Zhou Youfu's 203 mm siege cannon finally pulled down the city and immediately launched an attack. Now he has 7 divisions and a super powerful synthetic brigade, and he is absolutely confident that he can eat 2 broken divisions and 2 dissatisfied security brigades under the mountain, but the key issue is time, he knows that the army commander is waiting for his victory to show his face and courage.

He looked far away at the city, which was full of artillery fire, and could see that the palace was covered with white flags to show the neutrality of the royal family. King Nororoton had tried to escape from the city, but King Yamashita Bongwenjue, perhaps to get the Chinese army to throw a, did not allow them to leave. They could only hang about 20 huge white sheets on the roof of the palace.

Zhou Youfu also signaled the artillery not to shoot at the palace to avoid damaging this ancient structure. Of course, he knew that the enemy command would hide there, but this palace was an important bargaining chip for him.

Since Huang Tianyang's "Chu Jiajun" argument appeared in the newspapers, Zhou Youfu had a sense of urgency, and he has always regarded Tao Mingzhang as the main competition, but it must be admitted that Tao is more upright and not very good at greeting; But the sudden appearance of Huang Tianyang, a little sycophant, made him feel pressure. So he has been looking for palaces in Southeast Asia for Chu Tingchang, in case Chu Tingchang plans to be emperor one day, so that he can come up with a ready-made coronation plan. In his opinion, Commander Chu went to Egypt to meet the British and American bigwigs, which was to pave the way for hegemony in Southeast Asia, and he was secretly glad that he saw this layer clearly in advance.

The artillery continued to hit the city, and this was the third time that Phnom Penh had been shelled, but the first two times combined were not as powerful as this one. The Japanese army's civil fortifications could not withstand the attack of 105 heavy guns at all, not to mention the 155 * guns and several 203 giant guns.

Yamashita stayed in the mountains and was deliberately besieged, and it was an attack on Bangkok for Itagaki to attract enemy troops, but it turned out to be a fire.

On the surface, Chu Tingchang violated all military principles, including the principle of concentrating forces, and he engaged in-for-tat confrontations in various battlefields and adopted tactics of adding fuel. Of course, behind the scenes, he actually made full use of his advantages, mobility and information.

He continued to concentrate superior forces against the enemy in various battlefields, and now he has won in three of them. The Yamashita Hobun group, the most powerful of them all, and the least mobile one (there were sea and railways in the rest of the directions), was left to last. This time, he not only injured his ten fingers, but also cut off seven or eight of them.

The Japanese army, frightened by the rapid firepower, ushered in the attack of the medium tank. Attack formation, with your back to the sunrise, to maximize the tank's observation.

All tanks had extra track shoes, which were covered directly in front of them as additional armor. The tank is in a very dense wedge formation to ensure that the visibility and firepower complement each other. Of course, this formation was easily attacked by enemy artillery, but the mountain escaped from the deep mountains and had already lost most of its clumsy artillery. The Japanese army lacked cars, gasoline, horses and other means of dragging. Eventually, most of the heavy artillery was abandoned in the mountains.

Light tanks follow closely behind medium tanks, ready to charge. This is He Bisheng's special tactic, he just wants to use a sudden rhythm to make the enemy unable to adapt.

The defensive firepower of the Japanese army was sparse, and it was all light mountain artillery and mortars. Its fragments are not powerful enough to threaten a tank. The anti-defensive guns lying in ambush behind the positions awaited the last chance, and for the gunners of the 11th Wing, they had to put the enemy tanks at close range to fire, and there were only one or two chances to open fire. According to Australian experience, the insurance distance to penetrate Sherman is about 500 meters.

He Bisheng observed that when entering the enemy's machine gun firing distance, those hidden anti-defense guns with a very low firing line and a very good ability to hide would appear later.

The Japanese gunners aimed at a round rumbling protrusion under the front of the Sherman tank, which was less inclined and thinner, and once penetrated, the gearbox was behind it, and the tank would immediately stop. This was the experience that the 5th Division had learned in Australia against the similar-looking Sherman tanks.

But this time the situation was different, and the new model Sherman tank of He Bisheng strengthened this part of the armor and also reduced the area of the vertical part, which made aiming extremely difficult. Of course, experienced tankers will also use slightly undulating terrain to cover this weaker crotch.

The Japanese 47-mm anti-aircraft guns began to fire, which was far behind the mainstream caliber of anti-tank weapons, and in fact the muzzle velocity was not very good, and it was only mediocre in the same caliber artillery. And the Sherman tank it faced, the frontal armor was also increased from 50 mm to 63 mm.

Almost all of the shells that hit the frontal inclined armor plate were bounced off, but the enemy artillery was very good at concealment, and the muzzle smoke was not too large to find.

So why bother to call the artillery, plough again the bushes and artemisia grass areas where the front line may hide enemy fire. The tanks continued to advance under the cover of artillery fire. Each gun of the Japanese army was allocated only two or three rounds of tungsten core*, and after the loss of Burma, they lost the main source of this strategic material. Most of the gun emplacements could not wait for these two shells to be used, and they were destroyed by artillery fire. Even with the firing of these precious shells, at a distance of 500 meters, it was impossible to penetrate the front of the Sherman tank. The Japanese found themselves facing a more sturdy American tank, which could no longer penetrate from a position and distance that they were sure to penetrate.

Zhou Youfu anxiously observed the battle situation, it seemed that the enemy's first line of defense was about to break through, and then it was up to the light tanks. The outer position under the mountain is still very large, so the next part has to be cut. Through several such divisions and encirclements, the enemy's forces in the corners were finally resolved, and then the final blow.

Ho Chi Minh sent an inopportune telegram asking Brother Zhou (the Vietnamese like to call him brother) to pull him quickly. Zhou Youfu didn't care if he lived or died, and let him retreat to the border on his own, expecting that the enemy would not pursue.

But soon, Hu's second telegram arrived, saying that the Japanese army he had encountered was catching up like a madman and could not be shaken off at all.

Zhou Youfu knew that the Japanese troops who landed from Saigon were only a few thousand, and the American submarine saw a total of four troop carriers. But it seems that the combat effectiveness is not weak, and it is not an exaggeration to call Ho Chi Minh a madman.

After occupying Saigon, the Japanese army had already killed the U.S. military team that had been secretly sent ashore to contact Ngo Dinh Diem, and had hung the body upside down from a street lamp. In the city of Saigon, they killed more than 1,000 soldiers who had surrendered, including Vietminh guerrillas, French and Ngo Dinh Diem puppet troops, and American agents. The Left Battalion Navy did not screen at all, nor did it interrogate prisoners of intelligence value, but only indiscriminately machine-gun fire or bayonet stabbing to death. More than 10,000 people in the Vietminh were completely dispersed, and there are only a few hundred under Ho Chi Minh at present, but they still can't get rid of the enemy.

Judging from the current situation, this group of madmen may be pursued to the border. Zhou Youfu naturally didn't take this enemy seriously. He didn't have time to clean them up now, but if they didn't do it themselves, they would save a lot of gas.

He continued to direct the troops to wedge into the positions of the 5th Division from the east. Light tanks quickly poured out from behind the tank formation, changing the slow pace of their previous advance step by step, and quickly cutting through the enemy's main force, the 11th Wing, which was shrinking backwards step by step. He thought that the old dog under the mountain was going to be dumbfounded.

At the foot of the mountain, who had been commanding the battle in the palace, he watched his main wing being divided, but he had nothing to do. He could even talk to the 11th Wing through an uncut phone line, but he couldn't open a way for them to survive.

His original plan was to consume the enemy while retreating step by step. In fact, this set of tactics has been used from Sakurai Shozo to Mutaguchi Lian. Every Japanese army besieged because of poor maneuverability thought that it could consume Zhou Youfu by maintaining a flexible positional war, and perhaps it could counterattack at night to regain its position, so that the battle entered into repeated contention; But they still underestimate the ability of mechanized troops, interspersed in positional warfare.

Yamashita clearly noticed that the enemy's artillery fire had shifted from the city to the direction of the 11th Wing, and a few hours later he received a telegram from the 11th Wing Yoshikawa Osa, saying that more than half of the positions had been lost, more than half of the casualties were lost, and that the final counter-charge was about to be carried out. The hastily established positions were simply unable to defend against the enemy's powerful artillery fire, and the tanks that were crushed back and forth could not penetrate at all.

Alexandria. Chu Tingchang slowly stepped off the warship under the eyes of several film crews in the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands and France, surrounded by stars and moons. He put on the white military uniform, had a pipe in his mouth, and frequently smiled and waved to the welcoming crowd, followed by Xu Chong, who was always vigilant. Lin Xiuxuan carried two boxes and hid very behind to avoid being photographed.

Chu Ting took a springboard, and a group of reporters gathered around him to ask questions, and Xu Chong let out a cold sweat, if there was a German spy hidden inside, the situation would not be good. I don't know what the gendarmes do to eat?

"May I ask General Chu Tingchang, did you say that Yamashita Fengfumi is the Japanese general you admire the most, and you have learned the tactics of Malay, so you want to defeat him with the same tactics?" A British journalist shouted.

"Hell, I've never said anything like this," Chu Tingchang, who maintained his demeanor, was enraged for a moment and put away his smile, "I don't appreciate any Japanese generals, they all have similar tactics and slow reactions, as if they were taught by a master." I left my student to deal with him, and it was enough. ”

"May I ask General Chu, General de Gaulle said that he is looking forward to talking to you about the future of French Indochina?"

This question came too timely, he had a rehearsal with Lin Xiuxuan on the boat.

"No, he should find Chairman Jiang for this matter, I am a soldier, I don't care about politics, I only obey orders with Chongqing."

"I heard that you fight with some kind of supernatural, or superstitious, power, right?" This stupid question seems to have been asked by an American journalist.

"No, those are just people's misunderstandings," Chu Tingchang paused and pondered for a moment, "Superstition? It's just a term for what we don't know, a lack of respect, and I think it's the real power behind nature and philosophy, peaceful, unpretentious, and ubiquitous. As long as you are quiet, breathe, and listen, you can feel her presence. ”

"So, what do you call this kind of ...... Mystical powers. ”

"There's no English word for it...... Perhaps, it could be called: the Force. May the Force be with everyone, thank you. ”

Xu Chong had already brought the gendarmes over, squeezed the reporter out, and then escorted Chu Tingchang to the car.