On the north bank of the Biaoguan River, the midday sun was in full swing, and even if it was close to the river, the air was still extremely hot, and a patrol of the second regiment was on alert near the battlefield of the outpost battle on the Biaoguan River a few days ago.
One of the remaining pillars of the Biaoguan River Bridge is still planted in the river, the land is scorched black, the remains of the outpost battle are especially there, the Japanese bombardment has destroyed most of the grass and woodland on the north bank, and the grass that was hidden when the main force of the Japanese advance was annihilated is now a flat river, leaving a place of rotten grass that has been burned by fire, and the bark and wood that have been blown up.
Twelve British-made Bren-type tracked vehicles drove slowly along the river bank, carrying a regimental special service platoon that supplemented the 2nd Regiment, and the soldiers in the vehicles were nervously lying on the vehicles, and the weapons in their hands were mounted on the side walls of the tracked vehicles, aiming at the opposite bank.
Xue Rong, the platoon commander of the special service platoon, looked nervously and feared the telescope, and looked into the distance; in the past few days, the Japanese army has been carrying out air raids almost every day, and no one in Tonggu City and the surrounding areas of Tonggu have been spared, and the Second Supplementary Regiment and the 200th Division have all been bombed, but since yesterday, the Japanese army's bombing intensity has suddenly decreased.
Zhang Wei realized that something was wrong, it was said that the bombing should be getting more and more fierce, and the Japanese army suddenly weakened its bombing intensity and attacked the main force of the Japanese army in Tonggu.
Zhang Wei was afraid that something would happen, so he resumed routine patrols and reconnaissance, and dispatched a special service platoon of mechanized units to supplement the second regiment to patrol along the banks of the Biaoguan River, and ordered a battalion and a company to patrol with the special service platoon.
At present, the special service platoon is approaching for reconnaissance in a tracked vehicle, while the first company and the truck on board are on standby a few hundred meters behind the special service platoon.
There must be a demon when something goes wrong, the Japanese army suddenly stopped bombing, the officers of the second regiment felt that something was wrong, Xue Rong, the leader of the special service platoon, stood on the tracked car, his heart was quite worried, and the silence around gave Xue Rong a strange feeling, although the edge of the tracked car was hot by the engine and the sun, but Xue Rong still had a chill behind him.
"Parking" Xue Rong gestured to the Burmese driver driving the tracked car, and the driver understood and immediately stopped.
Xue Rong stood up and continued to look at the south bank, in the telescope, on the road on the south bank, a few Japanese corpses could be faintly seen, those were the soldiers of the Japanese forward squad that were killed, the main force of the Japanese forward was eaten by the second regiment of the supplement, and the dead Japanese soldiers on the south bank naturally had no one to collect their bodies, so they could only hang on the road.
The twelve tracked vehicles stopped one after another, and the soldiers on the tracked vehicles also raised their vigilance, and the infantry on the vehicles aimed at the south bank, nine of the twelve vehicles were equipped with machine gun mounts, armed with Bren light machine guns with 100 rounds of double-row drums, and the other three were each equipped with an 82 mortar.
The machine gunners and mortars who carried the machine guns also aimed their guns at the south bank, and the soldiers of the special service platoon were all veterans and very sensitive to the atmosphere of the battlefield and the atmosphere of danger.
Xue Rong looked at it for a long time, and there was no movement at all on the roads, jungles, and vegetation on the south bank, but he just felt that it was not right.
"Damn, it's the same haunted across the other side."
Xue Rong straightened up and observed, scolding in his mouth.
Behind Xue Rong, the soldier of the special service platoon operating the light machine gun next to the machine gun carriage clenched the trigger and said.
"Platoon commander, there's something wrong, I just can't say it."
Xue Rong shook his head.
"Yes, I can't see anything after watching it for a long time, so let's keep going."
Xue Rong put down the telescope like a shopkeeper, and was just about to sit down, but his hand was not put down, suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the machine gun shooter behind Xue Rong swooped down and pulled Xue Rong down.
Xue Rong was poured a mouthful of dirt, if it wasn't for the machine gunner pulling him, Xue Rong would have been kicked out of the car by the air wave and heat flames.
Xue Rong's Bren tracked car also shook with the air waves, Xue Rong and the machine gunner fell under the tracked car at the same time, and beside the two, a special service platoon soldier in the same car curled up, gritted his teeth and covered his arms, blood gushed out, and blood overflowed in the tracked car.
A shrapnel flew to the inner wall of the car, and the ghost hit the machine gun mount by mistake, and then rebounded everywhere inside the tracked car, impartially, and the dinging sound hit Xue Rong's steel helmet just right, leaving a scratch on Xue Rong's 35 steel helmet before flying out of the tracked car.
"Boom Boom" Behind the side, other tracked vehicles were also attacked, and the bullets fell again and again, and the gunfire followed, and the soldiers of the special service platoon on the car shouted loudly to resist the enemy, the sound of gunfire, explosions, and the shouts of the soldiers of the special service platoon were mixed together, and the dead and quiet Biaoguan River was boiling instantly.
The sudden artillery fire stunned everyone.
Xue Rong, who was knocked with a sore back and back pain, fell in the car for half a minute before he came back to his senses, Xue Rong's steel helmet suffered a shot of shrapnel, picked up a life, and after sobering up, Xue Rong hurriedly ordered the whole platoon to maneuver.
"Drive, there is an enemy attack" The Burmese driver reacted quickly, stepped on the accelerator, and the tracked vehicle moved like flying.
The frightened Xue Rong lay on the edge of the car again at this time, and on the other side, there was a scene that shocked him.
A large number of Japanese infantry carrying rubber boats and rafts launched into the water and rushed to the north bank on the river-crossing vehicles, and the sound of artillery in the grass on the south bank was repeated, and the Japanese soldiers used Type 89 heavy grenadiers to bombard the north bank.
What's worse is that a large number of Japanese troops also appeared on the road on the north bank, armed with full jungle vegetation, holding bayonets and shouting to kill.
A dense column of water was set off on the Biaoguan River, and the light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese troops on the opposite bank opened heavy fire to cover the attack of crossing the river by boat, and the fire network composed of Type 92 heavy machine guns, Type 11 light machine guns, and light and heavy grenadiers fiercely suppressed the fire on the south bank.
The soldiers of the special service platoon on the car could not raise their heads, and they could not even use the machine guns on the vehicle, so they could only lie down to the lowest level to avoid the dense rain of bullets.
On the south bank, on the river, no place was peaceful, and these Japanese troops suddenly descended on the south bank of the Biaoguan River like ghosts.
"Onboard" The sound of the Japanese army's onboard and shouting of killing was no weaker than the sound of gunfire.
Xue Rong was almost stunned, thousands of Japanese troops suddenly appeared to attack, and he only now understood why the Japanese army would suddenly reduce the intensity of air attacks, and the joint effort was to cooperate with the attack of the infantry on the ground.
"Retreat backwards, open fire on each vehicle, notify the friendly company to retreat" Thirty-six strategies, moving on the position, the Japanese army in front of him has more than 1,000 troops, Xue Rong naturally will not fight hard with his own people, it is the best policy to hurry up, he gave a retreat order very decisively.
In this way, the 12 tracked vehicles of the special service platoon, while firing indiscriminately at the south bank, on the other hand, rushed back to the main position in a rather embarrassed rampage, and before leaving, three Bren tracked vehicles equipped with mortars blindly fired a round of 82 mortars into the river as a welcome gift to the Japanese troops.
Just after this round of mortar shells exploded in the Biaoguan River and killed two Japanese rubber boats, the main force of the 112th Wing of the 55th Division of the 15th Army of the Japanese Army officially set foot on the north bank of the Biaoguan River. ：。
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