"Brother-in-law, I know that you are also very dissatisfied with those people in the command, but we are only people from the logistics force, and besides, you can't command those old men, so why bother with them." Seeing the sorrowful Huang Hanju smoking one cigarette after another, Tang Cheng had no choice but to sit down first, and wait for Huang Hanju to feel better before talking about the things he wanted to say.

"Xiaocheng, do you think we're going to lose again this time? 100,000 people, 100,000 elites are about to lose, I'm not reconciled. When Huang Hanju raised his head again, Tang Cheng, who was sitting beside him, could already see the tears on Huang Hanju's face. Tang Cheng was just a hairy boy in his 20s, even if he knew Huang Hanju's sadness at the moment, he couldn't think of suitable words to comfort Huang Hanju for a while, so he had to take a cigarette and silently accompany Huang Hanju to smoke in the room.

"If you have something, just say it, I'll be fine in a while, you don't have to worry about me." Knowing that Tang Cheng must have something to say when he came to find him, Huang Hanju finally threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes and face, and waited for Tang Cheng to speak. Originally, Tang Cheng opened his mouth when he screened his opinions, but he sat silently with Huang Hanju and smoked a cigarette, Tang Cheng was a little difficult to say, after all, what he wanted to say to Huang Hanju didn't sound like a good thing.

Seeing that Huang Hanju was already waiting for him, Tang Cheng had no choice but to cough lightly twice before speaking, "Brother-in-law, what I want to say may not sound very good, but you have to wait until I finish talking before you speak, okay?" Tang Cheng's solemnity was a bit beyond Huang Hanju's expectations, seeing that Tang Cheng's expression didn't look like he was joking, Huang Hanju straightened his face and nodded in agreement.

"Tong Guò These days, the battle reports and news you brought back from the headquarters, I deduce that the battle of Pingmanna formulated by the headquarters may not be successful." Seeing that Huang Hanju glared and looked like he was about to have a seizure, Tang Cheng opened the map he put in his hand and explained to Huang Hanju, "Brother-in-law, you see, the Japanese army's attack route to the north is divided into three routes, and the British army on the west road is completely out of hope, but the right flank of our middle army will also be exposed to the Japanese army." You haven't fought with the Japanese army, what the Japanese are best at is infiltration and roundabout operations, once they carry out a big roundabout outflanking operation from the Western Front, do you think we can still stop them in Pingmanna? ”

Without waiting for Huang Han to come back to his senses, Tang Cheng's fingers slowly moved to the position of Lashio near the Sino-Burmese border, "This is the only way to return to China, if the Japanese army sends troops to attack here, let alone capture Lashio, even if the Japanese army occupies the area around Lashio, do you think we people can safely return to China by the same route?" If I were the commander of the Japanese army commanding this attack on Lashio, if I could not take Lashio, I would order the troops to destroy the roads and bridges leading from Lashio to Mandalay, so that you who are in a hurry to return home can only walk on two legs. ”

Tang Cheng's words made Huang Hanju sweat like pulp, and he understood what Tang Cheng said, at this moment, Huang Hanju was really scared, once the Japanese army cut off the retreat of the expeditionary force to return to China, the 100,000 elite national troops who had entered Burma would be finished. "What to do? What should we do? Huang Hanju stretched out his hand and grabbed Tang Cheng's chest tightly, "We have to do something, we can't let so many people die here and can't return home." Huang Hanju's voice was hoarse, and it could even be said that he was a little hysterical.

Tang Cheng's eyes couldn't help but feel moisture, but he still calmly and slowly broke Huang Hanju and grabbed his hand, "It's useless, brother-in-law, no one wants to listen to us." You're just a deputy director of logistics who is not taken seriously and is excluded, and I'm just a small captain, and there are a lot of military positions like ours in the expeditionary force, and those old men in the command department don't look down on us at all. We can only take care of our own people now, I promised Sister that I would take you home alive. ”

Prepare for defeat and retreat in advance, this is what Tang Cheng wants to say to Huang Hanju alone, although Huang Hanju was squeezed out by those guys in the military department, he is just a deputy director of logistics who is not taken seriously, but this position also has its advantages, compared to others, Huang Hanju, the deputy director of logistics, wants to get some materials that Tang Cheng needs to come back. "Our weapons were all prepared before we left Kunming, but I still need some ammunition, and it would be better to get me a Japanese grenadier back."

"Medicine, mainly medicine, since we have set aside half of the wounded soldiers here, I have secretly saved some medicine, but it is not enough, once there is a retreat, medicine is the most important thing." Seeing that Huang Hanju was already listening to himself very carefully, Tang Cheng immediately said something that he had been thinking about for a long time and had to be cited by Huang Hanju. "Brother-in-law, I heard that the British have built a lot of bases in Burma to hoard supplies, including weapons and ammunition, as well as food and medicine, and I need to know the location of these material warehouses north of Mandalay."

"It's not a good thing to do, if it's just to get some ammunition and medicine, I can do it, but the British are very arrogant and unreasonable, and it's too difficult to get their stuff." Huang Hanju was shocked by Tang Cheng's plan, he didn't expect Tang Cheng to secretly plan to calculate the things of the British.

Huang Hanju's reaction was obviously already expected by Tang Cheng, and he smiled at Huang Hanju, Tang Cheng leaned closer and said softly, "Brother-in-law, haven't you heard the old saying that money can make ghosts grind, whether it is British or Chinese in essence, I don't believe that those British people will not be moved in the face of golden nuggets." If you get that British major named Johnson to hang out with us, I'll be able to get what we want from him. ”

Of course, Huang Hanju knew that the British major named Johnson was the adjutant of General Alexander of the British Army, but he knew that this guy named Johnson also had the identity of a British nobleman, and Huang Hanju was very hopeless about Tang Cheng's plan to buy a British nobleman. "Hehe, brother-in-law, you don't know this, you are a British nobleman like our former Manchu royal family here? You also look up to the British too much. That Johnson's title of nobility has long been broken in his life, not to mention that I spent money to buy him some inconsequential words, even if I paid him to eat, I guess that guy would not hesitate to agree. ”

Listening to Tang Cheng's analogy was too disgusting, Huang Hanju, who had always had a bad face, couldn't help laughing, "Brother-in-law, you don't know, when I was in Shanghai, I had a lot of dealings with their foreigners. Don't look at those big-nosed foreigners who look at people one by one with a fair and just mouth, in fact, the most important thing is to obtain benefits, as long as we can get the price that Johnson thinks is appropriate, maybe that guy will really eat according to our orders, after all, he has a life for the rest of his life. When Tang Cheng said that the British valued interests, Huang Hanju couldn't help but nod.

After listening to Tang Cheng's explanation, Huang Hanju, who was anxious, didn't care about what to eat, so he immediately drove into the city with a military doctor who took care of the wounded soldiers to ask for medicine and supplies. "The battle ahead is very unfavorable, the speed of the Japanese army moving north is also very fast, and there is a possibility that Mandalay will also be attacked by the Japanese army, so we must be prepared to retreat home at any time. A few of you have to make more preparations these days, but don't be seen by those people of the new 22nd Division, and you have to do everything quietly. After sending Huang Hanju away, Tang Cheng summoned Hou San and the others, who had been waiting for a long time, together.

Hou San and the others were not very surprised to withdraw the troops and go home, Tang Cheng had been fiddling with those maps and the battle reports brought back by Huang Hanju in his house these days, Hou San and they already knew something about the battle ahead, not to mention that there were still many more wounded people in the camp who had been withdrawn from the front line. "The command is planning a large-scale battle with the main Japanese forces heading north in the near future, and I estimate that the possibility of a battle is very small, because the British forces have been defeated one after another, completely exposing our right flank to the Japanese."

"From tomorrow, you will all be forbidden to go out, not only that, but everyone, including me, will resume training from tomorrow, Yanlong Yanhu, you brothers, you two must familiarize us with the mountains and forests here in Myanmar in the shortest possible time." Tang Cheng's next arrangement was a bit unexpected by everyone, and the withdrawal of the army was naturally to return to Wan Town according to the original route, but why did Tang Cheng suddenly mention letting the Yanlong brothers take everyone to familiarize themselves with the mountains and forests?

"Do you think the Japanese soldiers are all fools, and they can return to Wan Town by the way we came? Don't even think about it, as long as the Japanese army is not a fool, you will definitely know that you will send troops to make a detour to attack Lashio, as long as you take Lashio, it will cut off the retreat of our 100,000 people. Xu saw the doubts of Hou San and the others, Tang Cheng smiled coldly, but it was such an obvious thing, but those people in the command headquarters just couldn't see it.

"What the fuck is this fighting?" The most grumpy dice scolded directly, carefully calculating the time, they drove all the way from Kunming to Mandalay for less than a month, this is to think about the withdrawal of troops, the dice really can't figure out how this battle can be like this, is it possible that so many national troops just came to Myanmar to go around the motions.

"Don't think about the things we can't control, those old men naturally don't care about the lives of our little soldiers, and now only we think about ourselves, we came with the chief, and naturally followed the commander all the way home." Mu Lianshan didn't come, Hou San was the oldest of them, and without Tang Cheng to speak, Hou San had already scolded the dice.