"Squat down and don't let the infantry see it." Lin Xiuxuan reminded the British soldiers while slowly moving the muzzle of the gun, imagining where the enemy commander should stand.

Even if it is possible to penetrate the side of the tank, the enemy commander can still be blocked by the artillery cradle. So...... He felt it could be a little lower. The first tank had to be taken out anyway, so that it could block the next string and buy time for the alert troops to recover from the panic. Enemy tanks are not deployed, probably because of poor communication, or because they want to hide their numbers.

He pulled the trigger and felt a hard blow on his shoulder.

After being shot, the lead tank was still advancing, but when it drove past the burning British armored vehicles, it was clearly visible that a hole had been opened in the side armor, and flames began to emerge from it. Lin Xiuxuan picked up the ammunition in a hurry, but he didn't know the type of ammunition.

He was indeed lucky, the British still used stockpiles, inadequate penetrating armor-piercing* in Burma, and in other theaters this semi-armor-piercing ammunition was no longer used. This early 14.5mm munition performed extremely poorly in North Africa, and was mostly judged to be ineffective against tanks, only to hit bunkers, trucks, or human bodies. The anti-tank gun was not even issued after it was issued in Burma, it was loaded on a truck and followed the transport convoy of the Anglo-Indian 17th Division, and no one thought of using this clumsy weapon, but today it worked. The thin side armor of the Japanese 95 tank makes this ammunition with low muzzle velocity can penetrate in one hit, and its combustion efficiency can increase the damage in the car.

Lin Xiuxuan pulled the handle, and then continued to shoot. This time the hole pierced the rear of the hull and hit the engine. The tank came to a complete stop. Since the Japanese tanks were constantly firing on the move, no one heard the dull sound of his two fires.

The commander of the second Japanese tank was half out of the turret, he wanted to see why the vehicle in front of him had stopped and started to catch fire, he made the biggest mistake of his life. Lin Xiuxuan shot directly at the human body 60 meters away. The bullet hit the human body, and the huge kinetic energy threw the commander out of the car, and the body had already begun to burn when it landed.

His shot was finally fired by the nearby Japanese infantry. A machine gunner with a crooked handle fired at him with a waist strike. He quickly shrank his head, but fortunately the strafing shot was not accurate. He dragged the heavy rifle down from behind the commanding heights, and the two British soldiers who were at a loss could only follow him, running 50 meters, he felt a little difficult, so he handed over the anti-tank gun to one of them and continued to move in the direction of the British headquarters. He estimated that the garrison of the headquarters would be half a kilometer away, hoping to find an officer before he could engage in a counterattack. There was a lot of gunfire around him, but it was very scattered, and it seemed that there was more than one Japanese army that broke into the vulnerable belly of the British army, and the Japanese army, in the absence of unified command, still launched a chaotic attack, and really regarded himself as a heavenly soldier.

Just ahead, a well-camouflaged Bofors anti-aircraft gun position was crowded with soldiers, who were climbing into trucks, apparently about to abandon their positions and flee. If it weren't for the truck's headlights, he wouldn't have seen that there was still a position here.

He hurried to the convoy, leaving only one man behind, the private with the anti-tank gun on his back, who had been thrown off.

"Who is the commander here? Can you find it? He said to the corporal behind him.

"It's Lieutenant Pierce, I'm going to look for him." The corporal immediately agreed, he had seen Lin's bold actions the whole way, and saw that he had destroyed a tank and stopped the enemy's advance, so he knew that this Chinese captain could be trusted. Just as the corporal got into the convoy and looked for the commander, Lin Xiuxuan had already stopped in front of the first truck to prevent them from escaping.

"Get out of the car for me." He stood at the front of the car and shouted, but of course no one paid attention to him. The truck driver opened the door, leaned out of the rope, and glared at the Chinese officer who was blocking his path.

"Bastard, get out of the way."

The driver was frightened by the Japanese he had never met, but he lost his temper in front of the Chinese.

Lin Xiuxuan jumped under the car in three or two steps, dragged the Welsh fat man out of the car, threw him to the ground, and then kicked him in the stomach, he knew the weight of his foot, it was estimated that he would not be able to get up for half a day.

The chaotic and noisy scene suddenly stopped, and everyone looked at this Chinese in surprise.

A lieutenant officer got out of the back of the car and could see his hand on the *holster.

"Lieutenant Pierce, get your men back to their posts." Lin Xiuxuan did not make an opening statement, and gave an order directly.

"But...... The Japanese tanks had already broken through, and I could not expose the anti-aircraft fire to the fire of the enemy tanks. ”

"Idiot, if you want to go to court-martial, run away. If you don't want to, go back to the ground with your men. Lin Xiuxuan was a little angry, he knew that this guy was lying, because the 4 anti-aircraft guns were thrown on the position and were not hung up behind the truck at all, so the statement that he ran away in order to save the anti-aircraft artillery was self-deception.

Lieutenant Pierce froze in place, he had indeed forgotten in his desperation that he might go to court-martial. He also wanted to argue that his weapons had only negligible firepower, and that they did not have the same shields as anti-aircraft guns. But the rumbling of tanks interrupted their thoughts, and they were not far behind them.

"There's still 400 meters to go, just to hit them hard." Lin Xiuxuan looked in the direction he came from, and his blocking just now effectively delayed the movement of the Japanese army.

"However, we can't see those tanks."

"You'll see them, get your men back to position, and I promise you'll get the Victoria Cross for this battle." He said as he pulled out the flare gun from his waist.

Much of the reason for the rout of the army is because the officers panic first, and many times, there is no clear line between courage and timidity, and some people need to be on the slap in the face to regain their pride.

Lieutenant Pierce made a decision, and he began to beckon his men to return to the combat position, turning the cannon to the approximate target direction. Lin Xiuxuan ran towards the rumbling tank alone. He doesn't have night vision devices, but he knows how to break the enemy.

Having found cover, he fired 3 flares in a row over the rumbling enemy convoy. When the flares fell one after another, the Japanese tanks that were driving on the roadbed and were significantly higher than the ground were exposed.

Three of the four positions of the Bofors guns began to fire, and it seemed that one of the artillery squads still ran away, but it didn't matter anymore.

After being fired several short shots in succession, the two Japanese tanks led by the group began to burn, and the fire exposed the other tanks behind them. The Japanese fired in the direction from which the tracer grenade came, but the fire of the 40mm guns quickly suppressed the opponent's mobile guns. The remnants of the tanks were forced to reverse and retreat, and they were ordered to penetrate directly into the enemy's interior to create chaos, and once they were counterattacked, they were vulnerable to chaos and counterattack.

The fire network formed by the anti-aircraft fire blocked the road, and in addition to blocking the Japanese tanks, it also blocked the retreat route of the British command. The British command was deaf and blind, and if it weren't for the signal flare fired by Lin Xiuxuan, they would have almost hit the muzzle of the Japanese tank.

General Alexander got up from the back seat of the jeep, raised his binoculars and looked into the battle zone, counting five burning Japanese tanks. He was surprised to find that there was still an army that was putting up effective resistance and inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.

From beginning to end, he did not figure out how many Japanese troops rushed in. His command has also been unable to issue orders effectively, and after escaping from Rangoon, he lost control of his troops, did not know the location of most of them, and communication was in disarray.

The small victory in front of him boosted his confidence a little, and he ordered to return to the temporary headquarters that had been set up in the church, waiting for the reports of the troops.

Of course, the British army was still in a state of panic, and the general himself pricked up his ears to listen to the sporadic exchange of fire around him, and it sounded like the gunfire was gradually moving away.

Maybe after dawn, the enemy's situation will become clear, and the worst case scenario may be forced to surrender to the Japanese army, and he has been forcing himself all day today not to think about this possibility. Of course, if it weren't for the humiliation of Singapore's surrendering forces, he might have spent some time secretly considering this possibility. From the perspective of the overall situation, if his tens of thousands of horses are disarmed, it will be a disaster for the entire China-Burma-India theater. The Chinese troops in Burma would certainly retreat back to China, and then the Japanese might be free to land at Chittagong and enter India by land from Imphal, and if the Indians realized that the British had lost their former might and that some influential guy had risen to the top, the collapse of the entire subcontinent would become a reality.

"Report, Major Hamid of the 16th Indian Brigade asks for an audience."

"Let him in."

Hamid was the deputy battalion commander of the Indian Brigade and the highest-ranking officer of Indian origin in the 17th Division. He did well in North Africa, but often expressed some independence in private.

Hamid, with a ribbon on his head, walked into the headquarters and saluted Alexander.

"I've heard that you and your men didn't make it out of Yangon, and I'm glad to see you come back alive." The general asked, fiddling with the map on the table.

"I just went to see an old friend."

Alexander looked up in disbelief, he realized something was wrong.

"Let's not waste time, I brought a message from General Iida, who hoped that our troops would gloriously lay down their arms and withdraw from the battle. The current situation is very bad, there are 2 divisions of Japanese troops surrounding us, although the Japanese are not superior in numbers, but the combat strength is enough to destroy us, if the Japanese wish, they can immediately attack, and end all fighting by noon tomorrow. You know, the Japanese army has no tradition of capturing prisoners in battle, but if you are willing to talk to them, they are soldiers who are respectful and trustworthy. I brought General Iida's contact channel"

Hamid got straight to the point, he came to persuade the Japanese to surrender.

"You think we've failed? Did you see a Japanese tank that was broken outside? ”

Alexander said with a sneer. Of course, there was a bit of a bluff, if he was really confident, he should have directly asked the guards to take this person away. But he still wanted to find out what the Japanese army was doing, or, at least, to hear about the terms of surrender.

"General, you have five thousand and five hundred Indian soldiers in your troops, and if you make the wrong decision, I guarantee that they will always be on the side of the Japanese Empire. We all know that the Chinese are unreliable, they have no combat effectiveness except bragging about it, and they have never won a battle against the Japanese in the past many years, even at the battalion level. ”