The crowd of the Anglo-Indian 17th Division's baggage battalion passed unhurriedly, and the jeep was able to get back on the road.

"Captain, this is the situation here, the British have built roads everywhere, and they look better than our own country, but if you really want to say that the transportation is smooth, why use animal power. The British didn't use elephants last month, and this month they can't stand it. ”

Chu Aiyun turned the topic to the main thing, of course, complaining can only go so far, today's business is that Du Yuming also asked him to find a way to let Xiao Jiang see the difficulties; He can also speak to his father, and it is best to dispel some of Lao Jiang's unrealistic ideas.

"What is the transportation like in northern Myanmar?"

"The main force of the armored regiment is still blocked north of the Huitong Bridge, if it weren't for the Yunnan-Burma highway being cut off and the transportation capacity being evened out, even the 200th Division would not have come so quickly."

Xiao Jiang was thoughtful, he probably wanted to be fierce in his heart, but where was it so easy.

"Lieutenant, you don't have to mind what I said just now, I just deeply felt that the Chinese army was careless, unpunctual, and impatient. You only entered the special training class of Lu University B, and you only stayed for two or three months to graduate, you are not a professional soldier, I should not use such a strict attitude, I apologize to you for this. ”

Xiao Jiang suddenly put down his body and apologized to Chu Aiyun, but when the words came out of his mouth, he was always so twisted, saying that Chu is not a professional soldier, so he shouldn't be so harsh, and his criticism is actually correct, but the object is not qualified enough.

Chu Aiyun did become the focus of attention in the press because of his major contributions, and then, according to his self-reported university degree, he was exceptionally exempted from the examination and entered the special training class of Chongqing Lu University. Of course, in fact, in his monthly exams, each one is still in the top three in the class; Even if he deliberately hid his strength, he passed the grade, and he was always at the top of the class, so that the generals next to him often had to peek at his papers, of course, Xiao Jiang didn't know this. Therefore, Xiao Jiang still underestimated the deputy captain when he considered his education and qualifications.

"The captain doesn't have to be worried, it's true that he is late for his duties. There should be no reason to cover it up. Chu Aiyun said like a scripture, of course, he didn't know what to say.

"Actually, it was really dizzy to let you come to my main force from above, and it wasn't your fault in the first place. Propaganda, propaganda, full of mind is to create a big news. The first of the army won a major victory, and the common people who had been trained for several months were stuffed into the general staff, and they could not think of it. In Germany, oh no, in any decent regular army, it's inconceivable. ”

Chu Aiyun is really itchy at the root of his teeth, dealing with this kind of second-generation is really a nest fire, and every sentence is uncomfortable to listen to. But you can clearly hear that he is not deliberately sarcastic in order to avenge the collision, or to vent his dissatisfaction with the irregularity of the army, in fact, what he said is not unreasonable, the Chinese army is still 108,000 miles away from the regularization he wants, even if the senior generals who graduated from Huangpu, it is only a very short period of military training.

"Hu Xianqun's tank regiment, how many tanks are coming?" Xiao Jiang asked angrily.

"At present, there is 1 company in Lashio, and here, there are also 2 companies. The reconnaissance company is equipped with an Italian CV33 and a Russian-made BT5. ”

"Why are they all such small tanks?"

"Last month, the Huitong Bridge was bombed by Japanese planes to the north shore base, and it was somewhat loose, so we could only transport the light and small ones first, and then transport the heavy ones after they were reinforced."

He was in the staff of the 5th Army for a period of time and knew that the T26 was a relatively heavy tank in the Chinese army.

"Are there any restrictions on receiving British narrow-gauge railways?"

"No, the width of the board is enough to transport the T26, and the transportation of the short board is at the Huitong Bridge. However, the agents of the Independence Army have been spying on the railway, and if the Southern Aircraft sends agents trained in explosives and then drops explosives, the situation will not be easy to say. ”

"How's the garrison on both sides of the railroad?"

"The search and special service battalion is responsible for patrolling the section from Mandela to Lashio, and the British military police is responsible for the difficult part of Mandeli, and dozens of people can be caught every day with bad intentions. Some were surveying our equipment for the Japanese, others were sabotaging ammunition depots and assassinating officers. ”

"So many people?" Xiao Jiang was taken aback, he could catch dozens of people every day on the railway, which meant that there was such a large base of hidden resistance forces.

"When the officer corps returned from the train, he saw spies strangled along the way, hanging all over the telephone poles near the station. But the people are not afraid of death, so what can they do? Nowadays, the passivity of our army is not just a force of troops, otherwise it would not be difficult to push two divisions into the sea in one go. ”

"I thought that there were a lot of overseas Chinese in Myanmar, so they wouldn't be completely passive, right?"

"When the army arrived in Lashio, it was naturally welcomed by overseas Chinese on the streets, but Mandalay was already a different atmosphere, only seeing the crowd fleeing to the north, the more south they went, the more passive, in fact, the Japanese strategy in the entire South Seas was nothing more than suppressing the overseas Chinese and Indians to buy the natives, in Singapore, in Malaya. Now the southern Burmese people are not dissatisfied, and they are looking forward to the imperial army as they are looking forward to the royal division. It can be said that except for Yangon, in the entire south, there are few areas where overseas Chinese gather. ”

"The enemy's tactics are so vicious."

Xiao Jiang frowned. He stayed in the first war zone, and what he saw on the map was naturally a different scene. The northern part of Burma is mountainous and the south is flat, and as long as the armored troops are transported south, the Japanese army, which has not gained a firm foothold, can be brought to the sea. But the reality is the opposite, and the place where the war is still possible is actually in the north. The British tried their best to whitewash and provide optimistic intelligence so that these people in the rear could not see the real situation.

The car turned into a wood, and the sound of the engine was heard in the distance, which was the small combat vehicle of the reconnaissance company of the independent armored regiment was being exercised, and after arriving in Burma, the 5th Army received the oil depot handed over by the British, so that it could carry out company-level training on a regular basis, which was unimaginable in China.

I saw a few small but stupid armored vehicles, rushing down the hillside and then stopped. The commander of the turret poked his head out, stretched out his thumb to make a jumping eye range, and then waved a red flag to the rear to report in flag.

"This is a rehearsal of reconnaissance ......"

"I can see clearly," Xiao Jiang looked at this small Italian tank that did not turn the turret and was only equipped with a machine gun, "Why do you still use the flag language, how many combat vehicles in the armored regiment are equipped with radios."

"T26 has 2 platoons with radios, and the Type 221 wheeled vehicles of the reconnaissance company also have them, and most of the rest of the vehicles do not have them."

"Didn't you say that the Soviet Union installed a radio station for all our T26s?"

"Some of them were damaged, and some of them were removed to replenish the artillery. Shangfeng felt that every car was matched, which was too wasteful. ”

"It's just a mess."

"The British promised to give a Vickers company, which is still being received, those cars do have AM radios, and I participated in the test the day before yesterday, and the communication distance on the plains is about 3 kilometers, and there are ground objects to cover about 1.5 kilometers."

Xiao Jiang suddenly found that this guy who came out of short-term special training seemed to be the head of the way, and he was quite able to speak, not like a guy who came to mix up the days and gilded it.

"You've been in the company here."

"Yes, both the Independent Regiment and the 200th Division have been."

In the distance, a sentry quickly waved the flag, signaling the vehicle not to approach the training grounds. Chu Aiyun turned a corner and went straight to the reconnaissance company headquarters, he knew that the company commander went to the British to receive supplies today, so he was no longer there, but he was very familiar with the people here, and he could accompany Xiao Jiang to watch the flowers.

"Turn around, go over there" Xiao Jiang suddenly became excited. When he saw the SDKFZ221 reconnaissance vehicle parked at the entrance of the headquarters, it was like seeing an old friend.

"Let's take a look."

The air defense siren suddenly sounded from far to near, breaking Xiao Chiang's interest. In an instant, the roar of the aircraft engine was already in the head.

Chu Aiyun hurriedly pulled Xiao Jiang to hide, but was thrown away. Jiang Weiguo raised his binoculars and soon saw a formation of enemy planes looming in the clouds, about nine of them, flying over from the east.

Myanmar has not established a domestic early warning network, so enemy planes always come very suddenly, but it seems that the situation is only passing by the county town of Pu'er in the east.

"It's not going to attack my father, is it?"

"It's not like, this is a Japanese dive bomber, and the formation was not disbanded, which means that it will not drop bombs, and it should be going to bomb Huitong Bridge or Gongguo Bridge."

"You're sure."

"Well, every time I come to the same route, I fly relatively high, and I can only rely on the navigation of the Lancang River at that height, and the target is roughly the bridge in the Longling and Tengyue areas. To bomb the buildings here, it must be manned by ground agents. ”

"Can you increase the warning time?"

"The British's radar in Mumai can see far away, but the means of communication have not yet been coordinated, so they can only rely on the observation post on the hill for the time being."

500 kilometers away from Chu Aiyun from the inside. Lin Xiuxuan and his group were resting. They drove the vehicle into the jungle in the early morning, then simply hid it with tree branches, and after throwing small drones to reconnoitre, they found that the British had sent a patrol, but they did not immediately follow the tire prints, and it seemed that they had to wait for the decision of their superiors.

Qin Xiaosu conducted a simple inspection of the radar and prepared to transform the feeder part, and there is no final plan yet.

Lin Xiuxuan has been listening to various broadcasts in the cabin to collect some information. They were still unable to move, and there were occasional convoys of British troops heading south on the roads, and the British gendarmerie units searching for rebels could stop their vehicles for inspection at any time, so they had to wait until night.

The French colonial radio station in Kolkata broadcasts 24 hours a day in English to Burma. It was the assertion that the Axis powers might have taken the lead in the victory. Of course, the report is characterized by pretending to be neutral and hiding it deeply.

On the Eye War radio, local correspondent Melissa Erwin is telling about what she saw in the bitter cold on the Moscow front, about the ragged Soviet Red Army, vying to surrender to the Germans. They angrily denounced the political commissars and overseers to the Germans, and said that Stalin had ordered every house near Moscow to be burned and those who tried to keep their personal possessions to be shot, but the senior generals of the Red Army had snuck away with huge sums of money. Stalin himself is said to have used 20 trucks to transport personal property and art, all stolen from the Tsar as well as from museums. Erwin said that the theft of art seemed to him inconceivable, because the high Bolshevik officials were composed entirely of workers, peasants, and hooligans, and had no ability to appreciate art at all.

"Listeners, here's an important piece of war news." A male voice suddenly interjected, and Lin Xiuxuan roughly guessed what was going on.

"The war in Singapore, which has been loving you for some time, is coming to an end. According to the latest statement issued by General Yamashita's press spokesman, Lieutenant General Bai Sihua has decided to lay down his arms, and the two sides are close to agreeing on a series of terms. At present, the gunfire at the front has gradually stopped, and there are still some local Chinese Xinghua volunteers who are resisting on the coast of Johor, and these resistance elements are not included in the terms of the ceasefire, and the Japanese army will not accept their surrender. Once Singapore is captured, the whole of South Asia will become clear, and whether the British will be able to hold on to Burma or even India will be the focus of attention. At the moment the Japanese fleet had entered the Bay of Bengal and appeared in the sea near Colombo, while the Royal Navy had fled without a trace. ”