314 Broken Tanks
Now that they have the mobile radar they want, they haven't hurt a single person, and the situation is completely within Lin's calculations. The next step was to find a place to hide them, transport them to a suitable place, and then modify them to turn the radar into a long-range radio station for easy dispatch in the huge Japanese-occupied territory. Lin chose the area where the scattering station was set up, roughly in the northern mountainous area, of course, there is no specific location. Myanmar's terrain is a double-edged sword, with forests being a great place to hide large equipment, but also difficult to transport heavy equipment.
Xu Chong and Ma Qiang drove the POWs for 5 kilometers and then drove them out of the car, just as there was a ditch on the side of the road, and the POWs stood in front of the ditch, thinking that they were going to face mass shooting, and a few began to cry and pray, but no one tried to escape.
Xu Chong turned the car around, and Ma Qiang, who was on the spotlight, drove away, leaving the stupid Briton in place.
It was a long time before the British realized that they were safe. The Englishmen had to walk from here back to the airport in Achab to walk at least daytime, which was enough time for Lin's plan.
The task force consisted of only five people and had to operate in three vehicles, including a radar, a truck with a power supply in tow, and a Willis jeep, which had probably just been unloaded from the port, and was quite new and might be needed in the future.
Before sunrise, they had to hide the items in the nearby jungle and then find a way to transport them through the junction of the Sino-British defense zone.
After Lieutenant General Alexander came to Burma, his initial assumption was to roughly divide Burma into two defense zones, east and west. The demarcation line runs from south to north, starting from Bago, which has not yet been conquered by the Japanese army, passing through the important towns of the plains such as Liang Libin, Biao Pass, Yang Mi Tin Mintierla, and extending to Mandela, which is also the route of the Central Railway of Myanmar. The eastern side of the demarcation line was given to the Chinese army, and the western side was defended by his troops. Alexander made the following deployments, in addition to insufficient troops, but also to leave a way to retreat, once Burma is broken, then the British will return to India, the Chinese will Yunnan, each back to their own home. Such a deployment based on failure naturally laid a very bad foreshadowing for future cooperation gaps.
In the next few days, what Lin has to do is to follow the road to the Monnewa copper mine detected by the drone, and advance to the mountainous area at the junction of the two sides, which is still 700 kilometers away from the front line. For Lin, mobility is still very convenient.
Of course, the special team can only go out by day and night, because they do not have an Englishman's face. In fact, the British did not hand over such advanced equipment as radar to colonial soldiers with insufficient cultural level to operate, so they pretended to be colonial troops and carried a set of radar equipment to operate during the day, which was still in danger of being exposed.
In Jingdong on the Sino-Burmese border, Chu Aiyun carried Du Yuming back to the headquarters from Chiang Kai-shek's temporary residence. Du Yuming held his hands all the way and did not speak, obviously in a bad mood. At the banquet just now, he was forced to agree to the attack, and once he said it, he couldn't go back. In addition, Lao Jiang also deliberately stuffed the second son into the 5th Army, in addition to the realistic determination, there must be other considerations. He inevitably thought that the old man was a little flustered by the United States and Britain, thinking that Burma was not the main direction of attack of the Japanese, and he could show that even if he couldn't eat the Japanese, at least he wouldn't be eaten by them. But the actual situation is that the expeditionary force is here, close to a black eye, and the Japanese definitely have no shortage of natives who report the news, which is a major disadvantage that Lao Chiang pretended not to see.
Chu Aiyun had another thought in his heart, obviously, the Burma campaign was going to start earlier than recorded in history, and this may be a good time, because Iida's main force, the 18th Division, is still besieging Singapore, and the other 55th Division is in Malaya. If the Allies can launch an attack in advance, they may have a chance to win this battle, of course, with the intelligence cooperation of the special team, he has never felt that there will be any disadvantage in intelligence, and with this radio listening item, he can at least draw with the Yugoslav organs.
"Pavilion chief, tomorrow the second prince will go to Hu Xianqun and say that he wants to see our tank, you can accompany him."
Du Yuming suddenly spoke, obviously thinking about dealing with the personnel arrangements of Jiang Ergongzi.
"Okay, I'll drive him."
"6 o'clock in the morning, don't be late, he stays back and hates others being late."
"Yes."
"I think you are the same age as him, and you have a good reputation, so you should be able to get along." Du Yuming's words didn't know what kind of logic they were deduced from, and Chu Aiyun could only be submissive, but just now he paid attention to observe that Jiang Weiguo was not like a person who was difficult to deal with.
"Pavilion Chief, I treat you as your own person, and I also pour bitter water and place the second son here with me, in fact, it is really ...... Hey, he said he wanted to apply what he had learned, but who would dare to use what he had learned? ”
"Commander, didn't he just learn to drive a tank and want to command a tank? Wouldn't it be better for him to go to Commander Hu to be a company commander. "Chu Aiyun deliberately sold a good one.
"You, you were smart in the past, why are you confused today?" Du Yuming shook his head, "What is the armored regiment for, it is to charge into battle, with him, we make a plan, wouldn't it be a mouse trap everywhere." ”
"Hey, the second son is not born to the president." Chu Aiyun said casually.
"What, you know about this?"
Du Yuming was shocked, and then he found that the jeep was crooked, and after a while, it was stable.
Over there, Chu Aiyun was taken aback by Du Yuming's reaction, he was not a person who spoke without brains, but he thought that Jiang Weiguo's identity as a righteous son was well known in this era, but judging from Du Yuming's reaction, it didn't seem to be the case. Of course, from Du's words, he himself knows,
"Pavilion Chief, how did you know about this?"
"When I was in Shanghai, everyone said so, just now, I peeked at the appearance of the two, and it really didn't look like it."
"You know this matter, but you can't talk nonsense to outsiders after playing."
"Humble duty understands." Chu Aiyun hurriedly made a sincere panic.
"If these rumors are false, it's fine, but if it's true, I don't dare to say it."
"Thank you, Commander, for reminding me."
"Tomorrow you drive to pick up the second son, along the way, it is best to know the benefits and disadvantages, let him know that the Japanese are not vegetarians."
"What are you interested in?"
"It's just to scare and scare him. Let him retreat. By the way, you can first go to see the Italian CV33 of the 2nd Company. ”
"Those thin skins?"
"Yes, I remember that some cars still have holes in Kunlun Pass that were pierced by Japanese machine guns, so be sure to let him see them."
"Understood."
"It's best for him to retreat in the face of difficulties and go to the rear troops, it's really not okay, it's okay to come to my headquarters, but don't go to the combat troops."
Chu Aiyun took over the task and sent Du Yuming back, and then returned to his barracks, where he was the most favored among a group of staff officers in the command headquarters, and had a separate bedroom, which was very convenient for him to move.
He entered the house and closed the door first, and then secretly opened the radio hidden in the map tube, and found that he had not received any information all day, obviously Team Leader Lin was still five or six hundred kilometers to the south, and it was difficult to send information effectively. He took the base of the lamp apart and hid the radio battery in to charge it. Fortunately, in this year, even a lamp is clumsy and coarse, and it is not difficult to hide the battery.
The next morning, he got up at 5 o'clock, and then drove into the city to pick up Jiang Weiguo, and on the way he planned to show the second son the miscellaneous equipment of the armored regiment, such as the Italian cv33, the Soviet B5, and the British Wicks, so that he could see what the so-called armored forces were. The road was blocked for a while by a herd of elephants that were close to each other. Then I circled all the way up the mountain, and when I approached the courtyard wall after the three posts, I looked at my watch, and the time was just right.
When the guards moved away from the horses and drove into the courtyard, Jiang Weiguo was already waiting there, walking back and forth with his hands behind his back, looking extremely anxious. Seeing that Chu Aiyun's car had arrived, the second son hurried over.
Without waiting for Chu Aiyun to salute, he opened his mouth first.
"Why is it a minute late?"
"That's the case, the British elephants under the mountain blocked the road, and they didn't go in the middle of the road, don't you know that these big beasts of the 17th Division have to be Indian to catch up, and the more we honk, the more this thing doesn't move......"
"Lieutenant, I ask you, why is you late?"
Chu Aiyun realized that the situation was wrong, and the person opposite had a straight face, obviously serious. He has always thought that this second son is generous, modest and cautious, but in retrospect, the earliest source of information is actually a memoir written by himself. Memoirs are actually very difficult to count.
"How can a soldier win a battle without a sense of time? What I learned in the German army was that the war machine had to work every second to destroy the enemy. ”
The second prince continued to provoke aggressively, and Chu Aiyun found that the guards next to him didn't dare to look here. He has also been mixed in Du Yuming's military department for a long time, although he is only a lieutenant like a sesame mung bean, but no one will train him like this, on the contrary, many senior generals will find opportunities to make friends with him, but the person in front of him is obviously different, his birth has created a unique vision, so he doesn't want to meet a guy who is famous, but is about 40 seconds late.
"There is no such thing as a war machine." Chu Aiyun said calmly, "Without considering the redundancy, the action of reserving time and demanding will not be successful. ”
"What?" The second son's compelling arrogance suddenly subsided, as if he was frightened by this twisting and turning sentence.
"No one can be accurate to the minute, especially in Myanmar."
Lieutenant Lizheng said.
"Okay, okay, get in the car, get in the car, I don't have time to talk to you, it's a waste of time."
The second son shook his hands in anger and got into the car, and Chu Aiyun followed. He spun out of the gate and raced with one foot on the accelerator. Captain Jiang Weiguo didn't speak along the way, seemed to be thoughtful, and went down the mountain all the way, ready to turn to the direction of the front armored regiment, but unexpectedly, a group of elephants rushed out next to him, happily, shaking his nose to block the way. So they had to stop and wait.
"Lieutenant, what do you mean by the necessary redundancy?"
Jiang Weiguo suddenly asked, 10 minutes have passed, and he is still drilling this bull's horn. A person of his status, in fact, is twisted with ordinary people everywhere, and others only see a lot, but when you push him, it makes him think.
"That is, there must be depth in space, there must be reserves in deployment, and the machine cannot be operated at full power all the time. When dealing with others, we must be compassionate. ”
Since Xiao Jiang asked, Chu Aiyun simply complained, he was an only child since he was a child, the colonel joined the army and won awards every year, the commander of the Navy shook hands with him, the Associated Press reporter talked and laughed, and the cover of Time Magazine was not so easy to swallow his anger.
"What do you think?" Xiao Jiang nodded thoughtfully.
An elephant in front of him turned his head and slapped his ears at Xiao Jiang, as if to congratulate him on his enlightenment.