Chu Tingchang and Guo Rugui sat side by side in the back row of the Dodge Jeep, and they also tested each other in a set of official dialect there. Chu Tingchang knew what happened to this person, but now it was 1942, whether he was in Cao Ying's heart in Han, or whether he had not yet restored contact with the organization, he did not know. If you can complete the communication with 419, you can ask the political commissar, but he may not know, but Lin Xiuxuan may be clearer.

You must know that our army is in Jiangxi, Shanxi, Hunan and Hubei, and does not want to carry out mobile warfare and attack the enemy's weakness, but unfortunately if you want to maneuver, you must divide your troops, and if you divide your troops, you must first let the Japanese invaders understand our gaps in every battle, and the result is that the more you fight, the more passive you become, hey, this is also the origin of the Chongqing side for me to come to the army of Chu Division Commander for investigation, in fact, it is also the meaning of Commander Du and your 200th Division Commander."

"Director Guo, when it comes to mobile warfare, it must rely on automobiles, mules and horses to transport troops, as well as mobile firepower, reliable communications and reconnaissance intelligence; The Japanese army must come along the river in every major battle, and it also wants to use river transportation to supplement the lack of mobility, and increase the firepower with naval warships. With the level of equipment of the domestic troops, it is indeed difficult to fight on the outside line. ”

"Hey, it's as the pavilion chief said, but this matter is not urgent, I will be safe when I come, and I will stay in your headquarters in the future, you don't have to worry about me, just command. I'll just watch. ”

"To tell you the truth, our army is having a big war recently."

"Then it looks like I'm here."

"However, I command the battle, and I need to go to the front enemy in person in every battle, if I go to the front line, Director Guo doesn't have to go, so as not to have an accident, I can't afford it."

"Oh......" Guo Rugui thought thoughtfully, "Well, if you go to the enemy, I won't go, and it won't get in the way." ”

Sittwe, Burma, inside the headquarters of the Japanese army. Kimura Hyotaro sat motionless, waiting for a group of staff officers to report on the situation ahead. Before the war started, he was killed by the enemy's random artillery and destroyed a thousand people (not counting the naval losses), he actually had no bottom in his heart, but his subordinates had to pretend to be calm in front of him.

"Your Excellency, the transportation of the 18th Division is a little chaotic, some of the baggage ships that were dispatched in advance have not received the communication in time, and have landed and docked in Chittagong, unloading part of the baggage, if the freighter returns, it will inevitably delay the time, it is better to come back and transport troops more reasonably. After all, we also need to use troops against Sun Liren. ”

"Well, that's it." He swallowed and said, of course Suzuki was to blame for this matter, and he actually sent the information about the gold so late.

"The South Sea detachment was sweeping along the river, breaking down several British wings, taking 96 prisoners, and not finding enemy heavy artillery units. The flight division, which was also searching along the railway, did not find enemy train artillery. However, the jungles and mountains in this area can easily hide this equipment. ”

"Hmm."

"The 2nd Division reported that the anti-epidemic water unit is not fully allocated, and intestinal diseases in the troops are increasing, and there may be a tendency to spread. At present, the number of attrition has reached 360. ”

"How can this be, didn't the southern organ say that the water of the Ganges River is made of melting snow-capped mountains, it is very clean, and it can be directly drunk with a little disinfection, and the water supply troops can be allocated in the smallest proportion?" Kimura said.

"The military doctor of the Second Division reported that the river was very turbid, and the villagers along the river directly poured the feces into the river, and there were also sick and dead people, and they were also thrown into the river, and at any time, there were dead people on the river, which seems to be a local custom."

"Suzuki, bastard. Not once was the information accurate. Kimura grunted, when he came, someone in the base camp blew Suzuki into the sky, and said that it was a delicate eight-faced, and when he came here, he found that it was not the case at all, since northern Myanmar, the southern organs were not very bright, and when he arrived in India, he didn't have any geopolitical information, "I don't know what happened to Kagesa. ”

"Your Excellency, General Kagesa Zhenzhao did have information sent to mention that the sanitary situation in West Bengal was extremely bad, and proposed that the landing of Indian troops should be the forerunner first, and their physique may be more suitable for such a situation."

"The big war is about to begin, how can it be possible to take the lead with Indian soldiers? What combat power do they have? He didn't get some news of Chu Tingchang? ”

"Yes, some people saw Chu Tingchang appear at the railway station near Ranchi, and a large number of troops and equipment from the rear are being sent in a steady stream, and they are also assembled in the Ranchi area, so it can be seen that he and Sun Liren may be responsible for the defense of the Ganges River in person."

"Okay, Sun Liren let it go, I just want to fight this guy."

"General Iida said that you must be careful with this person, this person is cunning and does everything." There are staff officers who don't know anything about the words of their predecessors.

"Hmph, I'm going to be afraid of him?" Kimura slapped the table, and no one dared to speak.

Chu Tingchang and 419 informed Shangfeng of sending Guo Rugui to his side to study the military situation, hoping to get advice. As a result, regarding the period of 42 years, his identity was not clear to the political commissar and Lin Xiuxuan. However, Lin thinks that there is a high probability that he has a connection with the organization, but this kind of thing has never been disclosed, so he has to continue to try, and if he comes with some kind of purpose, sooner or later he will also make a hint. Everything will be decided after mutual testing, and at this stage it is still necessary to focus on stopping the enemy army. Radio monitoring found that there was a possibility of a plague epidemic on the enemy, and it was obvious that the enemy was in too much of a hurry to transport troops, and the rear health troops did not have time to arrive.

Chu Tingchang reported that he had obtained gold in Calcutta, and finally solved the mystery in the hearts of 419, because they synthesized the telegrams from Britain and Japan, and found that the British hastily counterattacked was very strange, and there must be a reason for this, and he thought that Chu Tingchang did something inappropriate, because it involved an old soldier like Zhou Youfu, who was full of poisons, and it may not be reliable. However, judging from the current reaction of the British to the active counteroffensive, no news has been leaked.

In the end, Lin Xiuxuan gave a suggestion, asking Chu Tingchang to keep an eye on Tao Mingzhang, he has no direct evidence, but he makes a judgment based on his intuition, if Guo Rugui came with a purpose, this matter is inseparable from Tao Mingzhang, with his contact with Tao Mingzhang when he was in the synthesis group, this person is very pro-CCP, if so, it means that there is already an organization around him.

The British planes constantly used the extremely fast P38 to carry out aerial reconnaissance, and almost entered a no-man's land. However, this kind of single-seat aircraft is not suitable for reconnaissance, after all, the camera can capture a limited number of shots, the pilot is focused on the flight and it is difficult to be distracted to observe, and its report after each flight is inevitably hugely biased.

According to the pilots' descriptions, Stilwell could tell that the Japanese were making a massive landing along the Ganges, that they had already landed their troops, and that they were maneuvering using the road network to launch an attack on Ranchi.

However, the temperature here is already very high this month, and the Japanese army seems to be a little unaccustomed to the water and soil, and many soldiers who have just disembarked have fallen ill, mainly intestinal diseases, which are usually easy to spread in the army. On the Allied side, there was a steady stream of American quinine penicillin, and although malaria, dysentery, or cholera appeared from time to time, it remained sporadic all the time.

Chu Tingchang asked the soldiers to rest first, receive the weapons of the British army, and lead the leaders himself, preparing to enter the tentative battle in the early stage of the campaign, the scale of the troops he led was very small, and the targets of the attack were carefully selected.

If it is a simple non-combat health force, of course, there are some violations of morality, but the Japanese army's epidemic prevention unit is usually also responsible for the testing and dispersal of biological weapons, such as the Rongzi 1644 epidemic prevention unit transferred from Central China that landed with the 2nd Division, which once spread the plague in China, and also carried out inhumane experiments on body bacteria, committing unforgivable war crimes. They went to India, in addition to the ordinary epidemic prevention mission, in fact, to find new pathogens that could be used in this paradise of bacterial reproduction.

Of course, the latter task was not yet carried out, and the first task was to provide drinking water for tens of thousands of troops, otherwise the imperial army would be strained to death without a fight. But it is very difficult to find a river with a clean water source here, and the only rule is that you have to stay away from Indian villages. But in densely populated areas, this is easier said than done.

The 419's drone could easily find them based on the information screened by the radio, and the drone even saw a large camel-laden water truck, going back and forth with the unit and other combat units. It can be found that they have moved away from the combat units.

Chu Tingchang and Lin Xiuxuan agreed that in the first stage of the campaign, the attack on these non-combat units would be more effective than the elimination of combat units. Once dysentery spreads among the Japanese army, it is equivalent to disintegrating the enemy's vital forces on the battlefield and making up for the lack of one's own troops.

He constantly sent cavalry to reconnoiter the enemy's movements, and the scouts were assigned a very small reconnaissance range, usually near a certain village, as to why they could carry out reconnaissance so purposefully. The personnel of the command headquarters were too lazy to think about it, and it must have been calculated by sitting alone in the military tent of the division.

The cavalry of the 200th Division was different, and each team also carried a camera, and every time they sorted, they never missed, and they could bring back some photos, which were much clearer than the British planes. Chu Tingchang took great pains to put hundreds of photos on the table, and did not avoid Guo Rugui, asking everyone in the command to gather around to analyze the intelligence, and then he knocked on the side to guide his opinions to the right path.

"Division, these are the wagons of the Japanese army loaded with water. These are water filtration devices, which are common in the country, and are the configuration of divisional and regimental troops. Someone on the side said.

"Isn't general disinfection possible?" He asked.

"If it is well water, it can naturally be disinfected with alum, but the people in this area are peculiar and do not drill wells. I usually drink river water, and I don't get sick when it's weird. The British, of course, couldn't, and had to drink tap water, but they blew up their waterworks when they left. ”

"It seems that this is the only operation that the British have brains, I think why should he bother to fight these health troops, what do you think?"

"I think it's doable."

"Yes, pick up the melon and pinch it first."

"I had to take a lot of dung and throw it into the river. Let them drink. Zhou Youfu gritted his teeth and said.

Everyone, you followed Chu Tingchang's train of thought, and quickly determined a company-level attack.

Guo Rugui observed Chu Tingchang on the side, and found that this person was thoughtful and very good at controlling his subordinates, of course, this is secondary, and it is indeed unexpected to even think of such a sinister method. Usually the Japanese army disintegrated the Chinese army with mobile warfare and epidemics, and when he saw Chu Tingchang on the first day, he pretended to put forward his confusion about the repeated invincibility of mobile warfare, in fact, he had a mirror in his heart, which was essentially the crushing of the industrial country against the agricultural country, but Chu Tingchang was unexpected, and he was able to attack it in the opposite way.