Chapter 679: Bold
After a while, Leng Rushuang turned back and told Jiang Haoran that the airborne troops were ready to go, and they were expected to arrive over Mina at noon to start the airborne.
Speaking of military commander Dai Li, people who know a little about history may know it, but when it comes to Kangze, not many people may know it. In fact, Kang Ze's fame in the Republic of China period was no less than Dai Li, and Dai Li was known as the "Second Duke of Kang Dai", Kang Ze was still in front, why did Kang Ze have such a big reputation? Because Kang and Dai are the eyes and ears of the chairman's intelligence, Dai Li is in charge of external intelligence, while Kang Ze is in charge of the party-state's internal intelligence, and the chairman of the committee is very fond of him, and even the chairman of the committee does not need to register in the chamber to meet the chairman, and can directly enter the meeting. The high-ranking officials and generals of the party-state are even more afraid of Kang Ze, and often his words can decide the fate of many people.
Of course, Jiang Haoran was no stranger to him, but he immediately frowned, knowing that Kang Ze was interceding with Liu Bolong, the commander of the 28th Division, because the 28th Division and the 29th Division were adapted by Kang Ze's special forces, and with Liu Bolong's mistakes, it would not be too much to kill him a hundred times, Kang Ze sent a message to Jiang Haoran with a low profile, obviously knowing his Jiang Haoran's style of doing things, this is a preventive injection in advance.
But Jiang Haoran took the telegram, didn't even look at it, and directly handed it to the chief of staff Huang Jie, asking him to deal with it, and then shouted loudly for the Snow Wolf Special Combat Team to set off.
The speed of the helicopter is not as good as that of fighter planes and transport planes, although they have traveled hundreds of miles, but there is still a distance for them to leave for the temporary helicopter base at this time, there is no road in the mountains and forests, and the whole journey depends on two legs, and the time spent will not be less, and it is estimated that it will be later than the airborne troops, so Jiang Haoran does not want to delay these trivial matters at all.
Looking at Jiang Haoran's back, Huang Jie pinched a telegram in his hand, and the sad expression on his face made people feel that he was about to cry.
At about 11 o'clock in the morning, Bangkok, the headquarters of the Japanese Southern Army.
The results of the air battle have come out, although the number of fighters dispatched by both sides is very large, but they are afraid of each other, and there is no cruel air strangulation, the national army in order to ensure the air supremacy of northern Burma, mainly defensive, the imperial army in order to reinvigorate the military prestige, and take the opportunity to carry out an air reconnaissance in northern Burma, mainly shocked, the two sides retreated after a small area of contact, so the casualties are not large.
The Japanese army knew very well that now the 40th Group Army plus the Flying Tigers had a very strong air force, and it was not enough to compete with them with a limited number of flying teams temporarily transferred by the navy, and everything could only be done by waiting for the Fifth Flying Group to be replenished and completed, and then with the cooperation of the navy, they could compete with them.
The effect of deterrence had been achieved, and the Imperial warriors saw the Imperial warplanes reappear in the skies over Burma, and the Fifth Flying Regiment was completely annihilated, and the panic caused to the Imperial Army was largely alleviated.
At the same time, with the help of this air battle, the reconnaissance plane took back a large number of photos of the battlefield in northern Burma, cleaned up the worthless, and there was a large stack, which filled several tables, after repeated inspections and careful comparisons, Terauchi Shouichi found a big problem, all the photos taken back did not have a trace of the Fifth Army of the Expeditionary Force, although the heavy artillery regiment and the tank regiment were there, but the aerial shooting of the troop configuration plus the discovery of the ground forces, the strength of the expeditionary force was only half of the strength of the expeditionary force, and it was the strength of the Fifth Army that was missing.
Moreover, tens of thousands of civilians were also found in the direction of Mengguan to Khomalin, although it was basically certain that these were expatriates who had retreated with the expeditionary force, but what were they doing in the direction of Khommarin? These questions are deeply troubled by Shouichi Terauchi.
Chief of Staff Tsukada Tsukasa put forward a bold hypothesis, could it be that the Fifth Army was on the way to Homarin? This bold assumption startled Tsukada himself, although only a large number of expatriates were seen on the aerial photographs, and the Fifth Army is also known as the most elite unit of the national army, basically a semi-mechanized unit, it is difficult to hide on the road march, but with the air force early warning, it is another matter, in the end, it is the army, it is completely possible to steal into the jungle and disappear in the field of vision of the imperial army's reconnaissance planes under an order, but it is difficult for the common people to do this.
If this assumption is true, it is entirely possible that Jiang Haoran can count on occupying Khommarin, because Khormarin belongs to the Indo-Burmese border, and further west through the jungle of more than one or two hundred miles, which is Imphal in India, so that the expeditionary force may be able to temporarily solve the supply problem, otherwise it is really difficult to explain why these tens of thousands of expatriates will suddenly retreat to Khomarin. You must know that since the retreat of the British army, Homarin was directly abandoned to the imperial army, although there are not many garrisons in Homarin now, but there is also a brigade, which is more than enough to deal with tens of thousands of unarmed expatriates.
Terauchi Shouichi was also full of shock, and although he said that it was impossible, he still ordered the staff officer to bring a local map.
After a partial map of the Indo-Burmese border was spread out on the table, Terauchi picked up a magnifying glass and compared it with a test tool, and finally decided that Tsukada's idea was not valid.
The reason is very simple, there are two hundred miles from Mengguan to Khomalin, not counting the distance to the Hukang River Valley, from Hormarin to Imphal, although it is less than two hundred miles, but there is no road to Imphal, and the supply of more than 100,000 people for the expeditionary force is simply impossible to achieve through several sheep farm roads that need to cross mountains and wade through water.
As for the common people, he believed that this was Jiang Haoran's trick, on the one hand, he could confuse the imperial army, on the other hand, the supplies of the expeditionary force itself were not enough, if these expatriates were dragged again, they would die faster, so he could only let them withdraw from here to India, although there were some risks, but the border line was extended in all directions, and they could choose to enter the Indian jungle in front of Homarin, and to a large extent, there was still the possibility of escape.
Besides, Shouichi Terauchi didn't believe it, in the face of the encirclement and interception of several divisions of the imperial army, he Jiang Haoran still dared to divide his troops, and he also attacked Meng Gong and Mina rampantly without scruples, isn't this simply self-defeating?
However, if it is said that his move is to use the two armies as cannon fodder to cover the retreat of the main force of the Fifth Army, this Terauchi Shouichi still believes it a little, and he is happy to see this result, after eliminating the two armies of the expeditionary force and driving the Fifth Army out of the country, the Burma campaign is a perfect end, and he can also give the glory to the base camp, but he himself does not believe that Jiang Haoran will do this, which is obviously inconsistent with his style.
Speaking of Jiang Haoran's courage, Tsukada Attack doesn't think so, combined with Jiang Haoran's previous battles, and then look at his airborne landing in Burma, first disabled the Fifth Flying Regiment, and then attacked Meng Gong to beat Mina, the moves are fierce, unbelievable, and they are all bold, if he doesn't dare, he really can't find a second person who is more "daring" than him.