About ten minecarts rushed into the crowd below and exploded. Then the sand flew away, and the fragments flew sideways. Even Zhou Youfu's observation post was hit several times by the collapsing iron ball, which scared the guys who probed their brains and shrunk their necks.

Zhou Youfu grabbed the phone and asked to connect to the command center, and they were a battalion-level unit, and they actually had a command center with a manual exchange as the core. He told the waiting battalion commander that he had overfulfilled his task here, cutting off the enemy artillery outside. The next thing is to close the door and fight the dogs, and there is one thing he did not tell the battalion commander that this is the most peculiar battle he has fought, and he has never seen the ferocious Japanese so depressed.

The invincible bayonets of the Japanese are only the most memorable thing of ordinary Chinese soldiers, but in essence, the most essential part of the Japanese army that repeatedly beat China is still at the technical level, it is their infantry and artillery coordination, which is the height that most of the illiterate Chinese army cannot reach, and the real and efficient killing of the army is completed by artillery.

The Japanese army fought like a chain, one link after another, from the offensive formation to the preparation of firepower, none of them were rigorous and thorough, and they were strangled like machines. Chu Tingchang's vision made him very clear that the way to restraint was to introduce chaos, and no matter what, he could not let the enemy act in a step-by-step manner. Once the Japanese were interrupted, they writhed like snakes with severed heads, revealing the dullness and hesitation of their commanders.

Now that the snake's head had been cut off, his motorized infantry appeared on the enemy's flank, smuggled in via tunnels, of course. He gave Tao Mingzhang a time of 4 minutes and 30 seconds to assault from the time his convoy crossed the railway embankment that obscured the enemy's view until it rushed through a field of wilderness, rushed into enemy formation, and then disembarked the soldiers. This was the time it took for the enemy's horse-mounted artillery to transform from a marching formation into a counterattacking squad that could be fought separately, and was the standard speed of the horse team when he was not disturbed during the battles at Ringanqiang and Magway.

The Chinese army has been fighting with the Japanese army for 11 years since 31, and no one has seriously counted the reaction of the Japanese divisions and regiments with artillery. The veterans had a rough idea of when the enemy's shells would fall after the sudden start of an encounter, no more than two cigarettes, and the shells fired from the invisible positions would fall, and their artillery fire would be as punctual as a clockwork alarm clock, but no one had ever really counted the interval. However, Chu Tingchang observed and counted through the hovering drone, and the fastest response was the mortar, and the direct fire guns that required the earthwork to build a position were slower, which was the basis for the time limit he set for Chu Tingchang. In addition, he asked to shoot the horses first, as he observed that horses were more likely to be frightened at night.

He does not have mechanized infantry, in principle, motorized infantry needs to get off at a distance of 1 km from the enemy and attack on foot, but if you are so slow, it will make it easy for the enemy to adapt. The M3 halftrack has some assault capabilities, mainly in its 140 hp power, obstacle crossing capabilities on the half-track, 12.7 mm machine guns and weak steel plates around the hull. It's up to you how you use it.

The explosion continued to rumble in the valley, and the earthen planes prepared by Zhou Youfu for the devils were still continuously exerting power, but after all, the Japanese army was a professional army armed to the teeth, not one or two local offices, and a few clever tricks could be eliminated. This is still just an appetizer, and the real fight still needs to be filled in. Nearly a thousand newly contained soldiers are stepping up to familiarize themselves with their new weapons and prepare for a final settlement of the battle.

Tao Mingzhang's convoy was assembled neatly along the railway distance and then unfolded at a distance of 40 meters, so that he could go into battle at a frontal distance of about 500 meters.

At this time, he boarded the railroad and observed the Japanese artillery column in front. The enemy was blocked by the huge dust kicked up by Zhou Youfu's man-made landslide, and at present there was no way to advance or retreat, as Chu Tingchang expected, the artillery column was as overwhelmed as a snake that had cut off its head. Tao Mingzhang really admired Battalion Commander Chu, he hid in a hole a few kilometers away, and his judgment of the Japanese army was so accurate.

The commander of the Japanese artillery brigade realized that he had lost the code of conduct in accordance with the code of conduct, one was that the enemy's situation was unknown, and the other was that the front firing range was blocked, and of course the regulations told the commander that he should advance to a position that could effectively support the infantry, but the regulations also said that he must choose an effective position after fully grasping the enemy's situation, and these two items seemed to be contradictory in the current situation, which made the commanders who followed the rules enter a dead loop. The Japanese army's mule-horse artillery, which lagged behind the times, exacerbated the difficulty of the commander's judgment; They were accustomed to making very careful judgments before constructing positions, and once they made the wrong choice, it was not as easy to change places as car-drawn artillery, and it was enough trouble to drive the cattle to the designated positions at night.

"Listen, just like last time, don't rush into the enemy's formation, all cars are not allowed to stop, and no one is allowed to get out."

Tao Mingzhang issued an order to his platoon commanders scattered within half a kilometer through walkie-talkie, and the excess materials that Brooke got made Commander Chu Ting's troop communication level among the advanced level, although most of them were low-power motorola walkie-talkies that were easy to string, but there was no need for independent communication in the squad, he spoke on an open high ground, and it was enough for everyone to listen together within a radius of one kilometer.

"It's much easier than last time, the enemy is not protected by infantry, there may be some cavalry."

"Company commander, what's the point?"

"The main point is to shoot the horses first, alarming the cattle so that the enemy can't unload the artillery, and then firing the anti-aircraft guns and the 92 rifles, which are not much slower to deploy than mortars. I heard and understood. ”

He jumped into the passenger seat of his car, and one of the advantages of the M3 was that it was possible to shoot from this position, this car was not a qualified transport vehicle, and the protection of the driver and engine was not as good as the German sdkfz251, but the advantage was that there was a good shooting range in various positions. The two rows of soldiers standing in the back can strafe the fan in front of them.

All the cars start together to cross the embankment, then jump down the slope and take advantage of the momentum to accelerate. Rushing towards the Japanese with a width of 500 meters. Behind each car there was a squad of soldiers and at least 6 * of them, and now they were in a hurry to bully the Japanese who were at the level of the First World War.

By the time the Japanese column sensed that something was wrong, the tanks had already crossed half the distance and began to fire with machine guns, and at first glance, the frightened horses began to run around with the artillery, disrupting the infantry from unloading the fire. Even though these horses are specially trained, they are still subconsciously tempted to run around when fire is direct, especially at night.

Everything was simpler than expected, the first few minutes of the enemy's counterattack was always zero, and the subsequent counterattacks remained at the level of sporadic small arms.

The convoy rushed into the enemy formation, and the soldiers beat the enemy with automatic fire from both sides of the vehicles, and half of the artillery unit did not even have rifles, let alone a single cannon ready to counterattack, and some of the artillery was even dragged away from the battlefield by unpiloted horses.

At the same time, Zhou Youfu's flying car* performance almost came to an end. His men fired flares from the hill to illuminate the light below, and then condescendingly fired at the Japanese troops below. Due to the geographical advantage, the Japanese army suffered a great loss, but the complex terrain of the valley below also provided some cover.

Now it's the turn of the new guys to perform, and many of them can't wait to get into action. All stragglers who were ready to go into battle were tied to their arms with white towels to avoid accidental injury. They used two weapons, one was a British 7.7mm rifle with an extremely fast rate of fire. The other is a modified version of the Czech-style Canadian machine. Both of these are superior weapons, especially for hasty encounters at night.

The assault team entered the valley in several ways and immediately attacked, they were more familiar with the terrain than the intruding Japanese troops, and the flares fired from above always illuminated the stall in front of them in advance, guiding them forward. They quickly rushed through the rubble pile, looking at the heavy pile of Japanese corpses, some of which were still moving, under the bombed mining machinery.

The machine-gun crew quickly took up positions and began firing, and the remaining Japanese troops were immediately wiped out, and they had to face crossfire from all directions, except for lethal bullets, which could at any moment drop a bundle of flaming * from their heads. Even if it's just a debris without fragments*, its power could still collapse a coal mountain and bury the Japanese troops below.

The 33rd Division was once the main force defending the puppet capitals of Nanjing and Shanghai, claiming to have never lost a battle in China, and the combat statistics of this unit recorded in the division's documents showed that the casualty ratio of the Chinese army was 1 to 29, the highest among all Japanese divisional and regimental units, which was of course an exaggerated figure for morale boosting; But before the unit participated in the Battle of Nakajo Mountain, the two numbers were actually one to eleven. This division of the second division won great self-confidence in the worst defeat of the Chinese army, and the corpses of the Nationalist army stuffed with the Yellow River gave the Japanese the illusion of invincibility in the world. In that battle, they were in the right place at the right time, using the right means, directing the clock-precise killing; Now Chief Chu also wants to return a precisely designed battle of annihilation to them. He had experience in controlling stragglers, and Tao Mingzhang's troops were once a straggler who had been recruited by strangers. The key point is to get these people to quickly regain their self-confidence, these people do not lack fighting power, but only a victory to boost morale. Now they rushed into the valley to chase every Japanese soldier alive, and the soldiers could easily regain their self-confidence in such a one-sided battle, no different from the Japanese.

At the same time, the situation in Lashio was not very good.

Lin Xiuxuan returned to Zhang Lingfu's headquarters and brought the enemy's sneak attack plan, this time with Platoon Commander Sun as a guarantee, he didn't have to explain too much.

"Just such a broken map can show that the enemy is going to sneak up on my headquarters?"

Zhang Lingfu wanted to show that he was not surprised in front of his subordinates, so he clasped his hands and said disdainfully.

"At least they already know where your headquarters is, and there's no other target on the map, such as a warehouse bridge or something."

When Lin Xiuxuan stretched out his hand to point to the map, Zhang Lingfu found that the captain had a southern pistol stuck in his waist, probably captured just now, he couldn't understand this sapper, one arm was clearly still bandaged, why did he like to be over-armed so much? Isn't it that I've watched too many American Westerns.

"Let them come, I just asked the special battalion to wrap them up, I want to see what kind of goods they have brought from China? Relying on a group of ruffians and hooligans of the three sects and nine ranks, can sneak attack my headquarters? ”

"In my opinion, it's best to move the command to Matsuyama immediately." Lin Xiuxuan is inhumane, regardless of the fact that everyone on the side of him has a higher rank than himself, "It is necessary to quickly establish independent contact with the US military, which is conducive to obtaining airdrop supplies in times of chaos." ”

"These are what you were taught at the sapper school?" Zhang Lingfu sneered.

"When I was in Jingdong, I saw that the headquarters of the 49th Division was terminated by the Japanese, and the Japanese spies acted before the battle, which is common sense."

"That's the 49th Division's rubbish, not my ......"

As soon as the words ended, gunshots rang out outside, and the guards next to him immediately blew out the candles. But instead, the courtyard of the headquarters suddenly exploded, blowing up half of the West Wing.

"Is it a mortar?"

"How is that possible? The headquarters is built on an anticline, how could it be hit? Zhang Lingfu said as he leaned under the map table.

"When the mortar brought by the enemy's spies, we have to go quickly, the first shot can hit here, and the second shot must be more accurate."

Lin Xiuxuan reminded Zhang Lingfu with a word, and the people around him hurriedly came over to set up the official and ran outside from the back door. It is clear that the enemy is hiding in some unobstructed commanding height within a kilometer and will definitely shell continuously.