My Head of the Huaxia Expeditionary Force

Chapter 326 (two chapters in one)

As soon as the car drove back to the camp, Monk Zhou sat leisurely in the co-pilot, blowing the cool breeze, with a very comfortable expression.

"Monk Hua! I told you to carry ammunition, why did it take me so long to come back? Is there a woman over there?"

At this moment, an angry curse exploded in his ears like thunder.

"Quick, stop the car!" Hearing this voice, Monk Zhou trembled and shouted quickly.After Chen Tang stopped the car, he immediately turned over and got out of the car, and ran towards the figure in front of him.

"Hey company commander, aren't we coming back now?"

Don't look at this bald guy with a big and thick face, but he behaves like a little white rabbit in front of the company commander Mo Youcai, and he doesn't dare to be presumptuous at all.

"Stop talking nonsense, are the things all right? Hurry up and distribute them, our Seventh Company is about to set off!" Mo Youcai ordered in a serious voice with a straight face.

Just now, the superior suddenly issued an order, requiring the whole regiment to quickly arrange personnel and equipment, set off on time at 3 p.m., and advance along the Yunnan-Burma Highway towards the two towns of Zhefang and Wanding on the border.

As the sharp knife of the whole regiment, the Chariot Battalion will inevitably take the lead, and as an infantry wing directly under them, they are naturally also in the battle sequence.

"Don't be dazed, come down and move things."

"Time waits for no one, hurry up!"

"Three rows of people come here..."

With a burst of yelling, the soldiers moved quickly, and the three trucks from the transport group were full of their supplies, bullets, grenades, bazookas...weapons and equipment.

In addition, the regiment also brought a carload of canned dry food, weapons and ammunition were not counted, and they were also required to carry more than three days of rations individually. It seemed that this battle was not easy.

Boxes and boxes of bullets and grenades were placed aside, and the soldiers hurriedly stuffed them into the ammunition pouches on their bodies.

They have fought a lot of fierce battles in the past, and they know how difficult it is to provide logistics during a war. Sometimes even if the ammunition and food are exhausted, the supplies of the logistics team may not be able to be sent to the front line.

In particular, the troops who often fight on the front line can better understand the hardships. They often have no choice but to retreat due to the interruption of supplies when they are at a critical moment.

That's why now they have developed the habit of carrying more bullets, and they can still chew bark in the woods for two days without food. If there is no bullet at a critical moment, it will be fatal.

Some soldiers even emptied their food pockets just to bring more bullets. Anyway, the senators were always rich and powerful, and they had enough bullets.

"Why do you carry so many bullets on your body? Isn't it too heavy? Take less. Riflemen have 80 rounds of bullets, assaulters have five 5-round magazines, two grenades per person, and one for each person in the marching backpack. Who, Don't grab it!..."

These grandsons really had too many hard times, but Mo Youcai immediately stepped forward to stop them after seeing their behavior, because the current Qilian is not as good as it used to be.

As an infantry unit of a chariot battalion, wouldn't it be embarrassing if you still have to run on two legs?
While other company and battalion-level combat units were still using mules and horses with a small number of trucks for transportation and marching on two legs, Yuan Li had already equipped his two infantry companies with 16 heavy trucks and 6 jeeps to transport ammunition and personnel. , the degree of "extravagance" is enviable.

The march is completely pulled by the truck, and the weapons and equipment are not carried directly to the truck. The soldiers only need to stay comfortably on the truck, and when they reach the combat position, they can get out of the truck and start fighting.

"If you want me to say that it is still popular with the armored battalion, look at a company and get eight ten-wheeled big trucks, which are still used to pull people, hehe... Finally, I can run around without carrying a whole body of iron bumps. It was unthinkable before.”

The ghostly Liang Su said sincerely while pressing the bullet into the single clip.

"Little Suzi, you should practice more with your small body, otherwise you won't even be able to stab the little devil with a bayonet."

"I'm afraid the little devil thought he was scratching an itch."

Hahaha……

"Tch, what a bunch of big bastards, you know nothing. You don't often say that you should try not to use bayonets in battles that can be solved with guns. The most correct way is to make use of your strengths and avoid weaknesses."

Faced with his companion's joke, Liang Su retorted disdainfully, he still fights with a bayonet, isn't it useless for a little devil to get close to him with these equipments?
"Chen Tang, do you think I'm right, Chen Tang?"

At this time, Chen Tang's eyes were deeply attracted by the dozens of Sdkfz251 armored vehicles on the open space, especially the six Shermans in the center. The mighty long-barreled artillery and large body shape deeply stimulated him. heart.

This is what a tank should look like. Compared with it, the Viktank I drove before is simply unsightly garbage.

"Eh? The quantity is wrong. Where did it come from? Monk, come here!" The careful Mo Youcai immediately noticed some deviations in the equipment sent over.

"What's the matter, Captain?"

"Let me ask you, why are there three more bazookas? There are also two more M3 mortars, and there are obviously more ammunition than on the list. What's going on? You won't steal from Old Feng. right?"

"Huh...that's true, how dare I steal his things." Monk Zhou looked around and said quietly: "He gave it all himself."

"Give it to me? How can the old man be so generous? Has the sun come out from the west?" Mo Youcai had a look of disbelief.

Monk Zhou pointed in Chen Tang's direction without any trace, and told him everything that happened when he went to the transportation group to collect supplies.

"So that's what happened, that old guy is willing to do it for his nephew." Mo Youcai looked at Chen Tang who was not far away and muttered to himself.

"No, but I feel puzzled. You said that everyone wants to hide in the back. How can anyone sharpen their heads and drill into the frontline troops? This is not stupid... Oops!"

Monk Zhou took off his helmet and couldn't help complaining. Before he could say anything, he slapped his big head that was reflecting light.

Mo Youcai scolded angrily: "Do you think he has the same awareness as you?"

"grumble……!!"

At this moment, a whistle sounded in the distance. It was the assembly whistle of the troops. With the shouts of the officers, the soldiers of the whole battalion began to move.

"gather!"

"The second row and the third row start to board the car, and the first row takes the equipment and follows me, move quickly!"

Mo Youcai first ordered two platoons to board the truck according to the action plan formulated at the battalion headquarters meeting in the morning, and then personally led a platoon to the armored transport company, and boarded the Sdkfz251 transport vehicle with the soldiers.

At around 3 p.m., all the soldiers of the Third Regiment’s Tank Battalion were dispatched, with 6 Sherman tanks leading the way, followed by more than 251 Sdkfz400 armored transport vehicles and heavy trucks carrying more than [-] infantrymen. The first offensive echelon headed straight for the China-Myanmar border.

The Chariot Battalion currently has a relatively large establishment. In addition to the two or 300 people of its own, two infantry companies and a logistics support company have been added this time, plus six Sherman vehicles temporarily borrowed from the 200th Division. , the total number of people in the battalion is already close to one thousand.

Before Myanmar gained the base, Liao Mingyu did not intend to reorganize the chariot battalion. Although the armored troops had an excellent offensive effect, their advantages were strictly limited in the tropical rainforest.

Once the tanks and chariots leave the road, they will definitely be caught blind, and it is absolutely impossible to reproduce the scene of a torrent of steel on the battlefield in Mangshi, at least not in the dense jungle in north-central Myanmar.

But it can't be said that tank troops have become tasteless. They can still cooperate with infantry to play some roles in positional offensive and defensive battles, but they can't gallop as unscrupulously as they do on the plains.

Behind the chariot battalion is the main force of the third regiment, as well as the engineer regiment led by Fang Jingyao and A Yi.

Thousands of troops marched out, raising smoke and dust to cover the sky. Soldiers and cars slowly moved forward on the winding Burma Highway, as if they were an invincible dragon, majestic and defiant.

They didn't intend to hide at all, they marched forward with great fanfare, and the scouts of the little devil found the trace immediately, but... what's the use of this?
With the defeat of the main force of the 18th Division, the door to northern Myanmar was wide open, but there was no large-scale Japanese defense in this area, and it would take time for the high-level Japanese army to dispatch reinforcements. This also created good conditions for the third division to drive straight in.

The Japanese knew that they had lost the initiative on the frontal battlefield, and their remaining soldiers retreated to Wanding and near Zhefang one by one.

The Japanese army had only one brigade. In order to delay the natural attack as much as possible, they shrunk their troops to attack Huwei Mountain in the south of Zhafang, Ma'an Mountain and Daheishan in the north of Wanding, Manbang in the east, and Wanding A large number of defensive positions have been built in the triangle area on the north bank of the river and the east bank of the Longjiang River.

Even so, they were just dying. The chariot battalion from Mangshi arrived at Zhefang in less than 3 hours. The six Shermans in the front row took the lead in blasting out the anger of revenge. The battle between the two sides started instantly.

Due to the urging of time, the Japanese army did not complete all the fortifications. The trenches and roadblocks set up on the road were only less than half completed, and they did not play much role under Sherman's devastating impact.

The tank company successfully broke through the defense line, but they didn't care about the fortifications on the hills. They used it as air and continued to move westward along the road.

This made the Japanese soldiers who had spent a long time in planning feel an inexplicable annoyance and frustration. Those Chinese people ignored them and dared to go deep alone. Aren't you afraid to explain everything here?

It's a pity that the Japanese only guessed half right, and the tank company did ignore them, because the latter's task was not to clean up, but to be a chisel to cut open the enemy's defense line.

But the tanks of the Chariot Battalion are not fighting alone. The armored convoy follows closely behind at a relatively balanced speed, providing them with cover from time to time, and the last large force is coming at a high speed. They will give the Japanese a fatal blow .

Buzz...! !

At this moment, with the roaring sound, several black shadows suddenly appeared in the sky. They were the US 14th Air Force Brigade who came to support them!

As early as yesterday, Liao Mingyu notified the battle plan for attacking Wanding, and made a request for fighter support. Wei Lihuang expressed his high support and immediately contacted Chennault.

Originally, the U.S. Air Force in China had to go through a detailed discussion of the combat plan before formulating a specific support time, but this would inevitably affect Liao Mingyu's combat operations.

Fortunately, Jamie, Wesker and the others immediately put down what they were doing when they heard that Liao Mingyu needed help, called a few companions, ignored the warnings and threats from their superiors, and flew to Liao Mingyu with the unique free will of Yankees In the sky above Wanding, help the three divisions.

Six P6s dived from high altitude at high speed, and accurately dropped the aerial bombs to the exposed Japanese firepower points, and the machine guns fired mercilessly at the bottom.

The tank and armored convoy continued to advance under the cover of fighter planes, and at the same time tried to destroy all the strong fortifications along the way.

The First Battalion and Second Battalion of the Third Regiment had arrived on the battlefield, and were cleaning up the remaining little devils, advancing gradually, without giving the Japanese any time to breathe.

The little devil was dumbfounded, how could a battle be fought like this?Originally expected to use the terrain to block the enemy layer by layer, but under the triple blow of fighter planes, tanks, and infantry, their defense line was so fragile that it was torn to pieces in an instant.

"Brother Zhou, why are we still driving forward? It seems that Liulian and the others have already got off the car."

On a Sdkfz251 armored transport vehicle, Liang Su asked anxiously. Bullets jingled on the iron plate, and the sound of explosions around them never stopped.Because the roof was installed, they in the car had no idea what was going on outside.

"puff!"

The machine gunner was still shooting desperately with his MG3. A bullet came from nowhere and flew in front of him in an instant, and his head was instantly opened with a puff.

The machine gunner fell to the ground, half of his head was blown off, and blood and the red and white thing splattered everywhere.

Chen Tang's hands holding the rifle tightened instantly, the smell of blood stimulated his brain nerves, and the fear of dying at any moment made him tense up.

I should have experienced this feeling when I was a soldier. Who would have thought that time would change, and when he returned to the battlefield, he would have to overcome the fear of recruits again.

The armored vehicle stopped suddenly, and the driver patted the partition and shouted loudly: "It's the place, get off, get off!"

With a bang, the rear door of the car was pushed open by Li Dagui, the deputy platoon leader, and the soldiers in the car rushed out immediately.The sound of guns and guns around became clearer, and the bullets swished as if they were passing by my ears.

Puff... Puff!puff!
As soon as they got out of the car, a string of machine gun bullets shot over, and the two soldiers were killed on the spot, and they fell unwillingly in a pool of blood.

"Dagui, tell the brothers not to push, take cover first, Xiaosuzi, Magan, you two carry the dead ones into the car!"

"Yes!"

Monk Zhou, who was hiding behind the armored vehicle, quickly leaned over and shouted, while also observing the surrounding situation.

There was a small river ahead, and the bridge across the river had been blown up, the armored convoy couldn't get through, and on the other side, there were quite a few devils who had set up bunkers and were shooting crazily towards them at the moment.

Just when he was about to lead people forward, he seemed to think of something, turned around angrily and grabbed Chen Tang: "Boy, follow me, keep your head down, don't be so fucking brave, do you hear me clearly! ?”

"got it!"

(End of this chapter)