"Linglin" Yan Wudao grabbed Zhang Lingpu, who was about to lead the troops up for a large-scale counterattack. Now he is the only one who can hold Zhang Lingpu, a desperate San Lang, and like Zhao Zhi, Yan Wudao, who was born recklessly, also has a good impression of Zhang Lingpu, but he also has a headache about Zhang Lingpu's character of going into battle in person to kill.

At the last moment before the start of the encirclement and reinforcement operation, Zhao Zhi suddenly made changes to the layout of the 74th Army, and the 58th Division, which was supposed to go to Binzhou to deploy defense, was transferred to the direction of Dezhou by him, and assigned Yan Wudao to bring 300 mercenaries to help. Zhang Lingpu, who is good at fighting evil battles, is overjoyed, Dezhou is closer to Jinan than Binzhou, although it is far away from Zibo, but there is a lot more terrain suitable for ambushes, plus there is the help of thunder mercenaries, Zhang Lingpu feels extremely relaxed.

According to the plan, the 58th Division was separated from the Burmese troops besieging Dezhou in Shanghe County, and then concealed and approached the plain between Dezhou and Jinan, and set up a line of defense in Linyi, which was the only way for the Japanese puppet army in Jinan to rescue Dezhou. The development of the battle was as Zhao Zhi predicted in advance, the first Burmese Division to start a feint attack on Dezhou, and Okamura Ninji also sent reinforcements from Jinan, but the ambush of the 58th Division did not go very smoothly.

After the Qingzhou Assault Battle, the 58th Division plus 20,000 Burmese troops who cooperated with the battle have exceeded 27,000 people, which is already more than the number of the Japanese Army's Horse Pulling Division, but the 20,000 Burmese troops are auxiliary forces using bolt-action rifles, and only more than 7,000 officers and soldiers of the 58th Division are really fighting with the Japanese army on the front line. According to Zhao Zhi's operational deployment, the 20,000 Burmese troops who cooperated with the operation were cannon fodder troops who brought in as bait, but Zhang Lingpu did not put the Burmese troops on the battlefield to attract Japanese firepower as Zhao Zhi's request.

Zhang Lingpu did not think that with the current quality of the Burmese troops, the Japanese army would take advantage of the Japanese army, which was good at assassination. The Burmese troops can barely support themselves under the leadership of the mercenary troops when they are fighting a blitzkrieg. If they really fought hard with the Japanese army, it was likely that their formation would be disturbed, which would lead to a complete collapse of the main position. It was precisely for fear of this situation that Zhang Lingpu ordered the 58th Division to block the frontal position alone, and the 20,000 Burmese troops were arranged by him on both flanks to faintly form an encirclement of the Japanese puppet army reinforcements.

After the reinforcements of the Jinan Japanese puppet army rushing to the aid of Dezhou entered the ambush circle, Zhang Lingpu ordered to open fire, but as the war developed, what Zhang Lingpu feared happened. What worries Zhang Lingpu the most is not the extremely accurate shooting of the Japanese infantry and the accurate and ruthless shelling of the Japanese artillery, nor the assassination ability of the Japanese infantry. It was the 9 Type 94 light infantry chariots brought by the Japanese puppet army in Jinan.

This light combat vehicle, which has a total weight of only 3.5 tons and a crew of only two people, has average firepower and maneuverability, and is more than two grades worse than the tanks and tanks of European countries, but it is a killer weapon for the Japanese army to deal with the Chinese army. The attack of ordinary light and heavy machine guns had no effect on it, and only the 37 anti-aircraft guns could penetrate the armor of the 94 tank, which was only 12 millimeters thick. When the 74th Army was defending Nanjing, it had suffered the loss of this light infantry chariot, and Zhang Lingpu was angry when he saw it.

The appearance of the Type 94 light infantry chariot turned the original ambush warfare into a defensive battle, and the Type 94 light chariot, which ignored the attack of guns and bullets, posed the greatest threat to the position of the 58th Division, and the Japanese army's "bean chariot" used relatively powerful firepower than the 58th Division to suppress the troops of the 58th Division and could not even lift their heads. "Linglin, don't worry, don't you still have our Thunder mercenaries, and the little devil's tank will be handled by us." Pressing Zhang Lingpu into the seat, Yan Wudao gave orders to the commander of the machine gun squad under him.

Although the 58th Division was reequipped with American-style equipment, they did not have large-caliber Browning heavy machine guns, and Yan Wudao, who was assigned to help in the battle, brought a full five large-caliber heavy machine guns, which were a sharp weapon against Japanese tank armored vehicles, and the armor of the Type 94 light infantry tank could not stop the armor-piercing bullets fired by Browning's large-caliber heavy machine guns. The front-line soldiers who received the order began to retreat slowly, and when they saw the enemy retreating, the triumphant Japanese chariot troops not only did not notice the abnormal movement, but continued to press forward step by step.

"Good come, contact the mortar squad, tell them to get ready, and wait for the heavy machine guns to fire a salvo of the covering infantry of the Japanese tanks, I will tell them to come back." Yan Wudao, who was observing the dynamics of the battlefield from the telescope, gave a series of orders, and the heavy machine guns hidden behind the armor plate walls were ready, and they could fire only after the armor on the left and right sides was installed.

"How many reserves can you draw up?" Yan Wudao turned his head to look at Zhang Lingpu, this ambush location was well chosen, the reinforcements of the Japanese puppet army in Jinan are now a feint, once they are repulsed and retreat, the condescending 58th Division can take advantage of the situation to launch a pursuit, this reserve is a key.

"There are also all five infantry battalions and one artillery company, and the actual number does not exceed eighteen hundred." Zhang Lingpu's telling the truth made Yan Wudao startled, whether this thing came to fight an ambush or a tough battle, it actually left so many reserves. If it were his own husband who came to ambush the reinforcements of the Japanese puppet army in Jinan, I am afraid that there would not be so many reserve troops left, which accounted for a quarter of the strength of the 58th Division.

"The 20,000 Burmese troops on both flanks have not moved, and the Japanese army has been fighting towards us." If Zhang Lingpu hadn't mentioned this, I'm afraid even Yan Wudao would have forgotten that there were still 20,000 Burmese troops hidden on the two flanks of the ambush position. The Japanese puppet army reinforcements sent by Okamura Ninji from Jinan had an infantry wing, a mountain artillery brigade and more than 4,000 imperial allied troops, and then the Japanese tank troops who were about to fall into the trap of heavy machine guns.

The Japanese tanks that were showing off their might and "firing" finally touched it, and the thundering people would never leave the opponent a chance to live, and before Yan Wudao gave the order to fire, the commander of the machine gun squad in charge of the on-site command had already given the order to fire. The large-caliber heavy machine gun behind the armor plate wall spat out a half-foot-long tongue of fire, shooting all the armor-piercing bullets in the chamber at the Japanese tank that was rushing towards it.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom", the bright red bullet rain rushed into the Japanese tank cluster and immediately detonated three of the Type 94 light combat vehicles, not only the forward officers and men of the 58th Division, but even Zhang Lingpu, who was holding a telescope in the command headquarters, was also stunned. In the experience of the 74th Army and the Japanese army, not to mention blowing up the Japanese tanks, it was trying to blow up the Japanese armored vehicles like iron boxes, which needed to be filled with human lives. Xiang Thunder is the first time they have seen a Japanese tank with only a heavy machine gun, is it the little devil's tank that is comparable to paper paste?

"Nani? It's thunder, retreat, retreat, retreat. "Two more Type 94 light tanks were fireballed by the command behind the board wall, and the remaining Japanese tanks began to retreat in a hurry, and they had already identified from their weapons that behind the board wall were the Thunder troops." Boom, "Boom", "Boom", "Boom" The mortar squad arranged by Yan Wudao began to bombard the Japanese infantry fighting with the tanks in clusters, and the smoke rolled in the air in a row, and the flying shrapnel hit the tank hull and flipped again, and did not stop until they could pierce the warm body.

"If you want to run, let's see if Lao Tzu's bullets are fast, or your tracks are fast." Seeing that the remaining tanks of the Japanese army wanted to run, the commander of the machine gun squad under Yan Wudao waved his hand, and the powerful mercenaries chased after him with three large-caliber heavy machine guns. The heavy machine gun has a tripod mount, as long as it is not a cliff, it can be used as a firing position anywhere, and it is believed that the retreating Japanese tanks that are somewhat panicked will not be able to escape the pursuit of large-caliber heavy machine guns.

"Order the Burmese troops on both wings to go out and fight with the Japanese army, to bite the Japanese army to the death, and to persuade the imperial army to surrender, they are all Chinese, and there is no point in killing them." Yan Wudao had unconsciously taken over Zhang Lingpu's command, but the latter and his officers had no objection to this. With 20,000 Burmese troops to attack the Japanese army, which has only one infantry wing, such a big deal can only be done by Yan Wudao, Zhang Lingpu has already listed Yan Wudao as a loser in his heart.

"How is this Linglin commanding? Well, what should have been an ambush was brutally beaten into a melee, and more than 4,000 Burmese and 600 people of the 58th Division were killed or wounded for a Japanese infantry wing, which is a bit uneconomical. "The battle report from Dezhou was transmitted back to Zibo, Wang Yaowu was not very satisfied, after all, the Burmese troops of Thunder suffered greater losses, and in front of Zhao Zhi, Wang Yaowu could only talk about Zhang Lingpu.

"But after all, they completely annihilated an infantry wing of Okamura Ninji, didn't they." Zhao Zhi smiled and handed the cigarette in his hand to Wang Yaowu, "When I arranged for Wudao to help your 58th Division, I had already made such a plan, both of them are warriors who are good at attacking fortifications, and I have more Burmese troops in my hands, as long as they can completely annihilate the reinforcements sent to Dezhou by Okamura Ningji, I can bear twice the casualties of the Burmese troops." ”

"I'm going to drive Okamura Ningji, the old fox, completely crazy, and I'm going to force him to take the initiative to find us in a decisive battle, as long as the dominance is in our hands, Okamura Ningji and his troops are like meat on the chopping board, we can cut that piece if we want to eat it, and keep it on the chopping board if we don't want to eat it." Wang Yaowu was shocked by Zhao Zhi's war intentions, no wonder the people of Thunder were coaxed by cowhides, it turned out that this root was in Zhao Zhi. Okamura Ningji is the commander of the Japanese dispatch army, not a big tofu that will crumble at the touch of a button, and Wang Yaowu is not very optimistic about Zhao Zhi's rhetoric.