After a long time, Shouichi Terauchi broke the silence and said in a deep voice: "Yamashita Jun, the troops will be handed over to you, I hope you can bring them back to Guangxi completely." ”

"Hay!" Yamashita Fengfu got up and replied, "Please rest assured that the general of the temple will definitely bring them back intact." ”

Terauchi Shou nodded, and seemed to be very satisfied with Yamashita Fengwen's performance, and then said: "How far is that army from our rear?" ”

"It's not too far, they chase it very closely, it's only about fifty kilometers away."

"Oh, so close?" Shouichi Terauchi frowned unconsciously.

"General Terauchi, you don't have to worry, no matter how closely the enemy chases, you can't be afraid, at most ten days, the locust army will be able to cross the Mekong River in Vientiane, and build a defense line with the Mekong River's natural danger, which can completely block them behind."

The Mekong River is the most important transnational river system in Asia and the seventh longest river in the world, originating in Zaduo County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China. In China, the Lancang River flows through China's Yunnan Province, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, and flows into the South China Sea in the provinces south of Ho Chi Minh City.

The Mekong River is not wide, there are many bends, the river channel is narrow, the water flow is rapid, especially in the rainy season the river is rushing and roaring, Yamashita Fengwen said that it is "natural danger" is not an exaggeration, and it is now September, just in the rainy season, as long as the locust army crosses the Mekong River before being caught up by the expeditionary force, it is completely possible to block them on the opposite bank with very few troops, and successfully complete this great retreat.

"Yo Xi!" Chief of Staff Tsukada nodded and said: "With Yamashita-kun personally leading the team, there shouldn't be a problem, Terauchi-kun, I think it's time for us to leave, the plane has been waiting for a long time." ”

Hearing this, Terauchi Shou got up, stood in place and looked around, his eyes showed a little nostalgia for this command that had been lived for more than a year, and then picked up the command knife on the table and walked out quickly, until the figure disappeared at the door and did not look back.

"Order, all troops retreat at full speed!" Yamashita howled hoarsely.

……

There is a railway from Yangon to Bangkok, which was built entirely by the island army.

After occupying Siam and Burma at the beginning of the Pacific War, the island army could not safely use the Strait of Malacca, and the troops and subsequent supplies to Burma had to be maintained by land.

The construction began on both sides of Siam and Burma, and the island army transported nearly 200,000 allied prisoners and laborers from the Malay Peninsula and Burma to here, and forced the prisoners of war and laborers to work day and night with bayonets.

Because of the lack of food and drinking water, and the continuous bombing by the Allied forces during this period, a large number of prisoners of war and laborers died tragically on the construction site and roadside, and the entire railway line can be said to be white, according to incomplete statistics, in this period of more than a year, less than 20% of the 200,000 prisoners and laborers survived in the end, so this railway is also called the "death railway".

At this moment, on the railroad that the island army had painstakingly built, a heavily armed army was advancing rapidly in the pouring rain.

They were the officers and men of the Far 2nd Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and although the island army blew up important bridges during the retreat, the trains could not pass, but the infantry was not affected, and rushed along the railway, which was less than five meters wide.

It was thanks to the existence of this railway that the expeditionary force was able to pass through the uninhabited wilderness between Yangon and Bangkok.

The little devils probably never dreamed that the railway they had worked so hard to build would become a noose for them to go to the guillotine, giving this road of death another layer of meaning.

"Brothers, there are still more than 50 highways to enter Bangkok, and the group of Wang Ba calves of the Far Second Group Army are also rushing to Bangkok with all their might, it is we who drove the little devils from Pingmanna and Yangon to Bangkok, and there is only one last tremor left, this work can not be picked up by the group of Wang Ba calves of the Far Second Group Army, so everyone has to speed up Lao Tzu, we must enter Bangkok in front of them, and the credit for winning the headquarters of the Little Devil Southern Army can only belong to our Far First Group Army."

On a big stone at the edge of the railway, Liu Dakun, commander-in-chief of the Yuanyi Group Army, howled at the top of his throat, although he was wearing a raincoat, but he was wearing an open placket, and the heavy rain hit the steel helmet on his head "clanging", and a large area on his chest was completely wet, and the rain dripped down along the placket line.

Although he has become the commander-in-chief, Liu Dakun still maintains the tradition of the Nanshan Independent Army, always charging at the front line, and has not done anything special, and has advanced on two legs like the soldiers.

The generals of the Nanshan Independent Army not only had a good tactical level, but also had very clever means to deceive the army, and the soldiers rushed forward with all their strength at this howl, and the speed was obviously much faster than just now.

They have been marching rapidly for two days and two nights in a row, and most of the time they have advanced in the rain, but the speed is still amazing, and they have even maintained a formation, which shows that the overall quality of the army is really not blown.

"Commander, it's igniting again?" Cao Guoliang, chief of staff of the Yuanyi Group Army and chief of staff of the New Fifth Division, didn't know when he walked to Liu Dakun's side, and said playfully.

"Hehe, if you don't whip them with tricks, maybe you will really give Liao Yaoxiang and Yu Shao to get ahead of us?"

"Hehe, this is not going to be, I just sent a message to Liao Yaoxiang, they are still more than 100 kilometers away from Bangkok at this time, and they will definitely not be faster than us, but ...... Commander, I am worried that no matter how hard we try, we will not be able to catch up with the enemy in front, after all, they are a day ahead of us, and they still have means of transportation, and we can rely on two legs, and the logistics and supplies will have to wait for the railway soldiers to restore the railway as soon as possible. ”

Liu Dakun wiped the rain from his face and said in a deep voice: "Yes, so we should go all out to hurry, this battle is all about speed, if we can't catch them before they cross the Mekong River, it will be very disadvantageous for us." ”

Cao Guoliang said worriedly: "But this practical difficulty is also real, and it is not something that we can do with our efforts, in case we don't catch them, then the task entrusted to us to annihilate the remnants of the island army in Siam will not be completed?" ”

Liu Dakun hesitated for a few seconds and said: "Don't be afraid, that little bastard will never make a mistake with soldiers, since he can give us this order, he will definitely be able to think of these practical difficulties, so we just have to go all out, he will definitely be able to make the little devil unable to cross the Mekong River." ”

"Ah...... Do you think that the headquarters will arrange troops to intercept them at the front? By the way, airborne...... Airborne division. ”

"Airborne division? This is not necessarily, I haven't heard the news that the airborne division has arrived in Burma, and we don't have to think about it, you can't figure out the mind of that little bastard, just go up and fuck him. ”