If you don't drive the tank away or fight with the Japanese, there seems to be no third way to go.

But in fact there are.

Zhang Chi waved his hand and said to the soldiers under his command: "Did you see those big tanks? We will pick the tanks and drive them."

Anyone can understand this. Generally speaking, big tanks have thick armor, strong firepower and ammunition, so of course they are the first choice.

"Then..." Zhang Chi raised his head to the village not far away and said, "Let's hide the tanks in the village!"

"Hide in the village?" The soldiers were stunned when they heard this.

The big tank that Zhang Chi mentioned was the American M4 Sherman tank... As for why the British armored forces used the American M3 and M4 tanks, the reason was that the United States provided war materials to allies in 1941 last year, which of course included Britain, so Britain obtained a large number of American tanks. (Note: The British Firefly tank was modified on the basis of Sherman in 1942 and was in the development stage at this time)

You should know that this Sherman tank is a medium tank with a body of three meters high and three meters wide. There are no other hidden objects in the nearby village except for more than a dozen thatched huts and bamboo houses. The soldiers did not understand how this tank could hide in the village without attracting the attention of the Japanese army.

Zhang Chi didn't say much, but just shouted: "Time is tight, so a few people drove a tank to the village to gather!"

"Yes!" the soldiers responded, knowing that it was a time for life and death, so they didn't ask much. Every four, five people found a Sherman in groups and drove to the village.

Not to mention, these soldiers of the Engineering Corps are very good at driving tanks, and they can drive the tanks into the village in a steady manner without turning on the lights.

After entering the village, Zhang Chi glanced around and drove seven Shermans in total. So he stopped hesitating and shouted to the others: "Follow me!"

As he said that, he directed the tank to turn a corner and crashed from behind into the hut... With a "crackling" sound, the tank got into the hut and lost its trace.

When the soldiers saw this, they suddenly realized that the tanks were indeed favored, but there was a hut outside as a disguise, and they crashed into it from another aspect. It was difficult for the Japanese army to find out what was wrong with the hut when they came over from the other end of the road.

So the soldiers followed suit and drove tanks one by one into the hut and hid.

Fortunately, the hut made by the Burmese people was very strong, and the side was smashed by a tank and was still intact. So the batch of seven tanks were hidden very well.

The only surprise was... there was an old Burmese man in one of the huts who had not been withdrawn. He was chased back by his fellow villagers and tied up. He didn't want the old Burmese man to inform the Japanese.

After seven tanks stopped one after another, the village returned to its original state as if nothing had happened. If anything was different, it was the hut that looked a bit broken and shaky, but there was nothing abnormal. Others would understand it as the consequence of the shells.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi felt that this would not deceive the Japanese, and the Japanese would eventually find them hiding in the village.

There are two reasons:

First, after Japan occupied the nearby area, it was impossible for such a large village to be placed without searching. At that time, tanks hiding in the hut would appear no matter what.

Another thing is that when Sherman drove into the village, she left a lot of track marks. If the Japanese noticed these traces, they would easily find their locations along the track marks.

Therefore, Zhang Chi seemed to have only one choice, and that was surprisingly surprising to use the seven tanks in his hand to fight against the Japanese.

So Zhang Chi immediately poked his head out of the turret and shouted to his fellow villagers: "Pass the order and prepare for battle!"

"yes!".

Just as the fellow villager was about to convey the order, Zhang Chi called him back: "Aim at the car on the road, do you understand?"

"I understand!" The fellow villager responded and ran towards the darkness.

"Platform leader!" Xiao Zhejiang, who was hiding in the tank, was responsible for manipulating machine guns, shouted to Zhang Chi: "Are we going to fight?"

"Fight!" Zhang Chi replied.

"But...we only have one rank..." Xiao Zhejiang was obviously a little scared.

Zhang Chi did not answer, but in fact he felt a little nervous. Just as Xiao Zhejiang said, they only had one platoon, and there were at least thousands of Japanese people.

But after thinking about it, Zhang Chi still felt that there was no other choice except to fight. After all, there was hope of survival when fighting. If you don’t fight, you would have to wait for death.

Zhang Chi wanted to say something exciting to inspire morale, but his head was blank with weak feet. After a long time, he could only make a "hum" sound from his nose.

What Zhang Chi didn't know was that Zhang Chi's silence and the "hum" were naturally understood by the soldiers such as Xiao Zhejiang, as the platoon leader disdained to speak or did not care about the huge gap in the powerful force between the enemy and us, so he felt calm and immediately mustered up the courage to prepare for battle.

Later, Xiao Zhejiang still wrote in his diary: "I always thought that although the platoon leader was extraordinary, he did not have enough courage. However, the battle at Wajie Bridge completely changed me, because even a veteran like the old squad leader was frightened that night, but the platoon leader was as calm as Mount Tai!"

Of course, Xiao Zhejiang didn’t know that Zhang Chi’s “calm as stable as Mount Tai” was actually scared to death.

The Japanese army crossed the river at a slower speed than imagined... In fact, this is not that the Japanese army is slower, but that the Japanese army cannot believe that the British army will give up the tanks and break through. You must know that they are dozens of advanced tanks. If it were the Japanese army, they would fight to the end and even break the equipment for this batch of equipment.

Besides, the Japanese army knew very well that they were not able to fight against British tanks with light equipment, so they had no intention of defending the British armored regiment from the beginning, let alone captive armored regiments. They just wanted to stop the armored regiments and let them not leave. They made plans when the main force caught up. Who would have thought that the British army would be so vulnerable?

Because they were not mentally prepared, Yuta Harada was always worried that this would be a trap, a trap that led them into the encirclement, so the Japanese army was very cautious all the way, which made them not come to the tanks and cars left behind by the British army until forty minutes later.

Finally, he came. Looking through the window at the darkness not far away, he looked at the figures that were rushing forward quickly with their waists and swallowed their saliva with difficulty.
Chapter completed!