Mutaguchi originally judged that the Chinese army received information that the Japanese army was dispatched and besieged by the Allies after dawn, and it would take a day or two to wait for follow-up information, and if a counterattack plan was formulated, it would face the destruction of roads, and it would take at least two days to mobilize engineering troops and repair at least one day. He had at least four or five days to destroy the British here, and then free up his hands to deal with the enemy. Considering that the enemy came from afar and the division veterans were tired, he could let go of his hands and feet to teach the old opponent a lesson, and of course he would easily avenge Sakurai, whose troops had just received 47mm battle defense guns, which the base camp said could penetrate any enemy tank. Once the enemy was entangled, and the 2nd Division outflanked it from behind, the Indian question seemed to be solved.

Although he had already learned to be cautious when he was in Chu Tingchang, he still had a deep belief in the invincible system of the Japanese Army, and was convinced that as long as the spiritual strength of the soldiers was squeezed out at the critical moment, victory was within reach, and the enemy who relied on cars would be doomed as long as they destroyed the road.

When Chu Tingchang's troops rushed to repair the truth overnight, the Japanese rearguard shrank back, and the aerial reconnaissance had not yet been launched, so naturally there was no way to know. The rear guard of the 200th Division was still increasing the shelling of the 2nd Division, which also created a rather false impression for the enemy.

Over there, the Type 97 tanks of the 1st Tank Wing had already attacked from Calcutta and were rapidly moving north from the rear of the Indian army. The task of the captain of the Rapid Water Wing is to quickly capture the Mushi Bamur railway station with tanks and cut off the retreat of the British army, and the possible opponent is another brigade that is coming from behind the British army, but Kagesa Zhenzhao's eyes got information that the brigade headquarters has just gotten off the train in Ranchi, just some personnel and headquarters, and there is no heavy equipment, so there is no need to worry too much. In addition, his eyes spotted the various supplies that the British army had hoarded in Bamur, including quinine, which was desperately short of the Japanese army. Although the Japanese army seized the production area of cinchona cream in Indonesia, the domestic pharmaceutical factory did not have time to produce the medicine. Of course, the fond memories of Malaya and Burma chasing after the British to loot supplies prompted the Japanese to dare to take some risks when fighting the British.

However, the tanks did not go well, and as soon as they left Calcutta, 2 broke down, followed by a section of uphill road and 3 more broke down.

When these tanks were put into operation in Burma, it was still early spring, and the temperature was much cooler than now, with the average temperature in West Bengal in June exceeding 40 degrees Celsius, and about 35 degrees Celsius at night, which was a test for these tanks designed to fight against the Soviet Union.

The bigger problem was that the tank troops were too fast for the infantry to keep up, and the roads were readily available, but there were no trucks, not even horse-drawn carriages, and the infantry had to walk on their legs. The operation to land in India was too hasty, and all kinds of changes were much faster than planned, and the supply plan had to be tinkered with all the time, one moment to strengthen the field hospital, one moment to strengthen the epidemic prevention and water purification equipment, and the other time to transport 1,000 taels of bicycles, all of which were given to the South China Sea detachment; The sequence of troops has not been complete, and the sick horse factory, the repair shop, and the airport construction unit are still in Burma. However, the fighters were rare, and the main force of the 55th Wing marched in a hurry overnight and ate ashes behind the tanks. It is hoped that it will catch up 4 hours after the arrival of the tank. Until then, tanks could only be supported by the air support units that had been defeated repeatedly.

When the Japanese army was moving quickly, the Canadian 11th Brigade and the two divisions of the Indian National Army were still fighting slowly, both armies were in the British style, but the Indian army lacked the experience of commanders above the company level and could not launch multiple attacks on the entire front at the same time, which limited the strength advantage, and on the contrary, made the Canadian Brigade quite tricky. Taking advantage of the Indian army's nighttime prayers, they launched several bayonet charges, easily recapturing several villages that had been captured by the Indian army during the day's fighting.

When Vivier learned that the front was resisting, he calmed down a little and continued to send a report to Stilwell, asking him if he cared about Chu Tingchang? If he didn't care, he would stop attacking.

Stilwell was in Chongqing and didn't know much about the situation. But the telegram that arrived first gave him a reassurance, and the telegram that his troops would drive the plague-plagued 2nd Division down the Ganges and then retake Calcutta, a grand plan that did dilute the British complaint.

Stilwell originally felt that China and Britain were not active in counterattacking the Japanese, and could only use equipment to coax them into launching a counterattack in the autumn, but now both China and Britain were in a hurry to counterattack, although it seemed that there was a disagreement, they finally couldn't ask for it.

The tank unit of Hayami Chongren charged at full speed towards the destination with its headlights on, completely ignoring that half of the squadron had been lost on the road. His command vehicle was in the first place, and in front of the turret stood a local lead party.

This mathematics student at the University of Delhi has an extraordinary memory, he walked through the British line without pen and paper, memorized every road, and now he is holding the barrel of a gun to lead the way for the Japanese.

With such a living map, the tank wing successfully bypassed the British fortifications and minefields, and inserted directly through the path to where they wanted to go.

By dawn, the tankmen could already see the steam coming out of the trains on the nearby railway line, which the British trains always transported at night to prevent them from being strafed by planes during the day. It seems that this time it came in time and was able to grab a lot of military supplies.

Hayamizu looked at his watch, and the light bombers of the flight division and the transport planes carrying the air support troops should have arrived soon. Commander of the Mutaguchi Division, I hope that this air-ground coordination will be as perfect as possible, and it is the first time for the army to carry out such a complex multi-arms coordination operation.

A piercing air raid siren sounded in the distance, and it was clear that the British hateful radar was working again, but it also alerted Shozo Hasami that his plane was already approaching the coast. He ordered the troops to go to the assembly area and wait for the paratroopers to converge.

The first fighters flew over the tanks, did not encounter interception, and immediately threw themselves into strafing anti-aircraft fire on the ground. Dive bombers then arrived and dropped bombs on nearby British lines.

The 15 Spitfires that arrived from the far rear to intercept them were belated, but did not immediately save the ground forces from the air battle, and the flight captain tried to go around to the rear of the attacking Japanese troops, first, to occupy the height and the advantageous position with his back to the sun, and second, to see the situation, if there were too many Japanese planes, there was still time to give up the battle.

Of course, this simple tactical attempt helped him hit the ground running. The slow-moving Japanese Hyaku-style transport planes arrived just in time with the air support troops.

The Japanese have been trying to learn the airborne technology of the German army, and they have also invested in it, but this unit has always been doomed, either thrown into the sea or thrown into the mountains, and today it is better to break directly into front of the enemy aircraft group.

The Japanese pilots thought that their own fighters had returned after dropping bombs, and flew over without warning. The British planes realized that they could go back to fight these transport planes that did not even have self-defense machine guns, so they pounced on them and used .50 machine guns to teach the Japanese a lesson.

Right over the tank troops, transport planes dragged black smoke down one after another. Only 9 planes barely dropped the paratroopers, and two of them were so low that the paratroopers fell to their deaths before they could open their parachutes. , and 2 others were forced to land on the ground under the pursuit of fighters, also with heavy casualties.

British pilots reported destroying more than 20 enemy transport planes, but did not report seeing paratroopers landing, leaving the Ranchi command in a chaotic enemy situation unaware of the Japanese intentions.

The Japanese tank group was in the predetermined assembly area, waiting only for 70 paratroopers, half of whom were drawn, only a third of the expected number, and almost unarmed.

Hayami had no choice but to attack the train station, and he didn't know what the enemy was there, only that it was a company of about 150 men.

The railway station was defended by a strong force of the British army, the Bedford Infantry Regiment had just been transferred from Palestine, and the Napoleonic flag had been captured at the Battle of Waterloo.

At the time of the air attack, the regimental headquarters was unloading Stuart tanks and anti-aircraft guns on the railway, and the Japanese raid disrupted their plans. Some sharp-eyed soldiers also saw another airborne troop fall in the distance, and the Ranchi command could not tell the enemy's situation. The regiment commander was experienced, and immediately sent his sister-in-law's troops to set off in armored vehicles to reconnoitre, hoping to get a first-hand enemy situation, what he was most worried about was that what he could see was only the tip of the iceberg, perhaps the enemy had surrounded his troops.

The 419's drone listened to the communications of the British reconnaissance unit, and the scout informed the rear that it had encountered the Japanese and found about 2,000 Japanese troops and 150 Japanese tanks. In fact, even if you count the Japanese tanks in Burma and Malaya, there is no such number.

Lin Xiuxuan had a bad premonition on the submarine, and the British might have to run. Sure enough, the British troops guarding the station began to flee, and when they were far away in Palestine, they also heard rumors that the Japanese army would not leave prisoners of war and that they would win every battle, and in fact, they were more timid than the defeated troops who fought with the Japanese. The British fled, leaving behind 105 light * guns and tanks that were unloading trucks nearby. This was what Vivel was prepared to use in the offensive and defensive battles against Calcutta. The equipment was loaded from the east coast of the United States, sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Bombay, and traveled through the long rail transportation through India.

Before Hayami Shaozo fought, there were only 11 tanks left, and the remaining two-thirds of the tanks were thrown on the road to be repaired, and he didn't have the courage to attack. So he asked the air force to reconnoiter first.

Only about 20 Japanese paratroopers were armed, so only these 20 were put into battle. Frightened, the Japanese army rushed forward along the railway, ready to be sent to the western sky by a sudden strafing fire. But nothing happened. The crater ahead is still smoking. A British Vickers armored car was parked by the railway, the door wide open. They leaned over and found that there was no one inside, and they found a shoe on the ground.

The Japanese troops loaded up their courage and continued to advance, quickly captured the platform, and found that the neat American tanks were on board trucks, and 2 of them had even been unloaded. It seems that it makes sense that if you don't die in a great disaster, you will have a blessing in the future. The Japanese commander pulled out a flare gun and fired a red flare into the air.

Mutaguchi waited anxiously at the Kolkata headquarters for the battle situation, and the bad news continued in the morning, in addition to the heavy losses of the tank breakdown and the air support troops, there was also a large number of heat strokes in his own 55th Wing, which was really unable to squeeze out its potential.

Hayami reported that he had captured the enemy's rear and captured 9 tanks and 6 cannons, which were only visible trophies, and the rest of the supplies were being counted.