The battle was divided all at once. The Synthetic Regiment immediately launched a counterattack, using machine guns and * to knock down the Japanese soldiers who were hiding in the trees and rushing from all directions with bayonets in their hands. As the rear half-track arrived to join the battle, the 12.7mm machine gun cut off the branches and branches of the towering ancient trees nearby, and the whole tree was like a bald man.

A reinforced squadron, about 200 Japanese troops, had thought that they could fight an ambush, first stunned the opponent from the trees, and then rushed out from several points to divide the expeditionary force, but their appetite was a little too great this time, facing about 2,500 Chinese troops equipped with tanks; Of course, if it weren't for the low visibility in the dense forest and the inability to see the number of enemies, perhaps they would not have rashly set such a rough trap to hit the steel.

Masanobu Tsuji began researching jungle warfare a few years ago, and this tactic of using large trees to form three-dimensional firepower was the result of his submission to the base camp. Of course, when I first thought about my tactics, I couldn't have predicted that the opponent's automatic firepower would be so strong.

After Tao Mingzhang broke off in the rear of a kilometer, he heard the dense gunfire, he restrained the tank not to act rashly, so as not to hurt his own people, of course, on the other hand, he could hear from the gunfire that his side occupied the absolute top, and the Japanese army had almost no power to fight back.

When he arrived, he saw a 221 reconnaissance vehicle still burning, and the ground was covered with dead Japanese soldiers, some of which were hanging from trees, indicating that the enemy had come prepared but had fallen into bad luck.

"Go check the body, see what team." He was standing on a half-track, holding on to a machine gun to guard against the heights, and if someone threw a * from the heights, he would look good. However, it was bare and obviously no longer alive.

"Of the 15th Division." The soldier reported. At this time, Zhou Youfu had passed quickly, he was not as careful as Tao Mingzhang, and he didn't care about the enemy's number at all.

"New troops are coming up so soon? ”

It seemed that all the main forces of the Japanese army were chasing after him, and Tao Mingzhang even felt a little flattered. Of course, unlike Zhou Youfu, he has been paying attention to the overall situation, which is also where Chu Tingchang pays attention to cultivating him, so he can imagine that the enemy is not only pursuing the expeditionary force, but also entering the East Indies in one go, and to some extent, the mountain torrent can solve the urgent needs of the allies.

"Send a report to Shangfeng and find that the 15th Division appeared in the pursuit sequence." He gave orders to the Fujian soldiers on one side.

Someone said that he had taken the map of the Japanese army that he had discovered, and he copied it and looked at it, and it was a map of 1:200,000, with many blanks in many places, and the further north he went, the worse the intelligence work of the Japanese army became.

He ordered the troops to continue to move forward and catch up with Zhou Youfu in front, but keep a distance, ready to be ready for Zhou Youfu to find a way to turn back, so as not to mess up the team. But that never happened.

He felt that Chu Tuan must have studied the contour map of the entire northern Burma a long time ago, so he could know it completely. However, even so, he still can't understand a lot of things, even the contour map only describes the terrain very roughly, not to mention that the map can't describe every forest river clearly, but Chu Tuanzuo has never pointed out the wrong way even if he is a long-distance remote command, which is almost impossible. Unless he can turn into a bird and stay above the troops, it will be difficult to figure out the location of the troops through the radio.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but raise his head, a flock of crows hovering above his head, waiting for the people here to leave, and then pounce on the dead to eat.

Earlier, Zhou Youfu received a second order, asking him to turn to the northeast and prepare to help Wingate. After the British colonel restored the communication, he had some confidence and decided to take the rest of the ordinary people to take risks, but he ran into the enemy's headquarters, thinking that it was just a squadron, only to find that the enemy had at least six or seven hundred troops, and the two infantry guns were a basically complete brigade, and almost broke his teeth.

Zhou Youfu moved towards the direction described by Chu Tingchang, and from time to time he got his guidance and asked to turn, Zhou Youfu was fine in a small way, confused in a big way, and didn't think carefully about how the boss commanded, maybe the group seat was a coincidence before, and he was instructed by some master outside the world to know how to spell.

He soon heard the sound of artillery in front, and the Japanese grenadiers and infantry guns overpowered the British mortars. He was about to send scouts to reconnoiter the situation, and immediately received a call from Chu Tingchang, asking him to stop where he was and unfold the team first. Soon the Japanese army passed from the front. Listening to the movement of the gunfire, the boss judged that he was right.

The drone flew over a large glade, watching the British who had lost their armor retreat from here, and at this time Zhou Youfu rushed over, easy to be confused, so he had to wait.

Tao Mingzhang came from behind, and received an order to advance to the east, and wait for Zhou Youfu to make a move before dispatching.

The whole army actually spread out a 4-way column in the jungle, flanked by half-tracked vehicles, and in the middle were light tanks. Everything is like arranging a formation in the fog, and someone can rely on such a backward means of reconnaissance/communication in this era to achieve a decisive victory thousands of miles away.

The Japanese pursuit unit had just arrived at the British warehouse, but was caught off guard by Wingate, but with a high degree of tactical literacy, each squadron organized a counterattack on the spot, and soon found that the enemy did not come much, and the firepower was insufficient. Then, according to the devil's virtue, he immediately threw himself into a counterattack and stuck the British army.

Wingate's troops only hated that their parents had given them two legs, and they couldn't get rid of the Japanese behind them. The British colonel had previously been operating in the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa; He used his written sources and imagination to create his own theory of jungle warfare.

It is envisaged that his troops will have a high degree of mobility and always have the advantage of reconnaissance, and they will be able to march like the wind, be steady like a forest, attack like fire, and remain motionless like a mountain.

He hadn't thought of such an outcome. I could only drop the wounded and mule supplies and run away with the command headquarters. After passing through the open area, he stopped to observe a little, and found that the grinning Japanese troops behind him were chasing closely, densely packed, with at least 2 squadrons of infantry and some cavalry. He realized that he might not be able to run away today. He boasted in front of Churchill that the new tactics he was going to practice could die in ten minutes.

Machine gun designs and the sound of shell explosions drowned out the sound of nearby tanks approaching, and neither side noticed a much larger team approaching.

Suddenly, the Japanese cavalry that rushed forward and wantonly slashed and killed the British troops was knocked down as if they had been cut wheat. Wingate was surprised to see a tank camouflaged with leaves rushing out of the jungle, then a second, then a third. The tank sprayed tongues of fire, cutting off its own team and the Japanese, and strafing the unsuspecting Japanese devils with dense firepower.

Soon another group of reconnaissance vehicles rushed out, followed by a large number of infantry, everything was in order, as if it had been rehearsed many times, waiting for its hasty escape from here today.

He couldn't believe his eyes, how could there be an armored army in the forest. When he was in military school, someone once carelessly drew the route of the tank march in the jungle and mountains, and as a result, everyone ridiculed him for two years.

After the German assault on the Ardennes Forest, the Army realized that such an operation was possible with adequate combat reconnaissance. Weingate, on the other hand, has been working on the study of mule-horse troops or paratroopers, and their maneuvering in the jungle is far from being promoted to the level of mechanized troops, but today he opened his eyes. He saw a unit in the complex jungle of northern Burma, showing up in key locations to massacre the Japanese.

The tank turned to the center of the battlefield, and at this moment the soldiers who got off the half-track were completely occupying the rear of the vehicle for cover. More than half of the unsupported Japanese were shot, leaving them to retreat to the edge of the jungle to defend on the spot. They counterattacked with machine guns and grenadiers, but the recalcitrant Japanese immediately jumped up, and it turned out that another group of tanks had circled behind them. In the blink of an eye, the pursuing Japanese army was encircled, and the defense was broken. Of course, due to the complex terrain, there are still many lucky escapes into the mountains, but a large part of them are destined to starve to death in the jungle because they get lost.

Tao Mingzhang used stammering English to contact Wingate on the radio for a brief contact, and then the two sides returned to attack the Japanese headquarters together, and almost did not encounter resistance, they occupied the place, and when they stormed the warehouse, a Japanese lieutenant had committed suicide by the side of the military flag. The elimination force was a brigade of the 31st Division.

Wingate lost all his mules and provisions, three-quarters of his troops were lost, and the Chinese army in front of him was still driving tanks. He felt as if the world in front of him had been turned upside down, and he couldn't help but think of what his grandfather had said that when he captured the Forbidden City, his Punjab light cavalry wing had lost only six men.

When Chu Tingchang appeared in the communication room, he was obviously relieved, at this time the previous news had not come back, Brooke found that every time he issued some orders in the communication room, he would leave for a while, not knowing where to hide, maybe he was engaged in some superstitious activities, in short, he became confident when he came back. After a while, news came from the front: the battle had been won.

The Chinese and British gendarmes on the other side of the bridge have been counting the number of people, and by this time, more than 60,000 soldiers have crossed the bridge. The troops coming from the south were thinning out, and the distant cannon was getting closer. It seems that the time will soon come to blow up the bridge.

The bridge is *already installed*, *in a bunker on the opposite side of the approach bridge, ready to detonate at any time.

Pavilion Chief Chu came to Brooke.

"It's time to retreat to the bridge with your men, and the Japanese will blow up the bridge as soon as they arrive."

"You're not going to go back with us?" Brooke asked calmly.

"I can't leave the team, I have to pick up my people, if it weren't for your father-in-law to save the British, there would have been time, and now they still have a day to go, I'm afraid it's too late, I don't want my troops to fight with 10,000 Japanese troops here."

"Are you going to cross the river upstream?"

"Yes, cross the river from upstream and go...... Who knows. Hey......" he suddenly sighed, "You and I have cooperated for two months, and it is fate, so I don't know when we will see each other again." ”

Chu Tingchang's tone was quite sentimental, Brooke was almost deceived by him, and he was a little sour, but he immediately realized that Chu Tingchang was by no means such an emotional person, and he seemed to be hiding some conspiracy.

"You're not trying to get rid of me, are you?"

"Where, where, we still have to rely on the old man to give the gun to the cannon, it's just ...... I think brother, you are highly talented, you have won the Order of Congress, and you are still sending and receiving newspapers with me, you are too condescending, and I am also grateful for these days, you have maintained us from your father-in-law. ”

Chu Tingchang shook Brooke's hand as he spoke, his words were unclear, as if he was referring to something, he was thanking Brooke for his negative position on the issue of interfering with the command of the Chinese army, but the telegram in the morning was encrypted? Brooke thought, maybe he meant something else?

"Then I'll just cross the river, and you must be careful. However, I think we will see each other again in India. ”