"Tell Niu Tiecheng that if the fight is more intense, I don't believe that the Japanese army in Changzhi will not come to the rescue" Helping the grass circle on his head that had already been sunburned, Xie Yunsheng, who was lying on the slope, ordered his adjutant with some annoyance. The Third Army under his command had already been delayed for a lot of time due to road conditions, and if this battle was not fought well, it would really have no face in front of Xiao Ziyun and a few of them in the future.

According to the original plan, the Third Army of the Burmese mercenary army commanded by Xie Yunsheng attacked Gaoping in a daze before dawn, and ambushed the Japanese puppet army rescue force from Changzhi with the tactics of encirclement and reinforcement, but the battle on Gaoping's side has been going on for more than 2 hours, but there is still no movement in the direction of Changzhi, which makes Xie Yunsheng, who was ambushed outside Zilegou in Fanjia Mountain, somewhat apprehensive, for fear that the Changzhi Japanese army will see his ambush.

Among the several operational staff officers who followed Zhao Zhi, Xie Yunsheng was known for his calmness and perseverance, and he most admired Zhao Zhi's strategy before acting. The Battle of Gaoping was the first battle of the Third Army, and it was also the first battle in which Xie Yunsheng led his troops alone, so he had to be cautious, for fear that there would be irreparable mistakes in the details that would lead to the failure of the entire operation. Xie Yunsheng divided his troops into three echelons, his deputy Niu Tiecheng led 10,000 soldiers to organize a feint attack on Gaoping to attract the attention of the Japanese army in Changzhi, 20,000 unarmed soldiers stayed in Shennong Town in the center to respond, and he himself took the remaining 20,000 soldiers to ambush the Japanese puppet army troops from Changzhi in Changlegou.

It seems that everything is going very smoothly, the attack on Gaoping was launched on time at dawn, and the Japanese troops stationed in Gaoping also asked Changzhi for help as Xie Yunsheng expected, but Xie Yunsheng had a problem here, and the Japanese puppet army in Changzhi did not seem to want to rescue Gaoping. "Commander, the forward scout sent back the news that the Japanese puppet army in Changzhi had moved, a regiment of the Imperial Cooperative Army, and the Japanese looked like a brigade, and they didn't find such a big guy as mountain artillery and 92 infantry artillery" Xie Yunsheng's adjutant finally brought good news, which made Xie Yunsheng can't help but be shocked.

"Inform me, you are not allowed to shoot without my order, that is, the Japanese army has already walked out of our ambush circle, and you are not allowed to shoot without my order" Knowing that the Japanese puppet army troops from Changzhi still had about an hour to arrive here, Xie Yunsheng, who was happy, touched the hillside along the trench. The 600 mercenaries sent by Zhao Zhi to assist the Third Army in the battle were only 400 people, and Xie Yunsheng touched the hillside to discuss the matter of facing the puppet army of Changzhi Japan.

It is said that the Japanese puppet army that came out of Changzhi is only in their early 2,000s, Xie Yunsheng has a full 20,000 Burmese soldiers here, but the 20,000 people under his hands are too watery, and less than 3,000 of the 20,000 people at most have fought against the Japanese army in Burma, and most of the other Burmese soldiers have only received a month of training. It would be good if they could face the Japanese assault bar, and the bullets in the breech of the guns would be shot, Xie Yunsheng didn't expect them to successfully ambush the Japanese puppet army from Changzhi, and the main thing had to fall on these 400 mercenaries.

"Lao Hou, the Japanese puppet army of Changzhi has arrived, and the guy from Changzhi can have more than 2,000 yuan plus a piece, what is going on here? Ready to get started? Wading through a grassy slope, Xie Yunsheng jumped into the trenches of the mercenaries, and after some searching, he finally found Hou Jinshui, who commanded these mercenaries. Changle ditch is a sandwich road between two mountains, on the left is a stone mountain full of strange stones, on the right is a grassy slope mountain full of weeds, from Changzhi to Gaoping is bound to take this road, Hou Jinshui commanded 400 mercenaries just blocked the way of the Changzhi Japanese puppet army.

"What else is there to prepare for, let's start fighting when the little devil comes" Chong Xie Yunsheng snorted his big yellow teeth, Hou Jinshui smiled a little arrogantly, "My brothers have long had itchy hands, don't say that 2,000 people came, even if they came another 2,000, Lao Tzu could also leave them in this Changle Ditch" patting the Garand rifle in his hand, Hou Jinshui was full of confidence. The most important thing in an ambush is the terrain and firepower, the terrain of Changlegou is completely favorable to Xie Yunsheng and them, Hou Jin's 400 mercenaries carry a full 20 Browning light machine guns, this kind of firepower is not to mention a Japanese brigade, if there is another brigade, it may end up in a deserted end.

"Lao Hou, discuss something with you" Seeing that Hou Jinshui was so sure, Xie Yunsheng didn't play dumb riddles with him, and directly said his thoughts, "What kind of virtue are those Burmese soldiers under me, Lao Hou, you also know, if this gang of bastards can't withstand the counterattack of the Japanese army for a while and lets go of the Japanese army, then my sin will be great." You see if you can transfer a few machine guns over here to help me suppress the position, it's a big deal to divide the loot a little more among you, what's the matter? ”

Xie Yunsheng thought that Hou Jinshui, who was known for his money fans, would agree to his request, but he didn't expect that after he explained his intentions, what he got in exchange was Hou Jinshui's shaking of his head and disagreement. "Lao Xie, it's not that my Lao Hou doesn't give you this face, you look at the position of these brothers under me, there are only 200 people on my side, and the remaining 200 brothers have already moved to the other end of Changle Ditch, we 400 people want to block the two ends of Changle Ditch, if the firepower is weak, then it won't matter at all, I really can't help you"

Xie Yunsheng, who did not give up, still wanted to continue to persuade Hou Jinshui, but when he looked up, there were indeed only about 200 mercenaries on Hou Jinshui's position, so Xie Yunsheng's next words were really a little difficult to speak. "Lao Xie, I didn't say you, you are just a little dead-eyed, didn't your troops bring a lot of mortar grenadiers or something when you set off, as soon as the battle starts, you just order the gunners to smash down, the purpose of the ambush is to destroy the Japanese puppet army, not to let you take the troops to charge and fight with them, and we can capture them again when the shells are gone."

Hou Jinshui's words made Xie Yunsheng a little in a trance, he was thinking about how to encircle and annihilate the Japanese puppet army from Changzhi, but he completely forgot the advantages he had. Although the Burmese soldiers used the same Japanese-style weapons as the Japanese army, there were also more bullets fired by the more people, and the ratio of people to 1 to 10 was not a little bit of a difference. The 100 mortars he carried at the time of departure were given to Niu Tiecheng to attack Gaoping, and there were 50 mortars on his side, such long-range firepower was comparable to that of a Japanese brigade.

After thinking about it carefully, Xie Yunsheng happily returned to his command trench, and the guards and adjutants around him didn't know what the mercenaries were talking about, and they actually made their commander so happy. Time passed minute by minute, Niu Tiecheng's side had already broken through Gaoping's outer defense line, and the Japanese puppet army from Changzhi had just appeared in Xie Yunsheng's telescope. The scout of the striker reported the news of the appearance of the Changzhi Japanese puppet army as early as ten minutes ago, but until the figure of the Changzhi Japanese puppet army appeared in his binoculars, Xie Yunsheng's heart that had been hanging was considered to have fallen to the ground, and secretly said You are finally here.

Perhaps it was the battle situation in Gaoping that made the Japanese puppet army from Changzhi anxious to hurry, and the sharp soldiers sent by the Japanese puppet army were only less than 200 meters away from their brigade, and the sharp soldiers on the left and right sides were not at all, even when they entered Changlegou, they only used light machine guns to do a short fire reconnaissance and finished. Watching the Japanese puppet army slowly enter the ambush circle, Xie Yunsheng held the gun in his hand and fired two shots at the sky.

Xie Yunsheng's gunfire was the signal for the ambush to begin, and the Burmese soldiers hidden in the trench got up and raised their guns to shoot at the Japanese puppet army below, and the originally silent Changle Ditch instantly boiled. Xie Yunsheng's troops occupied the advantage of the terrain, and the condescending intensive shooting caught the Japanese puppet army a little off guard, coupled with the gunners who did not consider the shell reserves, the Changzhi Japanese puppet army that was ambushed was a little panicked, especially when the captain of the Japanese army was killed by mercenary snipers, and the more than 2,000 Changzhi Japanese puppet troops were basically in a leaderless situation.

"Shoot back, return fire, open fire" The Japanese soldiers in the rain of bullets returned fire on the spot and the Burmese soldiers in the sloping trenches were very happy, those Imperial Allied troops did not want to stay here and wait for death, but in the face of the Japanese guns, the Imperial Allied Army finally chose to fight side by side with the Japanese army, because only in this way did they have a chance to continue to live. After the encirclement of the Japanese puppet army has been completed, the machine gun groups at both ends of Changlegou began to shrink slowly, and with the addition of the group, the machine gunners under Xie Yunsheng also joined the encirclement and suppression of the Changzhi Japanese puppet army, and many of the battle situations were dominated by Xie Yunsheng's side.

The Changzhi Japanese army, which had no way out and no way out, chose to resist to the end, but the remaining Imperial Allied Army did not want to die with these Japanese soldiers, and when Xie Yunsheng was busy shrinking the encirclement, the Japanese puppet army surrounded by them had internal strife. The whole ambush battle has changed due to the sudden rise of the Imperial Cooperative Army, the tragic battle imagined by Xie Yunsheng did not appear, half of the Changzhi Japanese army died in the siege of the Third Army, and the remaining half died in the internal strife with the Imperial Cooperative Army, and when the battlefield was cleaned, only three people of the 1,200-strong Imperial Association Army survived.

"Damn, Lao Xie, this guy really has shit luck, even the Imperial Association Army helped him" Looking at the Burmese soldiers happily cleaning up the battlefield, Hou Jinshui, who was sitting outside the trench, couldn't help but sigh. Ambushed and annihilated a Japanese puppet army with more than 2,000 people, but its own casualties were only 100 people. "Boys, pack up your things, Lao Tzu will take you to Bayi Town for a walk" Thinking of the mercenary's next task, Hou Jinshui, who sighed frequently, hurriedly got up and beckoned his mercenaries to prepare.