Fukukasa had been in the first line of concealment, with a steel helmet full of twigs on his head, holding a telescope, staring motionlessly ahead. Since the morning, the place has been surrounded by thousands of mosquitoes, but he still observes the enemy with all his attention.

The careless British tank commanders stuck their heads out of the turrets, and they really needed a vision to see the route. The Japanese gunners were hiding in the trees, waiting to pick up the British.

"Don't fire, wait."

The orders given by the Fu family were conveyed in an orderly manner.

British tanks converge at the Horn Mouth, from where the Combat Highway crosses the jungle and heads south. They began to fold their unfolded formation into marching columns, and now the tank group, like a blind snake, has burrowed headlong into the encirclement of the Fujia brigade.

The well-camouflaged anti-aircraft guns and infantry artillery groups were completely unmoved, calmly moving their muzzles, waiting for the enemy to get close enough to see the tactical numbers on the vehicles. Since five years ago, Masanobu Tsuji has been on a long staff trip for the war and has come up with various methods of camouflage on the spot, which has allowed the Japanese army to hide an entire army in the dense jungle without the need for specialized equipment. On the contrary, these colonial troops, who have been here for hundreds of years, are still not very well adapted to the jungle.

The group of tanks lined up in a long line passed in front of the Japanese guns, the muzzles of these tanks turned to the sides, and the car commander knew that there would be nothing behind the jungle, and he craned his neck to see what was behind through the woods.

A Churchill in the middle of the platoon suddenly exploded. One side of the track shoes clattered and scattered. A 70-mm shell hit the side walking part, and the Japanese deliberately lowered the muzzle, not wanting to challenge this turret armor with a low-bore shell, but to stop the tank, splitting the front and rear ranks.

Only then did the British commanders see the smoking muzzles and shouted for the turret to turn, but they immediately fell into the fire of the Japanese snipers. Within 10 seconds, 4 commanders were killed. The rest of the people hurried into the turret and did not dare to stick their heads out again.

The Japanese anti-aircraft guns fired at Churchill's side armor from a vertical angle almost 50 meters away, and this kind of artillery fired not high-speed kinetic energy shells, but the armor-piercing ability was average, but once penetrated, the delay in the body of the projectile* could kill the entire car.

The British 7.7 mm machine guns strafed in the jungle, and the 5 mm thick baffles of the anti-aircraft guns could not resist, and the artillery squads arrived on the ground one after another, but the reservists consciously rose to the top and continued to load and shoot. In the Japanese army, any soldier could operate such a direct-aim weapon in numbers.

The British tank column found itself in trouble, and although most of the commanders did not dare to stick their heads out to observe, judging by the sound of armor bullets in all directions, they fell into crossfire, and the Japanese constantly tested the armor of these tanks with their various firearms.

The 40-ton Churchill tank became the target of limited strikes, and the almost vertical hull armor on its sides gave it a great chance of being penetrated by small artillery.

The British commander M3 Stuart tank rushed down the roadbed, trying to break through the road with high mobility. This tank began to assist the allies in large quantities one year ago, and was put into the battlefields of Europe and North Africa respectively, and the actual combat proved to be very unsatisfactory; But the War Office believed that there was still merit in this tank, and perhaps it would be able to find a bargain on the Japanese.

Due to its small size, it was not a priority target in the first round of Japanese attacks, and most of it was missed. They directly smashed some exposed Japanese anti-aircraft guns, crushing them into scrap metal. But then it came under fire from 20-mm anti-tank guns.

The Japanese tank-gun groups were deployed strictly in advance and did not participate in the first round of attacks on Churchill, since they were deployed slightly further behind. Fujia did not deploy this weapon in front because it was more expensive and more effective, this weapon could quickly change positions, and it would not be exposed by smoke because of a single shot, and more importantly, it fired kinetic energy projectiles with a deeper penetration than 37mm anti-aircraft guns. The Japanese army used the M3 captured in Bataan to conduct a test firing, proving that this weapon, with the T26 as the main false target, could penetrate the Stuart from most angles.

As a tank with a small space, but squeezed into 4 people. Even if it is penetrated by one 20-mm round, it is likely that one or two crew members will be lost.

On the battlefield where the Japanese grenadiers exploded everywhere and deliberately created chaos, the commanders who did not dare to show their heads could not find North at all, and they gave various inconsistent orders in panic, leaving the other members useless.

Japanese shooters waited patiently for their chances, then fired at vulnerable positions in the hull, lethal ammunition testing the weak armor of the tank from all directions.

Chu Aiyun was coming from 5 kilometers away, and because he had been equipped with some American telecommunications equipment, his radio station could easily receive a crying father and mother from the British army on the set channel.1 He had a premonition that the situation was not good, and the front-line tankmen even asked the artillerymen to shoot at him, and it seemed that they were caught in the encirclement of the Japanese and could not get out.

He had just received the news that Lin Xiuxuan had taken the 100th person to a command headquarters of the enemy, but it did not have the expected effect on the breakthrough of the British army.

He called Major Brooke, who was 1 km behind, and informed himself that the offensive route would be temporarily modified. Major Brooke, who followed the action and served as a liaison officer, was currently one of his trump cards, not only calling in air support, but also providing some cover for his next moves.

"The eagle calls the hamster, I need to modify the previous route and ask the Air Force to conduct non-stop reconnaissance in the 335 direction."

When the major heard that he was going to change his route again, of course he was furious, and he kept tossing and turning all night, and now he had to change his route again, and the aerial reconnaissance in front was again useless. The most odious thing was that the British were beaten right in front, and he just refused to go, which was precisely what Stilwell feared the most.

Major Brooke didn't really know the man in front of him, he followed his father-in-law here, and what he heard most was Stilwell's praise for the hardships and hard work of the Chinese soldiers, and of course, the denunciation of the corruption and depravity of the Chinese army's top brass. In Stilwell's gushing criticism, the continuously promoted Chu Tingchang often appears as the negative No. 1. It is said that this person first took the anti-Japanese idol route, and then climbed to Jiang Gongzi, which is completely the most absurd government and army, and only the story that happens, without considering the professionalism of the army at all.

Due to the previous victories, the limelight was given to Jiang Weiguo, Chu Aiyun hid his edge, and naturally did not get rid of the American general's bitter prejudice against him. Stilwell is the kind of stereotypical person, he does look up to Jiang Weiguo a few times, after all, he went to a German military academy, and he can be regarded as a serious person. In his opinion, the Whampoa Military Academy was at best a short-term training course, not so much a military academy as a grass platform team behind Chiang Kai-shek.

Major Brooke was preconceived and full of smoke about Chu Aiyun, and he couldn't understand that he was changing back and forth, in fact, to get rid of the eyeliner all over the Southern Agency. He just thought that this bastard either couldn't read the map, or was too timid to face the enemy. However, although his military rank is higher, he is only responsible for liaison here, and has no command authority.

"Camp Commander Chu, which one are you going to sing? Makes Americans happy, doesn't it? ”

The major grew up in Beiping since he was a child, and he spoke Mandarin better than Chu Aiyun.

"Hamster, pay attention to the communication logs, use the scheduled call sign."

"You've been wandering around all night just trying to run out of fuel and then use that excuse to get out of the fight."

"Hamster, you know a fart, do you understand how to save Zhao from Wei Wei? Hurry up and send a report, delay the fighters, believe it or not, I will give you twenty military sticks. ”

Brooke stopped talking, so he had to send a report. So far, he hasn't seen Chu Aiyun spinning around on the edge of the war zone like a headless fly, which one can save Zhao. In fact, aerial reconnaissance was almost useless in the jungles of Burma, the Japanese were masters of camouflage, and it was difficult for pilots to see with the naked eye what was hidden under the huge canopy.

Chu Aiyun sat on the T26 turret and secretly checked the radio. The enemy's command was ended, the deployment did not change, and the rash attack of the British somewhat diverted the enemy's attention, and now it was time to launch an attack on his own.

The enemy situation he faced was that the Japanese army had carefully deployed its forces in the obvious direction of the British breakthrough, but any targeted plan must have special weaknesses.

The command headquarters of the Harada Wing Captain deliberately left a reserve team ready to respond at any time, but it has been stirred up by Lin Xiuxuan.

He had long since chosen an assault route that the Japanese staff could not have thought of, and thus led directly to the enemy's soft belly, where the enemy's mountain artillery and engineering units were located, and there were no anti-tank weapons, and once the plan was successful, the enemy would be cut apart, and the plight of the British troops on both the north and south would be solved.

The only problem is the terrain, since it is a direction that even the Japanese do not expect, so naturally there is no ready-made route. However, he has a contour map from the 419 large drone a few days ago, and he can see a flat forest road, which may be a natural channel formed by the flood water at the mouth of the Irrawaddy River 10 years ago. This path would be obscured by the Rapid Bush for a few years, and no one would be able to see it except for Synthetic Aperture Radar.

Lin Xiuxuan's team predicted the terrain and felt that the tank would definitely be able to pass, and if the tracks flattened the vegetation on it, perhaps the truck could follow.

Of course, he couldn't upload the route through the Internet, so he had to take the lead.

After he conveyed the instructions to the platoon commanders behind him, his T26 turned to the nearby woods and rushed down a hill with a large 70° slope. The tanks followed one by one, and no one raised any suspicions. Most of the tankers here have fought with Chu Tingchang, and they know that he behaves strangely, but he is very good at fighting and will not lead everyone to suffer.

Brooke's Dodge Jeep also drove to the side of the road, drew a cross on his chest, and then plunged it down.

The major had thought about it, and he would not be angry with this grandson for the time being, but all his inexplicable commands today must be written down in case he suffered defeat in the future—that is almost certain, and then report to his superiors as they are. He foresaw the worst outcome, not that he lost the battle with the Japanese army, but that he would not be able to meet the Japanese army today. It is likely that these tanks that the Chinese army treated as treasures ended up in the jungle swamp under the leadership of this fool, and then forced to abandon them. When the time comes, I'm afraid that his superiors won't spare him.