The Luang Pi Boon authorities blocked the news, and the soldiers had no way of knowing about the break between the Thai royal family and the military government, so they naturally felt that the world was peaceful.

In addition to dismantling the pontoon bridge and retreating backwards, Tao Mingzhang's troops have been moving along the road to the south, of course, it is just a suspicious tactic, the Thai army has no combat experience, but the Japanese advisers in the Thai army may still see the flaws, so it is necessary to waste some gasoline and play a trick.

Japanese reconnaissance planes would come over every daytime to reconnoiter the roads controlled by the Chinese army, and judging from the Japanese army's consistent focus of reconnaissance, they paid special attention to the movement of artillery. Generally speaking, the movement of heavy artillery is very indicative of a change in the direction of the attack. Chief Chu Ting specially instructed that part of the artillery should be transported to Mandalay by rail during the day, and that at night, when the enemy lost its aerial reconnaissance capability, it would be pulled back.

Everything was ready, just waiting for the order to attack, and the Chongqing side also sent a telegram, hoping that Chu Tingchang would organize his army south as soon as possible and help the friendly army conquer Mandalay, so that he could strengthen the momentum of the national army in front of the scheduled meeting of the Big Three. Chief Chu called Zhao Xiaoli over and told him that from tomorrow, all telegrams from Chongqing would be suppressed and not sent to the headquarters.

By the time dawn came, Tao Mingzhang's artillery had re-entered the position. The US electronic reconnaissance did not detect any changes in the Japanese troops on the Thai-Burmese border, which shows that Chu Tingchang's strategy of deceiving the enemy was successful.

In fact, the Southern Agency had long been suspicious of the transfer of the 5th Army to Mandalay, and Keiji Suzuki believed that Chu Tingchang would not attack the fortified area with all his might, which was not his style, and he had his own set of strange tactics, and positional warfare was not one of them. Secondly, Chu Tingchang rarely gave help to other national army troops, and his troops attacked at a significantly faster pace than other Chinese troops, so it was difficult to form a cooperation.

However, Suzuki's speech at the military meeting had long since had no weight, and Kimura only believed the reconnaissance report of the 5th Flying Division, which showed that the enemy's three armies were rushing towards him, and the heavy artillery of the 5th Army had already moved south.

Kimura had made a good calculation and prepared to resist the enemy one by one under the city of Mandalay, luring the Chinese army into his meat grinder by constantly abandoning some positions. He estimated that the Chinese army had hoarded four or five thousand tons of supplies in the near future, and if the three armies went south, they would be exhausted in half a month, and then his railway superiority would be apparent.

Suzuki mentioned several times the possibility of Chu Tingchang attacking Thailand, but Suzuki had always been aware of the contents of the talks between the Nationalist Government and the Thai Government that he thought were secret, and he only pretended not to know, and he was optimistic about the truce agreement between the Chinese and Thai governments. He did not believe that Chu Tingchang would attack Thailand, mainly because of the secret negotiations between the two sides. He didn't believe that Chu dared to disobey Chongqing and give his boss a new enemy.

He did not see that any Chinese generals had these two qualities, they were all obedient and obedient guys.

To a certain extent, Chiang Kai-shek's private relationship with the Luan Piwen government became the best cover for Chu Tingchang, which was far more deceptive than those pediatric artillery mobilized back and forth.

By the time Tao Mingzhang's artillery fire covered the Thai positions, Zhou Youfu's tanks had already bypassed these shelled areas and inserted themselves behind the Thai border. His first phase of targeting the border between Chiang Rai province and Chiang Mai was then waiting for the Americans to drop support. Once the first stage was successful, the main forces of the Japanese 5th Air Division were cut off from his encirclement. If the enemy still has time to transfer fighters, the only place that can go is Vietnam, so that Kimura's army will completely lose air cover, and the threat over Yunnan and Guangxi, in order to remove half.

After the Chinese army occupied northern Burma, the Japanese air force had been trying to blow up the newly opened Huitong Bridge with several more suicide attacks, and considering that the suicide attacks were carried out by rookies, it would be difficult to find the Huitong Bridge if they took off from a Vietnamese airfield.

Kimura, at a routine military meeting in the morning, received information about the presence of Chinese tanks in Thailand, and he was stunned for several minutes, speechless. Then a second telegram was sent, the message was that there was an emergency in Tokyo, the situation was unpredictable, and the central government wanted him to return to Tokyo quickly.

Kimura was well aware that in the context of the emergency telegram, the so-called emergency was likely to refer to a coup d'état. Because he was worried that the telegram would be intercepted, he did not mention the specific incident, but as Tojo's most trusted general, he was recalled at this time, and it was likely that Tojo was killed.

He must immediately decide whether to leave Myanmar and return home at this juncture. It was indeed a dilemma, and in the end he decided to hurry back to Tokyo, while the Thai airport was still reliable. A mess here will be left to Lieutenant General Kiyozaburo Okaki for the time being. Okaki had just succeeded Maruyama as commander of the Second Division, and he had a fairly good understanding of the situation in Burma. Before Kimura left, he left Oka Qi: the east is based on Chu Tingchang, and the north is against Sun Liren's cross policy.

After announcing his decision, Kimura left on the spot to catch a plane. Leaving Gang Qi to preside over the meeting, Gang Qi was a more sober general than Kimura after all, and he realized that the top priority was to quickly determine what the purpose of Chu Tingchang's army was in this attack? Is it just a situational offensive to contain Australia's actions, or is he more ambitious? In this matter, he needs to rely on the Southern Agency.

This morning was a disaster for Chen Zhiping, Chongqing's plenipotentiary envoy.

Last night, he had just signed a secret treaty of non-aggression between the two sides during the war, and Chongqing recognized Thai control of Laos, and Thailand no longer participated in military operations against Chinese troops in northern Burma and Yunnan. He felt that he had overfulfilled the mission of the chairman, and at this moment he was sleeping lazily with nothing to do. While dreaming, the angry commander of the Bangkok garrison rushed into Chen Zhiping's room and dragged him out of the bed.

Lieutenant General Chacha received a telegram from the front in the morning that his son-in-law had been killed in a brothel by a sudden shelling by the Chinese army, and the lieutenant general was angry when he remembered that his daughter was only 29 years old and would have to be widowed. He had been arranging for his son-in-law to be in the rear, but seeing that the situation in China and Thailand had eased, he sent him to experience it, but he didn't expect it to be over like this.

Chen Zhiping was pressed to the ground, and he couldn't help but say that he was beaten by an old fist. He tried to struggle, but the garrison commander came with people, and several guards held Chen Zhiping down, and his fists rained down.

The lieutenant general beat Chen Zhiping and scolded the Chinese for having no trustworthiness, and he had never heard that the agreement had been unilaterally torn up in less than eight hours.

Zhou Youfu's tank drove straight in, and it was not until noon that day that the first enemy force was discovered by aerial reconnaissance. Using a half-track equipped with a 75 mm * gun, he fired at the enemy on the horizon and immediately crushed a rabble.

The timing of the attack was well chosen, the enemy could not organize his forces at all this morning, and the resistance was much weaker than expected. Lao Zhou's tanks and armoured vehicles marched rapidly through the rice paddies of Chiang Rai Province, where the terrain was far more suitable for mechanized driving than in northern Myanmar.

The villagers near the attack route were all hidden. Early in the morning, U.S. bombers dropped a large number of leaflets on nearby towns, which were printed with the declaration of the Thai royal family, affirming that they invited the Allies to enter Thai territory and overthrow the fascist regime. Ask the people for Allied support.

The public could not be sure if the statement was true, but they had long hated the junta and the Japanese, because the previous chemical weapons leak had caused a lot of water and soil pollution, and most Thais decided to take refuge in the mountains for the time being, not to help either side of the war.

Chief Chu was quite prescient, and his headquarters received dozens of urgent telegrams from Chongqing in the morning, and he didn't read all of them. Now that you've taken this step, there's no need to hold back anymore. As a submarine commander, he is dormant most of the time, but once he acts, it means that he is in the clear, and he should not consider other ways to withdraw except to destroy the opponent, there is no doubt that Lao Chiang is currently in a rage, but the initiative is in his own hands.

He believed that as the positive significance of this new battlefield became apparent, newspapers in various countries in particular praised the operation. The chairman of the committee can only get off the donkey and rebuild the relationship with himself. What the chairman of the committee lost this time was nothing more than credit, in fact, he didn't have much left, and when the anger passed, I believe he would regain his senses.

Chu Tingchang straightened his clothes and walked out of the headquarters. Journalists from several major news agencies were waiting in the meeting room. If you want to lead Chongqing by the nose, you must make good use of the media to guide the direction of public opinion.

He arrived in the reception room in a serious manner. A dazzling flash of light grew.

"I'm a Reuters correspondent, and I'm wondering when was the plan for this surprise attack by the Allies against Thailand made?"

"As far as I know, as early as a few months ago, in his correspondence with President Roosevelt, the chairman of the committee mentioned from a high vantage point the overall grasp of the Indochina Peninsula. Subsequently, the Thai royal family also submitted a request to the chairman of the committee to send troops to Qingjun's side. And Chu Mou is just a wise decision of the executive chairman. ”

"There is news that Chongqing has been negotiating with the Thai military junta, is there such a thing." A TASS reporter who spoke broken Chinese asked.

"There is absolutely no such possibility, Chairman Chiang is the leader of the Allies, his morals are impeccable, and he can never be privately taught by any member of the Axis powers."

"I heard that Chen Zhiping appeared in Bangkok?"

"I don't know Chen Zhiping well, but if he really appeared in Bangkok to contact the puppet government as you said, it would be nothing more than another time when Wang Jingwei went to Hanoi and betrayed the leader and the country. Don't say that Chairman Chiang can't tolerate such a person, I will shoot him too. ”

Chu Tingchang mentioned Chen Zhiping contemptuously, if Chen Zhiping could be killed peacefully, it would be a good thing.

"General Chu, I'm a reporter from the Central Daily, and I want to know, what do you think of the Greater East Asia Conference being held in Tokyo?"

"It's nothing more than a Japanese drama that is self-directed and self-performed, and I wish all the participants a good death."

"Someone said that in General Kimura's room, there is a picture of you, and he is studying your tactics day and night?"

"Kimura is a waste, not worth mentioning, and I hope the next opponent is Yamashita Fumi."

"Yesterday, General MacArthur rejected the persuasion of the Japanese to surrender, and said that the emperor was raised, what do you think?"

"I hope General MacArthur holds on, and we should rescue the eloquent."