Zhou Youfu's command headquarters did not have too many panicked recruits. In a hurry, it also dealt a certain blow to the enemy, destroying several tanks with trucks and *.

When Lin Xiuxuan arrived at the merger, he saw the smashed crates all over the ground, and the white flowers sat on the ocean (the colonial silver dollar of the French hairstyle, named because the front is the seated statue of Lady Liberty), and it was all over the ground. The machine that was blown up not far away appeared to be a money printing machine. The tusks were crushed into the track imprints.

Lin Xiuxuan had heard Chu Tingchang comment that Zhou Youfu was as sick as the wind and swept like fire, of course, it was not just about evaluating tactics, this person was too gangster, and sooner or later he would be in trouble, but now is not the time to pursue it.

Most of the people he was looking for were very detailed about the enemies who assaulted you, and they really didn't panic too much.

Lin Xiuxuan synthesized everyone's statements and judged the size of the diary, about a battalion. Of course, having destroyed a large number of trucks, the enemy decisively broke away from the battle and did not chase the command to fight. There was even a platoon commander surnamed Zhang in the command headquarters, who drove two jeeps with a few people to chase the enemy tanks without receiving an order, and his courage was admirable. The jeep carried the radio, and the last message it sent back was that a Japanese tank that had broken down and fallen behind was destroyed, and then there was no news.

Lin Xiuxuan chased towards the col where the enemy had fled, and at the same time chased the platoon commander, there were tracks on the ground, it was difficult to disappear out of thin air, but after nightfall, it would be difficult to track.

He doesn't expect to take a detour too far. But at this time, Zhou Youfu's troops were in a short period of chaos, and many troops were blocked on the road, and they could not dispatch infantry to intercept them for the time being. According to the signs, Lin Xiuxuan judged that the enemy might sacrifice the airborne troops again, and once the airborne troops successfully landed near the tank, the enemy's tank group would be upgraded to a battle role.

Now, Zhou Youfu gave too many orders to command and increase the chaos of the troops. As a countermeasure, Lin hoped that Chief Chu Tingchang would be ready to dispatch Hongxiang's troops as a means of rapid arrival.

Chief Chu immediately agreed to this suggestion. Of course, although the Hongxiang troops, although they are his mobile trump card, it is not said that they will be put into action, because at this time, they lack aircraft, plans, and anti-tank weapons, and they have to quickly find a way.

While asking Stilwell for help, Chu Tingchang began to intercept the US military transport plane at the northern Thai airport, and only needed to fly in and not return. At the same time, of course, anti-tank bazookas began to be collected, delivered near the airfield for simple packaging, ready for airdrop. At the level of World War II, the Airborne Forces are still an ultra-complex means of warfare, and even with a lot of meticulous preparations, they can still be thrown into a mess in wartime. But Chu Tingchang and Lin Xiuxuan didn't have much time, maybe only a few hours. Lin Xiuxuan was responsible for target designation, but it was still impossible to determine the enemy's specific airborne area. Chu Tingchang had to make all preparations for a hasty sortie, including the mobilization of two B24 bombers equipped with new radar sights through Stilwell.

This equipment is already in use, the bombing effect is mediocre, during the day pilots are more willing to use the full-fledged Norton system, and at night, radar targeting is only just used, which can roughly confirm the location of the target, there is no large group of classes, and it hardly works. Of course, Chu Tingchang did not want to bomb the Japanese tanks, he foresaw that the main difficulty of the night airborne is to find an effective airborne site, especially in the Vietnam-Cambodia border area, rivers, mountains, forests, every airborne taboo is not lacking, he needs bombers equipped with radar to pilot, and remind the airdrop opportunity. Although the primitive radar sights are not accurate enough for throwing * and throwing the Airborne Forces, the accuracy is almost enough.

The United States had just been dropped a nuclear bomb by Japan, and there was no place to spill its anger, so Chu Tingchang's request was naturally met with all his might. But Chief Chu's whimsical idea once again surprised Stilwell. How did this person's brain grow up to think of using bomber radar sights in night airborne operations?

Along the way of Lin Xiuxuan's pursuit, he found two destroyed enemy tanks, probably after breaking down, the Japanese soldiers came out to repair it, and the jeep that was suddenly killed, a machine gun * was cleaned up, in short, the platoon commander was really brave enough.

Then he received a radio call from the platoon commander, who was constantly reporting the enemy's position, but unfortunately, the radio power was too small, and it was always in a low-lying area, and it was not heard in the rear. However, Lin Xiuxuan relied on future equipment with higher sensitivity to receive his signal, but unfortunately the equipment of the platoon commander surnamed Zhang could not receive Lin's response, but he kept not listening to the call. In this way, Lin Xiuxuan's three 8-wheeled reconnaissance vehicles no longer have to track down the enemy's track marks on the ground when they are getting darker and darker. You can also find some shortcuts on the map.

However, when his reconnaissance vehicle was in hot pursuit, he spotted planes flying in the sky from time to time, and listening to the sound of engines, it was a Japanese bomber, which seemed to have been hovering at a low altitude in this area, but never dropped bombs. This is also strange enough, the Japanese planes appeared here at night, without the ability of accurate bombing and reconnaissance, as if to cooperate with the infiltration behind enemy lines, but Lin could not understand the specific role for a while.

At seven o'clock in the evening, he finally got close enough to talk to Platoon Commander Zhang, informing the other party that he was a reconnaissance unit of the 200th Division, taking over the task of annihilating the enemy's tanks, and asked the platoon commander to temporarily monitor the enemy, and the other party was quite excited.

At this time, he roughly determined that the enemy's tank was going to the bridge across the river from Pingfu to Laos, which was an important retreat route (not the only one) for Zhou Youfu, and it was crucial to whether his 211th Division could retreat in time. If the enemy destroys this bridge, Zhou Youfu will not have time to retreat to the rear with at least 20,000 men.

Atami's tanks knocked down various telephone poles along the way, trying to disrupt the opponent's communications, although it was blind, but it worked, and some rear units never received information of enemy infiltration in front. Although Zhou Youfu's temporary command headquarters was able to escape, the gas radio could only contact the battalion-level units, and the troops guarding the bridge happened to be a company.

The commander of the bridge company also felt strange, according to the original plan, the baggage and hospital units of the 211th Division should have come over a long time ago, but they never saw it, and the phone call was interrupted for no reason. Of course, he didn't know that the enemy's trouble, the retreat sequence of the troops was disrupted, and they were blocked together, and they could not retreat according to the original precise plan. Coming to him was a detachment of Japanese.

Atami's tanks rushed down the mountain road, and they were ready for the Chinese troops to return fire fiercely, but the anti-aircraft machine guns at the bridgehead did not go off. There are constant lights prompting them to slow down.

The Japanese army did not answer, but only accelerated and rushed to the bridgehead in one go. Captain Atami was most worried that the first tank would be damaged and become a roadblock to hinder the follow-up troops. That didn't happen, and his first team turned on the headlights and slammed onto the bridge, destroying the improvised fortifications built by sandbags at the head of the bridge. The second tank stopped two meters away from the side of the pillbox at the bridgehead and fired a shell directly into the firing hole of the pillbox, which eliminated the company headquarters. A machine gun on the other side of the bridge began firing at this point, but was quickly eliminated by a tank gun. A few kilometers away, Lin Xiuxuan heard the rapid sound of gunfire, but then the gunfire disappeared, and he knew that the bridge had changed hands. However, at present, it seems that the enemy is only coming with tanks, and there are no sappers, and it is estimated that the enemy can only hold on to the west bank of the bridge for the time being, and will have to wait for the airborne troops to bring * before he can move. Of course, he is not very confident in this judgment.

He was a kilometer away from the bridge and met with Platoon Commander Zhang, who had just made contact. Platoon Commander Zhang was quite depressed when he saw the three wheeled combat vehicles. After nightfall, the enemy tanks turned on their lights, which allowed him to carefully count the enemy on the winding mountain road, a total of 29 tanks. Of course, this scale is not something that three hunting dogs can handle. However, he had met Lin Xiuxuan a few times in the command headquarters, and knew that this major was a person directly sent by Chief Chu Ting, and he could indeed move troops beyond the ranks.

Lin Xiuxuan immediately gave new instructions to Platoon Commander Zhang, telling him to return the same way and collect tree branches in the hilly forest area 8 kilometers northeast (this is the effective area of Platoon Commander Zhang's radio station) and prepare to light a fire. He predicted that the enemy's airborne troops would inevitably need ground instructions to navigate, and if the enemy came from the direction of Hainan Island, there was a high probability that they would come from the northeast, so that they could confuse the other side. If the Airborne Forces throw the wrong 8-10 km, it will basically not work.

At the same time, they had to monitor the enemy on both sides of the strait, ready to prevent the enemy from destroying the bridge.

He and Ma Qiang's car decided to cross the river downstream, using portable airbag equipment. His reconnaissance unit had recently operated alone in a multi-river area, carrying some homemade improvised equipment. There are only 7 tons in the M8 combat vehicle, and its own reserve buoyancy is not small, as long as the body is repaired again, the leakage gap is eliminated, and then four inflatable buoyancy bags are installed on both sides of the body to supplement the buoyancy, and there is no need for a bulky floating curtain to float, of course, there is no propulsion device, and it can only be rotated by wheels to obtain some propulsion power, and the speed is about 5 kilometers per hour.

It took only 20 minutes to prepare, and the wheeled chariot sneaked over the river downstream, just 300 meters from the bridge. The Japanese did not have night vision equipment, and the sound of the water was enough to cover the sound of gasoline engines, so it was not worth going too far, but it was convenient to observe the enemy situation on the bridge when it was close.

You can see that the bridge is brightly lit, and the enemy tank crews are running around on the bridge, as if they are going to blow up the bridge, which is what Lin Xiuxuan is most worried about. If the enemy carries several tens of kilograms * per vehicle, almost thirty vehicles, it can be put together, and there are quite a few of them. In particular, the Japanese occupied these areas, so they must have studied the bridge, and with a little guidance, the armored soldiers could blow up the bridge as well.

Atami was commanding the second floor of the destroyed bunker northwest of the bridge. Each of his tanks carried a limited number of * and *, and together there were 0.7 tons, according to the study of French drawings by engineering experts before departure, this * was enough to blow up the bridge deck twice, and the Japanese did not want to blow up the bridge piers, paralyzed for half a year, and were only ready to blow up about ten meters of the bridge deck to facilitate repairs and then use.

Seeing that the installation was almost complete, Atami was in ecstasy, and he got a little carried away and called directly on the radio to ask for the second phase of the plan to be launched.

The call was received directly by the Japanese bombers circling nearby, and then the bombers quickly conveyed the same code. Qin Xiaosu immediately sensed the enemy's communication operations, this was the first time he had discovered the enemy's relay behavior, and he had always guessed that the enemy's coordination in the mountainous area was a problem, and it was impossible for them not to contact the rear completely.

Stewart's tanks were only equipped with cheap low-power radios, there was no telegraph, and the voice communication distance was within the field of vision, obviously unable to send back messages to the enemy at a distance of 30 kilometers, and the mountainous terrain was another problem.

But the enemy turned out to be enlightened, and he didn't know whether the new technology brought by Makino had transformed the Japanese army to the tactical level.