Before dark, the sky, which had been clear until now, suddenly became overcast, and the cloud-filled sky seemed to collapse at any moment, and the wild clouds swept away with the strong wind. The sudden change in weather relieved Yamauchi Masafumi and his officers at the same time, and the base camp gave them a task that they thought was impossible to complete, the defenders of the other side were too strong, and the 15th Division could not break through their defenses at all, but fortunately, the sudden weather gave them an excuse to suspend their attacks.

In the midst of the stubborn resistance of the defenders of Donghu, the senior operational staff officers of the operations department of the Japanese army headquarters on the mainland quickly adjusted the deployment and purpose of the campaign. The goal of the campaign was changed from annihilating the defenders of Taungoo and continuing to move north, to entangling the defenders of Taungoo without destroying them, striving to attract more of Thunder's troops to the front line of Mandalay, and then the Japanese troops in Vietnam and Thailand would detour through to Lashio, the supply base behind Thunder, and then look for an opportunity to cut off Thunder's connection with China and complete the strategic encirclement of Thunder, so as to achieve the goal of completely eliminating Thunder.

The purpose of this novel and bold battle plan was to wipe out the entire thunder, and such an arrogant plan was quickly submitted directly to the emperor by the fanatical young Zhuang faction, and the Japanese emperor, who had been closely monitoring the situation in Asia, actually passed this battle plan by mistake. The old guard in the Japanese army ridiculed this seemingly bold plan, if the Thunder was really that easy to fight, the last attack of the 7 divisions on Burma should have worked, if the Thunder would have relaxed its own rear line, then the 18th Division of Lashio that had detoured last time would not have been surrounded by the Thunder and waited for death in Taunggyi.

But in any case, Yamauchi Masafumi, who received the secret telegram from the base camp, was overjoyed, just fighting with the defenders of Donghu, the 15th Division can do it, not to mention that the follow-up division will return to Da here at noon tomorrow, and the dilemma faced by the 15th Division is about to be lifted. In the evening, the downpour that had been brewing for several hours was accompanied by lightning and thunder that swept the land, and the whistling wind blew the raindrops so hard that the faces were painful, and there was confusion two meters away from the opposite side, and nothing could be seen.

"Departure" Tang Lei, who had long been ready to attack, waved his hand, and the 2,000 mercenaries who were divided into four detachments disappeared into the torrential rain and wind. Looking at the mercenaries who disappeared into the rain, the Jewish soldiers on the alert raised their right hands solemnly and saluted the back of the figure that had disappeared into the rainy night. With the help of bad weather to carry out night attacks, this is the most common training subject in the mercenary training syllabus, Tang Lei's mercenaries are all veterans who have been trained for two years, and many of them have experienced the defense of Taiyuan City, so they are no strangers to night attacks, and even individual mercenaries will be inexplicably excited and expectant.

The downpour and strong winds caught the soldiers of the 15th Division off guard, except for the officers at the adjutant level who still had tents to shelter from the rain, the other soldiers and lieutenants could only huddle in the anti-artillery holes in the trenches and shiver, because of the visibility, most of the sentries who served as guards also hid. After 22 o'clock in the evening, the rain began to become more and more intense, and there were no officers to check the sentry for two hours, and there was no shadow of a sentry on the defense line of the 15th Division, and the officers and men of the 15th Division sitting in the anti-artillery hole did not know that danger was approaching them.

Tang Lei, who was wearing a Japanese captain's uniform, fought cold from time to time, the cold rain made him feel very uncomfortable, and they successfully crossed the outer defense line of the Japanese 15th Division, and after successfully touching several Japanese outposts, Tang Lei led a 12-person mercenary team disguised as a Japanese patrol and appeared in the camp of the 15th Division. With the smooth advance of the forward squad, the outer defense line of the 15th Division has been torn open by the mercenaries, and the mercenaries who have been waiting for a long time have poured into the defense line of the 15th Division like a tide.

Second Lieutenant Nojima, who belonged to the 51st Wing, had to get up and leave his bed made of straw to check the sentry after cursing the damn weather, although he was wearing a raincoat, but the violent rainstorm was almost pervasive, a large amount of rain flowed down his face, and soon the clothes inside the raincoat were soaked, and the cold and sticky feeling made Nojima Nao very uncomfortable. The 51st Wing was repulsed three times in a row during the daytime attack, and even their Wing Commander Kimio Omoto had already died in the enemy's artillery bombardment, and the 51st Wing, which had lost its wing leader, was sent by the division commander to defend the outer defensive line.

The defeat of the battle situation has made the 51st Wing unable to raise his head up and down, and after nightfall, he was sent by the division commander to garrison the outer defense line, and junior officers like Nojima Nao have a fire in their hearts, which is why Nojima Nao will brave the rain to check the sentry, he does not want the 51st Wing to guard the outer defense line because of negligence and be looked down upon by the division commander here. Nojima, who was stepping on the muddy water with one foot high and one foot low, turned around and didn't find the sentry's figure, so he yelled a few times in annoyance, but unfortunately the words were blown away by the strong wind as soon as he spoke.

Just when he was angry, Nojima Nao vaguely noticed that someone seemed to be coming over from the other side? As the distance got closer, Nojima found that a patrol of more than a dozen people was walking towards him. A man who was on high alert Nojima unconsciously lifted his raincoat and put his hand on the pistol on his waist, "Which unit are you from?" Password? Although Nojima Nao shouted several times and shouted the password, the other party continued to walk towards this side as if he had turned a deaf ear.

When the distance between the two sides was less than 2 meters, Nojima Nao's flashlight finally shone on the other party's face, and he was surprised to find that the other party led the team was also a second lieutenant, although the other party's clothes had been wet from the rain, but obvious blood stains could still be seen on it. "Baga, why do you use a flashlight to shine indiscriminately, aren't you afraid of exposing the target to the enemy on the opposite side?" Without waiting for Nojima Nao to ask for the password again, he only heard a scolding, and then the other party's round slap was already slapped in his face.

"I'm here to check the sentry" Nojima Nao endured his dizziness and opened his mouth to defend, he didn't explain it, but this opening defense attracted several punches and kicks from the other side. "Bastard, the people we went out to reconnoiter the enemy situation are still drenched in the rain, you are hanging out in a raincoat, take us to see the division commander, I will report this matter." It wasn't until the other soldier's soldier took off Nojima's raincoat that Nojima Nao suddenly realized that the team that had just returned from the mission was all drenched like chickens, and it must be the raincoat he was wearing that angered them.

"Don't be angry with our squad leader, this time it didn't go very well to go out to reconnoiter the enemy, three imperial soldiers were killed by the other party's sharpshooters, and our squad leader's own brother died in his arms, so he was in a bad mood, I apologize to you for him." A round-faced Cao Chang on the other side came over and pulled up Nojima Nao who was lying on his back in the muddy water, and after receiving a pack of cigarettes stuffed by the other party, Nojima Nao nodded slightly, as if he didn't intend to be like the arrogant ensign in front of him.

The round-faced Cao Chang's intentional friendship made the beaten Nojima Nao feel a little better, and after saying that he would continue to check the sentry, Nojima Nao pointed out the direction of the division headquarters for the Cao Commander. It wasn't until the opposing team's team disappeared into the trenches that Nojima Nao, who was holding himself hard, leaned on the trenches full of muddy water and moaned in pain, the fists of those guys were really hard, and after leaning in the trenches for a long time of respite, Nojima Nao gave up continuing to check the sentry and limped to find a military doctor to check his injuries.

What Nojima Nao, who was looking for a medical officer, didn't know was that he was not the first person to enjoy this kind of treatment tonight, Tang Lei and others disguised as a Japanese patrol had successfully passed through more than a dozen Japanese checkpoints in the storm. The soldiers or officers of the 51st Wing they met were all slapped by Tang Lei without exception, and all they paid was a dozen packs of cigarettes or other gadgets snatched from the Japanese sentries.

At 23:10 in the evening, Tang Lei stood at the corner of a trench and wiped the mist on his watch, which was naturally inferior to his original Swiss watch. Tang Lei knew that if the mercenaries in the back broke through smoothly, at this time, they should have controlled at least part of the outer defense line of the 15th Division. And the target he was looking for was right in front of him, because the rain intensified, the division headquarters of the 15th Division should be on the other side of the trench, because the terrain here was the highest. The most important thing is that the dense telephone lines and overhead antennas here, coupled with the Japanese officers who come and go from time to time, prove that this is likely to be a command post at the division and regimental level, and the only trouble is that the guards here are not ordinary soldiers, but Japanese military police directly under the division.

Looking at the Japanese military police cruising back and forth around the corner of the trench, Tang Lei was very depressed, with the existence of these guys, his plan to quietly infiltrate the Japanese command system was basically aborted. The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and there was no sign of stopping, and a dozen Japanese military policemen on the corner of the trench were piling straw bags to prevent the rain from pouring into the stuffy anti-artillery holes. "In the past, I gambled with God, Lao Tzu didn't believe in fate, only in himself." Seeing that the hands of the watch were getting closer to midnight and midnight, Tang Lei, who didn't want to continue waiting, gritted his teeth and walked towards those gendarmes.

"Great, come and help us move these straw bags, it won't be nice if the rain gets into the command." Commanding the dozen or so Japanese military police was a young man with a beard on his face, seeing the appearance of Tang Lei and others, the bearded Shaozuo who was covered in mud and water waved his arms with joy and shouted at Tang Lei and others.