Chapter 101: Tentative Attack in Zai An

Evening, 24:00.

A burst of monowheel cart sounds passed, and everyone's attention gathered here; rather than the vehicle's noise, one could say the scent in the air was smelled.

"The scent of baozi."

"Really fragrant."

"I'm going, I see white mantou."

"So big."

"So white."

Xiao Si was very satisfied with everyone's performance; people have vanity, Xiao Si is no exception, standing on a high ground, they might have forgotten this is a war zone, daring to stand so high.

Xiao Si shouted: "Our company commander said, everyone has worked hard, this is the dinner prepared for everyone, don't be polite, each person a can, Canned Beef, Red-braised Pork can, mantou take as much as you like."

He didn't forget Jiang Anguo's instruction, Xiao Si said: "Everyone is not allowed to be disorderly, line up in four rows, come up one by one to receive."

The mantou were covered with cloth, ensuring they wouldn't get cold.

When the cloth was removed, the fragrance spread across the position.

"I've said it many times, everyone is not allowed to grab, first each person takes two, hey hey hey, how many are you taking!"

"Finish eating before taking more, understand? Don't eat too full, later we still have work to do."

Everyone ate without regard to appearance; originally the night snack was dry rations, but unexpectedly they could also eat meat and white mantou.

"Li Daya, how many have you eaten?"

Li Daya showed a big yellow tooth, "Hehe, not many, just three."

"Alright, you ate really fast." The speaker had already finished the second one, preparing to get a third mantou.

One bite of mantou, one bite of meat, ate it truly clean, not a drop of broth left, and finally even turned the can over and licked it clean drop by drop.

It foretold that this night would not be peaceful.

"It seems this group of Chinese have strong firepower." Captain Chun Tian arrived at the front of the position.

Captain Chun Tian's squad is attached to the Search Detachment of the 56th Regiment.

He raised his hand, rain was coming, "Yo! Truly heaven aids me; when it rains, we will charge over, we can definitely smash the Chinese position opposite."

His eyes stared fixedly at the Expeditionary Force's position, as if staring at a piece of fat meat.

If Jiang Anguo were on site, he would surely think this Little Japan had gone mad, a small detachment of the Japanese Army daring to assault the positions of his three battalions.

It wasn't Little Japan that was mad, but this route was simply too smooth.

The Expeditionary Force's two divisions, temporarily the 55th Division, the 49th Division, almost collapsed the instant they encountered Japanese soldiers.

Whether because of Japanese fighter planes in the sky, or encountering the madmen of the Japanese 56th Regiment.

The two divisions of the Expeditionary Force, the resisting firepower, was almost negligible.

Thus it made Captain Chun Tian doubtful, perhaps a soldier from his own detachment earlier had bad luck and ran into the Expeditionary Force's firepower.

But it's fine, when the rain comes, that will be the opportunity.

The rain fell heavier, even making Jiang Anguo toss and turn unable to sleep.

He looked down at Xiao Si sleeping on the ground; this little fellow was actually sleeping well, still snoring, also tired.

Xiao Si laid a waterproof mat on the ground, Jiang Anguo gently placed his own blanket over Xiao Si.

Captain Chun Tian glanced at the time, the rain had soaked so much that eyes couldn't open, the northern Myanmar rainy season arrived a bit early.

"Launch the attack," at Captain Chun Tian's command.

Dong.

Boom.

The Grenade Launcher first attacked the position on the other side of the bridge, but Captain Chun Tian had no idea that Jiang Anguo's bridgehead position was not on the bridge, there was still some distance from the bridge.

Of course, on the north side of the bridge, a position was also built to confuse the Japanese.

"Kill the chicken, give give!" Captain Chun Tian, with a wave of his hand, the Japanese Devils behind him, using the rain, launched an attack on the Chinese position.

Jiang Anguo was leading the Guard Company distributing raincoats, he also hadn't expected rain today.

Myanmar's rainy season is about to arrive!

Hearing the explosion, he recognized it at a glance, even though the heavy rain interfered, it was the Japanese Grenade Launcher sound.

"Don't want to live, right? Lu Ning, Sun Fu, have the soldiers of your two battalions retreat to the second Defensive Line, no chaos allowed, no retreat. Hold your ground, anyone who dares step back, executed on the spot!" Jiang Anguo issued the order.

"Yes." Lu Ning and Sun Fu immediately went to command their two battalions' soldiers.

At this moment the soldiers of these two battalions were like boiled chickens; of course, everyone also heard the bombing sounds, panic arose, but thanks to Lu Ning and Sun Fu's timely appearance.

Some, in panic, dropped their engineer shovels and weapons, and ran into the two sides of the jungle.

It was truly faster than a rabbit; even though comrades behind shouted, they couldn't stop.

Fortunately Jiang Anguo had placed his own soldiers within the two battalions, each battalion assigned forty soldiers from his Guard Company, otherwise the chaos would have been more thorough.

Bang! Bang!

After killing a few soldiers, the retreat was finally halted.

Thus for such a unit, Jiang Anguo didn't even dare to place them on the Guard Company's position.

Jiang Anguo also couldn't spare attention to these two battalions, he thought the Japanese main force was attacking.

No need to say more, the night‑duty Guard Company soldiers, at Guard Company Commander Jiang Fei's shout of "Illumination light."

Swish.

Several beams of light shone on the bridge surface; the bridge, where Captain Chun Tian was preparing a raid, was startled, not expecting to be exposed so quickly.

"Illumination light."

Several illumination flares rose into the air, lighting both banks of the An River, making the whole battlefield as bright as daylight.

Captain Chun Tian immediately shouted: "Baka, charge!"

There was no time for cover; Chun Tian directly led his squad's soldiers in a charge, this was literally a Death Charge.

"Open fire."

Clank clank clank.

Mauser rifles, MG42 machine guns, instantly entered combat mode.

On the bridge, flesh and blood flew everywhere; you couldn't tell whether the fallen were Little Devil (Japanese soldier) or a rain of blood.

"Mortar." Guard Company Commander Jiang Fei shouted loudly.

Behind the position were ten 81mm mortars, lined up in a row; after the Four Regiments occupied the 'Zai An' position, the soldiers had already set up the mortars, and the mortars' angles all faced the open ground on the other side of the bridge.

Whoosh!

Chun Tian looked up, tilted his head, his cross‑eyed gaze full of disbelief, "Nani!"

But it gave him no time to react at all.

Chun Tian roared, "His Majesty the Emperor… board‑mounted!"

Squad Leader Chun Tian charged at the front and was the first to be knocked down by bullets; behind him, the Little Japan soldiers saw their leader fall, their hearts wavered, but this bridge would be their grave.

Jiang Anguo's Guard Company gave them no room at all; the Guard Company of five hundred men had all firepower unleashed—Mauser rifles, the dreaded MG42, mortars, the only thing lacking was that the infantry guns at the rear did not fire.

Hearing the gunfire, all the warriors of the Four Regiments sprang from their sleep, grabbed nearby weapons, barely had time to put on clothes, and rushed onto the position.

Jiang Anguo was very satisfied; these were the soldiers the system gave him, as if they were born for war.

Compared with the makeshift ragtag troops that had been gathered, their fighting will was incomparable.

"Why is there no sound?" Jiang Anguo said softly.

Tap, tap, tap.

The raindrops were huge; Jiang Anguo couldn't even open his eyes, and he wiped the rain off his face.

At this moment he was covered in mud; the trench of this position had not been reinforced with planks, and the heavy rain washed it so that it was almost like a ditch.

If this isn't dealt with later, Myanmar's rainy season will be enough to give Jiang Anguo a headache.

Jiang Anguo was also a bit nervous; this time his position was not at the rear but in front of the Guard Company's soldiers.

He understood that as a Commander, his battlefield was not on the front line.

"Is the Japanese attack over just like that?" Jiang Anguo muttered to himself, looking at the hellish scene on the bridge.

It was too fast, so fast it felt unreal.

Is this Little Devil (Japanese soldier) testing its firepower?

He was a bit bewildered; Jiang Anguo thought the attackers were a large Japanese Army force, yet the movement was so slight.

In fact it was a Japanese detachment; the main Japanese force was still behind, and these Little Devils had gone berserk, believing the Chinese army was utterly vulnerable.

The 56th Division's Search Detachment marched too fast, and the units were overly scattered.

The Japanese Army hadn't even charged across the bridge.

For Jiang Anguo's Guard Company, twenty MG42s placed on a tiny 'Zai An' position were enough to stop a Japanese regiment.

No one could answer him, because Song Mengqin also didn't understand the situation; he suggested going to the front to see, and Jiang Anguo agreed.