Sun Liren's troops passed through the upstream iron bridge at night, and at dawn they had already begun to march towards the target area in several directions. Most of the soldiers of the new 38th Division had not slept for 24 hours, they could only take a short break in the trucks and then prepare to immediately go into battle. Sun Liren himself, from the moment he heard about this plan, had great intentions for this campaign, but there were still three things that he was worried about might hinder the development of the campaign.

One of them is, of course, to see the speed of the Japanese army's repair of the pontoon bridge, if you do not recognize the tenacity of the Japanese soldiers, it is self-deception, but the air force reported that this * attack caused great damage to the pontoon equipment, which should be the biggest thing in Iida. The upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River are so fast that it is not possible to make a pontoon bridge and assume the river on it by looking for a few wooden boat door panels, which the Japanese have tried to cut corners before, but it was quickly washed away.

The second thing is that the expeditionary force is gradually losing the ability to move, although his two main regiments are motorized and put into battle first, but all the trucks have been concentrated, and the cloud shells behind them have begun to use mules and horses, and these cars then have to turn around at full load to pick up the troops of the new 22nd Division, with the wear and tear of the cars and the consumption of parts, the accident caused by the fatigue of the driver, the destruction caused by the ravages of Japanese aircraft, the size of the original convoy is shrinking.

The last thing, which he was most worried about, was that Chu Tingchang was still unreliable. If he had leaked there and put the 14th Wing tanks over, his troops could have been cut off from the side by the Japanese. At present, the main anti-tank means of the national army are almost suicidal. His cannon battery might be able to resist for a while, and then he would have to rely on the soldiers to strapped to the * to commit suicide attacks.

The more he thought about it, the more worried he became, so he grabbed the intercom:

"Head Chen Fangwu, what's the situation ahead?"

"Report to the division's seat, it's very calm, the search battalion hasn't exchanged fire yet, Sakurai seems to be still waiting to repair the pontoon bridge to the east, but there are some artillery sounds in the west, it's the direction of Chu Ting's camp, I called a few times, but the other party didn't respond."

"You keep a battalion...... No, with a cannon company on the flank, Chu Tingchang has a precedent for suddenly abandoning his position and fleeing, which is not very reassuring. ”

"Yes."

After giving these orders, he was still very worried, if Chu Tingchang had these equipment his own, it would be great, the Fifth Army already had a heavy artillery regiment, a tank regiment, and a motorized infantry regiment, and there was still no leakage between his fingers.

It is 10 kilometers away from Sun Liren's main attack force. Chu Tingchang finally gained a firm foothold, and although the enemy plane that did not drop bombs, but was constantly buzzing overhead, was finally killed.

The smoke in the valley also temporarily blocked the few Japanese tanks that were trailing, and the other good news was that Ma Qiang's skills in piloting drones had improved somewhat, and he could already effectively monitor enemy tank groups, but because he couldn't fly too high, he couldn't see the whole picture.

Since the 14th Wing wants to fight so much, let's give them a little color today. Of course, although their own tanks do not suffer in attack and defense, they are still at a disadvantage in numbers, so they have to rely on Tao Mingzhang's 4 guns, which are the strongest anti-tank firepower in Myanmar, and they almost have the ability to deploy quickly by using M3 half-track vehicles.

Chief Chu ordered to continue the retreat, and reported that a car was hit and the parking gearbox was damaged, and it seemed that it was too late to repair. He didn't want to scold the driver and the commander, they had only been trained for half a month, and it was already a miracle that they were able to drive the car on the road and go into battle.

He ordered the tanks to be thrown on the road, and they did not have to be destroyed, but were left to show the way to the enemy. Maybe I'll be able to pick it up later.

He gradually came up with a bold plan, for he could see that the enemy that was following him was led by a commander who liked to use his brains. To deal with this road cargo is to create an illusion for him, of course, he is also very confident, compared to fighting hearts, the submarine driver usually will not lose to the tank.

Brooke rushed over in a jeep and found that Chu Tingchang was lying on a damaged Grant scribbling a map, while someone was pumping oil from the tank with a leather hose, this time he learned to be obedient, and did not rush up to duty Chu Tingchang stopped the brigade and risked recovering a few liters of gasoline The chicken thief behavior, he watched Chu Tingchang light the map with a lighter and burn a corner, and then threw it into the pond on the ground and trampled it out, grabbed it and crumpled it up, and threw it through the side window of the tank.

The Major suddenly noticed that this guy seemed to be a bit of a ghost.

The 3rd company lookout post on the hill began to wave small flags to signal that the enemy was coming, Chu Tingchang got on the tank and retreated back, Brooke hurriedly followed the brigade and ran together, this time he was determined to let go of his prejudice first, and patiently observed how this guy fought.

The 97 tank, led by Captain Hiratsuka, cautiously drove into the valley where the smoke had not cleared. From a distance, I saw that the fallen reconnaissance plane was still emitting smoke. He decided to move slowly in a straight column.

Turning a corner, he suddenly saw a huge tank in front of him, with a huge gun muzzle pointed at him. The team leader thinks he's finished, but turns out that it looks like a false alarm. The tank was wide open and apparently abandoned.

A small drone flew secretly through the air and photographed a Japanese man with a pistol, sneakily approaching Grant, and then saw them climb into the tank and loot, and quickly removed the shovel and pickaxe from the hull, several commanders decided to divide these things, and then found a double telescope from it, and the person who found it grinned, and the others were angry. Ma Qiang found that the Japanese are really poor, and they all pick up worthless things, but you picked up the map.

The main force of the Japanese army finally came over, and Aizawa found that he had finally made peace with the mobile troops, but he was really annoyed in his heart. He is well versed in the art of war, of course, he knows that the use of soldiers is exactly the right fit, that is to say, it is necessary to divide the main force and the partial division, constantly mobilize the enemy, so that the enemy can not figure out the intention, now the reconnaissance plane has landed, the tactics are in vain, the only gain is to kill two Grant, his original plan was to wrap the circle, now it is surrounded, if you follow the enemy's track traces to chase, it is obviously a low-level commander without theoretical accumulation, too no technical content, the enemy can take the method of continuous alternate cover to resolve. Depressed, Captain Hiratsuka reports that he has found a map in an enemy tank.

Aizawa immediately became interested, rolled over and got out of the car, and ran over to look.

There are traces of arson burning on the map, and it is clear that the enemy was ready to destroy the map when he was evacuating, but it was not completely burned because of the water in the tank chassis. The map showed scribbled marching routes, but no retreat routes, and some people had × with pencils on the nearby hills, which he presumed was due to the unclear enemy situation in those areas.

As Chu Tingchang predicted, Aizawa is a rather suspicious person, who likes to think about things, if the retreat route is indicated on the map, it will be overkill and too suspicious, but Chu Tingchang is not such a direct person, the bait he released is much more subtle, and he wants to let a person who likes to use his brain reason step by step to take the bait, so that he will not let go of his mouth.

Aizawa began to check the track marks on the ground, looking for traces of chaotic turns, indicating that the enemy was using the smoke here, turned around in a panic, and then fled in a panic, in line with the image from the last encounter. The ground traces are not deliberately faked, and the tank company of Chief Chu Pavilion is currently at such a level.

"Second Lieutenant Hiratsuka, see how much fuel the enemy has left?" Nakasa patted the ash on his hand and said.

"Yes."

After a while, the second lieutenant ran over.

"Sir, there's not much, there's about 70 liters left."

"What does that mean?" Nakasa asked proudly in the middle of a group of squadron leaders and squad leaders.

"It shows that they have marched into this category from far and deep, so they consume a lot of fuel." A car commander said.

"Yes, but that's just the point. The real point is that they can't go back with a complicated route. There can also be complicated routes and alternate covers, so, it must be the way to come. ”

"But the route on the map is incomplete, and part of it was destroyed by fire. We can only follow their track marks to catch up. ”

Hiratsuka said.

"Straight to catch? They will inevitably fight the trapped beasts, and these tanks will not be easy to deal with when they turn around, so they can only take them by surprise and cut off the way of retreat. ”

"But how do we know where to intercept?"

"Second lieutenant, you are not a real officer yet, you don't know tactics, hehe, since there is water on the chassis, it means that they came by wading through a stream when they came, so it is not difficult to judge the way."

The drone photographed that the Japanese army did not follow Chu Tingchang's retreat route, but chose a route to the west, which seemed to be outflanking, but whether it went straight to Chu Tingchang's preset ambush position still has to be observed. The bad news, though, is that the drone battery has run out and it can't continue to monitor. Of course, Chu Tingchang was already sure where the 14th Wing would appear. In addition to drones, he also sent people on the hill to conduct reconnaissance. The 14th Wing was not followed by infantry, and it was really not fast enough to die in light vehicles in the mountains.

Tao Mingzhang had already set up a position on the edge of the valley, and its artillery was hiding at the edge of the jungle, well camouflaged. This time it's even better, and you may not be able to find it even if you pass by 100 meters away. When you see a small flag waving on the hill, it means that the enemy is coming. He ordered all the runners to be kept secret and not to speak.

Soon two tank squads drove out of the valley and rushed past not far in front of them. The artillerymen did not open fire, their task was to wait for all the tanks to pass, without being exposed, and wait for a distant fire to be fired steadily from behind the enemy. Another task of Tao Mingzhang is to count the number of enemies. He carefully stared at the enemy convoy in front of him, and wrote down a horizontal in his notebook every time he passed one, and within 10 minutes, intermittently, quite a few passed, and then there were no more, and the dark sentry lurking on the mountain was gone with a flag. Tao Mingzhang counted seven "positives" and one "one" in his notebook, a total of thirty-six, half of which were 97, and the rest was 95.

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and it seemed that there was a lot of coming, about half of the Japanese tanks in Burma had arrived. I don't know if the battalion commander can swallow it. He was very surprised that the battalion commander did not choose to sneak attack in the valley, and if it was not for the fact that he wanted to completely annihilate the enemy, it was not easy to explain why he chose an open field. However, this time he chose to believe in this battalion commander, since he has the ability to anticipate the enemy's approach, then, he may really have this ability.