663 Aggressive Offensive 7

The Burmese army was stopped by artillery fire, and before they came, the commander, Lieutenant General Min Aung, told them that there would be no more than 200 enemies here, and that the enemy had no artillery and no warships. Because Japanese submarines will take care of everything.

Most of the illiterate Burmese military didn't know what a submarine was, but it sounded like an all-powerful and decisive weapon. Of course, they don't have too much trust in Min Aung, who will be temporarily replaced, and according to Burmese rules, the new military leader must be judged by the chief grand wizard through divination whether the gods favor this person, and if the gods do not approve of it, then the war led by this person will not be helped by God. Obviously, Min'ang has not undergone such a test, and the attitude of the gods towards him is not clear. But Min Aung mastered the cannon, which is a divine weapon in the minds of the Burmese people, because the movement of the cannon is like thunder. Eventually, Min Aung succeeded in taking over military command of Rakhine. Min Aung has already laid out his own plans, the first step is to dominate Rakhine, the next step is to unify Myanmar, and eventually, of course, to be crowned emperor in the city of Awa.

The soldiers had already seen that there were already more than 200 Chinese soldiers in the port, and that the artillery from the sea sounded even more powerful than Minang's, and their will to resist began to loosen.

Xu Chong and Second Lieutenant Vitesse each led a detachment of 50 men, armed with a 60-mm mortar, to attack from both flanks. The two detachments were composed of Chinese and American paratroopers, and when everyone set out, the sense of competition between the two military personnel was already apparent. Chinese paratroopers see the U.S. military as rookies; The American soldiers regarded the Chinese soldiers as a scrawny and weak brigade (the Hongxiang troops had eaten canned food for several months, and were already the strongest soldiers in the country), and during the pre-war deployment, Xu Chong and Winters made a joint request to seize the enemy's artillery positions and the headquarters in the most likely same place before the other side.

In a siege of the superior forces of the enemy, this internal competition is beneficial and a good morale boost.

Xu Chong's magical skills were spread through the dozen or so paratroopers who had previously carried out missions with him, so the Chinese paratroopers felt that this competition would undoubtedly win. They set out quickly, weaving from port building to house, expelling the incoming enemies from house to house.

The large number of * and bazooka bazookas, carried by the troops, played a role. The Burmese army lacks adequate training, what they learn from the Japanese instructors is more spiritual education, once the Chinese army's bazooka shoots through the house, it will form a huge pressure on the enemy inside, they don't know that the Chinese army doesn't have too many bazookas, they only know that the enemy has a sharp weapon that can break through the wall, and it seems that it is not feasible to rely on the house to defend. Most of the Burmese army will choose to rush out and fight the stab, and only a few timid will flee through the back door.

The paratroopers of Thompson's * 11.4 mm caliber bullets quickly disintegrated the enemy's dog rush over the wall.

Xu Chong had been observing the changes of the enemy during the attack, and they maintained the battle line at a distance, but they did not attempt to go around to their rear, nor did they support the enemy here. Maybe it's a communication malfunction, or maybe the commander is at a loss.

He continued to advance in depth, observing his own artillery fire from time to time, and although the gunners were becoming more and more adept at firing from the ship, they still did not smash the cannon with a single hammer. But after the appearance of these heavy artillery, maneuvers on enemy positions became scarce. They overwhelmed the Burmese army's 25-pounder guns in momentum.

Within 3 hours, he broke through 2 kilometers, and the follow-up troops followed up to restore 60% of the area of the port. He felt that it was time to send tanks to repel the enemy from the front and level the battle line, but Tao Mingzhang told him that he had to wait, because the Americans were still fighting hard, and their progress was slightly slow, so it was not timely.

The progress of the American army was also sharp, and Second Lieutenant Winters was able to develop this plan because as a paratrooper it was the most important concept in his military education to harass the enemy's rear. Once there is a breakthrough in depth on both sides, and then those weak tanks are dispatched to attack from the front, the enemy's entire line of defense will collapse. It was a simple tactic, which was exactly the most appropriate for the Burmese army, and Lieutenant General Min Aung was condescending and could see the situation change roughly in three hours, but he never took any countermeasures, just stupidly waiting for his other reinforcements and his artillery to arrive.

Xu Chong's troops rested for a while and replenished some ammunition, at which time the flank American attack also penetrated deep into the predetermined position. The four Cicada tanks in front of them began to attack. In fact, this airborne tank is very unsuitable for frontal attack, its frontal armor can only withstand machine gun fire, but now what is needed is not its firepower and armor, but the psychological pressure that its appearance brings to the enemy.

When the tanks were dispatched, the * guns on the cargo ship covered the enemy's positions (although they were not aimed here) and stunned the enemy at once.

At this time, rumbling tanks appeared in front of the enemy troops, and fiercely attacked the enemy who left the bunker and fled in all directions with machine guns. The enemy's front began to crumble, only a few small weapons returned sporadically at the tanks, and the six-pounder guns and grenadiers, which the tankmen feared most, did not appear.

Eight hours earlier, the scouts had observed that the enemy had dragged in a few six-pounder guns and were hiding somewhere on the front line, which was why the tanks had not dared to make a move, but so far in the battle, this weapon has not fired a single shot.

In fact, it was not the Burmese army who waited for, they did work hard to pull the six-pounder gun down to the front line, only to find that they had brought the wrong ammunition, bringing 70mm shells from the Japanese infantry guns. Min Aung personally shot the two captains who had gone to the Japanese warehouse to receive the wrong ammunition, but to no avail, a mistake that any amateur unit with no courage could easily make.

Four light tanks, like war monsters, advanced forward with a devastating momentum, and the enemy fled head-on. On the high ground, Min Aung ordered to quickly hit those tanks with direct fire from heavy artillery, but the slope of the position he chose was not ideal, and the tanks were too fast, so they quickly drilled below the high and low firing boundaries of the cannons and could not hit.

A lieutenant general who only has the tactical ability of a superior soldier is not capable of controlling such a large number of troops at all, especially since the communication is not very smooth. Before joining the Independence Army, he did have many large-scale inter-village fights and massacres as early military combat experience. He personally killed more than 40 people, including women and children, and was called the reincarnation of Mang Yinglong by his fellow clansmen.

But the experience that these battles brought him was negative, the key to fighting was to shrink the men and horses, not to be scattered by the enemy, the opponent tried to outflank him, which meant that they would scatter their forces, and he did the same today, he was not afraid of the enemy outflanking him and compressing his position. It's a big deal that all the forces will shrink to the vicinity of the mountain, at least the tanks will not be able to climb the mountain.

Xu Chong quickly swooped, and his main opponent had changed from the dumbfounded Burmese army commander to Winters. He watched as the Burmese army was driven to the edge of the mountain like a herd of cattle.

In the end, his attack was blocked about half a kilometer from the summit, and he estimated that Winters would also be on the other side of the mountain, blocked at a distance of about a distance.

The enemy also controlled the entire mountain and the entire defense around it, leaving a passage into Sittwe City. He could faintly see a group of people on the steep hillside dragging a cannon upward, he had never seen a person so keen to pull a heavy cannon up the mountain, and he would not open it until he died. He observed the side profile of the artillery, which resembled the British 25-pounder gun, a 2-ton gun. The visual distance is 400 to 450 meters.

He shouldn't have been exposed to his shooting skills in front of people, but the competition with the Americans seemed overwhelming, and he took out his scoped Springfield rifle and prepared for a sniping attack. The general firing distance of snipers in this era was about 150 to 250 meters, and he, a mountain hunter, had to show his hand.

The people around him were surprised to see Xu Chong climb to the commanding heights, as if he was going to shoot at a target far away, in fact, it was difficult to tell with the naked eye that it was a cannon, no one knew what he was going to do, even if he could hit a cannon, it didn't seem to make any sense.

Xu Chong secretly took out a monocular telescope from his arms, observed the target and performed laser ranging, a small cheat in his competition with Winters.

In fact, he test-fired and selected this rifle with sufficient accuracy, and the difficulty lies in the range, which is now solved.

During the range-setting, a second gun appeared in the rear, and about 100 meters behind the first gun, also towed by about 40 soldiers led by an officer shouting a trumpet.

He aimed at the crowd dragged in front of the first gun, selected a target with a large projection area, and used the red streamers tied to the arms of the Burmese army to estimate the wind deviation.

A terrible gunshot rang out, and a soldier dragging a hemp rope suddenly fell to the ground. The artillery, which was slowly moving upward, stopped on the hillside. Now that the target was completely still, Xu Chong aimed at the second target, and he wanted to shoot the soldiers one by one, watching when their will would crumble.

The second shot hit again, and the other soldier fell to the ground, but the stalemate continued, and the soldiers dragging the cannon knew at this moment that the enemy shooter was on the side, and the bullet was not missing, but they also knew what it meant to let go of their hands and find a place to hide. A strong sense of responsibility drives them to keep going.

Xu Chong nodded secretly, the will to fight is good, but people are stupid. After the third shot, another person fell. The first escaper finally appeared in the crowd, the cannon began to retreat backwards, the momentum of one and the other was already visible, Xu Chong knew that he didn't have to fire a fourth shot, everything was already doomed.

More and more people threw down the rope and lay down, and the cannon rolled down the hill, and seven or eight soldiers probably got the rope wrapped around their bodies, and for a moment they could not get out, and were dragged and rolled down together.

The cannon descended from a steep slope of more than 30 degrees, swept past the approximately 40 soldiers dragging the second cannon, and then the two falling cannons crashed past the crowd carrying ammunition.

All the nearby Burmese independence armies saw this, and for them, it was the worst omen. The divine cannon betrayed Minang, and in this way, the god hinted at his will that Minang was not worthy of being a military commander.