Chapter 1109: Bloody Truck!
Dabanga's offensive and defensive battles, just as General Sun expected, the 112th Regiment and the 114th Regiment fought on four fronts, the reserves under the heights did not give a step to the reinforcements of the devils, and the brothers on the heights fought against the bombardment of the Japanese artillery and the devils.
"See them, get to work!"
High in the air, the fighters of the air force who kept passing at low altitude finally discovered the artillery position that was firing artillery, and the communicator shouted to pay attention to the Japanese anti-aircraft fire, and one fighter after another dived at a low altitude, pouring bullets with machine guns and machine guns, and attracting Japanese fire for the bombers behind them.
"Boom, boom......"
As one bomb after another landed and exploded, the Japanese artillery fire stopped, of course, only one of the three artillery positions was destroyed, and the remaining artillery did not dare to continue the shelling, and hurriedly began to shift their positions, the Japanese are now also poor, and it is not so easy for their army to replenish field artillery and mountain artillery.
"Withdraw, withdraw......"
Dabanga's gunfire stopped, and the Nagat attack team had no rescue target, Araki Nakasa let out a sigh of relief and withdrew to the base with a large number of wounded soldiers.
The battles of Hinbetin and Dabanga were over, the new 38th Division suffered more than 1,000 casualties, Stilwell presided over the post-war summary meeting, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force in India, in addition to Sun Liren, the commander of the New First Army, Zheng Dongguo, and the commander of the New 22nd Division, Liao Yaoxiang, also attended the meeting.
"To sum up, the battle losses of the new 38th Division at Dabanga were partly caused by the poor cover of the Sino-American mixed commandos in the east, and the reinforcements of two Japanese squadrons from behind us; Of course, the Japanese artillery was the main contributor to our casualties......"
Sun Liren stood up from his stool, sat on the edge of the conference table, and began to summarize his casualties.
Compared with the casualties of the new 38th Division, the casualties of dozens of people in Feng Yi's department could not be put on the table at all, and more importantly, most of his brothers were wounded, and few were killed in battle.
After summing up, it is the next stage of offensive deployment, the new 22nd Division will move south from Hinbetin to attack the first line of Delo and Mengchuan, while the mission division of the new 38th Division will continue to attack Magao, and they will advance the battle line to the Hukang River Valley before the end of the rainy season, occupy Xinpingyang, establish an outpost, and prepare for entering the Savage Mountain.
And Feng Yi's task is much simpler this time, because the New First Army is attacking on a large scale, and he now only needs to guard the artillery and logistics and wait for orders at any time.
After fighting in the woods in the rainy season for so long, the brethren of the commando team were finally able to rest, and one by one they smiled and slept in the barracks with a refreshing hot bath and clean clothes.
"Assemble, all units continue to train, especially the recruits, veterans, and squad leaders of each company should speed up their training, so that they can grow up as soon as possible, don't even understand gestures when they go to the battlefield......"
It's a pity that Feng Ye didn't make them comfortable for a few days, and on the third day, all the brothers of the commando team had to enter the forest south of Hinbetin again, only this time instead of fighting the devils, but carrying out field training, a real battlefield training method.
However, despite the fact that both divisions of the New First Army began to move, the battle was still not as easy as Stilwell imagined, and the troops were fighting in the woods of the Burma-India border with its complex terrain and harsh climate, and the plane advance was actually an inefficient method of operation, not only to consume a large amount of materials, but also to pay casualties every day, and cumulatively, such casualties became larger and larger.
But the current situation is like this, not only Stilwell, all the officers can't do it, because the American-style offensive needs strong logistical support, and they have to rely on the road to attack, so wherever the Sino-Indian highway is built, the infantry needs to go out to clear the danger, and then the logistics convoy relies on the road to continuously transport all kinds of ammunition and drug resources that the infantry needs; It's a mutually reinforcing relationship, and it's not something that anyone can change.
After the Japanese army lost Hinbetin and reached the Bangka line, their commanders finally woke up and no longer engaged in a positional decisive battle with the Sino-American coalition forces, but relied on the position as a bait, using squads and squadrons as units to start attacking, and their offensive direction was not the defensive front of the expeditionary force, but the choice of their junction and logistics supply line.
"Woo woo woo ......"
In the roar of the car, a series of trucks drove into Hinbetting, Feng Yi happened to be standing at the door of the barracks, and the blood in the carriage flowed out of the carriage from time to time, spilling everywhere on the road.
"Boss, the situation is not right! I didn't hear that there was a big battle ahead! How did you die so much? ”
Wang Ning was very surprised, and the veterans could see that the carriage was no longer carrying wounded soldiers, but all corpses, the remains of the brothers who died in battle.
"I don't know, I'll go to the command and see."
Feng Yi shook his head, he felt that something must have happened at the front line.
"How did you do that? How did the Japanese slip in? ”
As soon as Feng Ye stepped into the command headquarters, he saw Liao Yaoxiang holding the phone and cursing, he looked at the American staff officer next to him, and the staff officer spread his hands, saying that he didn't know what the situation was.
"Colonel Feng, it just so happens that you are here, the general is looking for you, please come with me."
A U.S. military staff officer saw Feng Ye and beckoned Feng Ye to come with him.
"The general is here too?"
Feng Ye was a little surprised, Stilwell rarely came here, why didn't he know when he came?
"It's a phone."
The staff officer explained.
"What's going on?"
Feng Yi pointed to the inside of the headquarters, the officers inside were very emotional, and most of them were still sad.
"The transportation line of the new 22nd Division was attacked by the Japanese army, and more than a hundred wounded soldiers, including automobile soldiers, were all killed, hey!"
The staff officer whispered, shaking his head slightly.
"I ......"
Feng Yi's face turned pale, he could feel Liao Yaoxiang's anger, more than a hundred brothers, this is more than half a company, as long as they are injured, after returning to the battlefield, they are even the backbone of a battalion, they are slaughtered by devils like this, and anyone will be angry.
"General."
Feng waited for two minutes, and the phone was connected again, and it was Stilwell on the other end of the line.
"Feng, the Japanese army has been harassing our logistics lines lately, and they have completely disregarded the spirit of humanitarianism, and today they even slaughtered our wounded soldiers; Yes, they are brutes, they have poisoned the wounded and autobots who have lost their combat effectiveness, and our casualties are terrible, and we have to find a way. ”
On the other end of the phone, Stilwell was in a hurry, and he didn't have any politeness at all, and said a long list of words directly.
"General, what do you need us to do?"
Feng Yi frowned, Stilwell said this, it should be their comfortable days are over, and it is time to pull to the front.
"General Haig will soon come to Hinbetting, he will command the first and second detachments in battle, and I hope that you and Brigadier General Merrill will cooperate well to clear out the Japanese troops who are harassing them; Well, I've got a guest coming......"
After Stilwell hurriedly finished speaking, he hung up the phone before Feng Ye could speak.
"I'm in the barracks, I'm not going anywhere."
This sentence was addressed to the staff officers of the headquarters, telling them his whereabouts so that General Haig could find him when he came, and he felt that it was time to talk to General Merrier.