"You're in the General Staff, do you know exactly if the Japanese army has armored troops in Burma?"

"As far as I know, at present, below the 15th Army, there are only 4 automobile brigades, and the cavalry wing of the 55th Division are grouped together to form a motorized cluster called the Kawashima Detachment, and the rest of the troops are mule-drawn artillery."

"Kawashima detachment? It's the first time I've heard of it. ”

"This may be Iida's attempt at motorization, and he also knew the Airborne Forces, but it failed. In fact, there are only about a thousand people. By no means the main force of the Japanese army. ”

"Their main force is mule and horse, how did they defeat the British army?"

Xiao Jiang was thinking about humbly asking Chu Aiyun for advice at this time, after all, the deputy company commander was sorting out information at the staff headquarters and had been to the front line, so he knew the Japanese army better than when he first arrived.

"The 55th Division of the Japanese Army is notoriously deadly, especially the 112th Harasawa Xingzang Wing, more than 3,000 people rode bicycles, crossed the Thai-Burmese border, did not sleep, did not eat or drink, and simply went around behind the British army several times their size. At that time, Commander Du and I were on the west bank of the Xitang River, and the commander also reminded Commander Wei Hudun to be careful of the Japanese army's long-distance attack. ”

"What did he say?" Jiang Weiguo's eyes widened and waited for Chu Tingchang to tell the story.

"He said, no, no, no, there is no army in the world that can cross such a steep mountain in a torrential rain, and then continue to maintain the ability to march, which is against military common sense, and the Japanese are also people."

"Did he really say that?"

"Hehe, of course it's true, I remember that Senior Commander Dai Anlan only said one sentence at that time and calmed him down."

"What did Senior Commander Dai say?"

"Master Dai said that the Japanese are not human."

"This ......"

Of course, the grandson still didn't believe it, and then the Japanese descended from the sky and seized the port of Mawlamyine, and the supply ships followed, and the Harazawa United, which had been slightly replenished, fought all the way to the Xitang River. Hu Dun panicked and blew up the bridge in advance, and those northern mountain troops who couldn't swim were blocked on the other side of the river. I saw with my own eyes that about 500 Gurkha and Kachin surrendered on their knees, but the Japanese slaughtered them anyway, and their bodies were thrown into the river and floated into the Indian Ocean. Hu Dun, the grandson, probably understood what Master Dai meant by that sentence. ”

"I didn't expect the B Division Regiment to be so resilient."

"Judging from the intelligence from four days ago, it is likely that the one who will form a confrontation with our army is the Harazawa Wing, which is mostly composed of poor miners and craftsmen from Kagawa, and is known for its hard-working and refusal to admit defeat."

"Well, it's a fierce rival."

Xiao Jiang turned his neck unnaturally, probably feeling a chill in the back of his head. Judging from the map situation and the comparison of troops, it can be considered that it is possible for China and Britain to combine forces to defeat the unstable Japanese army to the sea, but this may not be the case. In Singapore, in the Philippines, and in Zhongtiao Mountain, when did the Japanese army not fight a great war of annihilation without being outnumbered?

Chu Aiyun saw that the heat was almost over.

"So in my opinion, Commander Du's plan is not necessarily to be cowardly, Commander Du has experienced a hundred battles and still understands the Japanese. Therefore, it is still very important for him to put the whole army in a situation where it can advance and retreat. ”

"Then what do you mean, Senior Commander Dai's plan is too reckless."

Not really. The 200th Division is the essence of our army, and at present, all the automobile regiments in the army are assigned to them, so they can certainly stretch out their fists and fight them. But what about other troops? Let's just say that Commander Yu's division can only walk on the soles of the feet, and our independent armored regiment is the same, although it is ostensibly on wheels, but there is a shortage of spare parts, and it is difficult to support, so there is no need to fight, and the whole regiment will drive out together to practice, and it would be good if half of them could drive back, so it is not suitable to go too far ahead. ”

"Report, Peak Emergency." A soldier of the communications unit walked over with a telegram in his hand and handed it to Jiang Weiguo.

Jiang Weiguo took it and quickly glanced at it, and then handed it to Deputy Company Commander Chu.

"What? Mandalay without stopping? Chu Aiyun was taken aback, obviously the destination was different from what he said when he left, "Tonggu also doesn't stop, go directly to Lianglibin to meet with the US Army Staff Committee?" It's the front line, and beyond that, it's the Japanese army. He doesn't know what went wrong, this will definitely not be what Du Yuming meant, but at present, the command level is unknown, and Luo Zhuoying's command can also issue orders.

"I don't want to delay our time in Mandalay, to be honest, I know that the British look down on us and say that we are straw sandals, and the Americans are highly suspicious of us and think we are pretending. I just want to show the allies that they can fight like straw sandals and win battles. ”

Chu Aiyun's heart was cold, and he thought to himself, as I said before, Xiao Jiang's competitive virtue is really not quite similar to his father's well-versed approach of retreating and not often going to the field to standby.

The train heads south, through the city of Mandalay, and straight to the front line. Chu Aiyun didn't know that his group with Lin Xiuxuan almost passed by near Mandalay. If his company had been stationed near Mandalay, he might have had a good chance to meet with Lin Xiuxuan.

As he judged, it was Luo Zhuoying who was under pressure from the United States to send the reconnaissance troops to the front as soon as possible, and of course he didn't know that the second son was on the train, so he issued an order. By the time he knew that it was too late, the train had already passed Tonggu, and it was impossible to find an excuse to pull back.

The direct consequence of this mistake was that this unit ran in front of the Vanguard 200th Division and became the forefront of the national army. If you look at history, even the 200th Division has never reached such a close place to Yangon.

After 3 days, the train arrived in Yang Libin. It is currently the last stop of the Yangman Railway, and 30 kilometers further on, the Japanese. The Japanese had already set up a position to attack Yangon, and as for how many men and horses were deployed in front to send reinforcements, the Allied side did not know anything except for the supernumerary Lin Xiuxuan's group who learned about it by eavesdropping.

Now the intelligence work of the entire Allied forces has completely lost control, except for a small amount of aerial reconnaissance, and it has almost become blind. Dai Li's intelligence station in Yangon is still operating, but he often receives contradictory false information that seems to have been deliberately released by the Southern authorities.

The U.S. Army Staff and the advance troops of the Nationalist Army arrived on the front and rear feet. When the DC3 they were riding in was about to land at the airstrip outside the city in the morning, it was suddenly attacked by a Japanese plane that appeared from the clouds, and the Japanese plane flew close to the rear but did not fire, and was finally driven away by ground fire. Judging from its appearance, it appeared to be a Type 99 trainer plane coming from the direction of Thailand, and the Japanese pilots had the audacity to harass the Allied transport plane to see if they could scare it into crashing into a mountain.

Stilwell, who had a false alarm, learned that Chennault's guarantee of air supremacy was completely unreliable, and the Allied intelligence was lagging behind, and he did not know that the main force of the 5th Flying Group was gradually being transferred here.

A puffed Stilwell sat in a jeep and rushed to the train station, his party of 10 cars, which was almost all his men on the front line. But he had reason to be angry, and after coming to Myanmar for half a month, it seemed that no one had told him the truth. The Alexandrians said that the situation in Rangoon seemed to be stable, and that there was no sign of follow-up by the Japanese army; Chiang Kai-shek said that the Americans would be directly involved in the command, but his order to quickly transfer troops to the south was discounted when it arrived at Luo Zhuoying, and one regiment became two reinforced companies, and he made 20 phone calls to Du Yuming's headquarters every day, and each time he told the general to go out for inspection. Then there was Chennault, in order to maintain control of the air force, he lied about air supremacy, which made him almost have an accident, he thought, this may be what Chennault wants to see. If the Japanese on the trainer knew that there was a big man on DC3, they might have crashed into it directly. The Japanese, united and fearless of life and death, formed the most terrible war machine in human history, while the allies around them were like pigs.

"Frank, I bet Chiang is trying to fool us with two companies. He wouldn't send his elite troops to the front, he just wanted to watch the Japanese and the British fight each other and then pull out when the time was right. ”

"It's a pity that we don't have our own army here, so we can only rely on China and Britain." Major Merrill, who was sitting on the sidelines, said.

"But both China and Britain want our assistance, especially Chiang Kai-shek, who is an insatiable warlord, and I will find a way to hold this rope."

The two looked at each other helplessly and cried and laughed, both of them had been engaged in intelligence in China for a long time, and they knew about this mess in China.

"So what are you going to do now?"

"Chiang's intelligence is completely out of order, their intelligence network here has been completely dismantled by the Japanese, and the British are the same, and the Japanese have really vicious tricks to incite ethnic hatred. Therefore, I have to rely on some front-line approach reconnaissance in order to understand some real intelligence and deployment information. ”

"They say that we are opposite Harazawa and an artillery squadron? Could it be another fake news released by the Southern Authorities? ”

"It's entirely possible, I just wanted to figure it out, but fortunately some people came, and I heard that there was an armored reconnaissance company among them. We can just conduct a fire reconnaissance to test the number of Japanese anti-Japanese anti-aircraft artillery and support artillery on the east bank of the Xitang River, and roughly figure out what kind of goods are deployed there. ”

"My God, you're using Chiang's most elite troops for fire reconnaissance."

"If we don't conduct reconnaissance, we will definitely be deceived by the Japanese. Listen, now is not the time for a woman's kindness, Percival is finished, with 100,000 men, MacArthur is almost finished, and this month, the losses in this war zone may be as high as 200,000. The President wants us to contain a Japanese front here, not the same rout. So...... Someone has to be cannon fodder. ”

Stilwell's words are not unreasonable, but they are inevitably cold-blooded, and he hopes to use the blood of the Chinese to make up for the lack of intelligence decisions, which are likely to be outdated in 24 hours, or even less.

The convoy rushed to the railway station and saw from a distance that the heavy equipment of the expeditionary force was being unloaded, all of which were old and dilapidated vehicles, not a single armored vehicle equipped with slightly larger artillery, but these rags had only been purchased many years ago by the weak and helpless agricultural country that had exhausted its treasury.

"General, look at the man standing on the armored car, it seems that he is a guy who has been on Time magazine."

"It seems that yes, it was the guy who stole a plane to cross the battle line, and he made the Japanese lose face more than the entire Allied army. It seems that Jiang did not hesitate to let his star do this scene. Stilwell was a bit surprised, and he would have thought that Du Yuming would not send any important people to the front to die.

"If he had fallen alive in the hands of the Japanese, they would have killed him with the most cruel punishment. I wish he knew that. ”

Jiang Weiguo was drilling in a four-wheeled reconnaissance vehicle to check the radio station, this was the only vehicle in their company with communication capabilities, and only four vehicles in total belonged to the platoon directly under the company.