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Chapter 1006: The Battle of Western Yunnan (3)

More than 7,000 officers and men of the Second Security Division of the Yunnan Army took the lead in rushing into the enemy formation on the left flank, and groups of soldiers who rushed in front were shot and fell. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Where have the officers and men of the 1st Division of the Burmese Army, who are short in stature and dark skin, ever seen such a deadly style of fighting? Before the dozen or so machine guns hurriedly erected in the roar of their superiors and British instructors had no time to change their magazines, they were covered by a rain of bullets and "smit" smoking grenades, explosions and wails came one after another, and the stumps and severed arms rose into the air in the smoke and firelight.

In the blink of an eye, the Burmese 1st Division, whose position had fallen, no longer had the slightest order and courage to resist, hundreds of officers and soldiers were frightened in front of the earth-shattering roar and the black pressure that broke through the gunsmoke, the infantry regiment in the center of the left flank was the first to lose control, abandoned the formation and fled, the surrounding Burmese troops turned around and ran away when they saw this, and thousands of frightened routs smashed through the second blocking position that the British advisers had managed to organize, and a very light and heavy machine gun that was hastily erected was smashed into the muddy pool. As more and more officers and men fled, and became more and more dense, the firing position of the mortar battalion, which had just been set up more than 200 meters behind the position, was once again smashed into a mess by the rout, and more than half of the Burmese officers and men threw away their heavy and slippery weapons in the frenzy, and they quickly spread backwards like a flood that burst the embankment.

The fall of the position of the 1st Burmese Division soon affected the two main regiments of the 5th Burmese Division in the center, and the Burmese army in the center, which had already withstood the fierce impact of the 3rd Security Division of the Yunnan Army, immediately fell into the crisis of being attacked by the enemy both in the front and in the lower ribs, and the commander of the 5th Burmese Division, Wu Tuwei, saw that he did not have time to ask the British commander Kent at the rear command post, and left first after giving the order to retreat.

The commander of the 3rd Security Division of the Yunnan Army, without waiting for the commander Zhan Huanqi, who was on the front line, to give an order, decisively ordered the two regiments under his command to stop the pursuit of the rout in the middle road, quickly turn around, and go straight to the diagonal rear of the enemy's left flank position, and issued a death order to block the retreat of more than 4,000 enemies in the enemy's left flank position, and together with the brothers of the 1st Division who had lost Ruili and covered the important places, completely annihilated this stubborn enemy of the Burmese army.

The drizzle rain did not stop, and on the four-kilometer battlefield where the sound of gunfire and explosions continued endlessly, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, the hot mist was steaming, the misty mountains in the distance appeared and disappeared from time to time, and the towering mountain peaks twisted and shook in the fog from time to time, Zhan Huanqi and Fang Pengxiang on the high ground of the front-line command post put down their binoculars in vain, they could not see the battle scene two hundred meters away at all, and could only judge the progress of the counterattack of the main force of the three roads through the intensity of the guns and shouts. A group of communications staff officers in the bunker behind him shouted loudly into the telephone, and one by one the battle reports and orders were transmitted to the headquarters in Longling City, and then from the headquarters to every unit in the entire western Yunnan theater.

At 10:25 a.m., the sound of gunfire on the Mangling cliff was bursting and the hot mist was filling, and Liang Ziyan's detachment, which had received the order to go all out to block the reinforcements from Luxi, had already carried out a 15-minute strike, and the accurate marksmanship and condescending grenades thrown by the special officers and men had formed a tremendous lethality to the two regiments of enemy troops reinforcing Longling.

The most fatal thing is that one grenade after another is dropped from the cliff at a height of more than 150 meters, and before it lands, it explodes above the head of the dense Burmese army, and the lethality produced by the flash shrapnel and the huge explosion is no less than the power of a cannonball, and the narrow road from the cliff to the bank of the Mangshi River is densely packed with dead corpses and dying wounded soldiers, and two burning trucks block most of the road, the ammunition loaded on the car began to emit sporadic explosions.

Liang Ziyan on the top of the mountain saw this, and shouted loudly in fright, more than 70 brothers just retracted to the inner side of the mountain, and immediately at the foot of the mountain came two earth-shattering and violent explosions, and the smoke that burst up clashed under the impact of the blazing pillar of fire, and went straight to the sky, and the brothers who were prostrate on the top of the mountain only felt that the sky was shaking, and their ears roared, followed by the heat wave that was coming with a loud noise, and instantly dried and ignited the damp grass and trees along the edge of the cliff, and even the heavy rain curtain was reversed by the impact of this huge explosion energy. When the raindrops fell on the earth again, they burned like boiling water.

"Sir, more than 300 enemy troops began to make a detour to rush to the high post in the southwest, and it is estimated that our retreat will be blocked within ten minutes, we can't resist it!"

The sentry on the flank observation mission rushed to Liang Ziyan's side, his scorched face and eyebrows curled.

"What-"

Liang Ziyan sat up straight, grabbed the sentry brother's hand, and asked loudly.

The sentry was so anxious that he danced with his hands, shouting and gesturing for a long time, only to realize that he couldn't hear what Liang Ziyan was talking about, and could only judge the general question Liang Ziyan asked from his mouth.

In a hurry, the sentry suddenly pulled Liang Ziyan up from the ground, pointed to the enemy who was retreating from the west, and then pointed to the high post in the southwest, trembling and making a gesture of circling up, and finally used the special gesture of the special forces to tell Liang Ziyan that there were more than 300 people trying to go around the flank.

Liang Ziyan immediately understood, immediately pulled up the sentry, pulled up the brothers who were prostrate on the ground one by one, and decisively made an order to retreat immediately, more than 70 people came to their senses, quickly packed up their weapons and ammunition, followed behind the sentry, and quickly retreated to the southeast of the mountain, and when they turned the mountainside, they finally saw a group of enemies rushing to the half-slope two hundred meters away from the southwest.

The machine gunner did not need to be greeted by Liang Ziyan, quickly searched for the firing position, and began to launch suppressive fire on the panting enemy, while Liang Ziyan led the brothers to quickly rush through the 30-meter mountain road exposed to the enemy's sight, and soon joined the four guides who remained on the high cliff.

Five minutes later, the three machine gunners successfully caught up with the team, and the whole detachment continued to gallop forward for three kilometers, only to find that when they stopped to rest, they found that the four Wa guides who were not afraid of poisonous snakes and beasts and torrents were all frightened, and the two older guides looked back frequently with heavy breath, and their bodies and two sturdy legs were still shaking. The special forces members who had just fought a battle were amused, and when they found that the awesome guides were also deflated, they couldn't help but laugh after looking at each other for a while.

10:50 a.m., south of Wan Town.

In the dense forest on the slope of a low hill, Jiao Guangxu, who led the independent brigade of the 26th Army in his capacity as chief of staff of the Southern Yunnan Garrison Command, was already soaking wet, as if they had just been fished out of the water like the 4,600 brothers who were crawling at the foot of the mountain in extreme disguise.

The newly formed Independent Brigade of the 26th Army had three infantry regiments of 1,400 men, plus an engineer battalion and a baggage company, forming Jiao Guangxu's reinforcement of the western Yunnan battlefield. It was precisely with this experienced engineer battalion with extremely amazing combat effectiveness that Jiao Guangxu's independent brigade arrived at the ambush point designated by the former enemy headquarters in western Yunnan ahead of schedule when each brother had almost doubled the normal load.

Through the telescope, you can roughly see the outlines of the British and Burmese officers and soldiers guarding the two ends of this border bridge, and above the temporary sandbags at the bridgehead on both sides, a yellow-green canopy has been erected, and a few machine guns under the canopy are black, and you can only see a rough idea, and it is impossible to observe the enemy headquarters of the Qiaobei Customs and the movement of the enemy troops in the town that Zhan Huanqi has set up for less than a year.

Jiao Guangxu looked at the Swiss waterproof watch on his stout wrist with some anxiety, slid slightly to the back, turned sideways and asked the chief of staff in a low voice:

"Lao Tian, have you been contacted by the Anjin Brigade?"

"No, I guess it will take a few minutes to go, and the three radio stations are already running, so I can't miss it. However, from the instructions sent by the enemy headquarters in front of Longling, it can be inferred that the Longling battlefield is almost over, and the Anglo-Burmese coalition forces are rapidly retreating westward, and the command headquarters judges that the main force of the enemy will retreat to Luxi before about three o'clock in the afternoon, but it is not yet known what the specific results are. ”

Tian Daonan, a native of Baoqing, Hunan, who was only 27 years old this year, was transferred from the noncommissioned officer school last year to serve as an operational staff officer of the southern Yunnan garrison unit, and was promoted to deputy chief of staff of the garrison division a month ago.

Jiao Guangxu smiled happily: "The record will never be small, you don't want to think about it, Chief Zhan has retreated and retreated again and again in the past few days, and the people of the whole country have scolded his mother, can he not be angry in his heart?" There are also the brothers of the security division of the Yunnan army, they have never served our Anjia army in several officer exchanges, and this time they were chased by the British and the little Burmese army of Heibulaji, so their shoes fell off, can they not fight hard in the counterattack? Wait and see, there will be good news soon! ”

"Lao Jiao, don't laugh yet, think about how to fight later, there is an infantry regiment of the British army and a transport regiment of the Burmese army in Wan Town, and the Qian Army Assault Brigade led by Brother Yi Fang is only responsible for eliminating the enemy army in the Nanzha Bridge area and helping us block the enemy who is coming back from the east of Wan Town, therefore, we must take Wan Town within an hour, and then we have to build a position in the west of Wan Town to prevent enemy reinforcements in the direction of Ruili, not a little slow, take a step back and say, even if there is no accident, you don't want to let Brother Qian Jun see the joke, right?"

Tian Daonan quietly used the radical method, he knew that there was only one way to fight this battle at the moment, and that was to be fast and ruthless!

The communications staff officer quietly arrived: "Report, Chief An Jin has called, the special brigade will raid the rear headquarters of the enemy army in Ruili at ten o'clock at eleven o'clock." ”

"Great! Pass my order, the mortar battalion is ready to fire! The 1st and 3rd regiments are ready for assault, and the 2nd regiment must occupy the south bank of the Wanmachi River for me with all their strength after the cannon fires, and cover the assault regiment with fierce fire to kill the bridge! Jiao Guangxu ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

At 11:10 a.m., 36 mortars, large and small, roared in unison, and the enemy fortifications on both sides of the Kugu Bridge fell apart in the blink of an eye under the intense artillery fire.

The sound of artillery did not stop, and the officers and men of the two regiments of Anjia Army hidden under the low mountain jumped up, roared the earth-shattering killing sound, and rushed towards the Kutani Bridge, which was full of free and blazing fire.