Chapter 35: Gossip
The 15th Division retreated, and Yamauchi Masafumi had to order a retreat, because the sky had begun to shine at this time, and once the rain stopped, the 15th Division, which had suffered heavy casualties, was not at all the opponent of the Thunder defenders on the opposite side, and looked at the 67th Wing that returned with a halberd to know how strong the opponent's firepower was. Yamauchi Masafumi originally planned to play a confrontation with the Tooo defenders here and wait for backup, but this sudden heavy rain completely shattered his thoughts, and the damn Thunder would actually brave such a heavy rain to come and sneak attack, and it was two sneak attacks in succession.
After retreating for 10 miles in one breath, the sound of guns and cannons stopped, and looking at his subordinates covered in mud and water, Yamauchi Masamumi wanted to cry without tears. The retreat was too hasty, and there were still a large number of supplies in the field of the 15th Division that had no time to take away, so Yamauchi Masafumi had to order to set fire to those materials before retreating.
The rain slowly weakened, but the wind blew again on the hill where the 15th Division was hiding, and the officers and men of the 15th Soldiers, who were already soaking wet, had nowhere to hide, so they had to stand in the wind mixed with raindrops and shiver. Yamauchi Masafumi and his staff officers were better, at least they still had raincoats to protect themselves from the rain, looking at the soldiers huddled together to warm each other's body temperature, Yamauchi Masafumi had to order the 15th Division to find a Burmese village near the left to rest and recuperate.
"This is being beaten away? These little devils of dog days really can't help fighting, if it weren't for Joey's armored division coming slowly, Lao Tzu would have been able to leave all these little devils here. Looking at the messy Japanese camp in front of him, Tang Lei, who had a fierce face, spat fiercely. On the second day of the confrontation between the 15th Division and the Jewish First Army in Donghu, Tang Lei applied for Joy's armored division to come to reinforce, but unfortunately Joy's armored division was still training with the reserve mercenary troops commanded by Yan Wudao in the mountains for tactical training, and it was not an ordinary distance to rush from the training camp to Donghu, so Joy missed the best opportunity to encircle and annihilate the 15th Division.
"Hurry up and clean up the battlefield, send sappers over to take a look before the inner ring defense line is cleaned, and pay attention to the traps set by the Japanese army." After the retreat of the 15th Division, more than a dozen fires rose in their inner ring defense line, and although the fire had been extinguished by the rain at this time, the smoke had not yet dissipated. Thunder mercenaries are also very good at those tricks of poisoning and setting fire, Tang Lei knew as soon as he saw the smoke that this was the materials that the Japanese army could not take away when they retreated, but there were not only materials but also a large amount of ammunition in the field where the bones were collected, so Tang Lei would order to send sappers in to find out the bottom first.
"Don, you're moving too fast, why don't you wait for me?" Joey, who stepped on a place of muddy water, opened his arms and gave Tang Lei a warm hug first, but the latter couldn't dodge and had to let Joey hug him firmly. On the way here, Joey had been worried about the battle of the Donghu defensive line, although he knew that the Jewish First Army plus Tang Lei's 2,000 mercenaries would not be defeated by the Japanese 15th Division, but he was still a little worried.
"What about the casualties?" The fast-talking Joey saw that the war was over, so he asked about the casualties of the troops, which is the practice of Thunder, as long as the war is over, the casualties of the soldiers are always the first thing that the commander needs to pay attention to. Although Tang Lei brought 2,000 mercenaries to cooperate with the First Jewish Army to garrison the Donghu defense line, Joey knew that the Donghu defense line was actually dominated by mercenaries.
"Fortunately, the casualties of the First Army are less than 1,000, and the mercenary troops under my command have about 200 people, but they are all wounded, and few are killed in battle." Taking the cigarette handed over by Joey, Tang Lei's face was a little cold. The casualties of the first army are okay, but there are only 2,000 mercenaries under his command, and the casualties have reached as many as 10% at this time.
patted Tang Lei on the shoulder, Joey didn't say anything, people will die in battle, the more powerful the troops like Thunder who specialize in fighting evil battles, the higher the casualty rate will be, and he knows this truth from the first day he joined Thunder. "Damn, these Japanese are really bad enough, all the materials that can't be taken away have been burned, fortunately our sappers are good, and we have taken down three mine-buried ammunition depots, otherwise we will lose a lot this time." Tang Lei's mercenaries came over to report a good news, which finally made Tang Lei's cold face a little better.
"Count the seized things as soon as possible, and then load them into trucks and send them to Mandalay, I believe that Mr. Lang will not waste these weapons and ammunition." The Jews who were placed in Kunming by Thunder already had the intention of starting to migrate to Burma, so Thunder once again recruited a group of militia troops from among the Jews, and the weapons seized by Thunder in the early stage were used to support the Burmese mercenaries, and the newly formed 100,000 Jewish militia troops were waiting to be distributed.
"What's next? I guess this Japanese division is about to retreat to Rangoon. Squatting on the ground with Tang Lei and smoking for a while, Joey still involuntarily moved the topic to the Japanese army. Joey's armored division was transferred south, originally intended to help the First Army of the Donghu defense line meet the Japanese enemy's 15th Division, but now the 15th Division was repelled by Tang Lei's night attack, and the 15th Division had already retreated, and the more than 100 tanks and armored vehicles of his armored division were useless.
Thunder is a place where battle records speak, Joey's armored division will definitely be laughed at by the other commanders of Thunder if it returns in vain, Joey is also a competitive person, he doesn't want to be said that he is running to pick up cheap. Tang Lei knew the meaning of Joey's words, so he turned his head to look at Joey and said, "Don't be foolish, Sir's order is to stick to the Donghu defense line and attract as many Japanese troops as possible to fight with us here. ”
was told by Tang Lei, did Joey scratch his head a little embarrassed, "I just don't know what the Japanese army will react to next?" Before I came, I heard that apart from the exchange of fire with the Japanese army here in Donghu, Ringanqiang and Taunggyi were still calm, and the gentleman was also speculating about the next move of the Japanese army, which was not easy to do. ”
"Okay, you put your heart in your stomach." Tang Lei threw the cigarette butt in his hand and patted Joey's shoulder comfortingly, "The biggest gain of our night attack this time is not the repulsion of the 15th Division, nor the number of weapons and ammunition captured, but a code book that we captured from the Japanese army." Tang Lei looked at Joey with a dull face triumphantly, "With this thing, although we can't know every move of the Japanese army, as long as they use the radio to mobilize troops, as long as we can intercept their radio waves, the movements of the Japanese army will all be exposed to us." ”
"God, Don, you're amazing." Regardless of the muddy water all over the ground, Joey directly threw Tang Lei into the muddy water, just knocking it down was not counted, Joey also wiped Tang Lei's face with muddy water. The codebook is too important, since Thunder fought with the Japanese army in Shanxi, Thunder has tried every possible way to get the Japanese army's codebook, but until now, Thunder has still found nothing. Tang Lei's success finally made Thunder get what he wanted, this is not an ordinary item captured, but a guarantee of whether Thunder can defeat the Japanese army again.
Joey is not a pure soldier, but he also knows the importance of the codebook, especially now that the Thunder and the Japanese army are at war, the acquisition of the Japanese codebook is even more significant. Tang Lei, who had been pressed in the muddy water for a while and tortured for a while, smiled bitterly and broke free of Joey's arm, "Joey, you guy is too crazy, do you see if there is any dry place on me?" Tang Lei's embarrassed appearance made Joey laugh, but the mercenaries around him didn't know what these two people meant by rolling in the muddy water.
"Don, now that we have the codebook, I think we can work together to drive the Japanese army out of Rangoon into the sea to feed the fish, and there is no need for the troops sent by Mr. to make trouble." Joey lit a cigarette and gave it to Tang Lei, after living in China for a long time, Joey has learned some Chinese colloquialisms, but with his weird Chinese dialect, it hurts Tang Lei's stomach to laugh.
"Old Joe, as I said just now, Mr. has his own arrangements. The Japanese troops who came to Burma this time will not be less than last time, I pondered that Mr. meant to pull out our troops and fight with the Japanese army, this time the battle plan was made by our Mr. and those combat staff officers, you don't pull me to make mistakes with you, I don't dare to do this. Tang Lei not only shook his head and refused, but also moved his position with both hands on the ground to keep himself away from Joey's seat.
"Don, you bastard." Seeing Tang Lei's look of disgust when he looked at him, Joey burst into annoyance, grabbed a ball of mud on the ground and threw it at Tang Lei, and Tang Lei, who couldn't dodge, was stuck in the mud. "Is that what I mean? You bastard misinterpret me, you shouldn't slander a gentleman like me, I'm going to tell Yan Wudao to pull you back to the furnace for training. ”
Joey's bluffing threat didn't seem to have any power, and Tang Lei, who was covered with mud, showed an indifferent expression. "Qiao, I suggest that you go directly to Mr. to sue me, the fifth brother is busy now, I don't have time to take care of your matter, it will work to find Mr. to sue, I still have something to do, you can sit here slowly." Tang Lei got up and left laughing, leaving Joey still sitting stupidly in the muddy water.
"Don, you scoundrel, I didn't mean that what I just said, you can't misinterpret what I mean." Joey suddenly got up from the ground and chased after Tang Lei, there were other people standing next to them when they were talking just now, in case that daredevil went back to complain to Zhao Zhi, then he, the commander of the armored force, would be able to do it.