Of course, what is more chaotic than Chu Tingchang's deployment is Vivel's headquarters, a few hours earlier, he gave up the airdrop rescue of Chu Tingchang, why should he give supplies to the doomed Chinese? Stilwell spoke, and now he didn't shine.

He ordered the empty headquarters of the 4th Army to pack up and blow up railway bridge warehouses everywhere to prepare for a big escape.

An hour earlier, Churchill had given him vague instructions on how not to repeat the Singapore scene. This directive can be understood as fighting to the death to the end, or it can be understood as the need to slip away as soon as possible, perhaps the prime minister's cleverness lies in this. In short, according to his own understanding, Vivier avoided the scene of tens of thousands of British troops disarming, so he ordered his 4th Army headquarters to withdraw, and of course ordered Slim's troops to quietly break away from Sun Liren's department and occupy the road first, so as to take the opportunity to escape. At this time, Sun Liren's division was fighting fiercely with the 31st Division east of the Ganges.

Chu Tingchang was too lazy to pay attention to the British, and did not send a report to explain his intentions, which deepened the fear of the British, who were afraid that the invincible Japanese had already terminated the command of the Chinese army, otherwise how could the distress call suddenly be interrupted?

In order to grasp the position of the Japanese, Vivier ordered the bombers to take off in advance and fly to the besieged position of the 200th Division, ostensibly attacking the Japanese troops, but in essence to see the movements of the Japanese.

When the British planes flew over the heads of the Japanese troops, the Japanese were still gathered on the side of the road to sleep, which was the coolest time of the day, and the Japanese were indeed too tired, and the British planes flew to their heads and dropped bombs, and they didn't care. The British dropped bombs indiscriminately, exploding nearby, and could not even wake up the soldiers.

The British pilots reported to the command via radio that the enemy's heavy weapons were neatly arranged, and the troops were in a tight formation, and there was no confusion in spite of the heavy air raids.

Chu Tingchang's counterattack was the first to start from the east, and Tao Mingzhang's troops took advantage of the night to move closer to the enemy and enter the attack position. He was worried all night about the enemy's flank alert troops, and discovered his intention in advance, which made the attack lose its suddenness, after all, the Japanese marched and arranged in a very regular manner, and the army at the wing level would rarely be exploited in this kind of link.

But a miracle happened, and the scouts reported back and forth, and the enemy was shrinking near the road, without any flank deployment, and all sleeping.

His artillery quietly entered the position, waited for the target indicated by the forward observation post and the order to fire from the superiors, and after the order was given, the artillery group opened heavy fire on the target, and the infantry followed the barrage to attack the attack.

The 56th Wing of the Japanese Army was not only sleeping soundly, but did not even build any fortifications, and the telegram from Shangfeng never arrived, and they did not know that the division headquarters had not been blown up, so they had been rigidly carrying out the last instructions issued by their superiors: gather the troops in place to correct and be ready to pursue at any time.

When they were in China, they had experienced too much of the rout, so they were completely relaxed. I didn't expect the enemy to suddenly come out and shoot down such a heavy artillery fire.

In 2 days, the 56th Wing left Calcutta, and it has been relying on two legs, following the wheel of Chu Tingchang's truck, and now the troops have not fought a battle, but the strength is still very complete. But today they were the first to be unlucky, and the shells exploded in the dense marching columns. The Japanese soldiers who woke up from their dreams began to stagger and scatter to avoid the artillery, and the officers were also in a dizzy state, and no officers realized that they should immediately disarm the heavy machine guns and mountain guns from the horses, because they were going to fight a tough battle.

Of course, Tao Mingzhang made up his mind to use one of his most experienced infantry battalions to fight the first formation, this battalion could closely follow the artillery to extend the strike, and the other battalions could not do it. They do not give the enemy time to react in time. When the barrage fell, the Chinese army was already in front of them. The Japanese soldiers, who were chasing their horses around, watched with a blank look at the enemy armed with * and * firing at him.

The Chinese troops drove their machine guns to a distance of 70 or 80 meters in front of the enemy's eyes before they began to strafe, and for a time the Japanese army was in great confusion. Former enemies reported that the enemy was completely stunned, and not a single artillery piece was deployed.

Seeing that the enemy's reaction was so inferior, Tao Mingzhang took the risk of letting his half-track car rush forward to increase the attack. He didn't have a tank, so he had to use a half-track with a lot of sandbags as an armored vehicle, and the 12.7mm machine gun on the car was a sharp weapon to annihilate the Japanese army, which could suppress the Japanese firepower below the anti-aircraft guns.

His adventure was successful, and in front of him was the most vulnerable Japanese army he had ever encountered in his life, which was very different from the previous Japanese army.

Within minutes of his other two battalions arriving and entering the battle, the Japanese were slaughtered one-sidedly, with only a handful of light machine guns launching a counterattack. The enemy neither retreats nor can organize an effective counterattack, so stupidly near the road, using simple terrain to carry out an unorganized and chaotic counterattack, exposed to ten times their firepower.

The half-track slowly advanced while firing, and the enemy's firepower was so weak that it could no longer threaten these "quasi-armored vehicles". These infantry transport vehicles were used exclusively as tanks. They attract most of the enemy's attention and firepower, but there is no accurate fire that can effectively destroy these vehicles. The Japanese grenadiers bloomed in all directions, but they could not hit the frontal projection of the armored vehicle. The enemy's tactical literacy is inferior to such a level.

In fact, the 56th Wing was twice beaten by the 200th Division in Burma, and it was the wing with the most new recruits in the 18th Division.

Two British Mosquito planes flew over the battlefield in a hurry, and the smoke below did not clear, and it was difficult to see the situation clearly. The pilot reported in the telegram that the Japanese and Chinese forces were engaged in an exchange of fire to the east, which appeared to be a brigade-level exchange of fire, with the Japanese having a huge advantage.

In fact, the pilot did not dare to fly low at all, and took a closer look through the smoke, but it did not prevent this veteran bird who had participated in the war for more than half a year from filling up the information to fill it up. Before he took off, he knew that the enemy situation in front of him was serious, and he had psychological hints, so when he saw that the battle below was so bad, he naturally thought that the Japanese army had won again.

Tao Mingzhang deliberately delayed the charge, waiting to join the battle as a business in reserve. He originally thought that there was no force to form an encirclement, and this battle could only be won quickly, and the deployment was somewhat conservative, leaving the rear hand. Now it seems that the enemy is completely undisciplined and stupidly exposed to unsupported terrain, so why so quickly bayonet? Let the rear troops unfold first. He didn't know that Zuo Chuan of the 56th Wing had died in a crater. This time, it wasn't the strange power of Pavilion Chief Chu that worked, but the real luck that couldn't be stopped.

419 Hearing the British communications, Vivier ordered the abandonment of all warehouses south of Ranchi and the necessary destruction, and it seems that the British had been bitten by snakes for ten years. However, according to Lin Xiuxuan's understanding of the British, when they were in a hurry to escape, they couldn't even do a job like bombing the warehouse, and he reminded Chu Tingchang to leave some mobile troops waiting to receive the materials discarded by the British army.

Guo Rugui accompanied Tao Mingzhang to watch the battle with the artillery team mirror not far away, and saw that the last battalion pushed the direct-fire gun up, and the firepower increased again, and the enemy had no power to fight back at all. On the hillside on the ground in the distance, there were dense yellow fragments, and it was impossible to tell whether it was the corpse of the Japanese soldier or the baggage truck that blew up the military uniform.

These days, Tao Mingzhang has just carried out three chapters in the army to rectify military discipline, one is to abolish the small stove of officers, the second is to prohibit officers from beating and scolding soldiers, and the third is to stipulate that in every battle, the officers of the company and platoon should take the lead in charging and must not retreat. This Tao Mingzhang is really a talent.

At the same time, Zhou Youfu was on the flank to prevent the enemy's 55th Wing from counterattacking, the position was not far from Tao Mingzhang, of course, he could already hear the sound of artillery from the east, and he could hear the one-sided situation, because he did not hear the enemy's 75th mountain artillery firing, it was all all kinds of their own firepower. He was anxious when he heard it.

In the current situation, Chu Tingchang grabbed the tank in his hand as a gold ingot, and no one gave it to him; However, because of the position and situation of the troops on both sides, the artillery was given to Tao Mingzhang for him to attack, and he faced a broken wing here, which was actually very easy to deal with, but unfortunately there was neither firepower nor mobile forces in hand, only simple motorized infantry, which could only be reinforced.

He and Tao Mingzhang have been parting ways with each other, and he knows very well that once the 200th Division is reorganized, someone will inevitably rise to prominence. He and Tao have the loudest voices, and each has its own advantages. Tao Mingzhang can speak English, and the technical equipment and American advisers follow him, and the Americans even give him an artillery observation team, which makes Zhou Youfu very jealous. However, he has the advantage of having Chu Ting's long and thick legs to hold, but he also needs actual combat military skills. He prayed that the enemy would make a mistake in front of him and attack quickly, so that he could make a good block.

Sure enough, the 55th Wing couldn't sit still in front of them, and began to have some reconnaissance troops approaching Zhou Youfu's ambush position. After a hit, he retreated, but it was a sign that the enemy was coming.

Kentaro Ekusa really couldn't sit still, and he could hear the one-sided shelling there for an hour. He asked the division headquarters for a plan of action, but there was no reply at all, and the call to the 56th Wing did not answer, feeling that he and his troops were completely cut off. However, he still has some tanks of the tank wing in his hands, which can quickly attack, of course, there is not much fuel, and he can no longer make a detour, so he can only rush along the road. He asked the tank unit to quickly approach the 56th Wing to see what the enemy situation was.

The interim commander of the tank wing, just a second lieutenant, swooped straight in the direction of the gunfire with the remaining 8 97 tanks, which were also the last few Japanese tanks in India.

The second lieutenant wanted to take advantage of the low temperature in the early morning to give full play to the speed of the tanks, so he quickly threw off the infantry, knowing that when the sun came out, these tanks would have all kinds of problems, and they would not be easy to control. Chu Tingchang told Zhou Youfu that the enemy had tanks, but there would not be many, so he deployed the machine gun company to the flank of the position in advance, and these troops took over the anti-aircraft guns for a short time, and Chu Tingchang was in a hurry to send the British away, so he was quite unfamiliar with the operation of the 20-mm machine gun. But after all, he is an old infantryman, and he has a good set of concealment. Soon all 10 Erley anti-aircraft guns were camouflaged as dense as the bushes on the hillside.

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