Xu Chong asked the heavy fire team to hit the mine* where the enemy had piled up near the bridgehead iron cable as soon as possible. In this way, there is a great chance to blow up the iron cable, and the dozens of enemies who climbed on the iron cable will be reimbursed together.

There was no possibility of defeat in this battle, as most of the Japanese were unarmed, and the shortage of weapons in the Japanese army led to many non-combatants being issued only bayonets. This is not the same as the Chinese troops, armed to the teeth. Of course, another difference is that most of Xu Chong's old oil troops have watches (mainly "collected" when cleaning the battlefield), and in the era when communication equipment cannot be equipped with individual soldiers, the significance of unified action time is significant, and special operations often have various detachments acting secretly at the agreed time, and cannot rely on signal flares to coordinate the attack.

After deploying everything, he himself retreated to a greater distance, preparing to shoot an important target after firing. He uses captured Japanese troops* and is equipped with 2.5x scopes that allow him to snipe effectively from 200 to 300 meters, at a distance where no enemy can threaten him, so he can also change positions less often to increase his chances of shooting.

When the appointed time came, each detachment went its own way, and gunfire rang out all around. The Japanese sappers had no ideological equipment, and they had been swallowed up by the torrent for a whole day, and there were so many things to worry about that they didn't expect to encounter the enemy here. Of course, the deep mountains and old forests did make them a little underestimated, and the Japanese superiors always instilled in the soldiers the idea that the more difficult the environment, the more allies of the army, because the enemy was far inferior to the Japanese army in enduring hardships. However, most of the Chinese troops they encountered were Yunnan-Guizhou mountain people, who were not bad at all in terms of hardship, and they were far more adapted to the mountainous terrain than the Japanese army.

It was these amazing soldiers, armed with mortars and anti-materiel guns, who walked through the woods without mules and horses, leaving behind the British army, whose movement was limited by horses. These efforts paid off, and when the war began, the first bullet fired from the .55 anti-materiel gun detonated the Japanese piled up on the side of the bridge*.

The Japanese army's treatment of this blunt * was somewhat sloppy, and it was simply piled on the shore, in fact, this batch of * seized from the heavy British mine warehouse had been deliquescent, and half of the gun holes could not detonate normally, but this time perhaps the official was really standing behind the Chinese, and a tracer bomb detonated a full half a ton of *.

In an instant, the mountain collapsed and the earth cracked, and the iron chains connected to the shore were all blown off, and the Japanese, who were working on the roaring river, were either swept into the river by the air waves, or grabbed the iron chains, fell down, and were swept away by the rolling river.

The construction of the Japanese machine-gun bunkers in the vicinity was extremely sloppy, almost around the bridgehead, and they did not think that anyone could sneak attack, and many of these machine-gun strongholds were destroyed by explosions at the first time, and most of the shooters were killed by random shooting on all sides. The engineering units were in confusion and instinctively fled the way they came, and the few who had already crossed the river in rubber boats were soon fired into the deep forest by artillery and machine guns.

The machine gun crew had long been in ambush on the enemy's inevitable way to escape, and six American-made water-cooled machine guns blocked the retreat with uninterrupted firepower, and more than 100 pack horses that ran wildly suffered an unwarranted disaster and were shot dead in the jungle by intensive fire. The rest of the Chinese army, fanning around the enemy, slowly swept through the jungle. The entire reinforced company had dozens of * firepower completely suppressed the enemy. Fight the enemy and cry wolf. Of course, the troops were insufficient and failed to encircle the enemy, and Xu Chong was also worried that the visibility of the jungle was not good, and even if it was encircled, it would be easy to cause accidental injuries, so the net was open. It is important to destroy the enemy's equipment, kill the commander.

Wingate's troops arrived at the shore after nightfall, and the battle was already over, and more than 200 Japanese corpses were counted, and some who fell into the river and drowned cannot be counted. Wingate did not expect this Chinese army to dare to attack with one enemy and four enemies, let alone win.

Wingate originally planned to let the Chinese army go to the front to reconnoitre, but he did not expect to break up the enemy's sappers in a battle, killing one Nakazo and one captain.

A half-built bridge was also destroyed, and a lot of information was gained, capturing the enemy's road plans and schedules.

From the map of the enemy, there are several routes to escape into Burma, either over the mountains, across the river, or through the forests. I don't know if there has been any progress on the other roads.

After camping, he sent someone to call Xu Chong to his tent to talk about his next step, and he was now very much like listening to Xu Chong's advice.

Xu Chong judged that the enemy's combat troops would immediately rush to sweep up. Therefore, it is necessary to avoid the real and the false, and divide the troops into two ways, first send a smaller team to take the enemy troops around in a circle in the jungle, if the enemy comes with many soldiers, it is bound to not last long, and the few soldiers will eat him in silence. The other group continued to search for the enemy's sappers and baggage troops, looking for the enemy's weak underbelly.

Wingate was a little confused, Xu's idea was good, but such a dexterous battle needed intelligence support, and aerial reconnaissance was not very effective in jungle areas. How to avoid the real is easier said than done.

Xu Chong volunteered and asked to take his own people to go around in circles with the enemy's main force and collect intelligence at the same time. Wingate was skeptical and could only agree.

Unlike Chu Tingchang, he never expected 419 too much, first of all, the drone could not fly here, and even if it came, in the primeval forest-covered area, the reconnaissance effect was not good; Second, the effectiveness of radio surveillance has also been compromised, and the Japanese have realized that the recent spate of failures may be related to radio leaks, and their response is straightforward: to reduce radio communications.

However, Xu Chong is very confident in his excellent reconnaissance ability, in fact, he does not need to rely on drones.

In recent days, he has intensified his collection of traces of Japan, and has basically mastered the various signs that are inevitably exposed when different Japanese troops move, which allows him to track several Japanese units at the same time. The main wing of the 31st Division was assigned rubber shoes, and the 2nd Division wore captured Australian sandals. The engineer artillery of the 31st Division Regiment is still wearing old-fashioned military boots.

The carts of the baggage troops were replaced with pneumatic tires and rubberized wheels, apparently because of the occupation of rubber production in Southeast Asia; The difference in the distance between the axles of different mountain guns is even more obvious, and it can be judged by the traces left on the ground that they belong to which unit. In short, the Japanese troops here are very different in their marching methods, clothing, and weapons. As far as horses were concerned, the Japanese cavalry used thoroughbred horses, and the hooves were well maintained. Most of the horses that tow cannons and baggage are requisitioned by the people, and there are all kinds of miscellaneous breeds, and the horses' hooves are seriously worn, and it is easy to distinguish. Therefore, for Xu Chong, just relying on the basic skills of a scout, he can figure out the general direction of the enemy.

At dawn, he and Wingate split their forces again, each heading in opposite directions, agreeing to communicate over the radio. Once a small group of enemies is found, they will annihilate themselves, and in the face of larger enemy forces, they will make a peace again. The area of operations of both sides, kept within 30 km.

Wingate thought of trying his luck and ambushing a weak, non-combatant army of the enemy, preferably a field hospital. The 2nd Division made a name for itself in New Guinea with its bayonet charge, which made him dare not expect to take too much advantage in hand-to-hand combat; However, Xu Chong's goal is higher, what he wants is the head of the senior general of the Second Division, which is more beneficial to Commander Chu Ting's promotion.

Kolkata 200 Division Command. Zheng Dongguo arrived early in the morning to prepare for the roll call, which was the first step in establishing his authority. In his heart, he originally had some apologies for Chu Tingchang, in the cultural inheritance of the party-state, officers regard the army as their personal family business, even if they covet someone's military power, they rarely snatch it so bluntly. He always felt that in addition to being a little ugly, he also fell into injustice. But when I arrived here yesterday, I found that the guilt was a little redundant, because Chu Tingchang didn't care about someone setting him up at all, he warmly received him, and it was a military parade and a reception, and he was not at all dissatisfied, and he repeatedly mentioned that his qualifications were too shallow, and he was also uneasy when he was the acting division commander. It can be seen that Chu Tingchang is still a kind person, he first followed the second son, and later dealt with the Americans, but he has never been in contact with the real party-state culture, so he has no heart to defend against others. It is a miracle that a simple person like him can mix and thrive.

When he came to the headquarters, he found that only Chief Chu Tingchang had arrived alone, and the rest of the generals did not seem to have arrived.

Chief Chu Ting seized the time to ask if he wanted to install an extra fan in the residence. It is mentioned that the British restored some of the power in Calcutta, and ice was available from their headquarters. Do you want to send a car to get some?

Zheng Dongguo was quite useful for such hospitality, but found that when the time came, people came sparsely, he glanced at the roster and knew that there were more than a dozen officers at the battalion level plus above the battalion level, but only more than half came, and his face was immediately a little unbearable. With great restraint, he slapped the roster on the table, and immediately shocked the officers who were smoking and chatting below. The officers got acquainted with each other and pinched their cigarette butts.

"Pavilion chief, it's past the roll call time, why haven't many people come?"

"yes, why didn't anyone come?" Chu Tingchang looked dazed, "Zhao Xiaoli, what's going on?" ”

"Report Master, this morning the Guandi Temple held a consecration ceremony, and President Pan of the Chamber of Commerce specially invited Taoist priests from Sichuan...... Commander Zhou took his battalion commanders to see the excitement. ”

"It's a good old Zhou, I don't know the name of the military seat today?" Chu Tingchang was angry.

"Knowing is knowing, but this festival is really rare, and the soldiers who crawl in the rain of bullets are inevitably superstitious, and they are all immortal to the official master, so they ......"

"Oh, I see. This is understandable," Chu Tingchang's tone softened a little, and turned to Zheng Dongguo, "Junzao, the opportunity is rare, why don't we go and have a look?" ”

Zheng Dongguo found that Chu Tingchang had no position at all, and he was going around like a grass on the wall, he didn't know how to lead the troops with such a character who had no opinion and allowed his subordinates to come to Hu?

"Pavilion Chief, I'm afraid it's not okay to indulge your subordinates like this?" He said with a sinking face.

"I don't know anything about the military seat, and I also want to rectify military discipline, but this group of brothers have all followed me from birth to death, and I am reluctant to teach them a lesson on weekdays. Discipline is indeed somewhat lax. I'll send someone to find Lao Zhou back and ask him to apologize to the military seat in person. ”

"Okay, I'm just thinking about meeting this highly successful Commander Zhou for a while." Zheng Dongguo nodded and said, he was looking for an opportunity to establish his authority, and he happened to take Zhou Youfu to open the knife.