The Japanese then launched a counter-charge against the Sherman tanks in operation, but this also failed to achieve the desired effect.

The Chinese artillerymen, who had been prepared for a long time, did not hesitate, and immediately smashed the shells into pieces, which could almost be said to have formed a wall of fire in front of the Sherman tank, which mercilessly devoured and tore the Japanese soldiers who rushed up one by one.

But the Japanese troops in the search wing were also the elite of the elite, even if they knew that the shells in front of them were a dead end, but they still rushed forward with bayonets, and as a result, a few Japanese soldiers were lucky enough to rush through this wall of fire...... It's just a pity that what awaits them on the other side of the wall of fire is not success and glory, but tanks and bullets fired from the guns of Chinese soldiers.

The crew of the Sherman tank was a mixture of Chinese and American people, as was the custom in tank forces, and there was always one or two Americans in the tank crew.

The reason for this is that the Americans are more familiar with the performance of tanks, and on the other hand, because the training process and time of Chinese tank crews are too short...... This is due to the fact that the training speed of the infantry is too fast, the original three-month training progress was completed in two months, and in order to allow the infantry to have tank support on the battlefield, the tankers only studied and trained for two months before rushing to the battlefield.

Although American tanks, especially Sherman tanks, have a characteristic, that is, they are easy to learn, and the US military can often learn and go to the battlefield in just a few weeks, but two months is still a little tight for the Chinese, so they added a US tank crew to the tank in order to learn while fighting.

At this time, the American crew in the Sherman tank did not dare to slack off, and personally operated the tank in the wheelhouse...... The Yankees are also worthy of being a country on wheels, and they are also very familiar with operating tanks, pushing a pile of earth and rocks to the anti-tank trench and filling it up very smoothly with one advance and one retreat, and in a short time a road dozens of meters wide was paved on the anti-tank trench.

The townspeople in charge of the operation saw that the time was ripe. Immediately, he shouted to Zhang Chi on the walkie-talkie: "Report to the battalion commander, the trench is completed, the trench is completed!" ”

"Trench filling!" Zhang Chi reported to Wang Mazi, who was waiting beside him.

"Up!" Wang Mazi waved his hand back without thinking about it.

The tanks that were hiding behind them soon "rumbled" up, and as each tank crossed the trench, a group of infantry consciously followed, and marched forward with guns in their hands.

Zhang Chi also led a few guards and communicators to follow a tank forward, surrounded by dust raised by the tank and exhaust vapors. But at this time, Zhang Chi didn't care about these at all, all he thought about was how to defeat the enemy in front of him at the lowest cost, after all, the force in front of him was the search wing of the Japanese army, so Zhang Chi didn't dare to be careless.

But in fact, Zhang Chi is thinking too much.

The reason is that the usual training or fighting of this search wing is more offensive, and it is also an offensive with tanks and armored vehicles, but now it is allowed to defend, and they are a little unable to fight. So although they are elite, their performance in this battle is ordinary.

This is especially true of tanks and armored vehicles that are buried in the ground...... The Japanese tank guns posed no threat to the Sherman tank, and the Sherman tank in front of it fired at it once it found an enemy "pillbox" somewhere. Either they adjusted their muzzles and fired a shot at it to destroy it easily, or they just rolled it up and flattened it, and some Sherman tanks even shoveled at their turrets with forklifts......

THE THICKEST ARMOR OF THE JAPANESE 95 TYPE TANK IS ONLY 18MM THICK, WHERE CAN IT WITHSTAND THE IMPACT OF SUCH A GIANT AS THE SHERMAN TANK, AND IN AN INSTANT, THE ENTIRE TURRET WAS LIFTED TO REVEAL A FEW PANICKED JAPANESE SOLDIERS INSIDE, AND THEN WAITING FOR THEM WAS THE HEAVY TRACK OF THE SHERMAN TANK.

A Japanese survivor who later recalled the battle described it this way: "The sad thing about us is that we have nothing to do with the tanks of the Chinese soldiers. The only way to deal with this tank is to shoot its side armor at close range with anti-aircraft guns, but this is even more difficult than rushing up with an explosive bag. At that time, I felt the pain of the Chinese soldiers when I was in China! ”

The surviving Japanese soldier was right. At home, because the Chinese army lacked tanks and basic anti-tank weapons, even in the face of the Japanese army's Type 97 and Type 95 garbage tanks, they had to rely on people to blow them up with cluster grenades or explosive packs.

But on the battlefield in Burma, the situation has completely turned in a different direction...... It was no longer the Chinese soldiers who came up to blow up the tanks with grenades and explosives, but Japanese soldiers.

The Chinese soldiers were trained in infantry coordination, so they could always kill the Japanese soldiers who rushed up in time on the open terrain.

Under the cover of tanks. The new regiment very smoothly tore through the defense line of the Japanese search wing and rushed into the city.

The Japanese tried to fend off the Chinese attack by relying on street fighting, but this was equally futile...... At this time, the Chinese army is no longer the Chinese army of the past, and now they know the coordination of infantry artillery, infantry and tank, and more importantly, they know that the Yankees have almost inexhaustible ammunition. So once there is any resistance, it is no longer the same as before, and as soon as the trumpet is blown, piles of people rush up. Instead, calculate the coordinates. Then grab the walkie-talkie and contact the artillery. Soon after, a field of shells flew over and smashed the building where the Japanese were stationed.

This made the battle much simpler and, of course, more importantly, reduced casualties to a great extent.

The battle took only two hours, and all the Japanese troops stationed in Mandalay were annihilated...... The reason why the word annihilation is exhausted is because the search wing really lived up to its elite name, and they did not withdraw from Mandalay even at the last moment, but rushed at the tanks of the Chinese army with bayonets knowing that they were dying.

But the result was still the same as before, the battlefield was not a place where courage was only emphasized, and the Japanese army still fell under the machine guns of the Chinese army in pieces.

Among them, Zhang Chi only fired once, and killed a wounded Japanese soldier, this Japanese soldier was seriously injured, and his entire leg was blown off by Qi Gen, if it was an ordinary person, it was impossible to be sober or have the ability to resist after being so seriously injured.

But this Japanese soldier can do it...... He even pretended to be dead without saying a word, who could believe that a person whose entire leg was blown off could still be motionless? So no one had any doubts about the corpse, except for Zhang Chi.

Because Zhang Chi found that there seemed to be something pressing under him, and his right hand was still pulling the string, he was obviously waiting for the tank to come up and die together.

Zhang Chi didn't let him succeed, and a single bullet ended his life, but even Zhang Chi himself didn't believe that anyone could do it. (To be continued.) )