The newly accumulated family resources of the 5th Air Division were swept away again, and when more than two dozen aircraft came, only one Type 99 dive bomber escaped by chance.

Chennault, who was fighting for command of the 10th Air Force, was overjoyed when he received the report, and he realized that the time had come to put on a good show in front of President Roosevelt, and he was not in a good mood lately because many people in the Army wanted to catch the Flying Tigers and kick him out; Of course, he dared to do this because in recent times, the Japanese army has been dispatched less and less frequently, and it is judged that it may be related to a series of personnel changes after Iida Shojiro stepped down.

The aviation units of the Sino-American mixed air fleet, which received American aircraft in India, also suddenly received orders and went into battle. This air force has the only B25 bomber unit in Myanmar. A few hours ago, no one knew that the Allies would launch a counterattack, and now everyone rushed to attack. The old-fashioned British carrier-based aircraft also appeared in the port of Sittwe, dropped *, and for a time there was a fierce counteroffensive.

On the other side of the river, Chu Tingchang's team continued to advance, sweeping all the way through the Japanese troops who were building a ferry. The enemy hurriedly counterattacked, barely able to fight back. He called Sun Liren on the other side and the commander of the 17th Division, John Smith, through the radio, and informed the Japanese troops crossing the river that they were vulnerable and could give it a go; In order to facilitate a counterattack by the cowardly British, he was too easy to exaggerate the results of his own side; At the same time, the fact that the attack was about to stop was concealed.

The information received by Stilwell and Slim was one-sided and inconsistent, one moment saying that the Japanese were unstoppable, and the other reporting that the enemy had collapsed. While everyone was confused, Sun Liren's tentative counterattack on the west bank won first, reportedly killing more than 600 Japanese soldiers. It seems that the Japanese troops who crossed the river are no longer hideous and terrifying.

From Mawlamyine on the Burmese-Thai border, the Allies have been waiting for the fatigue of the Japanese army to appear in retreat, but they did not expect to move to India, and this situation appeared, and it was too late.

Slim was a soldier who was good at catching and capturing fighters, and he immediately gave General John Smith the order for the whole army to counterattack, and was rolling up, and the Anglo-Indian 17th Division, which was preparing to flee in front of the Chinese, began to rush into a counterattack, and sure enough, the enemy did not have the arrogance of the past.

In fact, many of the Japanese soldiers who crossed the river at night crossed the river bare-bottomed (to avoid too much burden being washed away by the river), and at the moment they were still waiting for military uniforms and rifles at the ferry. This bargain was picked up by the British, and they finally encountered an enemy who was technically capable of fighting back. The British fought a vicious battle across the river, seemingly regaining the glory of the Victorian era, and the Japanese were finally defeated.

Slim and Stilwell, who were in two command centers on the battlefield, received reports from Smith and Sun Liren respectively and knew that they had won. They reported to their superiors with a tacit understanding, and Roosevelt and Churchill learned of the victory about an hour later.

On the east bank of the river, P40 fighters saw the situation in the air, and they roared and repeatedly strafed the Japanese troops who were digging deep trenches. Not far away, tanks rumbled and broke through the line in one go. The B25 bombers went deep into the enemy's rear and carried out horizontal bombing against the enemy's horse teams that rushed to support.

One Grant stopped, it ran out of fuel, and the second stopped and went 500 meters to stop. Since before the attack, Chu Tingchang accurately calculated the fuel consumption and redistributed it once, all of these vehicles were already close to running out of fuel.

Through the radio, he ordered the vehicles and cavalry units that could still be driven to rush over, push the enemy back, and buy some time and space to blow up the equipment. If there was enough fuel and ammunition, he was sure to go another 40 kilometers, but alas, the counterattack came to an end.

A reconnaissance plane of the Japanese command quietly approached the battlefield and saw this amazing scene.

It was a scene he had never seen before, with the Type 221 reconnaissance vehicle still in pursuit in front, the Grant and Stuart tanks scattered in the back, and the half-track combat vehicles on the wings. There was not a single cart in sight on the battlefield, and the Japanese pilots usually counted the carts to judge the size of the enemy's troops, and this scene really made him feel uneasy, and he reported to the command that the enemy had at least one division of 7,000 men in action. At the moment, these tanks are all waiting for supplies in the rear, and everything seems to be in order and has been planned for a long time.

Chu Tingchang rode to the front, and found that Zhou Youfu did not carry out his order to quickly blow up the equipment and evacuate immediately, but was using rubber pipes to smash the fuel tanks of several Japanese trucks, trying to scavenge gasoline, probably trying to bring his reconnaissance vehicle back, but obviously failed, only about 10 liters of gasoline were collected for the time being, and the poor Japanese only brought half the fuel and drove the truck over, probably calculating to seize the Allied gasoline and then drive back.

"Zhou Youfu, what are you rubbing?"

Chu Tingchang grabbed the horse and shouted.

"Boss, I've got to drive these old guys back."

"You want to squeeze oil out of beggars, are you poor and crazy?"

"Tuanzao, I'm just sorry for ......," Zhou Youfu said and smashed into the armored car with thousands of holes on the side.

"It's a pity that a bird, how many times have I told you, the Americans make these things like tricks, and there are as many as they want. Look at this pile of scrap metal, the wheels are the same on both sides. ”

"It's not a American's business," Lao Zhou said and squatted on the ground, with a look of chagrin, "In the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China, the car I picked up at Nanjing University was seven years, and I said that it was going to be blown up, and I ......."

"Hypocritical, how many dewy couples have you made in overseas Chinese on a donkey day, and I haven't seen you move your feelings, so you can't do it with such an iron bump? If you don't blow it up in ten minutes, believe it or not, I'll remove you. ”

Chu Tingchang struck the horse with a whip, and the war horse moved forward angrily.

He can still understand Zhou's mood, but the Japanese will react at any time and find that the counterattack is actually weak and empty, so they have to get out quickly.

Brooke asked over the radio how long the offense would last.

Chu Tingchang pondered whether to tell him the truth, but he should have ordered his father-in-law to ask. Let's coax it for the time being, otherwise Stilwell's chicken thief will rise, and the B25 of the Sino-American mixed air force will not come, and the Japanese will wake up faster. He motioned for the correspondent to send a report to Brooke that he would continue to advance and sweep across the entire east bank of the Qingdun River.

As soon as he finished lying, he heard a loud bang in the distance, and the turret of a Grant tank was blown into the sky. Then came the second ring, and the next Stewart was also destroyed. He urged his horses to gallop, supervised the destruction of equipment by the troops and retreated. Zhou Youfu waited until the last moment to blow up the sdkfz221, and also removed some parts that he felt were important for his subordinates to carry back.

Chu Tingchang couldn't help but shake his head when he saw it from afar: It's really agricultural thinking.

Two hours later, in the Japanese headquarters, Kimura walked around the sand table a few times, waiting for the latest battle report that had been delayed for a long time.

In the morning, the enemy situation was serious, the enemy's tanks on the ground and planes in the sky, stormed over, and the road behind his troops crossing the river was copied, and there was no heavy firepower, and he gradually could not resist, and he was also like an ant on a hot pot but there was nothing he could do. However, Mutaguchi was finally a wise general, retreated to a narrowed gourd-mouth position, and burned dozens of trucks and hundreds of large vehicles by himself with one gritted teeth, forming an obstacle. I don't know if the enemy will break through in one go, or bypass it, the reconnaissance plane reported that at 10 o'clock, the enemy was replenishing ammunition, and it was noon at this time, why hadn't he launched an attack yet? .

"Report," the staff officer rushed into the command room, "the Harada detachment reconnaissance team found that the enemy had retreated...... Harada's Excellency was preparing for a pursuit. ”

"Harada, this fool, how many times does he have to underestimate the enemy, and it is not enough to be deceived by the enemy?" Kimura slammed the table and told him to step back and defend carefully.

"Commander, what about the men and horses on the other side of the river? Just received a telegram that they were still fighting in the last bridgehead and were completely out of ammunition. More than ten times the enemy army is constantly attacking. ”

"Tell them to hold on to the last moment."

He directly sentenced the Japanese soldiers who smuggled to the other side to death, and did not allow them to return, in his opinion, the strategy failed, so the jade was broken there, and some enemies could be exchanged.

Kimura waited with a group of staff officers at the headquarters for another hour, left and right, with no sign of attack.

"Report, Your Excellency Mutaguchi sent an urgent telegram and found that the enemy had blown up the tank, and its current whereabouts are unknown." Finally, there is slightly more definite news from the front.

"Blew up the tank?"

"Yes, our troops found a light tank that was stuck in a swamp and the enemy did not have time to destroy it, and found that there was no ammunition and fuel in it."

Kimura stood still, thinking about the ins and outs of everything that had happened in the morning, as well as the report submitted by the Southern Agency about the commander of the Chu Corps. He remembered that the report had written that the man was cunning.

"Sir, Harada Daisa called, and he asked, do you want to continue to defend in place?"

"Harada, this fool, is still grinding something, let him pursue it immediately."

Chu Tingchang's synthetic regiment was heading north, with infantry in front and cavalry behind. They opened up a way for the expeditionary force to go to India, and they stayed in northern Burma temporarily, originally they had time to cross the Qingdun River, but in the afternoon, the water level and flow speed of the river increased greatly, and it seemed that the upstream flash flood had come down, and they could not risk crossing the river by rubber boat. For Chu Tingchang, the phased task is completed, the Japanese traversers, before the rainy season across the Qingdun River in the east of India's plot to occupy a chassis, with the monstrous river bankruptcy, of course, they will have new calculations, new schemes, there is still a theoretical possibility of a reversal, but as time goes by, their opportunities are decreasing. In the second half of the year, the Allied forces will gather a huge military strength and more valuable war experience.

Five thousand men and horses braved the pouring rain to trude north. The Chinese and the British walked with each other, who had lost almost all their heavy weapons and mules, but their morale remained high because they had just fought a good battle. Let the Japanese learn the power of a sweeping mechanized attack, but unfortunately the attack is only a few gallons of fuel. However, as long as they gain a foothold in India, weapons will be replenished in a steady stream, and the Japanese army, with its weak industrial capabilities, will become weaker and weaker.

The drones reconnoitred the Japanese army's every move, and their reaction was slower and more cautious than expected, and they finally decided to stop and confront the other side of the river, and did not continue the pursuit to the north.