Chief Chu received a report from Zhao Xiaoli that the tank platoon did not need to move. With a reinforced company, he eliminated the enemy, destroyed 14 tanks, eliminated more than 100 Japanese, and killed a lieutenant. His own losses were minimal, and Zhao Xiaoli boasted that he had never seen a Japanese person with such a.

Of course, what he said was true, if he had put aside the past, the Japanese would have set up more than a dozen tanks, which would be enough to chase a division of the national army out of dozens of miles, and maybe drive them into the river and drown a few hundred. But that's no longer the case.

Chu Tingchang had no worries and threw all his forces into the attack. He expected the enemy to run, and he didn't want to chase it, the enemy situation in the vicinity was complicated, and his team was scattered everywhere in chaos, and he would take it when he saw it; He didn't go to save the Canadians, he wanted to play big and intercept all the enemies outside Calcutta and eat them. This plan still could not be told to the British, so as not to frighten them, and the original small calculation of the British was to let the Chinese block the Japanese, and they quickly entered the city and grabbed the gold bars back. It's just that he didn't expect that the enemy's main force was not evenly shared, leaving half to deal with Sun Liren, but all of them arrived here, if he knew this, he lent Vivier ten guts, he wouldn't dare to mess around, and now he hit his head and broke the blood, and at this time he probably regretted launching a battle.

However, Chu Tingchang didn't want to end so simply, so he must not relieve the British siege and let them escape early.

At that time, the 18th Division poked south of Mandalay, and seven or eight regiments of the Sino-British Allied Army took turns to go up, but it could not stop its attack at all. At present, the 18th Division has a lot of recruits, the second is that the establishment has been reduced, and the third is that the heavy weapons are not complete, and they completely rely on false names to make a fool of themselves, that is, the British have palpitations in their hearts and are afraid of the enemy like tigers.

On the contrary, the 200th Division is now fully manned, its weapons have been replaced, and its morale is high, which is precisely to annihilate this enemy and turn the tide of the world in the anti-fascist war.

It was Chu's idea to let the Indians bite the British, and the British were surrounded here, so that they could contain a lot of the enemy's troops, so that he had time to move his troops back and forth. He didn't expect the Indians to eat the Canadians.

Sticking to the train station, Ecao Osa was still calling his surprise troops, hoping to answer, and a third of his tank force was equipped with a radio and should have responded. He thought, maybe it's in the mountains, and the communication is not good? He could not have imagined that a dozen tanks would be wiped out before they had time to send a report.

Chu Tingchang's main force came up and adopted the tactics of frontal attack by tanks and outflanking by infantry, loosening the enemy's defense little by little, and striving to suppress the enemy with firepower, but he was not in a hurry to charge. This was the smallest casualty positional warfare he could perform, without heavy artillery, and without seeking to annihilate the enemy, he kept advancing for the camp step by step, like breaking the opponent's fingers one by one and snatching the treasure in his hand.

The three Japanese squadrons that held the front were all disabled, and the troops that were refilled were quickly exhausted. The 200th Division advanced steadily on a frontal several kilometers wide, and the troops in front of it could not lift their heads with overwhelming direct fire. In just two hours, the Japanese army lost 26 heavy machine guns, and all the anti-aircraft guns and infantry guns were knocked out.

Jiang Cao finally got the bad news, it was sent back by two tanks that broke down and fell behind by the Rapid Water Force, one of the tanks repaired itself, and was originally going to rush forward with the troops, but it ran into a terrible battlefield.

By the time the tanks arrived, the enemy had already withdrawn. What the tankers saw was that all fourteen tanks had been blown up, and some were still burning in the valley that stretched for less than 500 meters. The steep slopes on both sides are indeed ideal for ambush terrain, but I don't know how the enemy deployed anti-aircraft guns on such a harsh terrain. The destroyed tank's armor either collapsed or left small holes, seemingly hit by a six-pounder gun, but somewhat unspeakable.

The corpses of the Japanese troops were scattered all over the valley, unlike after a long period of resistance, and it is estimated that the enemy was very fierce at that time. That is, at least ambushed by a regiment carrying heavy weapons. Captain Hayami's body was lying under a tree, his feet and right hand had been blown off, but his left hand was still holding a saber, showing that the fight was fought to the last moment.

Jiang Cao gasped when he heard the description of the battlefield. How could the enemy have a regiment in the rear? He expected that the enemy would all pounce on him, and that the rear should be very empty, and the intelligence said that their main force was still fighting in the second division, which can be seen from the fact that he had not yet fallen a single large-caliber * on his head.

He hesitated for a moment, felt that he could not fight any more, and ordered the sappers to stop digging the third line of defense and retreat to the south. There was a river to the south, and as long as he withdrew and blew up the bridge, the enemy tanks could be temporarily stopped, and then they could temporarily echo the Indian army, and he ordered the sappers to go to the bridge and install it*. In addition, he asked his superiors to send planes to bomb the platform and blow up the Allied equipment that could not be taken away.

The drone saw the enemy's deployment, and Chu Tingchang clearly grasped the enemy's next intention, and he decided to surround the three missing one and let the enemy escape. His transport battalion was arriving in a steady stream to unload the weapons and personnel just in time to pull away the heavy weapons here. The British didn't have time to take care of this place at this time, so they had to hurry up and drag it away, lest they have too many dreams at night, but the Japanese blew up all the ammunition. For the time being, these 105 guns will not work. However, he already dreamed of expanding two more howitzer battalions in addition to Tao Mingzhang's artillery battalion, one American 105 and one British 88. When the time comes, it will definitely give a military number.

"Sun Liren, Sun Liren, Lao Tzu was given the artillery camp to you, but he earned it back so quickly."

He couldn't help but get a little carried away, why did he come in with a bandage on his head and a telegram in his hand.

"Division, the British are in a hurry to ask for help, saying that the three divisions of India are attacking in turn. They couldn't hold it anymore. ”

"Listen to their bragging, where are there three divisions, only two divisions. They can withstand it, and it will be no problem to hold out for seven or eight days. Of course, he knew the water of the British's call for help, and the casualties reported in the telegram from the Canadian brigade commander to Vivier were only more on the first day, and they were much less on the second day, which showed that the Indians were very weak in attacking fortifications.

"Master, do you want to ...... Shall we go feint? At least...... Allies have to make a show there? ”

"Well, you kid is thoughtful. Let the cavalry battalion make a feint south with the radio...... Go to the river and call them that we are making a detour around the periphery and let them hold on. ”

"And then?"

"And then? The Japanese will blow up the bridge, and we will naturally not be able to cross it, so we will drag it over. ”

"The Japanese will blow up the bridge?"

"Yes, it will blow up soon." Chief Chu waved his hand, "By the way, has the battlefield near the platform been counted?" ”

"Counted, 350 enemy corpses found."

"It's not about the dead, it's about the cannons."

"It's all there, there are two Japanese doors that have been assembled, and the truck can be towed when it arrives."

"We have to hurry up, their planes will come at any time, and I don't know if the British Air Force can stop it."

"Okay, I'll rush it."

Why bother to win and turn around and leave. A scout hurried by, hurrying in.

"Report to the division, the Japanese blew up the south bridge."

He Bisheng nodded and went out, thinking, the master is a true god.

Not far from here, the Indians are still storming the positions of the Canadian troops, and in two days of onslaught, the Indian troops have lost more than 3,000 men. The Canadian Brigade had been reduced to a few villages, but it was difficult to advance any further. The commander of the 1st Division decided that it was necessary to stop and adjust his tactics, and Bowes tried to attack from an airdrop field in the middle of the enemy, dividing the enemy's idea of completely on paper, and bogging the attacking troops into enemy crossfire. However, Bose coveted the position of future leader of India and was eager to swallow his opponent in one gulp, and he still urged his troops not to let the enemy breathe and continue to attack. Of course, he also knew that without heavy artillery support, it would be difficult to attack the fortification.

The Japanese communications corps pulled down the telephone line to the Bowes headquarters so that he could talk to Mutaguchi at any time, but the Japanese cherished the shells more than the lives of the Indian soldiers, and every time they begged for it, they only fired a few salvos, and they were all 75-mm mountain guns and mortars. He didn't know that the Japanese on the periphery had lost two battles in a row, and Mutaguchi was afraid of the arrival of the catastrophe, so how could he waste precious ammunition on his head.

It so happened that the British submarine had good luck from Chennai, destroying 3 transport ships in two days, and 10,000 shells sank to the bottom of the sea, while only a few thousand shells remained in the arsenal of Calcutta.

Mutaguchi sat at the headquarters with a pretended composure, watching the staff officers plant and pull out the small flags representing the enemy on the map for a while. The main force of Chu Tingchang appeared in different places at the same time, and the reconnaissance work was chaotic. People kept coming in to update the enemy's situation and his own losses, and in the past two days, he has lost his troops and lost his generals, and so far he has not been able to figure out the enemy's intentions. I only know that I am beaten everywhere, and I say that it is the main force of the enemy.

He is likely to be one of the first people in the Japanese army to begin to feel weak. A few days ago, when Chu Tingchang's troops made a feint on the outskirts of Calcutta and knocked out seven or eight thousand shells in one day, he suddenly had a bad premonition: the moment may have come.

The military headquarters of the 15th Army informed that the next batch of ships carrying artillery shells may not arrive within a week. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army launched an offensive in a hurry, but all of them were won; However, as soon as the imperial army appeared, the situation of the enemy fleeing in desperation began to change, and Mutaguchi was worried, and it was here: this battlefield where the base camp had high hopes would be the first to reverse?

The intelligence department said that Chu Tingchang could pinch and calculate, but he didn't know whether it was true or not; The intelligence department estimated that the replenishment that Chu Tingchang has now received should be 2 to 3 times that of the Japanese army, which is definitely true.

At present, only one infantry wing, one transport squadron, and units directly under the division headquarters and the gendarmerie remain in Calcutta; There were a thousand, hundreds of patients and doctors in the field hospital. There were no more troops to support the outside of the city. The Indians reported their daily successes, but they needed artillery support and air support. The 5th Air Division, which had lost more than half of its aircraft in Burma, had just been replenished, and more than 40 aircraft had been reimbursed in the past two days. Everything is stretched to the limit and can break at any moment. He turned to look at the flag that had been martial for a long time, not knowing how long it would last.