"Fight!" When the Japanese vanguard broke into Tangji, Wang Mazi made a quick decision to issue an order to start the war.

The first thing to be hit is the side three-wheelers that are at the forefront... The Japanese army's habit of marching is to use side three-wheelers to open the way. It should be said that this is a good habit, because side three-wheelers are not a heavy equipment, and they do not require much force. Even if they are attacked by the enemy, it is not a pity to lose money. Moreover, they have a good vision and can walk no matter what the road is. It is very suitable to be placed in front for reconnaissance missions.

Just like this time, if the Japanese army was ahead of tanks or cars, then they would lose heavy equipment or suffer a lot of casualties.

But the Japanese army was not much better at this time, because the soldiers were prepared for the Japanese situation... The Engineer Regiment had fought with the Japanese army for several years in China. He knew the Japanese marching habits, so he would not waste the tank gun shells on the side three wheels. The infantry fired a row of bullets and immediately made the three wheels run around in a row.

Then the tanks rumbled forward... Tangji Town is located at a high place and the highway is located at a low place, so there is also a position similar to the ridgeline of the highlands on the edge of Tangji Town. As soon as the tanks drove to the ridgeline, what they saw was the Japanese convoy placed in front of them half a circle along the highway below, so they would be polite. At that moment, the Japanese convoy fired rows of bullets and shells.

There were forty tanks and forty armored vehicles. At random, there were forty cannons and hundreds of machine guns. In addition, the light machine guns and Enfield rifles in the hands of two infantry soldiers on the two high grounds outside the town, the bullets poured out toward the Japanese convoy from different directions and angles.

The Japanese army was stunned on the spot. Many of their tanks and cars were hit by dense bullets and shells before they could react... and even several Type 97 tanks were destroyed in one encounter without time. This does not mean that the Japanese Type 97 tanks were not fired. Although it was indeed not fired, it generally did not even have time to react. At least it was like a "medium tank" like it could still block most of the bullets and shells.

This is true, but at this time the Type 97 tank was advancing along the highway, and the road was crossed in front of Tangji Town. It was not until the entrance of the village that it turned a steep slope to reach Tangji. This means... the Type 97 tank exposed its weak side armor to the firepower of the engineer regiment tanks and armored vehicles, and its side armor was only more than ten millimeters thick. So the heavy machine gun of the armored vehicle went down and fired the Type 97 to smoke.

In an instant, the road became lively. The shells flew out from the barrels of the m3 and m4 tanks lined up, and Japanese tanks were bombed into the sky... The Japanese army on the car even jumped out of the car without rushing, and were blown into the air by the whole vehicle.

Some fast-moving Japanese or engineers' tank firepower cars were lucky enough to survive the rain of tank shells... This was mainly caused by poor coordination between the engineers' tanks and tanks. After all, the gunners and tank crew of the engineers' regiment only went through a few simple days of training. Although they participated in several practical battles later and grew up quickly in actual combat, coordination sometimes requires tacit understanding and takes a long time to form. The engineers' tank players are still insufficient in this regard.

Under this shortcoming, a situation will occur in these forty tanks: several of them will aim at the same target at the same time. For example, the first shot that everyone fires up likes to aim at the enemy tanks... It is not their fault. There is a saying that the best weapon to deal with a tank is a tank, which means that the biggest threat to a tank is a tank, so the first target that the tank gunners look for on the battlefield is an enemy tank.

The only two Type 97 and three Type 95 came up in the Japanese army, while the tank troops of the Engineering Corps had more than half of the firepower, that is, more than twenty artillery artillery and dozens of machine guns, all fired according to these five tanks... This undoubtedly caused a considerable waste of firepower.

Afterwards, it was analyzed that in fact, those Japanese tanks did not need tank guns to deal with, because at this time they exposed their weak side armor to the soldiers, and only heavy machine guns could solve them. And when tank guns were used to deal with cars, it was a perfect match... After one shot, the entire Japanese army would be blown away or lose their combat effectiveness.

From this point of view, the quality and training level of an army are still very important. Sometimes it will play the role of using the least ammunition on the battlefield and causing the greatest casualties to the enemy in the shortest time.

The engineer regiment did not have such training level, but the casualties caused to the Japanese army were not small. The reason was that although the Japanese army had time to jump out of the car and organize defense, they soon discovered that they could not organize defense at all: the enemy's tanks, armored vehicles and other heavy weapons on the front, the enemy infantry on the back, and the enemy was all condescending, and they had no cover to hide, so they could only get beaten!

So the next second they quickly changed from organizational defense to retreat... The Japanese army did not retreat at any time, just like now that they were surrounded by the enemy, if they still rushed forward or stayed in place to fight, it would be no different from waiting to die.

Of course, the soldiers of the Engineering Corps would not let them go so easily. Several tanks and armored vehicles immediately spontaneously took on the task of firepower to block their retreat, and immediately knocked them down in pieces like a tide.

However, the battle ended in more than ten minutes. The road was full of cars, wreckage of tanks and corpses of Japanese troops. At least five or six hundred Japanese troops were wiped out in this battle... The reason why so many people were killed was that there were not enough Japanese cars.

As mentioned before, the Japanese army even transferred the logistics and transported cars for the 56th Division to use to Lashio. In this situation of tight cars, the Japanese army of the 56th Division also squeezed forward with more than 30 people... So the more than 20 cars that broke into the encirclement of the engineering regiment included more than 700 Japanese troops.

Under the firepower of the Engineering Corps, only more than a hundred people were able to escape back.

Cheers soon broke out on the battlefield.

Although there have been impressive results before, they can kill five Japanese soldiers with one battle. No matter what, the soldiers cheered.
Chapter completed!