Chapter 36 Detailed Analysis

The sound of gunfire and killing rang out from time to time for a full day, and it was not until the sun turned west that the gunfire in Tengchong City gradually weakened, but the explosion of grenades sounded from time to time, and Yan Wudao and others were extremely surprised that the Japanese army could survive in that environment for so long. The place that was patronized by the new bomb was still hot, Zhao Zhi was not in a hurry to enter the city, and after assigning Yan Wudao and those Jewish officers to enter the city to command the battle, Zhao Zhi lived in peace of mind at the headquarters outside the city, and those old people who lived in Nujiang said that it would rain tonight, and Zhao Zhi didn't want to brave the rain to wander around the city.

The old people's predictions were very accurate, just after midnight, it was drizzling in the sky, and Zhao Zhiwo slept very well in the headquarters. The early morning sun quietly flashed dark clouds, and under a golden light, everything on the vibrant earth seemed very fresh, especially the refreshing fragrance of the trees after the rain, which made Zhao Zhi, who was standing in front of the tent stretching his waist, feel relaxed and intoxicated.

Extremely incongruous with this beautiful scenery is the Japanese bunker group outside Tengchong County that has been completely scorched, the original strong bunker has been scorched black, and the Japanese corpses dragged out of the bunker are all burned or suffocated to death without exception. After a fierce battle all night, the Japanese troops stationed in Tengchong had lost their command in the middle of the night, and Cao Jiao, who was blocked by the Jewish soldiers in the temporary command post, sent a telegram to the front army, Longling, and Songshan that all the defenders of Tengchong were broken, and set fire to the flag of the wing and themselves, and Tengchong was finally recaptured by Thunder after being occupied by the Japanese army for nearly a year.

After eating some food casually, Zhao Zhi, who had a good night's sleep, entered Tengchong City with a group of staff officers from the headquarters, and followed Zhao Zhi to beat Xiao Ziyun in Jinzhong, and they were better, and the logistics personnel who accompanied the headquarters were covering their noses with their hands, because there was a strong smell of blood wafting in the entire Tengchong City, and the corpses of Japanese soldiers who appeared on the roadside and in the mud from time to time looked shocking. Zhao Zhi knew that the Jewish soldiers had always had a bad impression of the Japanese, and looking at the bullet holes on the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, he could imagine that the Jewish soldiers were shooting the Japanese soldiers as targets.

Several soldiers who were smoking together on the corner of the street saw Zhao Zhi coming, and hurriedly got up and saluted, Zhao Zhi suddenly found that there was a mercenary among several Jewish soldiers, and was about to ask, but the mercenary who hurriedly snuffed out the cigarette opened his mouth first, "Report, there seem to be remnants of Japanese troops in the city, we were ordered to block the street here" After listening to the mercenary's report, Zhao Zhi nodded slightly, and the siege troops still copied the original attack on Zhangwu County, After dividing the Japanese army, they arranged manpower to block the streets and reduce the space and scope of the Japanese army's activities, so as to avoid a melee with the Japanese army in the city.

"Are our casualties heavy?" Zhao Zhi called the mercenary and asked in a low voice, Attacking Burma, Zhao Zhi brought Chinese mercenaries with him, and the mercenaries who were asked by Zhao Zhi naturally knew what Zhao Zhi meant.

"More than half of the casualties of a Jewish company that played the striker, and more than 200 casualties during the street battle with the Japanese army in the city, our people are not bad, the Yan brigade did not arrange for us to play the striker, I know that there are only a dozen casualties" The mercenary also lowered his voice and whispered to answer Zhao Zhi's question. Although the mercenaries belong to the same command of Thunder as the Jewish Army, the mercenaries know that they are the descendants of Thunder, and those big noses are just short-term jobs for their husbands.

"That's good" There were less than 1,500 mercenaries who crossed the river with Zhao Zhi, and he left 200 of them as his own guards, and the other mercenaries were all broken into pieces according to the old routine and cooperated with the Jewish troops to fight. Things on the battlefield are changing rapidly, and no one can guarantee that they can get off the battlefield alive, as early as when he was in Yangon, he promised those Jewish patriarchs that once the war is over, he will never force these Jewish troops to stay, and in the end only those mercenaries can be relied on, so compared with the Jewish army, Zhao Zhizi is unwilling to watch the mercenaries suffer heavy casualties.

The houses in the city were also attacked by the war, and along the way, Zhao Zhi saw many houses destroyed by grenades and rockets, and the people with dark faces and dull eyes looked at Zhao Zhi and them, with a trace of hatred in their eyes. Zhao Zhi didn't know where the hatred in their eyes came from, and he didn't know why these people who had escaped the control of the Japanese army looked at themselves with such eyes, was it just for those destroyed houses? If so, Zhao Zhi is a little worthless for the Jewish soldiers who died in battle, which is simply saving a group of white-eyed wolves.

Hiding the impatience in his heart, Zhao Zhi called Xiao Ziyun to give the first order after entering the city, "Order the troops to clean up the battlefield while searching the houses in the city, and we must control all the guns and ammunition in our hands." The recalcitrant ones were locked up first, and saw if they could recruit some people to help bury the corpses and pay for them with food" The stability in Tengchong City is something that must be guaranteed first, and Chongqing has already said that these places will be handed over to the national government for control, but this does not mean that Zhao Zhi will let his back road go wrong.

A Japanese bunker at the next street corner aroused Zhao Zhi's interest, and the traces of fierce battles inside and outside the bunker were still very obvious, scattering the corpses of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers. The charred corpse that fell next to the machine gun in the bunker was still smoking, and all kinds of construction debris piled up next to it showed that the bunker was built in a hurry, and the Japanese army had not even finally completed the construction of this bunker. "Kala" Zhao Zhi tried to pull open the bolt of the heavy machine gun, the chamber was empty, there were only two heavy machine gun ammunition boxes in the bunker, and there were not many bullet casings scattered on the ground.

Watching Zhao Zhi pull open the bolts of the guns on the ground one by one, Xiao Ziyun was a little puzzled, they couldn't guess what Zhao Zhi's purpose was. "You pay attention to the corpses of the Japanese soldiers here, there are 14 bodies, exactly the establishment of a squad, according to the normal ammunition carrying capacity of the Japanese infantry squad, the scattered shells here plus the remaining ammunition in the bullet box should exceed 1,500 rounds, not to mention that they also arranged a heavy machine gun here, but in fact, there are less than 700 shells scattered here. It is clear that this bunker set up here by the Japanese army was done in a hurry, and these Japanese soldiers are not experienced veterans of the battlefield, otherwise they would not have a shortage of ammunition"

"What does this mean, it may be that the Japanese troops stationed here have divided their troops to support other street crossings, and if they divide their troops, they will naturally take away some ammunition" There are obviously different opinions among the young staff officers, Xiao Ziyun is silent, it is not difficult to see that he also has the same question in his heart.

"You see the terrain here, it's a three-way street, and the bunkers are set up here to snipe our troops entering the city, and the Japanese have also set up a 92 heavy machine gun here, so it's impossible for them to be defeated, and the only explanation is that they don't have enough ammunition and we all shot them here. The Japanese army hurriedly built an interception line here, either there was a problem with their command, and the envious officers fought separately, or the Japanese commander in Tengchong City was incompetent, he didn't want to build a defense line here, this was only temporary, so the Japanese troops who rushed here would have the problem of insufficient ammunition."

Throwing a 38 rifle to Xiao Ziyun and them, Zhao Zhi said slowly, "Don't underestimate cleaning the battlefield, a well-trained and thoughtful officer can analyze some problems of the enemy army from some small details on the battlefield, just like I just checked their rifles, these guns are old guys who are about to return to the furnace, what can these guns that are about to be smoothed out, not to mention us, even bandits and bandits will not use such guys, how can a well-trained veteran use such weapons to fight?" ”

"Maybe after they entered Burma, they forgot to change their weapons because they were so focused on building defenses that they couldn't even convince themselves." Zhao Zhi was right, a well-trained soldier would never participate in a battle with a weapon whose rifling was about to be smoothed, unless they had no material backup or there was a problem with material backup.

Zhao Zhi continued, "Japan is an island country, and it has been poor in resources since ancient times, and now they seem to be very beautiful, and they send troops everywhere to use force, which can be described as extremely arrogant. But as long as we pay attention to the details, we will find that although they occupied Burma with more than 100,000 troops, and gathered heavy troops to guard the front line of Tengchong, Longling, and Songshan, their supply lines were also stretched, and Japan could no longer afford the material consumption needed for the Japanese army's large-scale expansion, and this was our opportunity."

Feeling out a Japanese canned food from the shoulder bag of the Japanese corpse, Zhao Zhi took out the short knife on his waist and halved everything from the middle, and then summoned Xiao Ziyun and they all tasted the taste of this Japanese canned, "The canned food that is now distributed to the Japanese army is no longer the kind of pure meat or canned sea fish that was distributed to the Japanese army 39 years ago, this is a canned food made of animal fat mixed with mixed noodles or animal blood mixed with starch, what does this mean, this shows that the speed of the Japanese army's plundering of materials has not kept up with the speed of their consumption, don't look at the lot of places they occupy in Asia, In fact, they are going downhill, and as long as we cut off their transportation routes, all that awaits the Japanese army is destruction."

Zhao Zhi's analysis was reasonable, Xiao Ziyun who listened to them nodded again and again, and the young staff officer who answered the call twice to find an excuse nodded like a chicken eating rice. Zhao Zhi has told them more than once that fighting a war is about attrition and logistics, and if the Japanese army really has a supply problem, it will definitely be good news for the thunder attack on Burma.