"Your Excellency, Division Commander! The Chinese army has entered the encirclement!" A Japanese colonel said next to Masao Watanabe, "Everyone has entered!"
"Yo Xi! Let the Chinese people see the power of our imperial army!"
"Hi!"
The soldiers of the 49th Division have received news that there is a Japanese ambush in this forest! However, there is no need to be afraid, because there are their troops on the other three sides of this forest! They are going to surround the Japanese! Eat
Get rid of these Japs! For a time, the soldiers of the 49th Division also became more confident!
This is not the first time they have been on the battlefield! But this is the first time they have been used as bait! Whether as bait or otherwise, once the enemy is surrounded on all sides, they will definitely not be able to gain an advantage! Then the only thing left is to fight hard! Fight hard, they are more
Don’t be afraid anymore!
When they heard the first gunshot, the soldiers of the 49th Division immediately reacted and fought back on the spot!
"boom!"
"Pah hook!"
"Da da da!"
"Brothers, the Japs are on the mountain! Don't be afraid! Beat me hard!" A captain shouted loudly, while shooting at the Japs on the mountain.
At this time, Myanmar has not yet entered the rainy season. The terrain here is somewhat similar to Dai Anlan's ambush of the 55th Division before, with mountains on one side and dry river beds on the other.
Therefore, the soldiers of the 49th Division still have enough space to move and avoid.
"Master! What's going on?"
"Let the artillery battery attack me! Blow the hell out of him!"
"yes!"
As a result, both sides soon began to engage in shelling again.
The 49th Division does not have an advantage, but they have friendly forces!
After hearing the sound of gunfire, the 6th Army, 66th Army and 200th Division who were ambushing on three other sides began to take action!
…
Masao Watanabe and Renya Mutaguchi were originally holding binoculars and looking at the ambushed 49th Division, but suddenly, they seemed to hear gunshots coming from other places.
"boom!"
"Da da da!"
Moreover, there is more than one direction!
As lieutenant generals, the two of them looked at each other and had some sense of proportion in their minds. "The Chinese actually launched a counter-ambush against us!" Masao Watanabe couldn't believe it. First of all, he believed in them.
The information was not leaked. Secondly, the strength of the expeditionary force used to surround them was, in their opinion, far from enough!
"Really, it's a bit unbelievable!" Mutaguchi Lian also laughed, thinking that the expeditionary force's counter-ambush on them was a joke. In their view, it was a fantasy to ambush them without an army of 150,000 people.
"Hahaha, it's all around. We happen to have 4 regiments in total, so let's fight back separately!" Masao Watanabe laughed, and then his face darkened, "Order, all departments fight back separately! Annihilate the Chinese troops!"
"Hi!"
Mutaguchi Lian also gave this order. On this side of the 49th Division, one of his regiments is enough. In his opinion, a brigade may even be enough. After all, they occupy a favorable location and occupy a large area.
Advantage.
Soon, soldiers came to report that the expeditionary force was attacking from the other three directions, and the firepower was not weak.
At this time, the eyes of Masao Watanabe and Renya Mutaguchi became a little more solemn, which meant that they had been plotted long ago, but they themselves did not know it.
"Why do the Chinese people know that we are here? Is there something wrong with us internally?" Mutaguchi Lian could only think of this aspect. After all, their actions are almost always confidential. If they are leaked, it can only be from the headquarters.
The problem!
"Maybe!" Masao Watanabe was naturally not too natural. He was originally full of confidence, but now he was slapped in the face! "However, don't worry too much. After all, we have a big advantage in firepower. Even if we can't defeat him, we still have to fight."
There will be no problem in breaking through."
"That's right. In that case, let's fight what should be fought! Let them see whether our Imperial Japanese Army can be defeated so easily!"
"Yeah!" After the two agreed, they also went their separate ways. After all, they had to look at the battlefield situation.
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Zheng Tingji led the soldiers of the 200th Division to launch an attack from the south of the mountain. The altitude of this forest was not high. As soon as he heard the sound of gunfire, he led the soldiers from the south of the mountain to the top of the mountain. After all, the Japanese
All on the north side of the mountain.
Listening to the sound of gunfire in his ears, Zheng Tingji did not hesitate. Although it was not suitable to use artillery in the forest because there were many trees and the space was not very good, there was only one chance. Only by suppressing the Japanese firepower could we quickly defeat the enemy.
Suppress the devil.
"Let the artillery battalion come up! Shoot all the cannonballs for me!"
"yes!"
As for the artillery battalion of the 200th Division, after receiving the order, they quickly found a slightly open place to set up an artillery position. Basically, they did not have to worry about their own safety, because the Japanese artillery was also difficult to hit.
Come to them.
"Camp, there are too many trees here? If we continue to fight, the effect may not be good!"
"Why are you talking so much nonsense!" The captain rolled his eyes, "If the master orders us to fight, we will fight! However, even if it is difficult to fight, you will hit me accurately! It doesn't matter if you can't hit it accurately! At most, give me the tree.
If it was overturned, the one that fell would fall towards the Japanese, so what are you afraid of?"
"Yes!" After the captain said this, the soldier felt that there was nothing to be afraid of. As long as he shot down the shells, there would still be some damage to the Japanese.
A few minutes later, the captain stood aside and said, "Launch!"
A row of artillery fired shells bang bang bang bang! However, the angle was not a high elevation angle, but a flat shot! Because they were on the top of the mountain, if they were at an elevation angle, the range would be too large and it would be easy to hit the friendly forces at the bottom of the mountain! But if it was a flat shot,
That's different! If you're lucky, you can hit the enemy's position directly if you're lucky. If you're not lucky, if you hit a tree, the tree will definitely fall in the direction of the enemy!
Obviously, the Japanese did not expect that the expeditionary force actually fired cannons in the woods!
You know, there are so many trees in the forest, it is very wasteful to fire the cannon! Because it is almost impossible to hit the target correctly!
But they thought wrong! There were still a few cannonballs flying towards them! Some of them directly knocked down the towering ancient tree! Then, the ancient tree also fell towards them!
"Yalu! Hide! Run away! Hurry!" The Japanese soldiers were a little panicked. They looked at several fallen trees and scattered in all directions. They didn't know where to escape to safety.
But the Japanese army was indeed panicked!
The 200th Division's shelling continued, but the Japanese troops below fled in a hurry!
Zheng Tingji looked at the effect of the bombardment and curled up his lips. It was a bit unexpected! He originally thought that the bombardment would cause as much damage to the Japanese as possible, but he did not expect that the destroyed tree would also cause damage to the Japanese.
, it’s an unexpected surprise!
Moreover, the 200th Division had ambushed Japanese soldiers in the woods before, so the soldiers were relatively familiar with the terrain and did not feel any discomfort.
"boom!"
"boom!"
The sound of cannons was heard constantly, and more than one tree fell.
Mutaguchi Ren was also responsible for responding to the attack on the top of the mountain. Seeing this situation, his face darkened! In such a situation, they had almost no way to fight! Even if they fought, the trees were lying sideways, and they couldn't catch up with the enemy! This cut off their path