The officers rushed out and looked over there, the smoke and dust were billowing behind the Japanese position, and the enemy was turning the weapons on the position around, but the fierce artillery fire had covered it and smashed directly into the enemy's surface position, it seemed that Chu Tingchang's troops still retained artillery? How on earth did he hide his belongings so well?

The Japanese army originally used the simple surface fortifications of the national army to build a blocking position, but they did not dig deep at all, and of course they also deceived the opponent and did not have heavy firepower. If there are a few heavy artillery, it is enough to plow these surface positions into the ground like a withered and decayed one, and I only hate Du Yuming for blowing up the artillery in advance, how much problem did it solve for the enemy? Commander Du is indeed such a person, he usually looks like he is a son who has a deep affection for the cannon, and once he is ruthless, he is faster than anyone else. It seems that the pro-son must be killed by himself.

Fortunately, Chu Tingchang is a person who can live, and now his main artillery is the British 25-pounder gun and the American-made 75mm mountain gun, and there is still a lot of ammunition.

Brooke foresaw in advance that the enemy would take advantage of the original position, so he carefully planned the shelling. Under his command, half of the base was hit in a row, almost all of which covered the heads of the enemy's main forces. Of course, the 49th Division also contributed to it, when digging fortifications, the officers and men of the division were lazy, and the average depth of the trenches was less than four feet.

The US planes in the air were secretly approaching, and it was really impossible to distinguish who was fighting whom, and there was a vague report on the radio that the two sides were fighting fiercely.

Dai Anlan observed with a telescope for 2 minutes, and no longer suspected that it was Chu Tingchang's men and horses, and the only thing he suspected was whether he was dreaming. The density of shelling in the frontal section alone, he saw, at least a howitzer regiment (about 12 105-mm howitzers) was heavily tilting ammunition. In essence, Chu Tingchang has more artillery, if you count the firepower on the tank. Rao Na Japanese army was brave and good at fighting, and could not face the enemy on both sides, and in the blink of an eye, the attempt to strangle the expeditionary force went bankrupt, and he fell into a place of death from which he could not recover.

Dai Anlan's telescope turned to his starting position in the ravine, and saw that the soldiers of the forward battalion had taken off their shirts and were shirtless, and when they saw that the Japanese army was badly attacked, the soldiers were eager to try. His last breakthrough, which was originally intended to be a group charge in a dense formation, was desperate in the end, and now it seems unnecessary, but after thinking about it, it was not enough to change the plan, and he still gave the order to attack.

Each of the three main regiments sent a battalion to charge the Japanese positions. The cavalry of Chu Ting was waiting for an opportunity on the flank, and Brooke had already completed communication with the main force and was coordinating firepower.

The Japanese army was so burned by the bombing that they had no idea that they were attacking again. The shelling stopped for a while, and as soon as I raised my head, the infantry group on that side had already rushed very close, and then I wanted to turn the guns from the other side, but it was too late, and the soldiers of the expeditionary force with bayonets and * easily rushed into the first trench and started a close hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army.

The tanks and armored vehicles attacking from the south were temporarily halted, because in the confusion, the flat fire of both sides could pass through the battlefield and cause accidental damage. On the position, most of the heavy weapons of the Japanese army have been bombed, and although the soldiers and junior officers are still resisting, they are divided and fragmented, and they are completely out of shape. The soldiers of the 18th Division still remember the bet they made with the 5th Division when they left Singapore, and they bet on whether the 18th Division would go to India first, or the 5th Division would go to Australia first. How arrogant and heroic the season was, and now they had to think about who would go to hell first.

Although the expeditionary force lacked the weapons of the attack, it still retained a large number of *, which was the only cheap weapon that the British did not hesitate to provide, and each division below the fifth army was reinforced with more than 400 of them, and this ugly weapon was especially useful in the trenches, and soon the assault troops penetrated the enemy's second line of defense and opened up with the opposite side.

Immediately a correspondent crossed the enemy's line of defense and ran to this side. The assault area was roughly explained to Tao Mingzhang's troops, and their respective attack channels were divided, and the tanks on this side started to attack again, and several troops were like dogs staggered up and down, tearing apart the enemy's defense line from two directions. Chu Tingchang's cavalry rushed down and delivered the final blow to the remnants of the enemy.

Over there, the Expeditionary Force Command had already begun to pack its bags and prepare to pass. Let the direct troops cover, and move with the rear hospital and baggage troops. Chu Tingchang specially reminded Dai Anlan with the radio, suggesting that he did not need to rush to break through, he had a car to pick up the wounded, and at the same time he should take the opportunity to destroy the enemy. He judged that the enemy's division and regimental headquarters were somewhere behind the position, in fact, of course, he knew where it was, but he couldn't say it clearly, in case others thought that they could pinch and calculate, and they were wise and close to demons. However, his cavalry quickly pounced, and it was to end the enemy's division and regimental headquarters.

Dai Anlan put on a steel helmet and was about to personally go to the front to supervise the battle, when a military doctor crowded to the front.

"Division commander, good news, Commander Du moved just now, as if he was about to wake up."

He was stunned for a moment: "You read it wrong, where is it so fast." ”

The doctor was puzzled: "But ......"

"Chief Du is highly poisoned in his body, even if he wakes up, he may talk nonsense, you go and give him an injection of anesthetic and let him lie down."

Dropping a sentence, Dai Anlan took his direct company to the front line. He is still faced with the choice of whether to go east or west, but he has already made a decision in his heart, so he doesn't want Shidu Yuming or Chongqing to interfere with this matter, not only for the sake of the army's survival, he is not too worried about this matter; It is also for a longer-term purpose - what kind of attitude will the troops throw into revenge in the future.

He saw the fire performance of Chu Ting's composite regiment, the tank cut into the enemy formation like a hot knife cutting into the cream, and followed the extended fire to advance 100 meters behind, he saw it, the rear half-track vehicle followed closely, and the vehicle-mounted infantry finally resolved the battle, and he also saw it. His heart fluctuated when he saw it.

He is the ancestor of the armored forces of the Chinese army, but what he sees today is not at all the armored warfare situation that the Soviet instructors predicted back then. Soviet instructors Any tank approaching the cavalry, most of the time had to go around the position, and if infantry was needed, the infantry had to crouch on the tank and jump down when encountering the enemy. In short, the synergy between the infantry and the artillery is only at the simplest level. This, of course, is determined by the weak technical base.

The Synthesis Regiment was a different story, with Grant relying on powerful firepower and almost impenetrable armor; Equipped with the communication capability of the single vehicle, indicating the artillery fire to cover the area where the tank is advancing, following the armored vehicle without disjointed, always replenishing the dead angle of the tank's firing range, and the vehicle-mounted infantry easily occupying the position, the entire operation is coordinated and done in one go, which is simply the efficient combat method he dreamed of. If he returns to China, his troops are not destined to acquire these capabilities.

The cavalry quickly rushed to the vicinity of the enemy's headquarters, right in a local village. There were still a dozen light and heavy machine guns, blockading the perimeter and putting up desperate resistance. Brooke's artillery received the request for shelling, and ping-pong smashed the shells, and all the low adobe houses in the village were shattered, and the enemy's firepower suddenly weakened by more than half. There is simply no solid rock mass to rely on for this.

Soldiers stormed the village and engaged in several skirmishes, and most of the Japanese troops had been killed and wounded by *fragments. The troops rushed into the command and found that the Supreme Commander was only a major general, who had committed suicide by seppuku and was lying in a pool of blood and convulsing. Captured the 1st Division's Guanfang Great Seal and Mutaguchi's military uniform combat knife. But Mutaguchi himself was not found.

Over there, Lin Xiuxuan commanded the troops to begin to retreat, and he now served as the vanguard, opening a way for his troops to survive. They also avoided meeting with other members of the 5th Army.

Kokura Airport, Kyushu, Japan.

Makino sat on a mound of dirt and waited for the army's weapons tests to begin, and Kishi Nobusuke arranged for him to come and observe the weapons tests as a researcher. However, Kyushu was close to Sakurajima, and he wanted to stop by to see the modification of the salvage cabin, so he reluctantly took a look. He knew that today's test flight was only the first time, and an 800-kilogram counterweight was installed in the fairing.

From afar, I saw the ugly aircraft parked at the end of the runway, with improvised landing gear underneath, and when the test was completed (if possible), the pilot had to climb out of the cabin and parachute on his own. For this kind of aircraft with a jet engine air intake behind the cockpit, such a sloppy design alone is a haphazard disregard for human life, but he doesn't want to care about this, the existence of this weapon itself is ridiculous and inhumane.

He saw the pilot just walking over in an ordinary flight suit, with strips of white cloth tied around his head and a combat knife. He shook hands with the officers on the scene, drilled into the rudimentary engine room, and someone came to close the thing. It seems that the increased wind resistance of this abrupt cockpit can reduce the speed by tens of kilometers.

The engine started surprisingly smoothly, and then the stupid* began to glide slowly, and due to the lack of thrust, it slid on the runway for a long distance before taking off with its head up, throwing off the landing gear during takeoff. As a weapon with no return, it naturally doesn't need those burdens.

Makino shook his head, fearing that it might disintegrate at any moment. He could tell that the pilots had been trying to pull up, because there was a tendency to lower the head, the cockpit had changed its center of gravity and wind resistance, requiring a greater head-up torque to balance, and the Army was unwilling to lower the warhead counterweight.

He knew that the purpose of the Army's transformation of this thing was actually to attack high-value ground targets, including forts and airstrips, and they were worried that when attacking Australia, the American Army would build strong forts deep along the coast and out of reach of naval guns. The entrance to some fortresses was in the rear, and the dive bombers could not hook it, so they thought of using people to complete it, in short, the Japanese soldiers of this era, once they encountered a problem, the first thing they thought of was to let people sacrifice.

* Slowly ascending, starting to circle barely with a slope of less than 5° and a turning radius of more than 2 km. There is an Army Type 97 fighter that has already taken off and is observing from the side, it seems that this bloated and fat man* is not much faster than the 97, maybe the speed is less than 550 kilometers per hour, that is, it is about the same as the Zero fighter.

The aircraft did not accelerate all the way, but continued to pulse ignition, and the intermittent white wake ejection from behind could be seen. After a few laps of circle, climbing to about 1500 meters, * began a dive. It's probably the experimental table speed. But it seems to have suddenly lost its rudder effect, and suddenly it couldn't pull it up, and it stood straight down. Right in front of Makino's eyes, this one* hit the ground and began to burn.

Makino watched people carrying fire extinguishers to put out the fire, he didn't care at all, raised his hand to look at his watch, and took off for 7 minutes. The wreck took a little longer than he expected, at least...... The engines supplied by Germany were barely functional.