The staff officer on duty brought a few dishes from the back kitchen and went to fetch some rice himself. brought it to the duty room and ate with Zhang Lin.

Rice is produced in Myanmar and close to Thailand, so the staple food in the army is naturally white rice. In fact, as early as when the Yunnan-Burma Highway and the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway were not completely closed, Nanjing purchased a large amount of cheap Siamese rice, which was not only used as military rations, but also used for the distribution of disaster relief grain and the stability of the market, so although the Anti-Japanese War continued, the price of rice never changed much.

Zhang Lin had just eaten a bowl of rice and was about to serve the second bowl when he heard the guard outside say, "The commander-in-chief is back." ”

Zhang Lin and the staff officer on duty glanced at each other, immediately put down the dishes and chopsticks in their hands, put the military hat on the table on their heads, and said righteously: "I'll go over first, you eat slowly." ”

When he came to Liao Yaoxiang's command post, Zhang Lin was about to go in, but the guard at the door whispered to him: "Brigade Commander Zhang, the commander-in-chief is eating, I haven't eaten a bite after a busy day today, if you don't have anything urgent, or just wait a while and then go in." ”

Zhang Lin raised his hand and looked at his watch, it was already more than one o'clock, the commander-in-chief went to the front line early in the morning, and he would have a stable meal at this time, and it was not good for him to go in again, anyway, he was not in a hurry at this time.

"Is it Zhang Lin? Come in, I happen to have something for you too. When he was at the door and was not about to go in, Liao Yaoxiang's voice came from the house.

Zhang Lin tugged on his military uniform, lifted his hat and opened the door and walked in.

Liao Yaoxiang was really eating, a big bowl of rice and a roast beef, and two side dishes, the food was not good, but the portion was sufficient.

"Have you eaten? Sit there and eat together. Liao Yaoxiang pointed to a chair next to him with chopsticks, Zhang Lin moved over and sat down, but said that he had already eaten it.

"What's the matter with me?" Liao Yaoxiang took a bite of beef and put it in his mouth, and pulled a few mouthfuls of rice, which was very fragrant.

"Commander-in-chief, yesterday we met a Japanese ......attack at a quartermaster station," Zhang Lin wanted to take this as an opportunity to say.

"Oh, I know about this, one of you brigade that killed a devil in a row, and you fought well." Liao Yaoxiang continued to eat with the dishes.

"Commander-in-chief, I also came this time with the entrustment of thousands of brothers in the whole brigade." Zhang Lin told Liao Yaoxiang one by one about his typed drafts, from the battle that happened yesterday to encircle the Japanese brigade, to the equipment and combat effectiveness level of their teaching brigade, in a word, the teaching brigade is an elite division, and it cannot be buried in the rear to be a transport brigade.

When Zhang Lin said this, he still had a complaining tone, Liao Yaoxiang listened to him while eating, and when he finished speaking, he pulled all the rice in the bowl into his mouth and asked, "Finished?" ”

"That's it!" Zhang Lin said.

"I knew you must have come in for this. I'm still saying the same thing, good steel is used on the blade, I don't mean not to use you. Liao Yaoxiang put down the dishes and chopsticks and wiped his hands with the towel handed by the orderly. Go back and let your troops and transport team handle the handover, and then go to the front line to take over the defense of Liu Fangwu's third regiment. It starts tonight, and in two days' time, your troops will be in full force in the predetermined area. ”

"Yes!" Zhang Lin leaned on his heels and shouted.

After Zhang Lin left, the staff officer on duty walked in and frowned and said, "Isn't it a little tight to let the teaching brigade reach the front line of tribute in two days." ”

"Of course, I know that. But the Japanese army has launched an attack on the whole line of Tonggu, and the battle on Dai Anlan's side has begun, I think this guy Mu Tian will definitely join forces inside and outside, and his troops will definitely break through in the direction of Tonggu, if they can't get ahead of them, once the devil tears open, the consequences will be unimaginable. Liao Yaoxiang said, his brows furrowed.

……

As Liao Yaoxiang said, on the night he said this, the 3rd Regiment stationed in the southwest of Dagong was fiercely attacked by the Japanese army.

The commander of the 3rd Regiment is Liu Fangwu, the famous journalist Capa and Su Hui's "Oriental Cowboy" is indeed an excellent commander. More than a month ago, he led his troops to defeat several times the number of Japanese troops in Ringanqiang, completing the feat of rescuing 7,000 British troops.

The 3rd Regiment gave full play to its expertise in mobile warfare along the way, opened a straggler line from the periphery of Dagon, relied on the superiority of mechanized equipment to attack, and under the cover of artillery and air force, the 114th Wing, which was rushing all the way, had no power to parry, and could only retreat to the back mountain.

Next, due to many restrictions such as jungle terrain, it was difficult for the 3rd Regiment to give full play to its mechanized advantages, and they could only build a defensive line on the spot and fight a positional war that they were not good at.

When the Tumei detachment launched a surprise counterattack in the middle of the night, the officers and men of the 3rd Regiment could only respond in a hurry, and although they repelled the attack of the Tumei detachment, they inflicted a lot of casualties on themselves.

Liao Yaoxiang had already thought of this, so he had to send the teaching brigade over to replace the 3rd regiment, which had been fighting fiercely for many days.

Liu Fangwu had already received the news that the Teaching Brigade was coming to replace them, but they had to hold on for another day no matter what they said, and it would take at least a day before the Teaching Brigade could reach its position and completely take over the defensive line, and this day was a fierce battle for Liu Fangwu.

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Liu Fangwu felt that it was a vicious battle, and the Japanese army was not easy. Because it was besieged in the back mountains, the supply line was cut off by the expeditionary force, and the supply of the entire army became a problem. Yesterday, the Yangon command was contacted, and Commander Shozo Kawabe promised that an air team would be sent for an airdrop today.

In the morning, as Kawabe Shozo said, the airdrop plane formation flew over, and the troops on the ground also placed signs on the ground for airdropping in accordance with the previous agreement.

However, before these planes could reach their intended targets, the damned group of planes of the Sino-American United Air Force also took off.

Standing at the Sky Observation Post, Mutaguchi Ryoya saw a group of jetty fighters spitting dark green coming from the direction of Tongko, and the fuselage of these planes was painted with tigers with wings in their wings, and the nose of the cockpit was painted like shark teeth.

These guys lined up in a three-three formation, and rushed into the group of airdropped planes as if they were desperate. The planes of the Japanese Air Force, which were serving as escorts for the transport planes, were not afraid and immediately rushed towards the group of enemy planes with full speed.

Dozens of fighters from both sides fought together, and the sky seemed to be intertwined with a flock of war eagles, and the sound of Tata Tower's cannons was incessant, and the P-40 planes of the air force immediately dived after climbing, and the cannons under the bloody mouths spat tongues of fire, and in a short time several Japanese planes exploded in the air.

The Chinese planes gradually grasped the advantage on the battlefield, and the Japanese escort formations were either shot down or disappeared after being pursued, and the formation was completely chaotic.

"What stupidity!" Mutaguchi Ryoya, who was watching the battle, angrily smashed his fist on the handrail in front of him, and it was hard to imagine that now he was fighting with the Chinese army, and he would still be worried about their air raids.

Next, the plane formation of the Sino-US Joint Air Force began to rush towards the unsuspecting transport plane formation, and these big-bellied transport planes fled in the desert, which eventually caused these death-scared guys to hurriedly drop supplies at a high altitude and immediately return.

The air currents in the air blew supplies everywhere, some of them on the positions of the expeditionary force, and the Japanese were able to obtain only a very small part of the supplies left.

Compared with the needs of the huge 18th Division, this is obviously a drop in the bucket and cannot solve any problems at all.

Seeing this situation, Mutaguchi Lian also threw away the telescope in his hand and scolded angrily.

He said that when he returned, he would send the commander in charge of the airdrop to a military court, and he would be responsible for the death of countless of the Empire's outstanding samurai due to his fear of death.

But scolding and scolding, in the final analysis, Mutaguchi Lian still has to continue to command. He knew that only after breaking through the defensive line and bringing back the 18th Division intact could it be possible to hold the pilots of that group of bastard air teams accountable, otherwise, it would only be him who would be held responsible.

Mutaguchi no longer had much hope for the airdrop, and at present, he could only command the existing troops to break through as soon as possible and form a cross-offensive with the troops on the Tonggu front in order to achieve victory in the entire campaign.

He began to continue to listen to the reports of the various units on the battle situation, and the good news came from Tu Meihao's side that they had launched a tentative attack on the defense line of the Chinese army last night.

Tomihiro said to Mutaguchi Ryoya: "Your Excellency Division Commander, I hereby report to you that last night, after the frenzied attack of the Imperial warriors, we have advanced at least one kilometer. Hayi, this is only a tentative attack, and when it is repaired, we will prepare to launch a second wave of attacks, when we will tear a hole in the defense line leading to Tonggu, and our army will start from here and annihilate the troops of the Chinese army. ”

This guy Mihiro Tu babbled a lot, but Mutaguchi Ren also heard a smile on his face, and finally heard some good news. After a few words of encouragement to the other party, he also made a decision, and after the successful breakthrough of the Tumei detachment, the division headquarters also followed closely to break out.

"Inform me to prepare for tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and follow the Tumei detachment to break through in the direction of Tonggu, and the division headquarters will prepare to pull out." Mutaguchi also gave his order, and the various departments of the headquarters began to make preparations.

However, Mutaguchi Lian would never have thought that their breakthrough operation would not be so smooth, and the Tumi detachment would encounter a teaching brigade that was good at offense and defense.