Chapter 8 Please enter the urn

Bayi Town is between Zilegou and Changzhi, there is a squad of Japanese troops stationed, mercenary scouts to reconnoiter the movements of the Japanese puppet army in Changzhi, by the way Bayi Town also turned, the scouts who went out to investigate found that the Japanese soldiers in Bayi Town had a truck and two three-wheeled motorcycles in their hands, and Hou Jinshui, who was idle, planned to loot the Japanese troops in Bayi Town, so that the trucks and three-wheeled motorcycles could be used to transport troops.

Bayi Town is just a town, there is no city wall like the county seat, and there is only a turret and self-made barricades outside the town. Zhang Jinshui, who disguised himself as a farmer, easily took a dozen of his subordinates to infiltrate Bayi Town, and with the cooperation of the scouts in front, it only took less than half an hour to take Bayi Town with the mercenaries outside the town. "Grandma, this time I'm fishing for good things" Looking at the weapons and ammunition piled up in the Japanese barracks, Hou Jinshui was almost able to show his throat when he smiled.

"Fight for a long time? Lao Hou, you don't have a problem with your head, right? According to the original plan, our goal was Gaoping, and the ambush of Changzhi's Japanese puppet army reinforcements was only an incidental ambush mission, and the commander didn't tell us to go north to Changzhi" Xie Yunsheng on the other end of the walkie-talkie heard Hou Jinshui say that he wanted to attack Changzhi north immediately, and he felt that his head was buzzing by Hou Jinshui's thoughts, and the guys who were in these mercenary units dared to think about anything.

"Lao Xie, don't forget that the north of Changzhi is Wuxiang, after we evacuated from Wuxiang last year, there has been an infantry regiment of the national army stationed there, although Wuxiang was taken back by the Japanese army, but this infantry regiment of the national army has been operating around Wuxiang. If we work together with them, I don't think Changzhi will be able to take it down" Hou Jinshui, who was holding a cigarette in one hand and a walkie-talkie in the other, stretched his neck and motioned to his mercenaries to help him buckle the style and discipline of the second lieutenant's military uniform.

"What do you want to do?" Xie Yunsheng on the other end of the walkie-talkie seemed to have a slight change, attacking Changzhi was not in his consideration, but if there was really the assistance of the National Army, just like Hou Jinshui just said, it was not impossible for his Third Army to take Changzhi.

"Contact Qinglongping now, and ask them to contact the national army to ask for the contact information of the national army in Wuxiang, our two troops will encircle Changzhi, and the Japanese puppet army in Wuxiang will definitely respond, and when the time comes, we will give them a knife plan, maybe we can even get Wuxiang back this time" Hou Jinshui, who was dressed as a Japanese second lieutenant, had a cold face, admiring his appearance in the mirror, and the subordinates around him who also looked like Japanese soldiers laughed loudly.

Hou Jinshui, disguised as a Japanese army, has not waited for Yu Dazhi's order, and the mercenary troops are outside the Burmese mercenary troops, but they have to accept Yu Dazhi's command, and without Yu Dazhi's order, Hou Jinshui does not dare to take his mercenaries north to Changzhi. "The troops terminated the north, concentrated their forces to attack Gaoping, and then the second army marched west to blitz Linfen, the third army drew out thirty percent of the troops to besiege Gaoping, and the rest of the troops immediately went south to capture Jincheng, and the first army responded to the attack of the Japanese puppet army in southern Jinnan on the spot" Yu Dazhi's new order was not only Hou Jinshui couldn't understand, but even Xiao Ziyun and those who actually commanded the troops were confused.

Especially Xie Yunsheng, who was in charge of Gaoping's main attack, was even more confused, seeing that Niu Tiecheng's side was about to capture Gaoping, but Qinglongping's side ordered the Third Army to go south to capture the south of Jincheng, that Jincheng was garrisoned by more than 5,000 puppet army troops, and the third army with a lack of guns and ammunition wanted to take Jincheng, wouldn't it be a fool's dream. If Xie Yunsheng hadn't known that this order was issued by Yu Dazhi, I'm afraid he would have disobeyed the order on the battlefield and ordered to take Gaoping immediately.

Zhao Zhi organized the Burmese mercenary army to help the Nationalist Government fight the war, on the one hand, in order to deal with the dissatisfaction of the United States and try to contain as many Japanese troops as possible in the Chinese battlefield, and secondly, to use the strength of the Japanese army to consume the Burmese youth as much as possible, so as to lay a good foundation for Thunder to take charge of Burma. The Japanese puppet army troops in Shanxi are currently squeezed in a place adjacent to Henan and Hebei, Zhao Zhi wants to use the Burmese mercenaries to muddy the waters, and take advantage of the melee in the Jindong region, and the Japanese puppet army from Hebei and Henan is wrapped in the war group, and it is not of much benefit to Zhao Zhi's plan to fish in troubled waters too early.

Yu Dazhi's temporary modification of the order was also out of helplessness, at the same time that the third army besieged Gaoping, the first army that attacked Jincheng did not know what happened to the Japanese puppet army in Jincheng, not only more than 4,000 Japanese puppet troops in Jincheng were killed in a group, but even the Japanese puppet army in Jiaozuo also mobilized a force of more than 5,000 people to rush to Jincheng. Facing the Japanese puppet army troops from Jinnan, Xiao Ziyun's first army bore the brunt of the forward troops, and in the face of more than 10,000 menacing Japanese puppet troops, Xiao Ziyun could only start digging trenches on the spot to prepare for war in accordance with Yu Dazhi's deployment.

Most of these Burmese mercenaries recruited by Thunder are Burmese mountain people who are familiar with the mountains and forests, and it may be okay to let them fight sports warfare and ambush warfare, but if they really start fighting with the Japanese army in the plains, the 50,000 Burmese soldiers under Xiao Ziyun may not be the opponent of the puppet army of more than 10,000 days, not to mention that there are nearly 20,000 people under Xiao Ziyun who are unarmed and equipped. The first to engage the enemy was the Japanese puppet army from Jincheng, and the Japanese puppet army of more than 4,000 people directly collided without giving Xiao Ziyun time to react, and the Burmese soldiers under Xiao Ziyun were dumbfounded with only one shelling.

The famous pig tactics of the Japanese army were brought into full play in the plain terrain, and the layers of uninterrupted attacks made Xiao Ziyun's defense line crumbling, but fortunately, the machine gun fire on the position withstood the offensive of the Japanese puppet army in time, otherwise Xiao Ziyun's defense line might have been broken by the Japanese puppet army in Jincheng. "Commander, tell our artillery to open fire, the Burmese in the first line of defense will be almost unable to withstand it" An operational staff officer under Xiao Ziyun shouted hoarsely, but was kicked to the ground by Xiao Ziyun with a cold face.

The Japanese puppet army in Jincheng brought 4 75 mountain guns, and Xiao Ziyun also had 75 mountain guns in his hands, but he didn't want to fire the cannon yet, he had been with Zhao Zhi for a long time, Xiao Ziyun knew the truth that good steel was used on the blade, and now was not the time to open the cannon. "Order, draw a regiment from the second line of defense to support the first line of defense, and only then can you retreat to the second line of defense after repelling this ** attack of the enemy" Xiao Ziyun didn't want to play refueling tactics with the Japanese army, but if he wanted to lead the Japanese army into his trap, the first army had to give up a sufficient amount of bait, otherwise the Japanese puppet army in Jincheng would not be fooled.

The first line of defense that joined the reinforcements was full of gunfire, and the sudden fierce fire repelled this round of Japanese attacks, but the soldiers who withdrew according to the order were less than a regiment, and the first army lost more than 3,000 men in only 2 hours of offensive and defensive battles. After the Japanese soldiers who were as excited as chicken blood stepped on the corpses of their comrades and rushed into the abandoned trenches of the First Army, they did not stop long before launching another attack on the second line of defense of the First Army.

"Retreat, retreat, retreat" Less than half an hour after the exchange of fire with the Japanese troops, the Burmese interpreters in the trenches shouted for retreat, and the Burmese soldiers who had no intention of fighting withdrew with their weapons to the third line of defense, which was also the last line of defense of the First Army, a hundred meters away, according to the officer's request. The Japanese puppet army of Jincheng, who thought they were going to fight a good battle, didn't have time to think about it, so they turned out the trench they had just occupied, and pursued it all the way in a mess, but they didn't know that the last trench of the First Army concentrated all the light and heavy machine guns in Xiao Ziyun's hand, waiting for their arrival.

With the order to open fire, hundreds of tongues of fire suddenly appeared on the trench that was originally empty, and the Japanese puppet army, which had rushed to less than 30 meters away from the third line of defense, was swept together. The red flag in the hands of the commander of the "open artillery" artillery team waved down violently, and more than a dozen incendiary bombs were fired into the air by mortar guns, and the incendiary bombs that "boom," "boom," and "boom" streaked through the air fell one after another into the two trenches abandoned by the First Army.

Both trenches of the First Army were covered with a thick layer of dry grass, and the slightest spark could turn into a fire, let alone an incendiary bomb. With the appearance of the fire in the trenches, three red signal flares appeared in mid-air, and the mountain artillery group of the First Army, which had not yet made a move, finally made a move, and the Jewish artillerymen who had accumulated actual combat experience in Burma were about to beat the 75 mountain guns out of the rifle rate according to the coordinates transmitted back from the front.

"Oops, we've been fooled" A large number of troops wearing national army uniforms appeared on both sides of the battlefield with the rumbling of artillery, and the Japanese puppet army from Jincheng was already faintly surrounded by the opponent on three sides, and the Oshima Yushu who commanded the battle complained bitterly. It only took three hours to capture the opponent's two lines of defense, and he was originally a little happy, but now it seems that this is a trap set by the opponent for himself, and people have simply used a means for themselves to invite the king into the urn, but he is ridiculous that he was fooled stupidly.

"Open an opening, don't tie the encirclement too hard" Seeing that the Japanese puppet army in Jincheng showed signs of wanting to break away from the battle, Xiao Ziyun ordered a counterattack on all fronts. After today's battle, Xiao Ziyun knows that there is still a big gap between these Burmese soldiers under his command and the Japanese army, and his purpose now is only to repel the Japanese puppet army from Jincheng before the Japanese puppet army arrives in Jiaozuo, if his troops are under the attack of the Japanese puppet army in Jincheng and Jiaozuo, the first army under his command may become the first Burmese mercenary force to be completely annihilated by the Japanese puppet army.

The tide of Burmese soldiers poured into the battlefield full of smoke and fire, the advantage of numbers was evident at this time, the Japanese soldiers who were caught up in the rout often had to face the siege of several or more Burmese soldiers alone, the defeat of the Japanese puppet army in Jincheng was decided, and the remnants of more than 1,000 Japanese puppet troops fled back towards Jincheng under the leadership of Oshima Youshu.