After thinking about it, Masaichi Yuan thought there was only one way, which was to use anti-tank trenches to stop the attack of the Chinese team's tanks, while his tanks and armored vehicles were buried underground and exposed only with turrets and piled up sandbags to build bunkers. This could be used as a fire point and not easily discovered and destroyed by the enemy.

Objectively speaking, Masaichi Genuchi's tactics are not very clever, because basically no one will do this... The advantage of tanks and armored vehicles is ultimately mobility. Tanks and armored vehicles that lose mobility are not much different from living coffins.

But his tactics are the most correct decision made after helplessly executing defense orders and comparing and analyzing the enemy and us.

The ideal result of this tactic is to use camouflaged anti-tank trenches to destroy the enemy's tanks or suffer heavy losses. Then the enemy can only rely on infantry attacks, so the tanks and armored vehicles buried in the ground can play a role.

Masaichi Genuchi's tactics almost succeeded because the British fought this way and the situation of the war developed so much. The mistake was... The one who attacked first was not the Chinese who could fight but the British who were not good at using it.

And now, because the Chinese already know the trap of Masaichi Inui, it is impossible to be fooled again.

"How should I fight now?" Wang Mazi asked.

"It's easy to fight!" Zhang Chi just smiled.

After obtaining the approval of the peak, the Chinese troops quickly took over the British defense line.

Perhaps it was a demonstration to the retreating British and Indian troops, but this should be said to be a ridicule. Before the British and Indian troops could retreat quickly, the battle between the Chinese team's attack on Mandalay began.

First of all, the shells were also fired. The New First Division used all the artillery... a howitzer regiment, two mountain artillery battalions, and mortars of various calibers. A total of more than a hundred artillery pieces opened fire on the Japanese defense line at the same time. The shells only exploded with fire and smoke from the Japanese positions. At the same time, the British and Indian troops who were about to retreat turned around and waited.

Unlike the British and Indian troops, the Chinese team's shells did not attack the depth of the Japanese army or the buildings, but bombed back and forth in front of the Japanese defense line. After a few rounds of battle, it stopped.

The purpose of doing this is not to kill many Japanese troops, but to remove the disguise on the anti-tank trench.

Zhang Chi held a telescope in the trenches and looked in the direction of the Japanese army. The shelling effect was still very good. The Japanese tank trench was completely exposed to the sight of the Central Team. Even if the smoke from the shells had not yet dissipated, he could see clearly.

The next thing was easy to deal with. Zhang Chi waved his hand and several Sherman tanks that had been equipped with push shovels and converted into bulldozers drove up under the cover of infantry.

Almost at the same time, the artillery fired several smoke bombs in the direction of the Japanese army, and then the shells poured out one round after another on the Japanese positions.

The purpose of these artillery fires is still not to kill the Japanese army, but to interfere with the Japanese army's sight, making the Japanese anti-tank gunners unable to shoot at the Sherman tanks with confidence.

In fact, this is just for the sake of safety... At this time, most of the anti-tank guns equipped by the Japanese army were Type 94 anti-tank guns, which could only penetrate 30mm steel plates at a distance of 1,000 meters and 40mm steel plates at a distance of 500 meters. However, the front armor of the Sherman tank was 51mm, and the turret armor thickness even reached 76.2mm, and it was tilted. This thickness was not something that the Japanese anti-tank gun could deal with.

But things on the battlefield are always careful to make ten thousand-year-old ships. Moreover, even if the anti-tank gun hits the tank, even if it cannot be destroyed, the kinetic energy will cause certain damage and trouble to the tankers in the tank. So Zhang Chi decided to let the artillery fire provide cover for the Sherman tanks.

The next thing was like an engineer working... I saw several Sherman tanks moving forward and retreating, pushing piles of new soil and bricks and tiles that scattered when the building collapsed into the anti-tank trench. Not long after, a section of the anti-tank trench was filled.

In fact... this method is useless if it is used elsewhere or facing other enemies, because the enemy will not allow these tanks to blatantly fill the anti-tank trenches in front of the defense line. When the tanks are operating, various anti-tank weapons and even tanks will drive up to destroy these bold tanks.

But at this time, the Chinese team was facing the Japanese army, which was very weak in anti-tank equipment, especially the almost blank for Sherman tanks, so Sherman tanks could become popular in front of them.

The Japanese army soon knew the intentions of these tanks, and at the same time realized that the Chinese team could not fill the tank trench, otherwise the subsequent war would be a nightmare, so they immediately organized several blasting teams to blow up the tanks.

However, they soon found it very difficult to do this, because there was a tank trench in front of them. In order to trap the Sherman tanks in the middle of the country, they dug the tank trench more than two meters deep and four meters wide. If they wanted to blow up the tank, they had to jump over the trench very "high-profile", which would only attract bullets from the Chinese soldiers who had been prepared on the other side.

As a result, the Japanese army did this. The Japanese army carried all their equipment and even held explosive bags. In this case, it was not easy to jump over the anti-tank trench more than four meters wide, which made them run a stretch... At this time, the Chinese team easily discovered them. When they soared into the air, they stood in front of them like excellent targets. So a bullet passed by quickly knocked them into bloody men, and they had already died before they landed.

Another part of the Japanese army chose to climb over the bottom of the anti-tank trench. This should be said to be feasible. After all, there is no big problem when jumping down the anti-tank trench more than two meters deep. It doesn’t take too much effort to climb up, and you can also hide yourself.

But the problem is that this anti-tank trench is different from a trench. The trench is dug in the shape of a "z". The purpose of digging is to prevent grenades from blowing in the trench, one piece or a machine gun can block the entire trench from beginning to end.

The Japanese army did not think about this when building anti-tank trenches, and dug one of them straight away. So... when these Japanese troops climbed into anti-tank trenches, they suddenly found a grenade thrown from the opposite side, and then machine guns sounded again on both wings.

After an explosion and scream, the anti-tank trench quickly became quiet.
Chapter completed!