The raid on the Japanese communication camp made Tangcheng once again admire the powerful firepower of American weapons. Although Tangcheng and the others lacked machine gun firepower, after using mortars to kill the machine gun firepower points in the Japanese camp, the Japanese bolt-action rifles could not stop them at all.
The Japanese soldiers who survived could not resist the constant fire of American firearms. Often, as soon as a bullet was fired by the surviving Japanese soldiers, a barrage of bullets would hit back. Tang Cheng's soldiers would even stay in one position and pull the trigger repeatedly until they filled the magazine with
After all eight rounds of ammunition are used up, he will be kicked and beaten by veterans or officers to change positions.
The sudden attack gave the Japanese troops in the camp no time to prepare. The rapid fire of mortars had already made them lose their courage. The subsequent assault with a large number of semi-automatic weapons made them lose their armor and had no chance to fight back. Japanese tents
Having been almost destroyed by artillery fire, the surviving Japanese troops could only use the corpses of their companions as cover and use the 38-meter rifles that were difficult to retreat from the enemy to survive and carry out sporadic counterattacks.
Waiting for the snipers who had cleared the guard posts outside the Japanese camp to be freed up, the surviving Japanese soldiers faced their nightmare. The snipers would not show up to fight with the remaining Japanese soldiers, or even fight with them.
They fought face to face, relying on the ultra-long range and precise shooting skills of sniper rifles. The hidden snipers could accurately hit the remaining Japanese troops in the camp from a few hundred meters away, until they completely destroyed the camp.
The remaining Japanese troops were shot dead.
When Tang Cheng stepped into the Japanese camp, the fireworks in the camp had almost been cleared away. It wasn't that Tang Cheng was timid, he was blocked by Liu Shitou and Zhao Liang and refused to move forward. "It's a dog day."
The shells were so accurate that the brothers could not find half a box of documents or anything, and I don’t know if there is anything you want." Hou San led others to move a box, which was still filled with black ash.
Some documents and papers seemed to have been rescued by Hou San and others from the fire.
Liu Shitou, the most stubborn person, found two ammunition boxes for Tang Cheng from somewhere, and stacked them together to become Tang Cheng's stool. A lame table was placed in front of Tang Cheng, while others were cleaning the battlefield.
At that time, Tang Cheng patiently looked through the box of documents and papers sent by Hou San. "Shitou, go get the radio soldiers." After only looking at it for a few times, Tang Cheng asked Liu Shitou to call.
Radio soldiers come here.
"Immediately send a report to Lieduo, saying that the 18th Division of the Japanese Army has sent a large number of troops into Yeren Mountain. It is estimated that the Japanese army wants to block Lieduo from entering the jungle in northern Myanmar and ask us what to do." Read Hou Sansong.
The arrival of these things confirmed Tang Cheng's previous speculation that the Japanese army was turning Yeren Mountain into their ambush site, and clearly wanted to block the jungles in northern Burma from Ledo via Yeren Mountain.
Although my company can call for airdrop support, it loses this advantage when entering the jungle. This Japanese army's communication relay station is responsible for the connection between the small Japanese army in the jungle and the Japanese army headquarters in northern Burma. Just from these captured messages
, Tangcheng has seen no less than a dozen squadron-level troop numbers. The number of people in a Japanese infantry squadron is more than 180, and the number of more than a dozen Japanese squadrons combined exceeds 2,000. He only has more than 300 people. Tangcheng can
I don't want to hit the rocks with my eggs.
They had lost contact with Tangcheng and the others for several days. Mike, who was waiting anxiously, thought that Tangcheng and the others had entered the jungle and were returning to Ledo. Unexpectedly, the message he had just received showed that Tangcheng and the others were still wandering around Magao. Wait carefully.
After reading the translated message, Mike no longer secretly scolded Tang Cheng for disobeying orders, but began to worry about the safety of more than 300 people in Tang Cheng.: Mike, what's wrong? What's going on? "I just happened to come to see Mike.
Huang Hanju didn't know yet, and he thought Mike was worried about the newly transferred supplementary troops from Lieduo.
"It's Tang. They destroyed a Japanese communication station outside Magao. According to the exchange of fire documents, the Japanese Eighteenth Division has dispatched many small squadron-level troops into the jungle of Savage Mountain. They may
They were surrounded by these Japanese troops in the jungle. "Mike didn't want to hide it from Huang Hanju, so he directly handed the message in his hand to Huang Hanju.
"What should we do?" Although Huang Hanju is now a colonel, he is only a colonel in charge of logistics after all, and he knows very little about things on the battlefield. After learning that Tangcheng and the others might be surrounded by a large number of Japanese troops in the jungle
Inside, Huang Hanju became anxious, "Mike, do you want to report this matter to the headquarters and ask the headquarters to consider canceling the order to transfer Tangcheng and the others back to Lieduo? They only have more than 300 people, and it is difficult to defeat the Japanese army in the jungle.
containment."
When Mike heard this, he nodded repeatedly, "That's what I mean too. The telegram to the headquarters has been sent, but I don't know what the staff officers in the headquarters will say. You know, those guys who have never been on the battlefield have nothing to do with it.
They don't know the dangers in the jungle. In their eyes, maybe the jungle in Savage Mountain is as safe as their back garden." Mike's self-deprecating complaint resonated with Huang Hanju. The well-dressed combat staff in the headquarters are indeed not good at all.
.
It was almost as expected by Mike. The combat staff at the headquarters who had never been on the battlefield ignored the telegram sent by Mike. They only emphasized that Mike urged the Tangcheng detachment to return to Lieduo as soon as possible. "These sons of bitches,
I knew it would be like this, no, I have to go to Lambgar myself. I can't just watch Tang and the others being killed by the Japanese army in the jungle. I'm going to find General Stilwell." Mike drove the jeep angrily.
After leaving, Huang Hanju wanted to go with him, but Mike stayed behind. As a logistics officer, he still had a lot of things to do.
"Sir, what did Liduo say? Do you still want us to go back?" Looking at Tang Cheng's expression from a distance after receiving the telegram, Hou San came over and asked carefully. He had only been away from the Red Earth Plain for a few days.
Within days, they had exchanged fire with the Japanese troops scattered in the jungle many times. All this proved that Tang Cheng's previous speculation was not wrong. They knew that Tang Cheng was contacting Li Duo for everyone's survival, but Hou San
I don't want Tang Cheng to turn against the senior officers in the headquarters like this.
"Ledo hasn't given the letter of approval yet, but the command still wants us to return to Ledo in accordance with the original order. My brother-in-law said that Chief Mike has personally gone to Lambgar to find General Stilwell, but Old Man Shi doesn't know
What can you say?" Tang Cheng only knew that Stilwell was an American like Mike, but he had never seen this nominal commander of the expeditionary force. However, Tang Cheng had heard that Stilwell had gray hair.
Half an old man.
"Otherwise, let's just go back. With Wu Shan and the others here, I guess it won't be as troublesome if we go back to the woods. There are just kiddies in the woods. What we do is fight the kidnappers.
." Hou San took out a cigarette and handed one to Tang Cheng, and said with a smile. "When you put on this military uniform, your life is not your own. There will be no undead people in a war.
I can only blame myself for my bad fate, the brothers who are alive will always be grateful to you."
He lit the cigarette with the match struck by Hou San and took a big puff. Tang Cheng threw the cigarette in his hand at his feet and said, "Japanese cigarettes are not easy to smoke. There is always a smell of horse manure in your mouth."
"Smell." Tang Cheng threw away the cigarette, but Hou San didn't respond at all. He just called a few soldiers who were smoking and searched them for a while before finding Tang Cheng half a pack of American Camel cigarettes.
Hou San, who was smiling, helped Tang Cheng light the cigarette again, but still squatted beside Tang Cheng without saying anything and just smoked. Now Tang Cheng could no longer find something to change the subject, so he could only frown and glare at Hou.
Third, "Do you know how many of our people have died? Do you know that there are at least 2,000 Japanese soldiers in the woods? How can we fight with 300 people? If we enter the woods, we might just die."
Hou San was still smoking with a smile on his face. He waited until Tang Cheng had finished complaining, then Hou San threw away the cigarette butt and stood up. "Dice and I are just bandits who only block roads and bully people.
If I hadn't followed you all the way south, there would have been no chance of wearing this military uniform, and I might have died in some mountain den and been fed to wolves. The military uniforms we are wearing now are American-issued military uniforms.
We have guns, we eat American canned food, white flour, and we smoke American cigarettes. If we had done this in earlier years, the county magistrate wouldn’t be able to live the life we have.”
"I know people will die in war, so why do Dice and I keep following you to fight the Japanese? When we were still in Lieduo, the colonel who came from the headquarters said that as long as Dice and I follow him to Lamb
Ga, at least give me two and a company commander each. Then why didn’t we go? Isn’t it because you regard us as your own people? We shouldn’t make things difficult for you because we are our own people. You are just a little kid now.
Company Commander, if you go head-to-head with those bad guys at the headquarters, you will definitely suffer the consequences in the end."
Tang Cheng looked at Hou San with surprise. He had never thought that Hou San would say such words. In his impression, the only person around him who could say such words was Tan Fei, a former scholar.
.I know that Hou San said this because he did not want to be punished by his superiors for disobeying military orders, but Tang Cheng really did not want to watch his soldiers fight to death with the Japanese army. This was not his own life, but the lives of more than 300 people in the entire unit.
human life.
"Let's wait a little longer. Maybe Chief Mike will persuade his superiors to revoke the order when he goes to Ramuga. In the worst case, we will return to the Red Clay Plains." Tangcheng failed to make a decision in the end. He just asked Hou San to calm down the troops and everything was waiting for Mike.