"Send reinforcements now!" After receiving the information, Stilwell gave an order: "Especially the junction of several battalions, do not allow the enemy to penetrate into the rear!" ”

"Yes!" Chief Instructor Hill's face was very ugly, but he still did as he was ordered.

"You're right, General!" Stilwell shook Chen Shanguo's hand and said, "I'm sorry for my previous remarks, if it weren't for your insistence, the new First Division would probably have to pay an extremely heavy price!" ”

"It's not my credit!" Chen Shanguo replied: "In fact, the Chinese officers and soldiers fighting on the front line have long had such a judgment, but no one in the US military instructors believes them. Therefore, as the commander of the new 1st Division, I think it is necessary for General Stilwell to improve this command environment, and the American instructors should listen more to the opinions of the Chinese officers and soldiers! ”

"Hmm!" Stilwell nodded thoughtfully: "I agree with you, although the American instructors have richer military knowledge, they know too little about the Japanese, they shouldn't be so conceited!" ”

Of course, Stilwell did not realize at this time that his assumption that the American instructors had a wealth of military knowledge was just wishful thinking, or that this military knowledge was simply not applicable to the Burma battlefield...... The U.S. military had never fought a decent battle in the jungle, including in Vietnam in modern times, and they were simply not qualified to command a Chinese army that had been fighting the Japanese for several years and had fought in the jungle.

Stilwell sent reinforcements from the New 2nd Regiment, whose mission was to fill the gap between the three battalions of the New 1st Regiment. The distribution of troops was as follows: 1 battalion to reinforce the left flank, 2 battalions to reinforce the right flank, and 3 battalions to Lingbang to cooperate with the operation of the two flanks.

But the reinforcements were soon blocked by small Japanese forces and could not move forward...... This forced Stilwell to order three battalions to take over the defense of Lingbang and send a new regiment and one battalion to the rescue.

"Now, let me tell you about the situation we are facing!" After receiving the order, Major Walker immediately called a meeting of the cadres of the first battalion: "The situation is like this, according to the information we have just received, the Japanese army in the Lingbang area is two wings, with a total strength of at least 7,000 people!" ”

These words immediately caused the officers in the conference room to let out a burst of exclamation, and Pete bumped his elbow against Zhang Chi beside him, and said in a low voice, "Look. We were right, it made him a fool, and if he had considered our opinion earlier, he wouldn't be where he is now! ”

Walker obviously knew this too, so he didn't want to say anything more about it, and after clearing his throat, he pointed to the map and continued: "The difficulty we have now is that the junction between the two battalions has been infiltrated by the Japanese, which has made our battalions unable to cooperate and fight on their own. Here and here......"

Walker pointed to two points on the map and said: "Here are our two companies, they were lucky to block the Japanese attack so that the Japanese army could not penetrate deep into our defense line to expand the victory, but they were also exhausted under the siege of the Japanese army, and our reinforcements were blocked by the Japanese army...... So, the task of reinforcing these two positions is up to us. Any questions? ”

None of the officers spoke, because the task was already clear, that is, to reinforce these two positions.

But Zhang Chi asked: "I want to know how the Japanese army blocked our reinforcements......"

This stopped Walker, because he didn't know the details.

It can also be seen from one point that this kind of Sino-US joint command system is often not comprehensive due to differences in language or customs.

After thinking about it, Walker replied, "You don't need to know this, you just need to kick the Japanese in the ass!" ”

"No!" Zhang Chi insisted, "I need to know this, because we are likely to encounter the same difficulties on the way to the goal!" ”

"Yes, Major!" "If we didn't know this, we'd probably make the same mistake as the reinforcements," Pitt chimed in. This will increase unnecessary casualties! ”

The surrounding officers quickly agreed, even the American instructors.

In desperation, Walker walked to the walkie-talkie, and it wasn't long before he came back and said, "Okay! It's like this, the Japanese will hide themselves in the trees. Our reinforcements have not even discovered the enemy's hideout after a squad or two squads have been killed or wounded! It is indeed possible that this is a problem that we are all facing...... As for how to solve it, you can think about it on the way to the march! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but gasp, this is indeed a problem, Japanese snipers like to hide in trees...... This is something that has been heard in modern times. And in order to shoot more conveniently, Japanese snipers would even tie themselves to trees.

The U.S. military's way of dealing with these Japanese snipers was to use the Bazooka bazooka to blow the trees to pieces...... The US military has ammunition, and they can afford to fight such a war.

But the problem is that the first use of the Bazooka bazooka was in November of the year '42. There are still a few months to go, which means that even the US military is not equipped yet, let alone the expeditionary force.

So dealing with Japanese snipers will become a problem.

But just like Walker said, even if Zhang Chi didn't think of a countermeasure, he had to embark on the road of marching.

The mission of the first company was to reinforce the village of Xujia, which was located on the right flank of Lingbang, which was originally a village living in the Savage Mountains, and because of its important terrain, it was used as a garrison for the new corps.

According to the report of Company Commander Li, who defended Xujia Village, they were attacked by at least five times the strength of the Japanese army, and after killing and wounding hundreds of Japanese soldiers, they finally blocked the Japanese charge.

This made Zhang Chi a little surprised, you must know that they are a recruit company, although they are equipped with American-style equipment and have more than two months of training in Sun Babbang, but after all, they have never been on the battlefield and have no combat experience, but they can compete with five times as many elite troops of the Japanese army, which can not but be said to be a miracle.

Later, in retrospect, Zhang Chi felt that there were factors such as geographical advantages and the quality of soldiers, especially the quality of soldiers...... The source of the expeditionary force is different from that of other troops, most of the soldiers of other troops are just to eat, and there are even many soldiers who are tied up by Lazhuangding, so they naturally have no will to fight and take life first.

However, this is not the case with the source of soldiers of the expeditionary force, they are all students who took the initiative to join the army under the call of ****** "every inch of rivers and mountains, every inch of blood, 100,000 young people and 100,000 troops".

From this point of view, it is understandable that these recruits will have such outstanding performances as soon as they enter the battlefield. (To be continued.) )