The time soon came to 25 August, and there were only five days left before the attack time set by Jiang Haoran.

The headquarters of the expeditionary force seemed to be even busier, the staff generals hurriedly shuttled back and forth in the command center, and one after another telegrams were urgently sent to the command center.

At noon, Zhuang Fuguo, director of the Intelligence Division, hurriedly walked into the headquarters and knocked on the door of Jiang Haoran's office.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhuang Fuguo hurriedly shouted: "Headquarters, Aung San called, all their troops have been collected and have been stationed in Lashio, and there is also a wing of the Japanese army with them entering Lashio. ”

"Oh, that's a good thing, Aung San's troops can gather in Lashio, which is good news for our surprise attack on Lashio, and a wing of Japanese troops has nothing to fear." Jiang Haoran replied lightly, slumping on the desk without raising his head.

"Oh, Boss, don't you think there's something wrong with that?"

"Something is wrong?" Jiang Haoran finally raised his head, "What's wrong?" ”

"Why did the Japanese army suddenly increase its troops in Lashio, and at this juncture, did our intelligence leak?"

Jiang Haoran also seemed to realize the severity of the problem, put down the pen, hugged his hands in front of his chest, rubbed his chin with his right hand, and replied after hesitation: "Yes, it is indeed a little abnormal for the Japanese army to increase troops in Lashio at this time, but the leakage of news should not be established, including you and me, the plan to airborne Lashio is only known to Mei Xiang, Mei Xin, Huang Jie, Luo Zhuoying, Liu Xianwei and Xiaodao, there are only eight people in total, where did this news leak, impossible, it must be impossible!" ”

"Boss, are you sure there won't be a ninth person who knows?"

"The ninth?" Jiang Haoran looked at Zhuang Fuguo, who was looking straight at him, and immediately understood the meaning of his words, and said angrily: "Fuguo, you love to drill the horns, even if Ruxue enters my office, I have put away all the papers, and I never talk about war in front of her, how did she know, besides, how can you be sure that she is a spy, she really plays the piano?" ”

Seeing that Jiang Haoran was angry, Zhuang Fuguo did not continue to insist, bowed his head and was silent, and after a while, Jiang Haoran asked again: "Do you know that the Japanese army is transferred from that unit, and whether the Japanese army has any other military movements?" ”

Zhuang Fuguo said: "The Japanese army that entered Lashio was driven out of the Eighth Division in Wan Town, but it is not known whether the Japanese Eighth Division only put one wing into Lashio, because the Eighth Division is in the rear of the Japanese army, and my people have no way to penetrate, and all the news comes from Aung San." The other Ba Mo's 10th Division and Ruigu's 22nd Division did not have any obvious troop movements. ”

Jiang Haoran nodded, rubbed his chin and thought for a while, and said: "According to what you mean, do you think that the Japanese army may move more than one wing to Lashio, in other words, they may also have ambushes outside Lashio?" ”

"If the Japanese really knew that we were going to attack Lashio, that's for sure."

Jiang Haoran suddenly looked abrupt and said: "Fuguo, you said that it is possible that the intelligence has really leaked, but the problem is not on our side, but on Aung San, or Aung San is simply a fake surrender and deliberately arranged a trap for us to jump into?" ”

Because the surprise attack on Lashio requires Aung San's cooperation, this operation naturally cannot be hidden from him, that is to say, there is really a ninth person who knows this secret, and that is Aung San.

"This should not be, if so, there is no need for Aung San to disclose this news to us, and if Aung San is not sincere, he will definitely not come to my expeditionary force in person."

"Yes!" Jiang Haoran held his forehead with one hand, and he was a little confused.

"Boss, then do we still fight Lashio?"

"Let me think about this, you go and get busy first, and by the way, call the chief of staff and the deputy commander-in-chief with me."

Soon after Zhuang Fuguo went out, Luo Zhuoying and Huang Jie both walked in, Jiang Haoran got up, sat on the sofa with them, ordered Mei Xiang to serve tea, and then made a simple report to them about the situation just now, and the two of them suddenly became nervous.

This matter is so big that it is in the sky, and it has been analyzed before the layout, and the active attack is the only way out for the expeditionary force, and the troops have also spent a lot of manpower and material resources to prepare for this attack.

Now there is such an unexpected situation, it is really difficult to make a decision, right? In case the enemy really obtains their intentions in advance, let alone defeat Lashio, it will be very difficult to tear a hole in Ruigu, this gap cannot be torn open, building a bridge is a fool's dream, and the follow-up troops crossing the river will also become a bubble, so that the airborne brigade will be thrown directly into the mouth of the Japanese army.

But if you don't fight, it's not realistic, it's not the current situation of the expeditionary force, and it doesn't say that so many preparations have been made, if this qiē is just an accident, and the Japanese army doesn't know about it at all, and doesn't say anything about the missed opportunity, then this joke will be a big joke.

The three of them summed up and finally agreed that no matter what, the plan would remain unchanged, but certain adjustments should be made in the plan, the offensive methods and the attacking troops would remain unchanged, and while there were still five days to go, several high-power electronic jamming equipment would be urgently dispatched from the 331 base, and as the airborne troops entered the enemy's rear, no matter what the enemy's intentions were, these electronic jamming equipment, and then cutting the Japanese army's telephone lines, were enough to make the Japanese army blind and deaf, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the airborne brigade were fishing in troubled waters, so how could they have a fight with the Japanese army.

At the same time, all the transport helicopters that can be mobilized are gathered to Indo, and in case the plan of building a bridge does not work, the troops will be transported directly by helicopter.

According to the calculation of one helicopter transporting 10 fully armed soldiers, more than 200 helicopters can be put into a regiment on the opposite shore at one time; of course, due to the influence of the area and mobility in wartime, they can basically only surrender, and let these untrained soldiers directly surrender, the cost and casualties may increase exponentially, but this loss can only endure the pain, at least the battle can be fought with the possibility of going on.

In addition, the troops in western Yunnan were ordered to make adequate preparations and tear apart the enemy's defense line as quickly as possible after the battle began, especially the special operations division, the new third division, and the new fifth division of the main army in the middle of this campaign, even if the first group army and the 71st army on the left and right roads could not take Tengchong and Longling as scheduled, they would have to tear open the enemy's defense line at the first time, decisively intersperse it, completely disrupt the deployment of the Japanese army, and realize the strategic concept of the 40 th Group Army and the expeditionary force joining forces.

It is also thanks to Jiang Haoran's preparations that this battle can continue and victory is still possible. However, the casualties of the war greatly exceeded Jiang Haoran's expectations, and its cruelty and danger also greatly exceeded Jiang Haoran's imagination.