"Hit!" When the vanguard of the Japanese army broke into Tangji, Wang Mazi immediately gave the order to start a war.

The first to bear the brunt of the three wheels at the forefront of the road...... It should be said that this is a good habit, because the side three wheels are not heavy equipment, and the troops required are not much, even if they are attacked by the enemy, it is not a pity to have losses, and they have a good line of sight and can walk no matter what road, which is very suitable for the reconnaissance mission in front.

Just like this time, if the Japanese army were ahead of tanks or cars, it would have lost heavy equipment or suffered a lot of casualties.

But the Japanese army at this time was not much better, because the soldiers had been prepared for this situation of the Japanese army...... The engineer regiment had fought with the Japanese army for several years in China, and knew the marching habits of the Japanese army, so they would not waste the shells of the tank guns on the side three wheels, and the infantry fired a row of bullets and immediately hit those side three wheels one by one.

Then the tank "rumbled" forward...... Tangji Town is located at a high place and the highway is located at a low place, so there is also a position similar to the ridge line of the high ground on the edge of Tangji Town, and as soon as the tank drives to the ridge line, it is condescending to see the Japanese convoy in front of it along the highway in half a circle, so where will it be polite, and at the moment according to the Japanese convoy, rows of bullets and shells were fired.

It was forty tanks and forty armored vehicles, forty guns, hundreds of machine guns, and light machine guns and Enfield rifles from two companies of infantry on the two heights outside the town, and the bullets rained down on the Japanese convoy from different directions and angles.

The Japanese were stunned on the spot, and many of their tanks and cars were hit by a dense barrage of bullets and shells before they could react...... Among them, even a few Type 97 tanks were also destroyed in one shot before they had time to react. This is not to say that the Japanese Type 97 tank did not fight, although it did not fight, but under normal circumstances, it did not even have time to react, at least it was a "medium tank" that could still block most bullets and shells.

This is true, but at this time, the Type 97 tank was advancing along the road, and the road was across the front of Tangji Town, until the entrance of the village turned a steep slope to reach Tangji, which also means that ...... The Type 97 tank exposed its weak side armor to the fire of the tanks and armored vehicles of the engineer regiment, and its side armor was only a dozen millimeters thick, so the heavy machine gun of the armored vehicle hit the Type 97 into smoke as soon as the bullets fell.

Suddenly, the highway became lively, and shells flew out from the barrels of the M3 and M4 tanks lined up, and Japanese tanks and cars were blown up into the sky...... The Japanese soldiers in the car didn't even jump out of the car in a hurry, and they were blown into the air by the whole car.

Some fast-moving Japanese soldiers or cars in the blank space of the tank fire of the engineer regiment were lucky enough to survive the rain of tank shells...... This is mainly caused by the poor coordination between the tanks and tanks of the engineering regiment, after all, the gunners and tank crews of the engineering regiment have only undergone a simple few days of training, although they have participated in several actual battles and have grown up rapidly in actual combat, but coordination sometimes requires tacit understanding and is formed for a long time, which is still insufficient for the tankmen of the engineering regiment.

Under this shortcoming, there will be a situation in which several of the forty tanks will aim at the same target at the same time, for example, everyone likes to aim at the enemy tank at the first shot...... In fact, they are not to blame for this, there is a saying that the best weapon against tanks is tanks, that is to say, the biggest threat to tanks is tanks, so the first target that tank gunners look for on the battlefield is enemy tanks.

However, the Japanese army only had two Type 97 and three Type 95 tanks, while more than half of the tank units of the Engineer Regiment had more than half of their firepower, that is, more than 20 artillery pieces and dozens of machine guns, all of which were fired at these five tanks...... This undoubtedly caused a considerable waste of firepower.

After analyzing it, in fact, those Japanese tanks did not need tank guns to deal with at all, because at this time they all exposed their weak side armor in front of the fighters, and only heavy machine guns were needed to solve them. And if a tank gun is a perfect match against a car...... As soon as the artillery passes, a whole load of Japanese troops will be blown up or lose their combat effectiveness.

From this point of view, the quality and training level of an army are still quite important, and sometimes they will play the role of inflicting the greatest casualties on the enemy with the least ammunition and the shortest time on the battlefield.

The engineer regiment did not have such a level of training, but the casualties inflicted on the Japanese were not small. The reason is that although those Japanese soldiers had time to jump out of their cars and organize defense, they soon found that they could not organize a defense at all: the front was the enemy's tanks, armored vehicles and other heavy weapons, and the back was the enemy's infantry, and the enemy was all condescendingly beaten, and they had no cover to hide in, only to be beaten!

So in the next second, they quickly switched from organizing defense to retreating...... The Japanese army did not retreat at any time, just like now that it is encircled by the enemy, if it still blindly rushes forward or stays in place to fight, it is no different from waiting for death.

Of course, the soldiers of the engineering regiment would not let them go so easily, and several tanks and armored vehicles immediately spontaneously took on the task of blocking their retreat with firepower, and immediately knocked the pieces that retreated like a tidal wave to the ground.

However, the battle was over in ten minutes, and the road was littered with the wreckage of cars and tanks and the corpses of Japanese soldiers, and this battle also annihilated 500 or 600 Japanese soldiers...... The reason why so many people were killed was also due to the fact that there were not enough Japanese vehicles.

As mentioned before, the Japanese army even transferred logistics vehicles to the 56th Division to rush to Lashio. In this situation of car tension, the Japanese troops of the 56th Division also crowded into one car with more than 30 people...... As a result, there were more than 700 Japanese troops in the 20 or so cars that broke into the encirclement of the engineer regiment.

Under the fire of the engineer regiment, only more than 100 of these Japanese soldiers could escape.

The battlefield soon erupted in cheers.

Although there have been impressive results before, it is worth cheering for the soldiers to be able to annihilate five or six Japanese soldiers beautifully in one battle.

However, Zhang Chi knew that this was just the beginning, because they had to face a division of the Japanese army, the 56th Division, known as the "King of Jungle Warfare"!