On the North Shore, the sound of truck and tracked truck engines faded away.
On both sides of the highway on the south bank of the Biaoguan River, more than a dozen torn Japanese corpses were scattered in smoking craters and along the road, seriously wounded Japanese soldiers were rolling in pools of blood, an 11-year-old light machine gun with crooked handles was blown into parts, and the remnants of the machine gun were scattered by the shock wave.
On the battlefield, the smell of gunpowder after the explosion of the 20-year-old 82 mortar and the 31-year-old 60 artillery shells was permeated The first battle after the Chinese expeditionary force entered Burma ended in a strange atmosphere, dozens of Japanese soldiers who turned back and looked at the ambushed convoy in a daze, and in less than ten minutes of fighting, the Sakai squad did not make any decent counterattack, an infantry squad composed of more than 50 veterans, 20 people were killed, more than a dozen were lightly and seriously wounded, and there were five seriously wounded soldiers who had their hands and feet blown off and wailed on the road.
Nearly half of the entire squad of Sakai's squad suffered casualties, and Sakai Yoshishi and his subordinates didn't even see the appearance of their opponents clearly.
On the battlefield, the Sakai squad did not leave even a corpse that supplemented the second regiment, one battalion and one company, and the Sakai squad got nothing except bullet casings in one place.
The only thing Sakai has known about the enemy is a truck with a British insignia and a group of fierce soldiers cloaked in leaf camouflage.
Commander Yoshishi Sakai happened to be at the place where the shell of the last round of shelling fell, this time, Yoshishi Sakai's luck was obviously not good, the military hat was blown away by the air wave of the 82 mortar shell, shrapnel cut across the cheek, and a bloody mark was opened on Sakai Yoshi's face.
Sakai's face and sleeves were full of minced flesh of fallen soldiers, and this was the closest he had come to death since he led his troops into battle.
Sakai Yoshishi put down the command knife, threw away the minced meat and dirt on his face, and looked hesitantly at the Biaoguan River Bridge not far ahead, and the Japanese soldiers around him were also out of the combat state, alert, and treating the wounded, but everyone was extremely quiet, because this battle was too weird.
Pursuing from southern Myanmar to this place, the Sakai squad has been accustomed to chasing ducks along the way, and has never been subjected to such a fierce ambush offensive, the excellent concealment of the enemy and the speed of firepower are unprecedented, and the soldiers of the entire Sakai squad have the meaning of "collective jade crushing" in the battle. ” However, this fierce ambush came to an abrupt end halfway through, giving the Sakai squad a feeling of not being up or down, and all the Japanese troops were stunned by the strange battle process.
It can even be said that when fighting against the armored forces of the British army in southern Burma, the Sakai squad did not have such a large battle loss rate, and the soldiers of this squad were all the elite of the 112th Wing, the veterans of the veterans, and two-thirds of them had fought on the Chinese battlefield.
In the battle with the British army in southern Burma, he once relied on his feet, bamboo poles and grenades to defeat the tanks and infantry of the British Armored Seventh Brigade, and once chased half a battalion of the British and Burmese troops with a small group of troops, and killed the British and Burmese troops who were frightened for an unknown number of reasons, but today, they ran into a wall in front of the Biaoguan River.
The afterglow of the enemy shelling was especially there, and Sakai looked in the direction of the Biaoguan River Bridge, and even forgot the sharp pain of the wound on his face.
"Your Excellency Lieutenant, twenty people were killed in battle, six were wounded, and five were seriously wounded, I am afraid I will not be able to hold on."
A military officer pulled Yoshishi Sakai back from his contemplation, and Yoshishi Sakai suddenly felt a sharp pain in his face, and scolded, "Yaga" "Let's drag the wounded soldiers down first, and order the whole squad to assemble."
Jun Cao: "Your Excellency Lieutenant, what should we do next, whether to continue to move forward or stay on guard, what to do with Fujimoto Shaosa, the main force of the forward is still waiting for our news." ” Sakai Yoshishi was speechless for a while, and the question asked by Jun Cao hit the nail on his head, and now he has arrived at the south bank of the Biaoguan River, the Biaoguan River Bridge is a few hundred meters away, and a surprise attack can rush to the north bank, but the battle just now made Sakai Yoshishi have no determination to order an attack.
What to do Sakai Yoshishi has to make a choice again, the duty of Sakai's squad is to search and advance in the direction of Tonggu, to open the way for the forward of more than 500 wings commanded by Fujimoto Shaosa, it stands to reason that now he should give an order, rush across the bridge of the Biaoguan River, and occupy the north bank.
But after the ambush just now, Sakai now has no courage to give the order to rush over, and the order to assault is stuck in Sakai's throat, and he just can't shout it.
Sakai looked at the Biaoguan River Bridge and the calm opposite bank, stunned, the Biaoguan River was calm as usual, and there was nothing unusual on the north bank, but who knows what is hidden behind this calm "Your Excellency Lieutenant, Your Excellency Lieutenant Fujimoto's order is urgent, what should my team do now," Jun Cao said eagerly.
Sakai frowned: "We just suffered an ambush and lost the strength of two detachments, and now we only have more than 20 people, and it is difficult to keep an ambush on the opposite bank, if we rush over, the enemy army on the north bank is likely to take the initiative to attack us, and we only have half a squad left, and we can't withstand the enemy army at all." ” Jun Cao, who was beside Sakai, also knew the situation well, and he couldn't do anything for a while.
"Yes, since entering Burma, I have never encountered such stubborn resistance, the enemy's concealment and firepower coordination is too good, if they don't take the initiative to retreat, I'm afraid that the warriors of our squad will be shattered, and the combat effectiveness of these British is not on the same level as that of Rangoon."
Sakai sighed, now he is really difficult to choose, after all, before the start of the Burma campaign, he was only a subordinate officer of the wing headquarters of the 112th Wing, doing some civilian and staff work, and he still lacked some decisive ability on the battlefield.
"It is really difficult to decide whether to rush across the bridge or not, now we can't tell whether there is an ambush enemy army on the other side, with the combat effectiveness of the British army in Burma, this kind of ambush battle really surprised me, according to the report of the wing, the main force and elite of the British army have been defeated by the imperial army in the Battle of Rangoon, and there should be no main force of the British army in the Tonggu area, it is really abnormal."
Juncao pondered for a while and offered his opinion to Yoshishi Sakai.
"Your Excellency Lieutenant, now we have no way of knowing the number and strength of the enemy's troops, judging from the enemy's vehicles, these troops should still be British troops, it may be the reserves of the British, or it may be the British troops who were routed by us and gathered up, and they have combat experience with the Imperial Army, so they have this kind of ambush, but this is all speculation, and now we can't determine the enemy's situation."
"It can be inferred from common sense that our Imperial Japanese Army has won successive battles, and if the British army on the opposite side has the intention to defend, the bridge on the river should not be left, I suggest that we first send a few people to observe under the bridge to see if there are blasting facilities on the bridge, if there is, then the enemy army is very likely to have the possibility of ambush, on the contrary, if the enemy army is not prepared for blasting, then the enemy army ambushing us may only be an encounter, and there may be no organized enemy troops on the opposite side."
Jun Cao gritted his teeth and said: "It's better to send a sharp soldier to investigate under the bridge, if there is nothing unusual, it is better to try to break through to the north bank" Sakai Yoshishi thought about Juncao's suggestion, and now it was a dilemma, and Juncao's opinion seemed to be the only feasible and feasible way.
"In that case, immediately send a forward force to search and probe the bridge to find out if there are any explosives and blasting devices."
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