In the northwest of China, on both sides of the large airstrip above the Lop Nur Nuclear Physics Laboratory, many scientific researchers in white coats have been waiting here for a long time.

The scientific researchers who had not seen Yangon for a long time had a sickly white on their faces.

Led by Albert Einstein, Zhang Lingpu and others, the Praetorian guards guarding this secret base stood on both sides of the airport, ready to greet their supreme leader.

At this moment, everyone's faces at the airport were very excited, this was the second time they had met the supreme leader of the empire, and the excitement was beyond words.

At this moment, there was a huge humming sound in the sky, and a huge blue and white giant slowly lowered its altitude, raised its nose slightly, and slowly landed on the runway. The two Globemaster bombers next to the runway are a whole fuselage smaller than the plane that just landed.

This blue and white giant plane is Chen Shao's car, the only one in China, Air Force One.

The giant plane taxied for a full three kilometers before slowly reducing to runway speed, and through a large arc turn, Air Force One slowly turned around and advanced in front of Einstein and others.

When the hatch opened and a staircase car was parked under the hatch, Chen Shao's figure also appeared in front of everyone.

"You guys have been cold and summer for a few years, and everyone is happy." As soon as Chen Shao came, he cordially shook hands with the researchers in white coats and the garrison Zhang Lingpu and others one by one.

"Unfortunately, your majesty can hurry up. We are deeply honored and proud. ”

The group talked and laughed and walked into the secret base control center located deep underground, and at this time, most of the personnel in the secret base had been gathered. Chen Shao took the stage and made a brief speech, thus ending the intermittent welcome ceremony.

"I wonder how the experiment went?" This time he came to Lop Nur naturally not to play, and after finishing his speech, Chen Shao quickly asked the purpose of his trip.

"In the past five years, we have conducted a total of eight nuclear bomb experiments, as well as three hydrogen bomb experiments, all of which have successfully completed the scheduled experimental data end experiments. This time, it was our fourth hydrogen bomb experiment. Also in the experimental hydrogen bomb. A hydrogen bomb with the highest yield. Einstein replied. Speaking of the five-year experiment, the bearded man's face inevitably showed a look of pride.

"Oh, what's the yield of this experimental hydrogen bomb?" Chen Shao was a little curious.

"Exactly. Experiments with two hydrogen bombs will be conducted today. One of them has an equivalent of one and a half million. The equivalent of another one is only 1,000 tons of TNT equivalent? Albert Einstein said confidently.

"What?" Hearing the hydrogen bomb with a yield of 1.5 million tons in front, Chen Shao was still very natural, but when he heard the 1,000 tons in the back. Chen Shao also became very excited, and hurriedly asked, "Did you really get the neutron bomb out?" ”

"Yes, thanks to Your Majesty Hongfu, we completed the test explosion of the first hydrogen bomb experiment four years ago, and now, we have produced two 1,000-ton neutron bomb prototypes." Albert Einstein said.

"Haha!" Hearing Einstein's answer, Chen Shao couldn't help laughing, turned his head to Zhang Lingpu who was following behind him and said, "Very good, let the experiment start immediately." If the neutron bomb experiment is successful, send another neutron bomb sample to the Second Artillery Base, and I have already found a site for this sample bomb to be tested. ”

"Yes." Zhang Lingpu didn't ask anything, and turned around directly to arrange.

Ten minutes later, the two Globemasters parked on the runway on the ground rose into the air one after another and flew towards the depths next door.

On the large display in the control center, two Globemaster transport planes are flying smoothly in the air at 8,000 meters. Upon reaching the target area, one of the Globemaster magazines opened, revealing a large cannonball inside.

"Experiment No. 1 calls base, we have arrived over the experimental area, please instruct." On the radio of the control center, the inquiry of the experimental machine was heard.

"The hydrogen bomb data is connected, the test bomb unit structure is normal, and the small nuclear bomb detonation device is running smoothly and can be detonated at any time."

"Test One, this is the control center, allowing bomb drops."

With the order to drop the bomb, the hydrogen bomb in the belly of Experiment No. 1 fell straight into the desert below after the pylons were released. The Globemaster in the sky, after finishing dropping the bomb, increased his horsepower and quickly left here.

When the air-dropped hydrogen bomb was still 3,000 meters above the ground, the parachute mounted on it automatically opened, and the falling speed dropped rapidly. More than ten seconds later, when the nuclear bomb was still three hundred meters from the ground, with the operation of the control center staff.

A violent light suddenly erupted in the sky above the desert, and in less than two seconds, an earth-shattering explosion suddenly sounded in the desert, and a strong fire burst into the sky, covering the entire sky with orange-red flames. Immediately, a huge mushroom cloud rose into the sky, accompanied by a mesmerizing halo that spread out in all directions at a speed exceeding the speed of sound.

In the desert, countless dust rose into the sky, and the halo spread rapidly, destroying all the unevenness on the ground. The clouds in the sky were tumbling, and the giant mushroom clouds were expanding. At this moment, even the control center, which is 300 kilometers away from the test site, can deeply feel the vibration of the surface.

Although the people in the control center have watched many such experiments and have a great understanding of the effects of nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs, they can't control the excitement in their hearts every time they see the power of destroying the world unfolding in front of their eyes.

The cheers sounded again in the control center, and with the progress of experiments again and again, it was no longer a problem to get the actual nuclear bomb into shape. As long as they are given time, they will be able to create dozens of nuclear bombs in a short time.

If these bombs were dropped on the enemy's major cities, the damage would be unprecedented.

When the mushroom cloud outside began to slowly dissipate, another Globemaster also dropped one of the two neutron bomb test bombs, which were successfully detonated in the explosion of a small nuclear bomb, which also indicated that China was able to produce three types of nuclear weapons at this time.

The first generation of nuclear bombs. Second-generation hydrogen bombs, third-generation neutron bombs. At this time, China already had the nuclear forces that the United States had in the sixties.

If the experiments here were known to the world, perhaps the war would have disappeared because of this, but the radius of this place was strictly controlled by the Chinese army for hundreds of kilometers, and perhaps only when China was willing to make these things public, the world would know about this place.

In the evening, Chen Shao and all the scientific researchers and defenders in the base held a large-scale celebration dinner.

Chen Shao, who was full of interest, faced the toast and did not refuse to come one by one. When the dinner is over, it's time to return to the Air Force One lounge. The latest battle report came from the Northeast Theater.

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Pyongyang, surrounded by Chinese troops, fell into an eerie calm. Contrary to the expectations of the Allies, the Chinese army had no intention of attacking Pyongyang, and when the Chinese follow-up second-line troops arrived in Pyongyang, they were the active army as the main offensive force. Swing around Pyongyang. Deep into the heart of North Korea. Attack towards the 38th parallel.

Tada Jun had already left when the Chinese army was besieging Pyongyang. At this time, he stayed in Incheon, commanding the Kwantung Army in Korea. The 38th parallel served as the second line of defense for the Japanese army. It is also the most important and strongest defense line in the whole of Korea, and now it has become the only hope of the Japanese army.

Because they could no longer retreat, the cherry blossoms were everywhere, the beautiful land was now scorched, the emperor had lost his legs, and the center of the country was almost paralyzed. Now, the crown of the Great Japanese Empire will also be taken by China at any time. They have taken many steps back, and now all the Japanese are running out of options.

The attacking Chinese army does not care what the Japanese think, because it has nothing to do with them. In front of them, there is only an attack and an attack.

More than 300 self-propelled howitzers roared like summer thunder, grenades, incendiary bombs, high-explosive bombs, shrapnel bombs, ground-penetrating bombs, suffocation bombs, and even newly developed thermobaric bombs fell like hail, turning every mountain with the figure of a Japanese Kwantung Army soldier into an erupting volcano, and dozens of 203-mm 24-mounted self-propelled rocket launchers were replaced with ordinary artillery shells, frantically pouring steel rain, and dense shells streaked across the sky like meteor showers, turning the sky purple red, like a furnace of flowing molten steel.

In the sky, the Warhawk-3 reappeared on the battlefield, escorting the bombers, and shooting down all the flying objects that dared to approach the bombers with missiles. Under the protection of the Warhawk-3, the bombers, which were quite slow and vulnerable to attack, swaggered back and forth over the battlefield, dropping low-drag aerial bombs as if they were not paying for money, and planting patches of steel and fire on the ground. There is no need to worry about being counterattacked by the anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese Kwantung Army, because the radar of the Japanese Kwantung Army has long been wiped out by the intruder fighter-bombers.

The extremely ferocious artillery fire smashed down endlessly, and the soldiers of the Japanese Kwantung Army, who were huddled in the anti-artillery hole and endured the ravages of the other party, let out a groan of extreme pain in their hearts: "My God, even if I fought with the Soviet Union, I have never seen such ferocious artillery fire!" "That's true, even the Soviet Army wouldn't dare to spend so much on the battlefield, right? The Chinese army apparently combined American precision strikes with Soviet artillery doctrine to form a unique set of tactics, and the Japanese Kwantung Army unfortunately became their testing ground.

This is the periphery of the 38th parallel, the last line of defense in the heart of the Japanese Kwantung Army. The north of the 38th parallel is undulating and densely covered with jungles, and the rice fields south of the 38th parallel are patches and the water network is vertical and horizontal.

By the time the war had been fought, the Japanese Kwantung Army's defense line in the north had been completely torn apart, and the regular army and local troops had lost more than 250,000 men, and their blood was about to run dry, but the war was far from over: the Chinese army, which had been able to kill the enemy, concentrated the huge strength of four divisions and two mountain brigades to launch a fierce attack on the 38th parallel, and there was a tendency to vow not to give up until the dragon flag was planted in Korea.

This is the last barrier in the hearts of the Japanese, and the Japanese Kwantung Army can only fight to defend it with the last bit of blood. Now the situation has deteriorated so much that even the strongest people will feel hopeless - on the Eastern Front, even with the help of the United States, it will not be possible to break through the Chinese defenses.

On the Western Front, the 13th Army, known as the "Tiger of the Plains," had already encircled Pyongyang and cut off Pyongyang from the Kwantung Army in the south. Of course, being tied up is not the style of the Japanese Kwantung military. Even the Japanese Kwantung Army, which had suffered a crushing defeat, still cheered up, and rebuilt the Korean defense cluster that had been torn to pieces with the Kwantung Army as the core, and by the time the 38th Parallel Battle began, they had 800,000 troops in their hands again.

Many Japanese divisions and regiments jointly launched a large-scale counterattack, which once forced the 14th Group Army of the Northeast Theater, which was mainly attacking the 38th Parallel, to retreat, but they even used chemical weapons, and in the end they were still unable to tear through the defense line of the 14th Group Army.

The 14th Group Army of the Northeast Theater immediately began to pull out points one by one. In this snow-capped mountainous area, an extremely brutal tug-of-war with the Japanese Kwantung Army was launched.

Huang Baitao, commander of the 14th Group Army, who was the main direction of attack, sneered again and again. The tactics of the Japanese Kwantung servicemen were successfully used. It caused a lot of trouble to the troops, but strategically it can only be described as "miserable". Until now, the Japanese Kwantung Army has been passively defensive, relying on isolated strategic points one after another. Don't help each other. And there are many points and few soldiers. A breach of one point means that the entire line of defense has been breached, and there are no mobile forces to plug the gap. In the face of the Chinese army, which is good at interspersing and detouring, such a defense line is simply two-sided. It's ridiculous that after suffering losses again and again, the Japanese Kwantung soldiers still can't change it!

This time, Huang Baitao and Zhang Zizhong don't plan to play the kind of interspersed tactics of killing the enemy by killing a thousand and losing eight hundred, concentrating on the overwhelming strength and artillery fire to attack head-on, and pressing to the end, you have a thousand plans, I have a steamroller! To put it bluntly, their wishful thinking is to exchange artillery shells for human lives, even if it is a hundred shells for one of the Japanese Kwantung Army, they will not hesitate to fight steadily, step by step, and the Japanese Kwantung Army will be crushed for days.

It turns out that there is no need to change a hundred shells for one at all, many shells are drilled through the holes of the fortress under the guidance of scouts, and a squad or even a squad goes to see Aunt Amaterasu, and the fortress complex on which the Japanese Kwantung Army relies is almost a cement coffin, so I don't stay inside, can I go outside? Of course not, if exposed to the wild, you will die faster, and the shells that are smashed down all over the world are not a joke, even if they are hiding in the anticline, the Japanese Kwantung Army, those improvised guided air-dropped aerial bombs are waiting to be killed. Hanoi soon found out that they had sent the elite of two divisions to the winch.

Listening to the deafening sound of artillery and watching the fighter plane cross the sky, Chu Yunfei kicked a small Japanese skin-breaking armored car that was beaten beyond recognition. The armored vehicle was hit by an anti-tank rocket launcher from the Hind helicopter gunship of the Air Assault Division, and the explosion caused a fire that burned it black and deformed.

Of course, Major General Chu Da is so angry, not because this armored car is an eyesore, but because he has no part in the main attack on the 38th parallel, if nothing else, this armored car will be the last result achieved by the air assault division. His sister-in-law, fought all the way to get here, the whole division suffered more than 100 casualties, and came here at such a heavy price, just to listen to the noise and join in the fun? His grandma's! He stared viciously at the direction of the 38th parallel, and his wolf-like gaze made the staff officers involuntarily feel a little chill in their hearts!

Cheng Hui, commander of the 142nd Division of the 14th Group Army, walked over with a steel helmet and smiled: "Brother Chu, you look quite angry." ”

Chu Yunfei said: "Since I was not allowed to attack the 38th parallel, my mood has not been good!" Hell, what the hell, I finally hit here, but I only let me watch the excitement! ”

Cheng Hui said: "Brother Chu, don't worry, your division is the elite of the whole army, and the front finger is afraid that your casualties will be too great and your vitality will be damaged." Don't forget, every soldier under your command will be a junior officer in other armies in a few years, can the front commander allow you to continue to fight to the death? ”

Chu Yunfei shouted angrily: "I know all this, but have you thought about it, what kind of soldiers can a group of officers who dare not sacrifice their lives to fight to the death can bring?" If the Air Assault Division does not have the madness of fighting against the water, it is useless to give us sufficient funds! ”

Cheng Hui smiled, threw him a cigarette, lit one himself, sat down and took a puff, and said: "You are okay, at least the air cavalry can still participate in the battle, and I, the entire mobile division, let the front finger take a big vacation, and the commanders of those regiments and battalions were so angry that they almost didn't tear me down." ”

Chu Yunfei rubbed his cigarette and muttered, "His sister's." What the hell is the front finger doing? Didn't you tell them that if you want to tear through the defense line of the monkeys of the Japanese Kwantung Army, the air assault division and the rapid reaction force are the best choices? Using the traditional way of fighting will only make our army suffer more casualties! ”

Cheng Hui said: "Traditional play? Not necessarily, at least there are a lot of new tactics, at least the former commander is becoming more and more proficient in the use of mobile divisions. You don't know, do you? I heard that the Siberian tigers killed a battalion of troops of the Americans on the highway line! ”

Chu Yunfei rolled his eyes.

Cheng Hui praised: "Those guys are really good enough, just dozens of special forces, in less than four hours, an American infantry battalion was beaten to the point that there is not even a slag left, it is hard to imagine what extent their combat effectiveness has reached!" ”

Chu Yunfei snorted: "Let Lao Tzu's troops go, let alone a battalion, the monkeys of the Japanese Kwantung Army will still be killed even if they come to one or two divisions!" The Siberian Tigers. It's a showman! ”

Facing this resentful air cavalry division commander. Cheng Hui could only smile bitterly.

Xiao Jinteng, who was directing the Siberian Tigers to cause trouble for the Americans, sneezed violently, causing the soldiers who were remotely controlling the rubber balls to turn their heads to look at him and ask with a smile: "What's wrong, captain." Is your sister-in-law missing you at home? ”

Xiao Jinteng said: "Shut up. Concentrate on the war! ”

It is also considered bad luck for the American troops. They had been ahead of their allies, but they had not yet reached the battlefield. Unexpectedly, he hit the fangs of the Siberian tiger headlong, and when he found that the situation was wrong, he couldn't get out.

One of the major characteristics of the Siberian Tiger special forces is that they are afraid of death, and they hide themselves well one by one, and they do not show up when they are killed, but the bombs and shells they attract fall on the assembly area of the US military like an eye, where there are a large number of soldiers, there is a sea of fire! After a few rounds, the U.S. military finally understood that they didn't plan to fight them at all, and they wanted to blow them up with shells! While it was still too late, the U.S. military launched a wave attack, advancing in multiple waves alternately, in an attempt to use crowd tactics to flatten the defense line of these special forces in order to escape.

Unexpectedly, the more fierce they charged, the more fierce the artillery fire, many shells were directly smashed on the heads of the soldiers, blowing them up in piles, and more shells formed a rolling wall of fire on the front line of their impact, as long as they were hit by this wall of fire, they had to be crushed! Finally, sporadic soldiers broke through the artillery interception and killed the position of the Siberian Tiger special forces, and before they could fire a few shots, the bullets fired by the snipers lifted their Tianling cover! Where is this still a war, it's just a one-sided massacre, a massacre of artillery against infantry!

Several attacks failed, and the two battalions of the American army suffered nearly half of the casualties, and they were unable to attack again, so they had to hold on and wait for reinforcements. But the Siberian Tiger special forces began to attack, still looking like they were afraid of death, using the terrain to cower and advance, and the American army was still funny, but soon they were going to cry.

The Siberian Tiger special forces still have no intention of directly exchanging fire with them, the Chinese fighters in the air and the artillery units in the rear are their backing, and the top soldiers in front of them will send a signal when they find a fire point, either the artillery fire of the heavy artillery, or the navigation bomb will scream and smash down, and a large area will be exploded!

Finding scattered American soldiers, needless to say, it was a sniper's delicacy, how can this battle be fought? The most fatal thing is the individual mines and rubber balls in the hands of the Siberian Tiger Special Forces, which are multiplied in this snow-covered terrain, no matter how careful you are, it is always difficult to get rid of the fate of stepping on the radar!

The rubber ball is even more hateful, sticking like a dog's skin plaster, you can't kick it open, in fact, it doesn't wait for you to kick it and it explodes, one by one the machine gun fire points are blown up by them like this, how ugly and ugly the machine gunner's death is! The offensive of the Siberian Tiger special forces is undoubtedly slow, but the place swept by them is absolutely barren, only countless craters!

The cigarette in his hand was crumpled to pieces, but Chu Yunfei was still angry. He muttered and slandered his front finger with a stinky face, because he knew that the Battle of Lang Son would be the final battle, and after this battle, he should retreat, and if he didn't go to the battlefield, he would have no chance in the future! Damn, his goal of losing 30,000 people to the Japanese Kwantung Army is still far away, and if he is not allowed to go to the battlefield, how can he achieve this goal?

Rumble!!!

There was a muffled thud and dust was flying. It was the bored soldiers of the Air Assault Division who were forcibly demolishing the illegal buildings of the Japanese Kwantung Army, and they were in full swing, and a large number of idle and panicked guys were driving tanks around, and when they saw the adobe houses, they ran over them directly, if they were stronger. They blew it up with explosives, and they couldn't leave a house anyway. A little farther away, more soldiers are digging the railroad, dismantling the railroad tracks and loading them back to China. Chu Yunfei was extremely depressed: "I really didn't expect that the elite I trained would actually change to become a city manager!" ”

Cheng Hui smiled and didn't speak. He still doesn't know what the chengguan is, according to the supreme leader at the time, it was the most terrifying army in our country in the future, and a punch could smash through the frontal armor of the main battle tank. It is possible to throw bricks in an instant that are 100 times denser than a salvo from a rocket artillery regiment. Completely cover the enemy's assembly area, and all of them have first-class driving skills, they can drive motorcycles to intersperse at high speed on any terrain, knocking down and flying the enemy troops, knocking them out, stunning, killing them, and crashing into idiots who are inhumane. If you equip them with a submachine gun. They will be a nightmare for any enemy in street fighting...... It's quite mysterious anyway. Well. Not to mention, the air assault division really has the potential to be a city manager.

He slowly exhaled nicotine-filled smoke from the lobes of his lungs. Cheng Hui smiled bitterly: "The northern part of North Korea is about to become a no-man's land now, according to your old man's suggestion." What do you want to do when the army marches and drives the inhabitants to the south, making the south overcrowded and hungry and making it a hell on earth? ”

Chu Yunfei pounded the ground fiercely and said, "I look at that Hanoi, it's still too neat and beautiful!" Why don't we work together and bypass the 38th parallel and go straight to Incheon? ”

Cheng Hui was taken aback: "Bypass the 38th parallel and go straight to Incheon?" Don't mess around, the water is deep here, maybe your fight will disrupt the strategic deployment of the war zone! Can you afford this responsibility? ”

"Forget it, I'll just talk about it." Chu Yunfei didn't really have the guts to disobey the orders of his superiors.

"Report!" At this moment, a communications soldier hurriedly came: "The general headquarters of the attack on Korea has sent a telegram ordering the air assault division and the 7th and 9th mobile divisions to bypass the enemy's defense line, penetrate in depth, and go straight to Incheon."

"Isn't it!"

"Brother Chu, you're also perverted!"

After listening to the order, both of them exclaimed at the same time, what do they want! That's a coincidence, isn't it? Could it be that he has a heart with the commander, Chu Yunfei couldn't help but think.

Three hours later, the three mobile units of the Air Assault Division and the 7th and 9th Rapid Mobile Divisions joined forces and slaughtered towards Incheon! The two artillery regiments of the two mobile divisions, totaling 6,300 people, have become the rear of this army, and the latest 155 mm self-propelled guns and 203 mm self-propelled rocket launchers they are equipped with will be an important firepower support for the entire attack group.

Of course, the artillery of the air assault division is not weak, but there is no way to seal the throat with a sword like the artillery of the mobile division. Using air assault troops to storm the enemy's well-defended cities is the biggest waste of air assault troops, Chu Yunfei, who clearly knows this, does not plan to make any more large-scale helicopter sorties, hasn't the little devil always claimed to be the third in the infantry world? Just use two mobile divisions to train with them! Ammunition and fuel have always been plentiful, at least the draw on Inchon is not a problem, since everything is fine, then what else is there to say? Fuck it!

When the troops set off, Han Fei, the commander of the 9th Mobile Division, and Cheng Hui, the commander of the 7th Mobile Division, realized that this kid had been premeditated at all, and he had even chosen the route! With the light infantry in front and the mechanized troops behind, they advanced along a forest path that the scouts had struggled to find and barely managed to pass the tanks.

It is estimated that little Japan never dreamed that the Chinese army would dare to let the tanks pass through the woods and snow and silently insert themselves into Incheon, right? Chu Yunfei repeatedly stressed that the operation should be kept secret, and that it was not too late to provoke the scattered Japanese Kwantung Army, quietly enter the village, and shoot guns, so the entire army simply adopted radio silence, and it was not too late to contact the front commander when they arrived at Incheon.

At this time, the battlefield of the 38th parallel was still inseparable, and the Japanese Kwantung Army would rather die than take a step back, while the Chinese army was determined to win the 38th parallel.

The Kwantung Army also organized several counterattacks at any cost, all of which were crushed by the Chinese army, and the Chinese army had to pay a considerable price for every step forward. Huang Baitao was very anxious about this, because at this time, the Soviets were constantly making small moves in the Sanbei area, and the Chinese army really did not have much time to fight with the Japanese Kwantung Army in Korea, and it was necessary to end this war as soon as possible, so as to concentrate all efforts to deal with the provocation of the northern allies.

Huang Baitao has been studying in which direction to focus on breaking through in order to tear apart the concrete-like defense line of the Japanese Kwantung Army. Some people proposed to directly use the method of leapfrogging to send the entire battalion of airborne infantry to the 38th parallel, so as to give the Japanese Kwantung Army a center to blossom, but this plan was unanimously rejected by several army commanders, and there were still two divisions of the elite of the Japanese Kwantung Army north of Incheon City, which was not so easy to fight. Besides, the airborne infantry who have been using sharp knives have suffered a lot of losses, and they can't be allowed to carry out such a high-damage mission, which will hurt the vitality of the troops!

One of the most poisonous and effective ideas was the most poisonous: to gas the Japanese Kwantung Army! Anyway, the Japanese Kwantung Army did not use poison gas during its counteroffensive a few days ago, and the most we can do is to pay tribute to them, what's the big deal?

Poison gassing...... Well, you can consider that the Japanese Kwantung Army has not been attacked by chemical weapons, not this time! Huang Baitao was quite moved, but when he contacted the Imperial Ministry of Defense, he was refused. The reason was not explained by the Ministry of National Defense, and Huang Baitao only had the heart to die.

As a last resort, he had no choice but to send an air assault division, and under the cover of two mobile divisions, he followed a path that was detected by scouts and went straight to the rear of the Japanese Kwantung Army. (To be continued......)