As expected, the Japanese army sent reinforcements to the breakthrough area of ​​the Expeditionary Force... It should be said that the Japanese army's reaction speed was quite fast. Ten minutes after the battle in Sedanghe, the reinforcements arrived at the destination and launched an attack on the two wings of the Expeditionary Force.

But these attacks were futile, mainly because the Japanese army had insufficient estimates of the strength of the expeditionary force, or it could be said that Zhang Chi's "shock strategy" was used very successfully. The Japanese army always thought that the 200th Division trapped in Tonggu had exhausted ammunition and had no combat effectiveness. In fact, they had every reason to believe that the intelligence from the 55th Division of the Japanese army was that the Chinese army had entered the stage of saving ammunition. Faced with the attack of the 55th Division, they even began to collect guns and ammunition left by the Japanese army on the battlefield.

So in this case, the Japanese commander thought that the Chinese army was just fighting to trap beasts and used the few remaining ammunition to break through Se Danghe, so the troops coming to reinforce did not even bring many mortars or heavy machine guns, and they used the speed of 100 meters to sprint.

But soon the Japanese army discovered that they were wrong and very wrong.

They suffered an unprecedented blow, and they estimated that the firepower of the Chinese army in front of them was even more than that of two Chinese divisions.

Of course, there were not two Chinese divisions fighting the Japanese army on both wings, but only one engineer regiment... The reason why the Japanese army made such a wrong estimate was because he was accustomed to roughly judge the enemy's strength based on the density of machine guns, and Enfield in the hands of the engineer regiment was like a machine gun, and there were dozens of tanks on machine guns and artillery, so the firepower was comparable to that of the two divisions in an instant.

"Where did the Chinese troops of these two divisions emerge?!" Masao Watanabe was furious about this.

"Lieutenant General!" Chief of Staff Akira Ikeda also came in with a telegram and reported: "I just received a telegram from Yuta Harada, Harada, that was not reinforcements from the Chinese army, but the Chinese army obtained a large number of equipment from the British armored regiment and used it, so there were so many tanks and such strong firepower!"

"So that's how it is!" Watanabe Masao nodded and asked immediately, "How is Harada-kun's situation?"

"They... have all been killed!"

Masao Watanabe couldn't help but sigh: "They are worthy of being soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire!"

After pausing, Masao Watanabe felt something was wrong again: "If the Chinese had such strong equipment, why wouldn't the 55th Division notice it at all?"

"This is the Chinese trick!" Akira Ikeda also pushed the glasses on his nose and replied awkwardly: "According to the information we have obtained, the ones who have been dressed in British tanks and rifles are likely to be the Chinese engineer regiment rather than the main force fighting against the 55th Division."

"What? Engineer Corps?" Watanabe Masao looked at Akiya Ikeda in disbelief: "You mean...we lost to the Chinese Engineer Corps?!"

Akira Ikeda hesitated for a while, but finally nodded.

"Bastard!" Masao Watanabe punched hard on the table, shaking his cup so much that he jumped up.

"Lieutenant General!" Akira Ikeda also suggested: "Order the troops to stop attacking. The Chinese have so many tanks and British rifles in their hands, and our attack will only be Tulao!"

Masao Watanabe thought about it and had no choice but to nod helplessly.

This is not only because the 56th Division forced 200 kilometers in three days without much heavy equipment, but also because the Japanese army generally lacks anti-tank equipment... The opponents Japan faces mainly the relatively backward countries in Southeast Asia, such as China, the Philippines, etc. These countries basically do not have any advanced tanks or armored vehicles, and occasionally a few are not enough to compete with Japanese aircraft, cannons and tanks, so the Japanese army basically does not need any anti-tank equipment.

But as the saying goes, "born from distress and died from happiness", this situation directly caused the Japanese army to be almost blank in anti-tanks at this time. The Type 97 anti-tank rifle was developed in a hurry before the battle against the Soviet Union, and then it was only produced in a small amount because it was almost unnecessary on the battlefield.

So, suddenly an armored unit and a capable armored unit appeared in front of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army felt a little helpless.

From this we can also see how a pity it was for the British Seventh Armored Brigade to flee without fighting on the battlefield in Myanmar. Nearly 200 tanks were able to gallop across the plains south of Tonggu under the cover of the air force, which made the Japanese army flee everywhere, but they chose to escape and could not even run away. In the end, they had to leave the tanks to the Japanese to make them weapons for the Japanese to deal with the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

"Notify the flight team with this information!" Watanabe Masao could only order: "In addition, order the armored troops to catch up as fast as possible!"

"Yes!" Ikeda Akira also responded, turned around and conveyed the order.

The most direct experience of this order is the engineering regiment that was fighting fiercely with the Japanese army on the front line.

At this time, Zhang Chi and others were still firing strings of bullets to the Japanese army.

The battle seems to have become simple. In the past, when facing the Japanese army, the Kuomintang often had to use four to one or even ten to one force to achieve basically equivalent combat effectiveness. (Note: Four to one is the direct troops of the National Army with well-equipped direct troops. The combat effectiveness of a division of 9,000 people is the combat effectiveness of more than 2,000 people in a Japanese army; the 10 to one is the ordinary troops of the National Army, that is, the national army of a division is basically equivalent to a Japanese army brigade of more than 1,000 people.)

But now, after the Engineer Regiment had tanks, Enfield rifles and sufficient ammunition, all they had to do seemed to be hiding behind the tank and hitting the bullets in pieces at the enemy, and then watching teams of Japanese troops rushing up and down, then rushing up and down...

Of course, there are also bullets and artillery shells fired from the Japanese army that caused the Expeditionary Army soldiers to fall from time to time, but due to the gap in firepower and the cover of tanks, the casualties between the two sides were completely disproportionate.

As for whether the Japanese 56th Division was the "king of jungle warfare", they didn't care, because as long as they suspected that the Japanese army was hiding in the jungle, they just needed to bombard the jungle with tank guns and heavy machine guns.

Then suddenly, Zhang Chi and others felt the pressure lighter, and the Japanese army and their bullets disappeared into the darkness.

"Stop shooting, stop shooting!" Wang Mazi called several times before the soldiers of the Engineering Corps stopped their actions. There was no way, and a considerable number of them did not adapt to this frontal battlefield.

"The Japanese are retreating!" I don't know who said.

After pausing, the soldiers cheered:

"The Japanese are retreating!"

"Victory!"

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Chapter completed!