Chapter 124: The Battle of Bago (3)
Zhang Chi led his troops to attack the airfield first under the cover of tanks.
But it's not so much about attacking as it is about receiving...... There was no one at the huge airport except for a few dilapidated planes, and it was only when the soldiers broke into a few buildings next to the airport that they found dozens of Burmese covered in blood.
"Hands up!" Zhang Chi shouted at the Burmese because he saw that several of them were still holding the 38 big cover in their hands.
"Comrade!" The Burmese raised their hands one by one, and at the same time asked Zhang Chi, "Are you Chinese?" Let's fight the Japanese together......"
"What about the Japanese?" Zhang Chi asked.
The Burmese slowly got out of the way, and Xiao Zhejiang took a flashlight to shine, and several bloody corpses appeared in front of Zhang Chi and the soldiers.
"They've been killed by us!" The first Burmese looked at Zhang Chi with a plea in his tone: "We...... Let's fight the Japanese! ”
It turned out that these Burmese were coolies who were caught by the Japanese army at the airport, and until the war, the Japanese army has been seriously short of labor, so although the airport is a military location, they still have to grab some coolies to go to the airport to do some work such as carrying gasoline and parts.
With the cruelty of the Japanese army, they usually do not regard these Burmese coolies as human beings at all, these coolies work every day without saying anything without hunger, and they are beaten by the Japanese at every turn and even lose their lives, so the Burmese coolies all hate the Japanese army to the core, and when they heard the sound of guns and saw the Japanese panicked, they knew that maybe the Chinese had called, so they rushed to kill the dozen Japanese soldiers guarding the airport.
Although this is a trivial matter, Zhang Chi knows that it is fortunate that there is a rebellion of these Burmese coolies, otherwise, although there are not many Japanese troops guarding the airport, they will still be able to detonate the gasoline stored in the airport...... It is true that the Yankees are not short of gasoline, but if they want to transport gasoline to Bago it is a different matter. If this were to be done, the US transport planes would have to brave the fire to transport a shipment of gasoline to Bago Airport, which would be difficult and dangerous, and would also waste valuable time and space.
But judging from the current situation, it is clear that the Japanese army has not had time to do this.
Sure enough, Zhang Chi and the others, under the guidance of Burmese coolies, soon found the underground warehouse of the Japanese army, where piles of gasoline and ammunition and supplies waiting to be transported to the front line were piled up.
"If only you came a month earlier!" The Burmese told Zhang Chi: "A month ago, there were still many planes at this airport, and then they all flew away one by one......
Zhang Chi nodded, needless to say where those planes flew. Of course, it was to fly in the direction of Imphal to carry out the so-called "U plan".
Compared with the new regiment that captured the airfield so smoothly, the troops attacking the Japanese defense line can be described as difficult.
This was mainly due to the fact that the Japanese army cleverly dispersed a force into the residential areas of Bago Town while laying out the defensive line, and these Japanese troops scattered into the residential areas even disguised themselves as Burmese...... Asians all look similar, and if you change your attire, it's hard to tell whether the other person is Japanese or Burmese.
Bago is the fourth largest city in Myanmar, with the largest population in Yangon, Mandalay and Naypyidaw.
What's more, because they didn't know that the Chinese army would hit Bago so quickly, the Burmese people didn't have time to withdraw, and the Japanese artillery deliberately fired a volley of shells into the Bago city. So at this time, the town of Bago can be said to be chaotic, and the streets and alleys are full of Burmese people running around.
This gave the Japanese army a good hiding space, and the Japanese soldiers dressed as ordinary people were mixed in with the people, and no one recognized them, some of them hid in the people's homes, and some of them mixed in with the running Burmese people. They even remained silent when the Chinese army entered the city, until the Chinese army launched an attack on the Japanese army on the other side of the city, and then suddenly emerged from behind and launched an offensive.
This is actually a kind of infiltration warfare, only this time the Japanese army is infiltrating the common people rather than directly infiltrating the Chinese army.
From this point, we can also see the viciousness of the Japanese army. On the battlefield, they have no regard for the lives of the people...... However, this seems to be normal for the Japanese army, they are forced to be in a hurry, and they can even ignore the lives of their own people, not to mention the Burmese people in Bago. Exactly. It would be strange if they were concerned about the safety of the Burmese people.
This made the Chinese army very passive, on the one hand, they had to attack the Japanese line, and on the other hand, they had to be careful of the Burmese people in the city, because among these seemingly unconventional people, there might be a group of Japanese soldiers who suddenly shot at the Chinese army, or tanks were driving in the alley, and a "civilian" rushed up with explosives bags in the cold.
What surprised the Chinese army even more was that the Japanese army on the front was still fighting very tenaciously.
It should be said that at least one point Chen Shanguo guessed correctly, the Japanese army in front of him was indeed fighting hard to catch up, so it was very chaotic in command and coordination.
But sometimes chaos is an advantage......
If, because of the chaos, all units in the army are fighting separately or even running for their lives, that is certainly not a good thing. But this is not the case with the Japanese army, although they are chaotic, but all parts are rushing to the battlefield and fighting desperately with the Chinese army.
One of the reasons why they will show such a fighting spirit is that a considerable part of them are Japanese expatriates, whose families are in Yangon, and they know in their hearts that if they do not block these Chinese in front of them, then the next person to face the war is their family in Yangon.
So, although they don't have much military training, and even the rifles in their hands are worn out and repaired, and they will break down after firing a few bullets. But one by one, they hid in foxholes with explosive packets or anti-tank magnetic mines, just waiting for the tanks of the Chinese army to come up and detonate.
For the Chinese army, if the Japanese army is organized and commanded, it is fine, and the Chinese army will at least know where the Japanese defense line is, where the artillery fire should be fired, or where to attack.
But now, they didn't even know where the Japanese defense line was, and some of the high ground seemed to have been occupied by the Chinese army, but out of nowhere, a group of Japanese troops came out of nowhere to take it back.
In other words, it was the dispersal of the Japanese army that led to the dispersal of the Chinese army. This made the Chinese army, which was a regular army, extremely uncomfortable, and as a result, they attacked several times and retreated with heavy casualties. (To be continued.) )