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Chapter 1007: The Battle of Western Yunnan (4)

Under the sudden and rapid attack of the Anjia Army's *** Brigade, the Anglo-Burmese army in Wan Town was defeated because it could not organize effective resistance at all, and an infantry regiment of the British Lashio Brigade fled westward in a hurry, and a regiment of Burmese baggage troops faced annihilation before they had time to flee for their lives. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The officers and men of the Anjia Army, who have rich experience in street fighting and have special training for this, are equipped with a large number of submachine guns and grenades for this battle, and the officers and men of the first and third regiments of the first and third regiments of the brigade rushed across the wooden bridge reinforced by the British, and immediately divided into two ways, killing in the east and west of the town respectively, and the dense rain of bullets poured down on all the British and Burmese troops wearing yellow uniforms, and occasionally encountered the enemy resistance at the corner of the street, and more than a dozen grenades would fly over the building, and accurately fall to the enemy's firepower point and explode continuously. The sound of bursts of fire and grenade explosions echoed over the town as the howls of the enemy soldiers before they died and the loud echoes of the attacking soldiers.

The 2nd Regiment, which was tasked with fire support, saw that the enemy troops on the north bank had not organized any resistance at all, and immediately joined the whole town in searching for the remnants of the enemy, while the engineer battalion and the brothers of the baggage company who arrived later firmly occupied the north and south banks of the Kutani Bridge.

At the same time, more than 5,000 officers and men of the Guizhou Assault Brigade in the east quietly sneaked out of the dense forests of the mountain col and launched an indomitable surprise attack on the 11th Regiment of the Burmese Army, which was guarding the Nanzha Bridge, a major communication route, and it took only 20 minutes to achieve the record of destroying more than 600 enemies and capturing more than 300 prisoners, seizing a large amount of weapons and equipment and three trucks, and then began to build a blocking line and a firepower point in the south of the bridge, thus shouldering the heavy task of making every effort to block the fleeing enemy from Luxi and retreating westward. The commander of the Burmese regiment and more than 40 remnants fled into the mountains to the north in a panic, and the brothers of the special battalion of the assault brigade, under the leadership of local villagers, pursued closely, and in any case, they had to wipe out all the Burmese troops who had looted and done all kinds of evil.

Liu Yifang led more than a dozen regimental and battalion commanders and guard companies to begin screening and interrogating the prisoners, and three panicked British advisers were ordered to be held in solitary confinement.

The surrounding villagers who were killed knew that their team had recovered the town and the Nanzha Bridge, and killed hundreds of Burmese soldiers, and even more prisoners, and under the excitement, groups of people gathered to help the old and the young, and the Burmese officers and soldiers who had been fighting many evils in the past two days were now frightened, and under the identification of the angry villagers, they were pulled out by the officers and soldiers of the angry assault brigade, and they were shot on the spot without saying a word, and in less than half an hour, only more than 120 of the more than 370 prisoners remained, and under the guns of the soldiers, they began to build fortifications diligently. The slightest resistance will be exchanged for a violent beating that will cut the head and cover the brain. Items such as badges, daggers, pistols and bush machetes specially made for them by the British became souvenirs that soldiers were keen to collect.

The battle under the city of Longling in the east has long been over, and the angry soldiers of the Yunnan Army Security Division were surprised to find that there was not a single prisoner left in this battle, and the scorched earth all over the mountains and fields was full of corpses of British and Burmese soldiers, and the wounded enemy soldiers who fell to the ground and were barely breathing were quickly replenished, and a rough calculation was made up of more than 6,400 enemy soldiers in this battle, of which more than 600 corpses of British officers and soldiers were killed, and the captured guns and ammunition were piled up.

Zhan Huanqi ordered the engineer battalions of the two divisions to stay behind to clean up the battlefield, count out the corpses of the British soldiers, and bury them under two earthen slopes in the northwest of the city, and the corpses of the Burmese soldiers everywhere were thrown directly into the trenches they dug themselves to fill in the soil, and the main force with high morale continued to pursue westward, striving to join up with the officers and men of the second and third divisions in front before nightfall, and launch a fierce attack on the main force of the British and Burmese troops fleeing to Luxi, absolutely not leaving the enemy the slightest respite.

The key point of the battle, Ruili City, has been gunfire at this time, chaotic, from the south suddenly appeared from the elite of the Anjin Special Brigade, with lightning speed over the loosely guarded Hebo Ferry, straight to the city of the British-Burmese Allied Command, deputy captain Xiao Yifu led two detachments, as a cover and fire suppression task along the way, Chief of Staff Pei Rongguang led a detachment to stay at the ferry, An Jin personally led two detachments to the Anglo-Burmese Allied Army Headquarters, almost no enemy army can withstand the fierce assault of the special elite, An Jin led his troops to rush to the gate of the headquarters, the guard unit of a company of the British army had just begun to assemble, the temporary fortifications and light and heavy machine guns to defend the headquarters had not yet been erected, and under the three-way frenzied blows of more than 150 well-trained special elite guns and grenades and submachine guns, the corpses were piled up, and the assault detachment barely encountered decent resistance, so it crashed headlong into the bank gate, raised its guns and fired mercilessly at all movable targets.

The center of the Anglo-Burmese coalition army responsible for the overall battlefield command is located in the bank building in the city, the three-story European-style building has been cleaned up by the British army, countless accounts and documents have been burned, and the inventory of more than 200,000 silver dollars and more than 100,000 Southwest Bank banknotes have been transported back to the rear by the British army.

An Jin led an assault team to rush to the second floor with blood all over the ground, glanced around, walked a few steps to the British colonel who was shouting, raised his hand and slapped him twice, beat the colonel to the ground, spit out a few teeth and fainted. The dozen or so British officers around looked at An Jin, who was covered in oil paint and dressed like a soldier, with great fear, and was silent, and no one dared to claim his rights with any "international convention".

Ten minutes later, a British army guard regiment stationed in the West Fuxing Barracks in Ruili City, and a brigade of British and Burmese troops stationed at the throat in the east of the city hurried to the rescue, and found that the burning building was no longer accessible, and there were British corpses inside and outside the bank, and wounded soldiers tossing and turning in pain under the charred walls of the building and beside the destroyed outposts abounded.

The commander of the British regiment grabbed a wounded soldier and asked his head, let go of his hand and shouted and rushed to the Hembo ferry in the south of the city, countless angry British officers and soldiers followed desperately, the headquarters was attacked in broad daylight, and the great shame of more than 30 lieutenant officers and a brigadier general was snatched away, like a scorching flame, burning in the hearts of every British officer and soldier.

When they were about 500 meters away from the ferry, a dense group of mortar shells suddenly whistled and exploded in the crowd of more than 2,000 British soldiers, and the stumps and severed arms flew into the air along with the smoke of gunpowder, and the walls, doors and windows on both sides of the street were immediately splashed with blood and minced meat.

When more than 2,000 well-trained British officers and soldiers stubbornly got up from the ground, a series of explosions were heard again in the direction of the ferry. The British officers and men who rushed to the river bank first looked at the broken planks floating on the river and the only small motor ferry that was sinking, and let out angry and helpless cries one by one.

The British regiment commander shouted again, and the crowd did not know who brought a thin horse, the regiment commander jumped up, the tall and sturdy body pressed the thin horse for a while, and under the whip of the leather whip, he rushed back to the barracks with his slender four hooves carrying the regiment commander, and the regiment commander should report to the general headquarters in Myitkyina as soon as possible, and ask the headquarters to send troops to search for the enemy troops who fled to the south bank of the Ruili River and are fleeing eastward, and in any case cannot let more than 30 officers become prisoners of the squadron.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the offensive and defensive battle of Luxi City started again, the security division obtained strong fire support after the artillery regiment directly under the headquarters was in place, and the mortar battalions equipped with each division were used best at this time, and the soldiers carrying the new 50 mortars were in groups of three, quickly and flexibly approaching the fiercest part of the battle, and using mortars to pull out the enemy's machine gun fire points. The battle was particularly fierce, with more than 38,000 troops committed by both sides.

The frightened and fleeing Anglo-Burmese troops learned that the back route back to Wan Town had been cut off by the squadron, and they could only follow the orders of the supreme commander, Brigadier General Kent, and wait for reinforcements.

Kent judged that although the squadron in the direction of Wan Town cut off the retreat, its strength was not enough to launch an active attack, at least before noon tomorrow could not form a flanking attack on Luxi, as long as the Luxi held on to withstand the attack of the squadron for six hours, the two reserve divisions in the south would quickly cross the Sino-Burmese border, march into the battlefield to aid Luxi, and it was even possible to surround and annihilate the squadron under Luxi.

The British and Burmese officers and soldiers who stuck to the front-line position believed it, and they didn't know that the headquarters in Ruili City had been destroyed by the squadron at this time, and they didn't know that the two reinforced reserve divisions in Kent's mouth had been suddenly launched by the 26th Army of the Anjia Army on the whole line, and they were desperately pinned down on the eastern battlefield 100 kilometers away, and the only army that could be dispatched to help was only a British *** brigade and a Burmese infantry division stationed in Lashio, but they had to wait until the reinforcements from Lashio arrived. I'm afraid it will be after the afternoon of the next day.

The Guanyin Temple in Longtang Village, six kilometers west of Luxi City, has become Zhan Huanqi's former enemy headquarters, and the generals and colonels in the main hall are all full of joy and confidence.

With the battle reports of the front divisions, especially the second security division successfully defeated the enemy defending in the south of the city, and occupied the only bridge over the Golang River in one fell swoop, the Anglo-Burmese army in Luxi City has since fallen into the heavy attack of the east and south, and it is impossible to escape the Golang River and withdraw into the Burma territory in the south, and the only way to survive is to flee to the west, and if you go north, you will enter the hinterland of the mountains in western Yunnan, there is only one dead end, and it will be a matter of time before you are surrounded and annihilated by heavy troops.

In the direction of Wan Town to the west, Liu Yifang, who had received the order, had already led the assault brigade to leave the Nanzha Bridge and attack the Anglo-Burmese army from behind as fast as possible.

Zhan Huanqi is not worried at all that the British and Burmese troops dare to withdraw from Luxi at this time and flee in the direction of Wan Town, as long as the enemy's position shows a flaw, the 20,000 soldiers under his command will destroy the entire defense line of the enemy army by breaking through a little, as long as the enemy dares to escape, no matter how fast it is, it is not as fast as the soldiers of the Dian army who are bravely pursuing, not to mention that once a large-scale rout occurs, the British and Burmese army whose morale is lost and chaotic can only wait for the fate of being chased and slaughtered.

"Where is the Righteous Assault Brigade movement?" Zhan Huanqi is most concerned about the most critical position in this battle.

Li Yunfeng hurriedly replied: "There are still eleven kilometers from the battlefield, and it is estimated that it will arrive in an hour and a half, as long as the assault brigade defeats the enemy's rearguard troops, or forms a confrontation situation, this battle will be almost over." ”

Fang Pengxiang stepped forward and added: "In order to be more safe, I have ordered Jiao Guangxu to lead two regiments to chase after the righteous assault brigade at full speed, as long as the enemy's retreat can be blocked, what does it matter if you temporarily abandon Wan Town, which is no longer of much sense?" If the enemy's reinforcements from the west dare to attack Wan Town, there is also one of our regiments to block it, even if it can't be stopped, it doesn't matter, after the battle, just turn around and kill a horse pistol, how dare the enemy of no more than one brigade stay in Wan Town and wait for death? ”

The brothers laughed heartily, and Zhan Huanqi also showed a bright smile on his face that he had not seen for a long time. This battle is not only to justify their own name, but also to sweep away the shame that has been in the depths of their hearts for many years for the military and people of western Yunnan, and through a hearty victory, the military and people of western Yunnan can gain unprecedented strong confidence and cohesion, and obtain several years of peaceful life and stable development, which is worth a thousand dollars!