Shojiro Iida was not happy at all at this time

"The report has just been issued to several other places, because on the side of the Malai, the Chinese troops have broken through the defensive line, and the entire Malay defensive line has lost its defensive significance. ordered, ordered them to build anti-tank fortifications, and now they are hurrying to repair them! A staff officer came to Shojiro Iida and said.

"Yo Xi!" Shojiro Iida heard it, nodded, and then fell silent again.

"Report, Commander Inada Shoichi sent a telegram, and now they are asking for reinforcements, and his troops have suffered heavy casualties!" A staff officer ran over with a telegram and said.

"What do I do to support him, the strength of the Marais Line is half of our strength in the whole of Mandalay, and now that they are fighting like this, do I dare to send more troops over to reinforce it? Tell him that when it gets dark, retreat on all fronts and retreat to different lines! Shojiro Iida said.

"Hey!" The staff officer left immediately.

"Report, telegram from the commander-in-chief, Yangon has once again mobilized 4 divisions to our side, let us hold on for 2 months!" Then another staff officer came.

"I see!" Shojiro Iida spoke.

The staff officer finished his report and left.

"Commander, it's time for us to arrange the defense line of Meiliao and Madeya, I think, Hu Bin is likely not to let the troops on the front line retreat, they have tank troops after all, if our troops leave the defense line, it is estimated that the casualties will be greater, and whether they can withdraw is really unknown!" The chief of staff next to him looked at Shojiro Iida and said.

"I know, but they must withdraw, otherwise, our troops are not enough, I thought that the Marais defense line could hold Hu Bin's troops for a month, but I didn't expect that they didn't hold a day.

The most important thing is that our air force is gone, Hu Bin will use the time when we have no air force support to violently attack our defensive positions, now it is attrition, we use the lives of the infantry to buy more time, new airfields are already being built, I think, as long as a week, we will be able to counterattack!

Therefore, those troops of Marais must be withdrawn! Otherwise, when it comes time for a counteroffensive, our troops may not be enough! "Shojiro Iida is very aware of the current situation, and he knows that without the support of the air force, their army alone may not be the opponent of China's forces.

Not to mention the rest, just reported that their Japanese tanks are not the opponents of Chinese tanks at all, and the Japanese troops have no way to face the Chinese tanks, so with the help of tanks, the Chinese troops attack faster!

"But, Commander, do you think Marlai's troops will be able to withdraw? We don't know the casualties over there yet, but there are still six or seven hours between now and dark, and the Chinese troops will definitely seize the time to storm our defensive line, and the casualties at that time are not something we can expect! The chief of staff looked at Shojiro Iida and said.

"Retreat now, then?" Shojiro Iida asked, looking up at him.

"I, I don't mean that, I mean, we have to find a way to suppress the attack speed of Hu Bin's troops, and we have to arrange the back line of defense, now Hu Bin's troops have assaulted Malai, if they directly attack Madya or Meiliao in the next step, then we Mandalay will be directly exposed to Hu Bin's troops.

In this case, Mandalay will be in danger, and I think that in the short term, our air force will not be able to support us! The chief of staff looked at him and said, he was not suggesting that Marais's troops should retreat now, but that he wanted to arrange the defensive line at the rear.

"I know that we have to arrange, and now our other defense lines are also strengthening the anti-tank defense line layout, but I know how long Hu Bin can give us?" Shojiro Iida said with a sigh.

On the side of Marais, the fighting continued, and now the Chinese troops had taken control of the initiative on the battlefield, and after the troops of the 231st and 233rd Divisions came over, the infantry of the Panzer Division and the infantry of the 99th Division were replaced and began to eat.

"Come on, the instant noodles are ready, there is bacon here, and pickles, come here and fight!" The soldiers of the cooking squad carried a large pot of noodles to the place where the soldiers rested.

When the soldiers heard this, they all stood up, and after the soldiers of the cooking class put the noodles into the bowls, the soldiers went directly to serve them, and then went to the side to pick pickles and bacon by themselves!

Then they went to the trench and ate directly, and some soldiers sat directly on the corpse of the devil, because there was really no place to stay, and it was quite unsafe to stay on the ground, and it was safer in the trench.

Those veterans were already familiar with such a scene, and they ate directly, while the recruits looked at the noodles, then looked at the corpses under their feet, and the smell of blood in their noses, and couldn't eat it at all.

"Find a clean place to eat, see that there is no air-raid shelter, go in and eat, it may be better!" When a squad leader saw that the recruits in his squad couldn't eat at all, he pointed to an air-raid shelter not far away with chopsticks and said to the recruit.

"Squad leader, I, I really can't eat! I've just vomited it all, and the sour water has been spit out! The soldier looked at his squad leader pleadingly.

"If you don't want to die, just give me something to eat, and you are willing to eat in such a place? Don't eat, how do you fight in the afternoon, you are here to play, you are here to fight, you have no physical strength, you have a fart fight, besides, if you don't eat, you want to die and become a starving ghost, go over there to eat, go quickly, dare to fall Lao Tzu and beat you to death! The squad leader's face turned cold and said to the recruits.

"Yes!" The recruits were very unhappy and walked to the air-raid shelter, there was nothing inside, the bodies of the devils were outside, and slowly, many recruits walked to the air-raid shelter and squatted inside to eat.

They don't dare not eat, if they don't eat, they won't have the physical strength to fight, and if they don't have the physical strength to fight, they will probably be killed by the devils, and those soldiers gritted their teeth and swallowed those noodles, and the meat didn't move at all, so they didn't dare to eat it. When they came out with the noodles, they handed the bowl to the squad leader.

"Eat the meat, this is a good thing, you have a lot of meat in our country, this is not something that the people themselves are reluctant to eat, and they sell it to our troops, eat it!" When the squad leader saw that the meat was still in the bowl, he immediately reprimanded the soldier.

"I, I, go in and eat!" The squad leader's eyes widened and he shouted at the fighter.

"What's going on!" At this time, the instructor came over.

"Instructor!" The squad leader straightened up.

"Why don't you eat meat, you can't eat it?" As soon as the instructor saw that the bacon in the soldier's bowl had not moved, he asked with a smile.

"Yes, I can't eat it!" The warrior bowed his head and nodded.

"If you can't eat, you have to eat, if you don't fight, you don't have meat to eat, you have to know, if you don't eat, many veterans will rush to eat, why do they want you to eat, because they know that there is oil and water in the stomach, in order to carry hunger, don't look at the fact that we can eat now, I don't know when we will eat at night, eat it, and you can last a while more at night!" The instructor smiled and looked at the recruit and said.

"Yes, I'll go!" The recruit turned and went inside the bomb shelter.

"You, you're still cold-faced and warm-hearted, can you say no?" The instructor looked at the squad leader and said.

"Hey, if you don't say you're an instructor, how can we say so much!" The squad leader looked at the instructor with a smile and said.

"Here's one!" The instructor handed him a cigarette, and the squad leader took it and lit it.

"Lao Sun was seriously injured and just sent back to the rear, your platoon has no platoon commander, now Lao Li takes over as the platoon commander, you temporarily serve as the deputy platoon commander and assist Lao Li to lead the troops!" The instructor said to the squad leader.

"Yes!" The squad leader straightened up.

"I'll leave it to you, I'm going to see other places, Made, this battle, I don't know when it will be, the devil is really ruthless enough, let the local recruits rush over!" The instructor patted the squad leader on the shoulder, sighed, and left. At this point, the recruit also came.

"Take it, point it!" The squad leader pulled a cigarette out of his pocket and handed it to the recruit.

"Squad leader, I won't!" The recruit looked at his squad leader and said.

"I can't smoke it, I can't let myself be smoked to death by the smell of fish, are you willing to smoke it?" The squad leader stuffed the recruit soldier and then gave him a box of matches.

"Oh!" The recruit heard it and nodded.

"Lao Zhou, the deputy platoon, are you going to be promoted?" A deputy squad leader from another squad in the same platoon walked over and said.

"Ha, let's live first, do you want to?" The squad leader smiled bitterly and said to the deputy squad leader.

"Yes, be careful, I guess it's still a fierce battle in the afternoon!" The deputy squad leader looked at him and said.

"You too, by the way, how is your squad leader Wang?" The squad leader called Lao Zhou asked the deputy squad leader.

"Phew, Made, didn't make it through, before being sent to the back hospital, left!" After the deputy squad leader finished speaking, he turned around and left, and when Lao Zhou heard it, he sighed in his heart, and then squatted down and sat there smoking.

The recruit squatted down as well.

"Listen to the veterans and do what they say, so that you can save your life!" Lao Zhou said to the recruit.

"I know, thank you, squad leader!" The recruit said.

"Thank you, I was also taught by the old squad leader back then, and now I am the company commander of the 3rd Company!" Lao Zhou smiled and said.

"Squad leader, when are we going to fight, it's been a morning this morning!" The recruit looked at Lao Zhou and asked.

"It's going to be up soon, we have to change the troops of the other two divisions to come down, and they also have to eat, when will they fight? I do not know! Lao Zhou shook his head and said. (To be continued.) )