In December 1942, what worried the US, British and French allies, but which would happen sooner or later, finally and inevitably happened:
Chinese troops enter Africa!
Although there is only one regiment of troops, this means that China has officially intervened in the war between European and American countries. ^//^
The world war escalated again with China's full intervention.
Germany and Italy cheered for this.
This is something they have been waiting for for a long time, which means that they are still waiting for China's comprehensive reinforcements!
The first to enter the Manimu region of Africa was the force commanded by Wang Ding, the son of President Wang Hengyue of the Republic of China.
The Germans are no stranger to Wang Ding. This young officer who once created miracles in Belgrade may create another legend on the African continent.
Wang Ding, who had just arrived in Africa, did not have time to rest before he received the task assigned to him by General Rommel:
A company of his troops penetrated behind the British, scouting for intelligence while looking for opportunities to deliver an offensive blow to the British.
8th Company.
During this interlude, the 8th Company took a less traveled mountain road.
It is said to be a road, but in fact it is not a road at all. There is a steep hillside above and a towering cliff below. There is only about a foot of narrow path that can accommodate your feet. The rain washed away the gravel on the path, and the path gradually turned into
The slope is extremely smooth for your feet.
In order to prevent the enemy from penetrating into their rear, the British army not only laid a large number of landmines on various roads, but also planted a large number of bamboo sticks at the foot of mountains, grass, shrubs, etc. Whether rolling down the mountain or stepping up from the ground,
Once you step on a bamboo stick, your feet will be stung with blood.
China, which had already taken precautions against this, had already produced a batch of stab-resistant shoes with steel plates before Wang Ding and his troops went abroad to fight, and followed them to Africa.
Before setting off, the commander of the 8th Company, Bai Yanchao, ordered everyone to put on shoes with steel plates. Although it took a little effort to walk with these shoes, it was less worrying when stepping into the grass.
But as soon as they set foot on this mountain road, big trouble came. Due to the steel plate, the softness of the soles was almost gone. The anti-slip function was even more weak. Although the soldiers walked carefully and supported each other, they almost became
The three-inch golden lotus has fallen into pieces, but many people still fell off.
Sometimes it's not enough to go down alone, so one or two people have to be pulled up, causing the team to scream in surprise.
Fortunately, these people who fell could always climb up from below shortly after falling. This shows how thick the wormwood at the bottom of the mountain must be. On the other hand, our soldiers are fully equipped with the experience of rolling down the hillside. When they landed, thousands of
Never stretch out your limbs, but curl up into a ball with your back first on the ground.
If the British army knew that our troops were passing through this area, they would really regret it. Why did they neglect to bury bamboo sticks in this area?
The 8th Company walked about five or six kilometers on such a mountain road in one go. Although the distance was not long, it took too long.
Bai Yanchao in front was extremely anxious and kept urging those behind to speed up the pace.
They were in a hurry, but the mountain road did not obey Bai Yanchao's command, and the soldiers still made their way stumbling and stopping.
Due to the particularity of the mission that Bai Yanchao led this reinforced company to complete, the original base was
On a rapid march on a steep mountain road, the infantry can do it, but the artillery will have difficulty.
An ammunition hand has to carry four rounds of artillery shells on his back, plus his own guns, ammunition and personal equipment. The total weight of the supplies he carries is almost 200 kilograms. Even if he wants to walk fast, he can't walk fast.
Seeing that it was getting dark again, the vanguard had to stop when they came out of the mountain and wait for the follow-up personnel to arrive one after another.
At this time, Bai Yanchao used his telescope to discover the junction between the mountain trail and the main road, and ordered Class 2 to be the sharp knife squad to go out and occupy the main road as a guard!
Gu Yuanyi, squad leader of Class 2, led Class 4 on a run to the intersection. Just after he arranged everyone, he looked up and found that the road turned again not far away.
In order to find out the situation and just in case, someone had to be sent over to conduct reconnaissance.
"Cai Huachen, take your team and watch the situation on the other side of the road..." Gu Yuanyi assigned a task to Cai Huachen.
Cai Huachen agreed and took Zhou Zhen and another soldier to run towards the front of the road.
After running around the corner, they saw that the road was empty and there was nothing. So Cai Huachen sent another soldier back to report the situation to Gu Yuanyi, who then passed the situation on to Bai Yanchao.
Bai Yanchao spread out the combat map on a big rock, comparing it on the left and right, but he couldn't find the geographical location in front of him.
Company deputy Xie Qi came over and asked, "Company commander, where are we now?"
Bai Yanchao frowned and smiled bitterly, as if saying to Xie Qi, or to himself: "Why isn't it on the map?"
This time the 8th Company crossed over to occupy the Saliya Fort in the Manim area. The route they took was calibrated according to the predetermined plan. However, this map was already old-fashioned, not to mention that the British troops were still in various locations before the war.
The way out has been rearranged. Signs and routes have been significantly changed.
Bai Yanchao was holding an outdated map, and of course he couldn't find the standard location.
"How about asking the villagers?" Xie Qi reminded Bai Yanchao.
"Where can the people come from a place where even birds don't poop?" Bai Yanchao thought so because he saw no villages, no pedestrians, and not even a single livestock along the way.
Cai Huachen hid behind a stone at the corner and stared at the road ahead.
Suddenly, a humming and chirping sound came from a distance. The tune was high and low. No one could understand what the "Chiliwala" was about. But from the tone, we could tell that it was an African folk tune.
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Cai Huachen stared ahead with his eyes wide open, thinking: "Not even the common people can let him pass."
The singing became louder and louder, and a figure finally appeared on the road.
A soldier wearing a British army uniform came over.
Cai Huachen was a little overwhelmed when he saw the British army approaching. He was worried that there would be a large number of enemies behind the British army.
I couldn't make up my mind whether to fight or not, so I had to ask the company commander for instructions first.
"Zhou Zhen, report to the company commander quickly, the enemy is found here."
Zhou Zhen spread his legs and ran towards the company.
After a while, Bai Yanchao came running over with people.
A dozen people were hiding in the bend of the mountain, staring at the approaching British soldiers.
This British soldier, with a backpack on his back and a rifle in his hand, was singing and walking, much like a drunken man.
Bai Yanchao ordered Cai Huachen softly: "Get him here."
Cai Huachen turned around and took advantage of the cover of trees and grass to gradually hide behind the British soldier.
The British soldier turned around the bend of the mountain and suddenly discovered Bai Yanchao and others. He was frightened for a moment. He never expected that a group of Chinese people were hiding here.
The soldier had just woken up and was about to shout, but his throat was locked by Cai Huachen who jumped up from behind. He couldn't speak, he just whimpered loudly.
Although Cai Huachen locked the enemy's throat, he was unable to lock him. The British soldier was still kicking and screaming, and he was still moaning.
If this British soldier made a loud noise and alerted other enemies, there would be a big problem.
"A few more people will go over," Bai Yanchao said.
Zhou Zhen and several soldiers ran over to help. They worked together to subdue the British soldier and dragged him to the back of the rock.
Bai Yanchao said to a Vietnamese translator: "Ask him how to get to Saliya Fort?"
The translator babbled out a lot of words that no one could understand and shook his head vigorously.
The translator thought he really didn't know, so he added the name of Manim. But the British soldier still shook his head.
The translation went viral: "Company commander, this guy is too stubborn and refuses to speak."
"Then use some means." Bai Yanchao said.
"I'll come." After Cai Huachen finished speaking, he walked up to the British soldier and said, "Zhou Zhen, come here.
After Cai Huachen tied the soldier up with a rope, he and Zhou Zhen dragged him toward the woods. He kicked him to the ground and put the gun to his head.
"If you don't tell me, I'll shoot you." He pulled the gun's bolt and made a gesture of preparing to shoot.
The British soldier opened his eyes wide. Although he could not understand what Cai Huachen said, he could tell that Cai Huachen wanted to shoot him.
The soldier was frightened and kept nodding to Cai Huachen. This meant that I still have an eighty-year-old mother at home. Please don't kill me.
"It's fine without killing you, but what do you have to ask and what do you say?"
The soldier seemed to understand and nodded.
"Zhou Zhen, take him back."
Wu Donglong and Zhou Zhen brought the soldier back to Bai Yanchao, "Company Commander, this guy admits it, you can ask!"
This British soldier was really well-behaved. When the translator asked him, he just answered in a babbling manner. The translator kept asking, and the British soldier kept talking. After he understood it, the translator explained to Bai Yanchao.
The translator pointed to the map and said to Bai Yanchao, "According to the prisoners' confession, we have taken a wrong route. We are still twenty kilometers away from Saliya Fort."
"How to turn around?"
"Go here, then go here." The translations formed a line on the map.
"Okay then, let's go here when the troops set off." Bai Yanchao made a decision.
"What to do with the prisoners?" Cai Huachen asked.
"Yes!" Cai Huachen was unhappy. He was originally a vanguard, but after becoming such a burden, he turned into a defender. What's the point of a defender? He always eats other people's leftovers.
A team of more than a hundred people set off in single file. Worried about encountering enemies on the road, they chose uninhabited mountain roads.
After climbing over a mountain, I could vaguely see lights at the bottom of the mountain.
At this time, an order not to speak came from the front of the army.
In order not to alert the enemy, the troops could only walk around the village.
Along the way, the British soldier kept giving Cai Huachen problems. Although Cai Huachen tried his best, he still dragged his feet and refused to leave quickly. Gradually, Cai Huachen's combat team separated from the entire company.
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If it weren't for Bai Yanchao's order, Cai Huachen would have killed the prisoner on the spot.
Cai Huachen's team led the captives carefully around the mountain. After turning a mountain bend, the lights of the village flashed out.
The prisoner's sharp eyes saw someone shaking in the bamboo building on the village. He knew it was a sentry. So he began to become dishonest. After walking a few steps, he squatted on the ground and refused to move, even pretending to be a guard.
Pay the pain.
Cai Huachen had been walking in front, when he heard Zhou Zhen urging the prisoner to leave quickly. When he turned around, he saw the prisoner squatting on the ground, still urging him.
Cai Huachen came back and asked, "What's wrong?"
"This guy is squatting on the ground and won't leave without saying anything," a soldier said.
Cai Huachen bent down, pointed at his own belly, and then at the captive's belly, making a sign of pain. The captive nodded.
"This guy really has a stomachache, right?" Cai Huachen said to Zhou Zhen.
When Cai Huachen turned his back, the squatting prisoner suddenly raised his head and bumped into him. After a heavy blow, Cai Huachen was knocked to the ground, and then he ran down the mountain.
Although his hands were still tied, he was still running very fast.
Zhou Zhen was stunned by the sudden situation. When he realized what had happened, the prisoner had already run far away. Seeing that he could no longer catch up, he raised his gun and shot at the prisoner.
"Bah bang bang!"
After several gunshots were fired, the prisoner fell to the ground and rolled several meters away.
Cai Huachen ran over and took a look. Not only was the prisoner not dead, but he was also struggling to make a sound. Apparently the bullet did not hit the fatal position.
As soon as the gunfire rang out here, the villagers at the foot of the mountain immediately remembered the sound of bangs. Many people shouted and ran towards the mountain.°
"You said you...how could you shoot!" Cai Hua complained against Zhou Zhen.
"I, if I didn't shoot, he would run away." Zhou Zhen still wanted to explain.
"Okay, the enemy is coming. You go first." Cai Huachen urged Zhou Zhen.
"Then what do you do?" Zhou Zhen asked.
"You go first, don't worry about me," Cai Huachen said, taking off the bayonet from his gun: "We can't let this guy live, we have to deal with it."
"Just kill him like this." Zhou Zhen asked in horror.
"That's right." Cai Huachen was about to take action: "Stop talking nonsense, you two leave quickly. We won't be able to leave for a while."
Zhou Zhen and another soldier ran forward.
Cai Huachen approached the prisoner. The prisoner saw Cai Huachen's intentions from his expression and was so frightened that he kicked his legs and crawled forward.
Cai Huachen raised his head to listen to the shouts that were getting closer and closer, and said to the prisoner: "You can't blame anyone for your death. It's all your own fault." After saying that, he stabbed the prisoner's heart with his bayonet.
Cai Huachen pulled out the bayonet from the prisoner's body, wiped off the blood on the body and inserted it into the muzzle of the gun again, and quickly moved forward to chase Zhou Zhen and the others.
After running a few steps, a bullet flew from behind.
Because the terrain was unfamiliar to him, Cai Huachen walked around the mountain but couldn't run very far. Seeing the light of the flashlight getting closer and closer, Cai Huachen didn't care about distinguishing between east, west, north and south, and ran in whichever direction was smooth.
At this time, Zhou Zhen's voice came from behind a tree: "Team leader, we are here." Zhou Zhen and Jiang Duofu, a soldier from the same group, were hiding behind the tree and waiting for him.
Cai Huachen heard that it was Zhou Zhen shouting, and ran over following the sound, and scolded him as soon as he came up.
"Why are you still here?"
"We are waiting for you."
Zhou Zhen and Jiang Duofu didn't run a few steps before they realized something was wrong. They were both members of the same combat team, so they couldn't leave the team leader alone. So they stopped and prepared to go back to help Cai Huachen.
At this moment, the shouts from the bottom of the mountain were getting closer and closer, bullets were flying, and several flashlights flashed over.
Zhou Zhen said to Jiang Duofu: "Let's not go over there. We will meet the team leader here."
So the two of them laid an ambush behind the tree, waiting for Cai Huachen to come over. Seeing Cai Huachen jumping around and running away, Zhou Zhen called out to Cai Huachen from behind the tree.
"Don't stay here, get out quickly." Cai Huachen ducked and ran forward.
As soon as Zhou Zhen got up, he saw several figures running towards him, so he raised his gun and shot
"Da da da!"
As soon as the gunshot rang out, the person on the opposite side fell down and immediately returned the bullet.
"You're so damn stupid, aren't you reporting to the enemy?" Cai Huachen turned around and cursed, "Run away quickly."
The three of them didn't care about the fight from behind, they kept their heads down and bent over, but they kept running forward.
The enemy chasing Cai Huachen and the others was a platoon of British troops stationed here.
After the war started, the enemy had all the people in arms, ready for war at all times, and everyone was on alert.
So as soon as the gunfire rang out on the mountain, the British platoon reacted very quickly. Almost the whole platoon mobilized and quickly outflanked the place from three directions.
The first ones to rush over were the enemies who came up directly from the mountain. The other two groups had already jumped up the mountain.
This enemy group doesn't know how many troops we have. Cai Huachen also doesn't know how many enemies are chasing them.
No one on the two sides cares about the other. Anyway, those who want to run must run, and those who want to chase must still chase.
Cai Huachen's three-person team ran forward desperately, in a panic. As they ran, they suddenly realized that the mountain had reached the end.
At the bottom of the mountain is a short slope, and below it is a large piece of empty flat land. Only by crossing this short slope and then crossing the flat land can we reach another mountain.
Going deep into the enemy's hinterland, Cai Huachen didn't want to walk in an open space with no cover. Even if it was a very smooth and 100% smooth road, he was not willing to take the risk. Who knew whether the enemy was doing anything here.
But now I don’t want to leave anymore. If I want to go back again, there is no way.
The enemies pressing down from the ridge and mountainside were about to arrive. There were bursts of gunfire, bullets flying randomly, and shouts that shook the sky.
Look at Zhou Zhen, the troublemaker. How could this have happened if he didn't shoot? However, Zhou Zhen was right to shoot. If he didn't kill the prisoner, when he ran back to the village and told him, he might expose a bigger problem.
Trouble. The entire 8th company, and even the plan for a battle will be thoroughly explained by him.
Hey! If you die, die! If you are exposed, be exposed! In the worst case, it will be a fight to the death.
When Cai Huachen thought about it, he had nothing to complain about. He turned around and glanced at his two comrades who were following closely behind him. He thought to himself: "It's a pity that it doesn't matter if I die, you two will also be affected!"