The turret and hull of the Grant tank began to turn, and it was almost a warship, with the main and secondary weapons used to fire at different targets at the same time.

Although the shells fired by the 37mm anti-aircraft guns were weak, they could still easily be weakly armored on the sides of the 97 tanks, and once those tanks stopped, most of the guns could be replenished, which was a nightmare for Japanese tank crews.

Only then did the Japanese notice that they had almost no way to do anything with this tank, and their excellent marksmanship made them far superior in the number of hits they had on the other side, but countless shots at the front hemisphere were bounced off the front and even the side of the tank. It seems that there is no other way except to shoot the side armor of the hull at a large angle.

Chu Aiyun predicted the enemy's wolf pack tactics and called the British troops 1 kilometer away to cover the flank, knowing that the enemy still had a chance to turn the tables, although Grant also had an all-directional turret, but the decisive 75 guns had a limited range of fire. And once the enemy is very close, there is still a chance to speed faster than the direction of the 37-gun turret.

The British, who had just been saved, immediately responded to his call, and from a kilometer away, they fired at the Japanese tanks that were trying to outflank them, and some speed up, almost snatching the 97 of the Grant muzzle, was destroyed by the Stuart in the distance. For the British army, which was 1 km away, no matter how fast the tank was, it was impossible to be faster than the angular velocity of the muzzle rotation.

Before the wolf pack was encircled, Shiramura's squadron had already been exhausted in a one-sided battle, but fortunately, there was still a radio station, and there was time to change tactics. He hastened to order, and the remaining tanks retreated, relying on the roadbed, to maintain the defensive line. When they stopped, Grant's 37mm guns began firing at the opponent's exposed turrets, and the gunner used a parallel machine gun with a muzzle velocity similar to that of a shell for simple aiming, saving some of the trouble of ranging. Although the turret has the thickest riveted steel plate of the 97, it may be possible to test the rivets with kinetic energy bullets a few more times, and the cracked rivets will be able to bounce inside the car. And the * gun was constantly firing, honing his marksmanship and trying his luck, although the front of the target was small, and most of the warp shots were near or far, but even if a high-explosive ordnance landed on the side, it was enough to blow up the track.

Nakasa Aizawa watched all this through a telescope, he was not a person who lacked reason, the situation was already clear, he couldn't take the battle today, and he had to retreat.

The Grant tank had many disadvantages, but today it was in an advantageous position, relying on its heavy armor and diversity of weapons.

Although he admits it, Aizawa does not have a high opinion of this commander who broke into the battlefield and ruined his good deeds, and because he did not show any clever combat skills, but kept his distance well. He believes that if he has the opportunity to fight again on a different occasion, he will definitely be able to die an ugly death.

He ordered his three squadrons to abandon the attack, firing * to disrupt the enemy's aim while slowly retreating, while calling in rear artillery fire for support.

Before the smoke finally blocked the enemy's fire, the entire Baicun squadron was close to being completely annihilated, and they hit the opponent no less than a hundred times, and the result was always 0, while they lost more than ten vehicles. In the end, only 3 vehicles retreated a kilometer away by reversing, and the enemy did not make any action to kill them all.

Chu Tingchang's shooters are not yet able to use the smoke to calculate the wind speed. However, today's actual combat training has made them grow rapidly, almost catching up with those Japanese charioteers who have been training for a year and a half in the Xizhi Field Chariot School. Believe that next time, more complex tactics can be implemented.

In the east, the second regiment of the 38th Division arrived through a rapid march, Sun Liren did not wait for the car to return, but more active, in fact, last night, Sun received an ambiguous information, mentioning that the Japanese army may attack today, or may not attack. Unlike other officers of the Nationalist Army, he was inclined to the former conclusion by the frequent movement of Japanese reconnaissance planes, so he did not move the automobile regiment first, but let one regiment set off on foot, and the result was that it was the first to arrive and replenish it in time.

The information was stuffed to Chen Zhiping by Lin Xiuxuan through a forged Japanese military radio station, including the size of the troops invested and the approximate time of the attack, but Chen Zhiping was accustomed to writing the intelligence analysis in a plausible way, so that once the information was accurate or inaccurate afterwards, he could find the part from the text that could ask for credit or be enough to shirk responsibility. But for military commanders, this kind of information, which lists all possibilities, is of little value.

The Hashimoto Wing, which supported the flanks of the 33rd Division, began to falter under the attack of the Chinese troops of two regiments, and usually one infantry wing of the Japanese army could withstand the attack of the Chinese infantry of 2 divisions, instead of two regiments. However, the Hashimoto Wing had just disembarked, there were many sick numbers, heavy weapons were not in place, and the combat effectiveness was insufficient. The 38th Division was the leader of the Chinese army, and Sun concentrated 20 mortars to fire intensively, causing the enemy to misjudge the focus of defense and lose ground in advancing and retreating. By the afternoon, the 67th Wing's defensive line was already in jeopardy, and it was broken through several times in a row by Sun Liren's department.

The battle situation made the commander of the Sakurai division sitting in the rear a little unable to sit still, he launched an attack under the disadvantage of 1 to 2 troops, originally mainly relying on the imperial army's invincible military might, hoping that the enemy would flee from the wind, but at this moment of the battle, the enemy's will did not collapse, and some breakthrough sections could not quickly develop in depth because the materials could not keep up. On the contrary, his flank was threatened by an unknown number of Chinese troops. Hashimoto judged that the enemy in front of him was the 38th Division and the 200th Division, with more than 6,000 people, and he more than doubled the number of Chinese troops under Sun's tactics of bullying the enemy.

Soon news came that Sakurai's highly-anticipated tank 14th wing had suffered a setback, and the enemy's armored forces had blocked the gap, so that the best opportunity for rapid development victory was lost.

Sakurai ordered a halt to the offensive and maintained a part of the vested front, but retreated from some salient surrounded by the enemy on three sides. However, Commander Iida did not blame him, because in the east, the remaining two divisions also made limited progress, and the attack on Dongwei was also broken up by the 200th and 22nd Divisions, and the 18th Division lost 1,500 men. In addition, the southern authorities discovered that some new Chinese army numbers appeared on the other side of the Nu River, and could rush to Burma's aid at any time.

In the fourth month of the Pacific War, the Japanese attack has always been as easy as a hot knife cutting butter, but today the iron plate is mentioned, not only in Burma, but in New Guinea, the disappearance of an entire elite division plus a Takasago regiment that is very adapted to jungle warfare has made Hyakutake Haruyoshi's offensive unsustainable, and instead of crossing the ridge to get closer to Port Moresby, the amphibious war has also been forced to be postponed. The base camp vigilantly discovered. In order to strengthen the offensive in these two directions, they even slowed down the attack on Solomon and Borneo, which were important nodes.

The seaplane carrying Makino finally arrived in Rabaul. Unlike the deliberate neglect of Asano in the past, Yamamoto immediately wanted to meet Makino. On the one hand, he was intuitively close to Makino, and on the other hand, the recent war was unfavorable. Asano's prediction of the war seemed to have come half a year early, and the seas that he mentioned had not yet broken out in the sea, which had caused heavy losses to the Japanese Navy, but the army was stuck in advance. If the Americans were allowed to control Solomon, and New Guinea could not take it for a long time, the empire was in danger of collapsing prematurely.

In the secret meeting room of the Rabaul Governor's Palace, a pale-faced Makino sat on one side, looking very tired but in good spirits. He listened attentively as Masanobu Tsuji stood in front of the map, gushing about the current state of the war. Sitting next to him were smiling Yamamoto and Asano. Makino thought to himself that no matter what radical strategy Asano made for this fool, he had finally done one thing, which was to get the navy and army to sit together in advance.

"The strange part is that in Burma, the enemy has invested more troops than Asano-kun predicted, for example, the 74th Army, which has been in Jiangxi, suddenly appeared in Ruili, and in the southeast of the Philippines, our main force suddenly disappeared into the sea, otherwise Port Moresby would have been taken today."

Asano subconsciously shook his head, as if he wanted to get out of passivity. Masanobu Tsuji obeyed him, so naturally he didn't mean to tease, but the current unfavorable situation is like this.

"Makino-kun, why is this happening? Is there a backlash caused by the destruction of history, as you are talking about? ”

Onishi asked urgently, he had just arrived and learned that the Burmese offensive had also been thwarted, and if there was no progress in the two directions designated by Asano, the consequences would be unimaginable if the allies were allowed to recuperate.

"I think things may be more serious than we think."

Makino said calmly.

"Have you ever wondered why the 1st Division disappeared so strangely?"

The attendees were all nodding, and it was a mystery for the ages.

"I've been thinking lately that when Kasugamaru crossed over last July, maybe it wasn't just us who crossed over."

He plucked up the courage to speak out of this judgment, which immediately caused an uproar among the few people present, and it was the first time he had publicly pointed out the possibility.

"How is this possible?" Onishi stood up in surprise.

"I don't think we can rule it out, at least. Otherwise, why did the fleet transporting the army suddenly disappear? ”

"You think it's a nuclear submarine with a nuclear bomb?" Asano said it out of his mouth. Although he tried his best to reject Makino's alarmism, when Makino mentioned that something else had crossed over, he immediately thought of the nuclear submarine, and the other people of his era present did not expect this step at all.

"Yes, and it was not a small-yield nuclear bomb that the Manhattan Project had built ahead of schedule, but at least a strengthened* bomb with a yield of no less than 300,000 tons. If the Yukikaze, which passed through the rain clouds, is to be driven back to Tokyo, I think that the equipment of Imperial University can perform an isotope test of the contaminant to confirm the above judgment. Of course, I don't rule out a false alarm. Just some kind of unknowable reason. ”

"No, no, you're talking nonsense," Asano shook like a rattle, "it doesn't make sense, if your assumption is true, and there is an American nuclear submarine following the crossing, then he should attack the Japanese mainland as soon as possible." Or, he could have informed the U.S. government, the defense of Pearl Harbor, why didn't anything like this happen? ”

Asano lives on his own, and feels that if others cross, it is only possible to act according to such a routine.

"Yes, your assumptions are reasonable, but the premise may be wrong."

"The premise? It's not that you assume that a nuclear submarine crossed over? ”

"But I'm not sure it's an American nuclear submarine."

There was silence in the room, and now there was no one else to speak, so Makino and Asano had to discuss.

Asano got up with a frown and walked around the conference room a few times.

"Russian? No, Moscow has already fallen, this is not reasonable. Anglo-French? It is impossible for French nuclear submarines to appear in the Far East, and if they exist, they will inevitably take refuge in the United States; The British will naturally be in line with the Americans, there is no doubt about ......,"

He muttered to himself alone, and finally stopped, as if suddenly remembering something.