"Company commander, it's a pity that there are too many trees in the forest, and I can't see far, so I don't know where the enemy headquarters is."

"Then let's draw a range and let the artillery smash it casually, and let it be fate."

Chu Aiyun said something that made Zhou Youfu feel very reasonable, and now he is desperately trusting the company commander with endless good luck.

They used walkie-talkies to contact the relay vehicle and asked to relay an important message to discover the enemy's divisional and regimental headquarters. When Zhou Youfu heard the company commander say this, he was frightened, because of the scale of the enemy's headquarters, there was no confirmation at all. The reconnaissance company was originally directly under the 5th Army, and some mistakes were not very important, and they were often not investigated, but he heard that the 200th Division was very strict in governing the army, and the team lied about the 20th Army. He couldn't help but want to remind the company commander to leave a little leeway, there are a total of two Japanese divisions in Burma, and as soon as he got out of the horse, he bumped into a division headquarters, too exaggerated? Is Dai Anlan easy to fool? But he also saw with his own eyes that in the Japanese camp in front, there were so many motorcycles coming in and out, and there were even a lot of linemen, no matter how you look at it, at least a brigade and regiment-level headquarters.

After Chu Aiyun finished the report, he began to take pictures, and he also needed some evidence, so he could go back and explain. After a while, the correspondent sent back the command command, asking for serious verification, and replied two hours later, and the division commander specially instructed: There must be no credible mouths.

Chu Aiyun was a little impatient, of course he knew very well that the front was the headquarters of the 18th Division, but there was no way, you and the people behind him really couldn't be in such a hurry. He himself had no reconnaissance experience and could not have been too close to the enemy camp, especially during the day. However, he knew that the nearby Lin team leader must have heard the distrust message from the division headquarters at the same time, so this matter could only be handled by him.

Soon he heard Lin Xiuxuan's voice on the radio, telling him that 1.5 kilometers to the southeast, there would be a Japanese corpse with important headquarters documents on the corpse. Chu Aiyun immediately used a walkie-talkie to find a group that could be contacted, and instructed them to move towards that location and look for the commanding heights on the landmark.

The group had almost missed the motorcycle that had overturned in the creek, and it was a wild dog that had devoured the corpse that alarmed them, and they cautiously went over and saw the dead Japanese communicator. They chased away the wild dogs, went up to check, and saw that there was no wound on the body (in fact, there was a small pinhole), and it was seen that the car was driving out before dawn, and then the car overturned and broke the neck. They looked through the dead bodies and found the official letter of the Japanese army pressed under them. The seal on the official letter bears the words "Eighteenth Division". Although they did not understand Japanese, the order was roughly a written order for the mobilization of an artillery squadron.

Dai Anlan paced back and forth in the headquarters, and he strictly ordered the front to verify the information for 2 hours, but now the time has passed, and there is no return.

He really felt that he couldn't see the person of Chu Tingchang clearly, as a practical soldier, he actually didn't have much hope for this reconnaissance, it would be good if people could pass alive and then come back, but he didn't expect Chu Tingchang to report that he had discovered the enemy's division and regimental headquarters, and he knew that there should not be any Japanese troops in that position. He did not suspect any conspiracy of the Japanese, or that aerial reconnaissance was waste; I just think that if something goes wrong, there must be a demon; In short, either Chu Tingchang has a demon, or the Japanese have a demon.

Soon, another reconnaissance group of the reconnaissance platoon sent back reconnaissance content, and they confirmed that there were a large number of enemy troops in the area, and that a total of 50 vehicles had been found passing by the forest road in front of them, as well as some artillery and bicycle units. It seems that Chu Aiyun is not mistaken?

After waiting a little longer, the third group sent back even more alarming information, that they had killed a Japanese communications soldier in the area, and that the document he was carrying was shown to be the 18th Division.

Dai Anlan gradually came back to his senses from the dizziness, now is not the time to entangle Company Commander Chu with the blessing of divine power, no matter what, his information is true, otherwise, if the 599 regiment crashes head-on, then it will be done?

He turned: "Signal soldier, immediately go to the front and get General Stilwell, and, go to the artillery regiment and prepare to revise the firing plan." ”

As soon as he finished arranging the preparations, the communications company got the latest forward information, and Company Commander Chu had verified that it was indeed the headquarters of a division of the Japanese army, and the approximate location had been marked on the grid map. Company Commander Chu said that he had occupied an extremely favorable observation position, and suggested that all artillery should be concentrated, and that the precise firing should be carried out, and that the test firing should be carried out first, and then the rapid firing should be carried out with his real-time corrected data.

Dai Anlan's hand holding the telegram was trembling slightly, since the Anti-Japanese War, he had never seen the reconnaissance unit so effective. Could it really be that God bless China and let the enemy's tricks be exposed.

"Master? Master? The deputy division commander shouted.

"Senior Deputy Division Commander, you personally go to the 598th Regiment to let the offensive echelon return to its original starting position and prepare for the enemy's counterattack."

"What about the 599 regiment and the armored forces?"

"They waited for orders."

He felt that it would be feasible to take advantage of the chaos after the shelling, but the scale of the attack and the range of the front should be reduced. He handed the information to Stilwell, who had just returned from the front, and Stilwell thought that the reconnaissance result was nothing more than an emptiness behind enemy lines and would support his offensive plan, so he waited at the front early, but he did not expect the enemy situation to be so serious.

"That's fine, use our artillery, as well as British bombers, to hit the enemy's command very hard."

Stilwell said.

"Well, that's what I mean. Let the artillery prepare to fire smoke grenades. ”

The assembled Japanese troops were having breakfast, and in order to prevent smoke from cooking, they were discovered by planes, and all the soldiers were munching on cold rice balls. Chu Aiyun was lying on a commanding height, adjusting the telescope, to be honest, the trees here are dense, it is impossible to see the enemy headquarters too far, but this matter is actually stared at by a drone, at that time he only needs to notify the rear of the correction value suggested by the drone, what he has to do now is to deceive Zhou Youfu.

"Company commander, what do you see?" Zhou Youfu asked, he was really anxious without a telescope.

"It's coming, the shelling is coming."

Screaming shells flew across the confronting lines and fell into the forest, with a loud bang and a column of smoke rushed up. Mutaguchi, who was eating with a lunch box, immediately stood up and looked in the direction of the explosion, judging by the sound, it was at least 200 meters away from here, it seemed that it was just an isolated shelling, perhaps the enemy artillery had deviated too much.

"Don't panic, it's just a mere 76mm field artillery."

He pretended to be calm and sat down, continuing to pick up the lunch box. He had had too many dealings with the Chinese army, and knew that when it came to artillery, the level of training was far inferior to that of the Japanese army, and he often fired aimlessly, and it seemed that he only hit the auxiliary vehicle by mistake.

Sure enough, after waiting for 2 minutes, no more shells fell, which roughly confirmed his guess. He held the phone and asked if the front saw enemy movements. The front told him that 10 minutes earlier, he had seen smoke and a faint roar of motors, and it seemed that enemy tanks were approaching.

The piercing screams pierced the sky, and after a long wait, the first artillery group covered and accurately fell on the heads of the Japanese ace troops who were massing densely and preparing to attack. German 150 heavy guns were used in this shelling, the rest were Soviet-made * guns, ranging from 122 to 76.

The first round of shells hit the heads of the Japanese trucks, some of which were loaded with howitzers*.

The Japanese army was caught in the continuous explosions one after another, and for a time the fragments flew sideways and the flames were rolling. Japanese personnel began to throw away lunch boxes and run in all directions. A huge explosion swept through every person and tree in the vicinity. The towering trees of the primeval forest became the only shield, but when the shells hit the trees, the debris of the hardwood was also a weapon of murder.

The drone observed the effect of this shelling from a high altitude, and the dispersion was still somewhat large, but it was a good thing, because the Japanese ammunition and personnel and horses were scattered around, and they were now apportioned.

The drone dropped a low-powered laser-guided* at the right time, the target was a tent, and after continuous reconnaissance, the drone had found that all those telephone lines were gathered here, so this was the primary target. A group of communications soldiers, huddled in tents, gave the order to Mutaguchi to the various units of the Yamazaki detachment below the division to immediately counterattack, * tore open the weak tent skin and fell, and reimbursed half of the communications company, along with the vehicles and war horses outside.

At this point in the shelling, a belated Wellington bomber flew through the sky. The hesitant artillery fire blew the dense woods into bald pieces, and the machine gunners and observers could see rows of burning trucks and a large number of running Japanese personnel from the mottled glade. He shouted to headquarters to confirm that there were Japanese troops gathering below, and he saw a large number of cars.

The radio station in Dai Anlan's headquarters was on the same channel, and the pilot's voice was received synchronously, and the British and American officers in the headquarters began to applaud, and the Chinese soldiers, who did not understand English very well, realized after a while that the shelling had hit the vital point. Stilwell walked towards Dai Anlan and suggested that he could take advantage of the chaos in the enemy's rear and launch a limited attack at the right time, and Dai Anlan ordered the 599th Regiment and the armored battalion to make a sortie and not go too deep.

When the British bomber flew to the second circle, it dropped * at a very low altitude, and the flames of the explosion drowned the large Japanese convoy that was preparing to evacuate.

20 T26 and BT5 tanks attacked along the route of the reconnaissance company that had penetrated into the enemy's rear last night, and because it was a roundabout and rapid attack, there was no infantry to follow. The cavalry wing of the enemy's 55th Division at the front, completely confused by the artillery bombardment from the rear, did not notice that a tank unit quickly penetrated the flanks, and they were originally ready to fight and run, complete the last lure of the enemy into depth, and did not have any backup plan.

Jiang Weiguo personally commanded 6 platoons to attack on one of the tanks. The tank, following the predetermined route, outflanked the rear of the enemy infantry, but ran into a squadron of enemy artillery that had withdrawn from a well-concealed position in a panic.

The squadron, with its good camouflage technique, had already teased the Chinese army several times, and today they once again ventured to deploy in an area only 1 kilometer away from the front line, originally intending to attack the Chinese 150 guns with a small and large attack. But today they ran out of luck.

Jiang Weiguo saw from a distance that a cluster of bushes in front of him seemed to be moving, and the horses dragging the cannons were even well camouflaged, but the black film on the rolling artillery wheels revealed their essence. Jiang Weiguo ordered all the platoons to turn 60 degrees, bypass one side of the ridge, and intercept the enemy's artillery, but because the leading platoons did not have a radio station, they still followed the same road, so they staggered, even if the signal flag was used, the commanders' will was not seen in front.