Yamashita Fengwen is good at leading troops. After a discussion with the officers and soldiers of the 15th Army, he found that the officers and soldiers were generally afraid of Gao Jiu's Taohua Mountain guerrillas. The main reason why those senior generals were unwilling to fight with Gao Jiu or even colluded secretly was not that they could get economic benefits when they cooperated with Gao Jiu, because even if they did not cooperate with Gao Jiu, they could still loot a large amount of money and property in the occupied areas. Cooperating with Gao Jiu was just out of helplessness. If they could defeat Gao Jiu, they would definitely not be willing to secretly interact with Gao Jiu.

Therefore, the key to solving the problem in South Asia is how to defeat Gao Jiu.

Yamashita Tomoto knew that relying on the original troops of the 15th Army, he could not defeat Gao Jiu, so he secretly mobilized his own direct troops, the 18th Division. The 18th Division had occupied Singapore for a long time and they had a lot of work to be transferred, so he first mobilized the 35th Brigade to South Asia and entered Thailand.

What Yamashita Fengfu didn't expect was that the secret cooperation between Gao Jiu and the Japanese army had reached an unimaginable level, and anyone had informed Gao Jiu of everything he did.

In front of Gao Jiu, Fengwen of Yamashita was like a blind man. Before his strategic deployment could be launched, Gao Jiu had already opened a big net and rushed towards the 35th Brigade.

When the Japanese 35th Brigade set out from Hanoi, Yamashita Bongfu personally met with officers above the captain of the 35th Brigade.

He first talked about the glorious war history of the 35th Brigade and encouraged them to defeat the Taohua Mountain Guerrillas just like they did in defeating the British army.

Yamashita Tomoto said: "Gaojiu's Taohuashan guerrillas are recognized as strong in combat. If the 35th Brigade can defeat such a powerful enemy, it proves that you are stronger than the Taohuashan guerrillas. You will create miracles in the history of the Japanese army, and your contributions will be recorded in history forever."

Yamashita Fengfu's speech was very inciting. The officers of the 35th Brigade were excited and were all excited to compete with Gao Jiu's Taohuashan Guerrillas.

The so-called calves born are not afraid of tigers, or they are called ignorant fearlessness. The 35th Brigade has not had a fire with the Taohua Mountain guerrillas. In their impression, since they are called guerrillas, they feel like they are a group of mobs, and the number is not large.

The 35th Brigade once defeated the well-equipped and numerous British troops, but they did not take the Taohua Mountain Guerrillas seriously.

After receiving the encouragement of Feng Fun from Yamashita, the officers went back to promote their soldiers. The entire 35th Brigade was as if he was injected with chicken blood and his morale was high. He sang military songs along the way and entered Thailand.

Not to mention, their combat effectiveness is really strong. After entering Thailand, they fought against the Thai anti-Japanese army and defeated a regiment of Thai troops. Fortunately, the Thai army was familiar with the local terrain and did not get destroyed by the entire army.

The victory of this battle further added the arrogance of the soldiers of the 35th Brigade.

Wang Zhankui and others were marching and received a telegram from Gao Jiu, reminding them to pay attention that the troops of the 18th Division of the Japanese army entered Thailand and told them not to be careless. As a result, this further aroused the fighting enthusiasm of Wang Zhankui and others. For a long time, in front of the Taohuashan guerrillas, the Japanese army was basically vulnerable, and it was rare for Japanese troops to be valued by Gao Jiu.

Wang Zhankui and others immediately became interested, wanting to see how powerful the Japanese 35th Brigade was?

That morning, Liang Shihu, who was leading the way in front of the guerrilla marching brigade, found the Japanese barracks and reported to Wang Zhankui on a wireless telegraph.

Wang Zhankui led the main force of the guerrillas to rush over.

He held up his telescope and saw that there was a small village on the hillside in front, full of Japanese troops. The village was too small to live in, and many tents were set up around the village. Seeing that the size of this Japanese army should be no less than an infantry brigade.

Wang Zhankui, Li Chengwu and others briefly discussed it and began to set up artillery and prepare to launch an attack on the Japanese army.

At this moment, gunfire suddenly sounded in the Japanese camp, and it turned out that the traces of the guerrillas had been discovered by the Japanese sentinels.

Seeing the Japanese army so alert, Wang Zhankui smiled and said, "It's interesting." After saying that, he ordered the artillery to fire.

"Boom, boom, boom."

Dozens of artillery shells flew to the Japanese camp.

The violent explosion lifted the houses in the village and the Japanese tents into the air. Among the flying fragments, there were many incomplete Japanese corpses.

Stationed here is an infantry brigade of the 104th Regiment of the 35th Brigade of the Japanese Army. They suffered a sudden artillery fire and suffered heavy losses.

However, the Japanese army was indeed very powerful. Under such circumstances, they did not panic and immediately organized the troops to fight back.

Artillery was originally set up in their camps, and the artillery soldiers braved the fierce artillery fire of the guerrillas and quickly launched artillery bombardment at the guerrilla artillery positions.

Although their number of artillery soldiers was not large, they still posed a significant threat to the guerrillas. Some shells fell into the guerrilla artillery positions, and several guerrillas died on the spot.

Almost at the same time, two Japanese troops rushed over from the Japanese camp, and they clamped them from left to right, like a pair of pliers.

The members of the Taohua Mountain guerrillas were a little surprised. They did not expect that the Japanese army was so powerful. However, this also aroused their blood. The guerrillas who had already ambushed on both sides of the artillery positions opened fire fiercely at the Japanese army rushing towards them.

All the guerrillas carried automatic firearms, machine guns, and submachine guns and poured bullets like heavy rain.

The Japanese army in front suffered heavy losses, and the one behind was forced to retreat.

However, the Japanese army quickly reorganized the attack. This time they did not concentrate and attack forward, but scattered into a scattered line, and each continued to attack the guerrillas for the sake of war.

Seeing this situation, some guerrillas put down their submachine guns, picked up sniper rifles, and knocked the Japanese troops to the ground one by one.

The guerrilla artillerymen could not see the Japanese artillery positions, and could only judge the approximate position of the enemy artillery, so they concentrated artillery fire toward the area from left to right, carrying out carpet bombing, and quickly destroyed the Japanese artillery positions.

The Japanese army did not expect that the enemy they faced was so powerful that their confidence began to shake in the face of heavy casualties.

The Japanese brigade captain held up a telescope and looked at the enemies in the distance in the camouflage uniforms. When they saw the weapons in their hands, they could basically tell that this was the legendary Taohua Mountain guerrillas.

The so-called experts knew if there was any one. After this battle, the Japanese brigade captain discovered that the legendary Taohua Mountain guerrillas were stronger than they imagined.

At this time, more than half of his men had suffered casualties and were unable to organize an effective attack. Seeing that his soldiers were constantly casualties in the fierce enemy artillery fire, he decisively issued an order to retreat.

Wang Zhankui had already thought of eating this Japanese unit and had already made combat arrangements in advance as the enemy was wiped out. Seeing the Japanese army retreating, he immediately commanded the guerrillas to chase after him.

The Japanese brigade leader and his officers and soldiers left the village and ran towards the dense forest ahead. As long as he entered the dense forest ahead, it would be difficult to destroy them.

The Japanese army fought back on the weedy hillside, and were about to run into the dense forest ahead.

At this moment, many black muzzles suddenly popped up in the woods ahead, and spit out the train at them.

The Japanese officers and soldiers were caught off guard and were knocked to the ground in large numbers.

The captain of the Japanese army saw that there were enemies in front and behind. He knew that the enemy had many artillery and did not dare to stay on the hillside. rushing into the dense forest in front was their only hope of survival.

So he waved his commanding knife and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Assault." He directed the remaining Japanese officers and soldiers to continue charging forward.

However, the firepower of the guerrillas was too strong. The Japanese officers and soldiers barely rushed to a distance of 50 meters from the woods, and basically lost all their losses.

Liang Shihu had good marksmanship, but later, after Gao Jiu's careful guidance, his marksmanship improved a lot. When he saw the captain of the Japanese army commanding the battle, he fired a shot at him.

The bullet drilled into his back heart and killed him.

The remaining Japanese troops lay on the ground and fought stubbornly, giving the special forces a good opportunity to practice marksmanship. They teamed up with a few people to deal with a Japanese soldier, and soon wiped them out.

Wang Zhankui and others happily annihilated a Japanese infantry brigade, which was considered to have learned about the combat effectiveness of the Japanese 18th Division.

In their eyes, although these Japanese troops are more powerful than ordinary Japanese troops, they are still vulnerable.

Wang Zhankui and others were preparing to continue to attack other Japanese troops. Gao Jiu's telegram arrived and asked them to meet with the Thai army and cut off the retreat of the 35th Brigade of the Japanese army.

I heard that Gao Jiu had to eat the 35th Brigade of the Japanese army in one breath, which was very suitable for Wang Zhankui and others. Everyone was very happy and started a marching urgently according to Gao Jiu's order.

Of course, they did not forget to telegram to Gao Jiu, telling the story of the battle with the Japanese 35th Brigade.

When he heard that Wang Zhankui and others had wiped out a Japanese infantry brigade so quickly, Liao Tong said disdainfully: "The 18th Division of the Japanese is known as the ace force, but that's all."

Even Liu Zhanying, who has always been steady and even a little timid, was full of confidence in defeating the 35th Brigade of the Japanese army.

The Yuan Zheng army's troops can be said to be the best equipped troops in the Guo army at present. The full set of mechanization and the powerful firepower have been several times higher than before.

Over the years, the Japanese infantry have been still Type 92 infantry artillery, mortar, crooked machine gun and Type 38 rifle. The firepower of the Yuanzheng army can completely crush them.

At the beginning, when the officers and soldiers of the Yuanzheng Army heard that the 18th Division of the Japanese Army was the ace unit of the Japanese army, they were a little nervous. When they heard the achievements of Wang Zhankui and others, everyone felt relieved and their morale was very high.

The commander of the 35th Brigade of the Japanese Army received a report from the 104th Infantry Regiment, saying that they had encountered the Taohuashan guerrillas and had lost an infantry brigade. He felt that the problem was serious and immediately reported the information directly to Yamashita Fengwen.

Yamashita Fengmoto had a keenness on the battlefield, and he also felt that the problem was serious. He felt that it was probably Gao Jiu who discovered that the 35th Brigade had entered Thailand, and was worried that Gao Jiu would launch a battle to encircle and annihilate the 35th Brigade.

If the 35th Brigade is annihilated, it will seriously affect the morale of the Japanese army.

He immediately sent a telegram to the brigade commander of the 35th Brigade, asking them to shrink their troops, build fortifications, stick to the waiting for assistance, and sent a telegram to the 67th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Laos, ordering them to rush to the 35th Brigade to urgently assist.

At the same time, he also issued an order to the 11th Japanese Air Force to provide air support for the 35th Brigade.

After receiving a telegram from Yamashita Tomoto, the brigade commander of the 35th Brigade of the Japanese army, he immediately ordered the 103rd and 104th Corps to shrink their troops and move closer to the brigade headquarters.

The actions of the Japanese army were discovered by the special forces members under Guo Hengming who had already monitored them and reported to Gao Jiu.

Gao Jiu heard that the 35th Japanese Brigade had contracted together and was in his heart. He did not want the Japanese army to be scattered everywhere, especially in the dense forest, so it would be very troublesome to destroy them in this way.

Since they want to fight positional wars, they can take advantage of the anti-Japanese army's advantages of excellent equipment and strong firepower.

The 35th Brigade of the Japanese Army sent a large number of scouts to search for the place where the Japanese infantry brigade was annihilated.

One of the main tasks of the special forces members under Guo Hengming was to deal with the Japanese scouts. They were in groups of several people, lying in ambush in the jungle, and when they saw the Japanese scouts passing by, they raped them.

The captain of the Japanese reconnaissance team, Yasuo Harada, saw that the scouts he sent did not reply, and realized that there was an enemy ambush.

He held the telescope and observed carefully, but there was nothing in front of him except the lush and green primeval forest.

In order to find out the situation, he sent two scouts to reconnaise in front. He followed about 200 meters behind the two scouts and carefully observed the situation of the two scouts.

Suddenly, he saw a scout falling down, and another scout lowered his head to check on the fallen scout, but he also fell to the ground.

Without hearing the gunshots, Harada Yoshio knew that the ambushed enemy must have used a gun with a silencer. He and several scouts lay on the ground and continued to observe the two falling scouts.

Soon after, they saw two enemy soldiers wearing colorful camouflage outfits coming out of the jungle. They were indeed holding sniper rifles equipped with mufflers.

The two enemy soldiers checked the bodies of the two Japanese soldiers and then sneaked into the dense forest.
Chapter completed!