Chapter 51: The Granary

This time, the Japanese army will suffer.

The Japanese army besieging Xujia Village was a brigade led by Nagahashi Yuren, and they could be said to have tried all the means they could think of for Xujia Village, especially the big banyan tree...... They attack during the day and at night, and sometimes they want to set off smoke bombs to ride the smoke in.

But all this was in vain, the Chinese were very well defended and always seemed to be able to calculate what the Japanese wanted to do.

The Japanese army released smoke bombs, and the Chinese took advantage of the smoke to lay mines in front of the banyan tree, and the Japanese soldiers braved the smoke to go in and were blown up by the mines, and then the Chinese machine guns fired a series of bullets towards the sound of mine explosions.

If the Japanese army sneaks up at night, the Chinese will hang grenades that have been opened on the branches and air roots, and the Japanese soldiers in the dark will not see these grenades at all, as long as they touch these air roots, those grenades will explode and blow up the Japanese army screaming for a long time, and this explosion can warn the Chinese, followed by a familiar rain of flares and bullets.

In the face of such a strong defense, Nagahashi knew that it would be more suitable to surround him and wait for the Chinese soldiers inside to run out of ammunition and food, but Nagahashi knew that this was impossible, because every day when the sky was shining, American transport planes would fly over Xujia Village and drop boxes of supplies down.

Therefore, Nagahashi Yuto is well aware that in the end it will only be the Japanese and not the Chinese who will have no ammunition.

The Wing Commander's response to Nagahashi's report was: "The Americans have transport planes, can't you just shoot them down?" ”

When he thought of this, Nagahashi Yuto couldn't help but laugh and cry, and the anti-aircraft firepower assigned to him was only an anti-aircraft machine gun, and the bullets were only a pitiful few hundred...... For this point, it is understandable that the Savage Mountain Road is not passable, and it is difficult to supply, and the supply of the Japanese army basically depends on the baggage team or the Burmese to carry it by mules, horses and even manpower, so of course there will not be too many anti-aircraft machine guns and bullets, if you add a few anti-aircraft machine guns. I'm afraid that the soldiers won't be able to get rifle bullets.

This is also one of the reasons why Nagahashi Yongren feels that he has not been able to capture Xujia Village...... The artillery shells in the hands of the Japanese army were also very limited, and with limited shells, it was impossible to blow up the big banyan tree with a rain of shells.

Yuto Nagahashi could not understand how with a few hundred rounds of ammunition from an anti-aircraft machine gun could do as the wing commander said, "Knock down the American transport plane!" ”?

In fact, Nagahashi's men did their best, and the anti-aircraft machine gun successfully damaged an American transport plane, which staggered back with black smoke on its left flank, and no transport plane appeared for three consecutive days.

How Long Bridge wished that the American transport planes would never show up, but he knew that it was an extravagant hope.

So he took advantage of this time to intensify his attack on Xujia Village, hoping to consume the Chinese's ammunition and take Xujia Village. But in the end, the Japanese army's supplies could not keep up, and they had to stop the attack.

"Alas!" Faced with this situation, Nagahashi couldn't help but sigh.

On the surface, it seems that the Japanese army surrounded the Chinese soldiers, but Nagahashi felt that the Chinese soldiers surrounded the Japanese troops outside from the inside.

At this moment, the signal soldier hurriedly ran in and reported: "Your Excellency Shaozuo, our warehouses in Ba Mo and Mandalay have been blown up by the enemy!" ”

"What?" Hearing this, Changqiao couldn't help but be surprised, almost all of Lingbang's supplies were transported from the two directions of Ba Mo and Mandalay. The warehouses in these two places were blown up, which meant that Lingbang could not get more supplies.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the order to come down: "From now on, the soldiers' rations will be halved!" ”

Long Bridge could only respond with a "yes", and he did not dare to complain or oppose at all, let alone propose a retreat, because that would be regarded as "weakness" and "shame".

But Nagahashi understood what this meant, and the halving of the ration meant that the rice ball was reduced from one rice ball per day to half a rice ball...... How can soldiers fight like this? Do you really let them graze?

Nagahashi didn't dare to object, and his subordinates were different.

The Japanese soldiers expressed their dissatisfaction to Nagahashi: "I was so hungry that I didn't even have the strength to hold a gun." Can you still fight? ”

"If this continues, we will not die under the guns of the Chinese, but will be starved to death!"

There were even many soldiers who opposed another attack on Xujia Village on the grounds that they did not see the slightest hope of taking it...... This was never seen before among Japanese soldiers. Especially in the 18th Division, which is called the elite.

Long Bridge could only shout to the soldiers: "Since you don't attack, then there is no need for rations, leave your rations for those who are willing to attack!" ”

As the saying goes, "there must be brave men under heavy rewards", so there are really soldiers who are willing to attack. But their demand was to send them double rations first.

This request was reasonable, because no one knew if he would be able to come back alive to get the double ration, and Nagahashi had no reason to refuse.

As soon as the soldiers got this double ration...... In fact, it is a rice ball. I didn't keep all of them, I ate them in a few bites, and then I rushed towards Xujia Village with my gun, but such a charge was quickly defeated.

Even if the soldiers died on the battlefield, the soldiers who came back alive were also frustrated, because they had eaten their rations too early and were going to starve for the rest of the day.

At this time, news came from the front that although the offensive did not make much progress, it still captured a corner of Xujia Village, and this corner is said to be the underground granary of the Chinese.

The excited Japanese soldiers rushed to take a look...... Where is the underground granary, but the field toilet built by the Chinese.

In the past, there were no toilets in the Chinese army, but they were solved by finding a random place, and they were used to wipe their cheeks with leaves, lumps of dirt or branches, but after Sun Brabang's training, they were "civilized" at the request of American instructors.

The reason why this field toilet was considered by the Japanese army to be the granary of the Chinese was because several soldiers were eating when this place was captured, and these meals were poured into the dung pit before they could be taken away, so the white rice was sprinkled like stars on the yellow dung.

The hungry Japanese soldiers would take care of this, take out the rice from the dung pit, wash it in the rainwater next to it, and stuff it into their mouths, and other Japanese soldiers followed suit. (To be continued.) )

PS: Friendly recommendation: "Usurpation of Qin" Yun Yue fell into the abyss, but came to another world. In the face of the Warring States two thousand years ago, what should Yun Yue do? He was confused......

King Huiwen is a Ming monarch, and Lian Po is a general with a small belly. Prince Dan is so cowardly, Qin Shi Huang is a black-bellied man...... The living environment of the Warring States is too poor, but Yun Yue still mixes quite well.