Soon all four 150 heavy guns and four 105 guns were wiped out on the position, along with the enemy's communications post near the position. Before Xu Chong's troops withdrew, he calmly detonated all the ammunition. There was no enemy counterattack.

Zhou Youfu hid behind the battle line and immediately noticed that the power of the enemy's artillery bombardment had decreased, and it sounded like only 75-mm mountain artillery and mortars were still exploding weakly. He had a company of medium tanks to defend his headquarters, and it looked like he could commit to a limited counteroffensive.

The order issued by Chief Chu Ting's headquarters to organize a counterattack was 2 hours later than Zhou Youfu's action.

Zhou Youfu's sense of smell on the battlefield made him realize faster and more accurately than Chu Tingchang, who was more than a hundred kilometers away, waiting for the summary of intelligence from all sides, and taking a sense of proportion, to realize that the situation had changed. His decisiveness allowed him to bite the enemy back at the first time.

Zhou's judgment was accurate, and at some point after receiving the artillery attack, and after aerial reconnaissance discovered that Chu Tingchang's main force was approaching, reason prevailed and decided to abandon the attack and retreat to wait for the support of the chariot brigade.

The fact that the Japanese began to secretly retreat was not ostentatious, and the superficial offensive had to be maintained, at least the ammunition that could not be taken away from the hoarded ammunition had to be exhausted. In addition to interfering with the enemy's judgment, but also to hide from the Thai allies. But Noda's false tricks he couldn't hide from Zhou Youfu. He launched a fierce attack in the area where the enemy's offensive was clearly weakened, and the front told him that when he saw the Thai army taking over the position, he knew that the weakness was here.

Just before the Thai army had time to familiarize itself with the position, the medium tank company was thrown into the main attack area, and the attack was decisive and short, and almost no one was fought, and nearly 1,000 officers and men of the Royal Second Division were captured.

The Sherman tank was a difficult weapon for the Japanese to restrain it, especially in those areas where there was no focus on strengthening the anti-tank, and the 202nd Division's offensive spearhead quickly launched a counterattack from a defensive position, which Noda did not expect.

The 14th Division's training revolved around fighting Soviet tanks, and in essence, they knew very well how to let go of the tanks, and they made judgments based on the experience of Nomenkan and a set of campaign theories that the Army University had developed itself.

Noda believed that once the tank unit fell into the defense, it would lose the ability to continue to assault in the subsequent attack, and it would be downgraded from an assault weapon to a covering point of fire for the infantry. This experience could not be applied to the army of Chu Tingchang and the Soviet army after 1942, but the tactical thinking of the Kwantung Army was still stuck in 1937.

The Royal Thai 2nd Division, which gradually took over the position, thought that the Japanese had gnawed off the most difficult bone and gave them the good thing of finally annihilating the enemy's headquarters. They collided with oncoming Chinese tanks and were not able to hold back the Chinese army at all. Zhou Youfu's troops drove straight forward and quickly repelled the retreating Japanese troops, and the enemy relied on two legs and could no longer retreat to compete with such an army.

Chu Tingchang's main force is still far away, but Zhao Xiaoli's fast troops have rushed to Zhou Youfu's headquarters in the starry night, in addition to bringing cutting-edge troops and communication equipment, but also brought a new statue of Guan Lao, saying that it is a hundred and nine-year-old patriotic Taoist priest, specially set up an altar to open the light, which undoubtedly gave the entire 202 Division headquarters a huge encouragement.

After the loss of more than half of the personnel of the command headquarters and the loss of eighty percent of the communication equipment, the arrival of this statue was a booster, so that Zhou's division headquarters immediately restored its efficiency. Of course, Zhou Youfu also read other meanings from the action of Chief Chu Tingchang sending Guan Yu's statue - the boss will not hold himself accountable for this loss. In other words, he is still in a favorable position in the competition with Tao Mingzhang.

Noda had never faced such a difficult opponent before, and he could go from a defensive position to an immediate offense, and it was not a limited counterattack with shallow depth. A unit of unknown size of the 202nd Division was inserted directly between its 59th Wing and the follow-up units of the division, which was the assembly point for the non-combat units attached to the division.

The 14th Division's baggage, engineer, hospital, repair, and epidemic prevention and water supply units had not yet recovered from the chaos caused by the sudden retreat order, and the tanks of the 202nd Division rushed to the front, and the Japanese had no power to fight back at all. The Japanese began to rout. The tank rushed directly into the tent of the station's hospital, razing the hospital to the ground.

The Japanese army was cut into several sections by tanks, and it was difficult to finish each other. Noda hurriedly mobilized the 59th Wing, the only one equipped with anti-aircraft guns, to counterattack, but ordinary infantry simply could not keep up with the speed of the tanks. Zhou Youfu's assault troops began to sweep laterally across the enemy's supply lines, as well as the military stations along the way.

At the same time, a battalion of Zhao Xiaoli's division launched an attack on the front, quickly broke through the Thai army in front of him, and restored the battle line to 3 days ago, and the division pointed to the farthest to the area.

Chu Tingchang still hopes to threaten the northern railway hub of Thailand as quickly as possible. For him, in addition to the rapid capture of the railway, another goal was to enter flat areas, which would be very advantageous for tank use. The terrain of northern Thailand is still too complex, which is why the Thai Railway extends to Chiang Rai province and no longer goes north.

The main difficulty in restricting Chu's next move was the confusion and contradiction in the intelligence he received from Britain and the United States, with some sources saying that Japanese tanks were seen in Phnom Penh, while others believed that all the tanks of the Southern Army had gone to Australia.

This information bothered Chu Tingchang, and he was expecting him to calculate a hexagram to solve the intelligence problem, and he was a little out of breath in the cracks.

Ma Qiang stayed at the Thai-Burmese border to repair the mountaintop navigation tower left by the Japanese, and he needed to use the antenna part to connect the communication equipment, so that he could occasionally receive information from 419 at night, and short-wave communication could be reflected far through the ionosphere at night, but it was not very reliable. The long-range communication of 419 mainly relies on satellites and long-wave, but it is not possible to do so at present.

These technical tasks were not suitable for Ma Qiang, who stayed here alone, listening and recording all information, including secrets between allies.

Every small report that Stilwell sent to Marshall about his dissatisfaction with Chongqing was forwarded to Chu Tingchang's headquarters. It seems that Stilwell is determined to give priority to equipping Chu Tingchang's troops.

Although the knot between Chu Tingchang and Chongqing has not yet been untied, Xiong Xianghui's recruitment points in Myitkyina and Lashio have been opened, saying that they only recruit overseas Chinese from Nanyang, but there are also many Yunnan children who rushed from Longling. It seems that the conscription plan of 65,000 people will not stop.

Xiong Xianghui's telegram to his superiors was also quite interesting, judging that the Americans had made up their minds to support Chu Tingchang, and he volunteered to Chongqing that he would stay in Chu's army, supervise his conscription work, and monitor his every move with his division. In addition, Xiong regularly sent back to Chongqing his reports on the personnel inspection of the 5th Army.

Tao Mingzhang was highly praised in his report every time, believing that he had the talent to become a high-ranking general, and he was the only general who dared to contradict Chu Tingchang at the military meeting.

Tao Mingzhang demanded that the rear units at the battalion level of the 201st Division must hang the portraits of the prime minister and the chairman of the committee at the same time, and before the military meeting, all the troops must recite the premier's posthumous precepts and chant the Three People's Principles.

However, Chief Chu only hung the portrait of the chairman of the committee at the military division headquarters, and never hung the portrait of the prime minister.

Zhou Youfu, the 202nd division, only worshiped all kinds of gods, and all the statues of leaders issued to him were thrown into the warehouse. There are even reports that the statue of the prime minister issued by Zhou will be replaced with a beard and a black gauze hat, and the statue will be changed to a statue of the god of wealth, which will be hung in a casino opened by his cronies in the rear. In addition, Zhou Youfu was also suspected of smuggling military supplies.

Ma Qiang knew that these reports were very misleading. Tao Mingzhang can't do superficial articles such as reciting testamentary teachings, so someone must have taught him. Although many communications sent by Xiong Xianghui were intercepted, a large part of Ma Qiang could not be cracked.

Ma Qiang is wondering how Chief Chu will arrange himself next, whether he will return to the combat post? Suddenly, his receiver reacted to a message from 419, which had not been received during the day since Calcutta's farewell.

The display automatically translates the password, and the text reads: We are about to reach the waters of the Gulf of Thailand, south of Bangkok.

This news could not be delayed, he immediately ran down the tower, and asked the operator to send a telegram to Chu Tingchang, the content of the telegram was: Wanmin umbrella has been on the road, and it will arrive at the military headquarters in a few days.

Chu Tingchang is in a dilemma about what to do next, and without conclusive information, it is difficult for him to pretend to be a ghost. The British claim to have deep roots in Thailand, but most of the information they send is inconsistent and confusing, and believing these things is similar to rolling dice.

Suddenly, a telegram arrived, and it contained the code words he had agreed with Ma Qiang. He knew that 419 had finally returned, and he already knew from the Americans that there had been a small coup d'état in Japan, and Tojo might have been placed under house arrest and deposed, and it was very likely that he would be transferred to the Chinese battlefield Okamura Ninji as army chief of staff, and he didn't know if it had anything to do with 419.

Soon, the information unilaterally sent by 419 was continuously sent to Chu Tingchang's headquarters, and he could finally clear the fog and get a glimpse of the enemy's true deployment. However, 419 is still far away in the Gulf of Thailand, and now he can only maintain the receiving state, and 419's reconnaissance cannot cover the entire area.

According to the reconnaissance results obtained by various means of 419, the enemy's tank units transferred from Manchuria are already on the way, and will appear in northern Thailand within a few days, 419 suggested that the necessary means can be used to delay the enemy's deployment.

419 could not communicate directly with Chu Tingchang, but by listening to the Allied telecommunications, he mastered the current situation, Chu Tingchang's ambition really frightened everyone, this idea of wanting to divide the Indochina Peninsula into two is too huge, and Chu Tingchang's army is impossible to complete, and then they learned that Chu Tingchang has established a military base in the rear, and directly equips this unit with US military weapons, obviously to fight against Chongqing.

Cheng Dayang felt that this move was too dangerous, but the wood was already in the boat, and 419 could only follow Chu Tingchang's steps and cooperate with him in battle before obtaining Makino's next plan. The potential danger of the 5th Army was that they were attacking the enemy, who had a complete railway system, on a poor road.