At the forefront was the Japanese Search Wing (the size of the brigade), followed by the first brigade of the 67th Wing, which was the 33rd Division, and the first tank unit, which was recently embarked from Dalian and sent to fight in various parts of the South Seas. After the destruction of the 14th Tank Wing, the unit landed in Burma, equipped with the latest Japanese Type 47 tanks with 97 mm guns. Of course, with the lessons of the 14th Wing, Mutaguchi, as a traditional army general, was very afraid of sending tank troops into difficult terrain.

In the eyes of the lieutenant general, the tank is actually nothing, and if you do not count the negative effects of dragging down the deployment, the biggest role may be to support the infantry. Once the superior allocates these things to you, it means that there must be an additional burden. Once the command is wrong, the tank can easily be lost. Now that he had put an entire wing into battle, more than 3,000 troops were on the offensive, which meant that one or two divisions could be swept through the Chinese theater, and even if the enemy was to deceive, he was sure to capture the entrance at a heavier cost, thus breaking through central Burma.

Zhou Youfu observed that the Japanese troops were climbing all over the mountain, and he had climbed the mountain here more than once, and he knew very well that it was difficult to climb with his bare hands, let alone shoot. The Japanese must be wondering, where did the defenders go? If it weren't for Lin Linqi's directing of this noisy trick to lure the enemy, the Japanese would never have rushed into the valley.

In the distance, the second echelon of Japanese troops also approached the entrance of the valley, which was the scene that Lin Linqi and Brooke hoped for. What they have been thinking about all the time is to play the role of artillery. Now the synthetic regiment has more than 30 artillery pieces, large and small, and must give full play to its power, otherwise even if it occupies the terrain, it still cannot be sure to block the Japanese army.

The Japanese troops, who were the first to climb the mountain, had already climbed to the flat area of the mountain, not far from the control room, where the transmission belts and mine rail cars were controlled. The first few Japanese soldiers came here panting, and the anti-machine guns were still behind. Zhou Youfu hid behind a pile of wooden planks in the control room. He held the phone in his hand and kept reporting the enemy's progress to Lin Linqi, Lin Linqi asked him to continue to calm down, but he couldn't continue to talk, because the Japanese army was already in front of him and might hear it.

A Japanese soldier jumped open the tarpaulin with a bayonet and found a pile of gasoline drums. He walked over curiously, smashed it with *, listened to the movement was solid, and then he saw the * on the gasoline drum. It didn't take much intelligence for him to immediately guess what was going on.

"It's done." Zhou Youfu shouted, startling Lin Linqi on the other end of the phone.

A machine gunner in the control room suddenly got up, drove a light machine gun to the windowsill, and fired outside. Several Japanese soldiers who climbed onto the platform had nowhere to hide, and were immediately beaten to the ground.

Zhou Youfu rushed out of the control room, lit an oil drum with a lighter, kicked it down, and watched the oil drum slowly roll forward along the gentle slope, and when it reached the edge of the cliff, it had accumulated a lot of speed.

A Japanese soldier poked his head out of the cliff and was hit on the head by a rolling gasoline can, and tumbled down the hill with the gasoline canister.

This heavy oil drum just rolled down to the bottom of the mountain with a cluster of sparks. Rolling into the crowd of Japanese soldiers, everyone knew what was going to happen and could only flee in all directions as best they could.

The place where soldiers die and live, the way to survive, although there is no undefeated general, but twice in a row, falling in the same place, is undeserved. The light enemy at Mutaguchi and the sloppiness of the Japanese pilots caused the Japanese to be ambushed twice in the same place.

Even the place where Zhou Youfu commanded was the same as the previous time. The difference is that he no longer has railcars to utilize, but uses gasoline drums. Zhou Youfu's research on the formula of fragments has made great strides compared to the previous time, and the mining area is a place where many small metal fragments can be found, from bearing balls to iron nails.

Gasoline drums exploded in the crowd, and all kinds of metal parts and rubble flew out in all directions. And that's just the first one. The rest of the oil drums are rolling down in a frenzy. The Japanese tried to block with machine gun fire, but as soon as these things were shot, they exploded immediately, and those soldiers who were exposed on the hillside, could not go up or down, and had nowhere to hide, were swallowed up by the explosion. According to Zhou Youfu's recipe, each oil drum field was filled with 4 kilograms*, 10 kilograms of metal fragments were wrapped in our department, and 120 kilograms of slag were wrapped in the outer layer, and Brooke assessed that its power was at least not weaker than that of a 25-pound shell of the British army. Of course, he suggested that the metal fragment should be more powerful than the outermost layer, but this suggestion was not accepted due to the ease of production.

The second wave of Japanese troops had not yet entered the valley, and they had just shrunk their formation at the mountain pass, as Lin Linqi had predicted, and Brooke's artillery hit them on their heads with precise landing. This is an accurate shot that does not require a school shot. Dense shells blossomed in the middle of the crowd in small walks, and the main force was the British MK2 87-mm field guns, which, when fired rapidly, were bound to inflict great damage on the unsuspecting dense infantry. In addition, the other armament of the composite regiment was Soviet-made 76-mm field guns and various mortars.

All artillery was firing at maximum speed, and for the first few minutes, there was no need for extended fire, and the enemy's front-line command was terminated at the first time, leaving it without any orders.

In the valley, the Chinese army occupies a huge commanding height, and the concealed water-cooled machine guns are pushed into position, firing from various high grounds, forming crossfire, and the enemy troops who have been blown up are scurrying around, and they cannot find a hiding place that can withstand the fire around them.

Lieutenant General Mutaguchi didn't give an order for a full 2 minutes, he just ran to the mirror and stupidly watched the charging army in front of him fall to death, and his head was sweating desperately.

More than 100 kilometers north of the transportation hub of Indo, in the temporary headquarters of the expeditionary force. Du Yuming was planning his Battle of Myitkyina. His idea was to gather all his troops near Myitkyina, to protect himself for the time being, and then to make an appropriate sortie to repel the Japanese, and this plan was supported by a conservative estimate that his military rations would last for another week, although it still depended on the rearguard being able to transport the hoarded food.

Even more worrying than food are the wounded 4,000 soldiers, who are currently short of medical care and cannot be moved in any direction. His plan essentially rejected the possibility of retreating to the west, and although there were constant reports of intelligence coming back that the road to the west was still open, he instinctively rejected this possibility, and he and his principal had the instinct of a Chinese soldier, which was to regard the troops as their lifeblood and never consider sending people under the fence.

He sat in a daze, waiting for the news to come together. An officer hurried over and, looking at his expression, apparently brought bad news.

"The main force of the 55th Division on the flank launched an attack in the morning and captured Jiesha, and before the 29th Army retreated, it burned 50,000 catties of grain to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy."

"What, Jesha is occupied?" He couldn't help but stand up, "Saying this already threatens our retreat, and the command must be moved to Myitkyina immediately." ”

"Military seat, the 55th Division is maneuvering with Division Commander Zhang in Longling, and the attack to the west is nothing more than a cavalry unit, and it cannot be the main force. We can deploy 200 divisions and one main regiment, and we can recapture them. Chu Tingchang suggested, he knew very well that those miscellaneous troops had the habit of exaggerating the enemy's situation and shirking responsibility.

"Be cautious, we must be cautious, now our army is in the biggest crisis since the Battle of Xuzhou, and if there is a slight mistake, it will fall into a heavy encirclement and cannot get out. Therefore, it is important not to divide the troops. ”

"Junzuo, we just lost 50,000 catties of food, and if we don't get back a city immediately, I'm afraid that if we don't wait for the enemy to besiege us, it will be difficult for us to maintain it?"

"Pavilion Chief, you are good at mobile combat, and you will definitely be the pillar of the party-state over time, but after all, you have no experience in commanding a large army, and the life and death of 100,000 people is not something that can be decided on impulse."

"However, if we don't fight, just retreat, in the high mountains and forests of northern Burma, without backup, why should the Japanese army encircle, as long as we are forced into the mountains, 100,000 of our army will starve to death."

"I don't know what you said, but I firmly believe that Liu Wenhui must know the road in the mountains, but he just resists the central government and refuses to say it, if he is entrusted with the benefits, it will ......."

"Military, if there is a road in northern Burma, how can American planes not find it?"

Du Yuming waved his hand and didn't let him say anything, Chu Tingchang flicked his sleeves and got up, and finally understood why Sun Liren just sneered and didn't say a word before. He regretted coming for a trip, it didn't work at all, and it seemed that he had to let the team leader find a way to kill Du Yuming to protect the army.

In the Moneva mine, five tanks emerge from a tunnel in ruins. The Japanese army never knew the layout of the tunnels here, so there was no special response. These passages led to several abandoned mines behind the Japanese starting positions. The exit was sealed with an iron fence and chain. Due to the large number of similar abandoned mine pits in the vicinity, the Japanese did not defend carefully, and only a small garrison patrolled the vicinity. Although it was expected that the enemy might use these passages to infiltrate and reconnoitre, but did not expect that large vehicles would use the passages to come, the Japanese simply added a few more locks to the seals and hung a few* as defense; Due to the greedy demand for copper and tungsten ore by the British colonists, the pit here is almost the widest in the world, with a shaft and ventilation equipment above the pit, and two rows of tracks inside, which are completely wide enough for cars and mechanized troops.

These tanks were covered by a company of infantry, and the purpose of their sorties was to disrupt the enemy's rear. The Japanese guards heard a rumbling sound in the passage, but they couldn't tell what was going on, thinking it was water seeping from the bottom. The small unit did not have a radio, so a communications soldier was sent to board a bicycle and report to headquarters. The rest of the soldiers set up crooked handles in front of the iron fence in case something unexpected happened.

Due to the brightness outside, the tankmen saw their opponents much earlier than the Japanese troops who were probing their brains. The first tank slowly adjusted its artillery, and then blasted the iron fence away with one shot, and the rusty iron gate smashed into the Japanese machine-gun position, leaving no room at all.

The tanks rumbled out of the tunnels and fired machine guns in all directions, scattering the surrounding enemies. The infantry rushed out and occupied the nearby high ground.

Grant rounded the mountain and immediately spotted a Japanese tank slowly driving a few hundred meters away. Japanese tanks were breaking through the trenches of the Chinese army, which were dug so deep that these tanks were either stuck in the tunnels and pouting their butts, or they were raising their heads and their tracks idling, almost always in a beaten position. Grant fired at these tanks with 75-mm field guns, as well as 37 guns. Other Grants turned to the Japanese starting positions and covered the Japanese troops who were gathering in the rear with firepower.