A few minutes later, Lin Xiuxuan returned to the Hound Chariot to join Ma Qiang, and now he had to teach this daring Japanese army a lesson. With the faint sound of the engine and the brief confusion of the Japanese troops lining up their defensive positions, he drove the thin six-wheeled tank to 400 meters behind the lined Japanese tanks.

His tank didn't have decent fire control, let alone night vision devices, so he had to pull the artillery latch open, put the night vision device objective lens in his head, and observe and adjust the gun directly through the muzzle view. Of course, the time is difficult, and it cannot be expected to find the command vehicle. So aim at one casually, and the turret is mounted on the horse to carry out laser ranging, which has been a simple ballistic calculation and provides high and low firing boundary adjustment data.

Of course, it is still very certain that the enemy tank aimed at the flank and rear penetration. In the sound of the cannonball, a 37-mm shell flew straight through the turret of an enemy tank. At the same time, Ma Qiang reversed and pulled the tank behind the bunker.

If it weren't for the fact that the hit tanks were gradually burning, the Japanese tanks in line would have had to hesitate for a while before realizing that they were under attack. The sound and fire of the 37-mm guns were not very loud, and since they were still in the rear, it was difficult for the Japanese to distinguish their positions through the noisy sound of the engines. Atami realizes that after the great success of the day, all kinds of strange things come to the night.

Lin Xiuxuan could quickly launch a second round of shooting, and the burning tank reflected several tanks around it, which made his observation and aiming not have to be difficult. Destroy enemy tanks again. Of course, this time, the enemy's attention was focused on the rear, and many tanks saw the fire and fired indiscriminately at it. But the hound retreated again in time.

Lin Xiuxuan could hear the enemy's panic through the radio, and several commanders began to ask on the radio who saw the target, but they all said that they couldn't see it clearly. However, soon someone ordered the leaders of each squad to fire flares at the rear.

Lin Xiuxuan knew that he would accept it when he saw it, so he ordered Ma Qiang to continue to reverse the car, and after 1 minute, the enemy began to fire flares, these things are not only easy to expose the reconnaissance vehicle, but also easy to destroy the night vision device observation, which has a temporary blinding effect on both light and thermal image, he has to retreat to a kilometer away first, waiting for the arrival of the airborne troops.

U.S. B24 bombers arriving from the northwest were using early radar to bomb the commander and search the airborne area. It is not reliable to rely on this equipment to carry out night bombing, but it is still feasible to find a bridge and a nearby open space of several hundred hectares, especially since the take-off from northern Thailand is very close to the destination, and it is not easy to accumulate errors in navigation.

The clouds in the sky were low, so that the pilots could not see the fire lit by the Japanese on the ground from a great distance. However, the radar had already determined the approximate location, and the airdrop command was given by the bombers. Transport planes are more secure with medium-altitude airdrops.

At the same time, the Japanese transport planes arriving from the northeast could only reduce their altitude and search for a fire signal on the ground. The Japanese relied on navigation stations in the north and southeast of Vietnam to fly and could only locate the general direction. Due to the haste of the operation, it was impossible to pay too much attention to the meteorological information, so I knew that the cloud level in the target area was low before departure, and naturally there was no good coping strategy. The only way is to divide the airborne part into two parts, wait until dawn to throw the other part, and send the other part out to try your luck first. This made the first batch of airdropped Japanese troops only slightly larger than the Hongxiang troops in terms of scale.

In order to cope with the low-altitude clouds, the 100-type transport aircraft can only fly at low altitude to find ground fire, which is bound to reduce the breadth of visual search, if they fly high enough and have good visibility, they may see two lights across the river, but the low-altitude flight makes the transport plane see first, and the fire set by Platoon Commander Zhang on the ground, the fire is on their way. Consistent with the agreed shape, the three fires form an equilateral triangle.

Inside the Japanese transport plane, a piercing siren sounded indicating an airdrop, and the soldiers jumped off the plane one by one, and when some of them fell, they saw the light in the distance, which was Atami's commanders firing flares, and against the backdrop of the light, it was clear that the bridge was still far away. Of course, the people who landed in the air couldn't tell the difference between north and south for the time being, and they only felt that at least the distance was wrong, and the bridge was too far away.

Platoon Commander Zhang, who was hiding in the shadows, reported to Lin Xiuxuan through the radio, and the whole process from the approaching of the group of planes on his head to seeing the enemy's paratroopers falling. Since there were three fires on the ground, he could see some Japanese paratroopers slamming down, crashing directly into the trees, and then there was a sound of ghosts crying wolf. Many of the people who fell were hung from the trees, not only injured but also unable to break free.

Platoon Commander Zhang tried his best to find a rough thorn bush for the Japanese as a landing site, and if he had not considered that he had to let the Japanese planes see the fire unobstructed, he would definitely find a forest and give the Japanese a bitter taste.

At the same time, Hongxiang's troops were quietly falling to the ground with firelight. Near the fire, there were clearly two Japanese tanks. The two tanks were responsible for lighting the fire and holding the landing site, not returning even when there was an engagement at the bridgehead. The purpose of their stay here is to protect the fire from extinguishing, and secondly, to contact the landing troops as soon as possible, and to lead the airborne troops directly to the battlefield.

A Japanese squad leader heard the faint sound of an approaching plane. Subsequently, flares were dropped from the plane in the head, with the aim of indicating the site for the airborne troops and detecting the enemy situation in advance.

Before Chu Tingchang's troops set off, they already knew that there must be an enemy situation at the landing site, and they knew that if there was a fire on the ground, it was the enemy's order.

Sure enough, the falling airborne troops and the Japanese tanks saw each other almost at the same time, the difference is that the Japanese regarded those airborne troops as their own, while the Hongxiang troops knew very well that even if the other side drove American tanks, it was the enemy. Of course, the difficulty for the paratroopers was that they did not carry their anti-tank weapons with them. The weapons were packed in crates, hung with parachutes, and thrown down together, but how difficult was it to collect and assemble the weapons at night (with the cartridges and ammunition separated)?

If there is enough time before and after the station, of course, several methods can be studied, but Hongxiang's mission is also very hasty, so they just temporarily conceived several solutions before getting on the plane, mainly using small arms to engage enemy tanks and buy time for the rest of the troops to collect anti-tank rocket launchers.

The first troops staggered to the ground and began to collect the weapons at hand, ignoring the signals from the Japanese commander who was not far away excitedly with a flashlight. But something unfortunate happened, the crates that were thrown down were opened a few times, and the bazookas were not found for a while, and those key fires drifted with the wind to the middle of nowhere. However, the soldiers who came down also found that there were not many enemy tanks, it seemed that there were only two, and they were all kept in the dark, constantly trying to fight their own Nalo, maybe there were more tanks hidden in the dark, but they couldn't manage so much.

A squad leader led two soldiers in a makeshift formation and ran towards the enemy tank. The three of them had only two pistols and a few*. However, it is obviously feasible to destroy the Stewart tank with *. The power of the Stewart tank comes from mobility, and if it stands still, it is not much stronger than a machine-gun bunker.

The squad leader rushed closer, and the Japanese on the turret were shouting hello to him. The three did not answer, and quickly threw three heavy * at the tank.

MK2* is a large charge*, the disadvantage is that it is too heavy for the Orientals of this era, and it is not easy to throw far, and of course the advantage is that his thermite formula has considerable arson ability.

To some extent, the German-style long-shank*, which the Chinese army is most accustomed to using, is already far behind the trend, the fuse is backward, and there is a lack of prefabricated fragments; The function is so simple that it can almost only be regarded as a sapper weapon.

The Japanese commander did not realize that the situation was not good until he saw three soldiers lying down 20 meters away. Three * exploded right around the tank. The fragments killed the commander directly, and the tank burst into flames. The gunner drilled out to check the situation and was killed by the pistol. A Hongxiang soldier rushed to him, climbed into the tank that was about to start, and threw one* into it. As the soldier jumped out of the tank, a huge explosion knocked the turret off.

200 meters away, another tank noticed that the situation was not good and began to strafe the soldiers who were surging, but the airborne troops on this side found a box of bazookas in time, and by the time the Japanese tanks opened fire, a group had already completed the tedious loading and wire connection. The fire of the tank's machine gun strafing, exposing the contours of the tank, even though it was activated, but * still accurately hit its side. The jet scurryed through the small, crowded tank compartment, killing the commander and loader and disabling the tank, while the second* fire* directly eliminated the tank.

In order to avoid accidental injury, Lin Xiuxuan's reconnaissance vehicle did not appear nearby, but he got in touch with the descended battalion commander and informed him of the general situation. The Airborne Forces immediately marched towards the bridge, where they were going to attack enemy tanks from the rear and prevent them from destroying the bridge.

At the same time, the fallen Japanese paratroopers, still in chaos, tried to concentrate their forces. Their airborne landing undoubtedly failed again, and although they completed communication with Captain Atami, they also found that they had landed in the wrong place, not only at the wrong distance, but also on the east side of the bridge.

The troops decided to abandon the wounded, quickly reorganize their men and horses, and rushed to the bridge in desperation, and there was no time to find weapons and ammunition, but * must be collected first.

According to Atami's assumption, he still has a great chance. As long as you hold the west side of the bridge and wait for the airborne troops from the east to arrive, you can still blow up the bridge.

Thirty minutes later, the reconnaissance group of the Chinese Airborne Forces arrived much earlier than the Japanese paratroopers.

The training of the Hongxiang unit has long surpassed the outline of the paratroopers of this era, and in fact it already has the ability to react quickly, while the rest of the paratroopers of this era do not have this ability. In the new airborne training textbook, the temporary formation after landing is the most important, and everyone knows the task after landing, and there is no need to find a commander and receive orders. A reconnaissance group with a radio station rushed to the bridge as soon as possible to collect information about the enemy. The rest of the troops concentrated their weapons, and the command gradually grasped the troops by radio, and everything was not fast, but it was in order, and it was not chaotic.