Other mercenary units scattered around the periphery of the Japanese army and the snipers of the Burmese guerrilla warships also quietly leaned up to pick up the bargains, especially the Burmese guerrillas, who lacked guns and ammunition, even salivated over the corpses of the Japanese soldiers shot by the snipers. Zhao Zhi distributed enough weapons in Mandalay to arm less than 1,000 Burmese guerrillas, and there are more than 4,000 Burmese young men from the Taungoo and Chanbei plateaus in Lashio, so their weapons and equipment are obviously not enough to distribute.

An hour passed, and the mercenaries who were responsible for replenishing ammunition for the snipers brought back the results of the front, and Yan Wudao, who was nested in the command post below, couldn't hold on, seeing that it was almost noon, could it be that these Japanese soldiers were holding back their bad intentions and wanted to drag on until dark and forcibly carry out night battles? The more than 200 big-nosed Jewish soldiers of the Haig Machine Gun Company had been nesting in the steel fortress for most of the night and all morning, and the long wait would exhaust their physical strength and patience, and if this continued, their combat effectiveness would decline rapidly. Once the Japanese army pressed up on all fronts at night, Yan Wudao didn't know how much combat power Haig's machine gun company would have left.

But now the Japanese army has made up its mind not to take the lead, just relying on 40 snipers to kill the enemy, I don't know when it will be able to repel the 30,000 Japanese troops, Mu Taguchi Lian is also pondering at the same time, Yan Wudao is also in a good mood and keeps smoking with his head stuffy. Yan Wudao is no longer the man of the rivers and lakes when he met Zhao Zhi, and the experience of following Zhao Zhi to the south and north has made this man more calm, since the current war is still unclear, unless the Japanese army strikes first, Yan Wudao intends to continue this stalemate.

"Order the 55th Wing to bypass from the left flank to attract the opponent's firepower, and the 114th Wing and the 56th Wing are ready to attack" The stalemate was not only Yan Wudao, but also Mutaguchi Lian, who had been silent. The troops were already running out of food, and if they couldn't take Lashio, their 30,000 men would riot because of the lack of food, and when the time came, they would have to retreat without attacking their opponents. After weighing left and right, Mutaguchi also decided to devote a large number of troops to make another test, and Takeuchi Kan's 55th Division was busy dealing with those thunderous sharpshooters, and the test attack could only be carried out by the 18th Division itself.

The wing commander of the 55th Wing of the 18th Division is Mu Tingda, who is a fierce general under Mutaguchi Ryoya, who has defeated the Chinese army many times on the Chinese battlefield, and also beat the enemy American troops on the Philippine battlefield. The 55th Wing, which led the order, marched along the left side of the Japanese front in accordance with the order of the division commander Mutaguchi Ryoya, and Mu Ting Da did not let all the three brigades under his command go into battle, he just sent one brigade to act as a bait for the feint, and the other two brigades just fell far behind the bait brigade and waited to pick up the bargain.

The 55th Wing made a slight move, and it was noticed by the scouts sent out by Yan Wudao, and it would never be a trivial matter for the three Japanese brigades to act together, and the scouts cruising around the Japanese army immediately gave this intelligence ship to Yan Wudao. Yan Wudao, who received the new information, did not appear as ecstatic as the mercenaries expected, and the Japanese army finally moved, but the force they dispatched was obviously not aimed at the frontal position, and it is said that the commander of the Japanese army should not use the low-level trick of decoy and feint, but as far as Yan Wudao seems to be such a bad trick, he suddenly didn't believe his judgment.

"Transfer those Burmese to block the Japanese army, it's time for them to come out and show their faces" Haig, who occupies the slope, can take care of the left flank of the position, but Yan Wudao doesn't want to expose all of Haig's firepower deployment prematurely, just a Japanese brigade to act as a pioneer, and those Burmese who are eager to show are enough to deal with this matter. Yan Wudao's order was conveyed all the way, and nearly 1,000 Burmese guerrillas armed with Japanese-style weapons began to assemble in front of the 55th Wing, ready to intercept.

Unlike the Burmese attackers encountered by the 18th Division, the Burmese guerrillas under the command of Yan Wudao received special training from many mercenaries on the way from Mandalay. The officer who was commanding long-range fire in the rear drew his command knife and pointed forward, "boom", "boom", "boom", "boom", "boom", "boom", and with the officer's command, more than a dozen mortar shells and grenade grenades smashed towards the Burmese defensive line.

"Retreat, retreat" As the shells and grenades exploded, the Burmese, who had been looking weak, suddenly began to retreat, and several strong Burmese even ran away without looking back, protecting a black-clothed Burmese who looked like a commander. "Keep shelling, don't stop without my orders" The officers of the 55th Wing naturally would not be deceived by the reaction of the Burmese, their mortars and grenadiers continued to fire shells at the Burmese, and they would not stop until they received an order to stop the shelling.

The Burmese who withdrew from the Empress of Cang didn't care about this, and before the shelling of the 55th Wing showed signs of extension, the originally menacing Burmese had already fled without a trace. "Nani?" The Japanese officer who commanded the artillery team to bombard the enemy position was also dumbfounded, he didn't expect the guys on the other side to be like such straw bales, he had just finished warm-up preparations on his side, why did the Burmese run out? The Burmese retreat for no reason, which gave the originally demoralized 55th Wing a fighting spirit and continued to advance under the guidance of the commander of the 1st Brigade.

"Kill, rush, rush, bite them, get mixed with them," the Japanese officers in command shouted hysterically, directing their troops to speed up the pursuit of the retreating Burmese guerrilla troops. The Japanese army has already learned the taste of the British 25-pounder field artillery, and the best way to avoid being bombarded by the field artillery group again is to mix with the enemy first, so that the enemy artillery group that throws rat traps will naturally lose its effect.

The Japanese soldiers who had only eaten one rice ball began to show physical exhaustion, and the Burmese who retreated in disarray in front were no better, and most of them were unable to eat before they took refuge in Thunder, and their physical strength was not much better than that of the Japanese army who had only been hungry for a day. "Ready" broke the silence with a deliberately muffled voice, revealing a row of black muzzles in the weeds that had just run past the Burmese, and more than 10 Japanese light machine guns captured by the Thunderbolt were hidden in these bushes.

The last group of Burmese who were rolling and crawling withdrew, not far behind chasing the Japanese soldiers who were shooting non-stop, Xu was the Burmese who successfully deceived the soldiers of the 55th Wing who pursued them, anyway, the Japanese soldiers who came after did not suspect that there was any danger in this bush that had just run through the Burmese "Ready" Looking at the Japanese soldiers who were getting closer and closer, the lowered voice sounded again, and at the same time, the machine gunner lying in the bushes also pulled the bolt to push the bullet and loaded, put his finger on the trigger, ready to fire at any time.

Seeing that more and more Japanese troops appeared in the range of machine gun fire, the commander who commanded this small-scale ambush finally gave the order to open fire. The Burmese machine gunner, who was already extremely nervous, immediately pulled the trigger, and the machine gunner closest to the left almost put the muzzle of the gun on the Japanese soldier and fired, and the distance of 5 meters was no different from shooting at the body of the target.

With the increase in the density of firing and the appearance of ricochetic bullets, several high ash pillars rose in the formation of the Japanese army. The distance between the machine guns and the Japanese soldiers was too close, and the rate of fire of the machine guns far exceeded that of the bolt-action rifles in the hands of the Japanese soldiers, so in a flash, the more than 800 Japanese soldiers of the 1st Brigade, who were full of confidence, were immediately put into almost a quarter, and their casualties continued to increase alarmingly as the machine gun fire extended.

As soon as the battle began, these two machine guns first threw the Japanese machine gunners to the ground, and then the Japanese soldiers who wanted to pick up the machine guns became dead ghosts, especially around the Type 92 heavy machine guns, which were covered with Japanese corpses.

"Boom" "Boom" received the ruler coordinates sent back by the mercenaries, and the 25-pounder field artillery group outside Lashio City also began to join the battle, and the smoke rising from time to time was mixed with fragments of Japanese corpses, and then the butt fell all over the ground, and the red blood and white brains made this area look a little more solemn. "Let's retreat" Seeing that there was no benefit, the 55th Wing began to retreat under the command of Wing Commander Mu Tingda, but the Burmese guerrillas who ambushed the Japanese army with machine gun fire did not pursue the Japanese army.

"Division commander, I'm sorry, I couldn't complete the task you gave me" handed over the troops to the officers under his command, and the wing commander of the 55th Wing, Mu Tingda, went alone to ask the division commander Mutaguchi Lianya to ask for guilt, as for whether the division commander punished himself, Mu Tingda didn't want to think about this issue.

"Okay, it's not your problem, it's my inconsiderate thinking, it's okay if you're okay" In front of the commander of the 55th Division, Takeuchi Kuan, Mutaguchi Lian also had a lot of stomach to pull up Mu Tingda, who bowed down to himself and apologized, now is the time to employ people, Mutaguchi Lian also did not plan to play the pre-war killing of chickens and monkeys, his first task now is to stabilize the morale of the army, and everything else is secondary.