"Post-war? The Japanese are chasing after me every hour, kicking my ass, why should I think about the post-war? Alexander said frankly.

"It's not your fault, you're more of a professional soldier, and I'm ...... More biased towards politicians. ”

"Well, I'll admit that."

"If the Chinese army automatically goes west, sweeps through northern Burma, and connects the whole of northern Burma, and their people welcome their army in the middle of the road, do you think this is the scenario that the Prime Minister wants to see?"

"It's better than the Japanese occupying these places."

"Hmph, it seems that you still haven't grasped the true meaning of politics," Mountbatten stood up with a smile, walked to the curtain and looked north, "the long winter is over, and Hitler's army will soon launch a spring offensive, where do you think the main direction will be?" ”

"Still in the direction of Army Group Center? Or a complete settlement of Leningrad? Alexander was a little stunned, not expecting Mountbatten to go that far.

"No, Hitler's main direction of attack was on the Volga, and as soon as Stalingrad was captured, he would mobilize several mountain divisions and go to Mount Elbrus, and I can tell you very clearly that in the end his hand would reach into Central Asia. We know the secret agreement between Germany and Turkey, Turkey, like our American allies, is riding the wall, and the capture of Moscow is not enough for him, he wants to see obvious signs of Germany's victory over the USSR, say, the capture of Baku, and then he will join this war of plundering the world...... Perhaps it will not be long before Hitler's army will appear on the streets of Damascus. ”

"Turkey always remembers what to eat and not to eat."

"Yes, diplomatically, we are courting Turkey, but this is a key domino and we need to anticipate the worst. Therefore, the British Empire had to shrink its forces and not continue to entangle the Japanese in such a distant place as Burma, especially since our railway could only reach Tintin-Sugia in eastern India. ”

Alexander nodded helplessly.

"And the terrain of Myanmar, the further north you go, the more dangerous it is, especially the area adjacent to India, which is probably the most difficult area in the world to cross, where we can build a defensive line."

"No, no, no, if you think so, say I'm presumptuous, those mountains can't save India, don't forget that the Japanese control the Bay of Bengal."

"I'm not saying that those mountains can save India. But the Prime Minister believed that if the British Empire troops withdrew there, the American president would see the possibility of the Axis powers meeting forces in the Middle East and immediately declare war on Germany. ”

Alexander shook his head vigorously, he couldn't grasp the logic for the time being, but he couldn't find a foothold to refute it.

"We have to withdraw our troops from this dangerous place, without delaying for a minute, immediately shrink our forces back to India, so that the determined American allies can see that Germany and Japan are approaching, and the whole situation may completely collapse, so as to give up the attitude of riding the wall, you know, the only thing that can reverse this situation is that the United States declares war with Germany, and the biggest benefit at the moment is to make Turkey think twice, the British Empire does not have this power."

"Well, I'll admit I hadn't thought about that before."

"There is also an important thing, which is to let the Japanese army completely eliminate the Chinese power, you know that the Japanese Empire in Singapore and Malaya, the policy of provoking the locals to rob overseas Chinese, the areas swept by the Japanese army, the influence of the Chinese people for hundreds of years, will disappear in an instant, and these things are not what our civilized countries can do...... Rest assured, General, last time I mentioned that the Japanese are just a militarized country with an annual output of 5 million tons of steel under the leadership of a group of belligerent fools, and there are too many such countries in history, and the British Empire has stood tall for hundreds of years, but not by brute courage; I think you can assure you that in a few years the Japanese will not be able to hold it out, so wait and see. ”

"If we do this, Chinese will inevitably lose more than 100,000 troops...... Alexander hesitated, knowing that China's most elite troops were coming to save his crumbling defense line in the starry night, and he was going to turn his back on them.

"The ruling circles of China don't care about the loss of troops, how many 100,000 have they lost over the years? They only cared about weapons, so as long as future US aid had to rely on our lines of communication in India, Chiang Kai-shek would not dare to do anything. ”

In eastern Myanmar, an important obstacle to the mouth.

The 56th Division of the Search Wing Wing Wing Hirai Usuke Nakasa, who was hiding in the jungle and observing the defending line with a telescope. The soldiers around him were munching on rice balls, ready to attack.

The Chinese military should have gotten the word and appear to be ramping up the construction of fortifications. He observed the positions of the Chinese army for a while, and the trenches were dug in a decent manner, but there was no decent firepower, because a company had only a few machine guns in total.

Behind the position is the bridge, where sappers can be seen installing*. All the soldiers were dressed in tattered clothes and straw sandals, and after the morning meal, the cooking class of all the belongings of only one thin donkey was withdrawn, and it seemed that there would be no lunch. Nakasa looked at his watch, the time for the attack was almost up, in short, it was not difficult to deal with such a group of rabble, the only thing to worry about was that they blew up the bridge. However, we have to wait for the wind to go.

"The co-captain is windy." Someone shouted.

Hirai stretched out his hand and probed the direction of the wind.

"It's a northerly wind, tell the artillerymen, correct two scales to the right, and fire immediately." Nakasa said, putting a gas mask on his head. Nearby Japanese soldiers also packed food into lunch boxes and put on masks.

There were a few bangs, and a few of them flew towards the target position, and after falling, they did not explode, but filled with a thick gas.

The gas, which seemed to be heavy, quickly covered the position and filled all the trenches. The smoke continued to fill the wind and quickly obscured the bridge that needed to be captured in its entirety. The asphyxiating gas began to work, and the soldiers of the 55th Division, who were busy with their work, immediately fell into a situation where they could not breathe, and this motley unit had never been equipped with a gas mask, and few people had seen what gas warfare was.

"With urine, with urine, cough cough cough...... Wet the towel ......"

Someone coughed and shouted, but it was too late. Outside the thick fog, the Japanese troops all over the mountains had rushed down silently, and their appearance on their heads was particularly hideous, but the Chinese troops were in a panic, and not a single machine gun was fired. The Japanese did not shoot all the way, and their bayonet-armed Japanese soldiers burrowed into the thick fog and slaughtered the Chinese soldiers who were defenseless......

There was chaos in the Mandalay headquarters, soldiers went in and out, passing on the latest enemy situation, and Chen Zhiping, dressed in a tunic suit, hurried to the map.

"Throne, I'm here."

Luo Zhuoying, who was reading the report, walked quickly around the huge table and gave him a big mouth.

"Military seat, this is ......" Chen Zhiping pretended to be aggrieved, and fell to the ground with a weak foot.

"You found out the other day that the Japanese army was moving in the east?"

"I don't know?" Chen Zhiping covered his face and said with a blank face, when it comes to acting, of course, he is a first-class intelligence leader.

"You swear, the Japanese army is less than a brigade in the east, but just now, there are 2,000 Japanese troops who crossed the Leke suspension bridge."

"Commander, we have seven or eight thousand people here." He hastened to argue.

"Seven or eight thousand? There is a fart, pull a regiment of the 93rd Division up in the morning, and it will be lost in an hour. Chen Mianwu's temporary 55th division is better, and even the division headquarters can't be found. ”

"Commander, let's go find out the enemy's situation."

"Get out of here, I don't want to see you again."

"Yes, yes, yes."

Chen Zhiping only wanted to get out.

"Come back." Luo Zhuoying thought of something again, "You go to Jingdong and keep an eye on it, transfer the tax police force of your military command, no matter what, you have to hold it there." ”

"Understood, understood." He hurriedly withdrew and got out temporarily, he knew that this time there was a big trouble, Jing Dong might have fallen into the hands of the enemy, of course he couldn't go, he had to call the director quickly.

The train carrying a battalion of the 74th Division of the 58th Army on the Yangman Railway moved forward quickly in the billowing steam.

On the head of the train, the hunting blue sky and white Japanese military flags fluttered in the wind. But suddenly, the train stopped, and the flag on the front of the train lost its wind and wilted.

The soldiers in the stuffy tank car felt strange, and they all leaned on the railing of the door to look out, discussing what was going on, and no one could say clearly.

Only the communication company in the front carriage knew that the back road had been cut off, and now it had to wait for a car from the station behind to pull the car back. The narrow-gauge railway, which was originally a double track, was sabotaged by Japanese planes and agents, and now it is extremely difficult to dispatch, and you can only wait in the scorching sun before the train arrives.

The rumbling roar of engines sounded in the air, and three Japanese Hayabusa planes roared down, and without saying anything, they launched strafing on the train. When the train came out of Lashio station, the officers added locks to the stuffy tank cars for the convenience of management, and suddenly encountered an enemy situation, making it impossible for the soldiers to withdraw.

Even if this fighter has only a 7.7 mm machine gun, it will inevitably cause great casualties if it strafs from head to tail along the dead snake-like train, not to mention the ammunition dragged on the rear of the vehicle.

The enemy planes took turns to come down and start strafing, and the Erly anti-aircraft guns on the rear of the car and the flat car were destroyed in the first round of strafing. The Japanese Type 99 dive bomber, which arrived later, pierced through the clouds and accurately dropped * on the train, breaking the entire military vehicle and detonating the ammunition.

At the same time, at every important point of the Northern Burma Railway, the light bombers of the Fifth Flying Division of the Japanese Army were simultaneously launching fierce attacks, and they had been somewhat restrained by the uncertainties of the Sino-US Joint Air Force and the power of British radar in the past period, but they had not stopped preparing for a moment.

The Japanese army has developed a set of tactics for effectively using the terrain to evade radar and to fight and withdraw quickly. Today, they used a full set of tricks to catch the Flying Tigers off guard. According to Iida's overall plan, the first target of the air raid was to retreat westward for the Chinese army, followed by the Huitong Bridge, a possible route for the defenders along the Nu River to enter Burma for rescue.

Du Yuming was organizing a fierce attack by the enemy's 18th Division on the front line of Timinla, when he suddenly heard that the situation in the Lashio area in the rear was not right, and it seemed that the main force of the Japanese army had appeared.

Because of the rules set before the attack, he had to avoid using the radio as much as possible, but in the middle of the call with Luo Zhuoying, the phone suddenly cut off. Immediately, telephone contact with the British and American allies was also lost.

When Kagezo Zhenzhao arrived in Burma, he had already seen that the spy work of the southern organs was gradually becoming unbearable in northern Burma, so he immediately set out to mobilize a team of puppet and hardcore traitors from eastern China to go to Burma for emergency relief. After Kagesa himself disappeared in a surprise attack by the British, the force was taken over by Keiji Suzuki and is now engaged in combat. Their mission is to pretend to be an expeditionary force or local overseas Chinese, infiltrate the blockade area, and carry out all kinds of sabotage. The focus of the 5th Army's military police has always been the Burmese Independence Army, and these people will be exposed as soon as they are interrogated, and over time, habits have become natural, and the gendarmes have not changed their brains, but this time they should have suffered a big loss.

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I took a few days off for the National Day, and recently went back to sort out "The Will of the Nation" (renamed "Thunder Counterattack"), and it took a lot of time. Forgive me. For the National Will comics, you can search for the WeChat account of "Thunder Counterattack" or the Weibo of the same name. In addition, I have counted the number of words, and the number of words after the dotted line will not be counted in the subscription fee.