That night, Yue Weihan, who had just finished dinner, urgently summoned Liu Yi, Cao Xinglong, Li Yulong and other henchmen to the headquarters, although Luo Youlun, Dai Anlan, Liao Yaoxiang and Sun Liren and other senior generals of the expeditionary force had gradually integrated into Yue Weihan's system, but at the critical moment, Yue Weihan obviously trusted his old subordinates more.

However, when Yue Weihan told him what he was going to do, Liu Yi and the others immediately blew up.

"What, airborne Manila!?"

"Soza, you can't be serious, are you!?"

"Didn't you mean landing in Bangkok? How did you cross the South China Sea and parachute into Luzon in one fell swoop? ”

Seeing that Liu Yi and the others obviously couldn't accept this idea, Yue Weihan suddenly frowned, and said angrily: "What are you yelling about?" What's yelling? I'm going to talk to a few of you about something, and you're going to bring me this? A bit of a construction surname opinion no? If you really can't think of it, get the hell out of me. ”

Liu Yi and the others immediately fell silent.

Cao Xinglong walked to the map, picked up the ruler and drew it for a long time, before he said in a deep voice: "The straight-line distance between Yangon and Manila is about 2,500 kilometers, while the range of the Allied DC-3 transport aircraft is 2,600 kilometers. ”

"Airborne is not a problem, the question is how to come back after airborne?" Li Yulong said, "The distance between Yangon and Manila is close to the limit range of the DC-3 transport aircraft, and in this case, it is impossible for the transport planes carrying the special operations brigade and the fighters escorting the aircraft to return from Manila. ”

"His grandmother." Chi Chengfeng said, "The key question is, what are you going to Manila for?" ”

Liu Yi and the others' eyes turned to Yue Weihan, yes, what are you doing in Manila?

"Help!" Yue Weihan nodded, and said in a deep voice, "Go and save a beautiful [***] team, or save someone!" ”

"Boss, what do you say?" Chi Chengfeng almost jumped up when he heard this, and hissed, "His grandmother's, let the special operations brigade take the risk of going to Manila and not returning, just for a Yankee!?" ”

Liu Yi and others were also full of shock, all along, Yue Weihan did not buy the accounts of Westerners, in the Songhu battlefield, Yue Weihan even showed extremely strong hostility to the British army on the other side of the new garbage bridge, but today, how can Yue Weihan go against the norm, and actually go to an American at the expense of the entire special operations brigade?

"This is no ordinary American." Yue Weihan sighed and said in a solemn tone, "This American's name is Douglas. MacArthur, whose father was a veteran, was a congressional medal in the American Civil War, and MacArthur himself served in World War I and later as chief of the general staff of the U.S. Army. ”

"In the United States, MacArthur is a legend, as a cadet, he is the most outstanding in the 100 years since the establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point, as the principal, he is the youngest since the establishment of the West Point Military Academy, do you know the status of the West Point Military Academy in the minds of American officers and soldiers? She is like the existence of the Whampoa Military Academy in the heart of [***]! ”

There was a sentence that Yue Weihan didn't say, but Liu Yi and the others vaguely heard it.

MacArthur's status in the hearts of the American people is like Yue Weihan's status in the hearts of the Chinese people!

"MacArthur may have been a great American general, but why should we save him?" Li Yulong said, "Just because the United States has donated a large amount of American equipment to China? But in fact, while the American political axe came to the aid of our ordnance, they themselves were rewarded, because we have a common enemy! ”

"You don't have to ask about this, I naturally have a reason to save people." Yue Weihan waved his hand and said, "You better hurry up and do a war game deduction, because of the need for secrecy, I can't transfer the operational staff officers of the staff department to figure out this exercise, so I can only bother a few of you, how about it, let's start?" ”

Liu Yi, Cao Xinglong and others could only look at each other and smile bitterly, and immediately began a tense war game.

Judging from the results of the exercise, it is possible to parachute into Manila, because the army has not yet installed a radar station in Southeast Asia, and Manila is far enough away from Yangon, it is impossible for the army to think that the allies will be airborne in Manila, so the probability of a successful airborne landing is as high as seventy percent.

The crux of the problem is the holding of the airfield after the successful airborne landing and the transportation of the withdrawal of US troops.

According to the information provided by Nanzao Yunzi, Manila has not many garrison troops, only one garrison brigade and less than three infantry squadrons, but less than 50 kilometers away from Manila are two field divisions, the 6th Division and the 38th Division, which are currently besieging MacArthur's American-Philippine forces on the Bataan Peninsula.

In order to rescue MacArthur and even the trapped American officers and soldiers, the Special Operations Brigade had to settle the battle within half an hour, quickly seize the Manila airport before the motorized infantry arrived, and then hold the airport for at least six hours, waiting for the second batch of Allied transport planes to airlift more reinforcements from Rangoon.

In the middle of this, the special operations brigade must fight alone, and it is impossible to get any air and ground support!

However, even if everything goes well, there is still a problem that must be solved, and that is how to solve the fuel required for the transport plane to return home.

It was said that oil was not produced in the first place, and the domestic fuel supply was already very tight, so it was absolutely impossible to hoard too much aviation fuel in Manila, and if there was not enough fuel, the Allied transport planes and fighter planes would only be able to make a one-way voyage, and MacArthur and the trapped US officers and soldiers would naturally not be able to escape.

"Fuel is not an issue." In the face of the doubts of Liu Yi and others, Yue Weihan said indifferently, "When the Yue army attacked Manila, it also used airborne troops, and the US troops in the Philippines were caught off guard, and the combat readiness warehouse near the airport was lost at the first time, and tens of thousands of tons of aviation fuel stored in the warehouse also fell into the hands of the Yue army, and only a small half of it has been consumed until now!" ”

"Well, that's fine." Liu Yi smiled bitterly, "However, after the special operations brigade is airborne in Manila, it is almost impossible to airland in Bangkok, that is to say, the plan to blitz the Kingdom of Siam in the air has been aborted, and the 100,000 troops currently in the jungles of Shan State are very likely to escape." ”

"Alas, the plan to blitz Siam is indeed bankrupt." Yue Weihan sighed, and there was no regret in his heart.

However, in contrast, it is obviously more important to save MacArthur and tens of thousands of American soldiers, and then force the American political axe to carry out large-scale industrial aid to Burma, because even if the 100,000 troops in the jungle of Burma have fled back, at most it will slightly increase the difficulty for the expeditionary force to sweep through Southeast Asia, and once the industrial base of Burma is built, it will be a great achievement!

After a pause, Yue Weihan immediately said: "However, the 100,000 troops who are currently scurrying in the jungles of Shan State may not be able to escape back to Siam alive, and the primeval forests along the Shan Plateau and the Salween River are not so easy to pass through!" ”

Although the primeval jungle of the Shan Plateau is not as dangerous as the Savage Mountain in the Hukang River Valley, it is not much inferior, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force in history, except for one part of the Savage Mountain and then transferred to India, the other part of the Shan State Plateau is the Shan State Plateau, and the result is also heavy casualties, more than 40,000 people entered the mountain, and only less than 2,000 people returned alive in the end.

………… Shan State Plateau, deep in dense forests.

Ono Shaosa is leading more than a hundred devil soldiers to march forward with difficulty.

This group of devil soldiers is an infantry brigade belonging to the Guards Division of the Yue Army, when it first went to the Shan State Plateau, this infantry brigade still had nearly a thousand people, but after walking for more than half a month, there were only about 100 people left, Ono Shaozo is now completely desperate, he feels that it is difficult for his troops to get out of the jungle.

Thinking of his beautiful wife in his hometown, Ono Shaozo couldn't help but feel like a knife.

Before entering the jungle, Ono could never have imagined that the rainforest could be so dangerous.

Thick as a bucket of snakes, leopards that sneak up at night, fierce and hungry tigers, fist-sized spiders, winged leeches, and countless mosquitoes, humans enter the rainforest, and in an instant they turn from predators to prey, and they are almost powerless to fight back.

However, the worst enemy is not yet this.

The worst enemies of humanity are hunger and thirst!

The 100,000 soldiers entered the primeval jungle, and in just three days, the fresh water they carried with them was drunk, and the thirsty soldiers began to drink the dirty water in the jungle, and soon, all kinds of evil infectious diseases such as red fever, dengue fever, relapsing fever, and malaria began to spread rapidly among the army.

In normal times, such an infectious disease is nothing at all.

But in the jungle where there is a shortage of medical treatment, such an infectious disease is enough to kill!

The soldier who was infected with the vicious disease soon began to have a fever, and then vomited and discharged, and after two or three days of work, a sturdy man was left with only a skeleton of bones described as withered, and some soldiers fell down as they walked, and when the soldiers in front of them found out and looked back, they found that the soldier had already been gnawed by the swarming ants to the point that only a white bone remained.

The lack of water can at least be overcome, because even in winter, it often rains in Myanmar, and some rain can be received to quench thirst, but after seven days of entering the jungle, most of the dry food carried by the army will be eaten, and if you are thirsty, you can still receive some rain to quench your thirst.

The Shan State Plateau is a densely forested plateau with few indigenous people.

Hunt? There are a lot of wild things in the jungle, but how many are left after the 100,000 army has passed?

Basically, from the tenth day, the troops who entered the jungle in the follow-up could only starve, and the troops who walked in front even scraped and ate the bark along the way, and the tigers, leopards, pythons and other large creatures were not even visible, and from the tenth day, the non-combat attrition of the devil soldiers began to surge.

According to the demarcated marching route, Ono Shaosa's infantry brigade needed to cross the entire Shan Plateau and then cross the Salween River before entering Siam, but now, the Saarman River was not known where, and there were only more than 100 troops left.

"Poof." One of the devil soldiers was so hungry that he lost his strength, and he fell to the ground as he walked.

"You, and you, help him up, drip!" Ono Shaozuo gave an order, and immediately two devil soldiers rushed forward weakly, and picked up the devil soldier who fell to the ground, and in just a moment, there were more than a dozen ants gathered around, and after the devil soldier was helped up, he reluctantly chased for several miles.

After walking a few hundred meters forward, lightning and thunder suddenly thundered over the dense forest, and then there was a torrential rain!

In less than a moment, more than 100 devil soldiers were all drenched in soup, Ono Shaozo knew that his troops were now facing the threat of collective death, because the march was suddenly drenched by heavy rain, it was easy to catch a cold, if it was in peacetime, but in this primeval forest that lacked medical treatment, it was absolutely fatal!

Luckily, the spearhead who was exploring the path in front actually found a cave!

In addition to the guard post left outside, Ono Shaosa immediately ordered the troops to enter the cave to take shelter from the rain.

Half an hour later, the rain stopped, and the ghost soldiers who were guarding outside the cave never saw anyone come out of the cave, and they couldn't even hear any sound coming from the cave, so they went into the cave with their heads.

I saw Ono Shaosa sitting near the entrance of the cave with both hands and swords, his eyes closed, as if he was asleep.

Looking in along the entrance of the cave, I saw more than 100 devil soldiers lying on the ground, all of them were like Ono Shaoza, all of them had their eyes closed, as if they were asleep, maybe they were really asleep, because the previous continuous march was really too tired and tired, even the iron and steel couldn't stand it, not to mention the flesh and blood of human beings?

The devil soldier deliberately increased his pace, but Ono Shaoza still did not react.

Only then did the devil soldier realize that something was wrong, so he hurriedly stepped forward and reached out to probe Ono Shaozuo's snort, only to find that Ono Shaozo had already run out of gas! The devil soldiers were horrified, and when they reached out to probe the rest of the devil soldiers, they were all out of breath, and more than a hundred people died silently like this, and they didn't know how they died!

"Ghost, ghost!" The devil soldier was too frightened, and immediately went crazy, and after turning around and rushing out of the cave, he fell into a muddy pond less than a few dozen meters, and before the devil soldier got up, hundreds of leeches and ants had already swarmed, and it was only a few minutes before and after, and the ghost soldier was only left with a white bone.

Seventy years later, a Chinese expedition team found this cave in the valley of the Shan Plateau near the west bank of the Salween River when they were looking for gold mines.

With rich experience in jungle operations, the Chinese scientific expedition team quickly restored the truth of history, this should be a defeated army in the Shan Plateau during World War II, they should have entered this cave while sheltering from the rain, and then collectively died of miasma, miasma, is the real killer hidden in the tropical jungle!

(To be continued)