“*？ It was a weapon used in the sea. "The British Major General did not react at once, he had never heard of * and anti-pontoon bridges. Of course, part of the reason for his stunned was that the translation of the two knives he found was not accurate enough.

"Absolutely. We took advantage of the upstream, I calculated the speed of the flow, as long as it was dropped 5 kilometers upstream, after ten minutes, the drifting thunder would crash itself into the downstream pontoon, and during the day, they might still be able to destroy with fire, but at night...... Hehe, what can be done? Chu Tingchang took a moment to explain his idea in detail, not only for the British, but also for the other officers on the scene.

"Yes, yes, but how do you make sure that the water depth is enough. Airdrop deployment*, which requires a water depth of approximately 15 meters. ”

Luo finally understood what the other party meant, and asked a rhetorical question.

"It's really a real problem. If we have enough time, we can even transport them to the upstream iron bridge by truck and throw them down and let them float down the river, but we only have the opportunity for tomorrow night, so we have to use airdrops. I don't know the hydrological data upstream, but I know that the water depth at the beginning of April is slightly shallow, so it is necessary to reduce the altitude. If a fire is placed on the river, the pilot can use this as a basis to reduce the altitude as much as possible. ”

He changed his previous unserious attitude and laid out the plan in its entirety, which was a completely feasible plan carefully calculated by Lin Xiuxuan and the other members of the group. Of course, there are some loopholes in the grasp of upstream hydrological data, and he and his team are not sure whether the floating mines thrown from high altitudes will hit the bottom. However, the floating thunder itself has a certain buoyancy and is thrown at a low altitude, so it will obviously not be much of a problem.

His remarks made the heads of the interpreters on the scene bigger, which led to a short period of confusion. This also gave some senior officers on the side of the national army, who had already understood what he meant, to have time to carefully examine Chu's plan.

Sun Liren left alone from the battle map surrounded by the crowd, came to the sand table in the smaller Irrawaddy River basin, and stared blankly for a while. The strict military education he received was enough for him to deduce the feasibility step by step in his mind.

The 33rd Division of the Japanese Army came from a long distance, and if it followed the general strategy of the national army, of course, it was to divide its troops to resist, and it would inevitably become a bloody and protracted battle. At present, the Hump route is still in the air, and the ammunition that can be sent in the country cannot sustain a protracted battle.

So where are the advantages of the Chinese army? Chu Tingchang has pointed out that it is the geographical advantage, and it is the iron bridge and highway left by the British upstream. The Japanese were eager for a-for-tat confrontation with the Chinese army, but they fought from the bottom up, and they could only build pontoon bridges in the rushing river. And he can quickly use the car regiment given by Luo Zhuoying, and use the highway bridge to transport the troops to the other side of the river. If everything happens perfectly according to Chu Tingchang's assumption, when the Japanese pontoon bridge is cut off, there should still be about seven or eight thousand enemies on the west bank. With his own troops, plus Chu Tingchang's synthetic battalion, he can already try to carry out a war of annihilation; He did not doubt that the combat effectiveness of a battalion of Commander Chu Tingchang was far above that of a division such as the Provisional 55. Speaking of firepower alone, it also surpassed the new 38th Division. On the second or third day of the battle, reinforcements from the new 22nd Division could also arrive. Then, he will have a window of time to annihilate most of Sakurai's division.

"But...... Who is this Chu Tingchang? ”

He couldn't help but have such a thought, he, like the slightly arrogant generals here, had a respectful attitude towards Chu Tingchang, who came out of the short-term training class. However, it must be admitted that he has been fighting the battle of immortals, and every time he makes a move, he will gain something, and he will win with a small loss. You could say he looks ugly, but he never falls short.

Over there, Stilwell exchanged words with the British, and the straight color began to take a stand.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I think this plan is feasible and feasible to give full play to our current strengths. Our British allies have indicated that they can send their air forces to support the operation, but it is best to calculate precisely the time of the destruction of the enemy's pontoon bridges due to the speed of the flow. ”

Obviously, Britain and the United States agreed in principle to this campaign.

"But the British Army had to face the possibility of an attack by the Japanese on the ocean, and it was clear that it would not be able to fully participate in the first phase of the campaign." Stilwell said. "But General Slim promised that his troops would be ready to attack in a few days."

"We don't have to have them to participate, we can do it." Sun Liren, who was far away from the crowd, said, "My troops can immediately go on a big detour. ”

"However, your troops are tired." Luo Zhuoying said that he hoped that his generals would have some room to speak.

"Aren't the Japanese more tired? If the Chinese military can't drag down the Japanese by willpower, then what are we left with? Is it steel? ”

"With Sun Bu leaving, the pressure on the front line of the Xitang River will increase, and the enemy will inevitably turn from defense to attack."

"Our 200th Division will definitely be able to block the counterattack of the enemy's 18th Division." Dai Anlan stepped forward and said, "It can also carry out non-stop counterattacks and inflict heavy damage on it." ”

"The 55th Division is handed over to me, and I can entangle it with two regiments, divide a main regiment, and go to the west to support Sun Bu to annihilate the Sakurai Division," Liao Yaoxiang also took a step forward.

Stilwell's heart suddenly swelled with excitement that he had not seen in a long time since he had come to this ghost place to accept this mess, and he had never seen the Allies agree so quickly, and part of the discussion was about how to distribute aid, not how to annihilate the Japanese. Even this time the British became positive, although, as always, they had reservations about the plan proposed by the Chinese, but it was commendable that they agreed to join the Air Force.

"Then, I need the staff to immediately make a detailed plan according to this intention and prepare to launch this campaign."

Now that Chu Tingchang is standing in the center of the stage, this makes him have to face the final problem very carefully, that is, how to point out the danger of Lashio, Lin Xiuxuan let him judge for himself, but he must be careful. This place is far away from his defense area, across Mandalay, and this kind of strategic problem of considering the overall situation of Burma is not something that a battalion commander of his district should consider, if it is rashly proposed at such a high-level meeting, it will inevitably make people with intentions suspicious, in fact, he just mentioned that the part of hydrology involved in the design of the flow rate of the Irrawaddy River, which has already crossed the line; In the end, he did not raise the danger of Lashio, and saw if the team leader had any other way.

At the end of the meeting, all the generals received their tasks and left. When Chu Tingchang turned around with a smile, he received a lot of respectful glances, but unexpectedly in the crowd, he felt that someone cast a flick of suspicion, but when he looked up, the person disappeared into the crowd.

Chen Zhiping returned to the intelligence station with a gloomy face.

Major Kim, who accompanied her to the meeting, had a good eye and saw some fame.

"Director, seeing that you are not in a good mood, I'm afraid that it is Du Yuming who is urging the enemy's reserve position to do something, right?"

The major knew that the intelligence he heard was seriously inconsistent with the intelligence of the British, so the director did not dare to make a decision, and kept pressing, he became more and more suspicious of the Japanese army intelligence obtained by code breaking, and thought that the Japanese army would change the password after a month, but did not change it, which made Chen Zhiping, who was suspicious by nature, feel that there was a ghost in the matter.

"Not this thing." Chen Zhiping shook his hand.

"That's ......"

"It's Chief Chu Ting, he gave me the feeling today...... Something is very wrong. ”

"Something is wrong? Didn't his proposal pass unanimously? ”

"Do you think that what he said is very strange, what, not to take one city and one place as a drag, to destroy the living force as the primary purpose, what a big detour, a big depth and clouds."

“…… Do you mean to say his guerrilla habits? Hey, he came from behind enemy lines, and it was inevitable that he would have such a habit of wandering and fighting. ”

"No, it's still not right," Chen Zhiping stood up and walked twice in front of the lamp with his hands behind his back, "Although the Loyal Salvation Army is a guerrilla, it is by no means this way, it's not so demonic, don't you think, he proposed to flow repeatedly on several rivers, which is called a big detour, in fact, it is a tactic of relying on walking more to stun the opponent and taking advantage of the situation to bite back, isn't it very similar to ......"

"Much like something......" Major was still not very open-minded.

"I was reminded of an old story. In the 24th year of the Republic of China, the main force of the communist army flowed into the Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan area, and Wu Qiwei led the superior forces to follow and pursue, repeatedly forming a joint encirclement. I often take advantage of the fact that I am chasing the soldiers halfway through, and suddenly appear behind the side, take a bite and leave. How similar is this to today's situation? ”

"Director, that's a bit far-fetched, isn't it?"

"Maybe, but this person must be clear. His background will never be simple, even if the Central University degree is fake, but his vision is not something that can be cultivated in a place like a short-term training class. Also, others despise him for drilling the camp and slapping the horses in the camp, but in our eyes of the synthetic camp, how could we have found out that he was collecting money and deducting money, this person neither gambles, nor prostitutes, does not smoke and drink, and does not beat and scold soldiers, isn't this suspicious? ”

"This ......"

The director's words were speechless. On closer inspection, this person is really strange.

On the banks of the Irrawaddy River pontoon. The commander of the third division of Sakurai Province, wearing the stars and the moon, walked up a hillside. Since his last assassination, he has rarely been so energetic as to take the command to watch the troops advance.

"Division commander, the 18th Division has asked us for help, but it's unprecedented." Chief of Staff Kawahara beside him said.

"It can be seen that the Chinese army has beaten Mutaguchi hard, and they have mobilized the most elite five or six divisions to besiege them, and he can only think of us at last."

"Wing Commander Aizawa reported that the independent armored unit of the Chinese army, after fleeing north, is now missing."

"Hehe, you have to remember that the most cherished thing for China's elite troops is not the lives of soldiers, but their equipment. Once they lose their weapons, they no longer have the position of the main force, so every time they fight, they will definitely not fight for victory, but look left and right, for fear that friendly and neighboring troops of different factions will betray themselves, which is impossible to happen in our army. ”

"Division commander, should we also guard against the possibility of the enemy making a detour from the iron bridge upstream?"

"Hehe, when have you ever seen the Chinese army with such a strong ability to move across theaters?"

"But they still have almost a thousand trucks in Myanmar."

"Hehe, we have built 3 pontoon bridges, and the sappers are still reinforcing them, and the tanks will be able to pass tomorrow. If they want to take a long detour, don't they know that we can move faster in a straight line? As long as they are on the side of the pontoons, with increased anti-aircraft fire, I don't see any way for them to threaten our maneuver. ”

"The division commander is really smart."

"Tell Seko Osa, his movements are a little slow, and he must arrive at the designated location at dawn. We must do our best to save Mutaguchi from this predicament. ”