The face was boiled blue, but Les and Logan shook their heads to accept the book, and Webber just smiled faintly and said nothing more. Simmons quietly walked up from under the city and whispered to Swift to tell him that the expeditionary force had broken through Mount Papani. Stilwell knew in his heart that this was a reminder that he should return to Command.

Stilwell didn't move, and in his opinion, it was a tainted victory, a victory at the cost of the Ringanqiang allies, but he was now thinking about what would happen after this victory.

The Chinese are bound to trumpet this victory, and Zhuang Jihua's prestige will rise further, further controlling the actual leadership of the expeditionary force. Chiang Kai-shek also had good reason to demand that the command sequence in Burma be adjusted.

"General Alexander's call" staff ran to hand a telegram to Simmons, Simmons read it and said to Stilwell: "He hopes you can go to India to discuss the unification of the ** team of the lower alliance" called back, the Japanese 56th Division and the 22nd Division sneak attack on Lashio, surrounded by the 103rd Army and the 58th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the current battle situation is at a critical moment, I have no time to separate, I suggest that the British army stop retreating, and launch a counterattack on the Japanese army on the Western Front, in order to contain the Japanese army attacking Mandalay. Stilwell did not hesitate to refuse Alexander's request, but reminded him that the Squadron was winning a victory, and if the English were to withdraw completely to India, they would be very passive after the war.

Webb's eyes flickered, but he didn't ask. Charles and Rogan sensed Stilwell's kindness at the same time, and a rumbling cannon could be heard in the distance. The sound of artillery continued, the smell of gunpowder blew to the city with the wind of the forest, and the soldiers resting on the city stood up and watched happily at the place where the nitrate rose. There was a lot of talk, and a captain came over. The soldiers gathered around to inquire about the battle.

"Brothers, that's the Bow Master, the brothers of the division are chasing the enemy, have a good rest, maybe it will be our time to go up."

Not only Stilwell, but even Charles and Logan felt that these soldiers were very different from the British soldiers they had seen before, at least far better than the British in battle, and Webb took the opportunity to walk over and talk to them.

"Captain, are your casualties heavy?"

"It's not big, the focus of the devil's attack is not on us" The brothers of the Peng regiment suffered great losses, and the head of the Ma regiment and the deputy head of the regiment were all killed. ”

"How many battles have you been in?" Webb looked at this young face and estimated that his age was only twenty-three or four.

"I'm a veteran, and I participated in the Battle of Xuzhou after graduating from the military academy." The captain looked very relaxed: "The kind of battle last night was relatively easy, the devil is no longer good now, and the foundation has come up." ”

After finishing speaking, he looked at Stilwell's group and asked with some curiosity: "Mr. Reporter, why didn't you retreat to the rear, it's still quite dangerous here." ”

"We are military reporters, and military reporters are to follow the army," Weber explained casually, and then continued to ask: "Do you think you can destroy the Japanese army?" ”

"Of course, with Commander Zhuang here, we will definitely be able to eliminate these little devils." The captain clenched his fist with confidence, and then sighed: "If the defense of Wuhan is commanded by Commander Zhuang, Wuhan may be able to be defended." ”

"Shhh Gather! ”

With the captain's roar, the soldiers ran out from various areas of the city, stood in two rows in front of the captain, and then ran down the city under the captain's leadership.

After a while, the troops gathered near the city gates, and a colonel stood in front of the troops and shouted: "Brothers! The little devil is not crazy now, he is wilting! The brothers of the Bow Master and the Blink Division were chasing the little devils, and Commander Zhuang ordered us to form a task force to go out of the city to pursue the Japanese army, and the remaining brothers were responsible for guarding Lashio. ”

This order was decided at the repeated request of Lu Han and Lu Daoyuan, who came from La Popajang. After returning, he put forward his judgment to Zhuang Jihua. The losses of the division and the division were not as fierce as yesterday's day, and the total losses of the two divisions were more than 10,000 people, so even with the addition of the new 38th Division, it would be very difficult to break through the resistance of the Japanese rearguard.

Lu Daoyuan also felt that it was not enough for the concave division to stay in the city in such a victory, so he also asked for an attack, and he proposed to leave one regiment behind, and the rest of the troops all attacked.

Zhuang Jihua rejected Lu Daoyuan's request and adopted Lu Han's suggestion, but instead of transferring a certain regiment as a formation, six companies were drawn from each unit, plus a battalion of the regiment directly under the army, to form an attack force.

The reason for Zhuang Jihua's decision was the battle situation, the resistance of the Japanese rearguard troops was extremely stubborn, and the attacks of the new 38th Division were frustrated several times. And the division was still clearing the remnants of the Hosokawa Wing. The remnants of the Hosokawa Wing although the back road is broken. The remnants of the soldiers gathered on their own, either on a hillside or on a mound, and their stubbornness dragged them down, blinking part of the division's strength. Xia Yanglin only brought the lion sarcasm, and the crowd made Zhuang Jihua very angry, but Fork Dan could do nothing. Xia Yanglin's rationality saved a few points. The Omatsu Wing had already been routed, and it was just in time to annihilate it, so as not to cause chaos in the rear of the remaining Japanese soldiers. These two factors prompted Zhuang Jihua to make the decision to send a contingent.

There was a faint roar of engines in the sky, and more than ten fighters appeared in the sky, flying in the direction of the departure of the Japanese army, Zhuang Jihua's mood did not become relaxed because of the appearance of the fighters. The development of the battle situation was not smooth, neither Chen Mingren nor Liao Yaoxiang had yet arrived at the scheduled location, and if Watanabe had arrived first, the victory that had already been achieved would slip away.

"Contact Liao Yaoxiang and Chen Mingren again, where are the new 22nd and 64th divisions going?"

Zhuang Jihua's first sentence when he returned to the war room showed the anxiety in his heart, and Lu Han sighed slightly and persuaded: "They are on the march, and the radio may not be turned on." ”

"If you don't get any more, Watanabe will run away." Lu Han's persuasion did not have any effect, Zhuang Jihua was still anxious, and if either of the two places was not closed, Watanabe might run away.

"Cultural Revolution, don't worry, who are Liao Yaoxiang and Chen Mingren, you don't know, they must be urging the troops now, Lu Han's qualifications are relatively old, and he is the only person who is suitable to come forward to persuade him.

Lu Han was not wrong, looking down from the sky, three streams of yellow people in the jungle rolled eastward, and the one in the middle turned back from time to time to engage the pale yellow military uniforms chasing behind, and the two sides were strangled together again and again.

"***, what kind of way is this". Liao Yaoxiang wiped the beads of sweat on his face, he walked among the troops as before, the road they walked, strictly speaking, was not a road, but the road opened by the troops in front, the machete cut through the artemisia grass and thorns more than one person high, and the road formed by thousands of pairs of feet in front of him.

"Where is Yang Weixiong?" Liao Yaoxiang asked as he walked, surrounded by soldiers who were in a hurry.

"I don't know, their walkie-talkie is not turned on," the little staff officer replied after taking a breath, and then the chief of staff came up from behind: "Division commander, take a rest." We've been marching for four hours straight from last night until now. ”

"Four hours?" Liao Yaoxiang turned to look at the chief of staff in surprise: "Isn't it only twenty-four kilometers?" Why hasn't it been here for so long?.

"Division commander, that's a straight-line distance, look at this mountain, this road, can it be counted as twenty-four kilometers? , the staff officers of the headquarters know the blind plan! The chief of staff scolded angrily.

"No, you can't rest, keep walking." Liao Yaoxiang glanced at the troops, and the artillerymen behind him were pushing the cannons hard, and from the heavy breath of the soldiers, he knew that they had done their best.

"The order is to be light, and all units must help the artillerymen carry shells, and they can carry as many shells as they can." Liao Yaoxiang pushed his glasses, and after finishing speaking, he said to the guard: "Go and help me get two rounds." ”

The chief of staff hurriedly stopped: "Division commander, that's not good, now that the soldiers have almost reached the limit of their physical strength, and if they carry artillery shells, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to arrive on time." ”

"If you can't do it, you have to do it" Liao Yaoxiang's tone was very resolute: "Without artillery, the brothers will only have to fill it with their lives."

The guards had already brought a few shells, one shot on Liao Yaoxiang's back, and two rounds on his back. Liao Yaoxiang didn't say anything, and stepped forward with the cannonball on his back, and the soldiers behind him passed the artillery unit. Everyone took one or two shells from the artilleryman and put them on their backs.

Yang Weixiong is a native of Hebei, as tall as a Bei'an person, with beads of sweat on his face and beard, and he is also anxious at the moment, they have walked at least thirty kilometers, but Mokunshan has not yet arrived.

"Damn, that's right!" Yang Weixiong asked the same question as Liao Yaoxiang, and Chief of Staff Lu Haitao took out the map and looked at it for a while before saying, "You should be there after crossing the mountain in front." ”

Yang Weixiong grabbed the map and looked at it, then cursed fiercely before ordering: "Order everyone, except for weapons and ammunition, throw away all other bits and pieces, and speed up." Where is the avant-garde company?.

"I don't know." Lu Haitao replied. The avant-garde company could no longer be contacted, the company commander Zhang Liansheng was standing on the opposite side of the mountain that Lu Haitao saw from the map, the soldiers were standing or resting on the side, and Zhang Liansheng was putting the compass on the map, looking for the direction of progress.

He is a native of Shandong, and he has been familiar with the first Jinpu Road battle for four years, the Japanese army was defeated, and their whole village was slaughtered by the Japanese army to vent their anger, he was shot twice, but fortunately, the new 22nd Division chased quickly. In the past few years, he has fought with the New 22nd Division in the south and the north, and he will never be soft in killing the Japanese, and he will be promoted to company commander after accumulating merit, and he is the company commander who can fight the toughest battles in the new 22nd Division.

In front of him was Zhang Liansheng put away the map and compass, pointed to the hill in front of him on the left and said: "Three rows open the road, the second row follows, and the first row is broken." Three platoons long, we lost a lot of time. The little devil may also be coming, be prepared to encounter the little devil. ”

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