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The 599th Regiment launched a counterattack by the Japanese army.

Although Li Tongxiang is sometimes a little confused about small matters, such as covering up or holding grudges when his subordinates violate discipline, he is not at all vague when fighting.

But then again, soldiers often like to fight with such officials... They will protect their subordinates. On the other hand, this is to be polite to subordinates. This is much better than those officials who ignore the lives of soldiers and only climb up by themselves.

It is said that Li Tongxiang was still a battalion commander when he was fighting against Kunlun Pass. He threw down his gun with a ruthless voice at the Japanese high ground that he could not capture for a long time. He picked up a big knife and rushed forward with his soldiers. His soldiers were also excited and roared towards the Japanese high ground regardless of life and death. As a result, he really took down the Japanese high ground. However, Li Tongxiang was lifted down, and his body was covered with blood and wounds stabbed by Japanese bayonets everywhere, but he miraculously survived.

At this time, Li Tongxiang was still not old. He did enough intelligence during the day and knew the distribution of Japanese troops in the city, so he led the troops to push the defense line for more than a mile... You should know that it took the Japanese army two days to take this mile-distance area, and they only took more than an hour.

Even if the war came to an end, of course, the Japanese army could still see the Chinese soldiers on the opposite side calling flares at them from time to time, and even occasionally had firepower to reconnaise, as if they wanted to figure out the Japanese army's defenses to prepare for the next round of attack.

But what the Japanese army didn't know was that it was just a suspicious formation set up by the 599th Regiment. The main force of the 599th Regiment had actually retreated with the troops to the east after succeeding with one blow, leaving only two companies of the troops bluffing behind and burying landmines to prepare for retreat.

Before the Japanese army discovered it, the focus of the battle turned to Seandan River in Edun, Tonggu. The main force who broke through was the engineering regiment that had been prepared for three days.

Zhang Chi, hiding in the grass, looked at the Japanese defense line on the other side through the gaps between weeds... This was his first attack on the enemy's defense line, and he had to wade through the Seandang River, which was more than 200 meters wide. He almost saw the scene of himself and his comrades being hit by a string of bullets fired from the opposite side while crossing the river.

But he also knew that this might be the only way out for the 200th Division, and it is also likely that it would be his only way out for life.

“Be ready for battle!”

“Be ready for battle!”

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The orders were heard from the front one by one. Zhang Chi knew that the attack time was coming, so he suppressed the fear in his heart and checked the Enfield rifle in his hand again.

As the instructor said, the only one who can save your life on the battlefield is the gun in your hand and the comrades around you. Therefore, you must ensure that your gun is in a good state at any time, and do not easily get rid of your comrades.

Only then did Zhang Chi understand what was maintaining his comrades’ feelings, that is, living and dying together.

What else is more valuable than living and dying together? Even brothers rarely have the experience of living and dying together!

Thinking of this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but glance at the dozens of soldiers lying behind him... Because of the weeds, Zhang Chi didn't see anything, but he felt dozens of pairs looking at him in the darkness, and the eyes were filled with a light of trust.

Suddenly, Zhang Chi felt less scared.

Later, when I thought about it, Zhang Chi thought this should be a sense of responsibility.

If a person only thinks about his own safety, he will often become more and more afraid. However, if he is not thinking about himself, but thinking about being responsible for the life and death of dozens of brothers, he will not care so much about his own life and death.

"Tututu..." Three red signal flares announced the beginning of this breakthrough battle.

Almost at the same time the signal flares took off, the sound of cannons and flames rang out. The cannons fell accurately on the defensive positions of the Japanese army on the opposite river, and soon the fortifications built by the Japanese army were blown into the sky.

The division's artillery regiment was launched. They equipped the Su-style 1927 76MM field gun. Although this gun is small in diameter and not powerful, its advantage is that it is light in weight and suitable for maneuvering. It can be pulled with horses or manpower. This is obviously very practical in Myanmar with complex terrain.

On the other hand, the small caliber of the 76MM field gun is also the reason why the artillery regiment has persisted until now... The small caliber means that the shells are small in size and light in weight. The number of shells that a car can carry is almost 7 times that of the 150MM heavy artillery.

But even so, after more than ten days of defense against the Gu, the artillery regiment's shells were almost gone.

Dai Anlan's order to the artillery regiment was: to drain all the shells.

This order is of course correct, because it is now a breakthrough, and it is difficult for artillery to play a role on the way to retreat. This is determined by the relatively complex terrain in Myanmar. There are few open areas on both sides of the highway as artillery positions, so the shells sometimes become a burden, so there is no need to take the shells out.

Of course, the only reason why the artillery regiment fought to the other side was not just this, but also a very important reason was that the sound of the motor that covered the tank's advance.

Just when the Japanese army on the other side were busy hiding by the expeditionary armed forces artillery, more than 40 tanks slowly drove up from the rear.

These tanks did not turn on the lights, they were advancing under the command of the commander who poked his head out. Needless to say, this was to avoid the premature exposure of the headlights by the Expeditionary Forces were attacking with tanks.

This approach is obviously very successful, because the Japanese army on the other side have not discovered that the tank group is rushing towards them, and they are still carrying rifles to organize defenses in the artillery fire.

When the tank passed by the ambushed position by Zhang Chi and others, Zhang Chi did not hesitate and climbed up from the ambush with a rifle and followed.

This is the result of these three days of training. Of course, it is impossible to train the cooperation between the infinite step and tank in three days, but it is still possible to set the speed of the tank to allow soldiers to attack forward after the tank.

The sound of cannons stopped after taking a few steps... The artillery ball's shells were finally finished.

Without the explosion of shells, the "rumble" of the tank motor became very harsh, so a few flares were quickly fired from the direction of the Japanese army. The surroundings were as bright as daylight. A group of more than 40 tanks quickly appeared in front of the Japanese army, and these tanks were followed by soldiers holding Enfield rifles...
Chapter completed!