"The forward unit of the 42nd Wing was attacked, three squads lost contact, and the 42nd Wing is searching for the missing squad."

"The 11th Wing was ambushed, and one of the squadrons of the forward lost contact with the rear team."

"The forward of the 21st Wing was ambushed, and the follow-up troops of the 21st Wing are engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy."

The relevant battle reports were sent one by one, and the commander of the Fifth Division, Yamamoto, carefully looked at the messages fed back by these forwards, hoping to see the enemy's next move. Suddenly, Yamamoto's eyebrows jumped, damn it, Thunder's troops are deliberately trying to attract our attention, their main force is likely to have begun to break through, and there has been no situation back to the west of the Eighteenth Division, it's not that they haven't encountered Thunder's troops, but they have no time to pass back the situation at all, because they are fighting fiercely with Thunder's main force.

Thinking of the new division commander of the 18th Division, Shinichi Tanaka, with a nasty face to look at, Yamamoto certainly did not think that the 18th Division could block the breakthrough of the main force of the Thunder. "Send a report to the military headquarters immediately, analyze the battle report, and suspect that the main force of Thunder has begun to break through, and the direction of the breakthrough is west, whether to support the defense of the 18th Division?" The original commander of the 18th Division, Mutaguchi Ryoya, was also good friends with Yamamoto, but the newcomer Tanaka Shinichi was an arrogant guy, and Yamamoto certainly didn't mind expressing in the telegram that he was not optimistic about the 18th Division.

Yamashita Fumi, who received this telegram, also received a similar forward battle report from Yamamoto, and his staff officers came to the same conclusion as Yamamoto after analysis, and they also judged that this was the Thunder's covering force actively exposing the target, and its purpose was to attract the attention of the Fifth Division, so as to achieve the purpose of covering the main force to retreat from the west to the hinterland of northern Burma. It was not surprising that Yamashita had come to such a conclusion with his staff officers, who often resorted to this trick when fighting the Chinese army on the battlefield.

The 18th Division was surrounded by Thunder's troops in Taunggyi last time and almost wiped out, although the base camp exchanged them with an armistice agreement, but with the transfer of the division commander Mutaguchi Ryoya and the arrival of the new division commander Tanaka Shinichi, the combat strength of the 18th Division began to decline sharply. Yamashita Fengwen looked at the current 18th Division and was almost the same level as those second-rate divisions, if it weren't for the fact that the 18th Division was the unit he had commanded before, Yamashita Fengwen would not have let them stay in the 25th Army this time.

To save or not to save, Yamashita Fengwen also thought about it repeatedly in his heart, he had read all the information about Lei Ting and Zhao Zhi, although the information collected by the special high class was a little small, but Yamashita Fengwen already had a general understanding of his opponent Zhao Zhi. Zhao Zhi looks like a righteous and awe-inspiring patriot, but in fact he is an opportunist, a careerist who wants to use the war to speculate, otherwise how could he suddenly leave Shanxi and go south to Burma when the Nationalist Government is expected to recover Shanxi, because he has a fancy to this place in Burma, plus he also has the title of Duke of England, Zhao Zhi has actually become the ruler of Burma.

Yamashita had to admit that Thunder's combat power far exceeded that of any Japanese army, and since Thunder fought in Shanxi, there has never been a defeat, including the last time 6 divisions besieged Burma, Thunder fought a classic battle. But one mountain does not tolerate two tigers This is an old Chinese saying, Yamashita Fengwen is to meet Zhao Zhi, who will be said by everyone, he wants to see what kind of person this speculator is.

"Order, the 42nd Wing and the 11th Wing of the Fifth Division immediately turn to the west to support the 18th Division to block the enemy, and the 21st Wing to the east continue to advance according to the original plan, and must not let the Thunder troops escape." For the sake of this encirclement operation, Yamashita Fengwen mobilized a large number of troops, frequently making false appearances to confuse the opponent, and now it is the harvest season, and Yamashita Fengfu must not watch his carefully planned actions be negligent.

The 42nd Wing of the 5th Division attacked in the direction of the north and the 11th Wing was on the south side during the encirclement operation, which were the two closest units to the 18th Division, and Yamashita made the decision that the 42nd Wing and the 11th Wing would support the 18th Division and the 21st Wing to continue the original operation was not as simple as a whim, because the 21st Wing, which was attacking from the east, was the most powerful wing in the 5th Division. If the main force of the Thunder did not flee from the western flank of the 18th Division's defense, then the 21st Wing, attacking from the east, would be the last hope for Yamashita to intercept the main force of the Thunder.

Yamashita Fengwen had read a lot of books on the Chinese art of war, and knew that the Chinese were not only good at bluffing, but also good at striking the east and the west, and in his subconscious flashed the idea that Thunder might strike the east, but all the situations in front of him showed that the main force of Thunder was missing. More importantly, just now, a telegram came from the XVIII Division, which was defending the western flank, that they were being attacked by more than 4000 enemies. The reason why the 25th Army mobilized the masses to make such an encirclement operation was mainly because they saw the transport planes and those umbrella flowers that frequently appeared here, and they judged that the number of enemy troops who parachuted into this area should be about 5,000.

The wings of the Fifth Division in three directions were all subjected to premeditated ambushes and attacks, which required a lot of troops from the other side to complete, and it is reasonable to say that the 18th Division was attacked by more than 4,000 enemy troops. If it weren't for this telegram from the 18th Division, perhaps Yamashita would not have been able to make the decision to mobilize two wings to support the 18th Division, precisely because he believed that the combat effectiveness of the 18th Division had declined, and it was precisely because he could not watch his carefully planned operation fail that he would have made such a decision.

"Sir, they have been tricked, the 42nd Wing and the 11th Wing have received orders to support the 18th Division, and it is estimated that they will be issuing orders to the troops below." Yamashita Fengwen's order was successfully intercepted by the telegraph soldiers in the airborne landing field, and the translated telegram was sent to Zhao Zhi, and the telecommunications corps who received the telegram was reporting the matter to Zhao Zhi.

"Order Tang Lei and them to move closer to us immediately, it's time to fish in troubled waters." The Japanese finally moved, which was consistent with Zhao Zhi's inference, and after continuing to attack many forward units of the Fifth Division, Yamashita finally reacted. Although Zhao Zhi's original intention was not to increase the difficulty of the breakthrough troops commanded by Yan Wudao, he successfully mobilized the troops of the Fifth Division, which was already a big achievement, and Zhao Zhi now wants to further expand this achievement, and he intends to fish in troubled waters.

Like the team commanded by Zhao Zhi, Tang Lei and the others also got a considerable amount of Japanese military uniforms and equipment, plus the mercenaries basically speak Japanese, it is difficult to distinguish the difference between them and the real Japanese army if they are not interested. In order to search for the enemy troops hidden here, the 42nd Wing and the 11th Wing had already disrupted their troops, and most of the Japanese troops scattered in the jungle and mountains were in the form of squadrons or squads.

The large-scale mobilization of Japanese troops gave Zhao Zhi an opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity, and the Japanese troops scattered in the mountains had the opportunity to become Zhao Zhi's target, and in the case of equal forces, the mercenaries commanded by Zhao Zhi could annihilate all the Japanese troops they encountered. What's more, Zhao Zhi also hid no less than one mercenary squadron of the Japanese army on the flank, and when Zhao Zhi pretended to be a Japanese soldier and they moved, these mercenaries hidden in the shadows would become a warning force to provide peripheral vigilance for Zhao Zhi and them.

Zhao Zhi, who was wearing the uniform of the Japanese army, marched swaggering in the mountains with the formation of the Japanese squadron, and the extra mercenaries carried their American-style equipment to advance covertly on the flank, just in just one hour, Zhao Zhi and they encountered three Japanese squads, and these three Japanese squads that were returning to the establishment without exception became Zhao Zhi's ghosts under their guns. Hiding the captured Japanese-style weapons and equipment, Zhao Zhi and the others dragged the corpse into the dense forest, and the bullet holes on the corpse were all caused by American-style weapons, which obviously had nothing to do with Zhao Zhi, who was wearing a Japanese military uniform and carrying Japanese-style weapons on his shoulder.

Continued to encounter the opponent's attack, but could not find any trace of the enemy, which made Yamamoto, who was in charge of the Fifth Division, a little annoyed, in the Japanese army has been rumored that the Thunder troops have come and gone without a trace, is a difficult opponent to deal with, this time Yamamoto can be regarded as a real witness to the Thunder's cunning methods. However, the Fifth Division was a division with great achievements, and Yamamoto would be frightened by the small movements of the thunder, and after receiving another report of the attack on the troops, Yamamoto quickly made deployments, slowing down the westward movement of the 42nd Wing and the 11th Wing, and ordering the 21st Wing to speed up in the east, and he wanted to squeeze the living space of the Thunder troops.

Yamamoto did not know that Zhao Zhi had mastered their code book, all the telegrams sent by the 25th Army Headquarters and the Fifth Division, Zhao Zhi had the translated text at hand, and in front of Zhao Zhi, any deployment made by the Japanese army using the radio was transparent. "Well, since the 42nd and 11th wings don't want to move, then we'll ask them to speed up." The Japanese army is very strict in the execution of the orders of the superiors, since the command of the 5th Division issued such an order, the 42nd Wing and the 11th Wing will definitely do it, but Zhao Zhi does not want this, he wants the Japanese army to move.

If the Japanese army retreats or slows down, their scattered troops will regroup, and Zhao Zhi does not want to see this happen, because once the Japanese army begins to regroup, they will become as invulnerable as an iron plate. Zhao Zhi's fishing in troubled waters requires a chaotic situation, the more frequent the Japanese troops are mobilized, the more opportunities Zhao Zhi will have, and the opposite situation will only cause them passivity and disadvantage.