Chapter 139: Return to the Horse Gun

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"Tuanza!" The adjutant asked Wang Mazi: "Let's leave now!" ”

"No!" Wang Mazi shook his head, and then said to the soldiers: "Brothers, bring more gasoline and food, it's still far from Myitkyina!" Just change the equipment that should be changed, and you can't take it with you...... It's all burned, don't leave anything for the devils! ”

"Yes!" The warriors answered, and soon got busy.

But after being busy for a while, the fighters were in a dilemma.

It's not that they don't have gasoline, on the contrary, the gasoline and supplies here are piled up, and it's not that they don't have equipment, the equipment here is everywhere, and it's all American-style equipment. But that's where they get caught up...... There are too many materials, piles and pieces, like hills, and it is too late to burn......

"Tuanza!" The tank battalion commander reported to Wang Mazi: "There are too many materials, and it will take a while to burn them out, and the devils are near, in case they catch up...... It's not easy to get rid of! ”

The tank battalion commander's concern is right, this is not to say that the engineering regiment is afraid of the devils, but the equipment in the hands of the engineering regiment, such as tanks, cars, armored vehicles, etc., are heavily dependent on the road, and the equipment in the hands of the original engineer regiment is all British ammunition, and these ammunition cannot be supplied at all in Lashio, so if you fight with the devils, it will make the engineering regiment embarrassed...... Is it better to use British or Chinese equipment? Can you adapt to the temporary change? Will it affect combat effectiveness?!

Therefore, for the engineering regiment, the right choice should be to use the high mobility of the mechanized troops to leave them far behind before the devils arrive at Lashio.

Wang Mazi looked at the mountains of materials around him...... He was reluctant to let these materials fall into the hands of the devils, which was equivalent to using the hard-earned money of the Chinese people to provide supplies to the Japanese devils.

In fact, Zhang Chi was not reluctant, and when the historical 56th Division was interspersed with Lashio, it was actually unable to continue fighting because of insufficient supplies.

However, the piles of material seized in Lashio allowed them to travel to Yunnan, China, so that they would not need to move them from anywhere else for the next two years...... The materials of Lashio were enough for them to use, and they relied on these materials to build one solid fortress after another in western Yunnan, such as Songshan and Tengchong.

These places were all in western Yunnan, and the Japanese army was originally going to cross the whole of Burma to transport ammunition and grain to western Yunnan to be stored, and these grains even had to be consumed while transporting, and it was very difficult to store them.

But everything became easier when the Japanese had the materials captured by Lashio...... Lashio's food and gasoline were simply not used up, and the Japanese army only needed to transport ammunition and weapons and equipment, so in just over a year, the Japanese army built one after another unimaginably strong fortifications in various key places in western Yunnan, and these fortifications were taken by dozens of times the number of troops and dozens of times the casualties during China's second expedition.

The most famous of these is the Battle of Songshan, the national army fought a wing of the Japanese army with about two corps, and the ratio of troops was nearly 30 to 1, but in the end it was at the cost of more than 7,000 casualties to take Songshan, and the Japanese side only suffered more than 1,000 casualties.

Therefore, these supplies in Lashio are not only a matter of food, gasoline, and ammunition on the surface, but also directly related to the question of whether the Japanese army will have greater war energy in western Yunnan and even in Burma in the next two years. And this war energy, in the end, is consumed with the lives and blood of the Chinese.

But...... What can we do now?

It's really easy to set it on fire, just douse the gasoline and set it on fire.

However, this fire is not enough to burn so many materials into ashes in a short time, and it is conceivable that the Japanese army immediately extinguished the flames and rescued the materials after arriving at Lashio.

So it's not to go, it's not to go, it's really a bit difficult.

At this time, Zhang Chi noticed the water pipes connected to various parts of Lashio, and followed the direction of the water pipes to see a hill behind Lashio, so Zhang Chi asked: "Where do these water pipes extend?" ”

Hearing this, everyone felt a little strange, at this time, everyone was having a headache about how to deal with the material of Lashio next, but Zhang Chi still had the leisure to care about the water pipe?

"The water source of Lashio is a mountain spring from the back mountain!" Meng Lok Zeng, who had stayed in Lashio for a while, was familiar with the place, and explained: "The mountain spring is not far from the back mountain, go up this water pipe, turn a corner, and there will be a cistern, and the water pipe comes from there!" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but nodded, which was similar to what he guessed.

"Tuanza!" Looking at those water pipes, Zhang Chi said thoughtfully: "Perhaps, we can kill the devil with a horse pistol!" ”

"Kill a carbine?" Wang Mazi couldn't help but be a little puzzled: "Just rely on these water pipes?" ”

"Just these pipes!" Zhang Chi nodded: "Of course, there is gasoline!" ”

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As the wing commander of the Japanese airborne wing, Izuo Tsunai has not been so proud for a long time.

You must know that since the formation of the airborne wing two years ago, there have been various "accidents," and this accident either caused the transport plane to collide or fell from the sky, and what made everyone even more stumbling was that during last year's training, a pilot misjudged the airborne field because of an illusion, and actually parachuted the airborne troops into the sea, and the transport planes that followed closely behind also carried out "airdrops" one after another...... As a direct result of this accident, dozens of excellent soldiers drowned because they did not have time to break free from the parachute.

Then, with the help of the Germans, the airborne wing finally overcame technical difficulties and formed combat effectiveness, but after being put into actual combat, it made a fool of itself again and again:

A month ago, on the battlefield in the Philippines, the airborne wing that made its first sortie was still in the air when it was still in the air, and a large number of its own Zero fighters were mistakenly injured, and the airborne troops on several transport planes died under their own guns in a daze before they could participate in the battle. The surviving airborne troops finally landed to the ground without a hitch, but the airborne landing point was only thirty meters away from the enemy's position, so they were suppressed by the defenders' fire before they could untie their parachutes in a hurry, and the first airborne landing soon ended in failure.

The second airborne operation was the airborne landing on Lashio a few days ago, and when it flew over Lashio, there was a heavy fog and there was no airborne landing point at all, so I had no choice but to return...... However, on the way back, they ran into several reconnaissance planes that were looking in the wrong direction, and then they collided again and killed and injured dozens of people.

This time, we finally got the result!

Izuo Tsunai looked at Lashio who was close at a foot and secretly breathed a sigh of relief...... The gift for the emperor's birthday will be pocketed by the airborne wing.