At the moment when Tianye was pondering, several artillery battalions on Chu Tingchang's side had been prepared, of which the main force was Tao Mingzhang's 150-mm howitzer battalion.

In fact, Tao Mingzhang hated Chu Tingchang the most for playing this set of irrational strange forces and strange men, just now he saw the communication soldiers running panting, but with a strange smile on his face, he had a hunch that the army commander might be relapsing again, and engaged in some superstitious activities, otherwise the communication soldiers would not be so excited, in fact, the Fifth Army has a considerable psychological dependence on Chu Tingchang for the enemy's first opportunity with the help of fortune-telling.

"Report to the division, the commander has calculated the enemy's tank assembly area. The commander said that this time they would be reimbursed once. ”

The communications soldier stuffed the map into Tao Mingzhang's hand.

Tao Mingzhang glanced at the circle drawn by the red pen and asked his subordinates to deploy. He knew that the enemy was heavily defended, and it was difficult to obtain such accurate information for ground and air reconnaissance. If you get it, you will most likely be deceived by the Japanese.

There is no doubt that every time Chu Tingchang asks and asks God, there is no logic to deduce, and the only rationality lies in the statistical part, because it is almost never empty, which is also the reason why morale has begun to fall recently, and the soldiers feel that the military seat may be losing his special function, because he has rarely done these things recently.

The artillery of the various units was ready to stop, and together they were aiming at the area, ready to launch an artillery bombardment. A total of 24 150-mm howitzers and 60 105-mm howitzers were used, and a number of 75-mm guns were also put into attack. Since the target is far outside the observable area, there is no need to carry out precision correction shooting, and the first time to cover the shooting in that place. Since the gods can point out the place, they will naturally bless the accuracy. Of course, there was actually a U.S. military observation plane that happened to be in the air and would have provided limited observations for the shelling.

The reinforced firepower of the 5th Army is obviously the highest in the ranks of corps-level units in the world, which is about equivalent to the firepower of three divisions of the Japanese army.

The squadron leaders of the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Army were gathering to copy the map, eat by the way, and prepare to go out at any time, when suddenly they heard a sharp whistling sound from far and near. They were accustomed to the sudden firing of artillery from the front, and usually the shells would fly overhead and hit the city, so most of them stood still, just looking up, but they could not see anything in the shade of the trees above their heads.

The whistling became more and more sharp, and there were many Japanese soldiers who were skilled in research and judgment, and immediately found out from the Doppler effect that the signs were wrong, and the shells seemed to be coming towards them, and some people immediately ran to their tanks, and some were more clever and drilled under the chassis of the tanks nearby.

Shells fell densely into an area of about 2 square kilometers. It is a forest of teak and Burmese red pine. The huge explosion destroyed the big trees that several people were hugging together, and the tree fragments flew around the forest under the influence of air waves, which was equivalent to increasing the number of shell fragments tenfold. Exposed to such a devastating explosion, the people who stayed outside the tank were almost dead. Hiding in a turtle's shell is not much better. Fragments flying sideways after an explosion of a shell at close range still have the potential to penetrate weaker armor. The first round of shelling destroyed about a third of the tanks, almost all of the squadron leaders and half of the commanders, and the commander of the Amano Brigade was unfortunately standing near the landing point of a 150-mm shell, and was stopped and blown in two, and several of his deputies were also killed, and the troops completely lost their command.

A few kilometers away in the air, the US military observation plane saw the chaos of the bombing of the dense forest. The observers felt that the Chinese must be crazy and suddenly opened fire on an inexplicable area. But as the first round of shelling came to an end, he could see in the dissipating smoke that something was moving under the trees. The Japanese tanks lost their shields and were as clearly visible as lice on bald heads. Some of them are still moving slowly, trying to escape from here. But the shelling completely destroyed the road, blew up a large number of trees, and blocked the road, and it was not easy for them to run.

The observer immediately called the ground and reported that the results were huge. Before this information arrived, the second round of shelling had already arrived. This time the coverage was even greater, plowed the entire forest hard a second time. In 20 minutes, thousands of shells fell on the heads of the poor 3rd Tank Brigade, and an artillery bombardment of this magnitude in the assembly area must have been the most feared thing for all infantry, armored or not.

Just when the artillery bombardment of Chief Chu Tingchang blew up the forest like a dysentery, Lin Xiuxuan had already quietly commanded the tank to return to the city. Having eliminated the enemy tank forces, the plan went to the third step. Now is the time to completely disrupt the city's deployment. Now there is a tank, an armored train, and a railway that runs east and west through Chiang Mai.

Xu Chong was instructed and immediately began to act. Unfortunately, a group of Japanese soldiers dragged an anti-aircraft gun and suddenly appeared on the platform, as if to build an anti-aircraft position. This delayed Xu rushing to the platform to activate the trigger. According to the plan, they should start the train as quietly as possible, and then start the operation, but at the beginning of the operation, there was an accident, and he didn't know the intention of the devil's 40mm anti-aircraft gun deployed here, if it turned around and fired flat, it could destroy the armored train in an instant.

Xu Chong didn't have time to ask for instructions, so he decided to cut through the mess quickly. He ran into the turret and turned the short-barreled 75mm gun. The devils on the platform heard the squeaky turret turning, and found that the turret was aimed at them. No one knows who in the train pumped the wind and did such a provocative thing.

Xu Chong opened the bolt of the cannon, aimed directly at the barrel of the cannon, and found that a devil lieutenant was rolling up his sleeves and sticking his waist into his waist, scolding. Take it and aim at him. He stuffed a shell and pulled down the firing handle.

The shell penetrated, and the squad leader of the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery position, who was cursing the street, detonated the ammunition stacked next to the 40-mm anti-aircraft gun. The machine gun tower on the train and the firing hole on one side began to shoot together, knocking down more than a dozen Japanese soldiers on the platform who had fallen blood mold together.

Xu Chong got out of the turret at this time, ran over the top of the train quickly, and jumped down to the platform, the Japanese soldiers heard the gunfire in the distance, and the machine guns on the train began to shoot to suppress their approach. Some of the Japanese troops seemed to have received reports of moles operating inside and outside the city, and reacted quite quickly and immediately launched a counterattack, but were quickly suppressed by machine guns.

Xu Chong ran towards the unguarded trigger. Push it hard to get the railroad into the right place, then bend your waist and dodge the sporadic bullets. Someone opened a gap in the side door, and he swooped up.

At the same time, the train has started slowly. Japanese soldiers approaching from one side of the road on a side-by-side motorcycle, trying to get closer to see what was going on. On the sideboard, the Japanese soldiers continued to wave signal flags and demand to stop, apparently these new Japanese did not understand the situation, and they even blocked the shooting range of the rest of the Japanese troops.

Taking advantage of the slow speed of the train, the motorcycle rushed to the front. The soldier in the turret, pointing the barrel at 2 o'clock, waited for the motorcycle to lean itself into the firing line. Seeing that it was almost over, a shell flew over and blew the motorcycle into the sky. This 12x diameter gun can be deployed in a small space and dump ammunition at very high speeds.

As the train picked up speed, the gunners began to fire at any target in the vicinity, and since the train platform was much more stable than the other mobile platforms, the low-speed gun was quite reliable, and it was almost impossible to hit a stationary target within 200 meters of the train. Their primary target was the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery positions, not so much for fear of threatening American planes, but for their flat fire. The armor of this armored train is actually not thick. Anti-aircraft guns above 20 mm can still be pierced. The unsuspecting Japanese artillery positions were knocked out one by one by this artillery.

All the shooting holes around the hull shoot together, shooting at the enemies around it. The enemy's chaotic command created an opportunity for Xu Chong's action, and along the entire railway line, the air defense alarm was raised, and those unknown anti-aircraft guns pointed their barrels into the sky.

Armoured vehicles traveled all the way, firing at exposed targets, including trains that were parked on adjacent lines and were carrying ammunition or wounded. The Japanese piled up the ammunition and fuel that had been unloaded from the train on the side of the railway, which was completely within firing range. Even with less precise aiming, it is easy to detonate them. The trucks that the soldiers were moving quickly were also the best targets. Especially when they are running in parallel with the train, they are a target that does not move. The 75mm gun destroyed a whole group of motorized Japanese trucks in succession.

The entire city of Chiang Mai was in chaos for a while. The huge movement caused by the armored train made all the Japanese troops feel that a very large enemy force had entered behind them. Even if the telephone is still open, the fragmented news of all parties, coupled with all kinds of conjectures and miscalculations, make them farther and farther away from the truth.

Lin Xiuxuan drove the tank to the enemy's most important depot in the city center, and the Japanese army used this ammunition depot to allocate ammunition and fuel to the surrounding Japanese troops. Of course, because of the deep underground and the dense density of anti-aircraft guns around it, the Allied air raids never destroyed it. This is the last important target that needs to be destroyed today. Originally, this task was given to Xu Chong, but when Xu Chong's armored train passed 500 meters away, it fired several shells, all of which failed to penetrate the concrete exterior wall and missed the opportunity. Now let's see if Lin Xiuxuan has a chance to make up for it.

According to drone reconnaissance, there is a feeder railway that can directly enter the warehouse, and apparently the train coming from Ringanqiang, Myanmar, directly enters the warehouse to unload fuel.

The tank drove directly onto the railway, and the big horn rushed to the enemy warehouse.

The garrison Japanese troops, who had just recovered from their panic, reported to their superiors the serious enemy situation - an armored train fired ten shells here, and then went away.

The commander saw a tank approaching from a distance, and he took it for granted that it was reinforcements sent by his superiors. As a rule, the tanks of the 3rd Brigade were responsible for the work of firefighting teams in various situations, so it was normal for the Japanese to have such an illusion.

Lin Xiuxuan's tank drove all the way through the enemy's bunker and directly to the rear of the two 37-mm anti-aircraft guns. Only then did he turn the muzzle of the gun and open fire on the enemy's position, destroying one of the guns on the spot. Seeing the Japanese troops on the second gun position, they desperately tried to turn the muzzle, but it was not easy to turn a battle defense gun weighing more than one and a half tons. Lin Xiuxuan used a course machine gun to eliminate the Japanese troops on the gun position, and then loaded the second shell to easily destroy the battle defense gun.