The only information Ma Qiang received was that in the next day or two, Wright would cross the war zone to take over the command of the CPM guerrillas under the help of the Japanese. However, the exact location and time are unknown.

Due to the lack of search capabilities of large UAVs, everything is on his own. Of course, he and Tao Mingzhang's army fought together from north to south, so he was still very familiar with the situation near the battle line.

At present, the area where the most intense fighting is on the west side of the peninsula, mainly to seize the port on the west side and prevent the Burmese front, which is still floating on the sea, from finding an ideal landing place, so if the enemy wants to carry out some secret missions, then the east side of the peninsula is a more ideal area. He needed Qin Xiaosu to detect the enemy's radio station movements and limit a general area.

Qin Xiaosu judged that the southern organs, which had been in contact with Wright, might also come here, Xu Chong had already entered Bangkok, searched the headquarters of the southern organs, and found a small number of documents that had not had time to be burned, these documents showed that the southern organs had a dispute with the temple headquarters in the past week, asking for the transfer of ships and air support troops, considering the current situation of the Japanese army, it was not possible for them to use these means outside the Malay Peninsula.

Of course, this is still trivial information, and the Southern Agency burned almost all the valuable information at the last moment of the capture of Bangkok, and there is not a single bit of information about how Makino cooperated with them, and all that is left is the news of the shipping schedule.

Huang Tianyang's troops, after occupying the palace, rushed eastward to occupy the main road. Not paying much attention to the smoky house until the next morning, 12 hours after the nominal occupation of Bangkok, when Zhou Youfu's troops entered the city, most of the valuable information had disappeared, leaving only charred ashes and seven Japanese who had committed suicide.

Chief Chu Tingchang had reason to judge that a force under the command of the southern organ might have reached the sea and would land somewhere on the east coast to launch an operation to rescue Makino. If you consider that Wright is also heading north, maybe he's going to meet Keiji Suzuki.

Based on the above judgment, Ma Qiang locked the area to Kelantan on the east coast, where the 201st Division could not cover it and the enemy could move almost freely.

He took a platoon of paratroopers in a jeep and rushed to the east while waiting for Qin Xiaosu's new clues. Although the enemy is wary of the radio, it is impossible for those subordinate troops who cooperate with the operation to know the specific situation, they will always leak some information on the radio, which is the experience of previous operations, so Ma Qiang is not worried that Qin Xiaosu will gain nothing.

His motorcade drove down dark mountain roads into the location area. Half a day earlier, a patrol of the 202nd Division had been ambushed by local forces while passing through and suffered heavy losses. This is the last area that the 201st Division can extend to, so special care must be taken. Just now, he saw bombed trucks on the side of the road that had been blown up beyond recognition, and it was clear that Japan had left the natives with some powerful British*.

Ma Qiang himself stood in the back seat of the second car, with a .30 machine gun in front of him, ready to deal with the emergency. His platoon consisted of elite soldiers from the Hongxiang Army, riding in 12 Willis Jeeps and a Dodge Jeep carrying a radio. After crossing the Thai-Malaysian border, the folk customs have changed greatly, which Ma Qiang has personally felt. The Thais were out of the war, they didn't care about the war between the allies and the Japanese, they kept their distance from anyone. The Malays hated the returning Chinese, and the large number of Chinese natives in the 201st Division and the follow-up troops made them angry and nervous, and the lost troops of the 201st Division were ambushed by these people many times, and Tao Mingzhang had no time to clean them up for the time being.

Another surprise to him was that he had just observed the destroyed trucks, which had been subjected to crossfire from all directions, which was not something that ordinary guerrillas could do, and it was clear that the ambush force was well trained, far better than most of the local forces he had observed.

In addition, he found another one that had not detonated*, *very well buried, and* surrounded by pieces of iron stained with feces. Apparently, the local forces were anti-tank*, adding fragments of anti-personnel infantry and contaminants that infected wounds. This is a method that only recently appeared in the latest textbook of the Army Nakano School. So he felt that in addition to a large number of rabble, there was also a local armed force trained by the Japanese army.

The first jeep in front of it made a sharp turn over the mountain road and suddenly braked sharply. Where the headlights shined, there were several headless corpses lying flat on the road, looking at the military uniforms, apparently from the 201st Division. It seems that the local armed forces are using the brutal method of killing the captives to warn the comers.

Ma Qiang's troops gathered the body into the car, and he ordered the driver to drive back, taking the body back and burying it by the way, while the rest of the people took their equipment and walked. Fortunately, the Malay Peninsula is very narrow from east to west, and they only have the last 30 kilometers left.

During the march, Qin Xiaosu's communication was received, and it was detected that the Japanese army was communicating intensively north of Kota Bharu, and it was obvious that there was a move. In addition, the 17th Army Hospital, which was called upon to mobilize several surgeon and intestinal doctors, was also requested to be on standby at the mouth of the Kelantan River a few hours later.

Qin Xiaosu also suggested that Ma Qiang move closer to that area, and it was obvious that there would be a team of Japanese with military doctors to cross the Kelantan River and return to the area that had been abandoned by them.

Ma Qiang led his team to the banks of the Kelantan River before dawn, but he was still not sure about the specific area where the enemy might cross the river, so he dispersed his troops into several groups to observe this section of the river that was more than ten kilometers long. Each detachment monitors a stretch of river about 5 kilometers long, and the distance between the two teams is no more than 1.5 kilometers, because this is the most reliable communication distance for Motorola walkie-talkies, although the theoretical distance of such stations exceeds this figure many times. As a traverser, Ma Qiang never wants his troops to leave him beyond the effective communication distance, which is where he has a different extensive command style from this era.

In the end, in the area near the mouth of the sea, only himself and his most trusted soldier Cheng Hong remained. He was suspicious, and the deployment was fruitless, but he saw a freighter coming from a distance.

It was a Japanese 1,500-ton river freighter, which was sometimes transported in calm offshore waters such as the Gulf of Siam. With the help of the moonlight, Ma Qiang clearly saw the string horn, which was provided by Qin Xiaosu, and was the last group of Japanese ships to leave the port when Bangkok was captured.

He carefully followed the ships, predicting from the map that they might be heading for a place of docking. Soon, the detachment that remained behind told him via walkie-talkie that it had spotted a group of local armed forces gathering on the riverbank, and had also signaled to the other side with a flashlight.

It seemed that the crossing point had been found, and he hurried to lead people to that side. His march through the jungle was noticeably slower than the Japanese cargo ships, which soon overtook him and rushed to the front. Obviously, these three ships are going to the same place.

Still on the way, he received communication from the ambush group ahead, who found that the situation was getting out of control. The enemy who responded seemed to be fighting on his own.

An hour later, he finally arrived there, and it was already dark. You can see that on the river in the distance, the Japanese cargo ships are busy lowering their boats, and there are already several small boats full of Japanese soldiers on the river.

On the banks of the river, the bonfires of the Malay armed forces have not yet been extinguished. Some of them were waving to the approaching Japanese troops, while others were holding a few people in custody.

Some of them, dressed in white coats, sat by the fire and did not speak, while others in civilian clothes were tied to trees, each with a bruised nose and swollen face, apparently beaten.

Ma Qiang asked his subordinates what was going on, and they told him. Last night, on the other side, a dozen men arrived here with a few bamboo rafts, but without speculating with the answerers, they began to beat four of them, and when they started, the Malays were still scolding, but they were too far away to hear what was being said.

Ma Qiang turned to Cheng Hong, a senior soldier beside him, and asked him if he dared to get close to him to observe the enemy's situation? Cheng is a clever young man, a local, who understands Malay and can act as a translator. He didn't say anything, quickly put down all the cumbersome items, used branches and leaves to hide, and then followed Ma Qiang to crawl forward.

The two of them kept close to the enemy's campfire less than 20 meters away, which was indeed a frightening distance, but it was enough to hear him speak clearly.

Ma Qiang looked around, there was a mess of things on the ground, and a radio station, apparently brought by the kidnappers. He wondered why they were infighting. Ma Qiang can clearly see that the closest book to him is "The Communist Manifesto".

I saw a Malay, suddenly take off his shoes, walk towards a man tied to a tree, and then use the sole of his shoe to shoot his bow left and right in the face, and give him seven or eight strokes in a row.

Then the Malays began to mumble and ask, but Ma Qiang did not understand a word. The senior soldier wrote down his translated words on a piece of paper:

"Why do you want to pretend to be Japanese, they ask?"

The guy tied up in the tree over there began to speak in a muffled manner, and he spoke Malay as well, but his face was swollen like a pig's head, which affected him to pronounce words clearly, but fortunately, the superior soldiers could understand it.

"He said that he was not pretending to be a Japanese, that he was ordered by the Japanese to wait here to be picked up and cross the river."

Ma Qiang read Cheng Hong's translation, but he was still a little unclear.

He asked, why did he bring books with Chinese characters? Is it Chinese. ”

He replied: he is Vietnamese, he promised.

It seems that there is some misunderstanding within the enemy. Rao is Ma Qiang is not too clever, and he has guessed some doorways. The Yugoslav authorities asked him to cross the river with the local guerrillas answering, but the Yugoslav authorities were obviously negligent in communication, so after crossing the river, the local natives found that it was not the Japanese, but the leaders of the MCP, so they tied up the gang and beat them up. This group of Malays is really stupid enough, and their brains basically don't turn.