A heated discussion soon ensued in Scott's command:

"General! We have long learned the performance of the 7th Armored Brigade. As soon as the Japanese opened fire, they retreated, they called the terrain unsuitable for tank combat, they did not want to pay unnecessary casualties, can we still believe in their combat effectiveness? ”

"General! Why not give the tank to the Chinese to try, that's our only hope! ”

"General, please consider our suggestion!"

……

Zhang Chi and Wang Mazi were happy to watch a good show outside the headquarters.

"I don't know what the Britons think!" Wang Mazi said with some indignation: "Even if you die, you have to hold the equipment in your hands, won't those equipment be kept in this way?!" ”

Of course, Zhang Chi knew why, but Zhang Chi didn't explain much, because there are some things that it is better not to understand than to understand.

Now, for example, if they don't understand, the warriors will still think that Scott is just pedantic and stupid. If they really understood why he did this, or understood why the British would rather leave the equipment to the Japanese than the Chinese, then they were afraid that they would be so angry that they would the British.

Therefore, Zhang Chi prefers to hide these "understandings" in his heart, because the current situation is that they cannot fall out with the British yet, and the fall out will only make the already bad status quo worse.

"But anyway, you did a good job!" Wang Mazi patted Zhang Chi's shoulder.

"What?" Zhang Chi didn't understand.

"Those British ** officials were instigated by you!" Wang Mazi raised his head towards the noisy headquarters.

"Oh!" Only then did Zhang Chi understand that Wang Mazi was referring to this: "I'm ...... It's also a method that happened to come up with it! ”

"Well done!" Wang Mazi nodded: "In this way, I think it's a matter of time before the British hand over the tank!" But better be quick......"

Saying that, Wang Mazi took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and said a little anxiously: "I'm afraid there will be a mess if it's late!" ”

Zhang Chi couldn't help but nodded, he understood what Wang Mazi was referring to this mess, you must know that the Japanese army now has a division of more than 20,000 troops in the Ren'anqiang area, and these troops are just busy fighting fires in the oil field and have not caught up for a while.

What if they pull out? Or do they send reinforcements towards the Bin River?!

Eventually, the Command argument came to a halt after an hour.

As Wang Mazi expected, Scott made concessions and agreed to hand over the equipment to the Engineer Corps.

It is said that it was the female reporter Page who finally made Scott compromise...... She threatened to send everything to the British newspaper and report it, and she did, because newspapers often provided their reporters with radios in order to get first-hand information from the front, and Page had one in their possession.

This is a big deal, and Scott has to think about whether he can afford to leave a name for himself in history. In the end, after weighing it again, he felt that he might as well try to break through...... If the breakthrough is successful, then it is best, if it does not succeed, he will eventually become a prisoner of the Japanese, then he will put all the responsibility on the Chinese.

"My Chinese friend!" Scott walked up to Wang Mazi, stretched out his hand and said, "I agree with your suggestion, but that is the property of the British, and I want you to let them play their due role on the battlefield." At the same time, you must return the equipment to us after the breakout! ”

Wang Mazi snorted with a straight face, and did not reach out to cater to the hypocritical Scott.

Zhang Chi hurriedly replied: "Of course! ”

“Yeah!” There was a cheer from the British ** officials around, as if they had won a battle, and Page seized the opportunity to take a photo.

"So......," Scott said, "how do we break through?" ”

Zhang Chi replied: "We have already discussed with General Slim to launch an attack on the 501 Heights as much as possible!" ”

As he spoke, Zhang Chi motioned for Wang Mazi and Scott to return to the headquarters, and explained in front of the map: "The plan is this, we have to get in touch with General Slim and make an appointment to attack the 501 heights at the same time. Our tanks and armored vehicles quickly moved along the road under the cover of artillery fire, and then attacked the 501 heights with the fire of tanks and armored vehicles to cover the infantry! ”

This plan is actually very simple, the 501 Heights happen to be located near the three forks of the highway, choking the traffic arteries, under normal circumstances, the tanks can not drive in and fire at all, they can only go up one and be knocked out by the Japanese army.

However, if powerful artillery is used to bombard the 501 Heights indiscriminately, so that the Japanese artillery cannot fire, or if the flying gunpowder smoke and dust and the night make them unable to see the tanks at the foot of the mountain, then the soldiers can spread the tanks and armored vehicles along the road, and then machine guns and tank guns, plus mortars, howitzers and other heavy equipment, these firepower will destroy the 501 Heights.

"Report!" At this moment, a communications soldier hurriedly ran up and reported: "A telegram from General Slim's side, Japanese tanks have been found in the direction of the Binghe Bridge!" ”

"What?" Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but be stunned.

The battle plan just now was based on the fact that the Japanese army did not have tanks, but now the Japanese army has tanks...... This not only meant that Japanese reinforcements had arrived at the Bin River, but it was also likely to be an armored force. It is conceivable that at this time, it would be impossible to attack the 501 heights with tanks or armored vehicles along the road, because that would be blocked and attacked by the Japanese armored forces.

Zhang Chi knew that this should be because the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties because of the capture of the Binhe crossing, and realized that the Binhe was unlikely to break through by the British army due to the lack of troops, so he urgently sent an armored force to reinforce it.

"Alas!" Wang Mazi sighed: "After all, it's still a step slower, this dog-day British, there is more than enough success and more failure!" ”

Zhang Chi knew why Wang Mazi scolded so much...... Because if it weren't for Scott's delay of more than an hour, they would have already taken the 501 heights and even broken out.

However, it was because of this hour that the Japanese armored units arrived and filled the gap in time.

There was silence in the headquarters, and everyone looked at the map with serious expressions and didn't know what to do.

Not only could the British army not be saved, but I was afraid that even the engineer regiment would be put in.

But Zhang Chi was not willing to admit defeat like this, he looked carefully at the map for a while, and then asked Scott: "Do you know the deployment of the Japanese army in front?" ”