Commander Chu Ting expected that the Japanese would not be able to maneuver too long from the railway, whether it was the 5th or 6th Division, unless they did not want heavy weapons at all. The troops under the mountain are the trump cards of the Japanese army, and they are definitely not here to hold the railway line, and his main force will inevitably look for Zhou Youfu for a decisive battle. Then you can give full play to your maneuver ability and let this arrogant enemy see what speed is. Of course, relying on the technology of this era, it is impossible to complete such a difficult "armed parade behind enemy lines", and it is necessary to rely on the reconnaissance capability of 419.

He telegraphed the plan to Zhou Youfu. Lao Zhou also had a cold back when he heard it. At this moment, he still has a way to retreat, if he continues to advance to Phnom Penh according to the commander's wishes, the supply and retreat may be cut off, of course, the commander's main force 200 division, as well as most of his own 202 division, will come up soon, but he will be surrounded as soon as there is a mistake here. To some extent, the ability of the infantry to climb mountains and mountains allows them to cut corners in the mountains and block mechanized troops. This has to be guarded against.

And the armored troops, the most afraid is to cut off the supply, this is not a type of troops that can fight guerrilla warfare, although Lao Zhou also used this tactic when he eliminated the 55th Division near Mizhi, but at that time the enemy was passive, and the two divisions of the 55th and 56th were after all B divisions, and the experienced and cunning 4th Division and the 5th Division that had not tasted defeat could not be compared.

Zhou Youfu replied to Chu Tingchang that the current troops were insufficient and fuel, suggesting that it would be difficult for him to continue to advance to the southeast. In fact, what Chu Tingchang wants is that he has insufficient troops, if he is fully loaded, the Americans will not be able to replenish them, these are all actuated by Chu Tingchang's staff, including Stilwell's judgment that 80% of the supplies will fall into the hands of the enemy. He also calculated according to this exaggerated lower bound. Of course, he can't say this to Zhou Youfu, he just told Lao Zhou that he watched the sky at night, and this battle was thrilling and dangerous, and he would definitely be able to break the enemy. If he can enter Phnom Penh, he will definitely be the first to take credit.

After all, Lao Zhou eats this very much, and his trust in Chu Tingchang is almost unreserved.

So he led his troops away from Benlei and advanced southeast. After nightfall, a bonfire was lit in the predetermined valley and waited for the U.S. military to drop aid. The U.S. military arrived as agreed, and thanks to the construction of a navigation station in northern Thailand, the planes were barely able to find it, but some of them still failed to find their targets.

The group that found the target lowered its altitude and began to drop oil drums and ammunition. Zhou Youfu's troops collected everywhere, and at dawn, they collected enough fuel and some ammunition.

At the same time, the troops under the mountain were chasing after them over the mountains. Japanese night fighters spotted the enemy lighting a bonfire and judged that the enemy was waiting for an airdrop. According to Yamashita's idea, the enemy was already at the end of the crossbow and was bound to run back, so he ordered the second group of the 21st Wing, which arrived with the 11th Wing, to form a north-south flank attack, hoping to block the retreat and annihilate the advancing enemy. He strictly ordered the new 21st Wing to hurry at night and try to block the mountain pass retreating to the northwest, which means that he didn't care too much about the passage to Phnom Penh. In his opinion, it is impossible to support a base base of fuel for an armored force with the capacity that the aircraft can provide, and it is nothing more than throwing some supplies in chaos, saving a breath, and running back. The U.S. military dispatched 160 C47s that night and threw down 20,000 gallons of fuel, one-third of which was collected by Zhou Youfu's troops (much more than 20% expected).

After all, Yamashita was in command of the Malay pursuit, which gave him two experiences, one of which was the strong pursuit of the speed of mountain warfare, and there were few accessible roads in the mountains, and once they were captured, it meant that the enemy had no way to escape. The second point is the helplessness of logistics, until the follow-up road construction troops complete the mountain roads, they can only rely on the soldiers to rely on the load of bicycles to support themselves. These ideas have long been unique and limited.

Subconsciously, he was not optimistic about the combat potential of armored forces in the mountains, he had studied the German blitzkrieg, and with the exception of the Ardennes Forest and Yugoslavia, there were few tanks or a large number of trucks in the mountains. The General Staff always divided the roads into five levels, where infantry could march in areas without roads, which were best suited for mountain warfare, and bicycles could travel on secondary roads that were flat, with occasional ravines and rivers. Tanks and trucks require a much higher level of road, which makes their movements significantly more predictable even if they can find a way, and they can only march on roads that are clearly represented on the map. Of course, he really didn't expect that the 202nd Division would rush in the opposite direction, and take a road that was not on the map.

The 11th Wing of the 5th Division rushed to the valley two hours after Zhou Youfu's troops left, found a large number of parachutes and empty oil drums that had been discarded at random, and found many full oil drums nearby that were too late to take away. On the ground, traces of tracks heading northwest were found.

Because Zhou Youfu used a half-track to take away most of the parachute oil drums, he created a false impression for the enemy. The Japanese army has always been very calculating, and quickly calculated roughly the amount of fuel the enemy would receive at night from the number of parachutes and oil drums. This figure was reported to Yamashita in good faith, and it was about the same as he judged, that is, the enemy survived and received about 10,000 liters of fuel.

He encouraged the troops to continue their mission through the radio. He did not give orders directly on the radio, because he knew that the enemy might eavesdrop, so the so-called mission was nothing more than the agreed encirclement of the 21st Wing when it set out from Phnom Penh. The specific offensive route has been thrown directly on the heads of the troops by the Japanese liaison planes. The advantage of this method is confidentiality, and the disadvantage is that it lacks sufficient flexibility in scheduling.

The Japanese began to desperately rely on their two legs to contain Zhou Youfu, and if they blocked, the new anti-armor troops they carried would show their skills. It was a bazooka-like recoilless gun. This is an anti-tank weapon with a caliber of 45 mm, in which a single 80-mm round of ammunition is stuffed inside a one-meter-long launch canister. The maximum range of flat fire is only a pitiful 100 meters, and the distance that can be aimed accurately is about 25 meters. A simple hollow-charge warhead made it possible to theoretically have an armor-piercing capacity of 80 mm. It should be said that all the indicators are ordinary, and only the thickness of the last static armor piercing is the only advantage of this weapon.

As a result, this weapon was mass-produced in advance from the experimental state and provided to the Japanese army in Southeast Asia, mainly to resist Chu Tingchang.

In Australia, due to the flat terrain and the lack of surprise battles between the two sides, the Japanese could use anti-aircraft guns against tanks in a step-by-step manner. The base camp judged that only in the vast jungles of Southeast Asia, this kind of weapon with ultra-short range but ideal armor-piercing ability could have room to play.

At present, each squad of the 21st Wing has at least two such weapons. For Japanese soldiers, being able to attack enemy tanks at about 30 meters is already a shocking high-tech. There is no training in weapons, there is not even any crosshair and a light door on this weapon, and the manual tells the soldiers: the closer the better.

Zhou Youfu's convoy, deliberately driving northwest for a while to deceive the enemy, suddenly turned southeast and entered the forest. He just wants to mobilize the enemy to follow him, and when they break their legs, they can easily throw them off.

The 419's drone is conducting ground mapping through synthetic aperture radar to find new channels. Because the Japanese had buried it on the road they had built the day before*. Although it is difficult for drones to detect enemy movements in the forest. But the enemy's long-term mine-laying on the road is visible, and these sections must be bypassed.

The new route was sent to Lao Zhou through the radio, and Lao Zhou didn't care whether these roads were British and American intelligence, or the army commander asked God to ask for divination, he knew that the army commander's ability was always correct if the immortals showed the way.

The 11th Wing and the 21st Wing hurried and hurried, and finally in the afternoon of the same day, one squadron each of the two armies met without waiting for the armored units of the 201st Division to appear. The enemy seems to have disappeared inexplicably.

Zhou Youfu's tank quickly passed through the hills, and he received the latest information given to him by the rear, according to the guerrilla spies in Phnom Penh, the Japanese troops who had newly arrived at the port of Phnom Penh had also left by train, and the city of Phnom Penh was quite empty at present, and the temporary headquarters of Shouichi Temple was in the Grand Palace of Four Arms Bay in Phnom Penh. Whether Marshal Terauchi Shouichi himself was in the castle or not is not known. There were about a few thousand Japanese troops in the city, including non-combat units such as baggage hospitals, military police, and so on.

Having just arrived at the front line, he was also surprised to learn that the enemy had disappeared, and he expected that the enemy would be able to maneuver no more than 100 kilometers, and it was impossible to go around too far. His troops ran 20 kilometers of mountain roads overnight, blocking the enemy's possible retreat, but the enemy did not appear. Aerial reconnaissance didn't even find out where the enemy was going, did he run out of fuel, hiding in which ravine to wait for Chu Tingchang to attack? Marshal Terauchi of the Phnom Penh Headquarters was also greatly surprised. It is impossible for such a large force to disappear out of thin air, it must have gone somewhere.

A Japanese bomber flying from Guangxi, on the regional highway 50 kilometers from Phnom Penh, saw a mechanized procession below, the line was very long, he did not see the tail, only the head. The pilot, who was a man of his brains, realized that the Japanese could not muster so many vehicles in this area, so he lowered his altitude and was preparing to observe at a low altitude when he was fired at a 12.7mm machine gun. The planes hurriedly pulled up and reported to the regiment of the 1st Flying Division, where the enemy convoy was found. Of course, the 1st Flying Division was under the interference of the 419 UAV, so it did not receive any reports of the discovery of the enemy situation from many pilots in front. Also disturbed was the command in Phnom Penh. These jamming hits in the centimeter band, which is commonly used by Japanese aircraft and ground forces in general. The Japanese were bound to have to wait until the plane landed before they could get information on aerial reconnaissance. The early warning of the enemy has been postponed for a long time.

When Zhou Youfu passed the railway again, he encountered the Japanese military train coming out of Phnom Penh, the military train was full of 2,000 tons of supplies and 10 newly landed tanks, these brand new 97 tanks were transported from the local factory, the chassis was stacked with crates with spare parts, and there were no battles or marches at all.

All the Stuart tanks turned their guns around and fired at the speeding train. The gunner was very experienced, and fired at the wheels of the locomotive, firing at the boiler could only stop the train, and firing the wheels could derail it, which was the most effective way to deal with the train, and even paralyzed the enemy's railroad for a while.