553 Battlefield Observation Group
The cavalry rushed into the enemy column, first strafed with *, slashed left and right with the newly issued swords at close range, cut down the resisting Japanese artillery on the artillery carriage, and then pursued the enemy who tried to flee, the Japanese artillery was exhausted, most of them were not even issued guns, and could not fight back at all.
In northern Burma, Chu Ting Chang contained a large number of scattered cavalry of various units and organized them into a battalion-sized search force, which originally did not have sabers, because the cavalry had long ceased to be an assault force, and was usually responsible for liaison and reconnaissance. However, in his 200th division, the cavalry did not carry out much intelligence transmission tasks, but specialized in fire reconnaissance and rapid assault. So he especially asked for a saber to be issued to the upper peak. The above agreed to come down, because he felt that Chinese guns and cannons could not be made, and sabers could not be made, but Yu Dawei of the Ordnance Industry Administration found that he could only forge them by hand, and he really couldn't make many qualified ones if he was in a hurry. In the end, a kitchen knife company in Oregon, USA, inexplicably got a military order and used stamping to make a batch of shoddy sabers and airlift them here.
On the surface, the massive use of cavalry was completely against the tide, but it was not. The 200th Division has UAVs staring at it, and there is electronic reconnaissance and listening below, and the mobility of the cavalry and the intelligence advantage can just play the role of four or two thousand pounds. Most of the time, cavalry is even more effective than tanks because of road constraints or logistical supply constraints (Chinese war horses are good at running mountain roads and are resistant to rough feeding).
These are also the things he gradually discovered during his exploration in northern Myanmar. His cavalry never hit machine gun emplacements and specialized in hitting enemy baggage and artillery.
In fact, at the same time, in North Africa and Australia, the Allies had already reorganized their cavalry units above the company level. The U.S. Department of Defense had seen the performance of the Chinese cavalry a few months earlier, and the U.S. military had launched a series of internal discussions based on the "Report on the Planning of Key Arms Needed for Operations in Jungle Areas" written by Brookeband. Discuss the role of cavalry in the new mechanized warfare. The drill is underway at the 1st Cavalry Division in Fort Hood, Texas. Of course, these studies are destined to be carried out in bamboo baskets, and without the means of reconnaissance that transcend the times, the cavalry will still inevitably be eliminated by history.
According to the instructions of Chu Tingchang, the cavalry quickly destroyed the artillery, but only destroyed the lighter 75 mountain guns, and for the heavy artillery, they did not blow up the barrels, but first blew up the wheels below. The shells were buried nearby.
His troops were not able to take away the cannons for the time being, but they could not let Mutaguchi's troops quickly repair and take them away. His wishful thinking was to annihilate the enemy's main forces in the field in a few days, and then go back and repair these cannons.
The Type 96 field gun is the lightest large-caliber artillery that can be found in the whole of India, the Japanese do not have enough gasoline and trucks, they can only use horses to pull, almost no deployment capacity, but he not only has trucks but also gasoline, and he can attack Calcutta.
When the light tanks arrived, the battle was almost over, most of the Japanese abandoned their artillery and fled to the nearby mountains, and they could not chase them, and the tankmen felt that they had not caught the fighting opportunity, and they were scolding their mothers, and saw the smoke and dust billowing from the south, as if there was a convoy coming from the direction of Calcutta.
Everyone was a little stunned for a while, Chu Shizuo sat in the middle military tent, there was nothing that could not be calculated, and he did not say that the enemy in the south still had cars. But looking at the scale of the smoke and the speed of movement, it is really not the carriage that is raised.
For a while, the cavalry and tank men were a little stunned, not knowing whether to fight or withdraw, and were sending a report to inquire that the enemy convoy had arrived in front of them. The sun flag fluttered in the wind on the first armored car.
It seems that there is also a mobile unit, the tanks are the first to get ahead, and they are aiming, and the covers of the enemy's armored vehicles are lifted, and someone sticks out their heads and waves the signal flag at them, telling them to get out of the way. It seems that he recognized the wrong person. 、
Several Stewart tanks, firing together, destroyed the Vickers armored car. The cavalry rushed up from the side and found only two trucks with Japanese soldiers behind the armored car, and behind the truck was a sedan. It's a strange situation. But don't worry about that yet.
The cavalry roared past from both sides and shot the light machine gunners on the truck with *, and the Japanese infantry were swept away without understanding the situation. Jumped out of the car and was slashed a lot by the cavalry. Although the battle was over, the battle was over in a matter of minutes.
Hundreds of cavalry swarmed up, and all the cars behind were stopped, and the Indian drivers in the cars got down and raised their hands in surrender. Then from the back of the car, a group of characters of various appearances trembled out, these people were a little strange, and they were all wearing suits and leather shoes on a hot day, which was quite decent.
Only then did the cavalry company commander see clearly that there were still small flags planted on each car, in addition to the Japanese flag, there were also flags of various puppet regimes such as Wang Puppet, Manchukuo, Burma, Indonesia, and Malay, as well as a Thai flag, which should have come from Calcutta to observe the battle. It seems that in order to slap a swollen face and become fat in front of the little minions, the Japanese also allocated a lot of cars to this observation group.
The telegram arrived at the chief of Chu Ting, who was in a hurry to mobilize his troops to fight back, where there was time to contain the prisoners, and ordered that all these positions be pulled to the side of the road and shot, leaving the Indian drivers to let them flee for their lives.
The cavalry dismounted and pulled out the people in the sedan one by one and lined up on the side of the road. Wu Heling, the representative of the puppet Mongolian observation group, was the first to see that something was wrong, because the cavalry wanted to confiscate his watch, so he sat on the ground and cried and made a fuss; Ruan Zhenduo, the puppet Manchu minister of culture and education, was rather tough, and seeing that it was the Chinese army that knew that it would not escape death, he knelt down in the northeast direction and kowtowed seven or eight times, shouting Long live Manchuria and long live Emperor Kant.
The cavalry saw that it was Chinese, and it was more polite, and when he got up and tightened the button of the horse coat, he took off his gold ring and jade wrench, confiscated the pocket watch and horse coat, pried open his mouth and pulled out the gold teeth, and let him go to the side to die with his bare shoulders and underwear. Others are representatives of the South Seas. After asking a little, they all came to India at the invitation of the Japanese base camp, first, to establish diplomatic relations, and second, to observe the battlefield and see the great martial arts of the Japanese army.
When the soldiers entered, they found that their limbs were stiff, their mouths were foaming, and their crotch was wet, as if they had died of a heart attack.
Drove all these ugly creatures to the side of the road and the canal, and at this time even the slowest reaction knew roughly what the fate was, and some of them couldn't stand for a moment, so they sat down on the ground.
The soldiers of the temporary firing squad used the crooked handles of the Japanese trucks to carry out executions, and did not shoot, but only shot in order, and when they saw the Nanyang people in the head, and when they saw the Chinese, they were worse off the head, first hit their hands and feet, and then drove away, swept until half of the bullets were gone, and then took the bullets from the Japanese ammunition box.
There were no bits on the wheel for a while, watching the dead man next to him twitch, and the firing squad there laughed slowly and reasonably, loading into the smoking machine gun, which was probably the most terrifying experience in the world.
By the time the reloading was completed, those Japanese collaborators were already full of ugliness, and they were all and urine. The officer scolded and kicked the firing squad in the butt in the back, and then the head of the squad hit them, shot everyone to death, and without refilling the gun, he drove over and ran over by a tank.
At this time, Mu Taguchi was still trying to find the whereabouts of the enemy after fleeing, and his eyes were dark, not knowing that the observation group had been attacked, nor did he know the whereabouts of Chu Tingchang.
He had no idea that the enemy might strike back, and only guessed that the enemy fled in fear. Maybe they found gasoline in these villages that don't even have electricity? Sounds like a fantasy.
He estimated that the enemy would not have to run far before he had to stop. So the tired troops were ordered to rest temporarily, but they must stay close to the roadside, maintain the assembly, be sure to load heavy weapons into wagons, and set off immediately when the planes find the enemy's whereabouts.
The drone was staring at him all the time, and did not provide Chu Tingchang with information on the arrival of the enemy's battlefield observation group, otherwise Chu Tingchang had enough time to think, maybe he would have left a few jobs, at least he would not kill the Thai representative.
Mutaguchi walked around the yard, raising his wrist from time to time to look at his watch. Why did the Burmese reconnaissance plane not arrive yet, he hated that the naval planes did not cooperate, and the army planes flew from afar, and they had to go back after a long time.
The drone had already noticed that he was holding a special hand, carrying a saber, and saluted him when he walked by, wearing white gloves on a hot day, and his hands were shining with gold, as if he was wearing a precious watch. Of course, it has long been determined that there are a large number of radio stations in the courtyard behind him, and there are many communication troops waiting outside the courtyard, and there are alert troops nearby.
Lin Xiuxuan thought to himself, it seems that he can't wait for this person to raise his head to identify the company, even if he blows up a deputy, he can create a lot of chaos for the enemy's command, so take a gamble.
A laser shot down, aimed at the officer's feet.
A 50kg* piece, dropped from the pylon, slowly rotated for free-fall acceleration. * Screaming and smashing at Mutaguchi's feet, the explosion blows him and the Mitsuhashi staff officer beside him to pieces, and the air wave knocks down half of the Indian Tsuchiya. More than half of the troops conducting communications were wiped out, and all equipment was destroyed.
After the explosion, the drone observed for 20 minutes, the enemy's communication has not been restored, it can be seen that the explosion has reached the point, it can be seen from the air, only the headquarters is in chaos here, and the surrounding troops are still sleeping in the shade of the trees in their original formation, obviously no orders have been issued.
The main forces of Zhou Youfu and Tao Mingzhang had already approached the enemy from the periphery, forming a loose encirclement, and the vanguard had already engaged in a skirmish with some enemy troops, but this information could no longer be transmitted to the enemy's headquarters, Mu Taguchi despised the enemy, and his command headquarters did not keep a distance from the communications troops, and was served by a mere 50 kg * pot.
Chu Tingchang ordered Tao Mingzhang to command 4 battalions (including artillery battalions) to attack the 56th Wing on the enemy's flank, demanding that it be immediately defeated, and Zhou Youfu's infantry battalion and reconnaissance battalion launched an attack on the broken 55th Wing. His own command, together with the newly arrived 2 infantry battalions, immediately launched a counterattack on the enemy's main force, the 48th Wing, as well as the divisional headquarters.
A further 4 battalions serve as reserves to monitor the Indian army. He did not send a single soldier to defend against the enemy's 2nd Division and the South China Sea Detachment, which were approaching at a very slow pace from 200 kilometers away.
His whole deployment was bold, ferocious, and a little chaotic, the front was too long, and he only used a slightly larger number of troops in each direction to carry out the offensive, which was obviously not steady, but he did not have time to show steady. He had to quickly dispose of the 18th Division, turn back and eliminate the 2nd Division, and then counterattack Calcutta. Because the Hult cluster was rapidly disintegrating, Zhukov even began to fight back against Manstein's reinforcements, and a historic turning point was about to occur.