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This mistake by Nobuo Ueda gave the Engineer Corps a big advantage.

Originally, Zhang Chi and the others did not expect to encounter the Japanese tank troops here, if they knew in advance, they might have considered it again.

This is not to say that the tanks in the hands of the engineer regiment are inferior to the Japanese tanks, in fact, as long as anyone who knows a little about military affairs knows that the Japanese tanks are one or two generations inferior to the British and American tanks...... This is due to Japan's limited steel production and its relatively weak industrial base relative to countries such as Britain and the United States. The small amount of steel produced is less steel that can be used in the military, and the vast majority of this little steel is also used in the navy to build warships and aircraft carriers, so the army can only get a pitiful little, which is why the Japanese army's light tanks can even penetrate heavy machine guns.

The problem is that the mountainous terrain in central Burma is not very suitable for tank combat, especially between tanks and tanks, which is very unfavorable for the side that attacks and breaks through.

The reason for this is not difficult to understand, the tank has to rely on the road to attack, and whether it destroys the enemy's tank or is destroyed itself, it will become an obstacle in the way, so one after another will be hit, I am afraid that I will not be able to fight for a few days.

The Sino-British coalition army, which was the attacking side, demanded to end the battle as quickly as possible and rush out, otherwise it would be surrounded by Japanese legions rushing from all directions, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

Therefore, Nobuo Ueda only had to make one move at this time, that is, to withdraw the tank troops from the oil fields and retreat to a relatively narrow road, or even they only had to line up the tanks on the road as a roadblock...... Maybe the Sino-British coalition forces didn't have time to rush out.

But it is not the style of the Japanese to retreat at the beginning of the war, not to mention that the infantry wing still asks for tank reinforcements, not to mention the protection of the scarce resource oil, so Nobuo Ueda sent the tank unit without thinking about it.

It should be said that there is another reason for this, that is, because the Japanese army has been dealing with countries such as China, the Philippines, and Singapore for a long time, which have few tanks, they have no experience in commanding tank groups at all.

At this time, the two Japanese Type 97 tanks in front of Zhang Chi fell into an embarrassing situation due to the command error of Nobuo Ueda, in fact, the Japanese tanks were also discovered when they drove up in a hurry.

After being stunned for a while, they quickly realized that if they continued like this, they would just wait for death, so one of the Type Ninety-Seven immediately reacted...... Turn.

But this reaction is obviously not much better than waiting for death here, the Japanese Type 97 tank did not retreat, and if it wanted to turn around, it only had one side of the track not moving and the other side of the track moving forward, so that the hull did a 180-degree rotation...... But in this way, the weak side armor of the ninety-seven, and even the most vulnerable back armor, were exposed under the muzzle of the M3.

Where would the M3 tank let go of such a good opportunity, so it only heard the "boom" two cannon sounds, and the Type 97 tank that tried to escape turned into a ball of fire.

The rest of the 97-style still didn't move, Zhang Chi thought, the crew inside was afraid that they were going to cry: they couldn't go or go if they couldn't fight, was there such a thing as they waited to die as soon as they went to the battlefield?

In the next second, this ninety-seven type made a move that surprised Zhang Chi and the others...... It rushed forward at full speed.

It was an accident because I had never seen such a way of fighting when tanks were fighting on the battlefield.

It's not surprising, it's because of the phenomenon of little Japan rushing forward regardless of life and death, Zhang Chi and others have also seen a lot, but it used to be a Japanese infantry and now it's a tank.

When I think about it, I think it really makes sense.

If you can't fight or escape, you can only rush forward...... And the further you rush, the closer you get to the target, the less likely it is that the shell will miss. That is to say, once the Type 97 rushes in front of the M3 tank, then the Type 97 can bombard the M3 tank into the sky with a single shell.

As for the infantry behind the M3 tank, it is natural to have the machine guns on the Type 97 to deal with.

At this critical juncture, an M4 Sherman tank drove up, and it slightly adjusted its muzzle on the Type 97 tank as it opened...... THE MAIN GUN OF THE SHERMAN TANK IS A 75MM CANNON, WHICH CAN PENETRATE 60MM STEEL PLATES AT A DISTANCE OF A THOUSAND METERS, AND THE 33MM FRONTAL ARMOR OF THE JAPANESE 97 TANK IS SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH!

(Note: The Sherman was one of the few World War II tanks to be equipped with an artillery vertical stabilizer that could accurately aim at a target while on the move, while Japanese tanks had to stop to aim.) ）

A few more Shermans came up next......

It was originally planned, with light tanks and armored vehicles at the front for reconnaissance missions, and Sherman on board when there was a hard nail to deal with.

This arrangement was certainly reasonable, because the medium tank Sherman, despite its firepower and thick armor, was clumsy in action, and its large size was not suitable for reconnaissance missions. And the light tank is exactly the opposite, especially the perverted five machine guns on the light tank...... The reason for the five machine guns is that these tanks are mainly used for reconnaissance or against enemy infantry.

However, now that the enemy's armored forces have been discovered, it is natural for Sherman to take the lead.

A look at the few remaining Type 95 tanks of the Japanese army...... Such a big guy came up, and he didn't care if it would cause a fire at the moment, and it was just a few shells according to Sherman.

BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THE FRONT ARMOR OF THE SHERMAN TANK WAS 76MM THICK, WHICH WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT THE 37MM SMALL GUNS ON THE JAPANESE 95 TYPE COULD IMPRESS.

I saw that Sherman continued to drive forward in the face of artillery fire like a steel giant, and continued to drive forward...... It was not worried that the Japanese tanks would turn around and flee, as it would expose the back armor that could be penetrated by the machine guns as soon as it made a U-turn.

The Japanese tankers also knew this, so they could only stop in place, and then with a "creaking" screak, the Sherman tank rolled heavily on the Type 95, and the Type 95 disintegrated like a flattened persimmon in an instant.

Several other Type 95s tried to run, but were soon arched to the side of the road by the angry Sherman, unable to move like a turtle that could not turn over.

Of course, the soldiers who followed behind would not let them go, and the heavy machine guns on the armored vehicles were beating randomly on the bottom armor of the Type 95, and a burst of black smoke and fire soon rose from the side of the road.

A few Japanese soldiers were lucky enough to survive, and they crawled out of the wreckage of the tank in a panic to escape back to their positions in the darkness of the night, but their luck was obviously not good enough to escape the rifles in the hands of the soldiers...... After a burst of gunfire, there were several more corpses on the ground.

The tanks continued to push forward, and several Sherman tanks appeared in the gaps between the houses on both sides of the road...... There are not many Sherman tanks in the hands of the Sino-British coalition forces, only nine, but these nine Shermans are the hard bones that the Japanese armored forces cannot gnaw.