Chapter 8 Feint Attack
Thanks to Tie Xiaozhu, the purest Little Ai Shen, Xu Qingfan and other classmates for their rewards!
*******
When three red signal flares rose slowly into the air, Zhang Chi was still concentrating on treating mosquitoes and ants.
I don’t know what the Burmese people did. I didn’t see how big they raised chickens and ducks, but the insects were all fat and strong, and they only bit Zhang Chi and felt itchy all over his body... Forget it, from time to time, one or two centipedes or poisonous snakes would crawl over, and it would be fine, but he couldn’t move even if he still moved!
Isn't that? Zhang Chi just scratched the itchy area and drove a branch. The devil turned around and glared fiercely, and raised the box cannon in his hand at Zhang Chi. It was clearly telling him: His grandma, if I touch you again, I will kill you!
Although Zhang Chi knew that he could not move at this time, after all, this was a lurking before the war. If the Japanese discovered it, it would mean that the strategic intention was exposed in advance.
However, how could anyone who has not experienced it personally know the pain in this... He let the insects crawl and bite on their bodies without moving, and some of them might even be fatal poisonous insects. Zhang Chi only felt that he was going crazy.
From this point of view, the British army in history were almost at a loss on the battlefield in Myanmar, and it was understandable that they would escape as soon as they collapsed.
You should know that since these British people colonized Myanmar more than fifty years ago, they have always looked down on the Burmese people in the posture of their masters... As masters, the British naturally want to enjoy themselves, even the British soldiers, so although they are in Myanmar, they have never tried this kind of suffering in the jungle, and there is no corresponding training for jungle combat and survival.
As for the Japanese army, although most of them had no experience in jungle combat, the training of the Japanese army was extremely cruel and tended to exercise willpower and endurance. Therefore, their combat effectiveness in the jungle was naturally much stronger than that of the British army, the little flowers raised in greenhouses.
The Chinese army is not about how strong they are, but that most of them are from poor families. In addition, China has been in trouble for decades of war, so they are a little used to the pain of mosquito bites and do not take it seriously.
It's a pain for Zhang Chi, a modern man. Sometimes he really hopes that he will blow himself to death with just a shell.
However, when the guns and cannons really sounded, Zhang Chi was shocked...
Before the signal flares landed, the only ten mortars in the engineering regiment fired a row of shells at the Japanese position, and then there was a "da da da" sound, and the bullets flew towards the Japanese position like locusts with a "swoosh" roar.
Of course, this does not mean how powerful the firepower of the Engineer Regiment is. In fact, half of the dense gunfire sounds are fake.
Wang Mazi concentrated all the light and heavy machine guns of the entire regiment on the front line... Wang Mazi fought with the Japanese army and knew that the Japanese army was accustomed to guessing the size of the enemy by judging the number of enemy machine guns, so Wang Mazi placed the machine gun as many as possible in the front. However, even so, because one platoon of the engineering regiment had one machine gun, the number of machine guns was still insufficient, so he had to use some firecrackers to light them in an iron barrel to recharge.
Not to mention, firecrackers are like machine guns when they explode like this. I don’t know if the Japanese were scared. Anyway, Zhang Chi was scared. At this time, he had long forgotten some mosquitoes and poisonous insects, and he just lay on the ground tightly and didn’t dare to get out of it.
Of course, feint attacks are not just about firing and firing firecrackers, but also about setting off firecrackers. Someone must also rush up... The Japanese are all veterans who are fighting on the battlefield. They will not be frightened by the sound of gunfire and fired randomly.
Therefore, the Engineer Corps arranged a company in each direction to charge towards the Japanese positions in a scattered formation, and coupled with the dense gunfire in the jungle, it seemed like it was going to take it back to the airport.
This forced the Japanese army to shoot and fight back, so gunfire suddenly sounded around the airport, and a fierce battle began near the airport.
The gunshots quickly alarmed the 200th Division headquarters located in Tonggu.
"What's the situation?" Dai Anlan, who heard the gunshots, looked towards the airport and asked, "Which unit has gotten angry with the Japanese at the airport?"
"Report!" After a while, the communications soldiers rushed to report, "The report division seat is the engineer regiment...they went to the Japanese who besieged the airport!"
"Nonsense!" Dai Anlan couldn't help but be furious when he heard this: "What's going on with this engineer regiment? If you don't obey the command and do it, call them back immediately!"
Dai Anlan knew in his heart that the equipment and quality of the engineering regiment were not of the same level as the Japanese army. If there were more to fight less, it was possible, but the two were of equal strength... Such a rash attack on the airport not only could not take the airport, but it could also end up with annihilation.
"Stand!" Staff Liang, who had just arrived, stopped the correspondent soldier who was about to send the order, and handed it up with a telegram and said, "Please look at the station. Wang Ninghang, the deputy commander of the Engineering Corps, sent a telegram to explain the whole story. They had blown up the tunnel and cut off the Japanese transportation line. They are now bluffing the sound of launching a feint attack on the Japanese army at the airport, just waiting for the Japanese ammunition to be exhausted before taking the airport down!"
"Um!" Dai Anlan was stunned when he heard this, and then returned to the division headquarters to look at the map on the desktop for a while, then nodded and said, "It seems that the Engineer Regiment is also prepared to fight. First cut off its transportation line, and then use the condescending terrain around the airport to launch a feint attack on the airport... There is a chance of winning if you defeat this way!"
"Teacher!" Staff Liang continued: "Wang Ninghang explained... the airport was thrown away in the hands of the Engineer Regiment. Wang Ninghang wanted the Engineer Regiment to take it back and make up for the merits. He hoped that the Imperial Regiment would give the Engineer Regiment a chance to make up for the merits and give support and cooperation. Wang Ninghang also said that these were his own decisions, and he would be punished by the Imperial Regiment after the war was over!"
"Hmph!" How could Dai Anlan not know that Wang Ninghang took the responsibility on himself.
But there is an extraordinary moment that concerns the life and death of 200 teachers. Since the Engineer Corps has successfully taken the first step...
Dai Anlan pondered for a moment and ordered: "Tell me the order, ordering the Artillery Regiment and the Third Battalion of the 600th Regiment to cooperate with the engineering regiment's feint attack on the airport, so that Wang Ninghang would immediately send the detailed combat plan to me!"
"Yes!" Commander Liang responded, turned around and passed the order down.
The sound of artillery quickly became even more intense. With the cooperation of the artillery regiment and the main force of a battalion, the engineering regiment has increased its strength greatly, and the feint attack is more like a real attack.
Chapter completed!