On his way out, Sakagaki encountered a field mail team and found two small trucks delivering letters. He hoped that he and his chief of staff would quickly rush to the 2nd Division to resume command. At this time, there were only a few dozen people left around him, and there was not a single radio station, and this time the enemy attack came too suddenly, and he didn't run away, which really ruined his wisdom, and he was determined to commit suicide by seppuku to thank the emperor once he rescued the troops. Of course, he hopes that when the time comes, someone will be desperate to stop it, so that he may be able to regain his strength and take revenge.

Of course, Sakagaki had reason to hate, because he had already taken all precautions against Chu Tingchang, but why did he get behind his own defense? Chu Tingchang's pace was not a little faster than himself.

He never thought that those iron guys who walked on tracks could become the main force of the army, and they could break through alone. Not to mention the huge fuel consumption of those things, they also go all the way and break all the way, and they need a large number of logistics vehicles to follow and support, and they are far from being easy to use for soldiers who can grit their teeth and persevere.

In fact, he, like other Japanese generals who fell in front of Chu Tingchang, was too superstitious about the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army. Even though the tactics of this force had gradually been adapted by the opponents, even in the brutal fighting in Australia, the Japanese lost 100,000 men in just one month.

Zhou Youfu lost the intelligence support, maybe the immortals were resting at this time, and the military seat couldn't invite them to ask the enemy to move. A steady stream of rear troops arrived, and the encirclement of the 74th Army was not relieved. He suddenly had an idea, it was better to return to the army and take Mandalay, of course he knew that Chu Tingchang Neiding gave this good thing to Huang Tianyang, but now Huang Tianyang is not closer to Mandalay than himself, and Sun Liren's 114th regiment is also secretly approaching Mandalay, Sun did not report the situation, this is what Lao Zhou heard on the radio. If Huang Tianyang fails, won't he lose people to the military seat? He immediately pulled out a battalion of infantry and marched towards Mandalay, making sure to enter the palace first, and by the way, clear the enemy from the Ava Iron Bridge. It is very strange that the only time the bridge was destroyed by the attack from Thailand, it was Chu Tingchang, and Lao Zhou couldn't understand why the Japanese didn't blow up the bridge in advance, so that at least Chu Ting could be dragged for a long time, not bombed in Thailand, not bombed in Taunggyi, and when it came to Mandalay City, the enemy did not blow up the bridge, and the Japanese really lacked heart.

Outside Mandalay, on the western approach bridge of the Ava Iron Bridge, Kagesa Yoshiaki was arranging his men on the iron bridge*, and he could no longer find his superior, Commander Sakagaki, which meant that he could do his own thing without following orders.

One of his brigades is still resisting Sun Liren's 114th Regiment in the west, and it is estimated that it will not be able to resist for too long, and the other brigade is setting fire to the baggage in the city, and there are only a few hundred brigades and regiments on this side, so they move faster.

This railway bridge is the key to connecting Sittwe Port to Chiang Mai, almost in the middle of the railway that stretches for more than 1,000 kilometers. The British blew it up last year, and the 15th Army used thousands of prisoners of war and two bridge construction troops, and it took half a year to repair it, so it is expected that as long as it is blown up, the entire railway will be paralyzed for three months, which means that Chu Tingchang will not be able to get supplies through this railway during this time. The logistics of the entire Allied army needed to go around to the mountains of northeastern India and enter northern Burma.

He knew that the Japanese Army was brainless, and he was reluctant to blow up a bridge that had taken a lot of energy and time to build, but the offensive and defensive situation had changed, and he couldn't watch this bridge be used by the enemy? Unfortunately, he had no sappers to mobilize, and he couldn't find * in a hurry, so he could only go to the road to look for the baggage troops that had been scattered by the 202nd Division, find * and shells, and fill them under the bridge piers, hoping that there was still time.

For him, the loss of Myanmar is not the most important thing. The important thing is to delay Chu Tingchang, at present, it seems that Chu Tingchang is the main direction of the Chinese submarine's will, Chu is not only good at mobile combat, but also extremely deceitful, he can hide the strength of two divisions under the nose of the Southern Organ, which is not explained by any technology that is ahead of the times, which shows that his essence is so cunning. He secretly observed the three Japanese traversers, none of whom had such a city, which was the opposite of this era.

Judging from the other suspected Chinese traversers he knew, Lin Jiu was also a very scheming person. Judging from the current five sample statistics, the minds of the future Chinese seem to be above the Japanese, of course, Chu Tingchang and Lin Jiu are both from the military, and the three Japanese crossers are all civilians. He must delay the cunning man's plans in the subcontinent. According to Asano, it will soon be difficult for the US submarines to make Japan's sea transportation lines suffer, so it is necessary to open up the mainland communication lines and the passages through North China, the Central Plains, Guangxi, and even the Indochina Peninsula to connect the Nanyang battlefield. If Chu Tingchang had attacked Vietnam first, basically the war would not have lasted until the late spring of 1945, and the calendar that spurred Makino would have become a joke.

"Bangkok must be kept no matter what. Hopefully, Makino's new style* will be completed quickly, and they will be needed to surround the transport line. ”

He stood in the shade of the trees by the bridge, pacing up and down, not daring to hide in the bunker at the bridgehead, for it was an obvious target. Makino told him that having a shade on his head and not wearing an obvious officer badge was the best protection. Makino's * is in the other direction, and it is said that it can pose a great threat to Allied submarines, and I don't know how.

Someone sent information, Commander Sakagaki finally found it, others had arrived at the headquarters of the second division, the battle situation was a little more stable, the commander called as soon as possible, urging the garrison of Mandalay, it seems, General Sakagaki also thinks that he can hold Mandalay by relying on two and a half brigades. Of course, on the accounts of Lord Sakagaki, there is also the honorary first army of the Burmese Iron Army, 15,000 people, but at this time there is no longer this iron army in the city, only the military uniforms all over the streets, this so-called honorary army that conquered Yangon (in fact, it was in the city to report to the Japanese army), when they escaped, they were not dignified at all, some people robbed the clothes of the common people, and some simply ran bare-chested.

"Report, Your Excellency Suzuki is calling from Yangon."

Someone came to report. Ying Zuo hurriedly went to the bunker to answer the call, since Zhou Youfu cut the Thai telephone line, he cut off communication with Suzuki, Suzuki never dared to use the radio.

"Hey, I'm Kagesa. Are you in Yangon? That's great. ”

"Your Excellency, how are you doing there?"

"It's not good, it's all over," he said, looking up at his watch, "Mandalay will change hands in three hours." What's your news there? ”

"I just got the information, Chu Tingchang's 201st Division went south to Tonggu, where there are only 160 troops in the station."

"Lay down Tonggu, then the next step is Biaoguan? And then there'...... Bagu? ”

"Yes, I got the latest news, the troops he has trained and formed, not only the 203rd Division, but also the 204th Division, are also fully equipped, and in addition, a little rumor has leaked from Chongqing recently, saying that he forced Chiang to give him the right to conscript troops on the spot, and the Americans will give priority to replenishing his troops. Soon Chu's army will expand to 150,000. ”

"yes, this guy is terrible. Our mistake in the past was to focus only on the technology behind him, but ignore the mentality and viciousness of the Chinese 70 years later. ”

"I have a terrible prediction that Chief Chu will soon attack Bangkok from two directions. It will be three or four months earlier than we originally predicted. ”

"Leave this matter to me, and I'll make up for the mistakes made by His Excellency Sakagaki."

He was holding the phone, heard the chaos outside, and then remembered the sporadic gunshots, he immediately realized that there might be a small team to sneak attack him, and quickly dropped the phone and ran outside, just ran out of the pillbox, only to see a tank galloping past in front of him, and the commander on the turret operated the top machine gun to strafe forward.

Immediately after the second car passed in front of him, the commander turned his head to look at him, and did not intend to turn the machine gun fire. He hurriedly ran off the approach bridge, followed by a swarm of half-tracks, but the soldiers above did not get out of the car, but just strafed the surrounding soldiers with various weapons.

"How did you come so quickly?" Kagesa was also stunned by the whirlwind of enemy troops, but it was not difficult to conclude that the enemy was not here to capture him.

He hid under the embankment and did not dare to look up, waited for a while, heard someone shouting on the bridge deck, and only then did he probe, about a battalion of Chinese troops, crossed the bridge, and went towards Mandalay, did not stop, leaving dozens of Japanese corpses on the bridge deck, and several soldiers who had fallen on the bridge pier with safety ropes to install * were fine. Now was the perfect opportunity to escape, and Kagesa ran towards his jeep and stopped suddenly.

He realized that the enemy had not yet noticed the bridge, and that he still had time, although he did not know when the second wave of enemies would arrive. The bridge has nothing to do with the victory or defeat of the battle, or the victory or defeat of Myanmar, but it may have to be related to the fortunes of the country, and the 16-pier Ava Bridge is the longest bridge in Myanmar, and it is not so easy to repair once blown up.

He shouted for the troops to steady, and then gave the order to continue the installation*, and the soldiers were lowered back down the piers and stuffed into the base of the piers*. Unable to analyze structural weaknesses, Kagesa's intention was to stuff half a ton* into the gaps under each pier and blow up the bridge completely. When the time comes, the enemy will find that it may be easier to rebuild a bridge than to repair it.

"Gentlemen must work hard, the fate of the empire, and this is the case again."

He stood at the head of the bridge and shouted, and the soldiers didn't understand why he was shouting like this, how could it be that the fate of the empire was related to blowing up the bridge he had worked so hard to build?

Halfway through the formal installation, the bridge deck began to stir again. From a distance, I saw a truck speeding towards the south, and on the first car, a blue sky and white sun flag was hunting and flying.

This time it was the soldiers of the 203rd Division who came, and they began to shoot indiscriminately at the bridgehead from outside the firing range. Kagesa Zhenzhao picked up the binoculars, the enemy was still two kilometers away, he ordered the rest of the people who could hold guns to resist the enemy except for the personnel who installed *, he hoped to buy time to install the wires for *, and the detonator was in front of him.

2 kilometers away, Huang Tianyang just got the news that Zhou Youfu was unruly and slipped to the front without authorization, and when he was angry, he found that the Japanese flag was still flying at the bridge, and his heart couldn't help but get angry. His motorized infantry did not have enough protection and firepower, and should have disembarked from a kilometer away to attack, but he did not learn much theory, and he ordered the driver to rush over at maximum speed, not giving the enemy any time to prepare for defense.