The Southern Army headquarters in Phnom Penh was terminated, which did cause great confusion for the enemy, at least the command that relied on telephone lines was paralyzed, because most of the telephone lines of the Southern Army extended in all directions passed through Phnom Penh, and the radio communication in the air, 419, had a way to interfere. This is the confidence of Chu Tingchang to dare to implement this plan. He asked Zhou Youfu to blow up all the enemy's communications equipment in Phnom Penh, dig three feet into the ground in key places, and cut all telephone lines.

Since Phnom Penh is a place where four rivers meet, all the telephone lines have to be laid along the steel frame of the iron bridge, so it is not difficult to find them. Zhou Youfu is also a very experienced person, and in addition to robbing the palace, he cut the telephone lines near several bridges before Chu Tingchang's phone reminder.

The command and communication confusion created by the 202nd Division caused the superior Japanese Army Air aircraft to be unable to take off for a long time. The 1st and 5th Flying Divisions were completely unable to obtain information to make plans, so they missed the initial opportunity to destroy the enemy's transport fleet.

The British radar set up in northern Thailand was the first to notice the problem of the take-off efficiency and misdirection of the Japanese military planes, which made Stilwell, who had always hesitated, begin to believe that Chu Tingchang's plan to land behind enemy lines was feasible.

Although a similar operation had already been carried out by the 502nd Regiment of his 101st Division in Sittwe, it was only a small operation, and it was carried out by parachute and glider, and there was no follow-up operation. And this time, Chu Tingchang intensified his efforts and demanded the implementation of an uninterrupted, continuous air support. The scale is so large that 2,500 soldiers and 900 tons of supplies will be transported within 24 hours. You must know that before Chu Tingchang opened up the Yunnan-Burma Highway, the air transportation to Yunnan through the hump air transport was only 10,000 tons of materials transported in a year.

Stilwell could clearly feel that he was no longer the direct superior of Pavilion Chief Chu, but played the role of playing a role for him and supporting logistics. Chu Tingchang's increasingly strong needs are beyond his imagination most of the time, but objectively speaking, it is not beyond his ability. Chu Tingchang seems to have secretly analyzed the limits of what the Americans can do in this area, so every time he puts forward a request, although it is very strict, it happens to be what the United States can do with its transportation capacity. For example, at the beginning of the offensive, he limited the size of Zhou Youfu's assault force, which obviously considered the problem that railway transportation had not yet been restored, and then he seized an important airfield behind enemy lines, asked for the implementation of this operation, and at the same time took out a list, the list was very detailed, not only heavy weapons, but also small military supplies such as kettles, stretchers, etc., accurate to single digits.

Chief Chu told Stilwell that what he was planning was a campaign to annihilate the Yamashita Fengwen group around Phnom Penh. He waited for the railway extending all the way from Burma to this point, rushed to repair and open to traffic, deployed his five divisions to the front in time, and used Zhou Youfu's regimental-sized team to turn him upside down behind enemy lines before this node arrived. Now that the time has come, he will use the occupation of the airport to supplement Zhou Youfu and upgrade him from a partial division to a regular army.

This almost forced Stilwell to use all the resources at his disposal to support him. At this time, Stilwell was planning to use the New First Army to attack Sumatra and seize Singapore. Now, this plan can only be put on hold.

The first C47 aircraft, flying over the airspace without air supremacy during the day, began to move towards the target. They were not thwarted by Japanese fighters. The airport they are going to is a strategic airfield of the Japanese army, with a complete runway, and there is more than one, so that according to Chu Tingchang's calculations, the plane can take off at the same time during the landing.

Now Yamashita Fengwen will face great trouble, if he thinks that Zhou Youfu's offensive force will become weaker and weaker, and ignore it, then he will see this task force of the 202nd Division being replenished and become stronger, if he is determined to return to the army and seize the airfield, then the 3 or 4 divisions of Chu Tingchang in front will be pressed over, and in the end he will still face the enemy's flank attacks.

When the first batch of C47s landed and unloaded supplies, Chu Tingchang's frontal troops also launched an attack, and the attack was carried out with a large number of tanks and artillery fire, and after the resumption of rail transportation, he could quickly obtain a large amount of military supplies to support a frontal attack.

In the face of an impermeable defense, Chief Chu had to completely suppress the enemy under artillery fire. What the Japanese army feared most was the long-legged Tom* cannon with a long range. This 155-mm heavy gun could knock through all the permanent fortifications newly built by the Japanese army in Southeast Asia, but this time, Chu Tingchang brought not only 155 heavy guns, but also 4 203-mm giant guns. These cannons don't have the same range as the 155 guns, but they're far more powerful than Tom Longfoot.

However, the M115 heavy artillery, from the railway station to the forward deployment was so difficult that when the offensive was launched, it was not yet in place. But this gap in time is enough for UAVs in the air to observe the enemy's defenses, in advance, to find valuable bunkers and cluster targets for them.

The drone observed that the 24th Brigade was actively moving using the forest terrain, and that the unit was completely lightly armed and traveling on bicycles, which did not seem to pose much of a threat. Of course, their possible assembly area was within the range of the 8-inch gun, but unfortunately the shell delivery vehicle had not yet arrived, so I could only stare at them first and ignore them for the time being.

The unit brought with it a new Japanese weapon, a man-man anti-tank recoilless gun that fired an over-caliber, hollow-charge anti-tank warhead. This weapon is useless in terms of range and accuracy, and the only advantage is the static armor-piercing thickness of about 80 mm. The Japanese used this weapon for the first time in Australia, realizing that it was one of the few weapons available to the Army that could penetrate Sherman's frontal armor.

For the time being, only the 5th Division and the 24th Brigade returned from Australia were given this new weapon.

The Japanese position, already under the attack of the Sherman tanks, was crumbling, and the 47-mm battle defense guns were also unable to deal with the Sherman's front armor. Now the 24 Brigade is urgently needed to come to the rescue.

An anti-tank detachment of the 24 brigade has already arrived at the front.

Zhao Xiaoli, who was making great progress, suddenly received a battle damage report from the front. In the past 20 minutes, nine tanks had been damaged, a loss that exceeded the losses of his attack the following morning, but fortunately all of them were only damaged, eight of them were able to retreat, and one of them burned and caught fire, but the crew withdrew. Soldier reports. It was smashed by something that swirled like a headless fly of the enemy, and the armor was broken.

Zhao Xiaoli personally went to the mechanical company to check. It was found that the damaged tank armor was left with only a hole the thickness of a finger, which looked like it had been pierced by a Japanese machine gun, of course, that was impossible, and the caliber of the hole was larger than that of the Japanese 92 machine gun. The soldiers were almost unanimous in their mouths, it was something like a bazooka. From a distance of 100 meters, the Japanese used the method of secret firing, firing at least six or seven rounds at a time, but none of the tanks were hit more than twice.

It was only then that the drone could see clearly this anti-tank weapon carried on the back rack of the enemy's bicycle. When it was carried, it was like a tube, and it was only when it was loaded with super-caliber ammunition that it was noticed as an anti-tank weapon.

Obviously, the Japanese army had a weapon that could effectively penetrate the Sherman, although the jet power was small, but it was also a great threat to the Sherman, who used a gasoline engine. And the enemy seems to have summed up a set of tactics used by the group, and they are ready to use a large number of these weapons to fight in a salvo at the front line, presumably to solve the problem of this kind of thing, which is inaccurate at a long distance.

The 24th Brigade is continuing to build, and drones are seeing more and more soldiers with launchers in their hands. Zhao Xiaoli reported the enemy situation to Chief Chu, including the emerging threat. Chief Chu told him to calm down and stop the attack for the time being, so that there was no need to do fearless casualties.

The drone is observing the enemy's marching formation, and is expected to enter a narrow valley, which is bound to be the best chance to carry out a swarm kill.

At this time, the 8-inch shell was finally pulled down. The 4 guns were lined up and aimed according to the target position transmitted by the radio, which was strange because the upper peak required a general* reload, not a * for calibration. The only accurate method of artillery fire in this era had to rely on the feedback of the landing point of the forward observation post, which meant that if it was to shoot at a target in depth, it was usually not too accurate.

According to the requirements of the drone, the artilleryman was asked to fire each gun at an interval of ten seconds, which is another strange order for the army, in fact, this is to make it easier for the drone to distinguish the landing point of 4 guns, so that each gun can be micro-operated. If a salvo is fired, it is not easy to distinguish which gun fired the shell.

The order was given, the first heavy artillery fired, and the shells fell in front of the enemy's bicycle column after 30 seconds, and the landing point was not very accurate, but the huge power still shook all the Japanese soldiers riding in the distance from the car, and it can be observed that half of them could not get up.

The second shell fell in the rear of the enemy's 1.5-kilometer column. The third and fourth shots landed in the middle of the long snake formation.

The first cannon, which received the correction order, fired a second shell a minute later, this time with much more accuracy, falling directly into the dense crowd. The sudden arrival of the Japanese artillery shells stunned, the front ran backwards, the rear ran forward, and everyone intuitively stayed away from the artillery fire, which made the formation chaotic.

Cheng Dayang and the political commissar watched all this happen from the command cabin, and the enemy was at a loss, completely ignorant of the heavenly eye.

After a long wait, follow-up shells fell one after another. The second round of shelling had already shown great lethality, but it was still only aimed at driving the enemy column closer together.

The shells pinched the head and tail, compressing the enemy's column, and no longer paying attention to those who ran out of this range, but carefully rushing the troops in the middle section, which probably contained the headquarters, together.

The third round of shells fell directly on the enemy's densest crowd, and the accuracy of the 203-mm gun itself was not much different from the large-caliber artillery of 70 years later, but the power was even greater, and it needed only the support of information.