Chu Tingchang made gestures to try to appease the soldiers around him, but there were many people talking, and the crowd was excited, and the commotion was uncontrollable for a while. Zhao Xiaoli quietly squeezed through the crowd from behind, and when he reached the side of Chu Tingchang, he shouted silence before he gradually stopped shouting.

Chu Ting saw that he was quiet, and suddenly sighed: "Brothers, last night I watched the sky at night, and saw the white tiger star shining in the west and the crape myrtle in the north sky......

"What, such a thing? No one can come,"

"Yes, now that the enemy's sharp spirit has just been destroyed, why do you want to have twelve gold medals to win the power of the army? We will never agree to ......"

Everyone was provoked, and began to shout again, after all, they are all knowledgeable student soldiers, very related to history, if they are all illiterate, Chu Tingchang's method may not work. Here, Zhao Xiaoli took the heat again, saw that the time had come again, and disappeared into the crowd again, and then raised his arms and exhaled:

"Who the hell is the White Tiger Murder Star?"

"Who else, it must be the new commander. Chongqing sent to seize power. ”

"Yes, it must be him, if he wants to pick peaches and squeeze out the master's seat, Master Guan will not agree."

Seeing that the crowd was excited, the fire was lit, and the guards outside poured in to squeeze through the crowd and put Chu Tingchang out. The moment Chu Tingchang walked out of the hospital, it was very clear that no matter who Chongqing sent, it would not work, let alone Zheng Dongguo, and Chiang Kai-shek would not be able to come in person. The core members of this force are now firmly united around themselves, and no one can change them. The only variable was the company of recruits from China who were mixed with sand, and he had to find a way to find out the elements of the Three Youth Leagues inside. Of course, the Three Youth League and the Kuomintang are not of the same heart and one mind, and they may not be able to win over.

Chittagong Front. Wingate brought Xu Chong over, originally wanted to carefully ask him about the camouflage suit, but Xu Chong also brought an improved pattern, he redesigned the camouflage suit made of stacking, removing unnecessary cumbersomeness, reducing the weight by one-third, and improving breathability, making it easier to wear, and you can put it on alone without the help of others. Wingate found himself encountering talent.

"Xu, is this what you came up with?" He asked through an interpreter.

"Yes, my mother's family is a tailor, and she has been exposed to it since she was a child, and she can draw patterns and cut." He really doesn't like the identity of this character set by Lin Xiuxuan.

"Great, I'll leave it to the quilt factory to make samples. By the way, I heard that your commander is about to send you to cooperate with our army. ”

"Yes."

"I was planning to attack the enemy's pontoon bridge over the Gornopuri River at night, what do you think?"

"I don't think it's right." After Xu Chong finished speaking, he patiently waited for the translator to reply, he tried to keep his words as short as possible, to avoid the translation words not reaching the meaning, in fact, he could understand English, but Lin Xiuxuan not only set the identity of dropping out of middle school, but it was not suitable to speak foreign Chinese.

"Tell me what you think."

"The enemy is strong, and this area is all plains," he said, walking to the map, "and there are several enemy destroyers cruising near the mouth of the sea, ready to enter the estuary for artillery support." I do not recommend attacking any of the strongholds near Chittagong. ”

"Do you know that the enemy has warships?"

"When I came, I had a general understanding of the situation from Tao Tuanza."

"Yes, it is the quality of a professional soldier to fully gather intelligence, and this is the whole reason why you oppose the attack on the pontoon."

"Not quite, I don't think the pontoon bridge itself is an ideal target. Conventional bridges, only need to blow up a section, it is difficult to restore in a short time, the pontoon bridge was originally the enemy snatched civilian ships spliced together, even if part of it is destroyed, the sappers tinkered with wooden planks, and it can be restored immediately. I don't know what the value is in attacking such a target. ”

"Yes, yes." Wingate didn't have too many problems with the British not admitting their mistakes, and he kept nodding his head, feeling that what Xu Chong said was very reasonable.

"But we can't do nothing, what do you suggest?"

"I think that the strongholds near Chittagong are heavily defended and not suitable for attack," he said, picking up a pencil and marking 40 kilometres east of Chittagong, "if you cross the river quietly from the upper reaches of the Gornopuri River and then move south to the far ground, it will be the enemy's weakness before they have time to defend, and I expect that their sappers and equipment should have arrived and build roads there, and if we focus on striking these non-combat units and destroying the equipment." It is bound to achieve the strategic goal of trapping the enemy. ”

"How far away do you mean?"

"In the first stage, it is possible to go out of the range of 60 to 120 kilometers, and in the second stage, it is possible to reach a deeper area, an area of about 150 kilometers or more, close to the Indo-Burmese border, so that it is always far away from the enemy's main forces and attack them in the most difficult areas for them to reach."

His plan was strange, the second stage, to run farther than the first, instead of hitting and coming back. It almost said that Wingate had been planning in his mind, but he had not yet practiced the new set of tactics.

"In this way, the material support is very problematic, and you have to bring more horses."

"In this mountainous area, mules are more suitable than horses. The number of sorties should not be too large, the ammunition base should be large, and efforts should be made to fight three or four battles. ”

"Xu, can you stay and work out this plan with my staff officers? I hope the sooner the better. ”

"No problem, just leave it to me."

Xu Chong thought to himself, he could finally show it, he usually participated in the operation of 419, and he was only a sniper, in fact, he himself had experience in commanding platoon-level troops, and he also had the ability to command larger troops. In his opinion, many of the methods of using troops in this era are too conservative, and the staff department uses too much comparison of forces to determine the feasibility of launching a campaign, rather than comprehensive factors, and the staff usually does not take into account, and the factors of terrain or information may be more decisive than the comparison of machine guns on both sides.

Xu Chong submitted a plan in the afternoon of the same day, which was very simple, to secretly cross the river from the upper reaches and move to the front of the enemy, and he predicted that the enemy's sappers were building a road across the mountains to central Burma (which of course was heard by 419), so attacking these troops was far more meaningful than attacking a heavily defended and easily repaired pontoon bridge.

As for supplies, his plan only involved a special baggage force, and he knew that Wingate still had a way of airdropping, but it was not appropriate for him to mention it, lest it be inappropriate for him to do so. When he came, the deputy captain took special care of him: don't be too ostentatious, and seem to know everything.

Wingate approved the plan immediately, and he liked not to set specific targets, and he had the impression that any attack that the staff had forcibly planned without sufficient intelligence would not end well.

It was planned to put in two elite Anglo-Burmese companies, a Chinese company, and a baggage battalion of 300 mules to carry supplies. These mules are actually very troublesome, have a bad temper and are easy to detect by aerial reconnaissance, but they are still more reliable than airdrops, and after weighing them, he decided to take them with him.

In the evening, a reconnaissance team secretly moved to the upper reaches of the Gornopuri River to investigate the hydrological situation, and they found that the river was very wide, the current was not turbulent, and it was indeed possible to swim across. The Japanese motorboats passed by every 70 to 90 minutes, and no saltwater crocodiles were found, and if there were such things, the mules and horses would be frightened and afraid to cross the river.

By dawn, all three companies were in position. Not far away, Sun Liren and Slim launched a battle on the outskirts of Chittagong, and the attention of the Japanese was all drawn to it.

The company commanded by Xu Chong was the seed of the brigade-level jungle assault unit in Chu Tingchang's counteroffensive against northern Burma, and it was selected by various units. They waited for the Japanese patrol motorboat to pass by, and then quickly used rubber boats to cross the river. Then the Anglo-Burmese Company followed, and three companies quickly passed, and the baggage troops waited another hour before slowly crossing the river, and then disappeared into the jungle. Everything went well, only a few mules were lost, and there were no casualties.

They were greeted by a dark jungle march, and in this operation, 419 could not give much support, only a road construction plan. But Xu Chong was sure that he would use his experience to guide this attack to victory. According to the enemy's road construction plan, the Japanese army in Burma began to rush to repair the road last week, and the Chittagong side only started to move three days ago. What he had to do was to find those exhausted Japanese troops in the deep mountains and old forests, and beat them hard.

Over the airport outside Kolkata, a transport plane slowly circled.

Zheng Dongguo, the new commander of the army, came to take up his post with a very streamlined staff team. He had already met with Stilwell in Dingsugia, and the Americans said they would support him in managing a U.S. armed army, and they didn't want to care about the personnel of the Chinese, but the bottom line was not to interfere with the counteroffensive, which was indeed exciting news.

He knew that the expeditionary force had won several battles in India and had eaten up the formidable 18th Division, where there were almost no restrictions on ammunition and air support, which was much better than the situation at home. In fact, he was looking forward to seeing Chu Tingchang to see what kind of three-headed and six-armed this strange man was, and how he shocked the commission.

When he came, he personally set up a banquet to see him off, and his wife accompanied him. During the banquet, the concerns of the commission were mentioned, one of which was that Chu Tingchang and Sun Liren had a disagreement, Calcutta did not support each other in the war, and the telegram came late to slander each other. So he wanted to try to eliminate the differences between Chu and Sun. The second point mentioned by the committee is that the atmosphere of the 200th Division is not right, and Chu Ting has engaged in superstitious activities and miasma, which needs to be controlled.

Zheng Dongguo is so smart that he knows that what the committee is worried about is that Chu and Sun will one day not listen to the dispatch, these two are not from Huangpu, and Liao Yaoxiang is excluded by these two, so it must be a reliable person to preside over the whole situation, right under the noses of the Americans, seize the most elite tens of thousands of people here, otherwise the country will continue to send troops here, and as a result, the officers here will not listen to the dispatch, wouldn't it be a wedding dress for others?

He looked down from the window and saw that the edge of the harbor was full of ruins, and only one construction site seemed to be lively. A Chinese-style temple has begun to take shape. When he came, the commission specifically mentioned the matter of the Guandi Temple, saying that Chu Tingchang was by no means simple, and his superstitious methods seemed to boost morale, but in fact, they blurred the belonging of officers and soldiers and played a very bad role. Even, when the news of the victory of the 200th Division reached China, the people were greatly bewitched, and some people even thought that the victory depended on Guan Gong, and even said: "Abandon the Buddha and abandon the way to Jesus, and suffer defeat from the south to the north." Such a malicious nursery rhyme, and it is rumored that some people are taking advantage of this trend to secretly tamper with the push back picture, in an attempt to seriously harm the party-state.