Chu Tingchang waited for the artillery to fight for a while, and used the telescope to observe the landing point, the level was so-so, and at this time the enemy adapted to the results of the battle became limited. Standing on the jeep, the shorter Brooke was dumbfounded. His prejudice is that Chinese are farmers who are far from machines, and in the United States, Chinese Americans usually run laundries and grocery stores; In fact, as a white man's traditional superiority, he still believes that the Japanese have twice as long training time in technical arms such as boat operation or flying than European and American soldiers, and since modern industrial civilization was pioneered by Europeans, European and American whites are naturally more adapted to complex operations.

What he saw now was a unit that had been learning to operate artillery for more than ten days, and it was shooting rapidly. Although the landing point is somewhat lacking, the speed at which the bullet is fired in Grant's small and dim space has reached the outline level.

For a week, for American recruits, they are still training in the front line of the chariot and then climbing the chariot according to the norms, and many people (especially the members of the Grant chariot) are also easy to fall off in the process, so the military doctor has to be on call to bandage those clumsy guys.

The major suddenly remembered what Stilwell had said that as long as he mastered three divisions of the Chinese army and then armed them according to American standards, he could withstand the Japanese offensive. It seems that my father-in-law knows the Chinese army more thoroughly, and the upper echelons of this army are probably the most corrupt officer collectives in the world, but his lower echelons are hard-working and good at learning. So now, he has made up his mind to arm the Chinese army with all his might, and then drive out a corrupt disease like Chu Tingchang from the army.

Chu Tingchang looked at the time, and it was time to retreat. He estimated that the 14th Wing should be in trouble in the mountains to the west by this time, and thanks to the rough mapping of the area when 419 left, he knew which areas of the tank could pass and which ones looked like they could pass, but which actually didn't.

The crews listened, stopped firing, and the 1st and 2nd platoons turned around first, followed by the 3rd and 4th platoons, and withdrew the same way. Don't go the wrong way. ”

"Understood."

"Wave the flag first in the past, and beware that they beat you wrong."

Brooke was looking at it happily, and when he noticed that the artillery next to him was out of business, he hurriedly grabbed the walkie-talkie.

"I'm a hamster, call an owl, why don't you fight?"

"I calculated a hexagram just now, Tai Sui was committed at the time, and the southwest was a big murderer. The hexagram said that if you get out in time, there will be no danger. You can fight again at noon. ”

He loves to talk nonsense with Brooke, and see how angry he looks.

"Do you believe in these nonsense superstitions?" Brooke exclaimed, he didn't expect that superstition could be added to Chu Tingchang's various vices.

"What superstition, this is 5,000 years of culture, you know a fart?"

Chief Chu Ting turned off the communication and urged the driver to evacuate.

Sure enough, 3 kilometers away, Aizawa's troops encountered difficulties, and they had a good idea of facing the map at the beginning, and they attacked sharply from one side to the Grant side, but the maps drawn by the southern agency in this area mostly directly copied the British map, and the British had not updated it for many years, so they did not know. In reality, many of the nearby landscapes are different. Sure enough, across a low mountain beam, 97 just couldn't climb over, and the more he couldn't climb over, the bigger the black smoke from the engine, and he probably saw it over there, and the sound of the cannon stopped.

Aizawa Nakasa sent someone to take a look, saying that Grant had escaped, and he was angry and scolded his mother. He hurriedly unfolded the map and chose an alternate route to see if he could catch up.

Tao Mingzhang's four 6-pounder guns have been deployed to the designated position, relying on the jungle and providing excellent concealment. He personally drove a half-track car to a kilometer away and used a 6x telescope to inspect the gun position, and he couldn't even find it himself. He expects to shoot 5 to 8 times quickly, and then, depending on the situation, continue to shoot or release smoke and retreat. At this time, Chu Tingchang's tank came back, and he waved the signal flag far away to avoid accidental injury. Tao Mingzhang read out the flag with a telescope, and the Japanese tanks in the rear were following.

Grant tank troops, quickly pass in front of their own artillery, and then jump to the muzzle in the preset position as cover for alternate retreats.

The Japanese 97 tank, regardless of the excessive speed, raised conspicuous smoke and dust, and quickly rushed over. For Aizawa, it was a godsend to be able to meet this group of Grants in western Burma, and annihilation was the first priority, as long as he caught up, he could aim his sharp artillery at the weak armor in the rear. He still firmly believes in the judgment he had made the last encounter with Grant's forces - that the opposing commander was a waste.

He was a staunch blitzkrieg, believing that there were signs that would tell the quality of command. Anyone who walks in a straight line into the battlefield, anyone who relies on armor to eat the opponent, is a mediocre talent. The last time this Grant unit broke in a straight line, all of them were hit at least 150 times, and the 14th Wing had a huge advantage of 10 to 1 when the hit ratio was calculated, and if it was an exercise, of course, it could be judged to be a winner. It's infuriating that the skin is too thick.

The position chosen by Tao Mingzhang is very small in the angle with the direction of the Japanese attack, and the advantage is that the position of the target in front of the muzzle is relatively small, and the most difficult advance calculation can be ignored, and the disadvantage is of course that it is necessary to carry the enemy's frontal armor. But this is a well-thought-out deployment, professional troops, of course, will choose to set up an ambush on the side of the road, from the direction of 90 °, to strike at the weakest side of the tank, but Tao Mingzhang's people are not professional troops and cannot cope with such a dexterous target as 97, passing from a kilometer away at an uncertain speed, and must face a calculation of about 1.5 seconds in advance. Fortunately, the firepower of the 6-pounder gun is sufficient, this is what Chu Tingchang said, and Commander Tao doesn't know whether it's true or not.

Tao Mingzhang was suspicious of the rest of the synthetic battalion and the battalion commander's desperate trust, especially after seeing Battalion Commander Chu, who allowed Zhou Youfu, a gang member with Guan Yu tattooed on his chest, who was incompatible with the student army, to rob the Japanese army headquarters, he did have reservations about Battalion Commander Chu, and looked at this person who was far less reliable than Captain Lin of the 96th Division. But there was no disagreement on the killing of the Japanese. Battalion Commander Chu asked him to set up an ambush, and he was not ambiguous.

His 4th artillery squad opened fire in turn, sending up tiny clouds of smoke at the edge of the jungle, and although the British artillery was made like fathead fish, the lack of smoke was a plus. This is Chu Tingchang's best anti-tank weapon at present, with much better penetration than Grant's 37mm gun, and better accuracy than *gun.

The thickest armor on the front of the 97 tank, hit at the best angle of evasion of bullets, but easily pierced. In the first round of shooting, they used tungsten alloy *. The second shot of the artillery squad switched to blasting shells, during which this unlucky tank was hit several times by other artillery squads with *, all of which were pierced, and it is estimated that there were no living people in it. Chu Tingchang got off the tank early and watched from the high slope. Brooke was gearing up, eager to help carry the shells himself.

"Good job. Hit well. The major said.

"As I said, the northeast is the door of death, which can be ambushed, and it is a fire at noon, and it can be a tank, so at this time in this place, it is absolutely right. What is traditional culture, do you know? ”

Brooke kept shaking his head, to some extent, he hoped that this fool on the side would lose a battle and expose the prototype, he had been fooling around, and the accumulated risks should also explode. But now that the war is critical, he prays that this fool's shit luck will continue to keep the flank for General Sun, who is beating the 55th Division.

"I hope you don't really fight on these things." Brooke said coldly.

"I advise you to look at the martial arts, what time and direction, how to divination, all of them are very particular, you foreigners don't know how to be skillful, you only know how to do it."

The ambush in front was excellent, and the Japanese apparently saw all four positions, but their tank guns were stunned to hit the well-concealed gun emplacements. This is different from the previous experience of the tank crews of the 14th Wing, where the six-pounder gun was the most visible and easily hit target on the battlefield, and a good player could hit his gun shield from a distance of 2 kilometers, usually killing the gunner behind him, and detonating the ammunition accumulated within 10 to 15 meters behind. But now it is not what it used to be, the Chinese army has well hidden the artillery shields and even wheels, and the Japanese fire is 500 meters away, and it is impossible to accurately hit the exposed barrel.

Aizawa began to divide his troops and attack from a reluctant passage on the side, where Zhou Youfu waited for them. He got some* from British warehouses and laid a dense minefield over the narrow passage. When Chief Chu heard the explosion there, he knew that the Japanese army was on the road again; Of course, if the Japanese lost a few more tanks, they would be able to find a way, but they did not know how to dive, so they chose to stop and let the infantry use bayonets to detect mines, which would inevitably slow down.

A squadron of Japanese tanks was stopped on the frontal road, half of which was burning, and Tao Mingzhang reported that the shells had run out, except for *, * were gone.

Brooke touted Chu Tingchang to use Grant to make a short counterattack, at least to destroy the damaged tanks completely, and prevent the Japanese from repairing them. However, the smoke from the frontal six-pounder cannon was filled, and he couldn't see the situation behind him clearly, and Chu Tingchang was worried that it would be dangerous to let the tank rush over, especially since his mission today was actually to lure the enemy, and this purpose could not be exposed.

Long-distance shortwave communications with the headquarters had to rely on Brooke and his high-power radio, so Chu Tingchang drafted a telegram for the American operator to send out.

The telegram read: The Japanese pursuers were arrogant and underestimated the enemy, and our troops resisted one by one, causing great casualties; However, the enemy's strength is large, and although our battalion has superior firepower, I am afraid that it will not be able to resist for too long, and now it is backed by the rapids, which is really a place of death, and our troops have gone deep behind the enemy, and the veteran soldiers of the division are tired, so we should not make unrealistic resistance, so as to avoid a repeat of the heroic tragedy of the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, when hundreds of soldiers were forced into the Yellow River.

Brooke almost crooked his nose when he saw it, Chu Tingchang rushed into the enemy territory in front of the new 38th Division, it was only 40 hours now, what is the fatigue of the division veterans? It seems that the losses of the soldiers have not been counted to the number of killed, there are more than a dozen minor and serious wounded, there has been no major battle so far, the ammunition loss is about half of the base, and it is about to be withdrawn now? But he is only responsible for contact, and can only send out the full text.

What Du Yuming was most worried about over there was, of course, the loss of weapons, and when he heard that Chu Tingchang's whole division was attacking, he began to worry about those heavy firepower. Chu Tingchang deliberately did not say in the telegram that there was no loss at present. Sure enough, it caught Chief Du's thoughts.

Du Yuming's headquarters immediately sent a telegram back, telling him to judge the situation and grasp the changes in the battle situation.

This telegram amounted to allowing him to withdraw to the front after that. This is exactly what Chu Tingchang wants.