In the early hours of the morning, the weather looked better as if knowing that the American soldiers were going to be airborne...... The rain has also been lightened, and the clouds have thinned.

Although the airborne target on the ground was still invisible, Stilwell had already contacted the Chindit unit and asked the members of the Chindit unit to guide the airborne troops to land at Hukou with a radio station, so the transport plane flew exactly over Hukou.

As soon as the red light in the transport plane came on, Colonel Brown shouted like a flock of sheep: "GO, go, go......"

The American GIs, who had been prepared for a long time, jumped off the transport plane one after another, and one parachute after another quickly unfolded behind the transport plane, slowly falling to the ground like dandelions floating in the air.

The airborne landing went smoothly, and 3,000 American GIs soon assembled and occupied the nearby high ground at Hukou, with several skirmishes taking place...... It was a small force of Japanese troops stationed on the high ground of Hukou, but the Galahad forces were quickly annihilated by their superior firepower and disparity in strength.

It should be said that this strategy has been very successful so far, the Japanese army has always thought that its opponent is only the Chinese army, and the Chinese army has no airborne troops, so the Japanese army did not expect the American GIs to fall behind them from the sky.

So this undoubtedly caught the Japanese army off guard, and Shinichi Tanaka, who was leading the troops to escape, was shocked when he heard the news, especially when he heard that this airborne American army was a special forces...... In fact, there is no need to hear of this at all, because the airborne troops themselves are selected from the best of the best units, and because the tasks to be carried out by the airborne troops are often parachuted behind enemy lines to occupy important military points or to carry out sneak attacks, the special nature of their tasks determines that they often have to fight hard under the encirclement of the enemy, so as long as they are airborne troops, their quality is not simple, especially the location where the US troops are airborne...... Hukou was the only place for the Japanese to retreat to the rear, which meant that the Japanese had to defeat the American army if they wanted to escape.

But......

At this time, Tanaka Shinichi had an unprecedented sense of crisis, although he had not fought with the Americans, but the Chinese had such strong combat effectiveness with American-style weapons. That's a pure American, and it's also a special forces, so it's worth it?!

Shinichi Tanaka is even considering whether to turn around and face the Chinese army.

However, it is obviously not possible to meet the Chinese army, because the Japanese army has not had a few bullets until now, and the American GIs are still behind, so facing the Chinese army is tantamount to self-destruction.

So Tanaka Shinichi gritted his teeth and ordered: "Order the troops to assemble at Hukou and prepare to recapture Hukou!" ”

"Yes!" The communications corps quickly conveyed the order.

Tanaka Shinichi's idea was that the American army had 3,000 people, so it was necessary to gather a wing of troops to break through, although Tanaka Shinichi was not confident, but now there was no other way to go.

Most of the Japanese soldiers also had the same idea as Tanaka Shinichi. They were all frightened by the name of the American special forces, so the Japanese troops who ran the fastest did not dare to move when they reached Hukou, and obediently stopped and waited for the follow-up troops to follow.

The Japanese army that arrived first at the mouth had two squadrons, commanded by a captain named Takeshi Yoshida.

He waited and waited and lost his patience...... This is easy to understand, the Japanese soldiers are all hungry and panicked, there are not many bullets left in their hands, plus the bad weather and the name and strength of the US special forces are in front of them, so what Yoshida Takeshi lost was not patience, but lost the confidence to fight.

The Japanese are different from the British and the Americans. The British and Americans would have chosen to surrender if they had lost the confidence to fight, while the Japanese had lost confidence and had chosen to launch a jade crushing attack and die with the enemy.

Takeshi Yoshida was disheartened and hoped to end this hopeless pain as soon as possible, so he disobeyed Tanaka Shinichi's order and led his troops into the jungle to attack the American defense line with the determination of Jade Crush.

He originally planned to die with the American army, but he didn't expect a scene to happen on the battlefield that surprised all the Japanese soldiers...... The U.S. defense line is simply vulnerable. Its defense line was easily crushed by the Japanese army like tofu. As the high ground was occupied by the Japanese army, it was not long before the American army's Garahad unit, known as the looter, had as many as 3,000 troops, and was defeated by more than 300 people from two Japanese squadrons and surrounded in the ferry.

This sounds a little unimaginable, how could the 3,000-strong US special forces be defeated at the hands of the Japanese army of more than 300 people?!

But in fact, it is excusable.

There are two reasons for this:

First of all, the U.S. Galahad forces were too light on the enemy, and they always thought that the enemy they were going to deal with had lost the will to fight and would not have any combat effectiveness...... It's normal to make such a judgment. You must know that the Japanese army ran for several days without supplies, and these Japanese troops were still defeated by the Chinese army...... At this time, the weakness of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army has long been known in the international community, so the US military thinks that everyone thinks. Even the Chinese army can chase these Japanese, so wouldn't they casually wipe them out as a special forces force of the United States to deal with these Japanese?!

So the U.S. military didn't even build fortifications, they simply chose a tree as a bunker and then hid under the rain cloth and chewed gum.

Another reason is the tactical problems of the US military.

The U.S. military has always avoided hand-to-hand combat and white-knuckle combat, even for special forces...... In fact, it should be said that special forces are especially taboo in white-knuckle combat, because the Americans believe that each member of their special forces is a valuable asset and can play a battle like surgery, so if you fight white-knuckle combat and hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, it is a stupid wasteful behavior.

In jungle warfare, it is often not far in front of the enemy as soon as they appear, and it is difficult to judge the strength of the Japanese army because trees and rain block the view...... This caused the U.S. troops to abandon their positions and retreat again and again in order to avoid hand-to-hand combat, and finally they were trapped in the area of the ferry with no way out.

Brown, who originally wanted to teach the Japanese a hard lesson, was so disgraced that he had no choice but to report to Davis: "General, we are surrounded by the enemy, ask for reinforcements, ask for reinforcements!" ”

"What? Besieged? When he heard the news, Davis couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.

Stilwell, who was beside Davis, also felt incredible, because Stilwell had already learned through the Hindit troops and the Burmese Independent Volunteers that the main force of the Japanese army was still on the way to flee to Hukou, since the main force of the Japanese army had not yet arrived, then which Japanese army could surround the Galahad troops?! (To be continued.) )