The encounter between the two sides came too suddenly, and if it weren't for Chu Tingchang's rush to grab the supplies captured by the Japanese, his headquarters would not have been so close to the front. An hour earlier, the cavalry of the reconnaissance battalion had reported that no large group of enemy had been found on the road, except for a few Japanese skirmishers, anchored tanks. It is expected that the 55th Wing in front has passed, and the 56th Wing in the back has not yet arrived.

Without a drone, he could only get such crude intelligence, which even included the scout's personal judgment. After thinking about it, he felt that his command art was becoming more and more mature, and he could completely break away from the 419 eyeline and do it on his own, and moreover, of course, the more than 1,000 people in the troops directly under his command were extremely strong, and there were two companies of tanks following, so he made up his mind to go over part of it first, and as a result, he ran into the enemy's main force, which was also the headquarters and the main brigade. Of course, when they met on a narrow road, strength spoke, and as soon as they fought, the firepower disadvantage of the Japanese army was undoubtedly revealed.

Many soldiers of the 200th Division did not even have time to get off the trucks before they began to strafe the enemy. In the night encounter, under the light of explosions and flares, the figures are not clearly visible, and the side with more automatic firepower is obviously more advantageous.

Each company of the 200th Division has more than 40 automatic weapons, as well as a large number of newly arrived American-made semi-automatics*. On the surface, the number of light and heavy machine guns is about the same on both sides, but * and * are more useful in close combat. Heavy machine guns and towed cannons were almost ineffective.

Most of the Japanese soldiers marched in a hurry for a day in the hot day, and they had not eaten dinner yet, and their water replenishment was insufficient (they did not dare to drink the water in the river), and their physical strength was already overdrawn. When encountering the Chinese troops who came here in trucks and eating rations, they were considered to have fallen into blood mold, and most of the advantages of fighting and bombing in the past were lost.

Those Sherman tanks that rumbled close were almost unshakable turrets for the Japanese army. Japan's field education has just added the essentials of attacking the Stuart tank, including attacking its weaker points with grenadiers and *, but I didn't expect the enemy to upgrade this new monster so quickly. It was the Japanese 97 tank, and before Sherman could make a move, it was damaged a lot by the infantry. After this period of time, the soldiers who have strengthened their training in the diet river can even put a 650-gram American* that is about the same distance from the previous light and powerless Gong style*.

The Japanese army did not have time to deploy the anti-war artillery, and only suicide attacks remained, but under the dense firepower, it was difficult to rush to the front even if they committed suicide. After packing up all the enemy tanks, Sherman began to shoot at the swarm enemy with *, quickly breaking up the desperate charge. Fearing accidental damage at night, a company of light tanks that had just rushed over did not shoot back, otherwise, it was very likely that this wing headquarters would have been annihilated.

The 56th Wing was cut in two, and the Wing Headquarters withdrew several kilometers south before it stabilized its footing, and the Chinese troops did not catch up. The wing commander wanted to report an important enemy situation to his superiors, but the radio was broken, so he could only send cavalry back to report the news.

Zhou Youfu had already reserved men and horses on the side of the highway to ambush the Japanese communications troops, and at the same time searched for the telephone lines hung by the Japanese hanging on the trees along the road, and cut them when he saw them. When the Japanese signal corps returned, they happened to run into an ambush and were swept off their horses.

These inconsistencies made it impossible for Mutaguchi in Kolkata City to know the situation for a while. He proceeded and dispatched his baggage squad right behind the second infantry wing. He also sent out the only more than 100 trucks in the city, thinking that he would bring back the supplies of the British as soon as possible, in case there were many dreams at night, and he noticed that the number of British planes was increasing day by day. The absolute air supremacy guaranteed by the flight division is just to listen to it.

At the same time, the Indian army was launching a fierce attack on the encircled Canadian 11th Brigade, and Bose personally supervised the battle at the front, replacing several officers who were afraid of casualties and did not dare to attack at night. With the support of Japanese field artillery, the Indian army attacked from three directions, compressing the Canadian positions.

At three o'clock in the morning, the casualties of the troops were too great to continue, so Bose had to order a ceasefire, and then he came up with a plan to send three officers with white flags to the Canadian headquarters to persuade them to surrender, also to observe the position of the enemy's headquarters by the way.

It just so happened that the Canadians also intended to stall for time and take in the wounded, so they agreed to negotiate. The Indians offered three conditions, the first was to ensure the safety of Canadian soldiers, and the second was to ensure the dignity of officers. Thirdly, India pledged to do its part to help Canada gain independence and to help Canada find its place in the international system in the future.

Brigadier General Parker, the commander of the Canadian brigade, found that the conditions of the Indians were inexplicable, as if the intention of coming to inquire about the truth was greater, and he did not say anything about it, but planned it and accompanied the three Indians to talk nonsense.

At 6 a.m., it was already light. Bowes found that the men he had sent to negotiate seemed to have been taken hostage by the damned Canadians, and he was still waiting for them to come back and report the position of the enemy headquarters to the Japanese artillery, and bombarded them.

He looked out over the former enemy headquarters, surrounded by thousands of vultures, and the ground was covered with corpses. The people in the nearby villages didn't know whether they were dead or alive, and they shuttled through the battlefield to strip the dead of their clothes, and the festive military uniform was really popular.

The Canadians burned down the sugar cane groves and tea plantations in advance and cleared the shooting range, making the attack extremely difficult. But the stinginess given by the artillery support of the Japanese could not shock the enemy. He was about to give the order to continue the onslaught, when the Calcutta command sent him a telegram telling him to stop for the time being, saying that a Chinese unit of indeterminate size with tanks had penetrated the vicinity last night. He felt that the Japanese were joking, one moment saying that the Chinese were 300 kilometers away, and the other saying that they were right in front of him, and there was no accurate number. However, his patrol also found that from the east side, there were two tank tracks, one wide and one narrow, which were not Japanese. Bose was angry, he had always been sympathetic to China, and felt that he was a fellow traveler on the road to independence, but the Chinese army here was always against him.

Chu Tingchang hid in the woods, waiting for the 419 drone to resume patrolling. His main forces had already rushed to the vicinity along several main routes, scattered everywhere, and of course his reconnaissance, maneuver and communications were superior, and the concentration of forces was by no means his military principle; Only by dispersing the troops can he be more flexible, and among his superiors and subordinates, only Zhou Youfu and Tao Mingzhang have touched a little bit of fame.

He was relieved that the drone communication was restored in time, but the bad news was that the night encounter was startled, and the Mutaguchi command did not come out, so there was no chance to eliminate this old enemy in the field, and the good news was that when he listened to the communications between Britain and Japan, he found that the Japanese captured much more materials than expected.

Of course, he didn't care about the Indians, and pounced directly on the Japanese troops near the railway station. Now that the enemy is already suspicious, hiding will delay the matter. Without artillery support, he went directly to the north with the main battalion and his direct troops, hoping to crush the enemy in a maneuver.

According to the known enemy situation, most of the 55th Wing, a main force of the Japanese army, and about 2,000 auxiliary troops have been gathered near the railway station. Near the railway station are warehouse areas and barracks, the street buildings are not complicated, and it is easy to rush through the open field with a quick tank assault and divide the enemy.

However, things have changed, and the drone found that the Japanese began to open warehouses in the morning to release grain, and the open land where they were scheduled to pass was full of people. Obviously, the Japanese were not just trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals, but had other tactical intentions.

Early in the morning, the commander of the 55th Wing, Kentaro Egusa, suddenly received a report from his superiors that an unknown number of tanks had appeared nearby, and the headquarters of the 56th Wing was routed at night. He had suffered from the hardships of Chu Tingchang in Burma, and he also observed that Chu was somewhat jealous of the common people, and since it was too late to build fortifications and bury them, it was better to use the natives to delay the attack of the enemy's superior mechanized troops.

He deployed his tanks to the British barracks near the railway station, where he used the high ground railroad base to hide the tank's weak hull and expose the artillery. If the enemy rushes through the open without regard for the civilian population, these tanks have enough time to hold back.

When farmers in nearby villages heard the news, they rushed to receive food with clay pots on their heads.

The 200th Division drove the peasants off the road and quickly approached the road, and Chu Tingchang had already noticed something strange. The drone found that the Japanese army had piled up food in front of their firepower, and there were already thousands of people gathered there to fight for it, and tens of thousands of locals rushed over like crazy, for fear that it would be too late. The crowd has flooded the train station and the warehouse area. The Japanese were reinforcing the bunkers abandoned by the British, digging deep trenches and erecting machine guns. The tanks were deployed to the side of the railway embankment, and it looked like they were well prepared.

Eventually, Chief Chu sent a telegram to Vivier asking for a coordinated operation, asking the Royal Air Force to assist in capturing the railway station. But you don't need heavy bombers, you just need light bombers to blow them up like dragonflies. The rest will be handed over to the 200 divisions.

Vivier was overjoyed, and sent two telegrams in a row to check the location, he didn't know why Chu Tingchang's troops suddenly appeared, now was certainly not the time to pursue these things. As for why only light bombers, maybe the Chinese understand his difficulties?

2 British Mosquito fighters were dispatched to drop bombs on the Japanese troops in the railway station as planned, but the planes dropped their bombs in a hurry under the threat of anti-aircraft guns, and as a result, none of them* fell at the railway station, and all of them fell outside. The huge explosion immediately woke up the local peasants who had broken their heads and squeezed in, and the crowd began to swarm in all directions, trampling on each other for a while, killing and wounding each other, and of course increasing the hatred of the British.

The Japanese soldiers calmly observed the situation around the enemy, and saw that the fleeing crowd was gradually moving away, and the children abandoned on the side of the road were still crying. A tall tank emerged from the eastern hillside, then reversed and retreated.

The drone could be seen clearly from high altitude, and the Japanese army began to move rapidly, pushing the battle defense artillery and mountain artillery to the east, and the tanks also moved to this side. Everything is in order, and if you attack recklessly, the casualties will inevitably be not small.

Instead of rushing into the whirlwind of armor as the Japanese feared, the Sherman tank loomed behind the ridge in the distance. The Japanese mountain artillery fired a few shots there, to show that there was heavy firepower here, and hoped that the Chinese army would not mess around.