741 Artillery positions fell
The tank company, consisting of the remaining 2 tanks and 4 companies of transport vehicles, was afraid to move in the ravine, for them the day was a nightmare, after sunrise they were already watching the Japanese and Thai troops of several thousand people and the more numerous, spontaneous convoy of civilians passing from the front. Not being found is nothing short of a miracle. It may be that the portrait of Mr. Guan in every car is blessing himself.
In fact, some Thais had already seen them, but probably mistook them for lazy Japanese soldiers and just waved to them.
The cannon roared in the distance, and Zhou Youfu seemed to have forgotten about them, and there was no longer contact after nightfall yesterday. The soldiers were a little desperate and prepared to rush out several times to fight and pull down.
Suddenly, a communication came, and it turned out to be from Chu Tingchang's headquarters, and the radio called them, ready to accept the command of a captain surnamed Xu of the reconnaissance unit who was coming from a few kilometers away in the north. The power of the tank radio was not enough to communicate with the command, and it was only passively heard about new tasks and personnel appointments.
After 60 seconds of apprehension, the voice of the new commander Xu Chong appeared on the same radio station, handing over command to the current supreme commander of the Jibu Company.
According to the agreement, when Xu Chong approached, he would learn a few wild duck calls to avoid accidental injury, of course, he used the drone to detect the hiding place of the group of people and quickly found them. They survived thanks to their camouflage skills. This place in South Asia is a paradise for the hidden, in the era when there is no advanced infrared reconnaissance equipment, veterans who are good at camouflage, far better than novices who are not good at this, Chu Tingchang's veterans, all from the time when the Japanese army held air supremacy, can use leaves to hide something as big as a tank seamlessly.
Xu Chong explained to the soldiers the revised plan, which was originally planned to attack at night, but the threat of enemy artillery was too great, and it had to be moved in 2 hours. He also had 2 reconnaissance platoons and 6 half-track armored vehicles, carrying a number of *. The attack must be quick, then take control of the position, destroy the enemy's artillery, not all of them, but give priority to blowing up the four 150's and, if possible, detonating their accumulated ammunition and communications units.
The platoon commander was a little discouraged when he heard this plan, Xu Chong was only talking about how to attack the opponent, but he ignored the most difficult part, how to slip out of the valley under the noses of the Japanese army, as far as he knew, at present, they were very unfortunate at the moment near the marching route of the enemy's main force.
The platoon commander voiced his worries. Xu Chong told him that the queue of the 59th Wing of the Japanese Army, which was now blocking the front, would soon pass, and that the 123rd Field War Hospital was at the end, and he expected that in ten minutes, there would be a gap several kilometers long, followed by the divisional annex troops. As for the nearby Thai convoys, there is no need to worry, they lack a radio station, and even if they find something suspicious, they will not immediately notify the Japanese.
Everyone was skeptical, and the observer on the top of the hill ran down to report that there was a baggage and field hospital behind the line of the Japanese troops in front of them, and according to experience, the unit was almost finished. It seems that Captain Xu's intelligence is accurate. But was the gap between the two armies several kilometers wide? Captain Xu came from the north, and it was impossible for him to know every move of the Japanese troops coming from the south.
Xu Chong told them in an unquestioning tone that they must believe in themselves and miss the opportunity, followed by the 57th Military Station Troops, Field Epidemic Prevention Troops, Communication Troops, and Sparse Lala, which are endless, and there is no chance before dark.
It seemed that he had to close his eyes and follow the omniscient captain. As soon as they waited for the Japanese military hospital to pass, they started the engine, and in the idle state, waiting for the opportunity, there were always some guys behind the troops who fell behind to catch up with the troops, and they had to wait for them to pass. When the highway gradually disappeared. The tanks started to drive out of their hidden positions and onto the dirt road, and this mechanized unit was inserted between the two mighty Japanese troops marching on foot. It is impossible to escape from this terrible road when you have carved out a ten-kilometer valley
However, Xu Chong assured them that there were neither gendarmes nor shelters in front of them. The Japanese only set up military police to guard the street signs at the fork in the valley exit. He reminded the troops that when they saw the Japanese soldiers who had fallen behind on the road, they should try not to shoot.
Sure enough, a lonely Japanese figure appeared in front, Xu Chong, who was standing on the first tank, observed with a telescope and found that it was a wounded soldier on crutches, and it was estimated that the field hospital was pulled down when it moved, and now he was in a hurry to find the shelter.
The wounded also saw the rear tanks. The tanks were covered with camouflage, and he immediately judged that it was his own, and when he got on the bus from Saigon, he saw the tanks of the 3rd Brigade parked behind, thinking that they belonged to the 3rd Brigade or the 14th Tank Brigade. Of course, the soldiers did not know, because of the transfer of the Thai army, the 3rd Brigade was still far away in Phnom Penh, and it was impossible to arrive within a week.
The wounded soldier excitedly waved his wooden crutches, thinking that he could hitchhike. Xu Chong stomped his foot on the side of the driver's head with the barrel of the gun, and motioned to drive the car over.
The driver knew how to clean up the unarmed and unfast guys, and he sped over. The Japanese troops in front saw that the situation was not right, and then recognized that the tanks were not their own. He threw his crutches and tried to run, but the tank had already rushed down the dirt road and crushed the guy under the tracks in one fell swoop. Then the driver operated the track clutch, made a unilateral turn, turned on the spot, and when he returned to the dirt road, there was a puddle of meat sauce left in the grass, and a crutch was thrown not far away.
Seeing that he was about to leave the valley ahead, Xu Chong saw through his telescope that there were several tents at the mouth of the valley, steaming hot, and when he came, the Japanese army had not yet established a containment force and a field kitchen here. He ordered the troops to rush over quickly.
The cook at the skirmish shelter in the distance was also a little surprised to see a tank approaching from a distance. The tank slowed down as it passed through the tents, and with a smile on his face, he threw a * into the bucket where the soup was cooking.
The cook was about to get angry when the explosion threw him to the ground along with the field stove, and the soldiers in the half-track that passed behind them stood up and fired at the enemy with automatic weapons. The detachment quickly passed through the valley and entered the fork in the road, and the Xu Chong reconnaissance company, which was lying in ambush, drove out of its concealment and joined their ranks.
Now they have to go straight to the enemy's self-assured artillery positions and get rid of the last trump card in the enemy's hands. On the road, he once again encountered a Japanese signal soldier riding a bicycle and laying a telephone line, and the soldier was very clever and did not be pressed by the track, so he could only be killed by a burst of random shooting on the side of the road. The sound of gunfire alarmed the elephants in the transport queue to run in all directions. The convoy took the opportunity to occupy the road and drive the herd away.
The Japanese troops on the artillery position heard the gunfire from a few kilometers away, realized that something was wrong, and immediately ordered the artillery to change from a firing state to a marching state, and then sent a defensive force to block it, according to the experience of Captain Maeda of the 14 Heavy Artillery Corps, the enemy was two kilometers away, as long as the blocking was effective, the artillery had time to transfer completely.
Xu Chong ordered the mechanized troops to speed up, he was exposed, and he had to cut through the chaos quickly and intercept the enemy before he could complete his defensive deployment.
At an off-road speed of 35 kilometers per hour, the tank rushed towards the target, and saw the Japanese snipers in camouflage climbing the big trees on the side of the road.
The tank crashed headlong into a tree, and the Japanese sniper fell down and fell half to death, and before he could get up, he was crushed into pulp by the tank that came from behind.
Instead of shooting these guys, the tankmen chose to use the most hateful way to deal with these hateful snipers. Due to the presence of these Japanese snipers, the driver and commander were forced to stick their heads out of the tank, causing the tank to lose seventy percent of its vision and become a coffin for the infantry outside.
At the same time, the Japanese artillery positions were in disarray, and the commander of the artillery brigade noticed from the approaching gunfire that the enemy was approaching much faster than he expected. His 150 cannons required 12 horses to tow away, and it was not easy for so many brutes of low intelligence to gather together. The elephant with an extremely high IQ near the position found that the situation was not right, and ran out long ago, trampling many Japanese to death by the way.
Xu Chong's tanks rushed along the muddy dirt road, making it impossible for the enemy to deploy defenses at all, and before the heavy machine gun position was built, the tanks arrived, crushed it into a state of parts, and the soldiers who were still filling * were hit by the tank's heading machine guns from a distance, burning themselves into a ball. The soldiers who were still digging the ground on the dirt road and burying the * were beaten by the tanks that arrived ahead of schedule.
When the tank quickly rushed into the position, this section of the road was trampled by elephants and horses, forming a downhill full of mud, and the tank driver was too late to get into the cab, and he didn't have time to look at the hatch, and the mud splashed directly on his head, and he was muddy. It seems that today's battle will definitely be won.
On the position, he jumped over the wall in a hurry, quickly moved an artillery piece, aimed at the intersection, and waited for the tank to come out and bombard it. However, it was found that the depression angle of the Meiji 38 cannon was exactly 0°, and the muzzle of the cannon was slightly raised on uneven ground. The tank suddenly fell into a mud puddle, which made the driver embarrassed, but at that moment, the tank was a lot shorter. The shells fired by the Japanese were grazing the turret, and when the tank climbed out of the mud pit, the Japanese had no time to reload the ammunition, so they could only rush over with *. The infantry, who had already disembarked 200 meters from the rear, quickly outflanked and strafed the Japanese who were threatening the tanks. The machine-gun fire on the Japanese positions was attracted by the tanks, and ammunition was ineffectively poured into the front armor of the tanks, but the Chinese infantry were allowed to quickly approach.
Relying on tanks to attract almost all the attention of the enemy, the soldiers quickly occupied the trenches dug by the Japanese. The whole operation is very simple. The infantry and the tanks formed a three-dimensional firepower, and quickly annihilated the exposed enemy fire with machine guns and *, and the enemy advanced and retreated, and soon lost control and fled into the forest alive.
The soldiers proceeded to sabotage the enemy's artillery and the piles of * operations, and some of them quickly grabbed the saber of the 14th Artillery Brigade Maedahara Nakasa, who was killed in the front, and the photos of his wife and daughter. The American soldiers in the rear are willing to pay a lot of money for photos of Japanese women, and as for Japanese sabers, they can be exchanged for $20 at the worst.