As a result, the new 22nd Division fought for more than ten days, and after paying a large number of casualties, no one was defeated, so Patno had to order the new 1st Division to go up.

The new regiment was in charge of the east side of Ba Mo, and Wang Mazi was not in a hurry to make a move, but an order to call Zhang Chi to a hidden place close to the front line.

"Tuanza!" Zhang Chi carried a sniper rifle and ran all the way along the traffic trench to Wang Mazi's side.

At this time, Wang Mazi was holding a telescope to observe the direction of the Japanese army under the cover of the grass, turned his head and saw Zhang Chi coming up, and then raised his head in the direction of Ba Mo, and said: "Look!" ”

"Yes!" While answering, Zhang Chi put the sniper rifle on the position, observing the Japanese defense line through the sniper scope.

The Japanese defense was very strategic, most of its use of civilian houses and the sides of the street to build strong bunkers, important strongholds are connected by crawling communication trenches, the location of heavy weapons are selected in the parts of the communication trenches and the corners of civilian houses and the entrance and exit of the road, only a few defenders can be seen on the position, it is obvious that most of its troops are in the bunkers to recuperate, only waiting for the Sino-US coalition artillery bombardment before coming out to block our army.

"See what?" Wang Mazi asked.

"Yankee's tactics don't work!" Zhang Chi replied without thinking about it.

"What's the way to deal with it?" Wang Mazi asked.

This was already expected by Zhang Chi, and Wang Mazi asked him not to come up to see the enemy, but to ask him to come up with a way.

After a pause, Zhang Chi withdrew his rifle and retracted his position, and said in a low voice: "Tuanza, do you really hope to come up with a way to defeat the devil?" ”

"What are you talking about?" Wang Mazi followed and sat back in the trench and replied angrily: "Who doesn't want to defeat the devil?" Don't you see that so many brothers die every day?! ”

Zhang Chi handed Wang Mazi a cigarette and said, "If we win the battle, what will happen?" ”

"What else?" Wang Mazi replied: "Keep fighting!" ”

"Keep going...... And then let the Yankees blindly command, and after losing the war, they will also shift the responsibility to us? ”

Zhang Chi is not empty talk, Patno's evaluation of the new 22nd Division's failure to defeat Bamo for more than ten days is: "The combat is not effective. Jun Xun is not moving! This has brought the relationship between Chinese and American officers, who are already not on good terms, to a freezing point.

"What do you mean......" Wang Mazi looked around cautiously.

"If we succeed in attacking Ba Mo now, then the credit goes to the Yankees!" Zhang Chi said: "And the charge of the new 22nd Division's ineffective combat is confirmed!" ”

Wang Mazi nodded, the Yankees at this time were indeed like Zhang Chi said, defeating the Chinese soldiers who did not obey the command and were not brave enough, and when they won the battle, they would say: "Look." Once again, the Chinese soldiers under my command won the victory! ”

"But when is that going to be?" Wang Mazi asked with some hesitation: "This is the fate of our brothers!" ”

"So we don't have to attack so hard!" Zhang Chi replied: "Let's fully carry forward the set that the Yankees taught the roadmen, hit a cannonball at a few people, and then hit a cannonball at a few people!" ”

After a pause, Wang Mazi nodded and said, "You're right, if the Yankees continue to command like this, I don't know how many brothers will be killed in the future." There is an opportunity in front of us, if the Yankees do not change the command of the Chinese, we will let these eight Mo never be able to fight! ”

This may be the voice of all Chinese soldiers in Burma.

So. To a certain extent, there is some truth in what Patno said, "If the combat is ineffective, the commander will not advance", because at this time, the Chinese army had lost part of its morale under the command and restraint of American instructors.

But to be honest, it is really no wonder that the Chinese Expeditionary Force is a Chinese expeditionary force, because even if a Chinese officer is as blind as an American officer and only takes the credit for his own and pushes the fault to his subordinates, it will also undermine the morale and enthusiasm of the soldiers.

More importantly, the Galahad troops at this time were even more unbearable, and as a special forces of the US military, he was not only a problem of losing morale. It is not even an exaggeration to describe it with the word "collapse".

The reason for this is that the Galahad forces totaled only more than 2,000 people who participated in the campaign. More than 290 people died in the battle, and more than 980 were sick and wounded...... That is to say, only a few hundred of the 2,000-strong troops are still in combat, and this combat effectiveness can only be said to be "still there".

The reason for this is that the US soldiers have a habit of "rotational warfare," that is, when the troops fight on the front line for a certain period of time, such as three months, then no matter how far the battle goes, another unit will replace them and then withdraw to the rear to enjoy a period of time.

The time for the Galahad forces to turn the battle was long gone. However, Stilwell, in order to be able to play a role in the Battle of Ba Mo and that there were no other American troops to "take turns to fight", forced them to continue fighting.

The Galahad forces were not very resistant in the first place, after all, they were special forces, and it was not for me to be sorry if they fought a little longer than other troops. More importantly, many soldiers in the Galahad force thought that the defeat of Ba Mo was a matter of easy capture. They could also end their "trip to Myanmar" with a beautiful victory.

What's more, Stilwell also promised the Galahad troops that as long as they took Bamo, they would be allowed to withdraw to the second line to rest.

Who would have thought that the expected Ba Mo would turn into a protracted stalemate, so this far exceeded the psychological expectations of the Galahad troops, and it is not surprising that it would collapse like this.

This once made Stilwell very annoyed, because the Chinese army has never had any "holidays", they have been fighting on the battlefield much longer than the Galahad troops, the Chinese army not only did not complain but also maintained a strong combat effectiveness, and Galahad, as a special force of the US army, Galahad, who was originally used to set an example for China, collapsed!

So Stilwell even used sticks to drive the American soldiers who were still in the hospital to the battlefield, which also made the American soldiers resentful of Stilwell, and laid the groundwork for the subsequent crisis.

Since the Yankees' own troops, as well as special forces, have collapsed like this, isn't it normal for the Chinese troops to "fight ineffectively and fail to advance"?! Moreover, a large part of the reason for the "ineffective operation" of the Chinese troops is also caused by the blind command of US officers.

"Will the Yankees hand over command?" Wang Mazi asked.

"Yes!" Zhang Chi replied.

He was very confident in this, because it was under this circumstance that Stilwell had no choice but to hand over the command to the Chinese officers, and to the Chinese officers whom he did not trust. (To be continued.) )