The jungle is densely wooded and overgrown with weeds, providing stealth and concealed cover everywhere, coupled with the dead leaves and branches on the ground, no matter how carefully you outflank it, not only can you not be silent, but will expose your target and become a live target. The little devil hid in the shadows and stood still, and Wu Nan didn't dare to order the troops to go up and start a group, so he could only wait patiently for the little devil to show his flaws.

Due to the plant, the visual distance of people is less than 20 meters, and no matter how carefully the attacker moves, it cannot avoid making a sound, and then exposing itself to the enemy's fire in the shadows. No matter how fast you are, no matter how strong your body armor and bulletproof helmet are, you can't resist a point shot at close range! "Yaga! Cunning Chinese soldiers! Dead, dead, dead! Noda Yugui waited patiently for half an hour, but only saw that the forest in front of him was terrifyingly silent, and no sound came, as if the Chinese soldiers who attacked the pathfinder team had quietly withdrawn.

However, Noda Hiroki knows very well that he will encounter an extremely difficult and powerful opponent today, and he will never simply take advantage of it and leave. "The Matsumoto group and the Kikuji group are responsible for covering the retreat alternately, and the other groups will immediately start retreating!" After careful consideration, Noda Yugui could only choose to retreat in the face of difficulties, and temporarily gave up the plan to go to Nanzhi Town to reconnoiter the Huaxia army.

"Miao Ang should not stay here for a long time, let's withdraw first!" After giving the order, Noda Yuki immediately grabbed Miao Anden, who was lying on the ground and shivering, and rushed back along the path. Although the little devil was very careful when retreating, he still inevitably stepped on a crack of fine dead branches and leaves. This small sound would be an inaudible movement in the streets and other places, but in this dead woods, it becomes clear and audible.

Hearing the movement from the woods in front of him, Duan Zhenguo suddenly became anxious, climbed to Wu Nan's side and whispered: "Captain, the little devil is about to run away, let's chase it quickly!" "It's not that simple! This devil team is not simple, they will never care about their heads and leave such a big flaw. Either they're luring the enemy deeper, or they're leaving a backhand! Wu Nan shook his head slightly, this time he led the team to the Shan State Plateau for actual combat training, the focus was on cultivating grassroots commanders of jungle warfare, so that they were familiar with the survival of jungle warfare, rather than how many devils to kill.

At this time, even if you can kill a few more devils, you will definitely have to hang up a few more on your side. And a small half of the team are elite grassroots commanders selected from various units, each of them is a precious spark, and sacrificing one person will be a big loss.

Therefore, at this time, it can only be developed obscenely, and it is absolutely easy to cross the tower and kill, because that is at most a thousand enemies and eight hundred self-losses, which is a loss-making transaction of exchanging lives for lives. Duan Zhenguo was stunned and said, "Captain, do you mean to let the devil go so easily?" "Or else? Let the brothers go and exchange their lives with the devil? ”

Wu Nan said in a deep voice: "I can understand the mood of killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions, but you must always remember that in jungle warfare, it is one of the most basic guidelines not to chase after the poor!" Unless there is a special reason or an absolute advantage, it can only be a stupid act of death! "Yes! Captain, I was reckless! ”

A word woke up the person in the dream, Duan Zhenguo nodded hurriedly, how could he not know these basic truths. It's just that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, Duan Zhenguo has been practicing hard for more than a month, and it is the first time he has encountered a small army of devils in the jungle, so he naturally wants to do his best to eat this small army of devils in one bite. "Good!" Wu Nan nodded his head and said in a serious tone: "Although you are only a member of the squad today, you will definitely become a commander in the future, and every order you give will be related to the life and death of the soldiers under your command at that time."

And we, as commanders, in addition to the combat mission that must be completed, is to do our best to save the lives of our brothers and let them live to see the day of victory!

In our Asian People's Liberation Army, every soldier's life is precious and needs to be preserved with the best efforts, and it is by no means like other troops that ordinary soldiers are just pawns of military chess deduction and consumables of war! "I see, thanks to the captain for his advice! I will always remember every word you say! Duan Zhenguo nodded again.

After arriving at the Asian People's Liberation Army, his biggest feeling was that the atmosphere and concept here were completely different from those of the National Army, and the whole country was united and full of friendship among comrades-in-arms. Especially in terms of weapons and equipment, medical support, logistics and people-oriented tactical concepts, it has achieved the ultimate protection of every life. Although even this could not avoid death, through these means, the death rate of the officers and soldiers of the Asian People's Liberation Army was greatly reduced, so that everyone could maintain a strong fighting spirit at all times, and everyone believed that they could live to the day of victory!

Although he knew that the devils had begun to retreat under alternate cover, Wu Nan still stood still, until he confirmed that the devils had withdrawn, and then he spoke on the walkie-talkie: "Okay! The devils have already gone far, and one group cleans up the battlefield to see if there is anything to gain! The other two groups are responsible for vigilance, everyone pay attention to safety! ”

"A group received!" "Two groups received!" "Three groups received!"

Several soldiers in a group hurriedly stood up from their hiding place, and then cautiously touched the ghost soldiers lying on the ground. Wu Nan followed closely with a gun, and soon came to the side of a devil's corpse, at which time a soldier had already begun to search his body. "Report to the captain! In addition to weapons, ammunition and dry food, the little devil also has a spare pair of military shoes, and nothing else of value! ”

"Report to the captain! Me here too! "Soon, the fighters have completed the body search, and the basic situation is almost the same! Wu Nan raised his eyebrows slightly, and said in pieces: "Do you have a spare pair of military shoes?" It seems that the distance these devils have to go is not close! Does this mean that their goal is to infiltrate our rear? ”

At this time, Duan Zhenguo nodded and agreed: "The devils are walking along this path, most likely to go to Nanzhi Town to spy on the military!" "Alright, let's leave that alone! It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, take away all the materials that can be taken away, let's continue to search and move forward! Wu Nan waved his hand and said: "But we have already exposed our whereabouts, and the next trip will be more difficult, everyone must cheer up!" ”

"Yes!" "Take everything you eat and wear!" "Let's go!"

The soldiers took the dry food and military shoes on the devil's body for their own use, but the devil's guns and ammunition were not searched, because these things were too heavy, and the guns and ammunition they carried were enough to use!

After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union allied itself with the United States and Britain and signed the Lend-Lease Act to obtain much-needed war resources from the Western Allies. But the presence of German submarines and the harsh sea conditions in the Arctic Ocean made the Arctic route to Arkhangelsk dangerous, while the Soviet Far East ports were blocked by Japan, and the routes for transporting supplies through the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea and Ukraine were largely controlled by the Axis powers.

However, in 1938 Iran completed the construction of a modern railway line running from the port of Shapur in the Persian Gulf to the port of Shah in the Caspian Sea, which was just in time to meet the needs of the Lend-Lease Act. As a result, the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom set their sights on transporting supplies to Central Asia through Iran through the ports of the Persian Gulf. Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union were also concerned that the loss of the Abadan refinery, a joint Iranian-British refinery with a capacity of 8 million tons of petroleum products in 1940, would have a great impact on the war operations of the allies.

In addition, Iran shares a border with the three member states of the Soviet Union, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, which was strategically important for the Soviet Union. Once occupied by Germany, the Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus would be more seriously threatened, and Central Asia, which was the rear of the country, would also be cut off, and land communications with India and other British spheres of influence would also be cut off.

In view of the above important factors, Britain and the Soviet Union sent diplomatic notes to Iran twice, demanding the expulsion of German citizens from Iran. This was rejected by Reza Khan, who also refused to allow the British and Soviet to use the main railway lines in Iran, citing his neutral status. As a result, Britain and the Soviet Union decided to send troops to Iran to prevent future troubles.

Prior to this, Britain had already occupied Iran's neighbor Iraq, from which Britain had mobilized troops to Iran's western border, and the Soviet Union had drawn troops from the Transcaucasian and Central Asian military districts to form an operational cluster against Iran in preparation for an invasion. In the early hours of April 20, 1941, Britain and the Soviet Union simultaneously launched an attack on Iran, codenamed "Agree".

The British Navy and the Royal Australian Navy attacked from the direction of the Persian Gulf, while the rest of the Commonwealth land and air forces entered Iranian territory from Iraq. Soviet forces advanced from Transcaucasia to northern Iran, with mainly land forces from the three armies, but also a number of naval and air force units, with more than 1,000 tanks alone. The Allied invasion force numbered 200,000 men, including powerful artillery, air force, and armor.

The British and Soviets moved quickly, and Iran had little time to organize its defenses, and in its isolated situation, the Iranian army was quickly routed and disarmed by the Allies. Reza Khan ordered the Iranian army to abandon resistance on the 23rd, and the fighting ended after only four days. The Persian Corridor for receiving Lend-Lease supplies was later opened, allowing the Soviet Union to receive supplies aided by Western allies through the Persian Gulf, greatly enriching the material basis for the war effort.

Woo ~ Woo ~ Woo ~ As soon as the sky was bright in the early morning of April 26, the seaside fortress of Yecheng sounded a fierce air defense siren. It didn't take long for a group of small black dots to appear in the sky southeast of Yee! As this group of small black dots gradually enlarged in the retina, a group of Japanese planes spraying red plaster flags under the wings appeared above the seaside fortress of Yecheng! After nearly ten days of reconnaissance and pre-war preparations, the devils finally began to attack the seaside fortress of Yecheng, which was hanging alone in the Japanese-occupied area.

As always, the Japanese used the "three-plate axe" tactic, and the first wave of attacks was a group of Japanese bombers. Because the seaside fortress of Yecheng protrudes more than 140 kilometers from the Japanese-occupied area, and the Japanese army has set up a radar station near Yecheng, it is not worried that it will be intercepted by the Chinese Air Force to make dumplings. In this wave of sorties, the Japanese combat planes are basically bombers!

"It's finally time for these dogs!" After figuring out the situation, regiment commander Yang Ruifu immediately shouted at Xue Mao, a communications staff officer: "Quick, pass on my order, wait for the devil group to enter the range of anti-aircraft guns, and give me a hard blow!" After a pause, Yang Ruifu shouted loudly: "Pass my order, all front-line combat troops are ready for battle, and the reserve team is on standby, today we must beat the little devil to be scared!" ”

"Yes!" Xue Mao nodded with a deep sense of excitement and excitement, and immediately picked up the phone and began to make calls. "All anti-aircraft gun emplacements are available, all with new proximity fuse shells! Fire now! "Fuck it!" "Little devil, give me death!"

When the devil group entered the effective firing range, the anti-aircraft artillery groups hidden in various positions in the fortress let out an earth-shattering roar at the first time.

One after another, anti-aircraft shells shot into the sky, marking a series of clearly visible bullet marks in the sky, as if a series of life-urging talismans bombed into the group of devil bombers. Boom, boom, boom, when they rose to a certain altitude or approached the devil's plane, the anti-aircraft shells exploded one after another like fireworks, blowing a storm of colorful death metal.

"Eight Ga Ya Road!" A violent explosion continued to explode in his ears, and even the bullet marks drawn by the metal storm that exploded in the distance could be seen with the naked eye, and the commander of the devil bomber group, Izumiya Yonghui, suddenly had a strong sense of life and death crisis like walking on thin ice. Although according to the previous combat experience, the anti-aircraft guns had a very limited antiaircraft anti-aircraft effect, and they often rained a lot of thunder.

But if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, Izumiya Yonghui knows very well that these anti-aircraft guns are by no means decorations, as long as they are hit at close range, the only result is that the plane is destroyed and people die. "Hurry up, drop the bomb now! Blow up these damn Chinese artillery! ”

It was not easy to get to today's status, Izumiya Yonghui still thought that he could continue to be promoted and make a fortune, where was he willing to take the lunch box back to the furnace so soon to rebuild, and urged the bombardier to quickly throw the bomb and leave! In fact, there is no need for Izumiya Yonghui to cry wolf, the experienced devil pilot, after entering the sky above the fortress, he has already held a meeting and entered the bomb dropping mode.

Chirp, the devil horizontal bomber group intercepted by anti-aircraft artillery fire has no way to calmly and accurately bomb at low altitude, so it can only rely on experience and feeling to bomb the anti-aircraft artillery group that is spewing flames and the construction fortifications protruding on the surface of the fortress. Those small and agile dive bombers began to dive bomb at low altitudes without fear of death, in an attempt to deal a devastating blow to the Chinese artillery.

Boom, boom, boom, as the Japanese bomber group began to frantically drop bombs, one after another heavy bombs roared down from the sky, and after a while, they exploded one after another on the seaside fortress position. I could only hear an earth-shattering explosion like fried beans, and clouds of black gunpowder smoke rose into the sky, followed by rocks cracking and trees flying, and blazing fires!

The seaside fortress of Yecheng suffered many heavy bombardments and shelling more than three months ago, and the vegetation of the seaside mountains stretching for more than ten kilometers was seriously damaged, and many places became bare! At this time, the originally small vegetation was once again bombarded indiscriminately by the devil group, and it became more and more sparse, revealing a large area of black and swarthy mountains.

Permanent fortifications such as forts, pillboxes, and trenches, which were previously hidden in the green vegetation, have also revealed their hideous faces as the vegetation is destroyed and burned! The anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of the fortress were in full swing, frantically venting the metal storm, giving the Japanese army extremely great pressure and damage.

The short but fierce air defense battle lasted only seven or eight minutes, and in the face of the wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the devil planes, the air defense units of the fortress fired no less than 2,500 antiaircraft artillery shells and more than 7,000 antiaircraft machine gun bullets. At the cost of more than 10 lives, five anti-aircraft guns, and four anti-aircraft machine guns, the heroic and tenacious air defense company of the Asian People's Liberation Army destroyed a total of 8 Japanese bombers, and more than 10 bombers fled in a hurry after being damaged to varying degrees!

"Yo Xi, the Imperial Air Force has dealt a serious blow to the Huaxia Army, and now it is the turn of the Great Japanese Army to complete the final blow!" When the air force bomber group completed the bombing mission and began to return, Ono Kazuma, the commander of the 7th Wing of the 6th Brigade of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army, put down the binoculars, nodded at a devil communication staff officer next to him, and said: "Pass my order and start attacking!" The first target of attack, 264 heights! "The Ninth Division, also known as the Kanazawa Division, was a division of the old Imperial Japanese Army, one of the six divisions added in 1898 after the First Sino-Japanese War.

From the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War to World War II, this unit has been fighting on the front line since the establishment of the unit. It was one of the 17 standing divisions of the Japanese army before the outbreak of World War II, and its equipment was relatively well-equipped, and its combat effectiveness was second only to the second and sixth divisions. In the war, it often fought vicious battles and tough battles, and the 18th Division was considered a double pole within the army. The division participated in the atrocities of the Chinese massacre in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

Umezu Mijiro assigned the 9th Division to a division directly under the General Headquarters of the Burmese Dispatch Army, and was responsible for garrisoning the headquarters in Dar Province. After arriving in the Burma war zone, the high-spirited Umezu Mijiro was stunned to find that there was a lonely Chinese seaside fortress standing proudly in the area occupied by the imperial army in southern Burma. Umezu Mijiro's first thought was to pull out the nail and use this seaside fortress that was unusually dazzling on the map to sacrifice the flag.

Although Umezu Mijiro was eager to open up the scene and establish his prestige, he was not stupid, and did not send a team to attack rashly, but sent ground and air reconnaissance troops to conduct a detailed reconnaissance! After getting detailed information, Umezu Mijiro realized that this fortress was really not simple, and it was a hard bone to gnaw.

However, the big words had already been said before, and Umezu Mijiro naturally would not slap himself in the face, so after making several military flag deductions, he would transfer an infantry wing and a mountain artillery wing from the 9th Division directly under the division, and a chariot brigade to support. After some very careful arrangements and deployments, the 7th Wing of the Devil Infantry finally arrived at Lemai near Yecheng, and officially launched a general attack on the seaside fortress of Yecheng early this morning.

"Hello!" The devil communication staff officer was ordered by the chief. Soon, the four squadrons of devil soldiers, under the traction of more than 20 Type 97 tanks, launched an attack on the 264 heights in the northernmost part of the seaside fortress of Yecheng. I have to say that the devil has really worked hard and studied the defense system and weakness of the seaside fortress in Yecheng very thoroughly. Yecheng Seaside Fortress is built along the coastline of the seaside mountains, the whole fortress is in a north-south direction, the west is close to the sea, and the east is an open plain area of a horse and a flat river.

Therefore, it is not advisable to attack in both the east and west, either it will not be able to attack, or it will be subjected to maximum artillery fire and frontal fire nets. Only by slowly gnawing from the north and south ends can the geographical advantage of the seaside fortress be weakened to the greatest extent, and the fire interception of the fortress battery can be minimized. The 264 Heights are the main positions of the 1st Battalion and 1 Company of the 7th Regiment, knowing that the devil troops will definitely start from here first, the battalion commander Wan Lianqing came to the 264 Heights early.

"The little devil is finally here, and the brothers are ready to fight!" When the devil bomber group began to return, Wan Lianqing roared out of the bunker inside the mountain and came to an observation post. Sure enough, as previously inferred, the devil's first target was a series of positions. Seeing the devil infantry slaughtering violently under the traction of dozens of tanks, Wan Lianqing was not surprised and immediately ordered: "All gun positions, if you aim, hit me hard!" Let the brothers in a platoon fight well, and report any situation in time! ”

"Yes!" The signal soldier standing beside Wan Lianqing immediately responded, and then picked up the walkie-talkie and began to convey the order. "The target has entered the effective firing range, at a distance of five thousand eight hundred and five meters, two scales north-northeast and south, with a wind speed of thirteen and a wind direction of north-northwest! One test shot!

Repeat, at a distance of five thousand eight hundred and five meters, two scales north-northeast and south in azimuth, with a wind speed of thirteen and a wind direction north-northwest! One test shot! "The shells landed just right, immediately fired, and the bursts of rapid fire! Fast! Soon, after a round of test firing, more than a dozen artillery pieces on the 264 Heights and the small Heights in front of them opened fire one after another, emitting a continuous earth-shattering roar, and shells were sprayed out without money, drawing pale white bullet marks in mid-air.

Boom, boom, the shells fell to the ground and blossomed, and black clouds of gunpowder rose into the sky on the way of the devil's march, exploding deep craters that were shocking. The devil soldiers were constantly blown up and shattered, and they were disemboweled by shrapnel fired everywhere, and even several Devil 97 vehicles suffered heavy damage. However, the devil soldiers did not panic and retreat, but rushed towards the mountain fortress in front of them with great ferocity.

Although the artillery shells are powerful, due to the tricky attack angle chosen by the devils, under the blocking of the 264 heights, the rear fortress batteries cannot exert enough power. After running wildly for more than half an hour and paying for many lives, the devil tanks broke through to a gentle slope less than a kilometer from the forward position.

After entering the undulating gentle slope area, the pressure of the devil infantry was greatly reduced, because they were no longer completely exposed to the blast radius of the artillery, and could dodge the shells with the undulating hills. "Baga Ya Road! Damn Huaxia soldiers, your time of death has arrived! The commander of the devil's front, Aoi Kase, followed a tank and finally rushed to the foot of the gentle slope alive, and when he found cover, he waved his command knife and shouted: "Assault! Kill all these Chinese soldiers! ”