Zhou Youfu looked at Pavilion Chief Chu seriously, he was full of superstitions and superstitions, and it was easy to deceive, so Pavilion Chief Chu talked to him, far less careful in front of Brooke and Tao Mingzhang. But looking at the expression of his half-open mouth at this moment, he felt a little unbearable, why bother to deceive people, and really regarded himself as a fairy.

"I'm not a god, I'm just ...... I know the Japanese well enough to guess what they think. In short, for the last battle tonight, we will go to New Binh Duong, and the Americans will soon build the road there. The Japanese army thought about India and would not continue to the north, so we confronted there while recuperating and strengthening ourselves, and when we went down the mountain, it was time for the devils to pull the list. ”

"Yes, you have to have your own territory, you have to have your own team."

"Ready, ready, we have to wait for Tao Mingzhang and Wingate to arrive."

The drone observed that the Japanese army was preparing by the river, and the Japanese army had a set of crooked theories about the excellent night vision of the maritime peoples, although it was groundless, but they were widely used in actual combat, that is, they did not have any night combat technology and equipment, and often launched night attacks.

They dispatched a large number of teams to cross the river on a stretch of bank that was tens of kilometers long. On the opposite side of the defense were the new 38th Division and the Indian 14th Division, the 14th Division was a division of shelf, and had just been transferred out of the Indian troops, leaving only one Punjabi Wing, 1,200 men. Behind these weak defenses, the promenade of field hospitals, fox-goers shelters and makeshift canteens, and the winding roads of India are a complete weakness.

The Japanese army's operation of crossing the river under the bright moonlight was nothing more than fire reconnaissance, and once exposed, it would soon attract fire from the other side, and only one or two shots were needed to quickly sink the rubber boats looted from the British warehouses. But this price was expected by the Japanese, who just wanted to try out those areas on the river that were not tightly arranged, and they had no campaign reconnaissance and no material preparations; They hastily launched a preparatory campaign to enter India in preparation for a larger campaign.

Lin Xiuxuan finally returned to 419, which stayed in the sea west of Langli Island, controlling the drone to support the final counterattack that Chu Tingchang was about to launch.

Director Lin did not have time to take a shower and change clothes, so he went to the conference room to exchange views with the other two senior commanders. The agenda is to talk about recent gains. Cheng Dayang's gain was that he had recently maneuvered around the South Pacific and sunk an enemy aircraft carrier, and the enemy who had stirred up the peace had not made enough progress. The major victory on Lin Xiuxuan's side prevented the Japanese army's conspiracy to drive the expeditionary force to the Savage Mountain to starve to death, and tens of thousands of troops were victoriously transferred to India.

The second stage of the meeting was to talk about mistakes, and the current outcome is certainly not satisfactory. The original plan, in the South Pacific, to kill at least one enemy team and two aircraft carriers, or kill a traverser, was not achieved. In Burma, plans to use intelligence superiority to counterattack the Japanese or, to the point of killing another traverser, did not materialize. It looks like everyone is half a pound or two.

The meeting was at a stalemate, and after a while, it automatically moved on to the third phase - looking to the future.

Cheng Dayang and Lin Xiuxuan have been thinking about future ways of action recently, and they are both anxious to express themselves, but someone came in to report a new enemy situation and interrupted the agenda.

The drone detected that the enemy was crossing the river. The Japanese commanders used the Japanese soldiers as cattlemen, but they could indeed continue to succeed.

Using thermal imaging reconnaissance with a narrow field of view, the drone flies twice, and it is easy to obtain the attacker's intention and the defender's defensive posture. It seems that the defense is sparse and fragmented, and in some areas the Chinese and British sides are repeatedly deployed, and in some areas there is not a single soldier; At this time, there were already small Japanese troops, which had landed on the opposite bank without fighting, and it was obvious that within an hour they would try to find more suitable areas for crossing the river.

"It seems that the Japanese army crossing the river is unstoppable, and the top priority is to rely on Chu Aiyun's troops to fight it." Cheng Dayang said, "I don't know when this flash flood will come down?" ”

"Soon, huh?" The political commissar said vaguely, "I am currently raining in the whole of northern Myanmar, and I believe that it will soon converge into a big flood." His words seemed to sound quite exciting, but in fact they were not on time. 419 At this time, he did not carry meteorological data from all over the world, and sometimes he eavesdropped on British radio stations to obtain some people's meteorological statistics.

"This battle is over, and he is about to be promoted to division commander." Cheng Dayang said with great interest, he suddenly realized just now that Chu Aiyun might be promoted to colonel or even higher. Although it is an army, it is still from the previous dynasty.

Lin Xiuxuan didn't speak, he used the conference room monitor to observe the deployment of the entire two sides. The defender was full of flaws, the attacker was dizzy, and the only one who was awake on the battlefield was Chu Tingchang.

"Lao Lin, what do you think? Is it the matter that our deputy captain may be promoted to division commander? The commissar asked.

"Maybe it's not more, maybe I'll give him an army," Lin said, "It must be taken into account that he is a person acceptable to both China and the United States, and his military exploits are great," and now the rear is rumored that he is Huo Quai, especially the young man, and the popularity is also very high, so he will definitely break the exception." ”

"Yes, he became a military commander, and he will have to take the road of uprising in the future."

"I have seen both his left and right hands, one has progressive thoughts, and even wants to do my ideological work; The other one, the typical head of the Qiu Eighth Army, is very capable of fighting; However, Chu's personnel there are not in a hurry to think about it. ”

Judging from the image, the Japanese army really selected several locations to start crossing the river on a large scale, and as soon as the bridgehead was established, an astonishing scene appeared, the enemy pulled up several ropes on both banks, and the infantry carried weapons and went directly down the river to wade through. Although the average depth of the upper reaches was not deep at the moment, there was still a danger of not being able to reach a roof for the short and thin infantry, but they did just that. The infantry freed up rubber rafts to pull artillery, and there were no conditions to cross the river, and the Japanese army simply created the conditions. In the rest of the river, feints were carried out all the time, constantly throwing in dead troops to attract the attention of the enemy.

Chu Tingchang sat by the river and took a nap, not in a hurry at all, Zhou Youfu walked around on the side, he was worried that Tao Mingzhang would get lost and couldn't get out, without those tanks, there was no way to talk about a raid. He didn't know that it was just because the battery ran out, so the communication was cut off, and the person who knew wouldn't tell him.

When the sun was rising in the east, the east finally remembered the roar of the tank engine, Zhou Youfu rushed to the heights and saw a Grant driving out of the forest, then several Stewart tanks, and finally the second Grant, he didn't see the third.

Chu Tingchang opened his eyes, patted the soil on his buttocks and stood up. The delay between Tao Mingzhang and Wingate made it impossible for them to attack in the dark of night, and at least two thousand more Japanese troops and seven or eight mountain guns crossed the river. However, because they were on the east bank at this time, there were relatively few enemies left here, and at present, the enemy's momentum of crossing the river was weakening, and they were also waiting for the troops behind to arrive. It was about a good time to attack, and before the attack, he was to send a telegram to Brooke informing him of the position and the line of attack.

Thirty minutes later, a British P38 began to patrol along the river, and found that the enemy had crossed the river, and that a large number of enemy troops had gathered near several bridgeheads on the west bank, and they were heading into the mountains, and it seemed that the momentum was gaining and could not be reversed.

However, when the pilot flew back, he saw a strange scene, not far from the enemy, a mixed team of cavalry, infantry and armored men, was moving downstream along the river.

Hyotaro Kimura sat at the headquarters 300 kilometers away, waiting for good news ahead. In his experience, the most thrilling sneak attack is the first stage, and then it is much easier. He thought that the situation should be clear after dawn, and he could drive a wedge here and slowly build the bridge.

The direction of Manipur is a shortcut into India, where the mountains get lower and lower as the further west you go, and then you can consider landing in the Bay of Bengal, even without naval support, so that the army can complete the landing. The airfield in Sittwe is being rebuilt, and the land aviation will be able to directly support the landing operation.

There has been sporadic news that there may be a detachment of the enemy hiding in the north, perhaps a few thousand; However, he thought, it was nothing more than a rout army that had no time to escape the river, even if there were 10,000 people, what was there to fear.

Two Grants drove side by side in front, and they were in the arrow position of the wedge formation. Each of them broke a set of load wheel suspensions, so the chassis was somewhat tilted, which seriously affected the speed and gunner's aiming, and there were only 3 rounds per car*. Stewart tanks were scattered on both sides. It sat on the Wingate contingent, trained in North Africa to be overly tank-coordinated and aggressive by nature, willing to charge. The flanks were half-tracked vehicles filled with soldiers. Chief Chu led the cavalry on the other side.

It was a strange, but fast-marching queue.

The Iwasawa detachment of the 56th Division, which was responsible for covering the flank, had only 300 people, and was stopping the work of digging trenches at this time, waiting for breakfast. Seeing the mighty behind me, a team came over. Everyone was a little incredulous, and they all said that there were only guerrillas in the north of the country composed of some madmen who had been released from prison by the British.

The commander looked through a telescope and first saw Grant, the tank was more than 3 meters tall and it was difficult to hide its whereabouts. The commander hastily ordered the infantry artillery to be brought in. The officers' panic was contagious to the gunners, who considered the Grant the highest priority target and began firing from 2 km away. These low-pressure guns, which are not accurate at long distances, can only expose their positions in advance. The guns were originally too low to be easily spotted, but their only advantage was their light weight.

At a distance of 700 meters, only one shell was hit, but the 5 cm armor on the front of the Grant plus two rows of track shoes easily blocked the attack. Only then did the Japanese notice the other weapons nearby, but it was too late. A large number of 12-mm machine guns began to strafe, while the Japanese had only unfinished fortifications.

The composite regiment easily broke through the first line of defense, and some of the vehicles on which the infantry did not even get off. On the other side of the river, the Japanese noticed that something was wrong, but there was nothing they could do.

In Slim's headquarters, the British army had a few aerial reconnaissances in the morning and roughly figured out the intentions of the Japanese army. Brooke, who had just arrived last night, hastily estimated the number of enemies crossing the river, and thought that it would not exceed three thousand. Foreseeing the defeat, the staff officers on Slim's side began to complain, and some complained that it was the blind retreat of the Chinese army that led the Japanese here in advance. Otherwise, they would have had more time to prepare.