As soon as the Japanese planes of the sneak attack left, the Thai ground forces launched an attack, which this time was completely unexpected by the Chinese army. Even if Zhou Youfu predicted the enemy situation according to Chu Tingchang, he also made a deployment. But he did not have many infantry, and it was impossible to mobilize heavy forces for defense. The officers generally believed that the main threat was due east, not southeast, because the southeast was blocked by the Ruili River, and the enemy's heavy weapons could not pass, so there was a certain paralysis. Unexpectedly, the Thai army relied on elephants, disassembled more than a dozen 75-mm mountain guns and a base ammunition, and crossed the river to complete the artillery position and the assembly of about 9,000 troops of a main division. As a sneak attack, the operation from bullying the enemy to crossing the river quickly was perfect, and now only the final blow remained.

When Chu Tingchang formulated the plan, he really did not anticipate the Thai Army, and Zhou Youfu's troops lacked mechanized infantry that could keep up with the advance of tanks, and relied heavily on the reconnaissance of the US army, and now they were about to accept the challenge of new enemies and new tactics that had newly joined the battlefield.

Sneak attacks have always been a basic tactic of the Thai army, and although Lieutenant General Cha Lun was educated at the Royal Artillery College in England, he is still well versed in the traditions of the Thai army. The mission he received today was to avoid the enemy's tanks, to smash the weakest baggage units of the Chinese army, to make the enemy stop in terror and judge the situation, and to buy Kimura two or three days. His troops, guided by the Japanese army, carried tracer bullets, and gave priority to attacking the most valuable fuel for the Chinese army. The Yugoslav authorities predict that the unit will use about 40 GMC 10-wheeled tanker trucks to load fuel, and the fuel collected by the airdrop will also be stored in these vehicles. It is estimated that 10,000 gallons of fuel will be stored in one place, but these vehicles are covered with tarpaulins and look like ordinary trucks from the air.

According to the plan, the assault force was able to identify the tankers within 200 meters of these fuel trucks and strike at half of them. The enemy is incapacitated, this is Kimura's calculation, he did not think about letting the Thai army destroy a large number of 202 divisions, the Japanese army can't do it, let alone the Thai army.

However, the purpose of the Thai army was slightly different from that of the Japanese, their tactical purpose was to give the Chinese a little color, and the strategic purpose was to impress the Japanese, so as to suppress the Japanese army's idea of annexing Thailand.

General Chalun got information that the Chinese army has some light tanks and trucks, although in principle, elephants cannot fight tanks, but Chalun was inspecting the German army in the first half of the year, and he knew that the tank's night vision is not good, and both maneuverability and firepower accuracy will be greatly reduced at night, so that the elephant still has a great chance to avoid the tank, and he needs the elephant's carrying capacity and speed. But elephants have poor night vision, so they need to be harnessed well.

Zhou Youfu's army was subjected to a sudden artillery bombardment, and he knew that the boss had responded again, but he only had one company of 14 tanks in the southeast direction.

The commander of the tank company, who was far to the southeast, also heard the sound of the artillery and climbed out of the turret, and in the moonless night, he could only see a faint light flickering in the distant direction, which indicated that there was an artillery position hidden behind the hill in the distance. He used the intercom to inform the rear of what he saw. The command informed that a company of infantry was approaching and that it was to wait for the company to arrive and form a search formation together to prevent the enemy from bypassing.

The company commander scolded his mother, he knew that the front of the two companies was not enough to search the area that Zhou Youfu needed, and if the enemy was well-trained, he would hear the sound of vehicles first to avoid.

Later, Zhou Youfu added another order, the tank company did not turn on the headlights, did not have to wait for the infantry behind, and immediately led directly to the enemy's artillery position. Another reluctant order, if there is moonlight, it is still feasible not to turn on the lights, and if the lights are not turned on tonight, it can only be guided by the fire of the enemy's artillery positions.

The tank was about to start, and in the shadow of a behemoth, he saw a behemoth approaching him. Two armies that were trying to sneak up on each other inadvertently collided, and there was inevitably some chance in this.

In fact, it is no accident that the Thai army has repeatedly defeated the national army, and they are fully prepared for each attack, for example, before this sneak attack, their make-up reconnaissance was carried out for a long time, and they have some understanding of the deployment of the Zhou Youfu camp cluster (the cluster dragged on, the length of the head and tail was seventeen or eighteen kilometers, and it was cut off by Japanese bombing in the middle). Cha Lun expected that after the artillery attack began, the forces of the enemy's rearguard would be transferred to the front, which would be more suitable for his sneak attack.

All they wanted was to attack the rear baggage and mechanic units, so the operation was very secretive, and if it weren't for the tank troops starting from idling and alarming the elephants passing a few hundred meters away, they probably wouldn't have been able to detect that there were still enemy tanks here.

The tank company commander watched in horror as a huge figure crashed into him in the darkness, accompanied by the roar of a giant beast. These veterans have not seen elephants in Myanmar and India, but usually these animals appear slow and gentle, only responsible for transportation, which gives many Chinese the wrong impression that these elephants can still be used as a combat weapon.

In the confusion, the elephant herd rushed into the tank herd, and the company commander and other commanders were frightened into the turret. Because Zhou Youfu gave the order not to turn on the lights, they kept turning the turret but it was difficult for them to see the target outside with the naked eye. Obviously, it was difficult for the heading machine guns and side-by-side machine guns to hurt the whirling animals in the dark, but no one dared to get out and operate the roof machine guns, because the elephants looked much taller than the tanks.

For a while, there was a lot of gunfire, the tanks were shooting indiscriminately, and the soldiers on the back of the elephants were also shooting, but they couldn't penetrate the tanks at all.

It was an anachronistic encounter, and there was a strong willingness on both sides to disengage. The tank company charged southeast as originally instructed and continued to attack enemy artillery positions. The elephant also realizes that these iron bumps are not something they can challenge.

By the time the Thai infantry arrived, the tank company was gone, and now they were exposed, and they were greeted by half-tracks that had already lined up. The commander of the infantry company had enough time to think about countermeasures, and he decided to ignore Zhou Youfu's inexplicable order and decisively fire flares, in fact, just turning on the front headlights was enough to alarm the elephant herd.

The herd, which was moving rapidly forward, was startled by the sudden fall of a huge light from their heads, and turned and ran. This large animal is actually very difficult to charge, they are not as easy to handle as horses with low intelligence, and they are afraid of death.

The elephant that turned around and scurried happened to crash into the crowd of soldiers, and for a while it trampled on its own, and the formation was chaotic.

Zhou Youfu established a temporary command center in a half-track car, and had been vigilant against the Japanese attack from the front, so he could only mobilize limited forces to guard against the flanks, and he received a report from the forward infantry company: it was not able to meet the tanks, but it had successfully repelled the enemy's attack. At the moment the enemy forces are making a detour from both flanks.

He was a little stunned, he didn't know why the enemy had to make a detour, why did he have to make a detour if a machine company with weak armored firepower could block the attacking troops?

Lao Zhou didn't think that the enemy might attack the fuel tanker at all, and his tanker truck was indeed concentrated as predicted by the Southern Organ, which was indeed easy to manage.

He decided to move the last mobile force at hand, the reconnaissance company, to fend off. This company is equipped with M8 Greyhound wheeled vehicles, which is a new type of equipment provided by the US military when it was set off from India, although anything that can be grabbed from Tao Mingzhang is a happy thing, but Zhou Youfu does not like this kind of weapon, because this kind of thing is neither suitable for offense nor defense, fortunately, the mobility is good and it is not as easy to break down as a tank, so he kept it as a firefighting team and has never been of any use.

Lieutenant General Chalun stood on the top of a hill to observe the battle ahead, and found that the troops in front were rushing, and the enemy's half-track vehicle broke into his position like a heavenly soldier, which was probably the most powerful army weapon he had ever seen, almost a firepower platform with no dead ends, especially the 12.7mm machine gun in the front, which swept everything, far more powerful than the enemy's tanks. In fact, in the standard operation of the half-track vehicle, it is still necessary to put the infantry down the vehicle, but against the Thai army, which has no heavy weapons, it is not necessary, but concentrates firepower; In fact, Commander Chu's army often used half-tracks as standard combat vehicles.

In the experience of fighting the Chinese army in Charan, most of the Chinese army did not even have machine guns, and the elephant sneak attack could almost overwhelm them. But today's sneak attack was clearly sudden, but the enemy's careless response completely suppressed the attack.

But he still hesitated to continue the adventure, and suddenly heard the sound of exchange of fire in the direction of the artillery position, and he turned his binoculars to look there, only to see that a group of light tanks had already rushed into the position, and was rampage in a column of mountain guns arranged in order. The enemy tank that was attacked by the elephant soldiers and fled from the battlefield just now appeared in his rear?

In his experience, the Chinese army had never been so aggressive in combat, and usually if they were overwhelmed, they would be defeated along the way. A few months earlier, he had invaded the Dehong region of China, captured hundreds of prisoners in a single charge, and captured more opium than bullets. It was precisely because of the clumsy performance of the 94th Division of the Nationalist Army that the Luang Pi Boon government had great ambitions, attempting to annex Laos, take advantage of the chaos to bite China, and then perhaps obtain Khmer from the Japanese through negotiations.

Now the Thai army bumped into the Chinese army did not even have a division, and they bit it down sharply, but knocked out their big teeth. Zhou Youfu's 202nd Division is Chu Tingchang's most combative and tenacious division, because of Zhou's style of leading troops, the unit starts from junior officers, the initiative is very strong, there is no habit of waiting for orders, Zhou Youfu generally does not care about front-line officers Yang Fengyin disobeys orders, as long as you can win.

The tank company quickly wiped out the enemy's artillery regiment that had secretly crossed the river. The tank company completed its mission and quickly escaped into the darkness to avoid a close encounter with the counterattacking infantry. Chalun did not sneak into the enemy's rear, but was attacked in his own rear.

At the same time, Zhou Youfu's reconnaissance company blocked the enemy's main regiment attack. His lightly armored units, whether wheeled combat vehicles or half-tracks, with the cooperation of flares, showed a good defense against the enemy's infantry, the enemy lacked anti-war artillery, and without the courage of the Japanese to attack vehicles by suicide, the attack quickly turned into a rout.