It is not that the quality of the soldiers of the national army is better than that of the Japanese army, on the contrary, the soldiers of the 16th Division of the Japanese army are all veterans who came down from the Chinese battlefield, and after the baptism of blood and rain in the war of aggression against China, their combat effectiveness and willpower are stronger than the soldiers of the 38th Division. They immediately retreated. There is no intention of dwelling.

But in this way, their cold round of attacks also brought a lot of casualties to the 122nd Regiment, with battle losses of nearly 200, which only made Tang Chu tremble.

But what Tang Chuyi didn't expect was that before they could breathe, the scream of cannonballs sounded outside the forest, and then the raindrops of cannonballs poured straight into the forest.

The trees in the woods are not large, and the scope is not wide, after all, it is on the edge of the city, and there are not many bushes, and the sudden artillery fire immediately caused the soldiers of the national army to flee in all directions, but fortunately, there is a trench used by the Japanese army to ambush and hide, so that most of the people have been sheltered.

The shelling did not last long, it stopped in less than five minutes, and when Tang Chu came out of the trench with a disgraced face, he immediately faintly heard the rumbling sound of machinery, and when he looked forward, he was immediately dumbfounded, only to see more than a dozen tanks running all the way from the rice fields, and behind the tanks were dense Japanese troops.

"Defense, artillery, hurry!" Tang Chu howled.

The soldiers began to get busy, and seven or eight mortars and infantry guns were quickly erected, which was all the support fire of the 122nd Regiment. This firepower obviously can't compete with the Japanese army, once the cannon is fired, it will soon be locked and destroyed by the Japanese army, and the Japanese tank 38th division has seen it in ancient times, it is no longer the Xiaodou tank on the Chinese battlefield, but a new type of four and five tanks, compared with the 95 type light tanks that are rampant on the Chinese battlefield, not only strengthens the firepower, but also greatly improves the armor, and the total weight of the battle has reached more than 30 tons, the former is just an infantry support weapon, and the latter is a tank in the real sense of the battle with tanks.

In the battle for the Pacific islands, the Type 4 and Type 5 tanks showed their extraordinary combat capabilities, which once put the US M4 and T-34 in a desperate situation, and finally lost the ability to compete with the Japanese army for the Pacific islands.

It can be seen from this that Tang Chuyi encountered a lot of difficulties, and his own small cannons could not knock on the armor of the Japanese tanks at all, but now there is no other way, there is no way back, so he can only fight hard.

"Signal Corps, immediately send a telegram to the 123rd Regiment, asking them to move closer to us and give support!"

As soon as Tang Chuyi issued the order, he raised his binoculars and took a cursory look, the Japanese army was about two kilometers away from the grove, and the strength was not much, about a brigade, and the most difficult thing to deal with was these dozen or so mobile pillboxes.

However, Tang Chuyi's wishful thinking did not come off, and the signal corps immediately reported that the 123rd Regiment had also been attacked by the enemy, and their casualties were even greater, and the 124th Regiment had urgently moved closer to them, but the 125th, 126th, and 127th Regiments were still nearly 20 miles away from their horizontal line.

"What, nearly twenty miles? Damn, the attack was launched at half past five, and now it has been half past eight for three hours, and they have only walked a dozen miles, how much gap should be left in the middle, if the Japanese army is detected, will they not immediately put the old bottom of our three regiments? Quickly, inform the chief of staff to immediately send a telegram to the division seat, urging them three regiments to press up immediately. ”

As soon as Tang Chuyi's words fell, Han Chunlai, the chief of staff of the regiment, hurriedly walked over, took over the conversation and said: "No need, the division already knows about this situation, and orders us to immediately move closer to the 123rd Regiment, and in five minutes, he will order the heavy artillery regiment to launch an artillery attack on our position to cover our retreat." ”

"Fuck it, so what are you waiting for? Hurry up and leave, this battle is really fucking bad. ”

Tang Chuyi scolded and scolded, urging everyone to hurry up to the woods in the west at full speed, more than a dozen artillery soldiers hurriedly dismantled the cannon that had just been installed, and was knocked down by Tang Chuyi one by one, this place will soon be covered by artillery fire, and the cannon will be dismantled? It's just dead, I don't want anything, hurry up!

?????? Provisional Command of the 38th Division.

Sun Liren was furious at the deputy division commander Yu Xueqi.

"Fuck you, the three regiments have already rushed to Myitkyina less than ten miles, and now you tell me that the three regiments behind them are still twenty miles away from them, and you are simply taking the lives of thousands of soldiers as a child's play, do you know how big a gap there is in between? If the enemy outflanks from the middle, the three regiments in front will be finished, you know? Yu Xueqi, let me tell you, you'd better pray that they are okay, otherwise you can't afford this responsibility. ”

Yu Xueqi was also full of anger, and said angrily: "It seems that the three regiments behind can't be completely blamed for this, if it weren't for your greed for merit and advancing too fast, how could this situation occur, besides, the first three regiments are taking the main road, but the three regiments behind are going to open the way from the jungle, how can they go hand in hand with them?" ”

"You fart, the three regiments in front of you bypassed the river, more than ten miles farther than you, and they were greedy for merit? I think you're deliberately delaying time so that they can be cannon fodder, and you're picking up bargains behind you, right? ”

In fact, Yu Xueqi is really like Sun Liren said, that is, he is ready to pick up cheap in the back, but he didn't expect that the Japanese army actually fought in the field, put on a posture and fought a field battle with the national army, and was stopped by several Japanese soldiers before entering the city, which led to the current uncontrollable situation, but this stall, Yu Xueqi will not admit it if he is killed, and find all kinds of reasons to argue with Sun Liren on reason.

Just when the two of them were arguing with red faces and thick necks, a staff officer hurriedly came in to report that the 127th Regiment had been attacked by the enemy, and the situation was very critical, and he asked for reinforcements.

Now both of them were dumbfounded, the 127th Regiment was at the end of several regiments, and it was close to the defense area of Liu Bolong's 28th Division of the Middle Route Army, it stands to reason that this situation could not occur, unless the Japanese army repelled the 28th Division, if this is the case, the danger is not a certain regiment, but the entire 38th Division may fall into the enemy's encirclement.

The two couldn't care about quarreling anymore, and hurriedly collected information from all sides to find out the reason, and soon, the news was summarized, and both of them were suddenly frightened.