972 Flat Push

Huang Tianyang's troops began to cross the river from several pontoon bridges and formed a bridgehead, which seemed to be in order, completely within Shibata's calculations.

As Shibata expected, the heavy artillery on the other side of the river began to shoot extended, and the division commander was not prepared to fight with the enemy for the riverbank area, the enemy had heavy artillery, he didn't, but he was confident that he had a brain, Huang Tianyang didn't. He thanked God for giving him such a stage, facing a brave and unscrupulous opponent in the secondary corner of the battle, and perhaps the turning point of the whole battle was here. Although Huang Tianyang is not the main force of the enemy, there is a road leading to Phnom Penh behind him.

Itagaki didn't give Shibata much support, only replenishing it with two base ammunition and 160,000 liters of fuel, as well as 72 Dragon anti-tanks* (3 to 1 according to the number of Sherman tanks of the opponent), and that's it. Trucks and fuel were apparently only enough to pull the baggage, and there was no wealthy part to support any large-scale mobile operations.

According to the plan, Shibata had to wait for about half of the enemy's forces to cross the river, and when the advance was frustrated in front of his position, launch a fierce attack, and if all went well, his troops could drive the remnants of the enemy down the river to drown, of course, he did not know that Huang Tianyang's main force had already crossed the river 70 kilometers downstream.

Huang Tianyang never worried that his movements would be detected by enemy aircraft, although Japanese planes taking off from the Philippines and Brunei frequently appeared in his head after sunrise. On his tanks and half-tracks, there is a "Blinding Mystery Spell" pasted on them, so he does not think that enemy planes passing over his head may see him.

He was also not too worried that enemy fire from across the river might damage the floating tent. Because his chariot is still labeled with the "Great Virtue True Monarch Water Avoidance Mantra". These charms were invited by him from Pavilion Chief Chu before the attack was launched, so they must have been useful. As a young man with a high degree and advocating science, Huang Tianyang also had resistance and resistance to traditional culture, but the resistance time was much shorter than Tao Mingzhang, only a little longer than Zhou Youfu.

When the tanks crossed the river to the middle, a Japanese group of planes flew overhead. Huang Tianyang stood on the first tank and looked up at the enemy proudly. Sure enough, the enemy flew past in a neat line, and did not lower the height to take a look.

Chu Tingchang approved the plan for this military adventure, of course, not because the charms were useful, but because Ma Qiang rushed to the area with a reconnaissance force and established contact with the Viet Minh, thus establishing the feasibility of the plan from the intelligence point of view. These charms are just for the sake of peace of mind for the troops. Of course, accidents always happen, and when the troops crossed the river, the Japanese planes flew high in the air, and the Japanese could not see him at all, as Huang Tianyang thought. However, the light bombers that rushed to bomb Zhou Youfu belonged to the Japanese Navy, and they only routinely reported the incident on the radio, and the naval liaison office of the Itagaki Command in Saigon did not receive a voice call. And the Shibata Command, which was close at hand, did not agree on a means of communication with the Navy and did not hear it.

Although we have entered the radio age and have the prototype of joint operations of various arms, there is no efficient system for collecting and distributing information, and valuable information is only delayed in vain. Chu Tingchang has been committed to establishing the intelligence center of the allied forces, trying to speed up the process of intelligence aggregation and analysis, but the only intelligence trust that really works efficiently on the entire battlefield is Qin Xiaosu.

Qin Xiaosu, who was far away in Cambodia, was worried even if he heard the enemy's call (key vocabulary trigger mechanism), but he did not find any further inquiries and judged that the enemy would not react further. The bombers will continue to penetrate deep into Vietnam and reach the border with Laos, where they will return to Brunei across the sea, at which point the daylily will be cold if they report to the ground command.

Ma Qiang's hound reconnaissance vehicle rushed to the war zone overnight and conducted early reconnaissance. Make sure that Huang Tianyang's plan is feasible. Lin Xiuxuan arrived a little later, and he and Xu Chong used small drones to reconnoiter the enemy's main defensive position. They saw the enemy's hideous three-wheeled vehicle, a triplicate, hidden behind them. Lin Xiuxuan felt like he was seeing some kind of hybrid of a farm vehicle and a disabled vehicle, probably the most speculative and comical part of Japan's war machine.

These strange vehicles are the magic weapon that Shibata is waiting to annihilate the Huang Tianyang tank force, and it will turn the 140-kilogram "Dragon" anti-tank* improved from the anti-ship projectile into a mobile weapon, which is simply a magic weapon. These vehicles, which were originally agricultural vehicles of the Manchurian colonization group, were sent to Vietnam after a long sea voyage, and were tasked with fighting tanks 90 times heavier than themselves. For a poor country with an annual output of 4.5 million tons of steel, any piece of scrap iron has its unique value.

Lin Xiuxuan judged from the video, what kind of guided weapon should this be, recently Japan's guided weapons seem to have signs of a blowout, and the guidance methods have also begun to diversify, the trend of the navy is semi-active radar, and the army is controlled by wire guidance. Judging by the enemy's build-up, it is clear that such a thing is being used intensively, and the excess * is placed on Isuzu trucks, some of which are equipped with improvised gantry, presumably for lifting.

Lin Xiuxuan judged that the Japanese had not yet figured out the tactics of anti-tank *, and they seemed to be preparing to use these things to launch a frontal attack with the tank, which of course would not work.

When Huang Tianyang's troops began to attack head-on, these * platforms did not come forward, obviously quite picky about the target, they were only waiting for Sherman to appear, of course, Sherman would not appear in the direction of the feint.

In the morning, Shibata received sporadic news that the enemy had been spotted on his flank, and that the enemy had tanks.

His forces are limited, the front is not enough, and the hidden danger has always existed, but he is not too worried that the enemy will sneak across the river from the flank, and in his opinion, even if he crosses the river, the force will not be large, it is just a harassment. In Shibata's experience, the mountain was an unreliable barrier that could be crossed, while the river was reliable, and it would have taken four to five days to build a pontoon bridge that could pass through vehicles and tanks, according to the highest efficiency of the Japanese sappers, and it was impossible to go undetected.

He was a little suspicious, so he sent a reconnaissance unit to search eastward, but did not send valuable anti-tank* vehicles. According to his calculations, in addition to destroying enemy tanks, another purpose of these heavy * is to destroy enemy pontoon bridges, but unfortunately* and chassis can only be configured 2 to 1, almost every platform plays an important role in his plan, so it must not be dispersed.

Huang Tianyang's main force consisting of the Sherman tank battalion and the mechanized infantry group encountered Shibata's search wing at noon. Two Japanese armored vehicles equipped with machine guns were destroyed as soon as they appeared, and most of the trucks were killed before they could turn around, and only a few sidecar motorcycles escaped. Shibata thus suited the enemy situation, and the enemy on the flank not only had tanks, but there were quite a few, but there were no infantry in sight.

Shibata suddenly felt a mess in his head, and then he became angry. The enemy was obviously somewhere outside the battlefield, secretly modified the physical rules, maybe it was Chu Tingchang's demon law, maybe it was something else, in short, 30 tons of iron lumps, quietly crossed the river. If Chu Tingchang can buy the immortals and cheat at will, then ...... Still a fart?

Of course, the anger was fleeting, and even if the enemy used undecent means, in any case, he still had Japanese technology to resist, and he decided to send the anti-tank brigade to the front. As a result, the anti-tank unit, consisting of agricultural vehicles and straddle motorcycles (equipped with recoilless guns), dragged black smoke and headed eastward. These vehicles all had the problem of excessive chassis and excessive load, which was very unsuitable for maneuvering in undulating areas, and soon the formation was pulled apart, and some vehicles broke down and fell behind. However, the commander still maintained a high speed of advancement, and with his one-sided understanding of this new weapon, he should be able to push the enemy tank flat.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the blocking force finally collided head-on with Huang Tianyang's tank pioneers, which was a relatively favorable encounter for the Japanese side, and the Japanese side was well aware of their opponents, while Huang Tianyang's tank group did not know what was going to happen.

The two sides saw each other at the same time at a distance of one kilometer, when Huang Tianyang's tank group was driving out of the jungle and the Japanese tricycle unit crossed a hillside. The Japanese occupied a higher position, but did not have time to prepare for the launch (warmed up the pilot gyroscope device), so they retreated. The Huang Tianyang tank did not realize the threat, and moved forward without fear, two platoons of 8 tanks, in a line formation, one member left the turret, operated the 12.7mm machine gun, and the remaining 3 machine guns on the car were also ready.

The Japanese troops completed their preparations and came out of the ridge again, and they were ready to take advantage of the large firing range of high and low fire, and try to hide the hull as much as possible, only exposing the launcher, but the opposite tank has already rushed to a distance of 700 meters, and as soon as they see the target, the machine gun on the tank has begun to shoot from the head and brain. The purpose of the tanker is very simple, that is, to fight the opponent who cannot raise his head.

The launcher, completely unprotected by armor, immediately found itself at the wrong engagement distance, and the enemy shooter fired a short point corrected by tracer shells, and it was not difficult to hit the front of the hull, and soon several vehicles were destroyed, and one * was detonated on the launcher. The explosion startled the tankers 600 meters away, but the tanks continued to move on.

Finally there was a shooter, who braved a hail of bullets to launch the *, but this * flew at a measly 110 m/s.

In order to increase the power and compress the design time, the designers simply increased the body and wings, so that the speed of this * was further reduced. From a distance, the "dragon" style* is like a crumbling gas tank floating in the air.

During the flight, which lasts for several seconds, the shooter must remain upright, completely undisturbed by the outside world, and concentrate on correcting*. In a network of fire consisting of 8 tanks, up to 32 machine guns, to accomplish such a long standing is almost suicidal.

None of the shooters made it to the hit, most of them were killed, others were destroyed, and only a few of the shots were fired*, all of which lost control, either landing or flying around.