had to keep the submarine as close to the shore as possible to reduce the time that the special team was stranded at sea.
As they trotted all the way up the road, they suddenly heard someone shouting from behind the ruins on the hill.
The task force quickly found a bush on the side of the road and hid. Lin wanted to use the radio to remind Lu Dacheng, who was already close to the shore, to leave immediately, but a figure with a gun had already grabbed his eyes, less than 5 meters away from him, and he couldn't speak for a while.
A heavily armed group of men pushed and shoved an old man in prison uniform and hood on his head towards the beach, and their retreat route was the same as that of the special team. The constant shouting in the ranks was the old man with a goatee, who seemed unwilling to leave the British prison.
Lin Xiuxuan guessed for the first time that this old man should be Wu Nu, and most of the people holding * next to him were Aung San. Although he could not understand the Burmese they spoke, he could roughly tell from his body movements what was going on, and the prisoner was reluctant to leave with them, perhaps because he did not want to cooperate with the Japanese. According to historical records, U Nu did reach a compromise with the British and did not participate in the puppet government of the Japanese.
Lu Dacheng had already leaned to the shore, and he also heard the shouting, and he knew that something was wrong, so he quickly turned around and left, but the sound of the engine alarmed the group. Thinking that their ship had arrived, the Japanese commander Akiho Ishii sensed something was wrong, so he pulled out his flare gun and fired a flare into the sea. When the flares fell, the sea was illuminated, revealing not only the fleeing small rubber boats, but also the huge Project 419 nuclear submarine not far away.
Ishii stared blankly at the submarine in the distance, as a spy, he kept track of the British and American naval equipment all year round, and knew very well that the largest ocean-going submarine in Britain and the United States was only 3,000 tons, and it would never be half the size of this boat. The flares slowly fell, and the huge submarine was once again covered in darkness.
Lin Xiuxuan stood up from the bushes and made gestures to prepare to fire, although he was very reluctant to do so, but he knew that there was no choice but to kill people. Even if what he needs to kill is a politician who will be important in future generations, or the survival of the entire political family will be implicated in the slightest thought, he must cut the grass and eliminate any threat to 419 at the source. Everyone here, except for the one who wore a hood and didn't see the nuclear submarine, must die.