Sure enough, the Japanese sent reinforcements to the breakthrough section of the expeditionary force...... It should be said that the reaction speed of the Japanese army was quite fast, and ten minutes after the end of the battle on the Sedang River, reinforcements arrived at their destination and launched an attack on both flanks of the expeditionary force.

But these attacks are in vain, this is mainly due to the Japanese side of the strength of the expeditionary force underestimated, or it can also be said that Zhang Chi's "strange strategy" was used very successfully, the Japanese army always thought that the 200 divisions trapped in Tonggu had run out of ammunition and had no combat effectiveness, in fact, they had every reason to believe, because the information from the Japanese 55th Division was that the squadron had entered the stage of saving ammunition, and in the face of the attack of the 55th Division, they even began to collect guns and ammunition left by the Japanese army on the battlefield.

Therefore, in this case, the Japanese commander thought that the squadron was just fighting and used the few remaining ammunition to break through the Sedang River, so the troops who came to reinforce did not even bring mortars or heavy machine guns, and they threw themselves into the battlefield with a speed of 100 meters.

But soon the Japanese found out that they were wrong, and they were very wrong.

They were hit like never before, and they estimated that the firepower of the ** squadron in front of them even exceeded that of two Chinese divisions.

Of course, there were not two Chinese divisions fighting the Japanese on both flanks, but only one engineer regiment...... The reason why the Japanese army made such an erroneous calculation was that he was accustomed to roughly judging the enemy's strength by the density of machine guns, and the Enfield in the hands of the engineer regiment fought like machine guns, plus there were dozens of tanks with machine guns and artillery, so the firepower was equal to that of two divisions in an instant.

"Where did the squadrons of these two divisions come from?!" The commander of the 56th Division of the Japanese Army, Masao Watanabe, was furious about this.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" Chief of Staff Akira Ikeda also came in with a telegram and reported: "I just received a telegram from Yuta Harada of the 1st Brigade, it is not the reinforcements of the squadron, but the squadron has obtained a large amount of equipment from the British armored regiment and used it, which is why there are so many tanks and such strong firepower!" ”

"I see!" Masao Watanabe nodded, and then asked, "How is Harada-kun's condition?" ”

"They...... All of them have been killed! ”

Masao Watanabe couldn't help but sigh: "They deserve to be soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire!" ”

After a pause, Masao Watanabe felt that something was wrong: "If the Chinese have such strong equipment, why didn't the 55th Division notice it at all?" ”

"This is a trick of the Chinese!" Akira Ikeda pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and replied with some embarrassment: "According to the information we have received, it is very likely that the British tanks and rifles are reequipped with Chinese engineer regiments rather than the main force fighting the 55th Division." ”

"What? Engineer regiment? Masao Watanabe looked at Ikeda in disbelief: "You mean...... We lost in the hands of the Chinese engineer regiments ?! ”

Akira Ikeda hesitated, but eventually nodded.

"Bastard!" Masao Watanabe slammed his fist on the table, shaking the cup and jumping up.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" Akira Ikeda advised: "Order the troops to stop attacking, the Chinese have so many tanks and British rifles in their hands, our attack will only be in vain!" ”

Masao Watanabe thought about it, and nodded helplessly.

This was not only because the 56th Division did not carry much heavy equipment after a forced march of 200 kilometers in three days, but also because the Japanese army generally lacked anti-tank equipment...... The opponents that Japan has to face are mainly backward countries in Southeast Asia, such as China and the Philippines, which basically do not have advanced tanks or armored vehicles, and occasionally a few are completely insufficient to match Japan's aircraft, artillery and tanks, so the Japanese army basically does not need any anti-tank equipment.

However, as the saying goes, "born in adversity and dying in peace", this situation directly caused the Japanese Army at this time to be almost blank in terms of anti-tank, and the Type 97 anti-tank rifle was still hastily developed before the war against the Soviet Union, and then it was only produced in small quantities because it was almost not used on the battlefield.

As a result, now that an armored unit and an armored unit capable of fighting suddenly appeared in front of the Japanese army, the Japanese army felt a little helpless.

It can also be seen from this that it was a pity that the British 7th Armored Brigade fled without a fight on the battlefield in Burma, and their nearly 200 tanks could have galloped across the plains south of Tonggu under the cover of the air force, causing the Japanese to lose their armor and flee in all directions, but they chose to flee, and they could not even run, and finally left the tanks to the Japanese so that they could become the weapons of the Japanese army against the Chinese expeditionary force.

"Inform the flight team of this information!" Masao Watanabe could only order: "In addition, order the armored troops to catch up as quickly as possible!" ”

"Yes!" Akira Ikeda answered, turned around and passed on the order.

The engineer regiment that had the most direct experience of this order was the fierce battle with the Japanese army on the front line.

At this time, Zhang Chi and others were still shooting strings of bullets at the Japanese army.

Fighting seems to have become simpler, and in the past, in the face of the Japanese army, it was often necessary to use four to one or even ten to one troops to achieve basically equivalent combat effectiveness. (Note: Four-to-one is a well-equipped descendant unit, and the combat effectiveness of a division of 9,000 descendant troops is equivalent to the combat effectiveness of more than 2,000 people in a wing of the Japanese army; Ten to one is the combat effectiveness of an ordinary army, that is, a division and a Japanese brigade of more than 1,000 people. ）

But now, with the Engineer Regiment in possession of tanks, Enfield rifles, and plenty of ammunition, it seems that all they had to do was hide behind the tanks, shoot the bullets at the enemy in pieces, and then watch the Japanese troops rush up and down, and then rush up and down......

Of course, there were also bullets and shells from the direction of the Japanese army that caused the soldiers of the expeditionary force to fall from time to time, but because of the difference in firepower and the cover of tanks, the casualties on both sides were completely disproportionate.

As for whether the 56th Division of the Japanese Army was the "king of jungle warfare" or not, they didn't care, because as long as they suspected that there were Japanese troops hiding in which jungle, they only needed to use tank guns and heavy machine guns to bombard that jungle indiscriminately.

Then suddenly, Zhang Chi and the others felt a light pressure, and the Japanese army and their bullets all disappeared into the darkness.

"Stop shooting, stop shooting!" Wang Mazi shouted several times before the soldiers of the Engineer Regiment stopped what they were doing, but there was no way, there were still quite a few of them who did not adapt to this kind of frontal battlefield.

"The devil has retreated!" I don't know who said it.

There was a pause, and soon the warriors cheered:

"The devil has retreated!"

"Victory!"

……

"We've won!" Zhang Chi slowly put down the rifle in his hand, and the whole person collapsed on the ground like a deflated ball.