339 Then go to Yangon
"If you don't have talent, how can you repeatedly anticipate the enemy's opportunities?" Xiao Jiang asked rhetorically, "I also used this as a reason to recommend to the master, I have never begged so much in my life, don't let me down." ”
"Yes." Chu Aiyun stood up right, thinking to himself, the battalion commander is still too small.
"Another thing, General Stilwell proposed to build a joint Sino-US force, and he suggested that we should send men, they would shoot them, and then they would train and command officers; This time they put down their bodies and no longer mentioned the command of the US military, but joint command, and Chief Du was looking for a unit with mobile combat experience and no need for much training. I mentioned my, no, it's your motorized infantry battalion, and we'll find out soon. ”
"What equipment can the United States produce?"
"In the current situation, what can go ashore is light tanks and guns. Commander Du was not optimistic about the war situation, believing that Sittwe Port would be occupied by the enemy army or blockaded by the navy within two months, so he felt that it was important to obtain equipment first. In the future, the 5th Army can also be enriched. ”
"Understood. If I go, I will never let the US military get involved in command. ”
They came out side by side, shook hands, and Jiang Weiguo got into the car and went straight to the airport, where a DC3 was going to take him and several US military officers to Chongqing directly, and then transfer to North Africa and then to the United States. History has changed beyond recognition so far, and it is already confusing who killed the deer.
Chu Aiyun returned to the barracks, waiting for the official promotion order during the day, while checking the information received. These messages will be transmitted to Chen Zhiping at the same time, and it is very strange that after yesterday's combat meeting, Chu Aiyun saw Chen Zhiping leave in a hurry, and he never saw him again, and he didn't know where the person died, and whether it would delay the sending and receiving of information
After 419 left, the information that could be updated was greatly reduced. The most important piece of information that Lin Xiuxuan intercepted today was that the enemy's attack on Yangon was advanced. Their objectives consisted of three things: first, to seize the port facilities completely, and second, to seize the stockpiles in the port warehouses. Finally, General Alexander was captured alive. Historically, the first two have been achieved, and the third, and most insignificant, has not been completed. General Alexander eventually jumped out of the encirclement with his troops from Rangoon and fled all the way to India, surpassing another miracle of retreat in military history that he himself had created in Dunkirk.
This time it seems that the enemy has a greater grasp, and from the telegraphs monitored, it seems that they have plotted against some officers in the Anglo-Indian army, and some of the Indian officers in this unit have been in contact with Canaris's spy network in Egypt when they were fighting in North Africa, and these men have secretly expressed their allegiance to Chandrabose, and Germany has handed over the list of these men to Japan, mainly serving as deputies at the battalion and company level, and holding some actual military power. As a result, the work of the Yugoslav organs has been carried out exceptionally smoothly. The Japanese were contacted by the Japanese using a destroyer to broadcast an Indian counter-broadcast against the Indians in Rangoon, and two days earlier, Bose's voice appeared on the radio, and all the problems were solved.
At this time, the British had already been careless, and they had not been alert. The intercepted Japanese communications also said that the 56th Division of the Japanese Army, another victorious division that had conquered Manila, had already embarked from the Philippines, and the target port they docked at was actually Yangon. It seems that the Japanese army is very sure of taking Rangoon and directly taking over the port to achieve a seamless handover. This has to be done, what the hell they see.
The worst-case scenario, of course, is for the enemy to get all the supplies. Lin still wants to fight back, and it seems that any little effort at this time may only mean to stop the Japanese army for a few days, and it will help prevent the Japanese army from conquering all of northern Burma before the rainy season, thus sabotaging their plan to strangle China completely.
In addition to leaking this information to Chen Zhiping, the head of the Yangon station of the military commander, through a simulated secret radio station of the Japanese army. The task force could only go once in person to see what could be done.
The military commander still controls a sizable force of about 400 men in Yangon. These people originally belonged to the tax police corps, but after the reorganization in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, some of them became regular troops, such as the new 38th Division, while others were controlled by the military commanders and became their direct subordinate troops. Rangoon, with its complex water network to the northwest, would have been difficult to completely encircle, so theoretically the defenders still had enough time to blow up supplies.
The special team drove a jeep across the bridge over the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River, where a large number of refugees were slowly heading north. Half of the road was deserted, with only one car.
At a distance of 40 km from Yangon, the wreckage of tanks still smoking on the other side of the river can be seen, mainly Crusader and Churchill tanks.
Lin Xiuxuan was very suspicious that these were the tank groups of the 7th Armored Brigade that he had encountered on the road near Achab not long ago. At night, he looked through his night vision goggles and did not notice that the tanks were still painted in the North African desert in khaki yellow, and some of them had white symbols on them that destroyed German tanks and heavy artillery. These tanks of nearly 40 tons are probably the most powerful weapons in the entire Asian land battlefield, plus each vehicle is equipped with a radio station, how can they be beaten by an unknown Utsunomiya wing of the Japanese army?
Because the drones took care of the eastern national army during the battle, the battle situation here was not recorded, but it was judged by the recorded radio messages that the Japanese army used the best suicide anti-tank method. Lin Xiuxuan used his binoculars to look at the battlefield on the other side of the river, and saw that most of the huge tanks were partially destroyed on the road, and there were few traces of the turret hull being penetrated.
When he was about to arrive in Yangon City, he received a telegram from Qin Xiaosu that the latest instructions from the southern authorities agreed that the Indian soldiers would raise an incident at 8 o'clock at night. In response, there was an unknown number of Burmese Independence Army detachments that infiltrated the city, as well as several independent Yugoslav secret service groups.
The plan of action was for the Indian officer corps to take out the British troops in the arsenal, then to distribute the guns to the Independence Army, which would carry out sabotage missions at night, and the Indian rebels would take control of the port and try to persuade the predominantly Indian engineer battalions stationed there to surrender to the Japanese.
According to Lin's judgment, this operation should be synchronized with the general offensive of the Japanese army, of course, he came all the way along the Irrawaddy River, and there was no sign of the Japanese army building a bridge on the other side, so he didn't know what the hell he was doing.
Lin Xiuxuan raised his wrist and looked at his watch, there were still 5 hours left, it seemed that the general trend had been decided, and the special team didn't seem to be able to reverse anything, so let's do our best.
They used the documents of the 96th Division of the National Army to easily blend into the city, and the British troops defending the checkpoint were also perfunctory, waiting for the commander-in-chief to give an order, and everyone ran away. It seems that Chen Zhiping has not yet informed the British of the important information he has obtained, or has informed the British, and they don't believe it? In short, both Alexander and Chen Zhiping left a very unreliable impression on him.
Explosions were heard in the distance, not sappers in action, but Japanese shelling. They began to shell targets in the city on a limited basis, creating some confusion, presumably to facilitate internal operations.
The task force rushed all the way to the port area. Looking from the hill from afar, the camp was in chaos, and the trucks lined up in a long line, extending to the warehouse area waiting to rush the last goods before the Japanese army entered the city, but the * guns in the distance were neatly stacked, and I didn't know that the link was delayed.
They decided to go their separate ways, and Lin Xiuxuan managed to find a communication line and make a phone call to the officers of the tax police squadron to see if he could trick them into doing it quickly. Ma Qiang and Xu rushed to the British arsenal west of the city and tried to shoot the leader of the Indian rebels in an attempt to thwart, or at least delay the rebellion. Of course, if they could not achieve their goal, the operation should be terminated before the Japanese entered the city, and they had to ensure their safe withdrawal from Rangoon.
It's not the first time Lin Xiuxuan has been here, and the drone had conducted a reconnaissance before the last time he thwarted the Aung San Independence Army, so he now knows exactly where to find the communication lines of the tax police squadron.
His idea is very simple, since Chen Zhiping is their top boss, then simulate his voice to issue orders, and he can't control who will be subject to military law in the future. Of course, the premise is that Chen Zhiping is not in Yangon City at present, and according to the information provided by Gu Chu Aiyun, Director Chen has long been afraid to come to Yangon, so this should not be a problem.
He rushed outside the barracks and found a mess of communication lines in nearby trees, as is usually the case with makeshift lines, which had been cut during the retreat.
He went up a tree, set up a listening device, and spent some time listening to internal calls. It's very strange that most of the phone calls he overheard were not military intelligence, but called the squadron leader surnamed Gao to give priority to transporting their goods, or send additional people to help them load the trucks.
The squadron leader occasionally showed a little toughness, only saying that the war was imminent, and that he had to prepare for evacuation at this moment, and that there was no one to deal with personal cargo, but the other side would raise some names to bluff him. There was a polite promise of benefits, and unceremoniously and directly warned him that he disobeyed the will of Shangguan, and waited to see Yunyun in the future.
Lin Xiuxuan stood on the branch of the tree, using a telescope to observe the distant warehouse area, and the truck drove directly outside the barracks to wait for the goods. There is no inspection in and out, and military discipline has been lax. Those cars have the words "Chimelong Freight" on them, which is a private transport company. It's a pity that these capacities are not at the last moment, and they go to pull away those cannons.
As far as the eye can see, the soldiers are not preparing for evacuation, but are helping to load the goods outside the warehouse, which looks so heavy that each box has to be carried by two people. Lin Xiuxuan had suffered a loss in the Shanghai Concession, so he roughly guessed what it was.
Regardless of these things, he connected the line and directly dialed the switchboard to turn to the squadron leader, from the monitoring just now, he already knew that the squadron leader's name was Gao Quanshun, and his accent was like that of Shandong. He uses a speech-to-speech system that instantly transforms his voice into the voice of Chen Zhiping, which he recorded not long ago.
Since the captain of the high school is submissive, there is no need to explain much, just report his name to bluff him.
"Gao Quanshun, I'm Chen Zhiping"
"Director Chen?" The other party was really a little timid in momentum.
"The Japanese army is about to enter the city, how is the blowing up of the armament going?"
"Director of the report, * The car broke down in the Jinta Temple in Ruiguang, and it was said that it was about to be repaired in the morning, and I have been waiting."
Lin Xiuxuan thought to himself, it's really a delay, it's not that he didn't have a fuse, it turned out that * was still on the way, but fortunately, the Golden Pagoda Temple was not too far.
"Don't wait, I'll ask a staff officer of the 96th Division to send it to you, be sure to arrange for manpower to install it immediately*, and blow up the port hoisting machinery in front of you by the way. This matter was delayed, and military justice was engaged. ”
"Yes."
Lin Xiuxuan hung up the phone and jumped off the tree, it seemed that he had to go by himself. However, judging from the chaos of the camp to the fact that there were no sentries, as long as he could find the car with the *, there was no difficulty in sending it over.
Over there, the squadron leader put down the phone and began to curse, he also felt that destroying those weapons was the right thing, but the black and white smuggling things in the country had to be solved first. He really regretted that he had listened to Dai Li's rhetoric, saying that he would kill the enemy like a military commander, but it was such a mess when he came here, since the Japanese warships opened fire, Chen Zhiping ran away without saying anything, there were people on the phone on both ends of the three days, and they moved out the names of high-ranking officials or hooligans to threaten themselves, and they had to transport their accumulated things back to China. I knew that I should have voted for the new 38th Division and Sun Liren.
He stepped onto the box cannon in a huff, turned around and went out, and bumped into Chen Zhiping who was hurrying head-on.
"Oops, warehouse 48 hasn't been moved yet? The Japanese are almost here, what are you going to eat? Chen Zhiping came up and asked.