The trucks rushed at a gallop, and the two frontmost vehicles were hit by the Japanese and forced to drive off the roadbed to avoid blocking the vehicles behind. The trucks from behind continued to rush over, strafing the Japanese with machine guns on their roofs, and even fired two*. One of them* fluttered and hit the bridge deck that had not had time to be installed*, and for a time the air wave swept dozens of soldiers on the bridge into the surging river.

Kagesa Zhenzhao saw the truck crash into the rejection horse and rushed onto the approach bridge, he decided to ignore his own people on the bridge and immediately detonate the bridge, so he turned *, but there was no reaction, apparently the explosion just now blew up the detonation wire on the bridge deck. He realized that God wasn't really on Japan's side.

The Chinese soldiers rushed out of the trucks and into the fight, and the large number of * allowed the soldiers of the Young Division to quickly gain the upper hand in firepower. Kagesa Shoaki hurriedly fled to his car, and the bridge was almost intact with only part of the deck damaged. However, this matter was out of his reach, and he had to slip away. Burma is fighting like this, it is a total collapse, he doesn't know why Ishihara Waner recommended Itagaki Seishiro, calling Sakagaki a courageous, resourceful, and very cautious general, Kage Sazhen Akira really didn't see where Sakagaki was cautious.

While the Chinese army cleared the defenders of the bridge, the rest of the troops marched towards Mandalay in a non-stop motorized march. Kagesa had never seen such a battle formation and marching formation, with almost no alternating battles, and it was simply accurate in every second.

Of course, this kind of play, in fact, Chu Tingchang has never seen it, in essence, Huang Tianyang is anxious to take credit for the gun, and he creates it on his own. However, Huang Tianyang was more like an officer than the battalion commander of the Jibu Company sent by Zhou Youfu, and after he saw the bridge deck, he realized that the enemy wanted to *, and ordered two companies to be left to defend the bridge.

The troops of the 203rd Division arrived outside Mandalay, and saw from a distance that the blue sky and white sun flag had been fluttering on the golden roof of the Ava Palace, and finally this battle ended with the 114th Regiment of the New First Army taking the lead. Of course, it was not the chairman of the committee who was far away in Chongqing who was very wary of Chu Tingchang or Sun Liren getting too close to the Americans.

General Sun has been fighting the Japanese army in the In'anqiang oil field in recent months, honing some tank tactics, and now he is probably a minority of tank warfare experts in the Chinese army, of course, limited to positional offensive warfare, and he is not yet able to organize long-distance interspersed operations.

Just as the battle in the north was coming to an end, and Sakagaki was gathering the remnants of his troops and preparing to retreat one by one, Tao Mingzhang's 201st Division was advancing south, preparing to smash the nest and cut off the retreat of the entire Burmese Japanese army.

Tao Mingzhang's troops did not get the right of priority to pass through the bridge, and crossed the river in the back, so they withdrew from the competition for Mandalay early, but Tao Mingzhang never felt that an empty city was nothing to fight for when the enemy's defeat was decided; Of course, he didn't know that he was the successor of Chu Tingchang.

Chu Tingchang stood at a strategic height and gave him a better opportunity: to go straight to the south, to capture the vast and defenseless area, in the battle, of course, to make the defeated Japanese army in the north lose its foothold, but also to let Tao Mingzhang quickly stand out.

The task he gave to Tao Mingzhang was not difficult, the only strong enemy in the whole of southern Burma was the 4th Division, which had withdrawn from the battle near Mandalay ahead of schedule and was currently assembling in the south. In order for Tao Mingzhang to fight smoothly, he specially strengthened an artillery regiment for him.

Tao Mingzhang happily went south, he had been crazy recently, and he really wanted an opportunity to hone his troops, rather than robbing some empty city. He noticed that his troops were tactically opening up a gap with the 202nd Division. Originally, the 202nd Division was the weakest of the three divisions of the 5th Army, and now it has become the vanguard that must be used at every station. Zhou Youfu's career in the reconnaissance company seems to be destined for him to be better at vehicle combat, and Tao Mingzhang's background in the tax police regiment always limits his battlefield imagination.

Since the 5th Army attacked Thailand, the 201st Division was hardly used, whenever the logistics were difficult, Chu Tingchang would choose Zhou Youfu, his troops were more and more able to fight, although the 5th Army Military Judge Advocate General's Department, the monthly punishment of personnel who violated military discipline, ninety percent of Zhou Youfu's soldiers, but Chu Tingchang must also admit that his troops are more capable of fighting.

Tao Mingzhang's department, unconsumed, was still close to full of men, and in his opinion, this good state was simply humiliating, and his men almost followed the 202nd Division forward, sparing a circle and finding that they had returned to Burma.

Now it was time to show the combat effectiveness of the 201st Division, they went south along the railway overnight, with the support of guerrilla intelligence, galloping hundreds of kilometers, the first target was in the important town of Pyinmana along the line, yesterday's intelligence, there were only 150 people, but subsequent intelligence showed that the 4th Division and the Burmese Honor Second Army arrived there one after another, a head-on collision, it was imperative.

About a year earlier, the 5th Army had fought brutally with the 55th and 18th Divisions of the Japanese Army, and of course the 5th Army had withdrawn with a loss of 2,000 men here. Now, the 18th and 55th Divisions were all gone, but the 5th Army was back.

Tao Mingzhang sat in a Dodge Jeepri to usher in the sunrise, and in the morning light, he saw that the roadside field still preserved the traces left by the fierce battle last year. He saw a discarded 24x 150 cannon. Next to it, there was also a Soviet-made 107-mm gun. The two cannons, as well as the pillboxes on the side, have been painted with anti-Chinese slogans by the Burmese.

"Isn't this our German-made fifteen-liter grenade?" He asked the driver in front.

"Yes, division commander, when we retreated from here last year, the artillery position was here, but this gun blew up and could only be thrown, and the Soviet gun was blown up by Japanese aircraft."

"So that's it? Someone had to send someone to wipe the slogans off. ”

Tao Mingzhang was not in the 5th Army at that time, and he didn't know so much detail, but he knew that these Rheinmetall cannons had imported a total of 44 pieces that year, and since the outbreak of the war in 1937, they had participated in almost all the major battles, from Shanghai all the way to Burma, and he didn't know how many were left at this time.

"Shizuo, this time we have to take out our American 155* cannon and smash it hard."

The staff officer next to him said. "At the moment logistics are prioritized to strengthen us, and artillery shells are sufficient."

"Are there any overseas Chinese in the city?"

"I don't know, but the guerrilla intelligence just now, the 4th Division crossed the river south of Tangji last night, rushed ahead of us to Pinmana, and is building fortifications."

"The 4th Division is good at defense, I wonder if they have strengthened their heavy weapons?"

"There's our spy in the city, and they're working on this."

Lieutenant General Sekigahara had just arrived in Pyinmana, and his heavy weapons could not be transported across the river, but here he joined the independent field artillery wing of the Burmese Front and the Burmese Honorary 2nd Army, and now had four Type 96 150 field guns, which finally had a small amount of money. He was going to hold back the enemy here and cover the retreat of Commander Sakagaki. Aircraft reconnaissance showed that there were no tanks in the enemy's marching columns, which gave him a slight sigh of relief.

The Chinese army is still 20 kilometers away, in the small town of Pyinmana, and the people of Burma are already panicking, and the Burmese people are standing in the streets, watching the tired and gray-faced Japanese soldiers walk by, and there seems to be no struggle. It was very different from the scene half a year ago, when thousands of prisoners were paraded on the street with a tall horse on their shoulders.

Rumors spread in the market, saying that although the Japanese army fought hard, they were still defeated by the demons summoned by Chu Tingchang. Chapong, the commander of the Second Army, had already shot and killed several civilians who were spreading rumors on charges of espionage, but it was still difficult to suppress the people's awareness of the defeat. Most of his soldiers were natives, so it was easy for this sentiment to spread to the troops, and yesterday alone, about 300 people deserted.

Chapong found Sekihara Roku, hoping that he could think of a way, at present, the people's hearts are fluctuating, and the Japanese must at least pull out some heavy weapons and walk around the streets for a while, so that the Burmese people and his soldiers can see hope. Otherwise, his forces could collapse on their own at any moment.

Sekigahara's mere 150 cannons were the only thing he could get his hands on, and he knew that the Burmese worshipped giant cannons, which showed that these cannons were also very valuable in stabilizing people's hearts, so he decided to give it a try.

Early in the morning, the four heavy artillery pieces that had just arrived from the rear were pulled down and walked around the city before they had time to deploy. It worked. The patriotic fervor of the Burmese people has been rekindled. A large number of people volunteered to dig trenches for the Japanese army.

The spy hiding in the crowd will secretly report everything he sees. Obviously, the intelligence that the enemy only has 4 150 guns is very important, and this is certainly not a deliberate show of weakness by the enemy to lure the enemy into depth. Everyone can see that they are slapping their swollen faces and becoming fat.

The advance unit of the 201st Division encountered enemy units and, as soon as it made contact, stopped the offensive. The infantry battalion that arrived later slowly moved forward in three companies in a zigzag formation. Tao Mingzhang's attack was so peaceful and stable, according to the step-by-step, he would not disperse his forces and attack on a front that was too wide; Nor will they give up the long drive from the rear in pursuit of speed. He wants to crush the enemy with firepower and break up enemy resistance with firepower. His troops usually practice infantry and artillery coordination, target surveying and communication, and rapid deployment and evacuation of artillery positions. The Americans were originally a little stingy in terms of heavy weapons at the military level, firstly, they felt that it was unnecessary, and secondly, they increased the logistical pressure, but after Stilwell saw the precise drill of Tao Mingzhang's department, he decided to give the Chinese army some more 155 howitzers.

When the troops of the 201st Division attacked, the first to put into cover were 60 mortars, which were put into fire to test the countermeasures of the frontal enemy, and at the same time, the artillery infantry of the division and the military were deployed, and the forward artillery observers were already in place. In the rear of his troops, a hot air balloon was even raised to reconnoiter the rear of the human line. To some extent, he brought the form of war back to World War I, but this kind of tethered hot air balloon did have practicality, and it was a great threat to the Japanese mountain artillery and infantry artillery with a relatively close range.

The infantry artillery behind the Japanese defensive positions began to counterattack, and was immediately suppressed by 75-mm mountain guns. When the enemy threw 75-mm mountain artillery, the 105 field artillery of the Chinese army hit them and they could not raise their heads.