This battle plan was quickly approved by Division Commander Chen Shanguo.

Perhaps at this moment Chen Shanguo woke up: the current task of the Japanese army is to block the Chinese army, and if they fail to do this, then the Japanese army has already failed strategically.

Therefore, there is really no need for the Chinese army to continue to fight Tai Chi with the Japanese army here.

Chen Shanguo then formulated a more detailed plan: leaving the New Third Regiment and the 149th Regiment of the 50th Army to continue to fight with the Japanese in Bago, while the New 1st Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment broke through the Japanese defense line under the cover of artillery and continued to penetrate along the road towards Yangon.

The first thing to do is to impose martial law.

It was the sappers who did the work, and a few bulldozers were more effective than anything else, and the Burmese people quickly left the main road when they saw such a behemoth "rumbling" over, followed by a group of Chinese troops who kept firing warning shots. Then the bulldozer's shovel shoveled some collapsed broken bricks and rubble, and in a few strokes blocked the street connected to the main road, and even some sappers did it even harder, and the shovel pushed the house around the corner of the street, and with a "boom", the house was completed when it collapsed.

Before the Burmese people or the Japanese troops hiding among the people understood what the Chinese soldiers were going to do, the soldiers of the new regiment quickly advanced along the main road under the cover of several Sherman tanks.

This time, the advance of the soldiers is much more assured, at least they don't have to worry about any "people" suddenly jumping out and causing trouble, if there are really people breaking in, then I'm sorry...... It can only be solved as the Japanese army.

As a result, there were really a few "common people" who did not give up and wanted to make trouble, they hid in the shadow of the corner and waited for the tank to pass by, and then suddenly broke out with explosives bags...... But because there was no "cover" from other people, the result of this practice could only be that he himself was beaten into a honeycomb.

The tanks "rumbled" forward and soon drove out of the city, and the artillery units duly fired a series of shells at the Japanese positions, which was to provide fire cover for the new regiment that was moving in, and at the same time to interfere with the sight of the Japanese troops. so that they would not be concentrated in a short time to block the new mass advancing along the road.

As for the Japanese soldiers who hid in foxholes, carrying explosive packs or magnetic anti-tank mines, ready to blow up tanks...... This was a real problem, because the tank had to be in front of the infantry to cover it, and it was difficult for the tank to find out if there was a person hiding in the foxhole in front of it in the dark night, and the infantry following the tank could not detect it because it was blocked by the tank.

But this problem was quickly solved by Zhang Chi.

The method is actually very simple, Zhang Chi let the soldiers bring enough grenades, and throw grenades all the way to the tank as they move forward...... Tanks are not afraid of grenade explosions, but people can't withstand such bombing, so the result of blowing up all the way is that the tank is okay and the Japanese who want to get close to the tank will be blown up.

Sure enough, along the way, I saw a Japanese corpse appearing in the Xu Sanbing pit from time to time, and next to their bloody corpses, there was often an explosive bag or magnetic anti-tank mine that had not had time to detonate.

The New 2nd Regiment followed behind and was responsible for covering the two flanks of the New 1st Regiment. As a result, the tanks and armored vehicles of the new regiment soon broke through the Japanese line and drove onto the road, as expected.

But at this time, there was a surprise to everyone, including the Japanese army, a new regiment that had just entered the highway suddenly appeared in front of the front, under the light of the tank headlights, Zhang Chi faintly saw that the road was full of Japanese troops, not to mention thousands of people, including tanks, armored vehicles, and countless others.

It turned out that this was the tank brigade and the 105th mixed brigade left behind by Kimura Hyotaro...... Fearing that the troops would not be able to reinforce Bago in a hurry, Kimura divided his troops into two parts, one part being a faster automobile and artillery unit. On the other hand, there are slower tanks and infantry.

The Japanese troops fighting with the new 1st Division were the first to rush to Bago with the Japanese 73rd Brigade and artillery units, and the tanks and infantry that followed had just arrived at this time, and coincidentally collided head-on with the new 1st and 2nd regiments that had broken through the defensive line.

The Japanese soldiers who were walking in front of the road also realized that the situation was not right at this time, and immediately became nervous. The correct choice for the Japanese army was to disperse and inform the Japanese troops in the rear of the enemy situation and be prepared, but they did not do so, they chose to organize a defense on the spot...... It can be said to be courageous or stupid. On such terrain, but also in the face of the Chinese army, the Sherman tank organized the defense. That's no different from suicide.

Since the Japanese army sent it to the door, Zhang Chi was not polite to them, and immediately issued an order to attack. At the same time, the artillery liaison officer was ordered to contact the artillery to bomb the depth of the Japanese army.

The first thing that rang out was the machine guns on the tanks, and as the rows of bullets passed, the Japanese soldiers lined up in dense formations on the road immediately let out screams and fell in pieces, and some of them were smart enough to hide behind the tanks to avoid the bullets, but this could not save their lives...... The Japanese Army's Type 97 and Type 95 tanks were all transferred to the direction of Imphal by Mutaguchi Ryoya, leaving behind some ultra-light tanks, such as Type 92 and Type 94, the total weight of these tanks was only 3.5 tons, and the weapons were either two machine guns or mortars, which were simply toys for the Sherman tanks with a total combat weight of 34 tons.

Therefore, the Sherman tank did not fire at all, and even the machine gun bullets were saved, and the "gala gala" was very easy to flatten the Japanese "iron coffins", and the Japanese tank crew in the tank needless to say, it directly became "sandwich meat", and many Japanese troops hiding behind the tank did not have time to escape and were pressed under the Sherman's tracks.

Some Japanese soldiers wanted to take advantage of this time to come up with explosives bags and blow up Sherman, but before they could get up, they found a bunch of things thrown behind Sherman's tank...... That is the Chinese soldiers behind the tank followed the tactics of breaking through the Japanese defense line just now, anyway, the Japanese army did not have long-range equipment to deal with Sherman, and if they wanted to blow up Sherman, they could only use the explosives to attack with "****", and the grenade was a good weapon to prevent the "****" from approaching, and the soldiers didn't even have to poke their heads out to observe, they just needed to keep throwing grenades in front of the tank.

So I only heard a burst of "boom", and the Japanese troops blocking the front were blown to pieces, and then the tracks of the Sherman tank rolled up again......

This was not the worst for the Japanese army, and even worse for the Japanese army behind did not know what was happening in front of them, especially the Japanese army behind the corner of the road...... They also thought that the troops in front were unfolding, and the gunfire and artillery on the battlefield covered out the screams and shouts of the Japanese troops in front of them as they were dying, so they all waited calmly in the rear......

(To be continued.) )