Jiang Weiguo quickly looked over there and saw a wheeled chariot coming from there. He immediately stopped the other vehicles from firing on the radio. He had already recognized that it was a Type 221 reconnaissance vehicle, and the Japanese did not have such a fast wheeled vehicle except for the stupid Wicks-type armored car.

"I'm under attack, call a friendly neighbor nearby, and there's a company of Japanese tanks in pursuit."

Chu Aiyun called for help on the radio, thinking that it should be more natural to go too far.

"I see you," Jiang Weiguo shouted, "report the enemy's position." ”

"Look behind me, just a few hundred meters behind."

The location is so clear that even a fool can't get it wrong.

Jiang Weiguo ordered all the vehicles and turrets to be turned around, and the farmland area was opened to the west. Sure enough, the woods on the side of the intersection began to shake, and with a few small trees falling, a Type 95 Japanese tank rushed out, and then began to make a clumsy turn, apparently relying on strong momentum to take a shortcut. He visually measured the distance, about 700 to 900 meters, he had seen the assessment of the armored regiment, this is not sure of the distance to hit, but concentrated 6 vehicles, you can hit it. He asked not to open fire yet, and to wait for the vehicles behind him to come up and completely unfold the formation, while also waiting for more Japanese cars to appear.

When the Chinese tank maneuvered, the Japanese troops on the opposite side did not find that this tank had a narrow field of vision, and when it was in a combat state, it only had a front and rear field of view, and if the commander did not stand on the top, it was difficult to see the situation at 360 °.

The second and third tanks also appeared at the intersection. Jiang Weiguo felt his heart beating violently, and this was the first time he had encountered an enemy tank. Although he once participated in anti-tank exercises at the Military Academy in Munich, he used a wooden false target.

If time permitted, Jiang Weiguo could reverse under the roadbed, exposing only the turret, but it was obviously too late. In a hurry, he gave the order to open fire, and of course compared to the unprepared Japanese troops, he had an absolute advantage in position. All vehicles were facing the enemy head-on, while the enemy was aimed at them with a huge projection area and weakly armored sides, and all the guns were pointed in the wrong direction.

After the first round of artillery fire, one of the leading tanks was hit once, it is not known who hit it, and most of the other shells were low, or fell behind the tank. It seems that the Chinese gunners did not have a good grasp of the ballistic performance of this gun, as well as the calculation of the advance of the moving target. Even the tankmen of the ace army, they rarely experienced anti-tank combat. Most of the time the training is to bypass the enemy's position and occupy a certain place; In actual combat, the task is usually simpler, which is to use it as a firepower for the infantry. The targets are mostly enemy fortifications within 300 meters. After the Sino-Japanese war entered a stalemate period, most of the fighting was carried out in mountainous areas, there were not many tank sorties, and there were few reports of encounters beyond the platoon level.

The Japanese army was attacked by a surprise attack and was blinded, and the unanimous reaction of all the car groups was to stop. This gave the Chinese tank a second chance to shoot first. The enemy's parking also saves the gunner a lot of problems, such as how to judge the faster and farther targets, how to overtake several car bodies when breaking the aim, and how many dense positions the muzzle of the gun. Until the return of the Soviet instructors, these difficulties were not touched.

The ping-pong sound in T26 was chaotic, and it was the gun commanders who were loading the shells with all their might, and some of them were loaded by the commanders. Jiang Weiguo sat on the turret, waiting for the second round of shelling.

Before the enemy could find them, the Chinese tanks grabbed a second round of firing. This time it hit cars No. 2 and No. 3 in the convoy of enemy tanks, and another shell made up for car No. 1, which was hit and was smoking, but the turret was still turning.

According to the mastery of the norms of the Japanese march, on the first truck of the motorized march, there was definitely a squadron leader, usually standing next to the machine gunner, a convenient position for observation, and in the first few of the first squad of the cavalry platoon, there would be a commander with a telescope around his neck. Chinese soldiers are accustomed to giving priority to those who are in the forefront, carrying sabers, military hats without fart curtains, beards or old faces, and if the first shot is not sure of killing, it is better to make up a shot.

In fact, the above experience is completely correct. A second lieutenant commander of this tank unit of the Japanese army was on the No. 1 car, and he had just shaken hands with the division commander not long ago, vowing to use this as a starting point to fight all the way across the Nu River. The only shell hit by the first shell of the Chinese army in the first shelling, penetrating through the thin side armor, killed the machine gunner-loader. So the second lieutenant, the commander and gunner, was the first to sense the position of the opponent, because there was an extra 47 mm hole on the left side, and if he put his head into this hole, he could see a Soviet-made tank with smoke from the muzzle a few hundred meters away; The rest of the crew who were not hit by the tank, because they were drilled in a tin can, had difficulty finding their bearings by the sound of artillery fire. The brave commander did not prioritize extinguishing the fire when the oil began to burn, but quickly turned the turret to the approximate target position. The barrel of the Type 95 is very short, so the muzzle velocity is insufficient, and the trajectory is more curved, and the requirements for ranging are higher. However, after the Nuo threshold, the Japanese army strengthened education in this area and invested more artillery shells for practice, which was an advantage over the national army.

The spirit of Bushido allowed the second lieutenant to exert superhuman strength, and as he turned the gun in the direction, he simultaneously began to increase the elevation angle. He remembered that the left side was a very open area, so the enemy was at least 400 meters away, and sure enough, after finding the target, confirming that the enemy was farther away, he shook his handwheel to correct the elevation angle, and prayed to God for his blessing, not to bless him to survive this battle, but to be able to hit the enemy. At this time, the driver climbed to the back and began to extinguish the fire.

The second shell of the Chinese tank, which arrived first, broke through without suspense and killed the driver, and the flames began to spread. But the commander got his wish and fired his revenge cannonball.

His first shot actually hit, which is definitely not an easy thing for such a cannon, which is a first-class level poured out by countless painstaking efforts and sweat.

But the hit Chinese tank did not burn further, and the commander poked his head out of the turret to observe, and then slammed the turret hard, reminding the gunners below to turn the muzzle. It seems that the shells did not penetrate through. The Japanese second lieutenant decided to continue reloading and counterattacked to the death, but he was already unable to remove a single hot shell from the flames. As a result, the third shell hit the side of the tank, this time detonating the ammunition.

The Soviets also learned some lessons after the Nuo threshold, and they strengthened the 26 mm front armor in front of the T8 tank, which allowed this tank to fight the weak firepower of 300 at a distance of 95 meters, instead of the 500 meters that the Japanese thought it were. The Type 97 tank, which has strong comprehensive capabilities of the Japanese army, did not appear in Burma.

Seeing that the three Japanese tanks were destroyed, and the front of the Chinese tanks could not be penetrated, and the rest of the Japanese tanks did not dare to fight, and then reversed and retreated, Jiang Weiguo was a little hesitant, if he did not solve all the Japanese tanks, with the character of the Japanese, he would inevitably follow and chase him. If you are intercepted by the enemy in the marching formation, the enemy will attack your weakest armor from the flanks and rear, and your formation will not have time to expand, and you will suffer. But will there be an unknown enemy situation after chasing the past?

"Battalion commander, the enemy is not accompanied by infantry, I saw it just now. Behind the woods is a village of adobe houses, and to the north is an open field, which is very suitable for a battle, and there are only one or two cavalry nearby, you boldly fight it, and I will deal with the periphery. ”

On the radio, Chu Tingchang added a piece of information in time, which strengthened Jiang Weiguo's determination to fight back completely.

"Charge all and don't give the enemy a chance to redeploy."

Six tanks rushed directly in battle formation in the direction of the enemy's retreat, which he expected to adjust behind the woods. Whether it's retreating sea lions to hold on, it takes time. Therefore, the German tactics emphasized that under the condition that intelligence and firepower permitted, it was necessary to pursue resolutely and resolutely, and not to form a stalemate, so that the enemy had the opportunity to adjust the next strategy.

Chu Aiyun asked Cao Youde to hurry around to the north, not to enter the place where the firepower of both sides was within reach, of course, not to escape, but to intercept the cavalry who heard the sound of artillery, and not let them have variables.

The six Japanese tanks retreated to the woods and set off from the starting point, and the Burmese who had just cried and begged for the decision had long since disappeared. Now they have a problem, not because of the dead officers, but because there is no radio to coordinate the next move.

In the usual pre-war deployment, several commanders need to leave the vehicle, first go to the front to reconnoitre, and then get together for a meeting to discuss, once they encounter an unexpected situation on the battlefield, it is easy to fall into a situation of fighting alone. It is necessary to return it and discuss countermeasures.

As soon as the Japanese troops retreated through the woods, a commander waved his hand on the turret to signal stop, he got up and used his binoculars to observe the direction of the enemy situation for a while, as if the enemy had not come, of course, the burning chariots in front of him, and the machine gun bullets that exploded from time to time, really made him neither see clearly, nor hear really.

He asked his gunner to go to the front to reconnoitre, jumped out of the car himself, and motioned for the commander behind to come down and discuss the next move together. He expected the enemy to attack in order, with one or two reconnaissance vehicles coming first. So they had to agree on whether the next step would be to defend the village or use the terrain to launch an ambush first and destroy the enemy's reconnaissance team.

The commanders were at a loss for a moment, because they had just found that at a long distance, the enemy's firepower far exceeded their own, and the armor could not penetrate, and it seemed that only close combat had a chance, but how to set up ambushes to form the conditions for close combat?

While brainstorming, the gun commander ran back from the front in a panic.

"They're rushing."

"A roundabout, or a small group of scouts?"

"No, they're all here, without a detour, straight ahead."

The opponent was like a stunned young man with no tactical literacy, and without conducting any reconnaissance, he actually pursued him directly, and the Japanese tank commanders had no time to discuss it, so they could only retreat to the village first. It seems that it is too late to turn around, so you can only reverse the car and retreat, and keep firing to see if you can bluff the other party.

As they climbed onto the tank, they could already hear the distant sound of steel colliding and twisting, which was the Chinese tank crashing into the destroyed Japanese tank. They really didn't take a detour, which is completely different from the initiative of the Chinese army that they had previously recognized.

Jiang Weiguo's first car advanced along the retreat route of the Japanese army in the jungle, and the Japanese artillery fire passed through the woods and began to form a counterattack. He didn't want to rush out directly to compete in armor and firepower, he had the advantage of the radio, and he couldn't talk about it without playing some small tricks. He ordered the three cars to detour to the intersection where Chu Aiyun had escaped just now, and launched an attack from where he was unexpected.