At 9 o'clock in the morning, the sun broke through the clouds, and for a moment the clouds cleared and the fog dispersed, and the weather troops assured Amano that it would be cloudy all day today, which was obviously also miscalculated. The Japanese columns were gradually exposed. The automobile unit of the 201st Division, which was transporting supplies, was the first to discover the enemy's situation. How did the enemy slip to the rear more than ten kilometers?

The 201st Division was mostly recruited, so it was not swayed by habitual thinking, and it was taken for granted that the Japanese infantry was only suitable for walking, and there were no infantry transport vehicles.

The soldiers of the 201st Division noticed that the enemy's armored vehicles were planted with blue sky and white sun flags, but the soldiers on the march in the vehicles grabbed them with bayonets, which was a clear violation of the regulations. And how the vehicle looks so strange.

The 201st Division immediately waved flags and demanded to be identified, and was immediately machine-gunfired. The convoy was no match and was defeated. But the news of the enemy's penetration into the rear, reached the command.

Chief Chu was studying the offensive when he suddenly received news that the enemy had appeared in the rear. He had been speculating about the way the 3rd Brigade would use its troops, and it was said that the tactics of an armored unit of this size would be to detour to the rear, disrupt the opponent, and then wait for the infantry to attack. But I didn't expect that this time the Japanese army would also bring infantry. The last time I saw the Japanese armored troops in Burma, they were still carrying a small number of infantry in tanks, but I didn't expect that Zhang Neng would use infantry transport vehicles so soon.

However, he still couldn't figure out the enemy's true intentions, so he could only mobilize troops to deal with them while trying to probe the opponent's target. Supposedly, his rear is empty, and the enemy has no intention of breaking through 30 kilometers and will not be able to reap the benefits. What he fears most is that the enemy eats one of his front lines with a pincer offensive, but where is the other? No news at all.

Amano's attack did not have a pincer offensive at all, and the Japanese just took a gamble and rushed straight to the headquarters. It should be said that the Japanese army, both theoretically and in terms of equipment, has not yet done a good job of using mobile units to complete the preparation of a campaign-level encirclement war, so their blitzkrieg is actually just a sneak attack war, which is strictly defined and belongs to a type of special warfare.

Chu Tingchang stopped the original offensive, but did not transfer the main force back from the front line, which would only cause chaos, he transferred the 201st Division, which arrived later, to plug the leak, and transferred the Zhao Xiaoli tank in front back. In addition, Ma Qiang led a company to build a listening tower near the enemy's offensive route, and he could be expected to bring some accurate information.

Chu Tingchang has recently been dizzy by contradictory information sent from all sides. The intelligence units at the front were all concerned with the situation in front of them, sometimes exaggerating the enemy's situation, sometimes ignoring the key points, and completely unaware of what the real needs of the command were. Only the reconnaissance and descriptions of Xu Chong and Ma Qiang are reliable.

The Japanese tank group easily routed several logistics units in the encounter and rushed to the preset target area. In the distance, I saw a camp tent, and trucks were transporting troops back and forth. It seems that the Chinese army is strengthening its defenses.

The tank group rushed over and launched an attack on Zhao Xiaoli's headquarters.

Zhao Xiaoli's troops only have the number of the battalion directly under them, but in fact there are quite a few people, and Commander Chu Ting expanded this battalion to about 3 battalions when the number is insufficient. At the moment, the logistics and repair units are in the rear, and seven or eight tanks are being repaired, and at the same time supplies are being transferred from the depots to the units. It was the large number of telegrams sent by the military station that made the enemy mistakenly judge that this was the headquarters of Chu Tingchang. Amano's troops even arranged for traitors transferred from South China, because when the Kuomintang troops were defeated, high-ranking officials wore soldiers' uniforms and fled, so he had to be prepared to identify high-ranking generals at any time.

The Japanese immediately attacked the tanks that had not yet had time to repair. This gave the stunned Chinese troops time to withdraw from the headquarters. Enemy tanks stormed the camp and opened fire on all the vehicles and hoarded substances, meeting no resistance.

Ma Qiang was on the commanding heights and observed that the Japanese army had stagnated and was in disarray. The Japanese infantry did not receive an order to get off the vehicle for battle, and the forward tanks had already stormed the headquarters. A noticeable disconnect was created in the formation, most likely due to the inexperience of the commander, as well as the reliability of the station.

He has long observed that the call channels used by the two sides in wartime are similar, and the Japanese army usually has three to four backup channels, but in actual combat, it is impossible to change the channel temporarily, and the so-called backup channel is temporarily designated to be used before the battle, predicting that the enemy will eavesdrop. The number of radio stations of the surrounding 5th Army was much larger, and it was often possible to drown out enemy communications through this raw noise interference.

Sure enough, he observed that the enemy began to use signal flags, directing the infantry to get off the vehicle and fight. What was supposed to be a perfect assault with a long drive suddenly became clumsy and funny.

From 2 kilometers away, Ma Qiang used a telescope to observe the movements of the enemy's signal standard-bearers, and then found the extra antennas on one of the strange-shaped half-tracks.

He immediately called his superiors, and at this moment, Chu Tingchang was in the communication unit of the command headquarters, and he could directly hear Ma Qiang's call. Ma Qiang informed that the enemy's formation was disorganized, the tanks were disconnected from the infantry, and that they did not occupy the nearby commanding heights, so they could seize the eastern mountain beam to establish a mortar position.

A battalion of the 202nd Division, which was approaching, temporarily changed its course, got off the car 500 meters away from the enemy's troops, and quickly went up the hill from the other side of the hill that the enemy had not seized.

At this time, the enemy's tank had turned Zhao Xiaoli's command headquarters upside down, and it was also found that it did not seem to be an important target, because a large number of written documents were not found, and a large number of jeeps of senior officers were not seen, but a lot of repair equipment equipped with cranes was more like a repair shop.

Tsushima Yoshimitsu Nakasa, who commanded the operation, sent a report to the rear: The surprise attack was successful. There is no further description of the nature of the target, because it does not look like a division-level headquarters, and the most senior officer killed is only a lieutenant.

It seemed that it was time to retreat, but after the infantry got off the vehicle to fight, it turned into a plate of scattered sand, and it was difficult to give orders. The infantry walkie-talkies produced by Meiji Electric, which they carried, were no longer useful, even within visual range. Along the way, they were using these broken equipment to eavesdrop on the communications of the Chinese army, and were surprised by the use of radio by the 5th Army. Of course, the Japanese army did not need radio command, and it was only necessary to equip these things for fashion. Tsushima's orders were still given through the command flag and the signal corps. The original intention of mechanized warfare is nothing more than to win in chaos, but it is limited to confusing the enemy, not adding chaos to itself.

In this effort, the infantry of the 201st Division seized the commanding heights on the flank, and the machine gun fire was out of reach, but the 60 mortars were just right, they opened 4 guns, and began to shoot with simple aiming, correcting while fighting. Shells began to fall near the Japanese transport vehicles, which were densely parked and waiting for the infantry to return.

At the same time, Tao Mingzhang's divisional heavy artillery units were also temporarily assembling to form positions. In the absence of sufficient geodetic support, no preset positions, and no forward observation posts, the ability to fight is quite dependent on basic skills. You can only determine your position by interpreting the topography of the map, and then test fire correction.

When the Japanese army drew up the attack plan, they did not consider an artillery attack, because it was beyond common sense, they all got into the belly of the enemy, why did the enemy hit themselves with artillery? But Tao Mingzhang's troops can do it.

A 201 gun of the 105th Heavy Artillery Battalion of the 105th Division fired smoke grenades. It was falling between Ma Qiang, who was preparing to sneak attack the command vehicle, and the enemy, and the battlefield was in chaos, only Ma Qiang noticed the deviation of this shell and quickly informed the command headquarters of the correction number.

The second shell fell near the enemy convoy. Seeing that the enemy was about to run away, Ma Qiang demanded that he not continue to correct his shooting, and immediately launched a rapid fire.

The howitzer battalion then began firing, and the first round of shelling hit the enemy in a daze. However, Tao Mingzhang was too conservative, he did not continue to shoot, but waited for further information to be confirmed, because this place was too close to Zhao Xiaoli's headquarters.

This allowed the Japanese to get out in disarray. At the same time, the Japanese army in Chiang Mai launched a counterattack, and Chu Tingchang judged that this was a cover for the retreating Japanese army, so the enemy's retreat route could be roughly predicted.

Someone brought in the notes captured in the enemy's reconnaissance tank found in the morning, and the intelligence service had just read out that the enemy's sketch was the geometry of the Sherman's track shoes, and they officially traced the track prints on the map to plot the movement of the Sherman's tank. It was also discovered that the enemy used the code name of the beast to refer to the Erman tank, and the bug to refer to the Stuart tank.

Chief Chu suddenly understood that the enemy's entire set of sabotage battles was actually set up to avoid Sherman, which also explained the reason why they rushed to the training institute and first destroyed the wreckage of the Sherman tank with separate turrets several times.

It seems that he did not really study the careful thinking of the Japanese, he never regarded the medium tank as an important anti-tank weapon, and the main gun of this tank was not suitable for anti-tank, but the Japanese cared much about its existence.

He ordered Zhao Xiaoli, who had rushed back from the front line, to quickly deploy one of his companies to Sherman near the predicted enemy retreat route.

The Japanese lost more than two dozen thinly armored half-tracks and turned back to the south. According to the predetermined plan, Chiang Mai's artillery counterattack will put pressure on the enemy, so that they can take advantage of the chaos and successfully return. Amano didn't have any more intentions, because the strategy developed by Shouichi Terauchi was to actively defend and hoard supplies. For now, the raid is still a success.

Tao Mingzhang's troops pursued the enemy tanks with trucks, seizing every possible obstacle for the enemy to pass. On the one hand, the bazooka group was used to attack the retreating enemy, and on the other hand, the enemy's retreat route was gradually described. This allowed the commander of the command to further grasp the position of the enemy's possible retreat.

Tsushima's retreat, gradually becoming absurd, and the enemy's reaction was faster, beyond the previous imagination, it can be seen that it was not the serious command that was destroyed, because the command was not affected in the slightest.

The enemy forces began to move closer, and at each time they exchanged fire with small groups of troops at the intersections, they were held back, and the troops could not speed up at all.

Seeing that the artillery fire in front of him was not far away, Tsushima secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and although the losses were large, it seemed that he could finally retreat. After I went back, I had to study the tactics with the brigade commander, and it seemed that bringing infantry was completely cumbersome, and the role was not much played, and the drag was not small.