Chapter 58: No Solution

The soldiers of the 42nd Wing wearing gas masks retreated in a mess like headless flies, and those who had inhaled poison gas scratched their necks and lay on the ground howling uncontrollably. "It's over" Looking at the messy camp, Yoshio Sasaki's face was like ashes, that is, he was wearing a gas mask on his face, otherwise his officers would definitely be shocked by Yoshio Sasaki's face at this time.

"Wait, wait until it's almost down there, let's go down." The 42nd Wing began to retreat, but Zhao Zhi was not in a hurry, the poison gas had just released its power, and he had time to wait. The mountain wind came and went quickly, Zhao Zhi and they didn't wait for much here, and the smoke mixed with the yellow poisonous gas disappeared without a trace with the mountain wind, and Zhao Zhi, who was not at ease, also specially asked his cleaning team to catch the pheasant and throw it into the camp of the Japanese army, and after confirming that the poisonous gas had dissipated, Zhao Zhi ordered to enter the camp of the 42nd Wing.

The tragic situation in the camp of the 42nd Wing was shocking to the sweepers, but the Qingfeng team members under Tang Lei had long been accustomed to it, and when they conducted special training in the mountains of northern Myanmar, they used to use the Burmese natives as the target of attack, and the tragic situation was not much worse than now. "The Japanese army withdrew quickly, and I saw that there were less than 1,500 people dying here." The short knife in Tang Lei's hand stabbed down hard, and a Japanese soldier who was not dead returned to his hometown, obviously Tang Lei was not very satisfied with the killing effect, according to Tang Lei's expectations, at least more than 2,000 people from the 42nd Wing should be left here.

"Alright, that's good, it's only four hours to kill half of their men, I think the 42nd Wing should go home." Zhao Zhi was quite satisfied with this result, the Japanese army was a veteran of using poison gas bombs, and they were able to take advantage of the cover of night to kill 1,500 people of the 42nd Wing with poison gas bombs, which was already a good record. Counting the small units of the 42nd Wing that were attacked and killed by them in the past two days, the 42nd Wing, which was lucky enough to escape the poison gas attack, can still have a large force and a half of troops.

The dilapidated 42nd Wing camp was on fire again, and in the fire were the corpses of the Japanese soldiers who had died from the poison gas, as well as the Japanese supplies that Zhao Zhi and his colleagues could not use. Although Zhao Zhi does not care about the condemnation of the international community, the Lockman family cannot afford to take precautions, in order not to be made a big fuss about these corpses by the Japanese army, Zhao Zhi had to work hard for his mercenaries to burn all these corpses.

As long as there are no corpses, the Japanese army will have no so-called evidence if they want to make a fuss about them, and the Japanese army has already been discredited, even if they want to make a fuss, I'm afraid no one will believe it. Zhao Zhi's small abacus had been calculated before mobilizing Qingfeng troops to parachute together, this battle has been unavoidable, if Thunder is defeated by Yamashita Fengwen's 25th Army, not only will the good situation in Burma be lost, but also Thunder's undefeated record will be painted with black spots, and Zhao Zhi's plans will not be able to continue to be implemented in the future, so in order to win the final victory and defeat the 25th Army, Zhao Zhi must do whatever it takes.

"Let's go, it's time to meet the 11th Wing." Looking at the 42nd Wing camp that turned to ashes, Zhao Zhi was fascinated. The 42nd Wing has become a lost dog, Zhao Zhi no longer needs to spend the only troops at hand for the lost dog Lang, the 11th Wing marching on the south side will be their next target. After consulting Zhao Tanglei's opinion, Zhao Zhi decided to go back to the airborne field first to replenish supplies and ammunition, and by the way, take a break from the troops.

The battle situation at the airborne field and the battle report of the 42nd Wing's defeat and return, Yan Wudao, who mainly attacked the 18th Division, have all received, and the battle has been fought so far, and the 5,000 Jewish airborne troops commanded by Yan Wudao are no longer breaking through the attack, but are doing their best to consume the strength of the 18th Division. The defeated 18th Division had long since lost the courage of the last time in the Taunggyi defensive line, on the contrary, the Jewish airborne troops were becoming more and more courageous, relying on the superior firepower and abundant ammunition supply at hand, Yan Wudao commanded the airborne troops to break through the two lines of defense of the 18th Division in two days.

The defense line organized by the 18th Division is not a positional defense line in the real sense, perhaps it is the intention of encircling and suppressing the Thunder Army, when the 18th Division and Yan Wudao attacked from the west, they did not dig trenches or anything, their so-called peripheral defense line is just a firepower network built by using the terrain, and the Japanese soldiers who fought with Yan Wudao were directly lying on the ground, there was no trench and cover at all, at most it was some bunkers built by using rocks and ridges.

The absence of trenches is indeed a good thing for the attacking side, but at the same time, it is also convenient for the defenders to launch a counterattack at any time, especially the Japanese army's assassination skills are second to none in Asia. But Yan Wudao has a board wall, and when he fought against the Japanese squadron in the valley, Yan Wudao took advantage of the board wall, so he still took out the plate wall as a strong fire support point this time, and fired at the 18th Division.

The appearance of the board wall was something that the 18th Division did not expect, and the Japanese army who fought against Yan Wudao did not know what the other party's intention was to make more than a dozen such board walls, but as the battle progressed, the guys who laughed at the board wall suffered a lot. Yan Wudao's plate wall was erected in a depression a few hundred meters away from the Japanese army's outer defense line, and after the four panels of the wall were enclosed, a machine gun fortress was formed, and as the battle progressed, his plate wall fortress could continue to move until it was less than 300 meters away from the Japanese defense line.

The Browning heavy machine gun hidden in the fortress was completely here to destroy the Japanese army, and at a distance of less than 300 meters, not to mention the Browning's large-caliber heavy machine gun, even the Browning's light machine gun could easily shoot the Japanese troops on the defensive line. The large-caliber heavy machine gun bullets that blew through the Japanese defense line like a strong wind made the Japanese soldiers unable to raise their heads, but no matter how tightly they hid themselves, the heavy machine gun bullets with strong firepower could always find them, and even the opponent's heavy machine gun bullets would shoot through the soil layer and shoot at the Japanese troops hiding behind the ridge.

The thousand-meter-long defense line was suppressed by Yan Wudao's two machine gun fortresses and couldn't raise his head, but Yan Wudao was facing the 18th Division. Although the 18th Division was once surrounded by thunder in Taunggyi, it was still a division after all, and there were still more than 10,000 troops after the loss of troops, and the light and heavy weapons were also replenished.

The rumbling artillery never stopped, just as the shells of the 18th Division did not need money, the light mortars did not work, so they were replaced by heavy mortars, and the heavy mortars did not work, so they were replaced by 92 rifle guns, and in the end, the outer defense line of the 18th Division even used their only 2 75 mountain guns. Light and heavy mortars and 92 infantry guns are all weapons that can be disassembled and moved, but the two 75 mountain guns were brought by the 18th Division with the old nose energy, and there were only 30 shells.

The new division commander Shinichi Tanaka made a bloody decision this time, not only agreeing to use the two 75 mountain guns on the outer defense line, but also personally marching forward to direct the battle. Tanaka Shinichi didn't want the 18th Division to annihilate the thunder troops that broke through, as long as he firmly blocked them before the 42nd and 11th Wings arrived, his great merit would have been paid, otherwise he would not have used the 75th Mountain Artillery at the beginning of the battle. After the rapid fire of the 75 mountain cannons, Tanaka Shinichi and his officers were dumbfounded, but Yan Wudao and the Jewish officers were happy.

"Stinky shit, dumbfounded, this is not your kang, you can blow it up." Before the smoke of gunfire had cleared, the machine gunners in the machine gun fortress, who were stunned by the explosion, shook their heads, and continued to pull the trigger and shoot at the Japanese defense line. Yan Wudao, who was squatting in the back, held up the binoculars and smiled like a flower. As early as the Japanese army began to use light mortars to bombard the machine gun fortress, the sappers who quietly touched it had used screws to strengthen the fortress, and the current machine gun fortress was completely a steel fortress, and the armor steel plate with a thickness of 5 layers was not something that the 75 mountain guns could shake.

"Nani?" Seeing that the rapid fire did not work, Tanaka Shinichi ordered the shelling to continue. Under the orders of Tanaka Shinichi, two 75 mountain guns kept staring at a steel fortress, and finally when their shells were left with the last five rounds, the bombarded steel fortress ceased fire. "It seems that this machine gun fortress of theirs is not invincible either, our 75 mountain guns can completely destroy them, knock out one, and the remaining one is not a cause for concern." Shinichi Tanaka waved his arms in an imposing manner, not noticing that the machine-gun fortress that they had "destroyed" had just stopped firing, but there was no smoke that should have risen after being destroyed.

"There's still gas, there's still gas, carry it back." The soil behind the ceasefire machine gun fort revealed a large hole that connected to a tunnel, and three ambulance soldiers with red crosses on their arms came out of the big hole, and they dragged the main and auxiliary shooters of the machine guns who were bleeding and unconscious. "I'm not dead, I'm angry, but I was injured by the Japanese shelling, and it is estimated that my hearing will be a little weaker in the future, but it's nothing serious, just rest for a while." The military doctor who accompanied the team conducted a physical examination of the unconscious main and auxiliary shooter of the machine gun in the tunnel, and the final conclusion relieved everyone.

"Damn, I want to see how many shells you still have?" Yan Wudao, whose eyes were bloodshot, led one of his mercenaries into the empty machine gun fortress. The machine gun in the fortress rang out again, and the bullets containing anger were fired at the Japanese defense line, and Tanaka Shinichi and the others, who were clapping their hands in celebration, instantly froze, didn't they have destroyed that thing? How can it still be played?