"I wonder what's going on in the Japanese positions?" Zhang Chi asked straight to the point, "How did they destroy your Sherman?!" ”

Rice hesitated, then replied: "It's an anti-tank trench, an anti-tank trench that is camouflaged, and there is nothing unusual on the surface, but when the tank goes up, tragedy happens!" ”

Speaking of this, Rice sighed again.

Hearing this, I understood that the anti-tank trench is actually very simple, it is actually a deep pit similar to a trench, but the width and depth are deeper and wider than the trench, and the specific width is generally determined according to the enemy tank.

As you can imagine, as long as this width is more than half the length of the tank, the tank will fall headlong into the tank guard when it crosses the tank guard and become stuck in the tank guard and cannot move.

The Japanese even camouflaged this anti-tank trench, such as adding wooden planks and a thin layer of soil on it, so that there was nothing unusual on its surface, and even the infantry could walk back and forth on it, but as long as the tank rolled up...... The weight of the tank quickly crushed the planks and caused them to fall into the anti-tank trenches.

It is no wonder that the tanks of the British and Indian armies are like meat buns beating dogs.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but feel glad, if it wasn't for the Anglo-Indian army rushing to attack Mandalay, then it would not be the Anglo-Indian army but the Chinese army that lost tanks this time.

"Have you seen a devil's tank?" Wang Mazi asked beside him.

The reason why Wang Mazi asked this question was because the scouts of the new 1st Division sneaked into the Japanese defense line and grabbed a few tongues when the British army was fighting with the Japanese army last night...... This is what the New First Army often does, and this is a continuation of the tradition of the Chinese troops.

Because the Chinese troops do not have any high-tech equipment, they often have no idea about the enemy's situation before the battle, so they can only rely on "tongue grabbing" to interrogate and obtain a little information. Of course, the Yankees would not do such a dangerous thing, and they would use reconnaissance planes to take aerial photographs, or to listen to telephone calls and telegrams to obtain information.

Of course, these reconnaissance methods of the US military were also available to the Chinese Expeditionary Force at this time, for example, the Expeditionary Force had aerial photographs of Mandalay in their hands. However, these photos can only show the defensive positions of the Japanese army, and the details such as the anti-tank trenches cannot be found.

So sometimes it's more useful to "catch the tongue".

It's a pity that these "tongues" who were caught had very hard mouths, and no matter how hard they tortured, they didn't say anything, and in the end they didn't get any information except that they knew that the Japanese troops stationed in Mandalay were searching for the wing.

But knowing that the Japanese army is a search wing can be regarded as a gain.

This may seem like an inconspicuous piece of information, but it actually contains quite a lot of information.

For example, there are more than 3,000 people in a wing of the Japanese army, which is to tell the Chinese soldiers about the strength of the Japanese army stationed in Mandalay.

For example, the search wing is an elite unit equivalent to a Chinese scout or rapid reaction force, which shows that the Japanese army in Mandalay is quite effective.

The most important. The Japanese search wing was a highly mechanized unit, which meant that the Japanese army in Mandalay had many tanks and armored vehicles.

So Wang Mazi asked the sentence: "Have you seen the devil tank?" ”

"Nope!" Rice shook his head with certainty: "No Japanese tanks were found!" ”

"That's weird!" Wang Mazi frowned: "Where are all the devil's tanks?" ”

"Maybe we'll be out of Mandalay a long time ago!" A staff officer said: "Otherwise, the aerial photographs should reveal something." ”

Wang Mazi shook his head and said: "This is unlikely, the US military reconnaissance plane has been closely reconnoitring Mandalay a few weeks ago, and has never found any trace of the devil's armored unit leaving. ”

"The Chindit troops also did not find the tanks of the Japanese!" Rice continued: "I don't think the Japanese in Mandalay have tanks, otherwise, they should choose to break through with tanks!" ”

Rice's thinking is still stuck in the state of can't fight and run in the war of Western countries, so he has been wondering why the Japanese army did not retreat.

"The Devil Tank should still be in Mandalay!" Zhang Chi said.

"Then why is it gone?" Wang Mazi asked.

"Because their tanks may not be on the ground!" Zhang Chi replied.

"Not on the ground?" Wang Mazi couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "Will it still be able to drill into the ground?" ”

Zhang Chi didn't answer. Just nodded.

"You mean......" Wang Mazi looked at Zhang Chi with a disbelieving face: "The devil tank really got into the ground?" ”

"Tuanza!" Zhang Chi replied: "If you were a devil, commanding more than 3,000 troops to defend Mandalay, and having many tanks and armored vehicles in your hands, what would you do?" ”

That's a problem. Wang Mazi was stunned for a moment.

"And ......," Zhang Chi continued, "these tanks and armored vehicles are still far from the enemy's tanks and armored vehicles in all aspects, and they are still vulnerable in front of the Sherman tanks, and they don't even have air superiority but are only bombed, how will you place these tanks?" ”

I thought about it. Wang Mazi nodded: "This is also the reason why the devils will dig anti-tank trenches in Mandalay, they know that their tanks and armored vehicles cannot play a role on the battlefield, so they simply give up the conventional way of fighting tanks against tanks!" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Chi replied: "For the Japanese army." Instead of driving tanks to the battlefield and being destroyed by enemy tanks and bombed by enemy aircraft artillery, it is better to put these tanks and armored vehicles to use...... And the method of using it is very likely to bury tanks and armored vehicles in the ground and make them into pillboxes! ”

"Makes sense!" Wang Mazi replied: "No wonder we can't always find the devil's tank, I thought the devil was hiding the tank somewhere to prepare for a surprise attack on us...... If you say that, it's really possible that it was used as a bunker by the devil! ”

Zhang Chi's analysis is correct, in fact, Genuchi Shoichi doesn't want to do this, he also knows that the most important thing for tanks and armored vehicles is their mobility, and if there is no mobility, then they can play a very limited role.

But the problem is that his mission is to defend Mandalay.

This gave Shoichi Minuchi a lot of headaches...... The search wing is a mobile force, how can a mobile unit perform defensive tasks?

But the high obedience of the Japanese military made him not object to Shinichi Tanaka.

So, in the final analysis, it's Tanaka Shinichi's fault.

After the defensive mission was decided, Genuchi Shoichi was thinking about how to deal with the attack of the Chinese army.

Tanks to stop the Chinese army's attack? That's simply impossible, there is no air supremacy, there is no superiority in artillery, plus the tanks are not at all opponents of the M3 and M4 tanks in the hands of the Chinese army...... So how to use these tanks and armored vehicles? (To be continued.) )