The reason why the Engineer Regiment is called the Engineer Regiment is because the Engineer Regiment is a soldier who builds fortifications.

It may seem ironic that what was originally used to build fortifications or blow bridges and break roads is now a combat unit.

But in fact, the combat effectiveness of the engineer regiment at this time will not be worse than that of other main forces at all.

One of the reasons for this, of course, was the capture of a lot of equipment from the British by the Engineer Regiment...... Although equipment is not the main one, it is by no means secondary, and sophisticated equipment is the basis of the combat effectiveness of a unit.

And the equipment in the hands of the engineer regiment at this time could not even compare with the ordinary British and American troops. Of course, this does not include artillery units and air power.

However, equipment is only one of the reasons, the most important thing is that the engineer regiment has gone through the test of war during this period of war, and has gradually developed from soldiers who can only build fortifications and blow up bridges and break roads to soldiers who can fight on the battlefield.

This may be what people often call tempering.

To be more precise, the Engineer Regiment at this time was a unit tempered in victory...... The troops tempered in a victorious battle are completely different from the troops tempered in a defeated battle.

Some units have some soldiers, although they have fought for more than ten years and most of them are veterans, but they are still greedy for life and afraid of death. It's not that they can't fight, it's not that their military quality is not good, it's that they often lose battles, they will lose every battle, and they will retreat every defeat, so after a long time, everyone naturally thinks that they and their troops can't win the battle, so when the battle starts, what they think about is not defeating the enemy, but thinking about when to run away and how to escape!

The troops tempered in the victory are different, such troops will have a kind of thinking from top to bottom: the enemy is not a big deal, even if it is so fierce and tenacious, what can it do? Didn't fall under our guns again and again?!

If this kind of thinking is a kind of arrogance for an individual, but for the whole army, it is morale, confidence, and combat effectiveness!

At this time, the engineer regiment was such a unit, except for the first battle when they were pursued by the Japanese army, they almost every battle after that was to win more with less and more with the weak to defeat the strong, so naturally, they did not take the Japanese army seriously, and they were not so nervous when building fortifications.

Being less nervous means being able to think calmly, being able to relax, and being able to face the upcoming battle with more energy.

Zhang Chi felt this deeply, because he himself felt that he was two completely different people from himself when he first came to this plane...... He still vividly remembers the first time he saw the rifle, the first time he saw the Japanese soldiers, and the first time he killed people, but now he was a little numb and indifferent.

Is this a kind of growth? Or it can be said to be a kind of annihilation of human nature!

The deployment of the engineer regiment was as follows: first, one company was sent to occupy the 159th and 311th heights opposite the road at the entrance of the village, and to build fortifications on the hilltop position. Tang Ji arranged two companies to build fortifications in depth. In terms of tanks, armored vehicles and automobiles, most of them were hidden in the forests around Tangji, and the combat-capable tanks and armored vehicles were divided into four batches, each batch of ten tanks and ten armored vehicles, and at the same time Tangji only had one or two batches of tanks and armored vehicles to cooperate with the defense of the two heights.

This troop arrangement seems to be a little inappropriate, you must know that at this time, the engineering regiment has a regiment of more than 100 tanks, how can it only send two companies of more than 10 tanks and armored vehicles to defend? Isn't that a division of troops for the Japanese army to break through?!

But that's not the case...... It is true that the engineer regiment has tanks and armored vehicles in its hands, but there is no air power and no artillery support, and if the troops and tanks rush in, it will cause a very serious consequence: the Japanese army only needs to summon bombers or bomb with artillery fire, and a large number of living forces of the engineer regiment can be killed.

However, with such an arrangement as now, the two companies were scattered to defend on the two heights that controlled the road, and more than ten tanks and armored vehicles were on the other side of Tangji condescendingly to cover the two heights, so it was not easy for the Japanese army to take the two heights, not to mention that the engineering regiment also dug a communication trench from Tangji to the 159 and 311 heights respectively, and could send reinforcements to the two heights at any time.

Zhang Chi knew that this was actually the famous "refueling tactic" later, which was especially effective in defensive warfare when the comparison of enemy and enemy firepower was disproportionate.

According to it, this is also what Wang Mazi learned when the main force fought against the Japanese army...... When the Chinese troops fought against the Japanese army, there was often a large gap in firepower, and after fighting for a long time, they naturally gained experience.

Then Wang Mazi received a telegram from the military headquarters: Luo Yikao has been lost, and the 55th Division has been defeated by the Japanese army for the time being, and its whereabouts are unknown.

Seeing this telegram, Wang Mazi couldn't help but be a little incredulous.

For the time being, the combat effectiveness of the 55th Division was not at all the opponent of the Japanese 56th Division; It is normal for it to be defeated in such a short period of time, after all, this army was placed in front of Gan Lichu as cannon fodder, so the morale of the army was scattered, but its whereabouts were unknown...... It's a little confusing. Even if you lose the battle, it's okay to hide in the jungle with a radio on your back, and it's always okay to report the situation of the Japanese army to the upper peak, how can you be "missing"?!

Later, I learned that this was due to the fact that the forces of the 55th Division were too scattered, and the highlands, roads, and bridges were ...... There were a bunch of them here and there, so that as soon as the war began, several tanks of the Japanese army went on a rampage and broke into the headquarters of the 55th Division as if they had entered a no-man's land, and the division commander Chen Mianyue ran into the jungle without even having time to bring the radio.

Later, the Japanese army even used the captured radio to send a message to the Sixth Army and called the military headquarters by telephone, hoping to obtain some information from it...... It's just that the Japanese army is too anxious, and the voice of the phone call is a Japanese devil who speaks stiff Chinese, and when he hears it, he knows that there is a problem, and he will be fooled when he sees a ghost!

Later, it is said that Stilwell scolded Chen Mianyue for shooting...... obviously asked you to defend Luo Yikao, but you girl was about to collapse at the first touch, and she didn't know where to go when she retreated!

But in fact, everyone knows that Stilwell's order to let the temporary 55th Division hold Luo Yikao itself lacks basic military common sense, and he thinks that any Chinese division of 8 or 9,000 people can block the attack of more than 20,000 people in a division of the Japanese army like 200 divisions? Then just counterattack at home, and come to Burma to fight a fart war!

What's more, when the British army retreated on all fronts, how could Stilwell ever say who he would shoot? When nearly 10,000 people of the British Seventh Armored Brigade were besieged by more than 1,000 Japanese troops in Ringanqiang, how could Stilwell ever get angry like this?!