The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

forward!Only forward is the way out for the 55th Division.This is not just the arrogance of Hiroshi Takeuchi who firmly believes that he can succeed, in fact, he has no other choice.

Not to mention turning around to fight back, it would only mess up the military deployment of his entire division. The key main infantry is now deployed in the front. Want to adjust?With such a broken terrain, it is simply a delusion.

One level deeper, Hiroshi Takeuchi knew exactly what to expect in Myitkyina.At the beginning, Britain and the United States transported a large amount of ammunition and luggage, but now they have probably fallen into the hands of the Chinese and become a convenient weapon to attack them.When I go back, I can't get anything, and I may have exhausted my supplies during the battle, and I will starve to death in the jungle.

On the contrary, Imphal in the front is the rear of the British army. The amount of supplies is unimaginable, and there are still British troops fighting fiercely there. A small number of paratroopers cannot effectively control the situation, and the fight is even more serious. easier.

There is another thing that Hiroshi Takeuchi must never tell others, that is, once Imphal is captured, he will stay there and not leave. He must take root and do his part to open up the future land of the Japanese Empire , maybe you can get some preferential conditions from Yingmi...

Of course, this is a bit whimsical, but as far as Hiroshi Takeuchi's mind is concerned, it is also a very normal logic of thinking.

In short, he will not go back on the way back, the only thing to do is to continue and move forward bravely, killing the enemy and making meritorious service!

But, if you want to be fast, can you get up fast?That would underestimate the horror of this primeval forest at the junction of India and Myanmar!

At noon, the sun hangs high above the head, without any cloud cover, unscrupulously swaying down the blazing light.The shining boundless green ocean is dotted with dots. Looking down from the plane, there is a blurred feeling of facing hundreds of millions of mirrors with low reflectivity.Mighty and boundless, showing a weird sense of beauty.

But people who walk under the shade of trees have a completely different feeling.

Hiroshi Takeuchi didn't ride in an American off-road vehicle that could knock people apart, but rode his well-groomed war horse, with his short legs spread wide and clamped on the saddle bridge.As the horse moved forward weakly, it swayed and swayed, crumbling.

Hot, sweltering, irritating from the inside out, it seems to tear open the chest, the heat of angry roaring!

It is clearly a jungle that stretches as far as the eye can see, and it is obviously full of eye-catching green. Even the ground that has just been stepped on and flattened can be covered with vines and kudzu branches again overnight, but people still can't feel even a trace of vitality.

The strangely shaped hilltops spread out on both sides to the best of their ability.In every hillside and valley, the trees growing all over the place are covered with vines, it is impossible to tell how many of them are poisonous snakes in disguise, they hang down suddenly, get into people's necks, or savagely bite on the exposed faces. One bite, and before the arrival of the military doctor, he would turn black and die.

The lower half of the tall trees.Mottled and mottled, it seems that the skin has not been moisturized by water vapor all year round, and the skin is cracked.Like hideous grimaces, exuding an indescribably strange smell, combined with various vines wrapped on them, half withered and half prosperous, as if the blink of an eye is the rapid birth and death of a cycle of life and death, without reason. A kind of dead silence from the heart.

Boundless trees.The boundless grass blocked the air so that no wind could blow up, and the oxygen seemed to be swallowed up by the overgrown grass. Even the Japanese soldiers who were as strong as mules felt chest tightness and shortness of breath.I had to open my mouth wide to breathe hard!The guns on their shoulders were as heavy as a hill, bending and breaking their backs.

Takeuchi Hiroshi didn't understand. According to the measurement of the weather personnel, the outside temperature at this time was only 24 to [-] degrees, which is the most comfortable temperature that the human body likes most, but why is it so boring?

The environment here is worse than that in northern Myanmar.In just two days, hundreds of soldiers fell ill for unknown reasons.What can be detected is dysentery, malaria, damage from poisonous insects and weeds, and unknown miasma.These are still visible at any rate, and after the hard work of military doctors, these people are still struggling on the verge of death.

But those inexplicable lines line the way forward, and when you step on what looks like a lawn, it turns into a bottomless pit, or the next door covered by a large piece of thatch turns out to be a bottomless abyss filled with dense fog. Underneath the lush vegetation is simply a swamp that has devoured countless lives. The dry vines scattered all over the place turned out to be thousands of venomous snakes, and there are also bouncing locusts lurking on the back of the wet leaves, sucking up the blood. It can be a foot long and as thick as a radish, and the venom it sprays out can make people suck up their blood and fall over without realizing it... It's just, it's so weird!

This is the familiar path that the British and the Burmese caravans have walked for many years!It can be so dangerous, so what about other mountains and forests?What about those dense forests that stretch for hundreds of miles and seem to be forever shrouded in thick and sticky smoke?What about those birds and beasts that make all kinds of strange calls, even if there are large troops passing by and shooting from time to time, they still don't know where to be afraid or hide?

The straight line is no more than [-] kilometers, and the real winding time is at least [-] or [-] or even more. Except for the Myitkyina section along the way, there are more and more such terrible terrains.

Based on Hiroshi Takeuchi's experience on many road sections, as long as there is a heavy rain, there will be mudslides or flash floods immediately, which can swallow the people walking below alive without leaving any bones.Thankfully, it's the dry season now....

Takeuchi Kanzhong took out a handkerchief, uncovered the neckline, wiped off the oily sweat stains around his completely soaked neck, looked up at the tightly covered green curtain, and spat out a stream of blood He shouted in a hoarse voice, "How far is it to get out of this forest?!"

Chief of Staff Kato Haranosuke, who was a horse behind him, replied: "There are at least five kilometers. According to the investigation of the troops in front, there is a relatively open valley and a dark river coming out of the mountain. We can take a proper rest." and hydration."

Takeuchi Hiroshi nodded, and said: "You still have to be careful! The environment here is too dangerous! Remind all departments to be cautious and not be careless!"

"learn!"

Kato's crispy promise, repeated it and confirmed it was correct, and then quickly conveyed it.Well, this is Lieutenant General Hiroshi Takeuchi's personal style and preferences.He likes to see the people below obey the rules in a serious and rigid manner.

For five kilometers, you have to turn around more than a dozen hills and rugged valleys, and often only two people can walk side by side, or barely allow a car or a horse full of things to walk across.A hidden cliff that appears from time to time.It was a pit where slipping and falling could kill people, and it was absolutely impossible to walk faster.

Within a few minutes, there was a sudden neighing of a war horse in front, followed by several terrified calls.

Hiroshi Takeuchi patted the saddle irritably, and shouted: "Bastard, what happened again? Don't make noise during the march, do you still need me to teach you this?!"

A major came back sweating profusely and reported: "Your Excellency, Lieutenant General! It's a pack horse. I don't know when it was bitten by a poisonous snake. It suddenly went berserk and kicked three soldiers!"

"It's a poisonous snake again!" Hiroshi Takeuchi frowned helplessly.The things here are really weird. According to common sense, poisonous snakes hide from people and will not bite unless they are threatened. However, they seem to have been starving for hundreds of years. When they smell blood, they will go up regardless. Flutter, hard to guard against.

Before he could figure out the words, how could he reprimand the soldiers to maintain good fighting manners under the most difficult conditions.The legs of the war horse under Leng Buding bent and fell to his knees, almost throwing him into the nearby grass.The people next to him hurriedly dragged him out.His Excellency, the commander of the division with a messy appearance, couldn't bear it any longer. He yelled and drew out his sword and rushed over to kill the horse that he loved and caressed a few minutes ago, but found that the beast that had been humping him for several years was already foaming at the mouth. , loosening the belt --- it seems hopeless.

Someone squatted down to check carefully, stood up and shook his head and said, "Your Excellency, your war horse is no longer good. It must have been infected with the disease a few days ago. After trekking in such a bad environment, it finally couldn't resist. .”

"Baga! Damn it!"

Takeuchi Hiroshi didn't know who to get angry with.In fact, when entering Myanmar to fight, the locals and the British reminded many times not to expect to use war horses here.It can't stand the harsh environment at all.It is best to use a short and ugly donkey or mule. Of course, you can also use a short Yunnan horse. After all, their ancestors lived in a similar environment and have long been used to it.

However, the head of the division, Hiroshi Takeuchi, who cared the most about appearance, thought that it would be too shameless for his majestic lieutenant general to ride a Yunnan horse or mule that was not much bigger than a donkey, so he was resolutely unwilling.Uncompromisingly got all the Oriental war horses bred from Japan, the result is good, so many people died along the way!On the contrary, those annoying donkeys and mules are alive and kicking, eating and sleeping.

what to do?The beloved war horse died, so he can't walk on two legs?In desperation, Hiroshi Takeuchi still chose those jeep off-road vehicles produced by those damn American contractors with a black conscience, resisting the bumps that would split his butt in half, and moved forward slowly.

After half an hour, he finally drove into the so-called open land.

Looking around, it is indeed sandwiched between dense and steep mountains, a rare river valley with a width of less than one kilometer, a river meandering out of the valley covered with dense fog and covered with branches, slowly flowing forward The side of the road is densely packed with grass as tall as a person, and large patches of mosquitoes fly up with a "boom" from time to time, covering the sky and the sun, and falling on people, popping out the one-inch-long mouthparts. !

According to Hiroshi Takeuchi, this mosquito can be compared in size with a grasshopper!A few of them fell on the body, and they couldn't suck them dry!

In particular, this thing is also infecting malaria, one stab is accurate, it is extremely annoying!

There are piles of mugwort collected from the hillside led by a local guide, lit and smoked around, which is a little safer.Hiroshi Takeuchi opened his neckline to take a deep breath of fresh air, and then noticed that the soldiers who seemed to arrive first did not go to the river to fetch water, but instead held precious glass bottles or military jugs to moisten in small mouths.

After asking, the guide said that the river water is poisonous and cannot be drunk.

Takeuchi Kan immediately became furious and scolded: "Baga! Nonsense! What can't you drink the running water flowing in the mountains?! This guide must be a spy. Doesn't he know how precious the water we carry is? The battle is yet to come! Have you been corrupted by Yingmi's luxurious life?!"

The big soldiers have long been fed up with his style of putting on airs and cursing at every turn, but they don't dare to talk back, they can only pretend that they don't hear.It was Chief of Staff Kato who was more spiritual. He went to find out for himself and came back to explain: "Your Excellency, what the guide said should make sense. These strange rivers pass through valleys that do not see sunlight all the year round. There are fallen leaves and poisonous snakes that have rotted for thousands of years. After the bioaccumulation is fermented, it will produce all kinds of strange toxins that we don't understand, and over time, countless highly poisonous toxins will be deposited inside and outside the river. Even fish and frogs will not grow in it."

"Hey mud? Is there such a thing?"

Takeuchi Hiroshi was not calm anymore.They grew up in Japan, and they never knew that there are such strange things in the tropics. Of course, on a volcanic island as big as Japan, it is difficult to find a place where no one can go. Where is it like the Asian continent? There are many mountains that have not seen people for thousands of years.

"Hmph! After we occupy Asia in the future, we must turn all these primitive lands into fertile fields and turn them into green mountains and green waters. How many descendants of the Yamato nation can be raised!"

Hiroshi Takeuchi uttered bold words again, then glanced disgustedly at the swarms of mosquitoes rising and falling in the distance, and then at the thatch cut down by the health guards covering their heads and covering their faces near the river bank --- there were densely crawling on it. There are colorful snails and clusters of leech eggs. It is conceivable that these things are probably the only ones that can survive in the water.

Anxiously waved people away.Hiroshi Takeuchi gritted his back molars and said viciously: "Such a dangerous place, don't keep it to cause trouble for the troops behind. Order the engineers. Use incendiary bombs to kill them all!"

"Ah?! Is this really possible?"

Chief of Staff Kato and the other officers looked at each other, feeling that the order was inexplicable.You are all on the sidelines, set fire?Aren't you afraid of burning your own people to death?

Hiroshi Takeuchi glared: "Bastard! Wouldn't you drive out of the isolation zone first? Use mortars to burn all the forests and river valleys upstream, and kill the vicious creatures in the river by the way, and exterminate the hateful mosquitoes." Only in this way can we guarantee that nothing will go wrong!"

"However, in this case, the traces of our march will also be exposed!"

There are jungles covering the sky and sun all the way, and it is very difficult for aerial reconnaissance to find them.But once ignited, the smoke billowing target is too big.

Takeuchi Kan waved his hand arbitrarily: "As long as you move fast enough, you don't have to worry! Don't think that the Chinese people's detectives are too capable!"

...Okay, you are the boss, you have the final say.

Chief of Staff Kato thought for a while, and it seems that these days, there seems to be no reconnaissance plane flying overhead. Besides, there are all kinds of miasmas in a radius of hundreds of miles, even if you light a fire, it will be extinguished soon, not so conspicuous?

To be on the safe side, he arranged for the air defense force to set up a cordon around them. After the engineers cleared two isolation zones with small engineering vehicles provided by the Americans, a dozen 60mm mortars aimed at the river outlet more than one kilometer away. A series of bang bang bang bombs smashed past.

The high temperature of the incendiary bombs is really powerful. The trees and vegetation hanging down on the river surface were burned into large pieces of charcoal. The river, as calm as stagnant water, suddenly became agitated. They watched countless leeches, snails with long tongues, poisonous frogs, and all kinds of strange creatures they didn't know come out from below. It pushed the water surface up half a foot out of thin air, wrapped it into a blanket of meat tens of meters long, and pushed it crazily downstream!

The veteran, who was fine after many fierce battles, was upset by this scene, feeling as if thousands of furry worms were burrowing out of his stomach, and spit it out.

An even more terrifying situation appeared!When the food he had just eaten fell into the water with a strange smell of stomach acid, countless creatures suddenly sprang out from the faint water, fiercely fighting and devouring it. In a trance, you can see the rows of Senli's fine teeth meshed fiercely, even biting each other desperately!

The soldiers screamed in horror, and ran back scrambling. The other people who didn't know what was inside looked curiously.At this time, they expressed their admiration for the wise decision of the head of the division. If they wade across the river for no reason, God knows how many terrible monsters will be infected!

Thinking of the consequences, they couldn't help but fight coldly together, and even more silently worried about the unlucky guys who had passed before, wondering if they had already suffered a big loss.

The military medical officer calmly took photos with a portable camera made in China, and even took out a glass bottle to take samples for future research.Their bravery was unanimously praised by all the soldiers.

Takeuchi Kan couldn't help but feel complacent.see?This is his wise decision, with his unique insight, he can discover the terrible danger hidden in it, and successfully solve the potential crisis for the troops behind.It is even possible to create a safe supply point that can operate for countless years.It's a pity that there are not many people around who can flatter, and they can't show his majesty and wisdom.

More than 100 fever bombs in a row swallowed the entire valley exit. The heat wave swept by the wind rushed to the river beach, igniting grass blades as tall as a person, forming a fire wave tens of meters high, and the annoying mosquitoes were killed before they could fly away. Licking and burning to death, it made a strange sound of thunderclap, slap, belly exploding.

Hiroshi Takeuchi felt that a bad breath finally came out, but he didn't expect that above the altitude of [-] meters, the infrared detection equipment of a large reconnaissance plane keenly captured the high heat signal at the moment of the explosion, and immediately transmitted the coordinates. (To be continued..)