"On what basis?" Kimura asked, both expectant and suspicious of the newcomer. Someone reported to him that this guy Kinoshita was chattering.

"Basis, the last time he sat on a liaison plane to go to the battlefield in person, we overheard it." Kinoshita turned to Suzuki, who nodded again.

"What does that mean?" Kimura felt a little baffled.

"I can't seem to explain anything, but I have a strong feeling that this man fights and relies heavily on front-line intelligence. He had to see the enemy with his own eyes, not the reports from the front, and if it wasn't such a person, why would he risk flying over the war zone? ”

"If so, does that mean he's a brave general?" Kimura's answer suggests that he didn't understand Kinoshita's hints too much.

"I don't think so. It's just that I think he will definitely cross the Qingdun River and observe the retreat of our army on the front line. It's in his nature. ”

"In that case, be bold and do it. Killing him is at least very useful for propaganda, the military stations along the Qingdun River, and a lot of supplies, are left for your second mixed brigade, if you can't break the enemy, burn them all. "Kimura's deployment shows that he has no bottom up on winning.

"Sir, with my second brigade alone, I'm afraid there are not enough soldiers and need some powerful reinforcements."

"As you can see now, the 49th Division has to defend hundreds of kilometers of coast to prevent the enemy from establishing landing sites on the seashore, and there are no troops here. Soon the command will also be withdrawn from Sittwe East to Mandalay. ”

"I don't need a very large army, I just need a strong army that is good at jungle warfare. There are too many recruits in the 49th Division, and it is not suitable," Kinoshita said step by step, after all, he was engaged in intelligence and knew the cards hidden in the hands of his superiors.

"Since there are black troops as internal responses, this battle is very important......," Kimura stammered, looking reluctant, "In that case, I will give you the elite troops newly transferred by the chief of the temple, and you will dispatch them."

"Which troop?" Kinoshita asked knowingly.

"Last month, in Guinea, we successfully used night attack tactics to annihilate the Ichiki detachment of a regiment of the 1st Marine Division of the United States."

"Is it Kazuki's troops? Great, I worked with him when I was in China. The battle against Wanping was remarkable. It's a tenacious guy. ”

"Of course, the guy at Yamashita said that he was the man who could make the most of the advantages of the Imperial Army's jungle warfare and night warfare. It's a pity that he didn't graduate from Lu University, otherwise he would have been able to return to teaching. ”

500 kilometers away, Lin Xiuxuan sat on the rubber boat hard, crossed the river with Zhao Xiaoli's vigilant troops, why bother to win with a bandage on his head, crying and waving on the shore to see him off, Chu Tingchang didn't like this feeling of bottomlessness, and all the problems could be solved by crossing the river? Not necessarily.

He glanced at the brightly lit construction sites on both sides of the river, the US military was working day and night, building pontoon bridges, they adopted the way of working on both sides of the river, and they were about to close in the middle of the river, which made him feel a little relieved, these are not pontoon bridges built by requisitioning civilian ships, they are built with pontoon tanks, the reserve buoyancy is sufficient, and the pontoon bridge with strong resistance to water flow, if the two are combined, it can be passed by trucks and Stewart tanks.

At present, Chu's infantry has lost the ability to mechanize and march, but there are still many heavy weapons to deter the enemy, including medium and light tanks, but unfortunately the sea cannot cross the river. There was also an American film crew that crossed the river with him, and for the 200th Division, it was customary to follow the American team every time it was fighting, and the soldiers were already very good at posing for some fake scenes under the director's command.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly, and in less than 48 hours, the tanks would be able to cross the river and establish a solid bridgehead, and there was no sign that the enemy could play tricks. At present, Chu's total strength is close to 20,000. The reserve force is abundant and growing. It's a pity that this time I returned to northern Myanmar with only about 450 people for the time being, not because of the lack of ability to cross the river, but because of the limit of the Americans' airdrop.

Lin Xiuxuan's preservation of the entire Songshan as an important chess piece in the overall situation of the counteroffensive has already made the Japanese suffer a lot, but in China, there are many critics. I felt that this place delayed too many US military transport flights every day, and I knew that I should withdraw to the east bank of the Nu River, so that more weapons would be delivered.

After crossing the river, Chief Chu immediately headed towards the temporary headquarters, followed by a group of soldiers carrying communication equipment, some of whom carried Guan Yu's wooden statue. Originally, there were too many supplies to bring, and he was going to let the US military airdrop Master Guan the next day, but Zhao Xiaoli refused to live or die, and he must free up valuable manpower to carry it, not to say that the airdrop was disrespectful to Master Guan.

From now on, no one will have jeeps to sit in, not even horses. Combat experience showed that mules were far more useful than horses in this region, but the British gave priority to mountain mules from North India to Slim's army. During the last battle, Wingate lost the mules of the Nine Cities, some of them died of exhaustion, and some of them escaped from the air raids.

Although it seems that the enemy is fleeing in the wilderness, the 31st Division may not be able to escape back alive in the end, and the second division should be reduced by nearly half; It's just that the second mixed brigade appeared again, and it fought with Xu Chong's troops a few times, which is really strange. Lin Xiuxuan was most worried about the appearance of this unit, because he had always been a little afraid of Ying Zuo Zhenzhao, Chu Tingchang had never suffered any big losses from Ying Zuo, but he was far more cautious than Lin Xiuxuan.

After the establishment of the headquarters, he immediately started to contact the front, and at present, Ma Qiang is 40 kilometers south with a platoon, monitoring the highway border guard troops, and cannot be called; Xu Chong's troops were to the east. At present, the troops crossing the river are divided into several lumps, which seems to be a mess, and the mountain people in this area are mostly Kachin and used to support the British, but the Mon and Burmese on the plains are difficult to say. If Qin Xiaosu is here, he can monitor the movements of nearby enemy radio stations and grasp the telegrams of enemy spies, but now this advantage is gone. He scattered his troops so that the enemy spies would not find their main forces at once. He predicts that the pontoon bridge will be repaired within two days, and then there will be a bottom. Watching those Americans do their work really itched in his heart, on the surface he had been working, but he was so clumsy that every time he made a mistake in the installation of large pieces, he needed to stop and rework, which showed that the training was very inadequate, and there was no concept of hostility at all.

At this time, Ma Qiang, who was closest to the enemy, broke away from the small unit and went out to reconnoiter alone. Leaving other people is for the purpose of using night vision devices. The moonlight is good today, and with low-light night vision, you can clearly see the vigilant animals walking around in the forest, which is superior to thermal imagers. He likes low-light night vision, sees more depth, and doesn't need to cool the equipment and has less electricity. Battery charging is a big problem now.

He alone monitored the road to the south, where the Japanese retreated and left one last post, about a small squad of troops.

Sure enough, in the second half of the night, two trucks approached in the distance. It stopped in front of the outpost, and there were a lot of people getting out of the car, it didn't look like they were here to change guards, and they couldn't see the clothes of these people clearly, but they could see that they were carrying some British*, so they were not ordinary Japanese soldiers, and they were probably special forces carrying out infiltration missions.

These people carried a lot of things with them, which he guessed might be * and the radio. After the group dispersed, they did not continue on the road, but dispersed along the mountain. Ma Qiang has no skills and can only keep up with one of the trios along the way. Now there are no drones in the air, otherwise it would not be difficult to keep an eye on all these people.

He was very close to the men from the rear with his night vision devices, and he could hear that they were speaking Burmese. He crept up and drew his dagger, slicing the neck of the last man in the group at once. He locked up his opponent and waited for him to struggle a few times to stop moving, then threw down the corpse and chased after him, eliminating the two in front of him with *.

Having done it all cleanly, he began to inspect the men's belongings. As he expected, *and* and the radio station were discovered. In addition, some gold bars were turned out, and it seems that they are going to buy the locals again? He was a little strange, when the Japanese army occupied this place, he didn't buy it, so he had to wait until now? He went back to the first corpse and pulled out a notebook, which was densely packed with something, Burmese letters on one side and contrasting English on the other, it looked like this guy was learning English in his spare time? Shouldn't they learn Japanese? His reaction was not as fast as Lin Xiuxuan's, and he finally realized that this was not a foreign language study note, but English marked in Burmese, which was used for impromptu conversations. That said, they might need some simple English conversation on this mission. The English sentences in the notebook are very simple, such as: sir, thisway.

He lost his notes and continued to look through them to find a few passports. He looked through Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, all of which were neutral countries in Central and South America. The passport may have been forged with a name on it, but there was no photograph.

Why do these unbeatable national passports appear here? Why do these Burmese, who hate the British the most, simply communicate with English speakers?

He didn't understand the connection for a while, but he sensed something strange, he decided to leave the problem to Chu Tingchang to think about for himself, and immediately returned to the team monitoring the highway for a while, and found that the radio station he carried could not go back to the rear to contact, and it seemed that the distance was still far away, so he could only withdraw one after another, find a commanding height to see if the communication could be restored.

Colonel Jennings of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had just arrived at the construction site, and because Chief Chu Tingchang had sent six telegrams a day urging him to supervise the construction, he was eager to catch up with his old friend Chief Chu Ting, who had talked for a while on the plane from Lido to Calcutta, and had met several times later at military meetings. Unfortunately, Chu Tingchang crossed the river two hours early.

He immediately inspected the construction site and found that Commander Chu Ting's telegram complained that his troops' grinding of foreign workers was not groundless, and on the surface the troops were working day and night, but there were few people on the construction site, and several company platoon commanders did not know where to go.

He ordered the officers to be called at once, and he wanted to ask why the bridge, which had been scheduled to be completed two days earlier, had not been closed until now, and that some of the equipment had clearly been reversed.