Moreover, the 18th Division of the Japanese Army also has a well-known name - the king of the subtropical jungle.

After the start of the Southeast Asian Campaign, the commander of the 18th Division drove thousands of miles and beat the British troops at the cost of less than one-tenth of the casualties, showing their tenacious and tenacious fighting style, and even Lieutenant General Mutaguchi Ryoya, who was the commander of the division, personally rushed to the front line, and was wounded by the British bullet hitting his right hand, but he only hung his right arm diagonally with a bandage and continued to command the battle.

As a rising infantry division, the 18th Division's actual combat performance is not inferior to that of the old powerhouses, and has even surpassed the Guards Division with a high degree of mechanization.

Moreover, the soldiers of this army are young and full of bestiality, and after successfully occupying Singapore, they burned, killed, looted, and plundered all the way, so that the whole Singapore was full of corpses and blood. A large number of overseas Chinese in Singapore were brutally tortured and killed, and the suburbs were full of large pits buried with the bones of overseas Chinese, and the heads of overseas Chinese were hung everywhere in the urban areas.

Historically, this unit committed heinous crimes against Chinese soldiers, and it was they who caused more than 60,000 soldiers of the expeditionary force to die in the primeval jungle of Burma's Savage Mountains. After the orcs grabbed the female soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, they opened the wheel on the spot, and then cut their breasts, disemboweled, and disemboweled, and killed them, and their methods were cruel and exhaustive.

With such a notorious force, not to mention the British army with low combat effectiveness, I am afraid that only special operations divisions in the Chinese army can compete with them, but at present, the special operations divisions are still far away in Baoshan, and of course it is impossible to go to Burma in full, and the existing 6,000 airborne troops are not enough to confront a division of the Japanese army.

In addition to the two British divisions, Jiang Haoran can only mobilize the most troops of these 6,000 airborne troops, but this is tantamount to a drop in the bucket.

The sudden great change caught Jiang Haoran a little off guard, and the predicament in front of him was not lifted, even if Meng Gong and Xidang blocked the enemy's attack, or regained air supremacy, but the back road was intercepted, everything became illusory, they still properly entered the encirclement of the Japanese army, and the food, weapons and ammunition will be in an emergency immediately, although these nights, the helicopters have been shuttling back and forth between the British and Indian borders, and the number of materials transported is not small, but they can't stand the consumption of tens of thousands of troops, Basically, every day you have to catch up with the old foundation of the army, once Homarin is lost, the food of the expeditionary force may be able to last for three or five days, but I am afraid that the ammunition will be exhausted in two days, and it is not too much to say that it is a catastrophe. Therefore, Jiang Haoran also became an ant on a hot pot at the moment, circling around the map and the war sand table, but from afternoon to evening, he still did not find a solution.

For an afternoon, Jiang Haoran kept his cigarette in his hand, pacing back and forth in the command headquarters, and the expression on his face was as cold as a piece of ice that could not be dissolved for a thousand years, making everyone silent, and they were careful to enter and exit. The headquarters was smoky, and the atmosphere was a little breathless. And Leng Rushuang, who had always dared to speak, knew that Jiang Haoran had already begun to fight between heaven and man at this moment, and he did not dare to interrupt his thinking at all.

At the end of April, the weather in Myanmar was still mainly sunny and hot, the sunshine hours were longer than those in the country, and the light outside was still very strong at seven o'clock, but the light in the headquarters had begun to dim, and the staff officers began to close the curtains and prepare to turn on the electric lights. The safety of the headquarters is of paramount importance, and although there may not be enemy planes at night, no one can be sure that there are no Japanese sleepers in the city, and the brightly lit places will undoubtedly be reverie.

The staff officer closed all the curtains and turned on the electric lights with a "snap", but Jiang Haoran suddenly exclaimed and shouted: "Close it, turn off the electric lights for Lao Tzu!" ”

The staff officer was at a loss, but he quickly turned off the lights according to Jiang Haoran's instructions, and everyone's eyes looked at Jiang Haoran in unison, not knowing what was going on.

Jiang Haoran's eyes seemed to suddenly come alive, and he glanced around the room, making everyone turn their necks with him, but they all looked dazed, obviously not knowing what was wrong in this room.

The sunset shines in through the curtains, making the house present a half-light and half-dark scene, vaguely seeing people, but it is still a little difficult to distinguish who it is, there are many people in the command headquarters, including Jiang Haoran, at this moment many people are still holding a cigarette in their hands, as soon as the curtains are closed, the smoke that cannot be dispersed is wafting, making the people who can't see clearly seem even more hazy, plus the state of mind, for a while there is an illusion that people are in the jungle, everyone has become a big tree, psychedelic and weird.

Suddenly, there was a loud "pop", Jiang Haoran slapped the table, and scared everyone's souls out, and then Jiang Haoran exclaimed: "Yes, that's it, the dog is playing infiltration with Lao Tzu, why doesn't Lao Tzu reverse infiltrate with him?" Turn on the lights 616161616161"

The electric light was turned on, and the room instantly illuminated as daylight, Jiang Haoran was full of energy, and walked to the combat sand table excitedly, and under the peeps of everyone, he picked up the measuring tool and carefully measured and compared it between Yingduo and Wanhe.

After a long while, Jiang Haoran put down the tools in his hand and ordered the guards to bring Sun Biren and the two guides in.

While waiting, Huang Jie finally didn't hold back and asked, "Boss, do you already have an idea?" ”

Jiang Haoran smiled slightly, noncommittal, and said, "Let's talk about this later." ”

Not long after, Sun Biren walked in again with two guides, and Jiang Haoran directly beckoned them to approach the combat sand table.

Without waiting for the three of them to stand still, Jiang Haoran pointed to the sand table and said, "County Magistrate Sun, you ask them, is there a road from Yingduo through the jungle to the Wanhe River?" ”

Since there are roads from Xidang and Huomalin, Jiang Haoran believes that it is impossible for Yingduo to have no road to the Wanhe River. Judging from the map and the sand table, the jungle in front of you is an irregular rectangle, there are more than two hundred miles from Xidang to Huomalin, but the distance from Yingduo to Wanjiang is only seventy or eighty miles.

Soon, the guide gave the answer, the way, there is. However, from Yingduo to Wanjiang, there is a wild elephant valley in the middle, and most of the road is stepped out by wild elephants, and ordinary people dare not take this road at all.

Elephants are the largest terrestrial mammals on the planet, weighing 3-7 tonnes per elephant, and their size is large enough to shy away from any ferocious beast. Therefore, elephants are basically not afraid of fierce beasts such as tigers, lions, and cheetahs, and they can be described as extremely brave. For humans, although wild elephants are wary and will not take the initiative to attack, once they step into its territory, they feel threatened, and the intensity of the attack is quite terrifying.

Therefore, although the guide told Jiang Haoran that there was a way to go, he warned Jiang Haoran not to try to take this road unless he had to.

But Chiang Haoran had now reached the point of last resort, and the guide's words were of course in vain, and not only did he say it in vain, but Chiang Haoran also sincerely asked two of the Burmese to act as their guides, and promised them a high commission that they could not refuse.

After Jiang Haoran arrived in Yingdo, he won the support of the Burmese people with practical actions, and the daily porridge was not in vain, coupled with the strict discipline of the expeditionary force, there was basically no phenomenon of disturbing the people, the army and the people were able to live in peace, and the people also reciprocated and took the initiative to help the troops transport and consolidate the fortifications.

Seeing Jiang Haoran's insistence, the two Burmese people were helpless, so they had to agree, of course, a big reason was also due to the colorful dollars.

When the three left, Jiang Haoran immediately ordered the 22nd Division and the Airborne Brigade to change guards, and the Airborne Brigade immediately left for Yingduo, and Jiang Haoran also specially ordered Liu Xianwei to arrive within two hours, otherwise military law would be involved.

The distance from the Xidang front to Yingduo is only fifty miles, although it is night, but for these demons of the special operations division, it is nothing at all, but because of the withdrawal from the front line, it is necessary to temporarily hand over the defense to the 200th division, which takes a lot of time.

Because the Japanese planes could not be dispatched at night, they were afraid that Jiang Haoran would sacrifice armed helicopters, so for two days, the Japanese army did not take action at night, and Jiang Haoran did not dare to take the initiative to attack when the enemy situation was unknown.

After finishing these, Jiang Haoran revealed his plan and inventory.

The brief darkness just now stimulated his nerves and gave him the idea of using the complex terrain and the Japanese army to carry out counter-encirclement and anti-infiltration. The specific plan was to use the airborne brigade to cross the Yingduo River and go straight to the Wanjiang River, where the Japanese army had built the bridge for the second time.

No matter how fast the Japanese army was, it was absolutely impossible to complete the second crossing of the river within four days, and the airborne brigade blew up the pontoon bridge built by the Japanese army with a thunderous force, directly cut off the way for the Japanese army to advance, cut off the head and tail, and then sent a surprise army to enter from Homarin and intersperse this area, and the two troops went all out to strangle the forward troops of the Japanese army and block the Japanese army on the other side of the Wanjiang River.

As soon as the plan came out, the entire command headquarters was in an uproar, they did not doubt the combat capability of the airborne brigade, but to let a force of 6,000 people cut off the advance path of a Japanese division, and annihilate their vanguard to block their crazy attack? In their eyes, the plan was not only crazy, but also incredible.