Pu Jie sat down and studied the enemy situation report sent by the Japanese, and the enemy on the opposite side judged that it was a part of the enemy's 200th division, and evaluated it as a mixed unit of cavalry and motorized troops, with the main heavy firepower of 60 mm mortars and some American-made M2 heavy machine guns. In the afternoon, no heavy fire was found on the enemy, and the intelligence seemed to be accurate. But he was worried that the enemy cavalry would break through the line and that the Japanese would be disgraced there. When he looked out from the headquarters, he could see that the most sloppy trench digging of the main front company may have been due to the fact that his subordinates were resentful of the Japanese for letting them start digging trenches as soon as they got off the ship, and deliberately sabotaged their work, but in the final analysis, they couldn't get along with themselves.

He asked the orderly (as a newly promoted captain, he had 2 miscellaneous orderlies) to find the company commander, and without scolding, he grabbed the company commander's hand, clutched it to his chest, and whispered the crux of what he saw - trenches, fortifications, and communication trenches were beginning to take shape, but they were all too weak, mere formalities, and vulnerable. He asked the company commander to repeat it. The company commander couldn't break free of his hand, so he had to repeat the above opinions and agree to improve, Pu Jie let go, raised his orchid finger and dusted the ash on the company commander's shoulder, signaling that he could leave.

After the preparation of the matter here, he had to rush back to Calcutta to fight with Bai Qi, and the Japanese promised to pull the telephone line down to the position to facilitate artillery support, but it has not been implemented until now, in fact, he did not see any artillery from the Japanese, and the 4 Liaozao 75 mountain guns he brought were also taken away by Bai Qi, saying that they were used intensively. Pu Jie could intuitively guess that Bai Qi was lying, no one could look at his glasses and lie, he didn't know how big this lie was, so he still had to find out the news, mainly where the main force of the Japanese army was, anyway, there was definitely no main force in the city of Calcutta. He saw that there was a lack of a brigade in the Nanhai Branch, and its soldiers did not seem to have high morale, as if the battle situation was unfavorable.

After Pu Jie left, the people below continued to grind foreign workers, in fact, they didn't buy his account, this chief said that it was the royal family, or graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, but every day to fold the quilt and someone has to help, how to serve the public?

However, these people in the Praetorian Guard were too rude and not as careful as Pu Jie, and they did not notice the bluff of the Japanese at all, nor could they understand the danger they were in.

This ghost place was surprisingly hot, and after digging for a while, I really didn't want to dig anymore, so everyone found an ammunition box to sit under the buttocks, and began to talk. It is said that the people here decorate the temple with gold, and everyone discusses, when to take a look?

They are very lax here, and Zhou Youfu on the other side does not dare to slack off, Chu Shizuo ordered to beat the people on the street, and he must not take it lightly. And the division gave himself all the captured 105 and 150 guns, obviously to beat this puppet Manchurian army to death? He thought, what a hatred?

He personally sat in a reconnaissance vehicle to the front to check, because he occupied the commanding heights, he could clearly see the enemy's deployment, and in turn, the enemy could not see his deployment in depth. He observed with a telescope for a long time, and found that this opponent did not seem to be worthy of being smashed by the division with 150 cannons, first, there were no heavy weapons, and second, military discipline seemed to be sparse. From a distance, the Manchurian soldiers are standing in the trenches smoking, and the upper body is exposed to the trenches, which shows that the trenches are not deep and the vigilance is not strong. We'll have to let them remember it later.

Looking at the position again, it is orderly, the positions of the three companies are neatly aligned, and they do not change according to the changes in the terrain, the headquarters is in the back, where are all the communication trenches connected, and the heralds are in and out, I am afraid that others will not understand. The weapon configuration is still lively, using Liao-made Browning water-cooled heavy machine guns, each company position is 4, and the light machine guns may be doubled, and the model is not clear. There was a mortar position near the headquarters, several guns were crowded, and ammunition was piled up in a mess. The average configuration of fire on the positions, not a single anti-tank weapon was seen, apparently not well hidden, but not at all. The open field in front of the position was overgrown with weeds, and there was no trace of cleaning the firing boundary or burying *.

It looks like it's a completely unbeaten force that hasn't been beaten or beaten. From a distance, a big cart delivered food, and each company made a noise and moved it together, exposing the number of people on the battlefield clearly. It should be a battalion-sized unit of 400 to 500 people.

After observing the enemy's position, he set about making an offensive plan. Because he couldn't see the deployment of the enemy in shallow and deep depth, he didn't want to risk a detour with tanks, so he still used tanks to cover the infantry to fight positional battles, and took a step further.

The captured Japanese artillery did not have a firing table, and he demanded that the 105 mountain artillery be secretly pushed to the front and fired at the direct point, and it was too much to hit half the base, so that the exaggerated surface position could be destroyed in a few strokes. There were some abandoned houses of the Indians near the enemy positions, and they could send their most effective men to shoot black guns, and when the time came, priority would be given to enemy machine guns.

Dinner was being opened there, and here four 105 mountain guns had been quietly pushed into position, and these guns were full of branches, and they moved so sneakily that no one on the other side noticed them. Of course, it is also to blame that the Japanese did not tell the truth, and here the Manchukuo army only thought that the opponent was weak, with only one or two mortars.

The artillery was aimed at the enemy headquarters, but the gunners did not count it. You can only use experience and then correct it.

Zhou Youfu gave the order to shoot, and with one shot, the trajectory floated upward, crossed the command headquarters, and directly hit the cart of the Japanese in the rear delivering ammunition and rations. The rest of the artillery and mortars opened fire one after another, and for a time, the entire position was enveloped in flames one after another.

Pu Jie was returning from the city on a sidecar motorcycle, Bai Qi still didn't tell the truth, but he peeked at the combat map of the enemy's headquarters, the 18th Division was 50 kilometers north of the city, it was divided, and there were enemy arrows all around. He sighed with his cheeks cupped, and the sudden explosion woke him from his musings. Looking up, it was his own position that fell into flames. He had never seen such a formation, but leaving his men and fleeing was something that a royal nobleman like him could not do.

Hurry up and find a place to stop, and let your signal corps split up to the front to find the acting battalion commander and the Japanese troops in the rear, and ask them to answer. Lie on the top of the hill and look ahead with a telescope.

Shells rained down on the position, and in an instant, several vertical and horizontal trenches and communication trenches were wiped off the ground with a devastating momentum. The entire position was swept by air waves, and fragments flew sideways. Weapon parts and human stumps, flying in the air.

Frightened by the sudden shelling, the people fled back along the trenches. The cold gunners in the lurking could not find the machine guns that were still firing back, and could only shoot at low-value targets, these trenches were dug too shallowly, people ran in the middle of the ravines, even if the cat was waisted, they could not hide their heads, and for a time the shooters fell to the ground one after another, and the people next to them did not know where to shoot the guns.

Zhou Youfu saw that the position was destroyed, it was completely expected by him, he felt that the attack force he attacked was too luxurious, and there was some meaning of killing chickens with a knife, but since Chu Shizuo had explained that he was going to fight the street, he naturally couldn't be mistaken. Seeing that the enemy was in disarray, he ordered the tanks to be dispatched, and to be honest, he felt that it was not worth wasting precious motorcycle hours on this gang of waste.

Two platoons of 8 tanks drove out of the hidden area, rushed into the flat wilderness, and approached the enemy at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour, followed by the rear half-tracks. This time it was not only the tanks that had to break through the enemy's positions directly, but also the infantry on the half-track vehicles did not come down, because the enemy did not have any weapons at all to return fire.

The artillery began to extend the strike, and behind the Praetorian Guard position, a position consisting of 6 mortars, was completely wiped out without firing a single shot. Among them, there are 2 150 mm mortars that terrified warlords from all walks of life during the civil war, which was originally the proudest product of the Mukden Arsenal, and was picked up by the Japanese in vain at 918 hours, and later transferred to Puyi.

The drone captured Zhou Youfu's strong offensive at the expense of firepower, and when the tank ran over the trench, hundreds of Manchukuo troops raised their hands and surrendered, knowing that there was nowhere to escape. The mechanized infantry of the 200th division jumped out of the car and disarmed it. The artillery hit all the way to the position of the South China Sea detachment in the rear, and the Japanese were afraid of firepower and did not dare to rescue.

The information soon arrived at Chu Tingchang, who was thinking about how to enter Calcutta as quickly as possible, but heard that Zhou Youfu had fired all the shells of 105. On that day, he knocked on the periphery and fired thousands of rounds, but he only picked small-caliber artillery to smash, I didn't expect Zhou Youfu to be such a loser, these large-caliber Japanese artillery shells are extremely difficult to replenish, and they should be used only when they attack the fortification, how can they be wasted on the heads of such second-rate troops?

In the headquarters of the Japanese-Indian coalition forces in Calcutta, Bai Qi knew that the time limit for his empty city plan had passed, so he calmly picked up the phone and called the communication squadron, asking them to send a telegram to the headquarters of the 15th Army and the 3rd team at the same time, asking for support.

He knew very well that as long as he had two Kongo-class battleships on his back and 16 356-mm guns, he would be able to keep the enemy out of range. He knew the power of those cannons, which could wipe out the enemy's cluster of forces in an instant, and a few tanks were considered old. Once the stalemate is reached, it can wait for the 15th Army to transfer reinforcements from Burma, and then join forces with the 2nd Division on the flank, and perhaps annihilate the enemy's main force. He knew that Commander Kimura also thought the same way, so he delayed letting the 2nd Division join forces with him.

Even though the East Indies campaign had been fought so ugly, the Japanese commanders were still pinning their hopes on a counteroffensive to turn the tide and eat their opponents.

A Sunderland reconnaissance plane took off off the coast of Olissa in eastern India and flew into the vast sea, and it had a major mission: to reconnoiter the movements of Japanese troops at sea. The British knew that the main Japanese forces had already left through Malacca, but here two battleships and one or two smaller aircraft carriers should have been left. The enemy fleet remained silent, but was spotted once by submarines.

The Royal Air Force had about a hundred planes scattered across coastal airfields, and no one thought of using them to attack the enemy's fleet until Rear Admiral Luo was moved. Perhaps this possibility will only be possible after getting the American SBD dreadnought bomber. But Chu Tingchang reminded Luo that he actually had a Skua bomber that could dive and drop bombs, although it was probably the worst in the world.

The Short Sunderland plane saw a faint black cloud over the sea level, and the pilot decided to risk tracking it, the plane had a speed of only 340 kilometers per hour and could not escape once the enemy carrier or coastal fighter took off. But only such aircraft had the opportunity to go deep into the prototype and follow the trail of the enemy fleet.