In front of the huge sand table, stood Zhao Zhi and a group of officers, the time has entered September, the preparations of the thunder have been prepared, and now only Zhao Zhi personally gave the order to attack, but everyone had differences on the marching route. According to the ideas of some Jewish officers, the Thunder should attack Burma along the kilometers of Yunnan-Burma, using the mobility and powerful firepower of the armored corps to carry out a leap-and-jump point-to-face combined operation. Most of the officers who made this suggestion had served in the German and Polish armies, and although they were Jews who had been expelled from Germany, they still had a strong understanding of the German army's armored mobility.

The first battle in front of the world was the invasion of Poland, in the face of the powerful and swift German armored forces, the Polish Wehrmacht had almost no chance to fight back, even the reinforced concrete fortress could not meet the speed of the German attack. Although the Thunder Armored Forces issued a variety of tanks and armored vehicles, they were all shipped from Europe after all, and the thin iron tanks of the Japanese army were completely vulnerable in front of them, and the technicians of the arsenal had already done such experiments.

"You have only seen the assault capability of the armored forces, but have you ever thought about it, if the Japanese army is forced to cut off the road, how will your armored vehicles and tanks respond? According to the madness of the Japanese army, do you think they will give you the opportunity to repair the road on the spot? "When the Japanese soldiers rushed to the heavy machine gun armored car outside Zhangwu City shouting Long live the emperor, Zhao Zhi still can't forget it. There are many winding mountain roads on the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and once the Japanese army organizes people to shoot armored vehicles, those Jewish armored soldiers may not be able to stop the Japanese army at all.

"In any case, the Japanese army has already taken the territory on the west bank of the Nu River, and if we want to attack Burma, we must first establish our forward base on the west bank of the Nu River. The Japanese army has only entered Burma for more than half a year, and leaving the rainy season in Burma, they do not have too much time to build bunkers and fortifications, and this is our opportunity" The baton in Zhao Zhi's hand was pointed at the three key points of Tengchong, Longling, and Songshan on the sand table. "The rainy season in Myanmar is from May to October every year, which is not conducive to the march of troops, especially armored troops, so we must take these three places and establish forward bases before the rainy season disappears in October."

"Our engineering regiment began to carry out targeted pontoon erection training as early as a month ago, and the engineers also mobilized the hydrological data of the Nu River to begin to survey the location of the river crossing, according to the current strength of the engineering corps, it takes at least four hours to erect a pontoon bridge across the Nu River, but this first requires a large number of ferries to do the foundation of the pontoon bridge. The Japanese army will not let us build bridges freely, so the engineers chose a total of three river crossing positions, only one of which is a real river crossing point, and the other two are false targets" The confidence of the commander of the new engineering regiment made everyone's hearts feel at ease.

In fact, the turbulent Nu River is full of tidal flats suitable for crossing the river, as long as Zhao Zhi can ensure enough rafts and wooden boats in his hands, the troops serving as the main attack can cross the river freely, but Thunder still has a large number of heavy equipment to cross the river, and the location of the pontoon bridge must be suitable for the movement of heavy equipment, so Thunder will mobilize engineers to demonstrate and select the ferry, and the construction of the pontoon bridge by the engineering regiment is also carried out in accordance with the standard of passing heavy equipment.

"Prepare to cross the river, wait for the foggy day to cross the river" After thinking twice, Zhao Zhi made the decision to prepare to cross the river, there are many old people who are familiar with the climate on the side of the Nu River, when it rains and when it fogs, those old people can count the treasures, as long as they put a little thought, the thunder can get accurate information before the fog. The officers were obviously accustomed to following Zhao Zhi's orders, and as soon as the order to cross the river came out, the whole thunder became busy, and the troops participating in the battle began to move towards the Nu River in an orderly manner.

The 1st and 2nd Infantry Divisions advanced in two directions, and with the help of the cover of night, they formed a double-oblique vertical column and rushed towards the Nu River, while the armored troops moved forward with Zhao Zhi's headquarters. Two days later, there was still foggy weather, which was the result of the prediction of dozens of old people who had lived here for generations, the number of troops in the first batch of Thunder to cross the river was as many as 20,000, and the movement of so many troops was not a trivial matter, Thunder could send people to infiltrate Burma, and the Japanese would naturally arrange agents to enter the Kunming territory, in order to prevent the leakage of the action, Thunder could only take advantage of the night to mobilize troops in batches.

Two days later, Zhao Zhi stood on the hillside and looked at Mo Lun who was standing by the river and mixed with the sappers, turned to Xiao Ziyun next to him and whispered: "Go and call Mo Lun over, just say that I have something to find him" Thunder left Mo Lun in Kunming last time he went to Shanxi, and there was still no Mo Lun's name in the list of this attack on Burma, not that Zhao Zhi looked down on Mo Lun, it was really because Mo Lun's body was too fat, and Zhao Zhi was worried that he would not be able to adapt to the next battle.

"Sir, you don't mean enough, you can't let me go into Myanmar because I'm fat" After a little effort, Mo Lun followed Xiao Ziyun up the hill, and complained when they met, "Sir, when the Yunnan-Burma Highway was expanded, there was my Mo Lun's blood and sweat in it, where there is a pit and a bend on this road, I Mo Lun can find it for you with my eyes closed, besides, I am just following the engineer regiment, and I don't want to work face to face with the Japanese, you can take me"

Mo Lun's soft grinding and hard bubbles had an effect, and Zhao Zhi, who was helpless by Mo Lun, had no choice but to agree to his request and arrange Mo Lun, who was familiar with the Yunnan-Burma Highway, in the engineer regiment. After the battle began, the engineer regiment was mainly responsible for ensuring the smooth flow of the road, and the matter of building bridges and paving roads was indispensable, and it was not a bad thing to have a number of Mo Lun who were familiar with the Yunnan-Burma Highway, maybe the engineer corps would need guys who were familiar with the route like Mo Lun.

Historically, on May 11, 1944, the 20th Group Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force (the 53rd Army and the 54th Army under the jurisdiction of the Group Army, a total of 5 divisions reserve the 2nd Division, 198th Division, 36th Division, 116th Division, and 130th Division) to carry out the Tengchong counteroffensive, and the whole army successfully crossed the Nu River after dusk on May 11, and began to attack Gaoligong Mountain the next morning.

However, due to the influence of the international war situation in Europe, the operation of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which was supposed to take place on May 11, 1944, to cross the Nu River and join the Chinese army in India in Burma has been advanced by one and a half years. Historically, due to the hasty planning and time constraints, only the Eighth Army of the six armies of the Chinese Expeditionary Force that launched a counteroffensive in western Yunnan completed the refitting of American-style weapons, and the remaining five Chinese soldiers still wore straw sandals and used old-fashioned Chinese-made weapons.

But now it's different, the 20,000 troops who crossed the river to participate in the war have been armed to the teeth, not to mention the difference in rate of fire between Garland and the 38 rifle, even the Browning heavy machine gun is not comparable to the Japanese machine gun, not to mention that the arsenal also urgently produced a large number of bulletproof vests for the soldiers, although the bulletproof vests are a little heavier, but it can reduce some casualties for the soldiers. Thunder's individual firepower has long surpassed that of the Japanese army, and Zhao Zhi also transferred the Stalker rocket artillery vehicle and the newly formed large-caliber artillery regiment this time, as long as he can enter Burma smoothly, Zhao Zhi doesn't care about the consumption of ammunition.

According to the tactical resolution made at the pre-war meeting, the three supporting points of Longling, Tengchong, and Songshan on the same line were the stronghold of the Japanese army, and the goal of the 1st Infantry Division on the right was Songshan and Longling, the control points of the Yunnan-Burma Highway. According to the information sent back by the intelligence officer, the Japanese army has begun to build bunkers and tunnels on Songshan, but due to the problem of time, the Japanese army's defensive measures on Songshan are still much worse, not to mention that after the two regiments of the Second Infantry Division go all out to take Tengchong, they will echo the First Infantry Division from the side and take the Songshan position, and the First Infantry Division is bound to win.

Historically, on September 5, 1943, a Chinese military plane was forced to make a forced landing near Tengchong due to mechanical failure, and a code book of the expeditionary force on the plane had been obtained by the Japanese army, which made most of the telegrams of the Chinese expeditionary force intercepted by the Japanese army, and the operational deployment of the expeditionary force was also exposed. Therefore, as soon as the Eastern Front Expeditionary Force crossed the river, the Japanese army strengthened its deployment in a targeted manner, and urgently transferred five wings, including 113, 114, 146, Artillery 56, and Sou 56, to quickly reinforce the Tengchong, Longling, and Songshan lines, so that the expeditionary force troops on the Eastern Front paid great casualties to take these places.

But now it is the thunder that crosses the river, and the thunder, which has done the ultimate in secrecy work, can leak the battle plan to the Japanese army, and when the soldiers of the thunder use walkie-talkies to make contacts, most of them also use Hebrew to talk, and the radio passwords are mostly used by the German army, even if the Japanese troops intercept the secret message, they cannot decipher it, even if they hear the voice in the walkie-talkie, they cannot understand the content of the Hebrew conversation.

The most important thing is that the Japanese army just entered Burma half a year ago, and with the secret instigation of thunder, those Tusi leaders often secretly make some trouble for the Japanese army to delay their pace or build fortifications, coupled with the rainy season in Burma for half a year, there are not many Japanese troops who actually control Tengchong, Longling, and Songshan, and the fortifications and defense facilities they build are far from meeting the expectations of the Japanese army.

Perhaps it was the arrogance of the Japanese army, and the thunder that crossed the river with the help of fog did not encounter the expected interception at all, and the two fake pontoon bridges originally prepared were also immediately built into real pontoon bridges by the engineering regiment. The commissioning of the three pontoon bridges greatly accelerated the troops' crossing of the river, which was supposed to last all day, ended before the fog dissipated. When the fog cleared, there was no trace of the army crossing the Nu River, and if it weren't for the sudden appearance of a few cement piers fixing iron cables on the riverside, the thunderous crossing would have been regarded as a joke.