At this time, it was the four battalions that defended the front line, and this four battalions were not the previous four battalions, the current four battalions were the four battalions that had fought in Lashio.

Lashio is a transit point for U.S. aid supplies and equipment, and there are large quantities of American artillery, rifles, ammunition and so on that are ready to be shipped to China.

The four battalions are all soldiers of the new division and the provisional division, and most of the rifles in their hands are made in Hanyang, even the artillery of Meng Lezeng's artillery battalion is an old Japanese-style mountain artillery.

So when they arrived in Lashio, the equipment of the four battalions was completely changed...... A large pile of equipment was left there waiting to be burned, not in vain, so it was all replaced with all American equipment.

In fact, the American-style equipment that the Yankees gave to China is just some things with acceptable performance, such as the rifle is the Chuntian type that the US military wants to eliminate, the heavy machine gun is the water-cooled M1917, the artillery is the M1 type 75 mountain gun, and some howitzers, etc., but these equipment are much better than those in the hands of the fourth battalion, especially the M1 type 75 mountain gun, which was dragged by 30 guns in one go, making the fourth battalion seem to be an artillery battalion.

Meng Lezeng was originally an artillery battalion, and he was very good at the use of artillery, and when organizing the defense, he scattered these thirty mountain guns on the high ground and used them...... He knew that no matter how many artillery pieces he had, he could not compare with the Japanese artillery units, especially the Japanese army still had air supremacy, so he could only disperse them and dig anti-artillery holes for the artillery, so that their artillery could survive under the Japanese artillery fire and aerial bombardment.

At this time, the devil's bunch of tanks drove up, which was exactly what Meng Lezeng wanted...... As the signal corps sounded one flag after another, the artillery scattered all over the high ground pushed out one American mountain gun after another, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at the Japanese tanks that were slowly approaching below.

Then, as soon as Meng Lezeng gave an order, the mountain artillery let out a "rumbling" roar and fired shells at the Japanese army.

It should be said that in addition to being more flexible and convenient to use in mountainous areas, the performance of the American M1 75 Mountain Gun in all other aspects is relatively mediocre, so that the Yankees themselves do not like to use it and lose it to China. However, this kind of mountain artillery is more than enough to deal with the Japanese Type 95 and Type 97 tanks...... Japanese tanks were poorly armored. Moreover, at this time, the M1 75 mountain gun was still condescendingly hitting the weak tops of the Japanese tanks, so after only one round of artillery fire, three or four Japanese tanks were blown into a fireball.

This is still because the soldiers are not familiar with the operation of the American mountain artillery in their hands and do not have much accuracy, but even if they do not have many accuracy, it is enough for the Japanese army to eat a pot...... The total number of tanks that came up from the Japanese army was only eighteen, and three or four were killed in one round of artillery, so I am afraid that there were not many tanks left before they rushed in front of the enemy. Moreover, even if the mountain artillery did not hit the tank, the Japanese infantry who followed it suffered heavy casualties.

When the artillery continued to bombard the Japanese tanks, the light and heavy machine guns of the fourth battalion also spat out tongues of fire at the Japanese army, and at this time the four battalions were equipped with American Browning light and heavy machine guns, and the bullets were like raindrops at the Japanese army, and the saddest thing was the Japanese army's Type 95 light tank...... ITS 12MM THICK ARMOR WAS LIKE PAPIER-MÂCHÉ IN FRONT OF THE AMERICAN HEAVY MACHINE GUNS, AND WITH A BURST OF BEAN EXPLOSION, THE LIGHT TANKS WERE BEATEN INTO BLACK SMOKE AND THEN QUICKLY CAUGHT FIRE AND EXPLODED.

Nobuo Ueda, who came to command this battle, was dumbfounded, he thought that these tanks would attract enemy tanks to come out, but he didn't expect that the enemy tanks had not yet come out, and his own tanks were almost defeated.

Nobuo Ueda was distressed. These tanks had taken a lot of effort to get them, but he didn't expect them to be so vulnerable on the battlefield...... In fact, the Japanese tanks have always been vulnerable, and the reason why their armored forces were able to run amok before was entirely because the Japanese army's combat targets were like Asian countries with weak industrial weapons and equipment.

At this time, Nobuo Ueda could no longer care about any temptation, and hurriedly ordered the artillery to open fire.

But the hateful thing is that the original plan of the artillery unit was to blow up the enemy's tanks, so the muzzles of the guns were all aimed at the road and the wilderness below the high ground, and the artillery hurriedly adjusted the Zhuyuan to suppress the enemy's artillery corps. Several more tanks were destroyed.

While the artillery was suppressing the enemy's fire, Nobuo Ueda hurriedly ordered the troops to retreat. However, at this time, only five tanks could be withdrawn, and three of them were still wounded, and they would not be effective unless they were overhauled.

When Nobuo Ueda was so angry, there was a cheer from the 309 Heights where the fourth battalion was stationed, and they had never beaten the Japanese armored troops so freely and cleanly.

But when you think about it, you feel sad, the same Japanese army and the same tank that you are facing at home. However, because the soldiers did not have enough sharp equipment and ammunition in their hands, they were helpless, and they had to rely on the infantry to rush forward with cluster grenades or explosive packs to blow up the enemy tanks......

It was precisely because of this battle that Wang Mazi in the rear realized that the Japanese army had actually set a trap just now to lure the tanks of the engineer regiment to go up, so he would not send the tank troops.

Zhang Zhang just smiled when he knew this, and the Japanese army could be said to be moving a stone and shooting himself in the foot. The first battle was full of casualties.

It's just that the strength of the Japanese army is more than imagined, and the Japanese army that occupied Myitkyina in history was only more than 3,000 people in a wing, but now the Japanese army is artillery, tanks and infantry...... This is by no means something that a wing can do.

But Zhang Chi was not worried that the Japanese army in front of him could take Myitkyina, because the geographical location of Myitkyina is very special, the Inouaddy River has turned a few turns here and flowed around Myitkyina for most of the half-circle, which can almost be said to encircle Myitkyina on the north, east and south, leaving only the west for the Japanese army to attack, and the west is very suitable for the troops to garrison a few highlands, there are natural caves on the heights for storing ammunition, and there are fortifications built by the British army.

More importantly, Myitkyina's geographical location happens to be in the middle of the entrance to the narrow strip of northern Myanmar, and further north is almost a deep mountain and old forest with nowhere to resupply, and it can almost be said that if you want to enter northern Myanmar, you must take Myitkyina, otherwise you will face the situation that the supply line will be cut off by Myitkyina at any time.

Now, it seems that Zhang Chi and the others only need to wait for the arrival of the Fifth Army in Myitkyina. (To be continued.) )