In order to cooperate with Chu Tingchang's actions, the Royal Air Force finally appeared in the air, Chu Tingchang looked up at the neatly arranged flying fleet, there were some Spitfire fighters, probably after Turkey showed its true strength, so that the aging British Empire gained some flexibility in scheduling. To some extent, Turkey did not participate in the Axis powers, and its role in the Axis powers was greater.

Of course, it must be said that Vivel survived in order to regain Calcutta. Chu Tingchang felt that he couldn't lose the white-haired Vivier, because no matter whether he won or lost, he would be disappointed.

His troops had been advancing slowly, encountering small groups of Japanese troops from time to time. Coincidentally, these troops just withdrew as soon as they were fought, and they did not have the courage of the Japanese army to fight to the death in the past, which made him smell a strong smell of luring the enemy to go deeper. The Japanese army has never used this trick in large-scale operations in Chinese mainland, on the one hand, because of the rigid tactics, the battle is only divided into attack, defense, and retreat, and there is no guerrilla habit of advancing and retreating; On the other hand, of course, it is also because the Chinese army in the frontal battlefield has been retreating, so they have no room to play.

After all, Kimura is a new opponent, and it is difficult for Chu Tingchang to guess his style, although Lin Xiuxuan analyzed the opponent and thought that this Kimura was more reckless and unscrupulous than Iida Shojiro, but many of the staff officers of the 15th Army under him had fought against him, and he knew the depth, which should be guarded against. Fortunately, what he agreed with the British army was only to go to the outskirts of Calcutta and not to go deep into the city. In this way, he can observe the enemy's movements at any time, and respond as soon as the wind blows.

With the mobility of the Japanese army, it would be a fool's dream to quickly cut off his rear route, but it was possible to surround the British army deep in, which he had carefully considered, and as an ally, he would inevitably be constrained. Counting up, the initiator of this incident can be said to be himself, if it weren't for his own stealing of the beams and changing the pillars, of course the British would not have fought back so quickly. Of course, his original plan was to take advantage of the situation and annihilate a large number of Japanese troops who had just landed and were riddled with disease, but now it seems that the Japanese have shrunk into a strong city defense. It seems that he hit the Ono Brigade too hard and woke up the Japanese?

He still doesn't have a very clear concept of attacking fortified battles, and his experience in this area is even inferior to Zhou Youfu and Tao Mingzhang, after all, they have fought many town defenses as defenders in China.

He wanted to test the troops' ability to attack fortifications first, and at the same time to see how well his information skills could support this kind of battle, so he sent Tao Mingzhang to lead his troops to attack a small town called Gamopur north of Calcutta. The town was unremarkable, but there was a British waterworks, which were not completely blown up when the British retreated, and the Japanese seemed to want to repair the waterworks there to restore the water supply, and the northern line of Gamopur Calcutta, the only stronghold of the Japanese that did not shrink back, was currently prominent in the defensive line, and the strength was unknown, and the scouts saw the Japanese flag hanging on the top of the church in the center of the town. Explosions were heard in the town, and the Japanese soldiers seemed to be digging holes in the buildings on the main street, as if they were going to defend it.

Tao Mingzhang excitedly accepted the task of attacking, he fought for several years, either defending or retreating, attacking the town is a rare experience. So he began to deploy artillery, he had just accepted the artillery battalion given by the British, and even some of the British were temporarily under his command before the completion of the settlement, of course, he had to fight immediately.

The British agreed to send 16 bombers to bomb the town horizontally, and it was not surprising that this inaccurate bombing would surely reap the resentment of the nearby civilians, but the British Empire was already too much of lice to itch.

The Wellington bombers dropped their bombs horizontally at an altitude of several thousand meters, and the landing point was about half a kilometer away from the designated target, and none of them fell into the town. The Japanese did not kill a few, and Tao Mingzhangbu, who was accustomed to being close to the target for reconnaissance and waiting for accurate fire support, was almost blown up.

The British pilots shamelessly reported to the rear, observing that the Japanese outlying positions had been blown open a gap. In fact, the Japanese did not have a peripheral position in this town at all. However, this bombing ploughed the minefield laid by the Japanese army, which was the only contribution.

Tao Mingzhang's 87mm guns then began to fire, and he pushed them forward for a direct-aim shot, and the artillery fire was well prepared, knocking out a base ammunition.

Chief Chu and Director Guo also went to the front to watch the battle in person. Director Guo really wanted to see what powerful methods Chu Tingchang's troops had in attacking fortifications. You must know that Chu Tingchang's current heavy artillery is not much more than a group army in China. Through his binoculars, he saw the cannon fire sending up huge smoke and engulfing the surrounding buildings; The machine guns laid out by the Japanese in the trenches were blown up into parts by name, and the 92 infantry guns with their wheels removed were blown into the air and fell from the explosion.

All the weapons of the Japanese army exposed to the surface positions had no chance of survival and could only be counterattacked by mortars hiding behind rubble.

Soon the second round of British air raids arrived, carried by flying lower Mosquito fighters. They can drop bombs at a certain dive angle, and they fly low, and they finally throw the * into the town. At this time, all the counterattacks of the Japanese army were completely muted. Tao Mingzhang felt that the heat was almost over, and suggested attacking.

Chu Tingchang did not intervene in Tao Mingzhang's attack, although he vaguely felt that the artillery preparation was not sufficient. A search company of Tao Mingzhang launched an attack from one side of the sugar cane field, and the Japanese defended in a hurry, and there was no time to clear the firing boundary here, so that the troops could be well hidden, but when approaching the area of 300 to 500 meters of the town, they had to pass through the open area where the British* had fallen, and only some craters could be hidden here, which would inevitably reveal the offensive intent.

"It seems that pie is also falling from the sky, and Battalion Commander Tao is going to make the first contribution this time," Zhou Youfu said in a strange yin and yang aura on the side, he also looked ahead with a telescope, and saw that the search company quickly passed through the open area and advanced towards a piece of rubble, and no gunshots rang out, "With the British bombing, plus a base shelling, who wouldn't fight such a battle?" Ay...... Battalion Commander Tao is really good at wasting ammunition, and this is just a small town on the periphery, so he is so mobilized, I am afraid it will be difficult to continue in the future. ”

"I heard that you fought Songhu," Chu asked.

"Boss, you still don't know what battles I fought?"

"At that time, your troops, under the bombardment and shelling of the Japanese army, held out for several days?"

"Hehe, I will never forget that cannon in the temple. That town is not big, it is about the same as here, and the losses at the beginning of the shelling were quite large, and the losses of our regiment in three days were less than a third, and the regiment commander reimbursed them. However, later we dug a deep anti-artillery hole, which was slightly better, you don't know that place in Shanghai, digging a hole a few feet is water, we were stunned and half of our bodies stood in the water, but the casualties were reduced a lot. ”

Chu Tingchang was noncommittal, watching the troops slowly advance, Tao Mingzhang's heavy artillery shooting continued, and the extended artillery bombardment of the covering infantry was done well, which was quite a true legend of Brooke. I just don't know, are there any Japanese under the rubble after the shelling?

The search company spread out in a straggler formation and slowly approached, wearing American-British uniforms with no identification marks on their bodies, but if you look closely, you can still judge the approximate location of the officers, because the company-level headquarters is followed by a signal soldier with a radio on his back, and even if he is hiding in a crater, the antenna is still erected on it.

Seeing that there was no problem in seizing this place, the Japanese flag on the top of the church in the center of the town was also blown away by a single shot (Chu Tingchang signed a written agreement with the British to protect British property, but he never intended to implement it seriously).

The company commander rose from the crater and gestured to his last platoon to follow.

A gunshot rang out, and the company commander fell, leaving a small hole in his steel helmet. Everyone stood for a second before lying down, not noticing where the bullet had come from.

Immediately afterwards, the Japanese grenadiers hiding in the corner began to shoot, accurately hitting the vicinity of the company headquarters behind the skirmishers. For a time, the contact between the company headquarters and the troops in front was cut off.

The soldiers in front did not know how to advance or retreat for a while, and the enemy's machine guns began to fire from those collapsed houses, some of which were even less than 30 meters away from the search company. For a time, the search company was pinned down in front of the fallen rubble from the entrance to the town, and the Japanese grenadiers would always find an angle to hit their hiding place.

"It looks like the Japanese are still organized." Chu Tingchang said. Judging by the suddenness of the enemy's counterattack, there are still people in command.

"You can't retreat now, you have to rush in." Zhou Youfu said.

"Well, let Tao Mingzhang continue the shelling and tell He Bisheng to let his tank company attack."

Chu Tingchang continued to assess the current situation, and the 419 UAV has a very limited reconnaissance effect below, especially in the hot June here, which greatly reduces the effectiveness of infrared reconnaissance during the day. He doesn't know how many enemies are left now, where to hide?

The Stuart tank company attacked from the sugar cane fields on the other side, they ran over the crops, searching for enemy fire in front, but the enemy did not have any counterattacks, apparently without effective anti-tank weapons.

The tank rushed to it and suppressed the enemy's machine-gun fire with its firepower, and suddenly two Japanese soldiers rushed out of the rubble with * in their arms, attempting to carry out a suicide attack, but were quickly killed by the machine gunners.

Guo Rugui was also watching the battle from the sidelines, and did not say a word, he saw that the cooperation between Chu Tingchang's artillery, infantry and tanks was simply seamless, and each showed his strengths to break through the enemy's solid defense, but he didn't know that the current battle was already the most ugly one fought by Chu Tingchang's troops.

The tank pushed through the rubble and finally entered the town, pulling the infantry behind it some distance. Tao Mingzhang began to shoot at the windows of the tall buildings on both sides with his 6-pounder guns, they and Zhou had experience in street fighting, and they were all from the defenders, so they knew that the black gunners or those who were going to attack the infantry behind the tanks would be hiding there, which he suddenly remembered after his search company was stunned by a machine gun.

"Let Tao Mingzhang's attack stop first, transport the wounded down, and then transfer the machine gun battalion given by the British to the commanding heights." Chu Tingchang said, this is Lin Xiuxuan's suggestion that he got through the headphones just now.

"With cannon troops?" Zhou Youfu was puzzled, according to his thoughts, that thing was a jerk off.

"The Japanese resistance is about to collapse, but there may be a lot of cold gunners hidden, and the artillery is too slow to react."

Now he immediately began to deploy, and soon entered the infantry house-to-house battle, and he hoped to be more prepared. He regarded the battle here as a training exercise, and now it seems that the Japanese army is not ready for defense, with more weapons exposed to the surface position, and the firearms are not reasonably allocated, but the commander's general idea is correct. Fortunately, they don't seem to have anti-tank weapons.