The commander of the Japanese contingent, Captain Toshiichiro Rekai, was not the first time to fight with Zhou Youfu, as early as more than a year ago in Burma, he followed the then 14th Tank Wing to fight with Chu Tingchang several times, and during the second phase of the operation in Magway, the squad leader was damaged in the car and was forced to withdraw from the battle, thus escaping the fate of being annihilated. Later, he returned to the Xishino Armored Forces School as a grassroots instructor, and returned to Mukden half a year later to participate in the formation of the First Mobile Brigade.

The Mobile Brigade is a new type of unit formed by Japan to follow the new trends in Western Europe and Southeast Asia. Prior to this, the Japanese army had also formed independent tank wings, tank brigades and even tank divisions, but because the base camp did not pay attention to it, it never developed a tank tactics and corresponding establishment suitable for Japan. The current mobile brigade, which initially aimed at the Soviet Red Army, gradually turned to Chu Tingchang.

It can be said that the Sakagaki plan was far from being born, and the mobile brigade was already in the far northeast, with Chu Tingchang as the imaginary enemy and research object, and was studying tactics. Of course, it was a surprise to get the intact American tanks lost by the Tang Enbo Division, and Okamura Ninji originally wanted to secretly hide these weapons, but the base camp forced him to vomit them.

The Stewart tank is the most mobile armored vehicle that the Japanese army has acquired so far, the road speed exceeds that of many Japanese wheeled armored vehicles, and the off-road performance is unmatched. Atami's tank crews, the first to Vietnam, had a short time to adapt to equipment, but they were generally reported to be easier to control than Japanese tanks.

Atami's tank radio was always turned on, so that not far away, the Chinese army could be heard. Normally, American radio stations can receive signals from tank stations of the same specification across a hill, while Japanese tank radio stations cannot, which greatly limits tactical play.

"The Chinese are talking about retreating?"

He pricked up his ears and listened to a company commander on the other side. The command is concise and the sound quality is clear, but unfortunately it is an official dialect with a Cantonese accent. He didn't understand every sentence.

The longer Atami studies Chu Tingchang's use of troops, the more he can understand the gist of winning in danger. So today, he refuses to believe that his troops are in danger, not to move secretly away from the enemy, but to get close to them and march in a big way.

He decided to pass between the two retreating groups of the enemy. Unexpectedly, someone in front of him was laying mines.

Zhou Youfu decided to destroy the surplus materials instead of leaving them to the Vietminh, and the French* in the warehouse picked a place to bury them casually.

Those* were buried shallowly in the ground at first, but then the sappers got impatient, opened the safe, put the charm they had invited and threw it on the ground. It depends on who is not good or blind, and will be blown up.

The sappers remained behind all the troops, did not inform the minefield on the radio in time, knowing only that this was not the predetermined route of retreat. It doesn't matter that there is still the reconnaissance detachment (Lin Xiuxuan's group) directly under Chief Chu Ting, who is still behind.

Atami itself has the string of lightning protection, and his command vehicle led the first squadron to avoid the low-lying area in the middle of the valley, choosing to drive on a gentle slope, and not following the enemy's wheel print when pursuing is an attempt. But the 2nd Squadron did not see the signal lights of the last vehicle of the 1st Squadron (the Japanese avoided radio communication). So the low-lying area was chosen. Car No. 1 in the queue, which ran over directly to the French infantry*.

This is a kind of thing that France copied the German S-type * in the early days of World War II when the situation was urgent, but the imitation was not very good, the propulsion * charge was too large, after the jumping mine was triggered, the 2 kg warhead jumped 2 meters high from under the track before exploding, and the rough machining made the preset fragments not break during the explosion.

Coincidentally, the half-pulled fragment that was not broken and attached to the charm was wrapped in huge kinetic energy, and cut off the head of the commander who was half of his body poking out of the turret and looking around.

The hapless chariot tried to turn around and dodge, crushing a large 5-kilogram infantryman*. If passed after sunrise, the driver could fully see that these were casually discarded in the middle of the road*.

This explosion completely destroyed one of the tank's tracks and injured the driver's foot.

The whole team was forced to stop.

On Atami's radio, someone asked: Did you hear an explosion nearby? Someone replied that it might be the Japanese artillery shooting. It seems that the Chinese tank units are really not far away.

Atami got out of the car and ran to the rear on foot with a flashlight, only to find that there were large and small * on the road. The vehicle was not badly damaged, but it was almost dawn and the whole team could not wait.

He ordered the rest of the vehicles to follow his troops, and the crews of the destroyed tanks repaired themselves and returned, and if they could not be repaired, they set the tanks on fire and blew them up.

He expected a lot of unfavorable starts, as well as countermeasures, most of which were after dawn and were detected by the enemy, but he didn't take into account such an unfortunate situation.

The good thing is, of course, that the troops are not yet exposed, and that there are one or two enemy tank detachments in the vicinity, which means that after daybreak, your own troops may be able to easily fool around. Not waiting any longer, he decided to move on as a whole.

The Japanese convoy quickly passed through the valley, through the woods, and by the rising sun, saw the sappers who were laying mines at the intersection in the distance. He had observed the destroyed Zhou Youfu tank a few days ago and made the final modifications to his tank according to its livery, so he was quite confident that he would be able to get through and decided not to retract his head into the turret.

The sappers, seeing the tanks coming out of the woods, waved to the galloping tanks, and Atami beckoned to them.

Although the infiltration mission was hasty, the preparation was not sloppy, and his military uniform was imitated according to the latest Chu Ting Changbu, the 1943-style tank uniform; The style and materials are generally the same, except that the origin is in Taiwan rather than Kolkata.

The sappers belonging to the He Bisheng Synthetic Brigade were far more serious than Zhou Youfu's sappers, and they were looking for the thickest trees to install on the nearby mountains*, preparing to blow up a few thick trees in a directional direction and let them cross the road to block the passage of enemy vehicles. They knew they had people nearby, but they didn't want it to be so big.

Japanese tanks rushed past and quickly passed through the barrier. The engineer company commander only wondered, every time he saw Zhou Youfu's tank troops, every time they retreated, they were in various spaces on the car, stuffed with all kinds of items that could be taken away, from precious metals, ivory to spirits, but this time they didn't bring too much floating wealth, maybe the blocking mission was too short, and it was too late to loot. But it looks like the crew's clothes are too clean. It's not like returning after a few days of harassment behind enemy lines.

Atami observed the river on the side of the mountain road, and the water level was rising faster than expected. He hesitated to pick up the intercom, determined to fix a preset plan, but it might be too late to stop and call his subordinates for deployment. He knew that he might be heard by nearby enemies when he was talking, but he was still quite confident in his Chinese. He made punches in a brothel in Mukden, and sometimes he would not be able to distinguish the Japanese for half a day.

"The water level is rising, and the downstream swimming is no longer in a hurry, so keep an eye on it, follow me to the railway bridge."

In front of it is the Yamalan railway bridge leading to Cambodia, which is bound to be heavily guarded. However, when he passed through the barrier just now, he noticed from the military uniform that there were troops other than Zhou Youfu here. He knew that the direct synthetic brigade had been cooperating with Tao Mingzhang in the west, and he and Zhou Youfu should be relatively unfamiliar, which meant that he could use more space.

His convoy quickly caught up with a transport convoy, and his convoy, unhurriedly, approached and moved to the center of the road and drove to the outside of the road according to the pre-studied rules for the march of the Chu Ting Commander's army. He knew that it was the enemy's norm of action for the tank to give way to the truck, and it was necessary to keep to the right.

When an enemy truck passed, he brazen his horn to signal them to give way, and a lieutenant poked his head out of the cab and cursed at Atami. Signaling the tank to block his passage. Atami took the lead off the road, and eventually his column gave way to the entire road. He noticed that there were a large number of Dodge jeeps equipped with various antennas in the train fleet, and judged that it was Zhou Youfu's direct communication unit, no wonder the lieutenant was also so domineering.

Ahead is the railway bridge. Half a kilometer away, behind the machine-gun bunkers, the gendarmes held up a red sign signaling the tank column to stop and wait.

Atami signaled to stop and waited for the convoy to pass. Although the temperature in the tank exceeded 40 degrees, all the Japanese soldiers were in a cold sweat, and they saw the anti-aircraft artillery units deployed around them. Soldiers can be seen hanging from the piers for installation*. The wreckage of a downed Japanese reconnaissance plane on a nearby hill, someone near an anti-aircraft artillery position is filling in potholes, and they are preparing to withdraw.

The convoy was finished, and someone behind the bunker held up a blue sign to signal his companions. Only then did the tank column enter the road and go uphill slowly at two speeds.

As he passed through the bridgehead bunker, Atami glanced at the sergeant in the bunker, his expression did not change much, and it seemed that his adventure had succeeded. After a small setback in the morning, we were one step closer to victory.

Among his optional tasks, causing chaos behind enemy lines is only optional, and if Zhou Youfu's command can be found, it will be an overriding priority. Among the advice given to Sakagaki by Kagesa Akira, the destruction of the enemy's headquarters at all levels became the overriding priority. He observed that the only weakness of Chu Ting's flat command system was the command headquarters.

"Keep up with the front...... Atami gave a short order, today he wants to try his luck and see if he can follow the train fleet and bump into Zhou Youfu's headquarters.

The 43 Army, throwing off the enemy's retreat, was underway. 3 hounds 8-wheeled reconnaissance vehicles, emerging from the jungle. They were 5 kilometers behind the rear of Zhou Youfu's rearguard troops. The distance from the Japanese pursuing force is almost 5 kilometers.

Lin Xiuxuan's reconnaissance work has come to an end, and he is now leading the group to retreat. In general, such reconnaissance missions deep behind enemy lines are of limited significance, difficult and dangerous, and can only find bits and pieces of intelligence.

Generally speaking, the medium-sized UAV of 419 can collect 6 percent of the intelligence, Qin Xiaosu's surveillance can get more than 3 percent, and the intelligence team may not have 10 percent of the intelligence obtained by reconnaissance behind enemy lines.

Ma Qiang was calling Qin Xiaosu in the rear, hoping to get a route to retreat. Qin Xiaosu sent complete image information, but there was a lack of effective relay, the packet loss rate was very high, and the map was never downloaded.

While waiting, Xu Chong saw a Stuart tank in front of him, which was coming this way, and he was looking in the direction of the enemy.