Soon, the secretary of the British Governor in Burma, Sir Smith, caught up with Yue Weihan.

However, Smith's secretary was not a woman, but a man in his early thirties, this guy was named Cruise, with oily blonde hair, flies would probably slip when they stopped on it, and there was a face full of twitching, even facing Yue Weihan, his chin was high, and his eyes looked like a noble king looking down on his ass.

Cruise brought with him a guard, small in number but well equipped.

In addition, there is a beautiful British woman accompanying her, this woman has flaxen-colored shawl hair, a pair of blue eyes, a tall figure, and Western women's unique breasts and fat buttocks, the slender water snake waist, and the sharply expanded hip curve below can always easily provoke the most primitive ** in the man's heart.

The British woman's name was Avril, a war correspondent for the British news agency Reuters in Myanmar.

"Hey, are you Yue Weihan, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Force?" Cruise asked in a contemptuous tone.

Yue Weihan's sharp gaze swept over Avril's plump buttocks, and then glanced at Cruise coldly, and then got into the jeep without saying a word, Chu Zhongtian immediately slammed the accelerator, and the jeep suddenly rushed forward frantically in a huge roar, and the rolling smoke and dust and car exhaust suddenly smoked Cruise's face.

“**！” Kruseton was furious, "It's so rude, it's a barbarian!" ”

"Mr. Cruise, before you accuse others, it's best to first learn how to be polite!" Luo Youlun glanced at Cruise coldly, and then boarded his jeep as well.

Seeing Luo Youlun's jeep depart, Cruise cursed, "A bunch of impudent pariahs, China pigs! ”

The attendant standing next to him suddenly gently pulled Cruise's clothes, Cruise frowned, and was about to reprimand his attendant loudly, but the curse words that spit out to his mouth were swallowed back into his stomach, because Cruise suddenly found that a group of Chinese soldiers passing nearby had stopped at some point, and they were staring at him with cold eyes.

Catching up with the cold eyes of the Chinese soldiers, Cruise suddenly shivered violently, this is definitely a group of outlaws who can't be provoked! At this moment, Cruise had no doubt that as soon as half a word of insult came out of his mouth, these Chinese soldiers would definitely not hesitate to pounce on him and stab him into a bloody sieve with the sharp bayonets in their hands.

Cruise's guards were also nervous, but none of them dared to raise their submachine guns.

Avril, a Reuters war correspondent stationed in Myanmar, lost no time in raising her camera and pressing the shutter one after another, freezing the grim expressions of this group of Chinese soldiers forever, and a few weeks later, one of the photos was published on the front page of a well-known British newspaper, with the headline: Never provoke the Chinese!

………… Just when Yue Weihan led the 200th Division, the new 22nd Division, and the troops directly under the Fifth Army to rush south along the Manmi Railway, the Sixth Army had already exchanged fire with the 55th and 56th Divisions of the Yue Army, which were rushing back to help, and the battle entered a white-hot battle from the very beginning, and the city-effective airport became the focus of repeated contention between the two armies!

Having lost air supremacy on the battlefield, the army resolutely innovated its tactics.

In the North China battlefield, in order to avoid being bombed by the military aviation, Yue Weihan's troops generally only operate at night, and the commander of the 55th Division, Takeuchi Kuan, and the commander of the 56th Division, Watanabe Masao, have both served in North China, and in view of the threat of the Flying Tigers, both of them shamelessly became Yue Weihan's students.

This posed a great threat to the Sixth Army, which was not good at night fighting.

After ten days of fierce fighting, the Sixth Army had already suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, and the 49th Division that held the Mandalay Airport had already suffered more than half of the casualties! Due to the rush of time and the lack of time to build strong fortifications, the officers and men of the Sixth Army were almost using their flesh and blood to resist the crazy attack of the steel torrent of the Japanese army!

………… Mandalay Airport, 146 Company of the 9th Regiment.

As the sun set in the west, the afterglow of the setting sun spilled into the trenches, dyeing the deep water golden.

The young senior soldier was leaning on the trench and playing the lock song mercilessly, the poignant and tactful tune floated over the battlefield, lingering, although many officers and soldiers were still in their dreams, they were still weeping, the old mother was worried in the rear, and the wife and children were looking forward to it at home, but they had to fight with the enemy in a foreign land thousands of miles away!

She silently stood by the side of the senior soldier, staring intently at the senior soldier, who was the hygienist of the 9th Company.

Except for the company commander and deputy company commander, no one knew her name, but she was really beautiful, with a pair of big eyes that seemed to be able to speak, she had just been sent to the 9th Company from the field hospital of the division headquarters three days ago, and the day she went to the position, all the officers and men of the 9th Company felt the restlessness in their hearts, especially those who had families.

She had beautiful hair tied into a ponytail with a strip of red cloth.

Soon, she had a unique name, and the officers and soldiers of the 9th Company called her "Red Cloth Strip".

During the day, when the devils did not attack, all the officers and soldiers of the 9th Company wanted to talk to the "red cloth strip", even if it was a pleasure to just listen to her voice, but she was only willing to stay with the senior soldier, who was mute, but he blew a beautiful lock and blew to the place of complaint, which could really make people cry.

With the poignant sound of locks, the sun finally set and the night fell.

There was no rallying cry, and no one shouted, but the officers and men of the 9th Company, who were still asleep just now, woke up almost at the same time, and then sat up from knee-deep water.

The sound of the lock finally stopped, and the senior soldier carefully wrapped the red cloth strip tied on the lock, and then pinned the lock na to his belt, and a sharp-eyed soldier suddenly noticed that the red cloth strip knotted on the lock of the senior soldier seemed to be similar to the red cloth strip on the head of the "red cloth strip".

At this time, the red cloth strip was also silently sorting out her first-aid kit, but there was really not much medicine in the first-aid kit, and there was only one bag of plasma, two bandages, and six injections of morphine, which was aided by the United States, and its only effect was to reduce the pain of the seriously injured and helpless soldier before he died.

"Woohoo!" Suddenly, there were three piercing screams from the sky.

The officers and men of the 9th Company were calm as usual, and this was only a test firing of the artillery of the Japanese army.

"Boom!" A shell landed on the outer edge of the trench, and the huge explosion splashed a large amount of mud, but the second lieutenant [***], who was sitting not far away, didn't even jump his eyelids, but just snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand for a long time, and then picked up the military kettle next to him, unscrewed the lid of the kettle and wiped off the muddy water on the side of the spout, and suddenly poured a big mouthful.

After a short silence, the large-scale shelling of the field artillery of the Japanese army finally began!

The officers and men of the 9th Company, who had just been expressionless, plunged into knee-deep water, and the officers and men of the 9th Company, who were still wiping their bayonets or loading bullets, also fell into the trenches at the fastest speed, and all of a sudden, dozens of shells had fallen on the position of the 9th Company, and then there was a deafening explosion...... "red cloth" sorted out the medicine box, and was about to find a place to hide, when a short scream suddenly fell from the sky.

Seeing this, the senior soldier did not hesitate to pounce and threw the "red cloth strip" into the turbid water.

Half an hour later, the artillery bombardment of the Japanese army finally stopped, and the "red cloth" struggled to sit up from the muddy water, and when he turned his head to look, he saw that the senior soldier was already leaning weakly against the wall of the trench, his face was very pale, and the red cloth strip hurriedly stepped forward to check the back of the senior soldier, and sure enough, he found a huge gap, and blood was gushing out of the wound like a fountain!

Because of the massive loss of color, the face of the senior soldier is becoming more and more pale, and it will definitely be over without blood transfusion.

"Red Cloth Strip" hurriedly opened the medicine box and took out the only bag of plasma, but at this moment, there was a sudden sound of hurried and chaotic footsteps in front of him, and when "Red Cloth Strip" turned his head sharply, he saw four officers and soldiers rushing towards him carrying a stretcher, and the leading second lieutenant officer shouted: "Red Cloth Strip, quickly, the company commander is injured, give the company commander a blood transfusion!" ”

The red cloth strip's hands holding the plasma trembled slightly, and the expression on his face suddenly became extremely sad.

Looking back, the senior soldier's face became more and more pale, but his consciousness was still very clear, just looking at the red cloth strip and laughing miserably, the [***] second lieutenant over there was urging loudly again, the red cloth strip gritted his teeth, and walked to the company commander who was also seriously injured with the only bag of plasma and blood transfusion needles.

After hurriedly giving the company commander the needle, the four officers and men lifted the stretcher and went straight to the field hospital of the division headquarters.

Red Cloth Strip returned to the senior soldier with a sad face, and then took out a morphine injection from the first aid kit with trembling hands, the only bag of plasma has been given to the company commander, the senior soldier has absolutely no chance of survival, the only thing Red Cloth Strip can do is to give him a morphine injection, so that he can minimize the pain before death.

The superior shook his head, then pouted behind the red strip of cloth.

When the red cloth strip turned his head to look, he saw an explosive bag quietly placed not far behind him.

At this time, the infantry of the Yue Army had already begun to attack, and by the light of the fires that exploded from time to time on the battlefield, it could be clearly seen that a Yue Army tank was guiding about 100 devil soldiers, and was rushing towards the position of the 9th Company.

In an instant, the red cloth strip understood the meaning of the superior soldier, and he wanted to die with the tanks of the army.

Large tears suddenly slipped down from the beautiful eyes of the red cloth, she looked at the senior soldier mournfully, just shook her head vigorously, but the senior soldier suddenly miraculously regained his strength, dodged around the red cloth, grabbed the explosive bag, and jumped out of the trench, rushing towards the army tank hundreds of meters away.

However, the senior soldier had only run more than a dozen meters before a bullet pierced his knees.

The superior soldier did not give up, and his legs could not walk, so he crawled with his hands, gritted his teeth, and crawled forward on the bloody road.

The red cloth fell like tears, and immediately rushed out of the trench, picked up the senior soldiers, and stumbled towards the tank!

When the deputy company commander who took over the command and the officers and men of the 9th Company found out, the two men had already rushed out of the trench far away, and they were only less than 20 meters away from the Japanese tank that had been crushed by rampage.

After the huge explosion, the tank of the army lay down, and the position of the 9th company was saved!

After dawn, the officers and men of the 9th Company searched for a long time on the battlefield, but only found two strips of red cloth.

The deputy company commander who was responsible for collecting the relics of the fallen officers and soldiers inadvertently found that the two red cloth strips were actually embroidered with words, and the two red cloth strips were spread out together, and it turned out to be a complete red embroidered handkerchief, which was embroidered with a yellow ribbon with a line of silk in italic characters: Life with the same coffin, death with the coffin, to the love Lang Chu Dakui, the signature is Zhang Jingqiu.

The deputy company commander's heart trembled suddenly, he knew the name of the red cloth strip, and her name was Zhang Jingqiu.

Chu Dakui's name is not unfamiliar to the deputy company commander, he is the senior soldier, the locker of the 9th Company, oh my God, they are actually a couple! No one thought that the red cloth strip and the senior soldier turned out to be a loving couple!

What a life with the same life, death with the same coffin, the deputy company commander muttered, unconsciously burst into tears.

After a long time, the deputy company commander shouted hoarsely: "Brothers, find them all for me, and when you die, you have to find the bones of the two of them, and then buy them a good coffin, we must fulfill this last wish, life, let them be together, and death, let them die together!" ”

………… Along the Irrawaddy River, the Provisional Headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

Yue Weihan was anxiously pacing back and forth in the war room with his hands behind his back.

The Sixth Army has been fighting fiercely with the Yue army in Mandalay for ten days, and under the tidal offensive of the two master regiments of the Yue army, the Sixth Army has already suffered more than half of the casualties, and the defense line has been precarious, but at this critical juncture, the main force of the Fifth Army can only hold on to the west bank of the Irrawaddy River, because the Yue army has blown up the railway bridge over the river first.

If you take a detour, you can only go back the same way and cross the river from Menggong, which is not realistic, and it is absolutely too late in time.

The 14th Air Force of the United States Air Force, adapted from the Flying Tigers, dispatched almost all of its transport planes and is urgently dropping bridge-building equipment from Calcutta, India, but it will take at least 10 days for the equipment to arrive and the pontoon bridge to be erected, and if the 55th Division of the Army obstructs the Allied engineers from building the bridge at any cost, the time will be extended.

That is, the Sixth Army will hold out for at least another ten days in Mandalay!

More than half of the Sixth Army has already been killed or wounded, and the officers and men are already close to the limit both mentally and physically, can they still hold on?

Suddenly, Yue Weihan suddenly paused, turned back to Chu Zhongtian and shouted, "Prepare the car, go back to Myitkyina!" ”

"Boss, you want to go back to Myitkyina?" Luo Zhuoying was stunned and said, "At this fateful juncture? ”

"Yes, back to Myitkyina!" Yue Weihan said in a deep voice, "Then fly straight to Mandalay, I will live and die with the Sixth Army!" ”

"Huh? Direct flight to Mandalay!? Luo Zhuoying was shocked when she heard this, and Dai Anlan, Liao Yaoxiang and other generals were also shocked.

Not far away, Reuters war correspondent Avril could not help but have a strange color in his beautiful eyes: Mandalay is about to be lost, but this guy is going to Mandalay to live and die with the Sixth Army? What does he want to do? Inspire the morale of the officers and men of the 6th with their own actions? Or stupidly go to death?

(To be continued)