In the face of this rare victory, there was no trace of victory excitement on Dai Anlan's face, not even a trace of smile, he really couldn't laugh.

"We fought fiercely with the enemy for a whole day and night, not to mention the enemy who was killed on the spot, not to mention the lightly wounded who could withdraw from Tangji City with the large army, under our continuous artillery bombardment, they should have a large number of wounded who were seriously wounded and could not move at all, and we really couldn't find a single prisoner?"

Dai Anlan's words were not said to the deputy division commander of Gao Jiren, nor to the chief of staff of Zhou Zhizai, although these two assistants are talents who are skilled in the military and are strategic, but in special operations, searching for remnants of the enemy and capturing prisoners, the real experts are still Lei Zhen!

In the face of Dai Anlan's inquiry, Lei Zhen shook his head wordlessly, he personally took an interpreter to ask the locals, but these natives of Burma all used a silent attitude and refused to provide any information to Lei Zhen. It was on the tense faces of these Burmese natives that Lei Zhen could clearly feel the strong hostility emanating from them. If he didn't guess wrong, those soldiers who were seriously wounded in the attack of the 200th Division should have been taken in by some Burmese natives.

But what can Lei Zhen do? Like those soldiers who entered China and could be unscrupulous, use the bayonets still stained with blood to coerce, and then use machine guns to bloody suppression after the passionate popular uprising?

In Tangji City, where there was silence everywhere and hostile eyes everywhere, Lei Zhen searched for a whole day, and only found a very small number of documents that he had no time to destroy when his army retreated, and determined that this unit guarding Tangji was the troops under the 56th Division that had advanced more than 300 kilometers in just three days a month ago, and quickly supported Takeuchi's troops and completely smashed the "Battle of Tonggu" plan formulated by Lieutenant General Stilwell!

According to the collective judgment of the high-ranking staff members who are far away in the Military Command Department of the Military Commission in Chongqing, but because they are too far away and the exchange of information is not smooth enough, no matter how you look at it, this group of high-ranking staff members who have made a sudden attack on April 20 will break through the city of Leke, and then go all the way north non-stop, breaking through Tangji, the strategic stronghold of the expeditionary force, with a strange soldier attitude, forcing the Fifth Army to return to the division to rescue, and even the 200th Division, an elite unit that has fought in the same ancient city for 12 days and has recovered its vitality after a month-long rest, will return to the battlefield. It was just that the 56th Division specially dispatched a rapid assault force of about 2,000 to 3,000 men in order to disturb the expeditionary force and disrupt their strategic plan and deployment.

Judging from the situation of today's 200 divisions fighting the enemy, these enemies, who captured Tangji City on the 24th and encountered a fierce counterattack by the expeditionary force on the 25th, indeed coincided with the judgment of those senior staff members of the Yucheng Military Command Department.

But in Dai Anlan's heart, there is a problem that no matter how much he enlightens himself, he can't let go of himself...... Masao Watanabe, who is good at jungle and mountain warfare and likes to win by surprise the most, really just to disturb them, and sent a wing to go deep alone, and finally defended Tangji City in a big way, allowing the Chinese Expeditionary Force to gather superior forces and launch a fierce counterattack against the third wing trapped in Tangji City?

In addition, with the combat strength of such an iron-blooded brigade named "Dragon Combat Regiment" like the 56th Division, and the absolute loyalty and worship of the officers and men of the entire division to the emperor, there is no special reason, and they defend Tangji City with one unit, even if the attack of the 200th Division is fierce, it will not take just over a day to take the initiative to withdraw from the defense area, right?

If this can only be done, why did Masao Watanabe and the 56th Division led by him win the title of "Dragon" that represents absolute dignity and strength in the army of Yumoto, which is full of talents and is full of militaristic fanaticism?

Looking at the military combat map of the whole territory of Burma in front of him, Dai Anlan found that he really couldn't judge Watanabe Masao's plan, let alone speculate on the movements of the 56th Division, which completely disappeared from the Allied intelligence network after the Battle of Tonggucheng.

You must know that people who are good at using strange soldiers must have the thinking of jumping surnames, like to play cards without common sense, and have the special surname of gamblers. Dai Anlan is a student who graduated from the third phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and has climbed up step by step from a lieutenant platoon commander on the battlefield, and has already possessed prudence and steadiness in the barracks, two necessary qualities for commanders. Suddenly encountering a master of strategy like Masao Watanabe, who uses strange weapons, wants to catch up with the rhythm of the opponent's thinking, so as to judge the opponent's movements, it is a little too difficult.

glanced at Lei Zhen, who was specially summoned to the division headquarters by himself, again, and felt that Lei Zhen, a child who came out of the mountains, could not have the most primitive aura that faded slightly even if he lived his whole life, Dai Anlan suddenly asked: "Lei Zhen, if you were Masao Watanabe, how would you lead the 56th Division to fight?" ”

As soon as he finished saying these words, Dai Anlan couldn't help but secretly shake his head and smile bitterly.

Although Lei Zhen is Xie Jinyuan's carefully cultivated apprentice, and he has also shown good command and command skills in small unit local operations, he is only a child in his twenties after all. Without receiving a formal and systematic militarized education at the Whampoa Military Academy, and without the experience accumulated on the battlefield and in the barracks step by step, how could he expect such an older child who grew up in the mountains to be able to see through the strategic plan carefully designed by a battlefield veteran like Masao Watanabe?

But Lei Zhen replied, and he replied quickly, "We are playing with fire!" ”

Facing Dai Anlan's slightly puzzled eyes, Lei Zhen said: "Our army's command is too light on the enemy, and those senior staff members generally believe that our army's three divisions can withstand an elite division of the enemy. However, based on the experience of the Kunlun Mountain Campaign and the experience of our 200th Division in the Battle of Tonggucheng, it is not difficult for us to come to the conclusion that unless all of them are trump card units like our 200 Divisions, six or seven divisions may not be able to withstand the combat strength of one division of the enemy. It was precisely because of the erroneous information given by the high command that Stilwell, a three-star lieutenant general from the United States, worked out a plan for the battle with Cuba, and asked us to take the initiative to attack even though our two divisions had already collided with the enemy's two divisions. ”

If you listen to Lei Zhen's analysis, at the beginning, he still responded politely to a disciple of a close friend, but in the back, Dai Anlan's face already showed a look of listening carefully.

"The intelligence we have received from the British 'allies' shows that only two divisions of the enemy have landed in Burma, and in this case, concentrating all the forces of our Fifth, Sixth, and Ninety-ninth Corps against their two divisions, without counting the air power, the two sides can barely reach a draw, and if in this case, our 'valiant' British allies, willing to lift up their gentleman's footsteps, join the war, it seems that we can also recover Rangoon and ensure the smooth flow of the Burma road. But ......"

Speaking of this, Lei Zhen accentuated his tone, "What the enemy actually invested in Burma is the eighteenth, thirty-third, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, four divisions, plus a fifth flying division!" Whether it is the grand strategic deployment or the actual tactical application on the battlefield, our army has lost more than one chip! Look at our British allies, who were defending their colonies, but were beaten away by the enemy, or I can simply say that they had no intention of seriously resisting. So, in fact, our expeditionary force, with the strength of several divisions, is fighting alone against the enemy of four divisions. At this time, the most terrifying thing is that those senior staff members of our headquarters are still dreaming of destroying the enemy and recovering Yangon! ”

When Lei Zhen said this, he walked quickly to the military combat map of the whole territory of Burma, he grabbed the command whip, and said: "The supreme commander of the 56th Division, Masao Watanabe, in this situation where my own strength far surpasses the enemy and occupies absolute air supremacy, of course I must strive to achieve the greatest victory!" ”

"Smack!"

The command whip in Lei Zhen's hand fell to a point on the military map, facing Division Commander Dai Anlan, Deputy Division Commander Gao Jiren, and Chief of Staff Zhou Zhizai in disbelief, but irrepressibly revealing a deep shocked gaze, Lei Zhen looked around the audience, his faint and cold, with a sharp breath like a wolf's teeth, was more like an awl, and pierced into everyone's ears: "What is the biggest victory?" Not to annihilate one of our divisions, let alone to eat one of our regiments! If I were Masao Watanabe, who could command the 56th Division, the position I would attack would be the only way for us to return home! As long as I occupy here, I can cut off all the logistical supplies of the expeditionary force, and I can join forces with the other three divisions to press the border on all fronts, and on the battlefield of Burma, I can encircle the expeditionary force little by little, and strangle the 100,000 expeditionary force to death little by little! ”

There was silence in the division headquarters, in fact, everyone was so radical and bold by Lei Zhen, but once it was successfully implemented, it could really shock the strategic plan of the total annihilation of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. After a long time, Zhou Zhizai, the chief of staff, seemed to argue again, and said more like comforting himself: "But there are thousands of kilometers from the front line to Xula City, even if the rear defense line of our army is empty, it is impossible for their army of more than 20,000 people to be silent." The most important thing is that a force of more than 20,000 people will carry out a long-distance raid of thousands of kilometers away from logistics and supply, and once our army discovers their whereabouts, their strategic plan will become a bunch of bubbles, and their 56th division is more likely to fall into the encirclement of our army, because of the lack of supply, and will be severely damaged or even annihilated by our army! ”

"Chief of Staff, you won't forget that Masao Watanabe is a master of jungle and mountain warfare, right?" The command whip in Lei Zhen's hand slowly moved along a line representing the mountains on the military map, "Thailand has become an ally of Yuben, Watanabe Masao can use the Burmese indigenous guides to advance along the mountains and forest areas along the Burma-Thailand border, although the march route will be another 500 kilometers long, but in this situation where our army has completely lost air supremacy, it is impossible to find their whereabouts with only a small number of ground reconnaissance teams!" As for logistical supplies, as long as they can successfully capture our army's logistics base, how many are there? ”

"But......" Gao Jiren, the deputy division commander, also spoke, "didn't the British Allies send us information about the appearance of the 56th Division on the Western Front a few days ago?" How could the 56th Division be divided into multiple places to fight at the same time? If that were the case, they wouldn't have had enough strength to make such a long run! ”

"Yes, the British Allies have been providing us with information, they have told us that they are also struggling with supplies, they are short of gasoline, they are short of food, they are short of medicines; It was they who told us that the enemy who landed in Burma had only two divisions; It was they who told us that they would hold firmly on our right flank, fighting side by side with our army; Or did they say that they would actively cooperate with the defense of Tonggu and would take the initiative to launch a support attack on the enemy. The result? How much did our British allies, our British gentlemen, and how much did they get the information they provided to our army? ”

Lei Zhen looked directly at the deputy division commander of Gao Jiren, at this time, he really spoke like a knife, "With the 'support' of the intelligence provided by the British allies, our army took the initiative to attack again and again, and fought again and again, and could only revise the battle plan and plan again and again. Could it be that every time, the enemy moves so fast that we can't capture the fighters to fight them at all, and every time, the enemy avoids the active challenge of our weak force because he is not prepared?! ”

"Lei Zhen, your analysis is very reasonable and very sophisticated, and some places are so sharp that even I am shocked when I hear it, but you ignore a question of the essence of the surname."

After being silent for a long time, Division Commander Dai Anlan, who had been thinking carefully for a long time, finally spoke, "Our expedition to a foreign land, of course, is to defend the Yunnan-Burma Highway, the lifeline of Western countries' aid to China. And the British fought here to preserve their colonies and the dignity of their old empire on the international stage. Although we all have different starting points and have the same goal, in this case, the British will not and cannot deliberately convey the wrong information to us, let alone deliberately annihilate our expeditionary force in Burma! ”

Lei Zhen was listening carefully, what Division Commander Dai Anlan said made sense, everyone has the same enemy, no matter how self-righteous the British [***] side is, it should never spread false information to the [***] team.

"It is based on this premise that I personally judge that the British [***] team has repeatedly conveyed to us that the information that the main force of the 56th Division appeared on the Western Front is correct. Since it is not the main force of the 56th Division that appeared near Tangji on our eastern front, it should be just a rapid assault force with units in the wing, as our Yucheng Military Command Department predicted! ”

Deputy Division Commander Gao Jiren and Chief of Staff Zhou Zhizai nodded vigorously together, these words of Dai Anlan seem to be indeed impeccable judgments, even Lei Zhen, who has the same jumping thinking and gambler characteristics as Watanabe Masao, and likes to win by surprise on the battlefield, can't refute it.

In this discussion, it seems that a final summary can be made at this point, but I don't know why, in the division headquarters, whether it is Dai Anlan, Gao Jiren, or Zhou Zhizai, when their eyes pass over the huge military combat map of the whole territory of Burma on the wall, their eyes will involuntarily fall on the mountain range on the border between Thailand and Myanmar that Lei Zhen once crossed with his command whip.

Until Lei Zhen saluted them and returned to the 598th Regiment station, until the sky had already darkened, Dai Anlan, Gao Jiren and Zhou Zhizai were still standing there quietly, quietly looking at the huge combat map.

I don't know how long I have been standing quietly like this, and I don't know how many thoughts have been turning in my mind, and how many possibilities that may occur on the battlefield have been thought about, Chief of Staff Zhou Zhizai finally broke the silence between the three of them, "Forget it, we can't even convince ourselves, how can we persuade the Command to let the Command readjust its strategic deployment because of Lei Zhen's such a bold prediction?" Even if it is the commander-in-chief, I think that Deputy Commander Stilwell, who thinks every day about a decisive battle with the enemy's main force on the battlefield in Burma and counterattacking Rangoon after defeating the enemy army in one fell swoop, will definitely scold us to the blood, right? ”

"Yes, this speculation can be completely overturned based on the latest movements of the 56th Division provided by the British Allies." Deputy Division Commander Gao Jiren said: "But I don't know why, when I look at the map and remember what Lei Zhen said today, I can't help but feel a little frightened." ”

"Those are his words, enough to hit the nail on the head, saying a lot of things that we already know in our hearts, but no one wants to say!"

Zhou Zhizai sighed lightly: "Our 200 divisions have not yet entered Burma, and they are controlled everywhere by the British 'allies', I really can't feel their sincerity as friendly troops, but I have learned a lot from the arrogance and disdain of the British." ”

After saying these words, these battle-hardened generals once again fell into a long silence.

(To be continued)