419 continued to listen through the radio and heard a strange communication from the base camp to the military headquarters of the 15th Army, which requested that special weapons be loaded and unloaded to Calcutta as a matter of priority, and that experienced engineering units be used to cooperate with the testing of new weapons.

The type of weapon was not reported by the telegram, but it was accompanied by personnel from the Tokyo Chofu Communication School. Obviously, this is a very special technical weapon, probably a radar, because the Japanese radar takes into account the communication function. However, Lin Xiuxuan's judgment is not so simple, if it is a radar, it seems that it should be deployed opposite the Sun Li Civil Defense Zone, where there are many high mountains. His instinct was that this matter might have something to do with Makino, a dangerous traverser, and it wasn't as simple as radar.

It has been nearly a year since China and Japan crossed over, and what he is most worried about is that with the strength of the Japanese side, various achievements may gradually emerge, and then the technical advantages of 419 will be slowly neutralized. However, the allocation to the army is very strange. Asano is a man of rhetoric and will not contribute anything to the new weapons, Makino is good at navigation, and even if something comes out, it should be aviation, not a sapper to use it. It can be used on the front line, presumably it has been tested in Japan, but unfortunately 419 has been trapped here to help the Allies recently, and it is impossible to go around the Pacific direction.

In addition, Qin Xiaosu didn't look like something very important from the point of view of the password level used in the telegram, Lin Xiuxuan decided to calm down and follow it carefully, maybe he could get a glimpse of the traverser's thoughts. At the same time, he also began to plan to go ashore to meet with Chu Tingchang and even Guo Rugui, Chu Tingchang's recent communications mentioned that the troop training is according to the American outline, the jungle warfare part is limited, and it is all the experience of the Philippines to suppress the locals, and the donkey's lips are not the horse's mouth to fight against the Japanese regular army, and there is no in-depth experience in this year, he hopes that someone on 419 can go to his unit to train some jungle tactics and sniper tactics. As for how to blend into the troops, he was still thinking.

When the Japanese fighters that bombed the railway station returned, they flew through Chu Tingchang's column from the air and found the camouflaged vehicles on the ground moving, but they had no ammunition and swooped down to attack, and the flight captain only made a brief report and found that the enemy convoy was flying from east to west.

The communication was intercepted by Qin Xiaosu, and he didn't know if the Japanese army's communications department in Sittwe or Calcutta would receive such a voice message, because there was no reply, such as ordering them to repeat the report. Either they didn't hear it, or they didn't have a strong sense of listening to the enemy's situation in the unit, and they didn't know what it meant for the convoy to automatically maneuver westward.

But be prepared, Qin Xiaosu has a plan for this kind of thing, he immediately simulated the voice of the flight captain, and sent a voice call to cancel the discovery in the direction that he might be monitoring, claiming that he had just read the wrong thing, it might be a bush on the side of the road. He is not afraid of any flaws. There were no recordings in those years (at least not in the communications troops), and once the enemy became suspicious and confrontational, it was not clear what to say.

Mutaguchi had just calmed down from the euphoria of the troops at the front counting the British warehouses, and he reminded himself that he must always be vigilant against Chief Chu, maybe he would have some tricks. The aerial reconnaissance found that the enemy convoy made him really sweat, and he just wanted to send a report to ask the engineer brigade what the hell was going on. Aerial reconnaissance modified what he had just discovered, saying that it was a tree, which reassured him. It seems that the army reconnaissance aircraft always have a sense of responsibility relative to the navy, or at least know that there are mistakes to correct. Now he is even more confident that the enemy will act on his own schedule. For the time being, the Chinese army could not cause chaos for itself, except for a battalion of cavalry.

The new weapon was sent to him by his superiors for trial, apparently fooling around, and he knew before landing that it was a small tracked vehicle controlled by radio remote, supposedly armoured, and could be loaded with 45 kilograms* and detonated under an enemy pillbox 2 kilometers away. Of course, he did not believe that radio could also remotely control the movement of vehicles, and radio calls could not be reliable even from a distance of 2 kilometers, so he naturally could not expect more.

He also couldn't have known that this was the command remote control assembly of one of several sub-projects that Makino was working on at the same time. After all, Makino knew that technology needed to be steadily accumulated, and the technical difficulty of experimenting on ground vehicles was relatively low, so he had already tested reliability at the training ground, obtained a set of reliable signal receiving and transmitting equipment, and now he could put it into actual combat. The next step is to integrate command reception and autopilot, which will then be transplanted to more complex aircraft to operate the rudder surface. At present, the manned suicide rocket has been completed, and the command remote-controlled rocket is already being assembled, but it has not yet reached the stage where it can be tested. The remote-controlled tank came first, and it was Kishi's idea to open the eyes of the military department first, so that their rigid brains could be prepared to deal with a new type of war.

Mutaguchi continued to look through the list in the telegram, and the materials he had snatched from the British army turned out to be what he urgently needed. Tanks, artillery and medicine ammunition. The ammunition can be given directly to the Indian troops, and the rest is kept for themselves. Bowes had just greeted him, and in the final stages of annihilating the Canadian Brigade, he had to let his men fight. Mu Tianguchi readily agreed, he knew that this politician was anxious to use these vain things for political capital, but he only needed two things, one was the supplies of the British, and the other was the head of Chu Tingchang.

Zhou Youfu's reconnaissance battalion, together with a tank company, obtained the limited right to use the road and walked in the forefront. However, instead of going directly to the rescue of the Canadian brigade, he secretly went south to the vicinity of Calcutta, waiting for the time to cut off the way back for the Japanese troops.

He really admired that Chu Tingchang had prepared a bulldozer early in order to lure the snake out of the hole for this trick, and once it succeeded, he avoided the attack on the strong city defense. At home, one battalion of the Nationalist Army may not be able to defeat two Japanese squads, but now he is confident that the power of this battalion and 12 tanks can engage a large group of Japanese troops, and quickly defeat them, and one Japanese brigade is no more than two infantry guns. Of course, it must be in the field, and it must not be in a fortified area.

He had no doubt about the victory, but recently Chu Tingchang had significantly less fortune telling, which really made the brothers feel uneasy, but fortunately, before receiving the order today, he specially begged the master to calculate a hexagram, and it was good luck, and the morale immediately rose when the news came out; He guessed that the popularity of the Japanese was almost exhausted, otherwise why was there no bad luck in the hexagram that the division had recently begged for? Of course, if he thinks about it carefully, since Chu Tingchang began to engage in these superstitious activities, he has not counted half of it as unlucky.

The convoy went all the way to the south, and saw the dying Japanese soldiers lying on the side of the road, all of whom had fainted from the heat during the rapid march, and were lying on the ground rolling their eyes, waiting for the people behind them to contain them.

The last half-track of Zhou Youfu's convoy was specially responsible for cleaning up the stragglers, and it would hear the roadside, let the soldiers go down and stab the half-dead enemy with bayonets, so that they would not tell what they had seen.

Chu Tingchang rashly moved the main force closer to the British army. The British kept asking him for help, asking how far he was and when he would arrive. He didn't answer any of these specific questions, and every time he called back, he told them: "If you keep going, there will be a way." ”

He knew that the British should not surrender on a large scale after knowing the atrocities of the Japanese army, and let them resist for a while longer, and he would have plenty of time to prepare for battle. In particular, the drone had a communication failure, and he turned around and went back according to the procedure, which was not a big accident and was bound to create a blank period for him in reconnaissance. Of course, it can be regarded as the time to test his actual command ability.

Throughout the day, the Indian army launched several charges against the Canadian troops, reducing the positions of the Canadian brigade by half at the cost of huge casualties. The artillery of the 18th Division participated in the battle and fired hundreds of shells at the British army, which was less than a fraction of the shells fired by Chu Tingchang to Calcutta two days ago.

After nightfall, the 56th Wing was still marching on the edge of the forest. Nine tanks of the 1st Tank Wing were slowly moving forward surrounded by infantry on the kilometer side. After these tanks were left behind last night, they were repaired by the mechanic team, and now there is no need to rush the march, so the speed is reduced to 1000 rpm, and the power is plummeted to 120 horsepower, which can barely maintain a speed of 12 kilometers per hour, a little faster than the infantry. The air-cooled engines of these tanks were unreliable, especially in the scorching heat of West Bengal. However, their slow march with the infantry still had a certain encouraging effect, or at least made the infantry on foot feel that they were also mechanizing.

As the sun set, two horsemen rushed out of the forest by the side of the road, as if trying to cross the column and rush to the other side of the road. The Japanese did not have such a short war horse, and immediately realized that it might be a Chinese reconnaissance/communication force scurrying around, so they shouted a few times, saw the other side turn around and fled, and shot decisively, killing one person immediately, and the other fled. Examination of the body revealed that it belonged to the cavalry battalion of the 200th Division, carrying a map showing the route of the 55th Wing marching in front.

The commander of the Japanese army, Kohinata Osa, was a man who understood, and he realized that after nightfall, the other party mistook the column for his own people to get so close. There have been many such things in the past, indicating that there may have been a large force of the enemy marching nearby, and there were also tanks, otherwise the cavalry would not have heard the rumbling and kept so close.

He ordered his direct troops to be on alert and first send people to occupy the nearby commanding heights. Before the troops could start, suddenly seven or eight flares fell from their heads, which exploded at once, illuminating the queue transparently.

A slow-moving 97 tank in front suddenly exploded, and the turret that was lifted was blown out of the distance.

The Japanese army marched from south to north, and the Chinese army moved from west to east, and the two groups of men and horses finally collided. Of course, because the Japanese fired the cavalry first, they were exposed first. Otherwise, it will collide with Chu Tingchang's headquarters.

The flares were widely dispersed, revealing the Chinese Stuart tanks that were about to rush in front of them, but they were fast and did not slow down, quickly rushing past the frightened Japanese column, disrupting the formation. The Japanese 97 tank turned the muzzle, but the Chinese tank was already very close, and the turret speed could not keep up with the target movement, so it wanted to turn the hull to help move the barrel. Unexpectedly, in the rear, the hill-like Sherman slowly rushed out from behind. Commander Chu always kept a company of Shermans near his headquarters, and at least in India, these tanks could still be called steel monsters.

When the second batch of flares fell, the Sherman tanks stopped firing, they stopped at a distance of less than 100 meters from the Japanese column, ignoring the ammunition fired by the Japanese grenadiers, raining down and exploding around, all the attention of the shooters was on the enemy tanks, which was the most important target to be solved as a priority.