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spn "Squad leader, everyone is talking about a war, but in this place where birds don't poop, not even a rabbit is seen?"

Ruili, Nongdao Town, Yuzi Mountain Pass. Several soldiers wearing branches and green camouflage uniforms were lying behind the thorn bushes. Looking down, they could see the middle school that had just been established for half a year.

Nongdao border checkpoint on the Myanmar border.

The terrain of the China-Myanmar border is much more complex than that of the Southwest. Continuous mountains and large and small mountains extending from the Savage Mountains encircle the border between the two countries. Several main roads have become the garrison points of the Southwest Army.

land.

After receiving the first-level alert order, all border defense forces, including the Nongdao border garrison, stepped up their vigilance. In addition to strictly guarding each checkpoint, at least one additional platoon of defenders was sent to assist in the defense. It has been confirmed that

After knowing that the British would launch an attack on the southwest from Burma, no one dared to put their hope of border guarding on the checkpoints. Only by sending out a large army could it be effective.

Behind the mountain of Nongdao Checkpoint is the station of the Second Company led by Dai Anlan.[

Yu Cheng, the squad leader of the third squad of the first platoon of the second company, is a veteran of the reserve force. He was a private in the reserve force and is now the sergeant squad leader of the garrison division. The noncommissioned officer system of the Southwest Army is private, corporal, sergeant, staff sergeant, six

Class sergeant, simple and clear.

Yu Cheng unconsciously stretched out his hand to pick up a handful of mud, smeared two more handfuls on his face, and said in a low voice: "You guys have settled down, forget it if you don't come, if you do come, you will fight me."

"Haha, squad leader, I just want to fight some foreign devils, and my hands are itchy." The person who spoke was a private from the reserve army. Like several reserve army soldiers in the class, they were all very militant, and the other former Yunnan Army soldiers

, the soldiers of the Gui Army were taciturn, and some kept mumbling.

"Brother Zhu, what are you talking about so ecstatically?" Yu Cheng asked in a low voice when he saw Young Master Zhu, who was separated from him, muttering something to himself.

"Squad, squad leader, I, this is an old habit of mine. I used to do this when I was in the Yunnan Army. When I joined the army, my mother taught me. When I said it, the cow head and horse face took a detour." Zhu Laoyao

He is an old man from the Yunnan Army. Although he is only 20 years old, he is already a veteran soldier with four or five years of military experience, but he is very honest.

"Be careful. If Company Commander Dai comes to check the post later and finds out, you can give me a hard time." Yu Cheng frightened a dozen subordinates, then chewed a refreshing grass root and took out the company headquarters

The assigned binoculars were used to stare at the checkpoint below and the Burmese village in the distance.

Yu Cheng's shift was on night shift, and it was just evening, so it was still a long time. Nothing unusual happened at the checkpoint or in the Burmese village opposite until dark.

Lying on hay piles and lying behind thorn bushes, the people who took the third shift had fallen asleep. And those who were on guard duty happened to be Zhu Laoyao and another private.

"Huh?"

Zhu Laoyao was reciting his life-saving mantras nonchalantly, but suddenly stopped, booed the recruits who were looking at him, and raised his head to listen to the night sky above.

"One, two, three... Squad leader, squad leader, there's a situation!!" Zhu Laoyao crawled over and gently shook Yu Cheng to wake him up. Yu Cheng, who was very vigilant, rolled over and woke up, "

What happened?"

"Monitor, six or seven birds flew overhead just now. I suspect someone disturbed them in the woods opposite."

"It can't be a villager from Myanmar, right?" Yu Cheng regained his energy and carefully screened them. Looking around, the dark night sky even the moon hid in the dark clouds, and the woods and villages on the opposite side could not be seen clearly.

"No, Burmese villagers in these barren mountains will not easily travel at night. If so many night birds were frightened, someone must have entered the woods opposite." Zhu Laoyao analyzed based on his own experience.

, When I was in the Yunnan Army, the conditions were miserable. Zhu Laoyao, who was born as an Orion, was able to survive in such an army, and his survival experience was very rich.

"Is it smuggling? I didn't see any troops entering the opposite village during the day. It shouldn't be the enemy attacking overnight. Is it the enemy's scouts? But it's dark and I can't see anything clearly..." Yu Chengzhi

When Zhong saw the lights of the checkpoint, he suddenly understood, "Could the enemy be at the reconnaissance post?"

Previously, superior leaders had issued the most stringent orders, reminding troops at all levels that the enemy may cross the China-Myanmar border at any time, so that troops at all levels, especially those guarding the border, should be more vigilant.

"Brother Zhu, let's go and have a look on the opposite side with me." Yu Cheng finally decided to take a risk. With this mountain pass leading the way, he should be able to "touch" the woods on the opposite side.

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"Major Carmen, the checkpoint opposite is very heavily guarded."[

On the China-Myanmar border, opposite the Nongdao checkpoint, in the Burmese jungle, five or six British military officers were observing the eye-catching checkpoint opposite in the dark night.

At dark, a British Indian battalion arrived at this small Burmese village on the China-Myanmar border. Due to the mountainous terrain, the troops were not stationed to the north of the village at night, but to the lower-lying south of the village, just in time to escape.

A final reconnaissance by the Chinese defenders at dusk.

As the commander of this Indian battalion, Major Carmen has always felt aggrieved. He is an authentic graduate of the British Empire Army Military Academy, but he is asked to command such an Indian battalion with mixed personnel. While he is full of dissatisfaction, he also wants to fight.

Improve your grades so that you can get promoted and leave as soon as possible. As an excellent military academy student, he is extremely conceited. After studying many World War I battle cases, he was pleasantly surprised to find that there were too many practical examples for his first actual battle.

Reference. Select any actual combat example and it can be used as this action plan.

The goal is to break through the border defense of a backward country. After mastering accurate intelligence, you can break through the opponent at lightning speed, then capture the opponent's border area and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

In this way, I can complete this first combat mission dazzlingly.

Therefore, when he arrived at this small village on the way to China in the evening, he did not camp hastily. Instead, he chose a hidden location. After settling down, he took advantage of the night and led his subordinates to conduct reconnaissance. Because

The intelligence collection work was successful, and he learned from the locals that there was a border guard post here guarded by five people.

"No matter how tight the security is, it is nothing more than a five-person checkpoint. Tomorrow morning, we will easily break through it. We will fire the first shot in this war to punish the executioners."

Major Carmen, a top student in the military academy who was looking forward to his future, did not notice that there were two people lying cautiously on the ground behind the big fir tree not far away.

After a while, when Carmen and others had gone away, Yu Chengcai and Zhu Laoyao climbed up carefully and "touched" all the way. Their whole faces were scraped with blood by thorn vines.

"Monitor, what are they talking about?"

"I don't understand..." Yu Cheng was also very depressed. He only studied in the army and learned to read. How could he know what the other person was saying, "Do you dare to touch it and have a look?"

"I don't have a problem, you are the squad leader..."

"You can do it and I can do it. Be careful and don't get discovered by foreign devils!"

When the two of them finally "touched" along the edge of the village, they finally saw the British camp below the depression. Although the lights were off, they could still hear the sound of machinery and the sounds of several tents when they got closer.

Loud lights.

"My dear, it looks like there are at least two companies!" Yu Cheng smacked his lips and said in Zhu Laoyao's ear, "Let's go back quickly.

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next morning

Dai Anlan, who received the news overnight, urgently reported it to the headquarters of the Third Regiment of the Second Division of the Garrison Division, gathered the entire company together overnight, and went up the mountain to dig trenches at twelve o'clock at midnight.

The complex terrain here has always made Dai Anlan worried. He was afraid that if a battle broke out and he was attacked by the opponent, even if he could block the enemy, he would suffer a lot.

Fortunately, the Southwest Army has a fine tradition. The army has always been very rigorous in its work style, and any orders will be strictly implemented. This time, the third squad of Yu Cheng, who was on duty at the night shift, was able to discover the enemy. This was the result of this approach of always being prepared for danger.

"Dig a little deeper here and have breakfast after digging!!"

"The sandbags here, reposition them."[

"The bunkers of the machine gun squad must be hardened with hard rocks, and the three bunkers must be arranged in a crosswise manner."

"The sharpshooters dispersed to the left and right hills to hide and wait for orders."

"The mortar team first moved to the nearby hilltop and waited for orders to take action."

When Dai Anlan looked at his watch and reached six o'clock, he could already see the faint smoke in the distance through the telescope. If it was normal, it might be treated as smoke in the mountains, but at this time, it is very likely that the enemy is here.

Have breakfast. Next, there will be a fierce battle.

If the enemy army of a battalion is the Burmese army, it's fine. If it's the Indian army or even the British regiment, it will be in big trouble. I am not leading the main company, and I don't have that much time to build a position. A company faces a battalion.

Attacking is quite difficult.

"Company Commander, the enemy is coming!"

An observer who climbed up a tree was the first to discover traces of the enemy. The two armies were too close. Dai Anlan could not even send out another reconnaissance team. Instead, it was the battlefield observer who climbed up the tree who first discovered the enemy.

of British troops.

"Can you tell what kind of army it is?" Dai Anlan stood under the tree and asked in a low voice, raising his head.

"I can't see clearly. I can only see the Union Jack flag. It is estimated that it will be within visual distance in ten minutes." The observation soldier slid down the tree and briefly stated his observation results: "Company Commander, the opponent is

There are cannons!”

"Cannon? What kind? Heavy caliber?" Dai Anlan asked deeply.

"It's more like the 24-year-old infantry artillery equipped by the main force. The number is about five." said the observer.

Dai Anlan nodded, it should be the opponent's battalion-level support firepower. Although the garrison has not yet been equipped with the 24-year-old infantry artillery of the main force, he has seen that thing. It is not very powerful, but it is very special.

, the shooting was very accurate, and the shooting angle was also more advantageous than that of mortars. Since the infantry battalion opposite had five mountain cannons, the deployment of its troops was correct.

Only one platoon of troops was placed on the top of the mountain at the forefront, and the main force was placed at the back so that it could support at any time and avoid being bombarded by the British artillery fire.

With no personnel advantage or firepower advantage, Dai Anlan did not even dare to place his hopes on the old Yunnan Army and the old Gui Army who had only received six months of reorganization training. This battle was too mysterious.

Just after eight o'clock, the soldiers who were taking a nap in the trench were woken up. After eating a few steamed buns, pickle sticks and warm water to replenish their strength, they were rushed to the front of the line.

Because, within a visual distance of a few hundred meters, the British troops fighting in the front line could already be seen.

"Ko, the devil is really coming!!"

There was a commotion among the soldiers on the position. Lying in this simple trench dug overnight, they could not see clearly what the British army on the opposite side looked like. However, these soldiers were no strangers to war, let alone the Yunnan Army and Guangxi Army.

The veterans were from the reserve forces and had experienced battles. Without the orders of their superiors, they all hurriedly checked the Chinese rifles, bayonets, and grenades around them. These were life-saving weapons for killing the enemy in the coming battle.

"Brothers, the British devils are coming soon. They are not here as guests, they are here to burn, kill and plunder. Think about Nanjing Road in Shanghai, think about the Old Summer Palace. Think about them shooting at unarmed students. Think about it.

Thinking about the repeated invasions of the British devils over the past hundred years, the shocking crimes they committed are simply too numerous to describe.

As soldiers, we have the responsibility to stop them. If not for anything else, just for the sake of the fellow villagers who are still moving behind, just to be worthy of our military conscience, and just to be worthy of our share of military pay.

The ugly words are in front, I have delayed the enemy and completed the mission. I will take you to drink and eat meat together, and even the spoils of war. Then I can decide and share more. But if anyone delays the battle and disobeys the military order, I will be the first to kill him.

he."
To be continued...