The enemy pieced together the corpses, but it was cheaper for Chu Tingchang to quickly determine the identity of the enemy. After the infantry had spent some time clearing the remnants of the enemy, one of the dead bodies was found with the lieutenant general's epaulette, and the 18th Division's seal and a large number of burned headquarters documents were found in the house.

This credit can only be attributed to the tank troops, but several tanks claim to have fired at the courtyard before storming the village. In the end, Chief Chu decided to let the team draw lots to decide who would receive the credit. Of course, he knew what was going on, but he couldn't tell the truth.

The three main wings of the enemy, almost at the same morning, were routed separately by several units of the 200 Division and fell into extreme passivity. This was an unprecedented victory in the history of the Anti-Japanese War. In the past, although there have been battles in which several times the number of troops were used, or the favorable terrain was used to annihilate the enemy's heavy troops, the significance of this battle is not the same. For the first time, the Chinese army gained a qualitative advantage. Chu Tingchang's attacking troops did not determine the superiority of troops relative to the enemy in front of them, but the superiority in firepower and mobility was absolute. Although the elusive tactics that the Japanese army had relied on since its invasion of Nanyang had been exposed in the later stages of the Burma campaign, it was not until today that the myth of "invincibility" was truly shattered.

Of course, Chu Tingchang's real desire to sell his reputation was not only to annihilate a division of the Japanese army, but to win the turning point of the war.

Now he must race against time to compete with General Zhukov 6,000 kilometers away. At about the same time, General Zhukov struck at two SS divisions approaching from the periphery, the Reich Division and the Skeleton Division, which were the main forces of Manstein's operation to save the Germans from the encirclement. Now that reinforcements were forced to retreat, the encirclement of the Germans in the encirclement seemed to be a foregone conclusion.

The Japanese forces were still struggling over the vast area, and although the Japanese forces had lost their unified command everywhere, the remnants of the army soon took advantage of the nearby forest terrain and began to resist stubbornly.

Since the enemy is lightly armed, and there is not much baggage to follow, the safest way at this moment is to divide the enemy, only encircle but not attack, just wait a few days, wait for the Japanese army to be starved and lose its combat effectiveness, and then it is more reasonable to strike a decisive blow. Chu Tingchang knew this well, but he couldn't wait so long.

He ordered heavy troops to defend the 2nd Division from afar, and sent another force to divide and besiege the remnants of the 18th Division.

As far as he knew, there was currently only one engineer brigade digging in the city of Kolkata, some 2,500 sick and wounded soldiers lying in four field hospitals, and a military police squadron to maintain order in the city. It can be said that there is no combat effectiveness. If you take advantage of the chaos to attack quickly, you have a good chance.

He transferred back the tanks that were originally going to save the Canadian 11th Brigade and handed them over to Zhou Youfu, so that he could immediately plunge into the fast attack on Calcutta. Tao Mingzhang's artillery had to be kept against the enemy in the east, and he was not willing to use it in an empty city like Calcutta.

It is impossible for Zhou Youfu to know that Pavilion Chief Chu is actually bidding farewell to General Zhukov, but he is good at figuring out his intentions and sees that Pavilion Chief Chu urgently needs this victory, otherwise he will not give him the command of the tank company.

He immediately reorganized his men and horses, and returned to the army to kill them in the south. He went back and forth a few times on this road, which is considered to be a breeze. He also knew that it was an empty city, and the enemy did not have decent troops to resist it, it was nothing more than the old, weak, sick and disabled, and 12 tanks could solve it.

Chu Tingchang stood in front of the map, looking at the chaotic situation of friend and foe, although he was sure that he would eat the divided enemy in one bite, but he didn't want to attack too early and sacrifice the lives of soldiers in vain. Once surrounded, the enemy would be crushed within a few days due to lack of water and food, as well as the hot climate, so now he could only draw up Zhou Youfu's forces to launch a strong attack on Calcutta. On the surface, it seems to be at your fingertips, but it is inevitable that there is some weakness in the heart. Through the eavesdropping, 419 learned that among the Japanese troops who disembarked two days ago, there was a special new weapon experimental unit; Lin Xiuxuan's intuition told him that it must be related to the Japanese traverser, but there was no further information to verify. He only reminded Zhou Youfu that he must be very careful when attacking, and remember that the infantry and tanks should not be separated too far.

There was chaos in the city of Calcutta. In the morning, the remnants of the artillery wing of the 18th Division fled back and brought back some fragments of bad information, followed by aerial reconnaissance and saw a tragic scene, and the corpses of Japanese soldiers on the nearby battlefield were scattered everywhere. The enemy forces shuttled freely, and had already seen large-scale engagements.

Commander Chu Ting's general grasp of the enemy's strength was correct, but he did not know the essence of the experimental force in the city, only that it was a unit directly under the base camp, and the name was "Special Communications Squadron." "It sounds like a bunch of people who receive and receive telegrams, maybe they're here to test a new radio station.

The heavy responsibility of defending the city fell on the shoulders of Bai Qi, the chief of staff who remained behind, and a small number of combat troops. Soon, aerial reconnaissance saw that the Chinese army tanks were wading across the river not far away, and they were heading straight for here. Major General Shirasaki really didn't expect the enemy to come so quickly, and of course he didn't know what the troops in front of him had become, so that the enemy still had the strength to counterattack Calcutta.

He drove all the fighting infantry and the sick men who could hold guns to the north of the city to intercept them, but they had no anti-tank weapons in their hands, not even *. He was so anxious that he spun back and forth like an ant on a hot pan, and he had seen the Stewart tank come and go like the wind, and if he ran away, the suicide attack would not even be able to get to the side. There are only 7 anti-aircraft guns in the city, and they are all waiting to be repaired in the repair shop.

Konishi Nagakei Shaoza of the Special Communications Squadron came up to him and said that it was his unit's turn to give it a try. Shirasaki looked at Konishi in amazement, he couldn't imagine that someone would take the initiative to ask for battle, and his demeanor was so relaxed. It's like going on an out-of-town outing to destroy a few tanks.

Of course, Shirasaki knew that this unit was here to experiment with new weapons, and the importance of the squadron was reflected in the fact that the squadron leader was not a lieutenant but a major lieutenant. He'd seen the new weapon, too, that looked like a shrunken vehicle chassis. Some are driven on wheels, and some even have tracks. These are radio-controlled obstacle breakers, which can operate at speeds of up to 50 km / h, and are somewhat reluctant to use them against tanks. But now the dead horse has to be treated as a live horse.

Konishi received permission to immediately deploy his troops near the Chengbei Highway, which was the direction from which the Chinese army tanks were observed from the air. This so-called new weapon, essentially a battery-powered remote-controlled vehicle, was high-tech beyond the imagination of ordinary people in those days. Calling it a communication device also shows the ambiguity of the Japanese positioning of it.

The trolley can be loaded with several tens of kilograms *, and the front of the hull has a very thick armor. It was a group of teachers and students from Imperial University led by Makino and was the first to launch the remote control pilot. Makino didn't take this pediatric thing too seriously, what he wanted was aviation remote control technology combined with an autopilot to replace suicide planes. But the control of the pilot through the transmission of analog signals, in this era there is still a lack of technical reserves, with the strong support of Kishi Nobusuke, these little things arrived here, originally really to break the barrier and attack the pillbox, but now it must be used against tanks.

The Japanese army used vegetation to camouflage these small vehicles to the point that there were no flaws, only the tracer tube behind them was exposed, and the remote controller used it to observe the position of the remote control car at that time. They selected two positions and deployed them immediately, because there were few radio channels and only two could be used at the same time. It's easy to string up and interfere with each other. The position was built on a commanding height, leaking only antennas and optical viewing glasses. This thing is used in a somewhat similar way to the first generation of anti-tank*, catching the target and your vehicle from within the scope, manually operating them so that they collide.

The Stewart Tank Company, which was the first to arrive, galloped all the way out of the wilderness, not on a dirt road, for fear that the Japanese would be buried on the road*.

The commander stood on the turret and looked around with a telescope. He suddenly noticed that a cluster of wild flowers seemed to be moving, and his first feeling was that it might be a wild dog with leprosy running, and there were many dead dogs here recently, and there were more dogs in the nearby fields, but gradually he realized that something was wrong, he had never seen a wild dog pounce on him. And so that there are no ups and downs when the east and west travel.

In the blink of an eye, the grass came close to the front, and suddenly burrowed under the chassis. The magnetic fuse on the remote-controlled car was triggered, and a huge explosion of 50 kg* blasted the tank into the sky, and then fell hard.

The second tank was alert, stopped at the intersection to observe the enemy's situation, and sure enough, it saw something suspicious moving towards it, and the crew quickly used the course machine gun to strafe, but found that the machine gun could not hurt the slightest, and it seemed that there was armor in front of this thing.

The driver was quick to reverse the car, but the thing swerved and hit the track and detonated, injuring two occupants of the car.

The two attacks of the first batch were all successful, and the third small remote-controlled car on the position rushed over, and he aimed at the company commander's car where He Bisheng was.

The same machine-gun fire didn't work against him, but this time something went wrong, and at the last moment the thing got out of control and started running around, eventually falling into the ditch.

Zhou Youfu then arrived, saw the two tanks smoking, ordered the infantry to get out of the car and charge, the enemy resistance was sparse, and the symbolic resistance came and retreated. Nearby, the troops seized clumsy remote-controlled devices with a pointing type on it and two handwheels on the bottom, which controlled the turn and advance and retreat of *.

Show it to Zhou Youfu, of course he couldn't understand it, but he knew that it must be related to the mysterious explosion of the two tanks in front of him, so he immediately sent the captured vehicles with remote control devices to Chu Tingchang's headquarters.

At the same time, the Indian troops, who were fighting the Canadians in a forgotten corner, realized that the Japanese troops on the flank seemed to have not come over, and they did not know what had happened.

Chandrabose, who sent people around to reconnoiter so as not to be deceived by the 15th Army headquarters, received shocking news: the Japanese army had been routed, and it seemed that the commander of the Mutaguchi Division had also been killed. This was really beyond his imagination, he had never overlooked the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, and naturally he could not believe that one of their divisions could compete with one division of the Japanese army and still be able to win in battle. Just as overwhelmed as he was Governor Vivier on the Lanji field, 200 kilometers away, who had already boarded a plane to fly to New Delhi, when he suddenly received strange information that the Chinese army had not been wiped out, but had successfully broken through. Feeling strange, he ordered the takeoff to be postponed. Soon news came from the Americans that it was the Chinese troops who launched a counterattack on several fronts.