Asano turned over comfortably on the bed and then went back to his dream, where he dreamed that Makino was prostrate in front of him and begging for forgiveness because he had said disrespectful words before.

"You bastard, you have today." He said fiercely in his dream.

He was thinking about whether to spare Makino when there was a sudden thunder in the sky, no, it seemed like someone was knocking on the door.

The only one who can knock on the door rudely like this is Staff Officer Tsuji, right? He thought.

Masanobu Tsuji rushed in, pulled Asano from under the blanket, and shook him desperately.

"Good news, the landing was successful."

Asano was almost shaken apart by him, isn't it the most natural thing to land successfully? What's all the fuss? Of course, he does not have the deep fear of this almost roulette military adventure like a professional soldier, he is just a guide, relying on some historical knowledge and luck to move on the blade, and he has succeeded repeatedly.

"Asano-kun, tell me quickly, can you suggest that Chief Iida beat the 56th Division out."

"No hurry," he said, breaking free of Masanobu Tsuji's strong arms, "we have to wait, and the best time will be when the main force of the Chinese army goes west to save the British." Rest assured, as long as a retreat is left for the British, they will flee. ”

"Ah, for three missing one, it is really a wise man comparable to Kong Ming." Masanobu Tsuji exclaimed.

At the same time, the Taiwan Strait. The aircraft carrier Zuihe, which was finally repaired after four months, headed south under the escort of several destroyers. One of his escort frigates, having already received a tightly packed box from the Agano salvage ship, will sail with the carrier to the waters off the New British Isles. Yamamoto may have been more eager for an aircraft carrier to return, while Makino waited for the ammunition to arrive.

Chief Chu's troops had already set off ahead of schedule to plug the gap. This was an adventure on the part of Lin Xiuxuan, and if the British abandoned the defensive line before they arrived, it would mean that the achievements were in vain; In fact, he very much hoped that Chief Chu would attend an emergency military meeting, at least to know what the high command would do next. But now Chu Tingchang has no skills, so he can only make up for the leaks first, and his team is maneuvering, and it is impossible to find a flat land for the liaison plane to come down and pick him up to attend the meeting.

This means that Lin Xiuxuan cannot be informed in time of what kind of adjustments will be made at the latest military meeting. In fact, the whole situation is not completely out of control, and the strength of the Chinese army is still sufficient. But like ten fingers pressed to a flea, scheduling is already difficult, and there is no room for any mistake in command.

Sun Liren was ordered to suspend the attack immediately and fly to Mandalay to attend the meeting, this was the second bad news he got in the morning, the first bad news was that Chu Tingchang ran away again, this time it seems that he was ordered by Du Yuming to go to the west to save the British, and he didn't know how wrong the British were, because no one told him. Now he can only stop, he is still thinking about destroying the enemy and seeing if he can raise some shells to come back.

For the time being, he could only suspend the offensive and split his forces to send reinforcements. From early in the morning, Sakurai looked like he was about to take it, but as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, he cheered up again. His troops were almost overdrawn, and with heavy casualties, it seemed that he could only stop for a moment to catch his breath, which of course meant that Sakurai was also able to breathe. Why does this happen at the last minute? As he walked out of the headquarters, he kicked over a chair in the doorway.

At the moment when the Japanese army was marching forward, the emergency military meeting in Mandalay had already been convened, and due to the urgency of the matter, it did not start before waiting for anyone to arrive, and when Sun Liren entered the venue, the meeting was already halfway through. He walked over to the table and heard a sigh around him, and he felt that something was wrong. Looking up at the map, he only saw the location of Sittwe Port on the west coast, and there were a few more blue arrows, and he roughly knew that the situation was not good. Judging from the situation, it was an amphibious landing, the British army was retreating, and only one reinforcement was rushing, and the number was an independent composite force of the 5th Army, that is, Chu Tingchang's troops.

"Now our army has just withdrawn from the strike range of the enemy's long-range naval guns, but the enemy's carrier-based aircraft group can still pose a threat to us? Under such circumstances, the construction of a new line of defense is very detrimental to our side. ”

Alexander said.

"Unfavorable, disadvantage, do you have to withdraw from the attack range of the carrier-based aircraft in order to stop and defend? You might as well withdraw to me. Dai Anlan asked, he said everything that other Chinese soldiers didn't dare to say. Sun Liren looked at the situation, he should have quarreled a few times just now.

Alexander was stunned and speechless.

"Don't fight," Stilwell walked out with a calm face, reassuring everyone, he should have wanted to scold the most here, but the overall situation was at the moment, and he had to hold back.

"Now that General Sun is here, let's go back to reality and discuss the next step. Obviously, this is the enemy's overall counterattack, and at the moment, the enemy has not yet reversed the situation. We have the road from Min to Sittwe, and the Air Force can focus on ensuring the smooth flow of this road, if there are reserves. Let's talk about this. ”

After Stilwell finished speaking, he turned to Sun Liren, he was asking the expeditionary force for troops to save the British, and he had no face to open his mouth to Du Yuming.

"Commander Du, have Battalion Commander Chu's troops already moved first?" Sun Liren asked Du Yuming first.

"Well, yes, thanks to his swiftness, he was out of his blocking position and ready to go (in fact, he was already on his way) by the time I got the enemy's information, but he couldn't hold off a division."

"How is it possible to have a division?" Sun Liren shook his head and said, "The Japanese don't have such a large shipping capacity, unless they don't want it on other fronts." In addition, the rescue troops of the 31st Division were also connected with Battalion Commander Chu yesterday, and today I just took over his defense area, where can the enemy army in Burma still make up a complete division? ”

"This is intelligence from the British army. It is judged to be the 56th Division, otherwise it doesn't make sense. ”

Sun Liren turned to Chen Zhiping.

"Director Chen, is it the 56th Division? The 56th Division has been in the east since the start of the war, and how it went to the west is a matter of great importance. ”

"I ......" Chen Zhiping was a little speechless, he knew very well what kind of serious consequences might be caused by saying the wrong thing in this situation, and he intercepted the enemy's intelligence countless times, all pointing to the 56th Division on the Thai-Burmese border, but judging from the current situation, this should be the part of the enemy's overall strategy to bully the enemy. But why did the enemy sacrifice the Sakurai division to play this play? This made him hesitate. "Judging from the recent enemy situation at our intelligence station, I partially agree with the intelligence of the British army, if the scale of the attack is really that large, it can only be the 56th Division." He mustered up the courage to open his eyes and said a nonsense, of course, there was room in the words: it was based on British intelligence, comprehensive judgment.

Even if the hostile situation reported by the British was reduced by half, they could only make such a judgment. In fact, due to the shortage of transportation capacity and troops, the Japanese army split the 31st Division into two parts and launched the attack by land and sea respectively. The exaggerated hostility of the British deepened Chen Zhiping's usual speculation, and he came to a conclusion that was in the opposite direction.

"If that's the case, I think the Japanese counterattack is self-defeating." Sun Liren said calmly.

"Hehe, they thought they could rescue the Sakurai division by a surprise attack, but it would definitely be self-defeating."

"How?" Du Yuming asked eagerly.

"Immediately put the reserve force in the Lincang area into Burma through the Gongguo Bridge, use the Lashio-Minjian railway to the west to fill the front, and at the same time use the main force in the Mandalay area to block the landing enemy through the Minjian to Sittwe road. As long as there is some stability between Thailand and Burma and Pu'er, I think at least one or two divisions of troops can be transferred over to make the campaign bigger. We have such a good overseas Chinese foundation in northern Myanmar, we can fight for it. ”

"Well, I think it's doable. Let Wang Yaowu's troops take over my position, and I will immediately go to the rescue of the British. Dai Anlan immediately agreed.

"However, the burden of overseas Chinese in northern Myanmar to contribute money, efforts, and people to raise all kinds of materials is already very large?" Du Yuming said.

"I know our people, and they will definitely support us in fighting."

Luo Zhuoying, who had not spoken, interjected.

Lord Mountbatten, who was standing on the side, understood Luo Zhuoying's sentence 20 seconds late through the translation, which was very inappropriate politically, and the Chinese general called the Burmese overseas Chinese "our people" really startled him, Luo Zhuoying is the highest-ranking general here, almost the representative of Chiang Kai-shek, does he mean Chiang's thoughts when he says this? However, Mountbatten was old and serious, and his face did not show any expression, and as an outsider, he never interjected a word about the battle.

"That'...... To Chongqing...... No, send a telegram directly to Wang Yaowu, asking him to transfer the main division deployed along the Nu River into Burma? ”

"I'll see it." Sun Liren nodded. Next to him, Liao Yaoxiang wanted to speak and stopped.

"Where is Jian Chu still worried about the Thai-Burmese border?" After Du Yuming finished speaking, Liao Yaoxiang nodded.

"There are two divisions of the 6th Army guarding it...... Besides, didn't Brother Zhiping say that at least most of the 56th Division had been transferred to the west, so the enemy would not be able to come up with any troops to carry out such a sneak attack. ”

Du Yuming turned around: "Then I will make the following arrangements, the 96th Division continues to lag southwest of Mandalay, the 18th Division counterattacks, the southward troops of the 74th Army take over the reserve position of the 200th Division, the main force of the 200th Division withdraws from the position one by one, and moves west to support the direction of Situy, and the new 22nd Division blocks the enemy's 55th Division in Dongdunzhi......"

Chu Tingchang and Lin Xiuxuan missed this meeting, and did not know about such a major transfer change, and Du Yuming was worried about the leakage of intelligence, so he deployed the operation and sent it to the troops through liaison planes and messengers, which made Qin Xiaosu unable to monitor the specific deployment in time, and Chu Tingchang could not get the news in time because his level was too low.

At this time, Chu Tingchang's troops were rushing all the way to the west. Brooke, who followed the action, was still unclear at first, he wanted to scold Chief Chu for giving up his neighbors again, but the other party hid in the tank and turned off the phone, leaving him at a loss. Gradually, however, the news from the General Staff outlined the general situation. He realized that Commander Chu Ting's decision was right, and at present they were the only relatively combat-effective troops on the entire Western Front that could immediately maneuver in place.

Lin Xiuxuan's three-man reconnaissance team was already in the front, wearing the uniforms of the 96th Division, and drove on the road. And the drone was launched to reconnoiter the situation ahead.

British reinforcements can be seen stopping at the front and starting to build fortifications. They did not have the courage at all to push the enemy's two brigades back into the sea in one fell swoop. Looking at it from here, where is the clear sky with the overwhelming Japanese carrier-based aircraft described by the British army on the radio? You have to listen to them on the radio and think there was a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor no less than that in the morning.

It was obvious that once the main force of the Japanese army came up, it would definitely quickly carry out a roundabout operation and break through such a fragmented defensive line. He quickly sent a message to Chu Tingchang, asking him to lead his troops straight to Sittwe Airport, he estimated that the first stop after the main force of the Japanese army was assembled would be there, and perhaps he could take advantage of the maneuver to entangle the enemy. In addition, he asked Pavilion Chief Chu to immediately inquire about the situation of the combat meeting through Brooke, and this matter could not be delayed.