Xu Chong concentrated all his heavy firepower in the southeast direction where the enemy's counterattack forces were coming. Of course, his subordinates also felt very strange, because of this deployment, they almost abandoned the defense in the rest of the directions. But this is what the drone sees, although he also wants to find a reason that can be explained, but he is in a hurry, so he can only forcibly make a deployment.

For the sake of Chu Tingchang's bridge, the 419 team has sacrificed a lot of principles, such as Ma Lu's 120mm bazooka, of course, this can be explained by the fact that the big man received the new weapons of the Americans. As for the sudden precision fire support, these telescopic sighted Yungui veterans should have seen it clearly just now, and it can only be explained that there are spies with Chief Chu here who detonated the ammunition depot. But there are still many questions about command, how will they be answered in the future? However, the so-called lice do not itch if there are too many lice. Xu Chong thought, maybe he could lie to them and say that before leaving, he asked for three tips from the military seat, and he only knew the enemy's origin after opening them, maybe they would believe this? He suddenly felt that he had opened his mind, and this seemed to be a good solution. can explain a lot of things, there is a Chu Tingchang who anticipates the enemy's first opportunity, and he has indeed solved a lot of troubles.

The Japanese army gathered about 1,000 people to fight back, but it was really crucial to be delayed by Lin Xiuxuan for a few minutes. Xu Chong had already blocked most of his forces on the enemy's approach, and at the same time, the artillery of Chu Tingchang, who was on the way, also entered the firing range.

What was put into the attack this time was Chu Tingchang's newly obtained priest's self-propelled cannon, which he had been holding in his hand and had not yet been willing to use it. It was indeed a bit risky to be at the front of the team with these precious troops, but the drones clearly saw that there had been no large-scale enemy counterattack on the West Bank for a long time. After entering the firing range, 10 105 Priest self-propelled howitzers, lined up, waited for information on the coordinates of the target.

Xu Chong is directing the battle, and he has no time to indicate the target for the artillery, so the drone will do it for him, in Xu Chong's channel, it is certainly not difficult to simulate Xu Chong's voice, and the drone's condescending field of view is far more useful than Xu Chong's observation.

The enemy's coordinates reported by the drone to the artillery are not the enemy who is organizing the attack, the enemy's front-line troops have been deployed to people, and it is not easy to kill or injure, what it indicates is the second echelon of the enemy's depth that Xu Chong cannot see, and about 500 enemies have not had time to deploy, and they are gathering in the woods, and the officers will arrange the attack essentials for a while.

A disgruntled brigade of the 4th Division was gathering in the jungle and listening to Yoshimura explain the principles of the attack.

"As expected, the enemy's fire will be concentrated in the middle, and we will outflank it from both flanks, so we must not charge blindly, but we must use our brains more to find the enemy's weak points. Remember, there is a commanding height to the east, the enemy has not yet occupied, and our machine guns must ......"

As he was getting to the point, he heard the shrill scream of a cannonball, and as a veteran, he could tell from the Doppler effect of the cannonball's whistling sound that it was speeding towards him.

Ten shells fell exactly in the area of the enemy's second echelon assembly, and from the field of view of the drone, it can be clearly seen that the dispersion of the shells is very good, and there is almost no need to correct them, and rapid fire can be carried out.

The artillerymen 10 kilometers away had already rolled up their sleeves and fired efficiently, and when the Yoshimura brigade was hit by the first round of shells, another 30 shells were already in the air, and they would cover them in three batches in ten seconds.

The first wave of the enemy's counteroffensive was in full swing, and the Japanese troops who launched the Banzai charge did not know that there was no second echelon behind them. The offensive was immediately blocked by dense fire, and the Chinese troops did not appear to have an unstable foothold as expected by their superiors.

One of the commanders hid behind bunker and fired a flare into the air. He was secretly glad that he had attracted enemy fire. However, the agreed counterattack of the Osaka Division was delayed. You can see that the area where the Yoshimura Brigade of the Osaka Division is assembled, bursting with firelight, and it is obvious that it is experiencing a fierce artillery bombardment, and the commander can't help but sigh that today's enemy is really like a heavenly soldier and a general, and all the firepower is like having eyes.

The drone looked at the enemy's second echelon, which was destroyed and disintegrated by artillery fire, and then issued an order to the artillery to correct the firepower, and the artillerymen met for the first time, and the command to extend the fire to their own side, guessing that the situation in front might not be good, so they had to fire at themselves, in fact, of course, to solve the enemy in front of Xu Chong's position.

Xu Chong could see through the firelight that the enemy's counterattack was broken up in an instant, and he began to retreat. He estimated that the enemy did not have the ability and courage to organize a second attack, and sure enough, the reconnaissance of the drones confirmed the opinion, and the enemy withdrew to the east with the remnants of the defeated army.

Zhao Xiaoli quickly marched towards the bridge with two motorized battalions, saw the fire from a distance, watched the battle in full swing, and was also anxious, he knew what it meant to lose this bridge. But when he arrived at the bridgehead, the battle ended magically, and Xu Chong's battalion not only captured the bridge, but also defended it? Suddenly, the anxiety in Zhao Xiaoli's heart turned into a different taste, this Captain Xu who came out of nowhere has been really smooth sailing recently, this momentum is really worrying. The newly formed divisions of Commander Chu Ting, everyone can see that there will obviously be a number of middle-level officers who will be promoted to the post of deputy division or even the full division level without exception. Zhao Xiaoli, of course, doesn't want to have a few more strong competitors.

The follow-up troops continued to cross the bridge, quickly expanding the defensive area and establishing a solid defense.

Immediately after that, the machine gun battalion directly under the Fifth Army arrived, which was equipped with a large number of small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns. Commander Chu adjusted the marching sequence and moved them to the front in order to prevent the indiscriminate bombing of Japanese planes that would inevitably arrive after daylight.

Antiaircraft artillery units were immediately deployed on both sides of the bridge, establishing several positions, and at the same time occupying some commanding heights in the forward area as early warning and observation posts.

Chu Tingchang expected that after sunrise, the Japanese army would send a large number of bombers to attack the bridge, and perhaps suicide planes, so it was necessary to plan ahead, but Colonel Edward told him that the bridge could withstand a direct hit of 250 kg*, and even if it hit the pier or deck directly, it could be repaired quickly. With air strikes, it is difficult to completely destroy the bridge. Of course, in the final analysis, he still personally made detailed arrangements, including the location of the anti-aircraft artillery position, which should not be too close to the approach bridge, and should keep some distance from the bridge. This was the suggestion put forward by Shu Ping, who analyzed the characteristics of air defense operations and believed that an anti-aircraft gun with an elevation angle of 85 degrees, if it was too close to the target to protect the target, would lose its firing range when the enemy's dive bomber slipped to the bridge. In addition, Shu Ping guessed that the first wave of the enemy's air attack in the early morning would definitely use the dazzling sunrise as a cover, so this would make the defenders suffer a great loss, and it was necessary to deploy air defense posts in deeper areas on the west bank to provide troops with early warning of at least one minute in advance.

The headquarters of the Southern Army in Dalat, Vietnam, Terauchi Shouichi, who had been waiting for news, suddenly couldn't get through to Kokura's phone, and his heart was full of thoughts. In the second half of the night, the temple waited for a lot of bad news, and the rearguard unit of the 4th Division reported that the enemy had launched an attack on the bridge with about 10,000 men and had succeeded in capturing it. The whole attack lasted for 40 minutes, during which the two sides fought fiercely near the bridgehead, but no one detonated the bridge.

The general of the temple couldn't help but be furious, he made such a detailed deployment, almost every detail was thought of, and every two hours, he went to a phone call to remind Ogura to pay attention to the essentials, and he was even succeeded by the enemy.

In fact, several key bridges on this railway all fell into the hands of Chu Tingchang, is this person a traverser or an immortal?

He walked to the map, at present, his headquarters and Chu Tingchang's forward troops are still separated by most of Thailand, but in this huge depth of 650 kilometers, only a few brigades and unbeaten Thai troops are defending, and this area is a rare relatively flat place in Southeast Asia.

"What should I do?"

He was faced with a difficult choice, and if he blew up the bridge, the enemy's entire railroad would not work. If the enemy builds a pontoon bridge or swims across the river, it will not be difficult to deal with it because of the lack of supplies, at least within 4 months (the Japanese army bridge-building time is 8 months), but now Chu Tingchang has relied on some kind of tricks to get another city.

"Yes, it had to be blown up with a plane." His mind turned, "In addition, the Japanese time-travelers should also have a way, right?" ”

He knew that Makino would soon go to the Dalat headquarters to save Sakagaki's troops, and that he would bring a few new weapons, and he wondered if there was anything that could destroy the bridge.

The 5th Flying Division, which had retreated to Bangkok, had been ordered to launch an attack urgently, and their newly replenished bombers were to launch an attack in the early hours of the morning.

At 5 a.m., Japanese light bombers from Bangkok and surrounding airfields took off in droves, heading for the bridge. However, the drone has already listened to the enemy's plan of action, so there is plenty of time to prepare.

The enemy was still halfway through, and the soldiers on the bridge on the River Kwai began to release smoke and use it to conceal the bridge.

At sunrise, the group of planes arriving from the east was first seen by sentries 2 kilometers away from the bridge, and a warning was issued by radio. Anti-aircraft artillery units, aiming their guns in the general direction, were not affected by too much smoke due to the large deployment of the bridge and the distance of the bridge.

As soon as the Japanese found themselves in the fire, they quickly pulled it up, and then found that the bridge was full of smoke, and they could still see the bridge from some angles, but it was hidden from time to time, and it was not very clear.

The group of dive bombers that had been disrupted and disbanded in a state of separate battles, and in the process of the planes climbing high, the anti-aircraft artillery positions on the west bank, finally with their backs to the sun, could be aimed at these bombers.

Type 99 dive bombers became the first attack wave, and under the chaotic formation, these dive bombers launched attacks step by step. At the same time, the twin-engine Type 99 light explosive aircraft are still on the way, and they will look for targets from the Shuo River in the lower reaches of the River Kwai.