"That's true." Iida nodded in agreement. He found that Masanobu Tsuji seemed to have broken through the last doubt in his heart, and things became a lot clearer.

"Therefore, we should avoid the Chinese, and then use a force, go around to the flank, and threaten the passage of the British back to India." Staff Officer Tsuji said confidently.

"Look, everybody." He walked to the map and pointed to the road along the Qindun River. "This is the last way for the British to withdraw to India, and as long as our army moves around the road, even if there is only one brigade, the British army in northern Burma will abandon all promises to its allies and flee to India. Otherwise, they would be trapped in northern Myanmar. ”

Iida suddenly felt enlightened, he wondered how Masanobu Tsuji, who was usually boastful, suddenly had such a big vision?

"Can you guarantee that if our army goes deep alone, it will cause the British to abandon all positions and flee back to India?" Chief of Staff Shiogawa asked suspiciously, although Masanobu Tsuji's words seemed to be logically self-consistent, but if he could predict the actions of the enemy's headquarters, it would be too godly.

Masanobu Tsuji was waiting for someone to ask this. This judgment was made by Asano for him. Asano told him that the last straw that crushed the British must be a retreat back to India.

"I can guarantee that as soon as our troops get closer, they will leave northern Myanmar and flee immediately."

"You don't have to argue." Iida said, "It must be noted that at present our army has no choice, attacking from the plains, once defeated, the enemy will find that the landing force has insufficient firepower, and once the Chinese troops mobilized to the west turn, Sakurai will be in trouble." Therefore, there are only two ways to fight this battle, either to strive for the greatest victory, or to complete defeat, and there is no second best victory. ”

It seems that the commander has set the tone. The crowd will no longer engage in pointless arguments.

"Order the 56th Division to launch a long-distance attack tonight as originally planned, and be sure to cut off the retreat of the Chinese Expeditionary Force before the 29th Tianchang Festival. The 55th and 18th Divisions south of Mandalay launched a counterattack at any cost, which was bound to cause confusion in the judgment of the enemy's high command. ”

"Yes!"

"The 58th Wing, which was already in Sittwe, was pinning down the enemy head-on, and the assault force immediately carried out a flank outflank. Don't, avoid enemy air force reconnaissance. ”

"Yes!"

Two hours after the end of the Japanese combat meeting, night gradually fell. It started to rain lightly in Baurak on the border with Myanmar, and since April, it has been raining every day, and the ground is not muddy, which is really annoying.

Liu Xingsu, commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 55th Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, was standing anxiously at the mountain pass waiting opposite the Thai general's horse team carrying opium. He had already arranged for a ship and was waiting to deliver the shipment.

From a distance, you can faintly see people and horses swaying in the forest. Commander Liu pressed the flashlight to make a code, and the other side reacted quickly, which seemed to be right.

"Big brother, can the Thais rely on it? I've just had a few battles last month. A company commander next to him asked.

"One yard is one yard, each in the war, but now it's business, understand?"

"Got it, got it."

"Listen, General Wen Su is his own person, don't be too nervous. Put the guns away," he said to his own people behind him. "Is the ocean ready?"

"Alright, Captain." Two of them unloaded the heavy back baskets behind them.

"But I have to guard against it, let the machine gun in the back keep an eye on it, especially when I inspect the goods later, look at their heads a little bit, and beware of their tricks."

"Understood, big brother."

In the distance, a group of people wearing raincoats and leading mules and horses gradually approached, and they could see that the bulging bags on the horses' backs were covered with tarpaulins.

"Savadhi" Captain Liu greeted him, clasped his hands and shouted, this is a Thai greeting he has newly learned.

The leader on the other side also folded his hands and bowed to him.

The company commander behind him saw something wrong, why did the Thai bow so much like the Japanese...... Slowly, still wearing military boots. They have been clashing with the Thai army on the border recently, and most of the Thai troops wear English sandals, and no one wears military boots.

On the hillside not far away, the machine gunners who supported the business of the regiment commander were happily watching the transaction, and they could all get a piece of the pie when the deal was completed. I didn't notice a few Mali figures quietly approaching behind me.

When Head Liu approached, the other party raised his head, and he saw that the other party had a Japanese-style human beard under a pair of bright eyes, and he realized that something was wrong, and subconsciously retreated.

A man next to the Japanese squadron leader snatched up, lifted his raincoat, and lifted a crooked handle. Suddenly, a point shot knocked down the regiment commander and everyone behind. The rest of the horse team also opened fire with pistols and carbines. The battle ends in 40 seconds.

"Squadron leader, annihilated 16 Chinese troops, captured one Czech-style, and the rest were rotten guns. And silver dollars. ”

"Well, send a report to Captain Hirai, everything is going well, we will immediately march to the Leke obstruction, and it is expected that we can break through the defense tomorrow."

The leader of the Japanese squadron threw off his raincoats, and he could see that they were wearing the same Chinese military uniforms as the Provisional 55th Division, and it was obvious that everything was premeditated.

The 56th Division's long-distance interdiction operation was 3 days later than in history, but there was no longer a part of the plan to capture the Huitong Bridge. The most terrible thing is that at this time the entire expeditionary force is still in the dark, although the intelligence services have obtained a lot of information (mainly provided by the special team) indicating that the enemy will carry out a sneak attack here, but the military commander Mandalay Station, preferring to believe that those are the enemy's tricks, in the dark, history began to be repaired, and the signs of major changes in northern Myanmar began to appear.

Throughout the day, Chu Tingchang stayed at the airfield in Sittwe, waiting for the conclusion of aerial reconnaissance. Throughout the day, the 10th Air Force dispatched dozens of planes, but they didn't see anything, and as the color gradually dimmed today, it is estimated that there are no tricks. This afternoon, the Japanese army did not continue to launch an attack at Sittwe Airport, it seems that tonight is the key, and now the only thing Chu Tingchang can count on is Lin Xiuxuan and them.

Black night is the best ally of the Japanese army.

Every Japanese soldier was convinced that the physical superiority of the yellow race allowed him to see better at night than the white man, and there was no scientific basis for this, of course, just as a few months ago Westerners believed that the Japanese were born with squint eyes and were not fit for flight. However, such a lie is clearly beneficial to inciting the field enthusiasm of the troops.

The outflanking troops led by Tsuneo Tokai were drawn from the 124th Wing of the 18th Division, and in the future, they will be used as the backbone of the force, and will be integrated with the 58th Wing of Inamorang to form a new 31st Division.

The unit still owed a group too late to disembark, but they had already begun to move into the night, and all the soldiers were told that the outcome was still undecided and that a desperate battle was still to be fought to the death. The troops chose a trail away from the road and embarked on a night mountain march, a passage known as the Rakhine Trail, which is vaguely documented in the gazetteer of the military and is made up of a series of less wooded valleys and trails that can only be confirmed by a few aerial photographs provided by the Navy.

Before the war, this place was out of view of the staff of the base camp and outside the scope of the work of the Southern Agency, and only a few unsubsidized Japanese folk travelers stumbled upon such a path, drew a map and sent it to the Japan Geographical Society. However, these mountain roads are always changing over time, and no one knows whether the troops with artillery can still pass through them.

In order to increase the reconnaissance range, Lin Xiuxuan separated all three members of the group and scattered them to reconnoiter an area about 60 kilometers wide. The Japanese may turn from any corner of this mountainous area, or they may act together in multiple ways, they do not know what the Rakhine trail is, and can only use the night vision advantage and the only small drone to conduct reconnaissance, hoping to provide early warning time for Chu Tingchang to mobilize troops.

It was a pity that the patrols of the British troops ceased at night, and they probably thought that the night was the customary armistice between the two sides, at least in the mountains; Even when the Japanese moved at night, they did not have a large number of torches and flashlights, and the planes could clearly see the column from the sky.

Obviously, after being defeated all the way, the British still did not have a good lesson to sum up, and did not know that the soul of the Japanese war mentality was to seek war when you thought it was impossible to fight. Until Wingate's arrival, this deep-seated problem does not seem to be able to be reversed.

Chu Tingchang had no information, so he didn't dare to rush out, so in a basement of Sittwe Airport, a temporary command center was set up, and an incense hall was also opened at the headquarters. Chu Tingchang didn't care, he kept using copper coins to divinate on the map table. Later, once the news came from Team Leader Lin, he would have to find a reason to explain to Brooke in confusion, otherwise it would be too abrupt to directly transfer troops.

Brooke took Lieutenant Colonel Gale down to inform Commander Chu of the news that the Air Force's search had been fruitless, and plunged headlong into this smoky place. Seeing Zhou Youfu on incense, Chu Tingchang was counting hexagrams, and several soldiers were moving tributes, Tao Mingzhang stood behind and shook his head.

"Oh my God, what are you doing?"

"Ask Master Guan for advice, what's wrong? Who let you Flying Tigers plane reconnaissance yielded nothing, I beg the gods here, and you have to take care of this? Chu Tingchang replied disdainfully.

"Do you really think that you can know the movements of the Japanese army by relying on this lump of wood?"

"Damn," without waiting for Chu Aiyun to speak, Zhou Youfu rolled up his sleeves and came over, "Dare to be unreasonable to the second master, you can say another word and try, believe it or not, I suddenly broke you." ”

Tao Mingzhang next to him came to stop him, and Brooke didn't say much, and turned to the side angrily.

"Does this work or not?" On the side, the British lieutenant colonel suddenly asked with a reverent expression.

"Is this kind of thing, believing it is spiritual, and not believing it is not spiritual." Chu Tingchang explained like a professional stick.

"So, what does your tortoise shell say?"

"This ......" he was about to explain, when suddenly Lin Xiuxuan's voice came from the earphones, it was his drone that discovered the path of the Japanese army, and he had to stop. Let the lieutenant colonel, who was anxious to go to the hospital and want to know, wait for a while.

"Big brother is not good, the incense is broken." Over there, Zhou Youfu shouted in horror, "It must be this turtle son who annoyed the second master." ”

Chief Chu hurriedly went over to inspect. It is true that two of the three incense sticks were broken.

"This is Guan Erye's manifestation, the Japanese army will definitely attack tonight, but not here."

He turned his head and stared at the two opposites with undoubting eyes.

"Where will it be?" Lieutenant Colonel Gale hurriedly asked, and the British had no bottomless behavior, which made Brooke very frustrated.

"Well, that's a good question." Chu Tingchang walked quickly to the table, "Look at this hexagram...... It is for the six yangs, which is a dry hexagram, and it is like the trend of the sky. ”

As the interpreter struggled to tell him what was going on, Gail nodded vigorously to indicate that he understood something.

"The Qiangua direction is in the northwest, so the Japanese offensive is in the northwest, and the sunrise is clear. I have to set off to the northwest at once, and I will stay here with Zhou Youfu. He said as he took the armed belt, and it seemed that he was really leaving.