The so-called soldiers were fast, and the new 1st and 2nd regiments launched an attack on Yangon without staying long.

This is mainly due to the lessons learned from the previous Bamo battles...... In the attack on Bamo, the Chinese and American coalition forces had successfully attacked Bamo, but because the attack was not timely enough and the troops were not resolutely invested, they missed the opportunity to quickly take Bamo.

At this time, Rangoon was almost the same situation as in the early days of Bamo, only more than 2,000 troops directly under the Japanese army were stationed in Rangoon, and the rest of the garrison troops, engineering units and even expatriates were transferred to Bago, one of which was the 105th Brigade was also defeated by the Chinese army.

However, the Chinese army had two regiments of more than 5,000 men, and the troops of the 50th Division were constantly airborne to Bago and then reinforced Rangoon, which was enough to pose a threat to the Japanese army in Rangoon.

The Chinese army was deployed as a new regiment to be placed directly north of Yangon, controlling the Yangbo Highway while attacking Rangoon from the north. The new 2nd Regiment was placed east of Rangoon to prevent possible Japanese reinforcements from the east and to threaten the east of Rangoon.

From this point of view, the strength of the Chinese army is still insufficient, for example, there may be Thai reinforcements from Thailand from the west, and reinforcements from the 4th Wing of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army on the coastline in the south, and these reinforcements cannot be stopped by the Chinese army.

But the interspersed fight is to fight fast and slow to be prepared for the unprepared, and this battle is destined to be a fire from the beginning with many risks.

So the offensive battle against Yangon soon began.

The troops of the two battalions of the new regiment, under the cover of tanks, launched a fierce attack on the north of Yangon, one on the left and one on the right.

However, the offensive did not go well.

The troops had just gone up for a while, and the townsmen called the battalion headquarters with a phone call to report to Zhang Chi: "Battalion commander, the troops can't go up, there are already two tanks destroyed by devils, and one of them is still a 'big guy'!" ”

"Big Guy" is another name given by the Chinese army to the Sherman tank, and it goes without saying why it was named, naturally because of its size.

"What?" Hearing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but be taken aback: "How did the devil knock out the big guy?" ”

"It's supposed to be a cannon!" The townsman replied: "The situation is not very clear! ”

"What are you doing!" Zhang Chi scolded: "Two tanks were knocked out by the enemy, you still don't know how they were knocked out?" How did you become a company commander! ”

"Battalion commander. I ...... "There was no sound from the townspeople."

When Zhang Chi personally took the guards to the battlefield to see the situation, he found that he was wrong to blame his fellow villagers.

The devil's defenses were cleverly arranged, ostensibly with sandbags along the streets, and these two lines of defense were only equipped with machine guns, grenadiers, mortars, etc.

Of course, these equipment could not block the onslaught of the tank, and it is no wonder that the fighters drove the tank up with a single shot.

"Battalion commander!" The fellow villagers ran along the traffic trench to Zhang Chi, who was holding a telescope to see the situation, cautiously poked his head out, raised his head at the two destroyed tanks in front of him, and said: "Our tank was blown up a little inexplicably, and the brothers who followed the tank didn't see what it was. It's said that it's a mine, and the track has nothing to do with it, it looks like a cannon exploded, but I don't see a cannon on the devil's side......"

"It's a cannon!" Zhang Chi replied.

The cannon wasn't an anti-tank gun, and it wasn't an armor-piercing projectile, but it had enough momentum to destroy the Sherman tank and kill its crew.

"Battalion commander!" The fellow villager looked at it for a while, and then said with some confusion: "Why didn't I see anything?" Not even a barrel! ”

"The three-story building at the bottom of the street!" Zhang Chi said: "On the second and first floors......"

After observing for a while, the fellow villager replied with some frustration: "I still haven't seen it!" ”

"The two with the windows!" Zhang Chi added angrily.

"Oh!" Hearing this, the townsfolk couldn't help but suddenly realize, and he raised the telescope again to look at it carefully for a while. Cai smiled bitterly and said, "The devil is really fucking cunning...... Feelings, they still installed the windows back after the shot, no wonder they can't see it! ”

This is actually a camouflage, who would have thought that behind the window, especially behind the window with even the glass intact, there was a large-caliber cannon weighing three or four tons?!

But the devil's trick can fool others, but he can't fool Zhang Chi.

It's not hard to guess, it's been a few years since the house. As soon as the cannon fires inside, the mud outside the window will be shaken off, and even the shock will spread outward around the two windows...... So don't think about it, there must be a cannon hidden inside.

"Let the artillery take a look!" Zhang Chi ordered.

"Yes!" The townsfolk answered, and immediately summoned the signal soldier to take the phone and reported the coordinates to the artillerymen.

With a whistling sound. Soon, a cannonball fell from the sky, blasting a cloud of fire and dust in the target area.

But the effect was not as good as it seemed, and when the smoke cleared, Zhang Chi found that the building was still undamaged.

"it!" The townsman scolded: "I told the artillery to fight harder!" ”

"No need!" Zhang Chi stopped his fellow villagers.

The devil should have been prepared. The building was not as simple as it seemed, its interior must have been specially reinforced, and it would have been a little lower than the other buildings, so a volley of shells would come through, and most of the shells would be blocked by the protruding roofs of the other buildings.

If you continue to fight like this, even if you blow up this area, you may not be able to blow up the building.

Moreover, this is only a part of the streets of Yangon, and if you have to do this everywhere, you will not be able to knock Yangon down even if you run out of shells.

"Battalion commander, but this ......"

Zhang Chi knew the difficulties of his fellow villagers, these two cannons hiding in the house could be said to have sealed the entire street, and the tanks would become a pile of scrap metal as soon as they went up, not to mention the infantry, and they would soon be strafed by Japanese machine guns and mortars, and the only places that could hide for the Chinese army were the houses on both sides of the street.

"Zhang ......" Pete, who was next to the walkie-talkie at this time, reported to Zhang Chi: "I just got the information, there is a Japanese army in the east that is already on the way to reinforcements, and there are two large brigades, and there are also traces of Japanese troops in the south, they can arrive before dark!" ”

Zhang Chi couldn't help frowning, it was only a few hours before it got dark, and the Japanese army in Yangon used the streets to defend it layer by layer, and arranged it like an iron bucket...... Trying to take Rangoon in a matter of hours seemed like an impossible task.

(To be continued.) )