"It's Japanese!" Zhang Chi pretended to be panic and shouted: "They must have copied from the path with the help of the Burmese!"

Having said that, Zhang Chi was happy: this road only allows two cars to pass side by side, and there is basically no open area except a small village one mile away. The British's eagerness to escape will definitely cause traffic congestion. At that time, they will not drop a few tanks or supplies?!

Lieutenant Burke never thought that these gunshots were made by Zhang Chi and others, and he couldn't help but curse: "Damn Japanese, damn Burmese..."

As he said that, he immediately picked up the walkie-phone behind the jeep and started calling.

However, just as Zhang Chi was secretly happy in his heart, he suddenly saw three red signal flares rising from the other end of the bridge, followed by a dense sound of gunfire, and bullets and shells rushed towards the end of the bridge like raindrops.

Zhang Chi couldn't help but be stunned. He didn't arrange people to pretend to be Japanese soldiers on the other end of the bridge, and even if he pretended, there were not so many guns and cannons. And even if there were so many guns and cannons, there was no need to play with them...

"Let's go down!" Just when Zhang Chi was still not sure about the situation, his fellow villagers snatched up in time and threw Zhang Chi to the ground. Then a shell exploded more than ten meters away.

"Platform leader!" The fellow villager shouted: "Now, the real Japanese devils are here, and there are quite a few of them!"

Only then did Zhang Chi realize that it was the real Japanese army coming.

After being stunned, Zhang Chi shouted at the two soldiers guarding the bridge: "Blast the bridge, blow up the bridge immediately!"

The two soldiers dared not be negligent. With a piezoelectric gate, a bright red flame burst out from the iron bridge and exploded the tile bridge into the sky. While the flames exploded, it also illuminated the Japanese troops rushing towards this side like wolves on the other side.

*******

In fact, the Japanese army had already arrived at the other end of the Iron Bridge an hour ago. This Japanese army was the vanguard of the 56th Division in Tonggu.

The 55th Division of the Japanese Army has been attacking Tonggu for a long time. The commander-in-chief of the Japanese Myanmar Front, Masazo Kawabian, began to worry that the main force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force would arrive at Tonggu in time to build a defense line. As the culprit of the Lugou Bridge Incident, Masazo Kawabian knew very well that if the war was in a stalemate between Tonggu, the battlefield situation would develop in a direction that was not conducive to the Japanese army. So he immediately sent the 56th Division, known as the "King of Jungle War", to rush to Tonggu, intending to join the two divisions to take Tonggu into the shortest time to pull out this hard nail.

The 56th Division did not disappoint the expectations of Masato Kawabian. As soon as Masao Watanabe (the commander of the 56th Division) landed in Myanmar, he quickly summoned a large number of bicycles from the Burmese people... This was not difficult for the Japanese army, because at this time, the Burmese people thought that Japan was here to help them drive away the British Empire colonists and gave them an independent Myanmar. So they all fought for the first time to donate bicycles to the Japanese army, and even took the initiative to send guides to lead the way for the Japanese army.

So the 56th Division used its bicycles to march through the small road in the jungle, and in just three days, it rushed to Tonggu for more than 200 kilometers.

Arriving opposite the Wajie Iron Bridge was the first brigade of the 113th Regiment of the 56th Division. The captain Yuta Harada was an experienced veteran who rose from a small soldier to a brigade leader. After observing the situation, he did not act rashly because they found that explosives were installed on the bridge, and there was a platoon of Chinese soldiers guarding the other side.

This does not mean that he is afraid of the Chinese soldiers in that platoon. You should know that a Japanese infantry brigade has more than a thousand people. This force is a comparison between elephants and ants for the Chinese platoon. What's more, Yuta Harada claims that his combat effectiveness is much better than that of the Chinese army, so of course he will not take this platoon of Chinese soldiers seriously.

What he was worried about was the explosives on the iron bridge... Yuta Harada considered giving up the bridge and choosing to cross the river. This may not be a big problem for a brigade, but for the main force of the 56th Division that followed, crossing the river will eventually lead to many more dangers, and more importantly, the subsequent supply transportation will also lead to difficulties.

Therefore, although Yuta Harada wanted to join the battle with Gu as soon as possible, after thinking about it over and over again, he finally decided to act cautiously.

At this time, Yuta Harada received an order from the regiment captain Colonel Matsui: The British Seventh Armored Regiment is about to pass by your location, and be sure to stop the Armored Regiment while ensuring that the iron bridge is not blown up.

Yuta Harada immediately proposed several plans:

1: Exploring an attack when the British armored regiment has not crossed the bridge. The advantage of this is that Chinese soldiers may not dare to blow up the bridge because British tanks have not crossed the bridge.

However, this plan was opposed by most subordinates because the British armored regiment had more than 50 tanks and dozens of armored vehicles. The terrain on the bridge was still open for tank combat, while the Japanese army was struggling for a long distance and did not carry heavy weapons. At that time, I was afraid that a large group of soldiers would not be enough to pile up British tanks to get between the teeth.

(Note: Myanmar's terrain is based on the watershed of the ancient times. To the north of the ancient times there are mountains with complex terrain, and to the south of the ancient times, most of them are plains. This is also one of the reasons why the Chinese Expeditionary Forces planned to fight with the Japanese army in the ancient times.)

2: The attack was launched halfway through the British armored regiment, which was the same as above, but the disadvantage was that the Japanese army was marching lightly without carrying heavy equipment and anti-tank weapons. The British army even had two tanks or armored vehicles guarding the bridge, and the Japanese army could only watch the armored regiment cross the bridge and then explode the bridge.

Then there is only one last plan: first let the British armored regiment cross the bridge, and after the armored regiment separate from the iron bridge, block the British armored regiment and take down the iron bridge respectively.

This plan is endorsed by most subordinates because it is easy to block the armored regiment, so it only requires destroying the highway or setting up roadblocks, and does not need to directly confront the armored regiment. This way, two tasks assigned to them by superiors can be completed well.

So Yuta Harada issued an order: send two squadrons (180 people), one squad (54 people) to sneak across the river under the leadership of the Myanmar guide, two squadrons and others separated from Wajie Bridge and attacked left and right to stop the armored regiment, while one squad took advantage of the chaos to seize the bridgehead position and cover the main force to cross the bridge and join the battle.

So Zhang Chi is also wrong.

Because if Zhang Chi continued to wait like this, it was very likely that he had been killed by the Japanese army who had touched him before he could figure out what happened. And the British armored regiment would be blocked on the road by two squadrons that had bypassed him.

The problem is that at this time the troops sent by the Japanese army to attack were still on the way, while the two squads that Zhang Chi disguised themselves as Japanese soldiers to scare the British were already firing their guns at this end...

As soon as the bridge fired its gun, the main Japanese army lying in the woods on the other side of the bridge thought that the sneak attack team had started.

The Japanese captain of the Japanese army, Yuta Harada, who was commanding the battle, cursed: "Bastard, Naoki, will he wait for the British armored regiment to go a little further before taking action?!"

However, Yuta Harada believed that since the battle had begun, he had to take action no matter what, so he fired several signal flares, and then a large number of Japanese troops emerged from the woods and rushed to the Iron Bridge of Waxing.
Chapter completed!