On the highway on the south bank of the Biaoguan River, more than 50 trucks drove vigorously on the highway, and there were Japanese-style 94-style trucks, as well as American-style GC trucks and various types of civilian trucks.
The wheels rolled over the road, carrying more than 500 forwards of the 112th Wing of the 55th Division at maximum speed, and these more than 500 forwards were elite veterans of the 112th Wing drawn from the wing headquarters and the infantry brigades under it, and the noncommissioned officers and sergeants alone accounted for nearly half, which was the essence of the 112th Wing.
Not only is the quality of the personnel high, but the firepower is also very fierce; the 112th Wing equipped this 500-strong unit with four Type 94 37-mm rapid-fire guns, eight heavy machine guns, and four 92 infantry guns, and its firepower was far stronger than that of a brigade; on the way to Tonggu, the tanks and armored vehicles of the British 7th Armored Brigade, and the infantry of the 17th Anglo-Indian Division and the 1st Anglo-Burmese Division were all defeated by their men.
The price they paid was less than a squad of casualties.
The speed of the Japanese victory in Burma was so fast that they did not believe it, and the attack speed of the main forces of the 112th Wing and the 55th Division could not even keep up with the speed of the rout of the Anglo-Burmese army.
This vanguard elite overcame all obstacles along the way, defeated a large number of Anglo-Burmese troops, relied on captured British-Burmese cars to supplement the attrition, more and more cars and fuel, and also captured British tanks, if it were not for Fujimoto's soldiers who could drive tanks, then there should be no less than five British tanks in the truck queue at this time.
From Yangon to here, the vanguard elite of the 112th Wing relied on capture, and achieved the level of carrying all the troops from soldiers to infantry artillery, anti-aircraft guns and ammunition by car.
Keiichiro Fujimoto Shaozo sat in the co-pilot seat of the head car, and couldn't wait to raise the binoculars, he immediately saw the subordinates on the Biaoguan River Bridge, and on the bridge on the opposite bank, it was the figure of the forward team.
"Yo West, full speed ahead and drive to the other side" Fujimoto Keiichiro said to the driver next to him with pride, the Biaoguan River Bridge and the north bank are close at hand, as long as he rushes over, he Fujimoto Keiichiro is the first person in the division to attack Tonggu, and the battle exploits are in front of him, and he can get them at his fingertips The first car was at full speed, the long line of the convoy drove across the bridge, and Fujimoto's car drove across the Biaoguan River Bridge, and Fujimoto saw the leader of the forward team at the head of the bridge through the car window, Yoshishi Sakai.
"Parking" The head car slowly stopped on the side of the road near the bridgehead on the north bank, leaving room for the follow-up trucks, and the trucks behind, one after another, Keiichiro Fujimoto got out of the car and stepped on the land on the north bank of the Biaoguan River.
"Sakai-kun, I will definitely give you credit after a good battle, our forward is the first in the whole division to attack the periphery of Tonggu, you Sakai-kun is the first in our forward" Keiichiro Fujimoto said to Yoshishi Sakai at the head of the bridge that the excitement of stepping on the land of the north shore made him ignore the battle wounds on Yoshiyoshi Sakai's face.
Yoshishi Sakai smiled reluctantly.
"Thank you, Your Excellency, Shaozuo, has not found anything unusual on the north shore now, but there is one thing I must report to you, when my team was ambushed on the south bank, half of the warriors were broken, and the enemy retreated across the bridge in a truck halfway through, it seems that it is the British troops, after inspection, there are no explosives under the bridge, and the British army I judged based on this has no effective defense, and the battle with my team is just an encounter, so I made a decision on my own, and sent a signal to the main force to ask His Excellency Shaozuo to punish" Yoshishi Sakai made the standard Japanese bending down to apologize.
It was only then that Keiichiro Fujimoto noticed Yoshishi Sakai's blackened uniform and the wound on his face.
"There was a battle, and more than half of the casualties were killed at once" "It was His Excellency Shao Zuo that the enemy was ambushed on both sides of the road, the fire was very fierce, and there were two British tracked vehicles participating in the battle, and the warriors of my squad were bravely advancing and were caught off guard when they were raided, so the enemy took advantage of it."
The ambush caused the loss of half the squad at one time Keiichiro Fujimoto captured useful information from Sakai Yoshi's words, from Yangon to here, a decent ambush Fujimoto basically never touched, Fujimoto faintly felt that something was wrong, but it was only for a moment, the roar of trucks on the road and the excited shouts of soldiers quickly took away this sense of foreboding.
Keiichiro Fujimoto did not reproach Yoshishi Sakai, but helped Sakai up.
"It's okay Sakai-kun, my Imperial Japanese Army is like a bamboo, suffer some losses and the overall situation is unhindered, along the way, the British troops were defeated by us on May Day, and it is normal to take advantage of a little here, no need to blame yourself, no need to worry, even if the British have any intentions on the other side, we are not afraid, our main force has crossed the bridge, the bridge is in our hands, as long as we gain a firm foothold as soon as possible, with their combat effectiveness, they want to defeat our more than 500 warriors, hum."
After Fujimoto itself, the trucks carrying more than 500 forwards of the 112th Wing drove over the bridge of the Kanbiaoguan River one after another and drove to the road on the north bank, and Fujimoto Keiichiro's confidence came from this, although Fujimoto also felt that something was wrong, but according to the past combat performance, Fujimoto firmly believed that as long as the 500 officers and soldiers under his command stood firm on the north bank, they would not be afraid at all No matter what tricks the British played, Fujimoto was confident that his men would be able to crush the enemy.
Fujimoto followed the North Shore Road, pointed forward, and ordered in a confident tone brought by successive victories: "Speed up the transportation, after each vehicle arrives at the North Bank, concentrate on the side of the road and park on the side of the road, and the trucks that have crossed the bridge will immediately organize the soldiers to get out of the car and search the front."
On the bridge of the Biaoguan River, the Japanese trucks drove through Fujimoto in an orderly manner, but it was not stupid, and he gave full play to the tactical qualities of professional soldiers; while organizing trucks to cross the bridge, he let the trucks that had already crossed the bridge stop, and the infantry got out of the car to assemble for vigilance, search, transport troops, and probe the enemy's situation, and soon, there were Japanese infantry jumping out of the car, searching for alert with guns, and the artillery unloaded artillery and shells from the rear compartment and prepared for war on the spot.
As long as one car drove off the bridge, the Japanese soldiers of one car got out of the car to guard and search, and the organization was quite tight.
The Biaoguan River Bridge was very lively, the Japanese troops in the bridgehead on the north bank were getting off the car to prepare for war, and the follow-up Japanese troops crossed the bridge by car, and everything was carried out in such an orderly manner.
However, in the grass one and a half kilometers away, more than a thousand pairs of eyes were staring at the every move of Fujimoto Keiichiro in the dark, Zhang Wei held the binoculars, looking at the actions of the Japanese troops at the Biaoguan River Bridge, showing a smile that could not be concealed, the Japanese army was completely acting in accordance with Zhang Wei's expected tactics, obediently crossed the bridge, and the Japanese soldiers who were getting off the bus and the truck crossing the bridge in the telescope were now the prey at their fingertips in Zhang Wei's view.
The speed of the Japanese trucks was very fast, more than 50 trucks, less than ten minutes to drive most of the way, in Zhang Wei's telescope, vaguely saw that the end of the convoy was about to drive on the Biaoguan River Bridge, Zhang Wei immediately picked up a field telephone beside him, this telephone, the line leads to the rear of the temporary field artillery company, Zhang Wei realized, he is looking forward to the last moment has come.
At this time, in the bridgehead north of the Biaoguan River, more than 400 Japanese infantry had already dismounted, or assembled, or searched, and the last three troop carriers and four ammunition trucks were left on the bridge.
In the grass, Zhang Wei clutched the field telephone stained with sweat and issued the first battle order to the field artillery company in the main position.
"Artillery company, start shelling the bridge over the Biaoguan River" After replenishing the flank of the main position of the 2nd Regiment, temporary field artillery positions.
"Yes, sir, I'm a company attached to the artillery company" "Immediately start shelling is understood" On the artillery position, the lieutenant company of the temporary field artillery company received Zhang Wei's simple and neat firing order, immediately put down the phone, and ran to the main position, where four British-made 25-pounder field guns were placed in a row, and the huge bipod and circular base reflected the huge power of the artillery, and the artillerymen were eager to try.
The breeches of these four brand-new British 25-pounder field guns had already been pre-loaded with the first shells, all of which were charged No. 3 with a range of eight kilometers, and company commander Xu Ziwen commanded the four guns to do a good job of aiming according to the map and coordinates provided by Zhang Wei.
Xu Ziwen had been waiting for a long time, and he nodded at Lian Fu and shouted.
"All guns are there, all companies are salvo, ready" In the sound of the long preparation, the commanders of the four guns pulled the fire ropes, and the platoon commanders of the artillery platoons held up the red flag next to the guns to direct the firing.
Xu Ziwen exerted all his strength and yelled.
"Put" "Boom Boom Boom" The gun commander pulled back the fire rope, and the four field guns erupted with a huge roar, and four twenty-five-pounder shells flew out of the barrels and flew to the Biaoguan River Bridge along the predetermined route On the north bank of the Biaoguan River, the forwards of the 112th Wing have already begun to search, on the bridge, the last two personnel carriers and four ammunition trucks are about to get off the bridge, and the commander Keiichiro Fujimoto has arranged the search mission and is waiting for the last batch of vehicles to arrive on the north bank.
He looked at the last six cars, the surroundings were secluded as usual, Fujimoto's eyes occasionally swept towards the gurgling river under the bridge, at this time, Fujimoto was basically not worried about the enemy attack, because he knew that with the fighting quality of the British army, if he wanted to attack, he would have attacked a long time ago, and now Fujimoto thinks that he has gained a firm foothold on the north bank.
Suddenly, there was a piercing whistling sound in the air, and Fujimoto subconsciously looked up, and the elite soldiers of the 112th Wing also looked up involuntarily.
"What sound," Fujimoto muttered to himself.
"Whoosh" Fujimoto's words were not finished, suddenly, a wave of air and heat came to the surface, and then, Fujimoto felt that his chest and throat were blocked by air waves and sand, and the whole person was overturned by the air waves, and at the last moment when Fujimoto fell to the ground, he saw a shocking scene, and there was a violent explosion on the bridge of the Biaoguan River, which was safe and sound a moment ago Of the four 25-pound shells, three of them accurately hit the Biaoguan River Bridge, and only one missed and landed in the Biaoguan River, setting off a huge column of water, and three shells smashed on the bridge deck, and this was not over, the Japanese trucks on the bridge had four ammunition trucks, loaded with thousands of rounds of 92 infantry shells and 37 flat-fire shells, as well as grenade grenades used by the infantry and gasoline for trucks.
The explosion of 25-pound shells caused the detonation of Japanese ammunition trucks, and four ammunition trucks were detonated by three 25-pound shells, and they were torn apart on the spot, and the ignited gasoline flew everywhere like a lit fireworks.
The worst thing was that the personnel carrier in front was affected by a violent explosion, and almost all the Japanese troops in the two trucks were blown to minced meat, and the only few survivors were also killed by shrapnel from the second killing, and in just a few tens of seconds, more than one squad was lost.
Under the continuous detonation of three 25-pound shells, thousands of infantry shells, 37 flat-fire shells, and a large number of grenades and grenades, the bridge body of the Biaoguan River could not withstand the impact of the explosion, and the bridge deck was blown apart by the air wave of the explosion.
"Boom" Shrapnel raged, explosions followed, and the Biaoguan River Bridge was destroyed in brilliant explosions and fireworks-like flames Please remember that the first domain name of this book is:.
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