Chapter 127 The Battle of Bago (6)
Guns and explosions were everywhere, and the air was filled with strong smell of blood and smoke. Beneath his feet were covered with balls of meat mud rolled out by tank tracks... This made Zhang Chi feel like he was in purgatory.
But Zhang Chi didn't know whether he was afraid or nervous. He only knew that he kept pulling the trigger and shooting a bullet at the Japanese troops who were scattered by the tanks. At first, Zhang Chi would aim, but as more and more Japanese troops were dispersed, Zhang Chi also loaded a magazine and "bang bang bang..." and fired the bullets in one breath, then loaded a magazine and kept pulling the trigger. He repeated this movement over and over again, and all the dozen magazines he carried on him were quickly finished.
"Second Company!" Zhang Chi shouted.
The second company quickly snatched up and replaced the first company walking in front.
What the Chinese army has always received is training to cover each other and move forward alternately, so the replacement went very smoothly. Even the firepower in front was not stopped at all. The two troops went forward and the other retreated.
After retreating, he hurriedly replenished ammunition from a half-tracked armored vehicle or a car loaded with ammunition, and then prepared to go to the battlefield again.
It was not until this time that the Japanese army in the rear realized that something was wrong at the forefront... If the Japanese 105 Mixed Brigade was a well-trained unit, then they should be far away from the Chinese army at this time, or simply rushed forward to fight close combat with the Chinese army and fight hand-to-hand combat. If this is done, it is hard to say who will die in the end, because the Chinese army still has no advantage in fighting hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army at this time. At least it is certain that the Japanese army will not be as strange as it is now. In other words, if the Japanese army in the 105 Mixed Brigade is a little timid, they would simply escape and not cause too much casualties. But this Japanese army did not meet the requirements of the regular army in terms of quality, and was not inferior to the regular army in terms of courage, so most of them chose to defend on the spot. The preparations made were to find a hiding place nearby and then put on a rifle.
It is actually not their fault. You should know that they are the temporary units of Zheng San from the Riverside. They have always been stationed in Yangon and have no experience in fighting against the Chinese army. So of course they don’t know that the equipment of the Chinese army has far exceeded that of the Japanese army, especially the Sherman tanks... These tanks are at the point where the Japanese army do not have the appropriate equipment to destroy them. The Japanese army even naively thought that they also had tanks in their hands, and with the courage of these tanks and the Imperial Army, they could withstand any enemy attack.
However, the reality is cruel. When the huge body of the Sherman tank appeared in front of these Japanese troops and easily crushed their tanks, they knew what a real "tank" was.
But it was too late, because these real "tanks" had already sprayed raindrop bullets in front of them, and the tank gun turned in their direction... With a "boom", everything turned into ashes after a firelight.
I don’t know how many Japanese tanks were broken, and how many cars were overthrown. The Japanese 105 Mixed Brigade finally collapsed. The Japanese soldiers dropped the tanks one after another, and the armored vehicles and cars fled back like a tide... The reason for throwing these equipment was not that the Japanese army came down in a hurry and couldn’t drive them away, but that the Japanese tanks had no reverse gear, and could turn around and brake on the other side of the tracks. It can be imagined that such a turnover requires more space, but there is no such wide space on the road.
What's worse is that several tanks did this, so they quickly blocked the entire highway, and the result was that even cars and armored vehicles were blocked and unable to move. Instead, the Japanese army riding on the side three-wheeled side ran away in a flash.
At this time, the artillery of the Chinese army played a role under the guidance of the artillery liaison officer. With a whistle, rows of artillery shells chased the fleeing Japanese troops and fought in a row, only to make the Japanese army no longer care about the spirit of Bushido.
This is rare in the battlefield against the Japanese army. Even in the battle of Lingbang, the Xinyi Division chased the Japanese 18th Division and did not experience such a collapse on the whole line. So the Chinese soldiers chasing the Japanese army behind were all shouting in their hearts: The damn Japanese are there today, and there are also times when we are chased and beaten like ducks.
In the end, the battle directly crippled the Japanese 105th Mixed Brigade, or rather, it should have been killed... because the surviving soldiers of the 105th Regiment fled back to Yangon and could no longer have the courage to return to the army and go to the battlefield.
In their words, it is: "The Chinese army is so terrible. We don't have the equipment to deal with them at all. Are we going to die when we go to the battlefield?"
So they wisely took their family in Yangon to the west bank of the Irrawaddy River.
This also made Yangon a mess. Myanmar people knew that Yangon was likely to become a battlefield, so they moved out of the city to take refuge, which saved a lot of trouble for the new regiment that subsequently attacked the city.
He was chasing the Japanese soldiers and defeated all the way forward. Zhang Chi was a little soft when he fought. Later, he was even less interested in pulling the trigger even when he saw the Japanese soldiers... This was not that Zhang Chi was rude. In fact, he was already numb to killing people at this time. Seeing the enemies dying in front of him, he did not have the disgusting and cruel thoughts he had before. Killing an enemy now is not much different from slapping a mosquito to death for Zhang Chi.
This may be a good thing, because the battlefield needs such warriors.
But perhaps it is not a good thing either. Because it means the deeper level of human nature.
However, who can care about these things? This is the battlefield, and human nature is almost synonymous with danger on the battlefield.
Zhang Chi understood this, so he accepted it calmly and refused to resist. After all, Zhang Chi still wanted to live and survive on this battlefield.
The next day, when it was dawn, the new group rushed to Yangon City because they saw the Great Golden Tower representing Yangon from afar.
The Burmese people regard this great gold pagoda as a sacred place for the soul shelter. Although the Japanese were three feet tall in the gold and beads on it, they never dared to attack it... Because the Japanese knew very well that if they attacked it, they would almost declare war on the entire Myanmar, and then their last little hypocritical mask would be torn off. They did not want such a situation to happen, so they did not attack it even when the battle was at its most intense.
At this time, the US reconnaissance plane also flew over Yangon. Zhang Chi even heard the US pilots on the reconnaissance plane shouting to them on the walkie-talkie: "Congratulations, Chinese friends, you have successfully reached Yangon! You are good!"
Zhang Chi smiled and replied, "Brother, when we drive the Japanese out of Yangon, you will congratulate us again!"
Chapter completed!