The enemy's attack was slow-paced and orderly, with infantry columns in front, headquarters and baggage artillery in the rear, and field hospitals and containment teams behind. Ando put to good use all what he had learned in the battle against the national army in Guangxi.

According to his line of thinking, mountain artillery and field artillery were used together, and the artillery always had priority, occupying a flat ground with a good firing range, and even if the general's passage was occupied, the follow-up troops had to go around. His set of principles, in simple terms, the infantry must give way to the carts of the baggage soldiers, and the carts of the baggage soldiers must give way to the artillery carriages. Once the front is fired, the artillery can quickly go into battle and the ammunition supply can keep up. In mountain warfare, the deployment of troops is not too important.

During the march, the communications squadron followed closely with the troops, and various communication telephone lines were hastily hung on trees or pulled on the side of the road. In the low-level confrontation in Guangxi, his set was like a lightning storm, and the national army that fought could not keep up with the rhythm. But in front of Chu Tingchang, his entire action was like slow motion, and it became more and more chaotic.

Sometimes, if the calculation is too chicken thief and the formation is too compact, it will become a source of chaos.

Ando's greatest fear was that the enemy would stabilize his position, so he came in a hurry, using all his knowledge to try to pursue the wheels of cars with human legs in the narrow mountains west of Dalat. He also doesn't want to think about the efficiency of his command. Japanese radio stations were distributed to squadrons, but in the mountains, most of the radio stations were within easy reach. This is still Qin Xiaosu, who didn't make trouble for them. At this moment, Qin Xiaosu was using a small drone to overlook the enemy's formation, providing a strategy to Chu Tingchang, and the enemy had few communications for an hour, so he felt that it would be a matter of time to interfere with it.

Chu Tingchang's troops began to retreat in an orderly manner, and if the Japanese army were not so dizzy, the signs of feint defeat were already clear. But the enemy is superstitious that their superweapon has crushed the enemy from the will, and does not doubt it too much.

In front of the enemy, still in pursuit, several brigades have chased their formations into chaos, and the rear has begun to line up in marching formations. For a time, too many horses in the vicinity of the artillery position had to turn around and huddle with the baggage troops. From the headquarters of Chu Tingchang, it can be seen that the enemy's formation is disjointed, chasing and pointing at his own chaotic position. Ando was able to rely on this set of "command art" to run rampant in South China, and also published teaching materials, but it can only be said that the national army is more chaotic in all aspects.

Chief Chu ordered heavy artillery fire. His 105 howitzer group was not in a hurry to cover, but fired with precision, hitting * first, which was verified by the hill observer. When the shells fell, the enemy did not care, thinking that the mortars that had slipped through the net were firing cold artillery. But soon the second round of shelling arrived, and the net of fire instantly enveloped the enemy pursuers who were in disarray. Accompanying the attack, there is also an American-made 4.6-inch rocket launcher (carried by the Willis Jeep), which is not used much on the front line, and the troops call it a swarm, which is not very accurate, but it is very useful for striking more scattered targets. As a kind of hammer deal that was difficult to reload, Chu Tingchang hit the enemy's rear artillery and baggage troops, trying to cut off the enemy's retreat by firepower alone. His tank was still circling in the mountains, and it was too late to get there.

His artillery positions did not want to do anything with each other, and the firing targets were not the same, but the firing time was coordinated with each other, and the firing time was staggered as much as possible to avoid interfering with the forward observers of different artillery groups, which often happened on the battlefield, and the forward observers saw the artillery fire of their neighbors and mistakenly thought that the artillery positions to which they belonged were fired, and they were bound to make wrong corrections to the follow-up artillery fire.

Therefore, he was not in a hurry to shoot in a hurry and shoot out all the shells, but to implement an effective battlefield blockade to buy some time for the tank to penetrate. Zhou Youfu's tank group has great restrictions on its movement in the mountains and cannot exert maximum speed. And the tank attack also has a fairly refined plan, which is divided into two parts: close outflanking and long-distance penetration. Chu Tingchang's eyes did not stay at the enemy in front of him, he was ready to defeat Da Lat in one fell swoop.

After the shelling, the enemy did not recover for several hours, and the organization was always in disarray, and the command was in disarray. The headquarters of the 106th Division made several attempts to occupy high ground, grasp the intuitive battlefield situation, as well as obtain the commanding heights of communication for effective control of the troops. But every time I climbed the mountain, I was immediately attacked by fire.

Qin Xiaosu can use small UAVs to accurately go sideways to obtain the approximate location of the enemy's headquarters, and then carry out reconnaissance to determine the location. At 2 p.m., the first tank unit, two hours late and a quarter of its vehicles were left behind, finally arrived at its intended position (during this time, the enemy did not conduct a single effective command and was basically in separate battles). The tanks attacked from the enemy's flank, the enemy did not have any decent command, the anti-aircraft guns were completely unaware of it, and the enemy tanks appeared behind the firing flank of their own field. Chu Tingchang has not met such a vulnerable Japanese army for a long time. The Japanese army in Southeast Asia has been adapting, but these Japanese divisions and regiments with the number of 100 years after coming from China are inferior to the troops of the Southern Army in terms of the quality of their soldiers, firepower, and command.

Seeing that the main force of the pursuers was easily divided, Chu Tingchang began to pay attention to the direction of Dalat. He didn't want the enemy to retreat back behind, and with the help of the fortified city on the mountain, especially the Mekong River in front of Da Lat, and the Japanese train guns parked on the railway line behind, once the enemy destroyed the pontoon bridge, it would be a big trouble. Because when your sappers build bridges, they will be exposed to the range of the enemy's large-caliber train guns.

A mixed force of tank companies and half-tracks, already in the mountains, led by Vietminh personnel to search the road, their purpose is to bypass the hot battlefield, after dark, to seize several pontoon bridges on the Mekong River, if you can attack the city of Da Lat, if not, but also to destroy the enemy's heavy fire on the railway line, these heavy guns have wheels, can move freely on the railway line, if not to get rid of it is a big problem. In addition, Chu Tingchang was also worried that the enemy would use the railway to transport nuclear bombs across the north and south of Vietnam to attack, so he had to cut off the railway as soon as possible.

This task was very difficult, according to the reconnaissance of the Viet Minh, a total of five pontoon bridges were constantly passed by enemy troops, and the garrison was relatively complete, and Ando placed machine gun and anti-aircraft artillery positions on the east bank of each bridge.

Defending and passing through the pontoon bridge were several units of the 102nd Division, which arrived last to arrive, and these troops came on board from Canton, sea to Haiphong, and then along the railway, still not fighting with Chu Ting's commander, and the impression of the Chinese army was stuck in the slow response, weak firepower, and lack of maneuverability. Therefore, after getting the news that their own side has completely destroyed the enemy, the soldiers still have some regrets, feeling that from the perspective of resource advantageous allocation, such a powerful thing should be thrown to the United States, and the Chinese troops can be left to them to solve.

When the Japanese army was quickly crossing the bridge, they got the news that the front was attacked by the enemy, and the troops were not interfered with by Qin Xiaosu, but still made a wrong judgment, they withdrew the rear battle defense guns, and prepared to pull across the bridge to support the operation.

Zhou Youfu's tanks arrived at nightfall, and the enemy's brightly lit bridges could be seen from afar, and the baggage troops were pulling supplies forward, obviously not ready to meet the battle.

The tank group rushed through the enemy marching column in the dark and quickly rushed towards the pontoon bridge. A platoon of tanks, loaded with the 102 Baggage Wing on the bridge. No one knew whether the pontoon bridge built by the Japanese would pass through the tanks, but the first Stewart tank rushed directly onto the pontoon bridge and crashed the front horse and cart into the river.

Later, the Japanese army could not figure out the situation, thinking that there was some scheduling error (among the several pontoon bridges of the Japanese army, only one could return to the east bank in retrograde, and it was easy to make mistakes at night), and they did not dare to shoot for a while, and the tanks on this side rushed over in the opposite direction. It was only in the middle of the bridge that the tanks began to fire, using machine guns to disperse the enemy on the opposite bank.

The tanks, which did not have time to cross the river, stayed on the opposite bank and carried out direct fire support, and soon destroyed the enemy's machine-gun fire point on the opposite bank.

The first tank rushed across the pontoon bridge, and another column passed over another bridge a few minutes later, and Zhou Youfu's troops occupied two pontoon bridges 150 meters apart. The Japanese reacted and tried to set fire to the rest of the bridges, but they ran out of gasoline to form a fire that burned the bridge. Soon it began to rain and the fire was extinguished.

Tanks rampage on both sides of the railroad outside the city, looking for heavy fire on the enemy's railway line. Chu Tingchang's worries were a little unnecessary, and the enemy's reaction was much slower than he feared, and they quickly found the train cannon that had just begun to heat the boiler, and the air pressure was far from enough, and quickly destroyed it.

Inside the palace at the top of the mountain, Ando Jili tried to resist stubbornly, and he realized that the goal of the Chinese army was not him, but to sabotage the railway line. At this point, the Chinese tanks have crossed the tanks, and even if they have not yet reached the sea, they have essentially cut off the north-south transport line of Vietnam. After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the huge Japanese Empire is now only a few tens of kilometers of coastline connecting the north and south by land.

He couldn't understand how the enemy was regaining morale, and Itagaki clearly said that the enemy was crushed and in a state of collapse. But the enemy appeared in front of him like a heavenly soldier. Looking at the fire under the mountain, the enemy's chariots flew back and forth, not at all as if they were about to collapse.

Itagaraki, far away in Saigon, had been following the fighting here since the afternoon, and after the 106th Division was counterattacked, he felt that something was wrong. Later, he learned that Chu Tingchang himself had already arrived at the front line, and it was difficult to say what effect his appearance would have on reuniting morale. Maybe just a new force. He hoped that Ando would find out whether it was the enemy's 200th division, but Ando did not know the number of the enemy unit that counterattacked in the afternoon, only knowing that the enemy had put in heavy artillery and tanks, and the troops in front were obviously unable to withstand it. From Saigon to Da Lat, there is an intact railway, but Saigon does not have extra troops to rescue, and there are no surplus troops in the whole of Vietnam.

At night, enemy tanks appeared near Da Lat, and he realized that the situation was critical. * It did not play a role in resisting Chu Tingchang, but instead had a huge misleading effect on the analysis of his own enemy's situation. If the enemy's main forces remain, it is clear that it is only a matter of time before they move south to seize Saigon. He was determined not to flee back to Singapore. It is bound to deal with Chu Tingchang to the end.