Chapter 572, The Battle of Burma 22

"Good fellows, three squadrons are here this time! This wave of devil soldiers is really fat! After sitting on the anti-aircraft gun position, Niu Bo clearly saw the ghost soldiers 2 kilometers away through the artillery observation scope, and the cat body was unhurriedly touching it. After a rough estimate of the devil's offensive strength, Niu Bo suddenly frowned, picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Attention all combat units, this time the devil soldiers will come to three squadrons!" Everyone, don't panic, this time you have to get closer and fight again, so as not to let these little devils take advantage of the chaos and shrink back! Give me a good fight! ”

"Roger!" "Understood!"

The commanders of the battalions and companies responded happily. "Imperial warriors! The Huaxia army is already at the end of its power, as long as we grit our teeth, we will definitely be able to defeat it in one fell swoop! "Warriors of the Empire! For the sake of the Yamato nation for generations to come! Assault! "The leader of the devil soldier squadron, Xiao Xing, held a command knife, followed closely by a Type 97 medium tank, and carefully followed the team forward, while constantly brainwashing the surrounding devil soldiers.

"Hello! Great Japanese Empire onboard! The Imperial Japanese Army will win! Private Inayama Kei, who had just joined the army, followed closely behind the squadron leader Kostard, and when he heard Kostard's rhythmic words, he shouted a slogan loudly to dispel the fear and uneasiness in his heart. It's not the first time that Inayama has been on the battlefield, but it's the first time I've seen such a cruel, bloody and smelly scene, and there are corpses crawling with maggots everywhere along the way, and nasty flies and mosquitoes are flying all over the sky, buzzing and fluttering on his face.

Before joining the army, Inayama Kei was just an honest peasant, and under the encouragement of the political propaganda tools of the Great Japanese Empire, he joined the 44th Division of the Japanese Army with the dream of being promoted to become rich and glorifying his ancestors. However, when he followed the troops to Burma, Inayama Qingcai found that the domestic propaganda and the status quo of the Burmese front were completely different things, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force here was beyond imagination!

Especially the previous rocket artillery fire covering attack on the west bank of the Salween River, so that Inayama Kei still has lingering fears until now, for fear that such a fire coverage will fall on his head at some point. I was really afraid of something, just as Inayama Kei cautiously followed the team forward, suddenly there was a crackling sound in his ears, and then a stream of filthy and smelly corpse water rushed from under the tank chain on the right.

"Yaga!" Caught off guard, Inayama Qing didn't have time to dodge, and was splashed with corpse water comparable to a biological weapon, and a disgusting stench instantly made Inayama Qing feel like the world was spinning, and it was difficult to breathe normally. "Oh my God, how could this be!"

Inayama Kei was terrified, he knew that the tank must have crushed a corpse crawling with maggots, and splattered the corpse water containing a large number of deadly germs on himself. Anyone with a little common sense will know that this kind of corpse water is not much different from bacteriological weapons, and once it is contaminated in large quantities, it is very easy to be contaminated with the plague.

And recently, the plague has spread among the Japanese 19th Army, and many Japanese soldiers have not died on the battlefield, but in isolation hospitals, and their deaths are extremely tragic. Thinking of these, Daoshan Qing suddenly felt that he couldn't do it, his abdominal cavity began to rise and fall rapidly, his internal organs turned over the river and the sea, and an extremely strong feeling of vomiting kept rampage in his body! "Gross! Vomit! Vomit! ”

Streams of filth poured up his throat uncontrollably, and Inayama Qing couldn't hold back any longer, and hurriedly half-squatted on the ground with his mouth open, and streams of extremely fishy filth gushed out. This vomiting is like a surging river, Daoshan Qing vomited so much that even the rice balls he ate in the morning were vomited, and his whole face became pale. This vomit didn't matter, and at once many of the recruits around him were also nauseous and gagged, and they all stopped. "Eight Tooth Road! As an imperial warrior, how can you be so cowardly! Dead, dead, dead! ”

At this moment, the leader of the devil squadron, Xiao Xingqing, came over, without the slightest mercy, his eyes were only full of slaughter, and he kicked it hard without saying a word. Plopped, Inayama Qing came to a dog to chew on, and suddenly fell into the filthy mud, and the things he just spit out almost ate in his mouth again. "Yaga! You stupid pig, don't get up yet! ”

Xiao Starling still didn't have the slightest mercy, took out the box cannon from his waist, opened the safety and aimed it at Inayama Kei's head and shouted loudly: "The face of the Imperial Army of Japan has been lost by you, if you can't stand up, I'll send you to see Amaterasu now!" ”

Hello! ”

Daoshan Qing was suddenly frightened and his hairs stood on end, and his strong desire to survive made Daoshan Qing instantly resurrect on the spot full of blood, and he stood up very numbly, and then quickly followed the team and continued to move forward. "The distance is three thousand seven hundred and five meters, and the azimuth is two scales north-north-north!"

"All gun emplacements are available, fire immediately!" When the devil soldiers advanced to the Huaxia position about 500 meters, the devil mortar position hidden in the rear began to carry out artillery cover. It has been half a month since the battle to defend Tonggu, and the heavy equipment of both the enemy and us has been extremely seriously consumed, especially the chariots and heavy artillery of the devils have been devastated.

Even if there are still a dozen heavy artillery pieces and dozens of field guns left, the devils who are afraid of the beating no longer dare to push these artillery pieces directly to the front line to approach the artillery bombardment. Because the firing range of the artillery units in the rear of China is much higher than that of the devil artillery, it is completely possible to strike at the rear and wait for the devil artillery to be exposed before countermeasures.

Moreover, the Huaxia Air Force at Tonggu Airport is still very active, and it is even more fatal to the devil's heavy artillery. As for these low-cost mortars with high mobility, they can be fired in one shot to change places, and there is no need to worry about the counterattack and retaliation of the Huaxia artillery and air force!

"The devil has fired! Hide, everyone! "Artillery position, immediately calculate and shoot Zhu Yuan, and send me the devil artillery back!" Seeing a cloud of gunpowder smoke suddenly rising from the devil's position, the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army, who were experienced in combat, naturally knew what this meant, and hurriedly hid in the surrounding anti-artillery holes to temporarily avoid the edge.

"Tao times change! Assault! "Imperial warriors rush!" "For the future of the Yamato nation! Charge! "As soon as the cannon sounded, the commander of the devil front line immediately drew his command knife and roared with all his might." Great Japanese Empire onboard! "His Majesty the Emperor is onboard!"

Immediately afterwards, the ghost soldiers, who had been nervous, roared along with the babbling and rushed wildly with the few tanks that were there. As slogans were shouted, the devil soldiers began to charge again! These devil soldiers instantly became hideous as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and they couldn't smell the increasingly strong stench of smoky corpses in an instant, and they also forgot the fear of death, and only the Huaxia position not far away was left in their eyes!

"The distance is four thousand three hundred and eighty-five meters, the azimuth is two scales south-southeast, the wind speed is eleven, and the wind direction is north-northwest! Twin shots rush fire, prepare, fire! "Not long after the devil's mortar position opened artillery fire support, a Tiger Ben artillery position hidden in the rear began to counterattack fiercely. Dozens of mortars and infantry guns roared one after another, and shells shot straight into the sky, full of slaughter and destruction.

Seeing a flash of fire on the Huaxia position, the commander of the devil artillery hurriedly shouted: "Bagaya Road! The Huaxia artillery fired, evacuate quickly! "Hurry up and drop!" "Retreat!" Where did the devil mortar artillery dare to hesitate, and many painful experiences told them that the Huaxia Huben artillery was completely aimed at where to fight, and it was full of arrogance, and every shelling was covered by saturated firepower.

After receiving the order, the devil artillery hurriedly held the hot mortar and ran into the anti-artillery hole not far from the rear at the fastest speed. After suffering many losses, the devil artillerymen naturally learned life-saving means, not only placing mortar positions in tunnels, but also a large number of solid anti-artillery holes in the nearest positions. Moments later, shells whistled in, then fell to the ground and blossomed, blowing up the mortar position of the devil into smoke and dust.

It's just that the actual killing effect is quite limited, and the devil artillery has already taken the first step to hide.

But it doesn't matter, as long as the effect of fire suppression is achieved, at least the officers and soldiers in the front-line positions will not have to fight hard with the devils under the fire of the devils. "Excellent! All immediately went into positions and prepared for battle! When the devil soldiers enter the forward position within 50 meters, they will beat me hard! After such a toss, the devil soldiers had rushed to the front of the position 150 meters, but Niu Bo still didn't panic, just aimed the barrel at a devil tank that was firing while walking.

"Dog, I'm going to cut you today!" Then, after waiting patiently for dozens of seconds, Niu Bo let people lift the artillery camouflage, and then suddenly flipped the fire control switch. Boom, a moment later, I saw the Type 97 tank 300 meters away burst out of a dazzling fire, and then I was shocked to find that the 15-ton medium tank had directly penetrated a large transparent hole through the front armor.

The Devil Tank, which had been majestic before, came to an abrupt halt and turned into a pile of smoke-billowing scrap metal. "Ahh Private Inayama Kei was following the tank forward with him, but suddenly a loud bang came, and then Inayama Kei was terrified to see a black shadow fly out of the tank's steel body. Then this black shadow went on a rampage all the way, shattering several imperial soldiers one after another. Among them is the squadron leader Xiao Starling, who taught himself hard before!

Strands of hot blood and pieces of hot flesh and blood tissue once again reduced Inayama Kei's face, and this time death was less than a meter away from him. "Oh my God! How so! The anti-tank guns of the Huaxia artillery turned out to be so powerful? Can the new tanks of the Great Japanese Empire be pierced in one shot? ”

After a short period of stunned and frightened, the transparent hole in front of him finally made Inayama Qing gradually figure out the situation. Inayama Kei was horrified to find that it was an armor-piercing cannonball that pierced directly through this seemingly indestructible steel beast! looked down, and found that there were not only a few freshly baked intestines hanging on his body, but also red and white brain flowers, and even half of the ears with neat incisions.

Immediately after that, an uncontrollable urge to urinate hit, and the crotch began to gurgle and flow! Pee, this thing is really scared this time! No way, the strength doesn't allow it! "Mom, I want to go home! I hate this war! At this moment, all the fantasies, dreams, and the so-called national righteousness were shattered, and Inayama Kei became a cowardly and timid ordinary person.

Inayama Kei began to miss his hometown very much, and his mind was full of only thinking that he could stay away from this damn war, and return to that quiet and peaceful countryside alive to live a simple and simple rural life. However, the truth is that it is impossible to transfer due to personal subjective consciousness, and the brutal and fierce battle in front of us has just begun!

"Dog's day! Die! "Beat me hard!" "Kill!" As Niu Bo fired the first shot, the officers and men of the Asian People's Liberation Army, who had been preparing for a long time, roared one after another, using their combat defense guns, rocket launchers, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, assault rifles, assault rifles and other weapons to eliminate the devil soldiers. The powerful firepower network created a storm of death metal, and several of the devil's guide tanks were destroyed by concentrated fire at the first time, and the devil soldiers who rushed in front were instantly beaten into a sieve and turned into a pile of meat paste.

"Yaga!" "Tao Ci Change!" "Assault!"

The devil soldiers were also red-eyed, and they all fell to the ground to organize firepower to counterattack! The entire position has long been blown out of countless craters by the artillery of both sides, and the devil soldiers can temporarily cram, and they can find hiding bunkers with a casual squat.

However, this did not provide them with much protection, and under the powerful automatic fire and accurate shooting of the Burmese soldiers, the devil soldiers who dared to take the lead were hit by headshots one after another! "The wolf has more meat and less meat, quickly change the howitzer for me! I'm going to have a few shots today! After a shot, Niu Bo found that the remaining tanks had been destroyed, so he could only retreat to find those devil soldiers hiding in the crater.

"Dog's day, don't be a shrunken turtle! Keep rushing! After Long Wenwen suddenly overturned a dozen or so devil soldiers, he saw that the ghost soldiers suddenly seemed to have drilled into the cracks in the ground, and all of them disappeared, and he couldn't help but shout in dissatisfaction. Zhang Milong, Meng Furong and the others were half-squinting, holding a sniper rifle, patiently waiting for the devil soldiers to come up!

Well, practicing marksmanship and whack-a-mole is actually quite interesting! Boom! Soon, Niu Bo happily started to shoot again, and each shot always harvested a few lives, and exploded a strange blood flower! "Yaga! It's not okay to consume it like this! The morale and combat effectiveness of the Imperial Warriors have dropped so much! On the rear position, Sano Torata, the commander of the 44th Division of the Devil, frowned when he saw it, and his heart was even more painful.

Although these front-line soldiers are just a bunch of cheap cannon fodder, one of these cannon fodder can be recruited in Japan with only a few penny stamps. However, cannon fodder should also have the value of cannon fodder! "Without the fire support of the Imperial Air Force and heavy artillery units, it is indeed too difficult to break through the position of the Tiger Army, which is far superior in weapons and equipment to the Imperial Army!"

Lin Yixiu of the Devil Division put down the binoculars and said: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, our enemy has not shown the legendary signs of retreat or escape!" I even suspect that the enemy is deliberately showing weakness, and instead of using the hidden heavy artillery units and air force units, I let the infantry use the Imperial Army for training!

I think we must give timely feedback on this situation to the army command and the general army command, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable! "General Headquarters of the Burmese Dispatch Army, Tak Province, Thailand. Umezu Mijiro sat on a large wooden chair with a frown, looking down at a copy of the latest battle report, and a large amount of paper was messily placed on his desk. "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, the situation is a little unoptimistic!"

Hyotaro Kimura sat on the other side of the desk and said in a heavy tone: "The will of the Chinese Expeditionary Force to resist is very firm, especially at several important nodes in Lashio, Darcy, Tonggu, and Bago, the Imperial Army has been unable to attack for a long time and has suffered extremely serious losses!"

In addition to the casualties, the most serious thing is that the loss rate of technical equipment exceeds expectations, and the 18th and 19th armies are particularly serious, and the imperial warriors have to use their flesh and blood to fight with the Chinese army! "The 18th and 19th armies fought really hard!" Umezu Mijiro nodded, and then changed his words and said, "However, our opponents are not having a good time, and their technical equipment consumption is no less than that of the Imperial Army!"

At present, the Imperial Army has made a breakthrough in the defense line of the Xidang River, dealing a serious blow to the 5th Army, the 31st Army, the 22nd Group Army and the 1st Army of the Huben Expedition. They had retreated to the perimeter of Bago and the Bago River defense near Yangon. As long as the Imperial Army can conquer Bago City, it will be able to completely break through the defense line of the Sitang River, and then not only will the Imperial Navy be able to go north along the river to support the Battle of Tonggu, but the Imperial Army will also be able to directly attack Rangoon and completely reverse the entire war situation! ”

Although he was very dissatisfied with the current progress and situation of the war, he did not waver in Umezu Mijiro's determination to make a quick decision, not only because he wanted to prove that he was the most powerful imperial general, but also because he had to send an arrow on the bow, and he had no turning back. Kimura Hyotaro nodded and agreed: "Yes, now that the Battle of Burma has reached the most critical moment, the Huaxia Expeditionary Force only has its last breath left."

As long as the Imperial Army can conquer Rangoon in one fell swoop, the Imperial Army can launch an all-out offensive and drive along the central railway network and the Irrawaddy River, and the entire Burma battlefield can quickly break the deadlock and produce a series of chain reactions! Presumably at that time, even if Jiang Qiang wanted to continue to resist, the Huaxia army would not have the ability to stop the imperial army! "Shw! Therefore, at this time, the Imperial Army of the Great Japanese Empire must grit its teeth and hold on, for the sake of the future of the Great Japanese Empire, even if it is a big price, we must bear it! ”

The more Umezu Mijiro spoke, the more he felt that he was reasonable, and after completing his self-hypnosis, he said viciously to Kimura Hyotaro: "Kimura-kun, the key point at present is to conquer Bago and take Yangon City!" Kimura Hyotaro nodded heavily, "Your Excellency Commander is wise!" "Shuffle!" The corners of Umezu Mijiro's mouth curled slightly: "Kimura-kun, I have ordered the 15th Army to continue to strengthen the offensive, and be sure to conquer Bago in one fell swoop within two days and completely break the defense line of the Xidang River."

I also ask for sufficient support from the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Air Force, for the sake of the future of the Empire of Japan and the future generations of the Yamato nation, please! "Hello! The Great Japanese Empire will win! Kimura Hyotaro took the order, then turned around and walked out of the office.

On the morning of 24 June, nearly 20 senior generals from the army, air force, navy, artillery, and armored corps, including Li Zongren, Wei Yunsong, Sun Zhen, Chen Dingxun, Chen Zhengnian, Lu Shengfeng, Sun Liren, Meng Wuan, Shao Wenren, Li Jinglin, Xu Guangming, He Zhenshu, Liu Qiang, Du Yuming, Gan Lichu, Zhang Zhen, and Zhong Bin, gathered together from the headquarters of the Burma Theater Commander in Yangon.

At this time, Stilwell and Jiang Qiang had not yet arrived, and everyone was not fully aware of the purpose of the commander's headquarters suddenly summoning all the military-level generals of all combat units to gather in Yangon. Even a few of Jiang Qiang's henchmen, Li Zongren, Sun Zhen and others only roughly guessed something! Their faces were full of excitement and expectation, and although they were not yet sure, it was not difficult for them to judge what the main agenda of today's high-level military meeting would be from the recent signs and Yang Fan's remarks.

The thought of that possibility made everyone excited, and their hearts were surging! Everyone's eyebrows are full of words: "Lao Tzu has been holding back for so long, and now I can finally straighten my waist, and I can finally raise my eyebrows and fight with the devil." But so far, this is just their speculation, not an established reality, so they can only hold back their curiosity and excitement, and do not take the initiative to open their mouths to break the sky, but just secretly tell their feelings!

Sitting next to Li Zongren, knowing that he was very close to Yang Fan, and many core military secrets could be accessed, so he asked after being idle for a while: "Duke Delin, do you know why it is so grand today?" Presumably there is some major decision from the Commander's Command, right? As soon as Du Yuming walked into the conference room, he felt that the atmosphere was strange, and he always felt that today's meeting was non-stop, but he couldn't pee in the same pot with Yang Chengliang, Wang Liguo and other generals of the Tiger Ben Army, so he could only retreat to the second.

"Guangting, to be honest, I don't know! Anyway, today's matter is definitely not small, and General Stilwell and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Jiang will be here in a while, so there is no hurry. Li Zongren smiled and snorted, although he already knew it in his heart, but thinking that Jiang Qiang was so serious and formal, then it must have a reason, so he didn't expose the mystery.

At this time, Gan Lichu, who was sitting not far away, hummed in a not very friendly tone: "The 18th Army of the Devil has conquered Xibu and completely cut off the Yunnan-Burma Road, and is now attacking Lashio with all its might, intending to cut off the retreat of the expeditionary force to return home. The 15th Army of the Devils has already occupied half of Bago City, the defense line of the Siddang River and the coastal defense line are about to collapse completely, and the Devil's fleet will soon be able to gallop freely on the Tiffan River and the southern coast!

Yangon is already in the bag of devils, and now the situation in Myanmar is already dangerous, and hundreds of thousands of our Chinese expeditionary forces are about to be dumplings made by devils! Gan Li was really unhappy and angry at the beginning, before sticking to the Taunggyi-Jingdong defense line, the Asian People's Liberation Army more than 100 kilometers away has been standing still, but Jiang Qiang has to force the 6th Army and the 66th Army to hold the defense line for 2 days.

As a result, the two armies suffered heavy casualties under the continuous strong attack of the 18th Army, which had more than 100,000 troops, day and night, especially the 66th Army, which was almost wiped out. The 6th Army and the 66th Army finally succeeded in breaking through and retreated all the way to Xibu to rest, but it didn't take long for the 18th Army of the Devil to divide into three routes and launch an attack on Darsi, Xib, and Lashio. In order to keep the Yunnan-Burma Highway for transporting supplies and the expeditionary force's return to China, the 6th Army, the 66th Army and the 71st Army had to fight with the devils.