"The pavilion chief is self-defeating." The first lieutenant said with his chest straightened.

"Come, bring the wine."

Someone has brought whiskey. Dai Anlan wants to give the pavilion chief a strong trip.

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An hour later, Chu Ting sat on his horse and walked north along the river, he knew very well where he was going, and he knew that he could easily get there. In fact, the Japanese army did not come much, and they had to prepare for an attack, and the defense was not tight at all. If he doesn't take this move, tomorrow's decisive battle, the expeditionary force of 70,000 people against the Japanese army of 10,000 people, the expeditionary force also has a chance to win, but the chances of winning are not big, because the morale has been damaged too much recently, even after the 599 and 600 regiments of the 200th division were broken yesterday, they also suffered a defeat, especially there are still some miscellaneous cards in the troops, and the combat effectiveness is even worse. This has happened more than once in the past.

He came to the river with the cavalry battalion, waited for a waning moon to fall behind the mountain, and listened to the gurgling river, and everyone did not know the hydrology and did not dare to go into the water. Chu Tingchang did not send people to reconnoitre, the first horse jumped into the water to set an example for everyone, Ma Qiang reconnoitred that the Japanese cavalry could pass, so naturally there was no need to doubt too much.

The source of these rivers is the upper snow-capped mountains, the flow is the largest at noon every day, the smallest amount of water in the early morning, can pass the people, the deputy captain grew up on the seaside, and is indeed not afraid of falling into the water. The skill of riding a horse was recently learned, and although the synthetic battalion was mechanized, it also had horses, which was more useful than a car for reconnaissance in the mountains.

These three hippos of the cavalry of the 5th Army, who were not tall and did not swim as well as the Japanese horses, began to neigh as soon as they jumped into the biting river, and for a time the formation was chaotic. The lights could be seen downstream, and the Japanese were preparing for tomorrow's attack. But it's only a few miles away. Chu Tingchang couldn't help but worry, he was not an immortal after all, it was one thing for the clouds and mountains to cover the people, and he didn't expect that these war horses and cavalry had never been trained to swim at night. Rolling thunder rang out in the air, and it looked like it was going to rain. The thunder drowned out the chaotic sound of river crossings.

Horses are the same as people, how many people come crazy, the eyesight is good at night, and when I see that the horse team in front of me has gone down, it seems that it is okay to leak my head, so I will be sure. The cavalry jumped into the river, the current was not turbulent, and more than a thousand horses quickly crossed the river.

On the opposite bank, Chu Tingchang ran in front with two communicators to show that he was the first. Of course, he also wanted to distance himself from everyone and make it easier to answer communications. Ma Qiang was observing from a high place, and he could see that there was a patrol coming from the Japanese side, still far away, and was wandering around the mountains. Speak to Chu Tingchang immediately. Chu Tingchang decided not to wait any longer and accelerated through the valley.

One advantage of cavalry is that they don't have to be lit when marching at night, and the horses have good night vision, so they can keep up with the ranks in front.

Chu Tingchang clamped the horse's belly hard and quickly passed through here. The cavalry, which had been pieced together from the entire 5th Army, followed together, and they passed through the same area in a much faster time than the infantry, and they did not drag.

Even though the waning moon had set over the mountain, the soldiers could still see the dark mountains on either side. If a few machine guns are ambushed there, and another machine gun is connected to the mountain pass, I don't know how many lives will be lost here. However, all the way through the treacherous terrain, there was never an ambush. Everyone gradually had a bottom in their hearts, and a good premonition arose spontaneously - this Chu Tingchang may really be like a legend, a master of the world.

The Japanese army came really fiercely, and the 200th Division also lost for a while. Regarding the head of the Chu Pavilion who led the team, the soldiers of the expeditionary force have heard of it, saying that he is a strange person who can pinch and calculate, although when they met just now, they found that they were weaker than the legend said, but they looked white and clean, and there was a feeling of fairy wind in the elegance. Of course, the people were still terrified at that time, because they had never heard of such a war. According to the advice of Soviet advisers, cavalry was deployed at all levels in the national army, but most of them were only used as reconnaissance troops, and some were also used as communication units to send messages and orders. In the armies of various countries, cavalry has long ceased to be used as an assault force, so two-thirds of the cavalry here do not have sabers. For the scout cavalry, usually the most dangerous task is to test the fire, the basic task is to turn around and leave after the enemy's guns are fired, and there are no hard bullets to rush. Everyone knows that this battalion commander Chu used to work in armored vehicles, but can he also do cavalry work?

For Chu Tingchang, he needed mobility more than armor and firepower, and in fact he had long since discovered that cavalry was far more mobile in the mountains than motorized troops that relied on roads.

The two who followed Chu Tingchang closely, he knew that when the national army inspection group was surrounded by villagers bewitched by the southern authorities near Mawlamyine, it was Liao Yaoxiang who led the cavalry to rescue. These two were in the advance team at that time, and they knew the miracles of Chu Tingchang best, and they knew that at that time he copied a radio station with a range of only a few kilometers, and called the troops 20 kilometers away, so as to bring in the rescue troops and prevent the British from blowing up the bridge.

Ma Qiang stood on the hill, staring at the Japanese squad stumbling through the mountains, when the Japanese army launched an attack, he got the most accurate map of Burma south of Mandalay, but the base camp has always lacked foresight, the map of northern Burma was not carefully collected at that time, and now the 18th Division has a few decades ago, which is very inaccurate. However, the Japanese generals were still experts in marching and fighting, and when they saw these 100,000 mountains, they would inevitably be unable to fortify everywhere, and they still felt afraid that the losses they suffered in China were all in mountainous areas like Jiangxi and Shanxi. Even if they were unable to send troops to defend the various mountain passes, they sent some patrols to patrol in all directions, and the enemy came on a large scale, and it was impossible not to bump into them. They did not anticipate a large-scale cavalry dispatch by the Chinese army, which had never been seen before.

A group of cavalry passed quickly, during which one or two horses neighed timidly, and the Japanese troops on the other side of the col seemed to hear the movement and accelerated over, but the mountains were unfamiliar at night, and they could not pass through the mountain beams. By the time they got around, they couldn't see anything. The Japanese army led by them is not puzzled, there have been a few battles here recently, and there are many war horses scattered on both sides, so they may not enter the deep mountains, and they are not allowed to reconnoiter a small group of cavalry on the other side, in short, it will not be a large army.

One thousand and one hundred cavalry, quickly arrived at the designated position, completely fine. Even on the other side of the river, the generals of the expeditionary force who were waiting anxiously began to wonder why Chief Chu was really not an ordinary person, why did he pass by the side of the Japanese army? The cunning of the Japanese is gone. This, of course, gave a good psychological hint to the upper echelons of the expeditionary force, and they felt that there was a way for tomorrow's battle.

This side began to unload weapons. Some of the fighters left their horses and joined the battle as infantrymen, carrying a number of mortars and machine guns, and were tasked with climbing over the mountain beams to harass the enemy's rear positions. Chu Tingchang summoned the officers of the company and platoon to a meeting on the side of the road, and he waved a pampa fan to disperse the mosquitoes in the field, as if he were playing a trick, and several more locations had been marked on his map, and he assigned tasks according to these nodes. Of course, he did not dwell on what those marks meant, only designated a few troops to march there. If you don't know each other, what will be there. Chief Chu told him that when he saw the enemy's stronghold station, he burned it down, and he came back with a great achievement, which was quite evil, and it was the same as Zhuge Liang's soldiers, and he did not explain it in detail. Of course, in fact, it was the result of reconnaissance, those nodes were the Japanese army's military stations, ammunition depots and hospitals, and the Japanese army chased them all the way, and they were almost also dragged down by the expeditionary force, and the various facilities on the supply were sloppy and the garrison was not much.

After deploying everything, about half of the men and horses dispersed, leaving only more than 500 cavalry, all of which were the foundation of the cavalry battalion of the 5th Army, using Soviet Mosinagan cavalry guns, and many people were also issued * and pistols, they were going to attack the rear of the main attacking wing.

In the early hours of the morning, west of Myitkyina, the Japanese began to launch sporadic artillery bombardments, they did not care that the opponent had the time to attack them, they had always taken whatever they wanted, according to their own schedule, and the Chinese army could not do anything with them even if they knew the plan in advance.

The Japanese army took advantage of the self-made rafts made these days and began to pull heavy weapons to cross the river, and the Chinese army position on the opposite side occasionally fired a few shells, which fell into the water and splashed, which could not stop the Japanese army from moving at all. The Japanese planes arrived 30 minutes later than expected, and the sky was bright and began to bomb the city, and the Japanese fighters were dispatched one by one, waiting for the battle at high altitude, but today, the Flying Tigers did not come out to intercept them.

Each of the three divisions of the Japanese army dispatched a wing to launch the first wave of attack, and the second echelon arrived at the river and began to cross the river, which was the time point that Chu Tingchang had to wait. He knew that the water system here came from glacial meltwater, and that every day after dawn, the water level would rise and the river would widen, and it would be impossible for them to come back with simple swimming equipment. In the Japanese plan, today they are ready to solve the entire Burma campaign in one fell swoop, and then they can go west against the weak British.

The first three wings of the Japanese army launched an attack on Myitkyina, and according to the advice of Chu Tingchang, Dai Anlan's 200 divisions fought and retreated, and directly withdrew from Myitkyina, using the terrain in the mountainous area north of the city to continue to resist, and he left the reserves there and did not put them into use. Sure enough, the Japanese army found that the Chinese army was retreating without crushing, so they couldn't hold their breath and began to put in reserves. So the two wings of the second echelon waiting by the river were put into battle, and a total of more than 13,000 combatants crossed the river. For fire support, the mountain artillery deployed in the rear began to move positions. The Japanese troops on the front line, relying on artillery planes, launched an attack on the Chinese army six times their own, and the soldiers were worried about rushing into the city to loot.

A Japanese artillery brigade rushed forward in the mountains with a cart. The Chinese army retreated too quickly, and their 75 mountain guns could no longer reach it, so they had to move their positions. It is expected that the river will have to be crossed in the afternoon.

These Japanese soldiers are in tatters, their beards are unkempt, they have not been repaired for a long time, they fight hard every day, just because of the various militaristic ideas instilled by their superiors, the military department told them that the ill-gotten gains of overseas Chinese exploiting the Burmese must be snatched back, and recently the superiors have begun to spread a new slogan - India has the most beautiful women in the world waiting to be liberated, and everyone knows that they are going to India to fight next.

Smoke and dust were raised from behind, and it seemed that there were car teams or cavalry coming, but the General Staff had strictly separated the marching lanes of the troops, how could such a mistake happen?

The Chinese cavalry emerged from the smoke and dust, and the cavalry at the front either held a * or held a one-foot-eight-inch long bayonet, which was quite long and used as a sabre.