A squad of 97 tanks quickly passed more than 1 km in front of Grant. During this time, both sides were shooting. Of course, it was impossible to fire accurately during the march, but Chu Tingchang's tank always maintained a loose but consistent formation. 10 Grants were in front, lined up 300 meters wide in front to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the gaps, and 4 Stuartes, who were not well armoured, were behind.

Aizawa watched the enemy from afar with a telescope, expecting them to turn, but no. He noticed that today's calculations were accurate, but this time it didn't work, and the enemy's car was not attracted to it, and it didn't even stop. That would be a difficult step for him. But he still coped with the aftermath. If they stay in formation, then go to their flanks. He used the radio to direct the first group of tanks to pass through the opponent at 12 o'clock and detour to the opponent to attack at 9 o'clock.

Chu Aiyun noticed that the enemy began to outflank and ordered to stop and fire at the enemy tank group with 37-mm guns.

The attempts of the enemy tank groups to outflank were, of course, at a cost, firstly because there was no accuracy between the marches, and secondly, by exposing the flanks, which had a much larger area of shells than the front. Chu Tingchang chose such an open area precisely to give full play to the advantages of armor and multiple turrets. In fact, the enemy more than doubled the number of troops, but the firepower of the two sides was not much different.

The 97 tank quickly rushed past 12 o'clock, encountering non-stop fire along the way. The trajectory of the 37-mm gun was somewhat erratic at long distances, but it could not withstand the fast reloading and high rate of fire. When the car is parked, the extreme speed of 10 to 12 rounds per minute spills out of ammunition, and it is only a matter of time before it is blindfolded.

The Japanese were in a hurry to get around to the flank, moving almost in a circular motion around the Chinese tank formation, which meant that the angular velocity at which they moved through the scope of the rookie gunners at the head of Chu Tingchang was almost constant. Even if they have not systematically learned to measure and calculate the amount of advance, the Chinese soldiers' ability to draw inferences from others and explore themselves is extremely amazing. Soon, a commander shouted on the radio that he was two positions ahead of him, and the muzzle of the gun was raised by 1.5.

It's all rough calls, expressing multiples of the length and height of the enemy's chassis. This was a wake-up call for the gunners who couldn't yet touch the doorway. Sure enough, according to this amount of correction, the trajectory of the shells became more and more reliable. The shells whizzed past the ears of the Japanese commanders on the turret, which of course alerted them. So the tanks of the decoy detachment began to maneuver irregularly, which meant that they could not reach the 9 o'clock position.

All the Grants were as steady as Mount Tai and did not move at all. Keeping the current orientation, the 75mm main gun turret on the right can maintain a good firing range on the right, monitoring the main enemy clusters that may appear at any time behind the smoke and dust around one o'clock. Aizawa still thought that he was in a state of concealment, and Chu Tingchang had already told all the car crews through the radio that they were holding the right flank, where the main force of the enemy was.

By the time all the 37mm guns were fired to the 100th time, the harvest finally came to fruition, and a 97 tank, still stubbornly outflanked, was hit in the side.

There may be a chance that it can hit, but there is no suspense in breaking down. From a distance, smoke was coming out of the hole on the side of the tank, and then the enemy vehicle turned 90 degrees like a sudden brake and stopped in the wilderness. The Chinese tankers began to concentrate their fire on the soft persimmon and vented their anger in their chests. Seeing that it was hit several more times, it was quickly engulfed in flames, and no one escaped.

"Shoot at the target, don't waste the shells to kill the tiger." Chief Chu hurriedly called. He knew that it was not easy to get a car in Mongolia, and he couldn't waste time venting his anger.

Half a minute later, another tank was hit on the rear side chassis, and the wounded tank fled with black smoke in tow.

Chief Chu noticed that his men's marksmanship was improving, albeit with some wild corrections. In this era when there is no laser ranging and * calculation, to predict the crosswind speed and ballistic landing point of the enemy's route, the gunner's hand, eyes, and brain play a decisive role.

The enemy's plan to mobilize Chinese troops failed, and they were unable to lure the Chinese tanks to passively follow, nor were they able to sneak around to the side. Commander Aizawa saw in time that something was wrong, and once Hiratsuka's feint tank got closer, the enemy's hit rate would increase by an order of magnitude, and he ordered several of Hiratsuka's squads not to get any closer. But he still has a wolf pack plan in his belly. It is to rely on patience and numerical superiority to slowly consume the opponent, like the tactics of wolves against cattle. He had already counted the number of enemies, and if he killed a Grant, they would lose a tenth of their firepower.

He reminded several squadron leaders over the radio to be patient, keep their distance, and move slowly. The enemy will definitely leak the flaws.

Chu Tingchang's team advanced step by step, forcing the opponent not to dare to approach. It seems that Grant's armor has left a mystery for the enemy, leaving them never knowing how close they can get to penetrate it.

The Chinese tank rumbled past the burned-out 97 and saw the charred corpse lying on the side of the chassis, and only a mouthful of teeth could be seen. Then cross the second abandoned tank.

The enemy still retains numerical superiority, but the self-confidence of the Chinese army, as well as superstition about the battalion commander, is being restored. And the enemy, on the other hand, was gradually being pushed into the range of the machine gun battery. They themselves don't know yet.

Aizawa seemed to realize that he was leaning against a hillside, but he still felt that Grant was just trying to run away from him, so he didn't care, and since he had entangled the enemy tank, his opponent had not made any directional adjustments, like a herd of cattle, huddled together.

In this paralysis, he came to the conclusion that no matter how indestructible the opponent is, the initiative is still in him, and the so-called initiative means that he can choose how to fight and how to withdraw.

"Brethren, reload*, and fire on the enemy group on the right. Don't park. Chief Chu gave an order.

The Chinese tank on the move, firing a row* at the enemy target area in front of the right, was the first time the 75-mm gun opened fire after the encounter. The shells fell scattered in front of the Japanese tank group, exploded, and quickly formed a smoke that blocked the view, of course, the gunner kept firing*, to expand the smoke area, to keep it longer, his show of weakness has come to the fire, it is time to counterattack.

Commander Takuji Aizawa immediately had a bad premonition: the enemy was going to take advantage of the smoke to escape. Chu Tingchang gave him enough eye medicine, and he still didn't suspect that the enemy was actually bent on running.

Aizawa ordered 2 squads to immediately pass through the smoke to strike at the enemy's flank and report the situation, but he remained vigilant and did not dare to rush through the smoke himself.

Six tanks rushed into the smoke, but the enemy's* kept exploding in front of them, causing the smoke to stretch. The choking smoke drifted into the tank, making the commanders impatient, and they accelerated their charge, ready to send smoke out to hunt, and it was assumed that if the enemy was really fleeing, they should aim their butts at themselves at this moment.

When the first tank came out of the smoke, he saw a Grant 200 meters in front of him. The commander would not have thought that such a thing would happen, and the enemy was not evacuating through the smoke, but was rushing at a very fast speed.

From the scope, you can see that the driver of Grant stepped on the brakes, and the tank came to a steady stop, and the muzzle of the black hole was facing him. The Japanese commander fired first, and of course, in the marching state, it was not easy to hit from a distance of 200 meters. Sure enough, the shells flew off. The opponent's 75 mm * cannon pierced the 97 turret with one cannon.

The second 97 drove smoke, and before it could react, it was also annihilated by continuous fire.

Aizawa stood on the turret anxiously waiting for the front to return, only to hear the continuous sound of explosions, mixed with the sound of enemy * artillery firing, and it seemed that it was not far away. The random sounds disappeared and became suspicious. He started calling the front team, but there was no reply. It seems that the radio station has been used for too long today, and the communication equipment of these Meiji Electric appliances cannot be used continuously, otherwise it will be unreliable.

The smoke in front of me gradually cleared. A large row of shadows, emerging from the smoke. It's just five hundred meters away. He immediately gave the order to reverse and retreat, and at the same time fired at the enemy*, who had lost his mind and rushed over like this, and had to hurry to start fighting again. He realized, maybe not a bad thing, that it was easy to dodge the main gun by maneuvering at close range.

On the hillside, the machine gun unit of the 38th Division watched as the enemy fled to its side, and everything was as arranged in advance.

The first Japanese tank passed 150 meters in front of the 37-mm anti-aircraft gun, presumably carrying out the outflanking plan. The shooter presses the pedal. A short shot pierced the slow 95 tank and smashed the commander standing on the turret with his back to the muzzle. Aizawa hid the weakest 95 behind, so he first passed through the position of the machine gun battery. The blow was so clean that most of the Japanese commanders were in their tanks, unable to detect the sound of the explosions behind the flanks from the noisy battlefield.

The second 95 passed slowly, and the 37-mm anti-aircraft guns were being loaded, so several 20-mm Surothong guns opened fire, using tracer *, not very serious anti-tank ammunition, but incendiary. The dense fire covered the tank, quickly penetrated the thin tank, and then ignited the group, and the Japanese commander who was set on fire crawled out screaming, and was knocked down by a shot from the official infantry in the exercise on the side, and then the soldier regretted it a little, maybe he should let him burn it for a while.

Aizawa Nakasa still had some sense of smell on the battlefield, he sensed that something was wrong, drilled out of the turret, and found several burning crackling tanks a few hundred meters behind him, the hillside was filled with smoke, and the machine guns fired continuously, igniting the weeds on the mountain.

However, it was too late to discover the enemy's situation, and most of his tanks retreated into the enemy's firing range lying in ambush on the hillside, and the overwhelming shells were covering them. Aizawa hurriedly shrank his head and hid in it, escaping for the time being.

The front seven or eight Grant had all rushed out of the smoke, and the faster Stuart was missing. The main force of Takuji Aizawa suddenly fell into a dangerous state of being attacked by the enemy on his back and fighting on his own.

Chu Tingchang rushed to the front line to direct the attack, leaving 2 Grants and 4 Stuarts to spy on the other group of enemies. The remaining 8 vehicles spread out a 500-meter-wide front, so that the enemy did not have the opportunity to make a detour from the side. Of course, another intention was his promise to Sun Liren that he would resist the front and not let the machine gun unit suffer losses.

The Japanese tanks were in a desperate situation, the enemy's fire was not soft at all, there were 12 machine guns of various calibers in the back, 16 tank guns in the front, the terrain was very open, there was no cover at all, and they were exposed to crossfire.

Aizawa gave the order to rush towards the enemy Grant, and now he had to rush to the front and fight.