Chapter 106: Bloody Night (2)
The black-clad Burmese were completely integrated into the night, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the pursuing Sasaki Wing soon lost all traces of the Burmese, and the four light chariots that had been showing off their might had to return in a huff. "Baga, damn when the Burmese are as difficult as the Chinese people" The performance of the Burmese tonight made Wing Commander Sasaki involuntarily think of the Chinese resistance army that was once his enemy, when the 22nd Division was still encircling and suppressing the anti-Japanese forces in northern Jiangsu, those Chinese guerrillas were not the current tactics of fighting and withdrawing if they can't fight.
Only half an hour after the "boom" and "boom" troops withdrew to the camp, an explosion sounded again in the camp of the Sasaki Wing, this time it was the Samaki Wing's ambulance station that was turned into flames in the explosion, and more than 100 wounded of the Sasaki Wing were intact, but those ambulances and military doctors were cut by sharp blades, and almost all the medicines and ambulance equipment were burned to ashes.
The wounded Japanese soldiers who were dragged out of the ambulance shelter and thrown into the muddy water said in unison that the attackers were wearing Japanese uniforms, and that the attackers, who were pretending to be Imperial soldiers, spoke Japanese with a Kyoto accent. The angry-eyed Sasaki of the "Eight Grid Tooth Road" pulled out his command knife and slashed against the rain, the opponent's hand was obviously going to break the root of Sasaki's wing, and without the ambulance, the imperial soldiers who were injured in the next battle could only be a dead end.
What annoyed Sasaki the most was the guys who attacked the ambulance, according to the experience of Sasaki and the resistance army in the past, the Shina soldiers disdained to deal with Japanese female soldiers, but this group of attackers wearing imperial uniforms cut the necks of the female nurse in the ambulance and three female military doctors, which shows that they have taken all the Japanese as targets. What particularly annoys Sasaki is that the attackers apparently sneaked in while the Sasaki Wing was busy dealing with the Burmese hand-to-hand combat, which reminded Sasaki of the 36 tactics of the Chinese Art of War.
"Da Da" Gunfire suddenly rang out on the outer position, and the gunfire had the meaning of a succession, "The Burmese are coming again" The stumbling herald ran into Sasaki them halfway, and the elusive Burmese came, this time they no longer carried sharp Burmese knives, but came with hot weapons, and their firepower was strong enough to break through the outer defense line of Sasaki United.
The gunfire in the night was always eye-catching, and from a distance, Sasaki and his officers saw the gunfire spraying bullets from the opposite side. "That's the weapon of our empire, the Type 96 light machine gun, the Type 99 light machine gun, and the Type 92 heavy machine gun" One of Sasaki's operational staff officers was extremely familiar with Japan's own weapons, and he could already judge the type of weapon used by the other side just from the sound of the other side's gunfire. But the conclusion reached by the judgment surprised Sasaki and them, looking at the gunfire in the night, the machine guns used by the other side in this attack will not be less than 20, where did the Burmese get so many Japanese machine guns?
Regardless of the accuracy of the Burmese, the soldiers on the outer positions of the Sasaki Wing could not resist the machine-gun salvo of this scale, and the shadow left on them by the previous hand-to-hand combat with the Burmese made most of the soldiers on the outer positions of the Sasaki Wing focus their attention within 30 meters of the front of the position. It was the reaction of the soldiers of Sasaki's wing that they were so suppressed by the Burmese haphazard machine-gun volley, and by the time Sasaki arrived at the outlying positions with a cadre of officers, there were already more than 100 casualties on the positions.
"Yaga, you idiot, why don't you fight back with grenadiers and mortars?" The officer in charge of the defense of the outer position was knocked over in the muddy water by Sasaki's vigorous slap, and the officer who knew that he was in the wrong did not dare to reply, so he had to stand back in front of Sasaki with his head bowed with his head down with his body full of muddy water. "Immediately order the mortar to bombard their machine-gun positions" Watching the rain of dark red bullets in the night, Sasaki kicked the second lieutenant standing in front of him to the ground.
"Wing Commander, the mortars we arranged on the outlying positions were snatched by the Burmese in the previous round of attacks, and even there were only two grenadiers left, and their machine gun positions were too far away for our grenadiers to hit," Sasaki's staff officer, who could judge the model of the weapon by the sound of the gun, whispered to Sasaki in a fit of rage. Not to mention being beaten and attacked, and being robbed of weapons, any officer would regard it as a shame, so the matter of the mortar being robbed of the outer position, Sasaki, as the captain of the wing, did not know, and this matter was suppressed by several combat staff officers who knew about it.
The 22nd Division was not a division in the Japanese army, and the Sasaki Wing could be called the leader in the 22nd Division, but if the Sasaki Wing was placed in a horse-pulling division like the Sixth Division and the Second Division, it would be at the level of a baggage wing. That's why there will be a matter of staff officers joining forces to suppress the weapon and being robbed in the Sasaki Wing, if this matter is placed in the Sixth Division, I am afraid that the wing commander will at least immediately cut off the head of the person concerned, but now, Sasaki only said that he knew about it and ended the matter.
"Boom" "Boom" The mortars urgently transferred began to bombard the machine gun positions of the Burmese, but the machine gun fire on the opposite side did not show the slightest intention of weakening, and Sasaki had to bring in the chariot again. The slippery muddy water kept the chariots from being able to use their speed to the extreme, even for the light tanks of the Sasaki Wing, which drove straight for the gunfire on the opposite side, and the soldiers of the Sasaki Wing were already waiting for the Burmese to evacuate again.
Two dazzling gunfires suddenly appeared, and the dull sound of gunfire was clearly different from the Japanese-style machine guns used by the Burmese now, and even the combat staff officer who could judge the type of weapon by the sound of gunfire was confused. The large-caliber bullets were twisted into a chain of fire and slashed through the rain curtain and accurately whipped on the Japanese tanks, and the light tanks known as the tin cans were hit by the fire chains with a row of bullet holes, and the two tanks that rushed to the front immediately fell into their nests.
"Boom" "Boom" The other two chariots saw that the situation was not good and wanted to turn around and retreat, but they were hit into fireballs by the strange fire chain on the opposite side. "What kind of weapon is this? Burmese will we have such weapons? Like his officers, Sasaki was stunned by the changes on the battlefield. The chariot has always been the reliance of the Japanese troops to charge and break the enemy, but his four chariots were so simply beaten into fireballs by the other side that Sasaki and his officers couldn't believe the result.
"All of them all of them" burst the light tank's fire chain began to extend to the Japanese position, and the fire chain in the dark night was so conspicuous that there was nowhere to hide. "Ah" A Japanese soldier lying behind the bunker was hit by a bullet that penetrated the dirt bunker, and the large-caliber bullet directly took away half of his shoulder, and the unlucky guy who was carried back into the muddy water by the kinetic energy of the bullet only had time to scream a few times, and then fell into a state of shock due to massive blood loss. The encounter of his companions caused the Japanese soldiers on the outer defense line to bow their bodies, and the machine gunners who received the order to return fire also secretly opened fire and fired back, for fear that they would also be targeted by the terrible machine guns.
"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" A red light suddenly flashed in the dark night in the distance, and the sound of shells breaking through the air was heard, and in the blink of an eye, the outer positions of the Sasaki Wing were drowned in a series of explosions. "Wing Commander, the enemy is shelling here, you should immediately retreat and command the troops" Sasaki, who was half-pushed and half-done, was surrounded by staff officers and retreated to a safe place, but the other party's shelling also began to extend and bombard Sasaki's wing, and the battle turned around in the blink of an eye, which made Sasaki extremely annoyed, but he had no good way now, so he could only stick to the defense line and wait for the dawn to come.
The enemy's machine guns and artillery fire invaded the outlying positions of the Sasaki Wing back and forth, and large groups of muddy water splashed up, and the Japanese hastily assembled mortars also began to participate in the artillery battle, and from time to time the fire broke through the night sky. "Boom" "Boom" The 75 mountain artillery of the Sasaki Wing began to roar, and the mountain artillery roared along with the grenadiers of the Japanese army.
"Withdraw, there's nothing fun, if you continue to fight, it's Lang Fei bullets, and the Japanese will not take the initiative to attack" The mercenaries of the infiltrator squad put away the two large-caliber Browning heavy machine guns that had made great achievements, and beckoned the Burmese guerrillas who operated the Japanese machine gun group to practice marksmanship to retreat. The two consecutive night attacks in the middle of the night not only caused a lot of trouble and casualties to the Japanese army, but the Burmese guerrillas had also reached the point where they had run out of oil at this time, and if they continued to persevere, they could only expose their flaws to the other side.
On the front line of Taungoo, the 22nd Division's forward Sasaki Wing was held back by more than 3,000 improvised Burmese guerrillas, and they were accompanied by two Thunderous infiltrator squads. Enemy reconnaissance, artillery fire control, and deep disturbance of the enemy are the business of the infiltrator squad, while melee engagement and night attacks are the business of the Burmese guerrillas, and the four consecutive days of fighting side by side have made their cooperation begin to have a tacit understanding, especially the two attacks tonight have caused a lot of casualties to the Sasaki Wing, and the Burmese guerrillas still have nearly 1,000 people who have not played the role of a new force in the battle.
In the agony of waiting up and down the Sasaki Wing, the dawn finally came, and as the rain weakened, Sasaki's anger followed, because after two attacks in one night, the morale of the entire Wing had been reduced to the lowest point. The attack on the ambulance soldiers made the Sasaki Wing lose the ability to treat the wounded, and the three brigades of the Wing all suffered large casualties to varying degrees, especially the Nakajima Brigade that was arranged by Sasaki on the left flank of the position was almost disabled, and this result made Sasaki uncontrollably think of apologies.