Chapter 82: The Encounter
This kind of tactic is called the "digging trench and rushing forward" tactic, and it is mostly used when there is a clear difference in the geographical advantages of the enemy and us, and it can narrow this geographical gap as much as possible.
Of course, this tactic may only be a stupid method for the US military that only knows how to use aircraft and artillery, but as the US military code says: if a stupid method is useful on the battlefield, then it is the best method.
At this time, this method was effective, after the trench entered the distance of 40 meters, the soldiers did not hesitate to throw the grenades at the Japanese defense line, and then the grenade exploded in front of the Japanese defense line like firecrackers set off during the Chinese New Year, and some even threw into the train car and exploded inside.
Of course, the fighters would not have launched an attack on the Japanese lines like this...... Although the distance was already very close at this time, and the grenade was blown up, the distance of forty meters was still too far for such a defensive line, and the Chinese army at this time did not need to take such a risk.
The trenches continued to advance layer by layer, but the movements of the soldiers were a little different...... They piled up all the earth they had dug out of the trenches to the side facing the Japanese troops, and so they formed trenches with one side high and one side low.
"What does that mean?" Wang Mazi, who saw this scene in the telescope, couldn't help but ask strangely.
But in fact, there is no need to answer at all, because the ensuing war quickly explained this:
The Japanese army waited for thousands of times, and they were afraid that this was the moment...... If the trenches are far away, then only the Chinese bomb them and they can't blow up the Chinese, although the grenade did not cause much damage to the Japanese army, and it can even be said that it cannot even destroy the fortifications much, but the taste of being bombed passively is still not comfortable.
But now, as the trenches get closer, the grenades of the Japanese can be thrown at the Chinese even if they are hiding in the train.
So with the order of Hida Daisa, a row of grenades flew to the direction of the Chinese soldiers.
But soon the Japanese discovered their helplessness...... Since the Chinese soldiers piled up the excavated earth on the side facing them, making the trenches high and low on one side, most of the grenades were blocked by the high soil. Even if some grenades managed to cross the terrain, they flew over the trenches to the other side because the trenches were so narrow.
To put it simply, the Japanese troops in the "train fortress" could not throw grenades into the trenches at all, and the Chinese soldiers in the trenches even ignored the explosion of the grenades outside.
"Well played!" Seeing this, Wang Mazi couldn't help laughing: "First battalion commander, this trick works!" The devil is out of line now! ”
The devil is really as bad as Wang Mazi said, but what makes the devil feel a little relieved is ...... The grenades of the Chinese army also seem to be helpless against their defensive lines, grenades are okay to blow people up, and sandbags to blow up train fortresses are useless.
But what the devil didn't expect was that there was another Chinese...... Just when the devil secretly rejoiced. Bamboo poles suddenly appeared in the trenches and stretched out towards the Japanese defense line, and at the end of the bamboo poles, there were explosive bags tied to the fuse.
So it was lively now, just listening to the chaotic sound of "boom", the devil's defense line was blown into chaos...... Grenades blow up sandbags are not powerful, explosives packs are another matter.
Before the devil could react to the explosion, a row of bamboo poles and a row of explosive bags followed...... Because the previous row of explosives bags had blown up the sandbags, this round of explosives bags blew up the Japanese soldiers in the "train fortress" screamed, especially the Japanese soldiers hiding in the carriages. After the iron car was blown up, it turned into pieces of sharp shrapnel and shot indiscriminately, and all the devils hiding inside were inserted into bloody hedgehogs.
Then the fighters shouted, and they drove into the train with Thomson submachine guns...... The fighters are based on the principle of "submachine guns plus grenades, melee money is not exchanged". Before the war, all the submachine guns were concentrated on the troops of one company, that is to say, the soldiers of the first company were handed, and when they rushed in, the train was full of the cheerful clatter of "Chicago typewriters", followed by the screams of the Japanese soldiers.
A line of defense was captured. Then the rest of the defense line was made in the same way, and by dawn the next day, the Japanese "train fortress" was almost cleared.
At this time, Zhang Chi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and finally took the railway station before the arrival of Japanese reinforcements...... Although at this time, Ba Mo has not been completely taken down. However, its defense system has basically collapsed, and now even if Japanese reinforcements arrive, they will not be able to return to heaven.
What Zhang Chi didn't know was that in fact, the Japanese reinforcements should have arrived last night, but they were inexplicably beaten by an expeditionary force that got lost in the jungle and suffered heavy casualties.
It was a reinforced company of the new 22nd Division...... At this time, the task of the new 22nd Division was to cut off the road and mountain road from Lashio and Mandalay to Bhamo. But cutting off the mountain roads is more troublesome, especially since the Chinese army itself is not familiar with these mountain roads, so once they get into the jungle, they often can't find the north.
One of the reinforced companies was dizzy and inserted into the side of the railway more than 100 miles away from Bamo, and happened to see a train full of Japanese troops slowly moving towards them...... The trains built by the British in Burma were narrow-gauge trains, with small locomotives and insufficient horsepower, and then full of Japanese troops and equipment, so their speed was even slower than running.
Also because of the slow speed of the train, this company was given time to prepare.
The company commander of this company is called Wang Suhao, and he is a well-known master in the army who dares to fight and kill, and when he fights, he often goes to the ...... indiscriminately Although it is dangerous to fight a war in this way, it can often be miraculous under this danger.
For example, this time, Wang Suhao didn't reconnoiter how many Japanese soldiers came in front of him...... That was the Japanese army of the entire two brigades of the 56th Division, and the ratio of enemy to enemy forces reached ten to one.
But Wang Suhao didn't care about this, their task was originally to block the Japanese reinforcements, and now the Japanese reinforcements are coming, and the railway is crooked, and there don't seem to be many devils in the dark.
So Wang Suhao no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered his subordinates to plant explosives and deploy firepower, and set up a pocket array on both sides of the railroad tracks. (To be continued.) )