When Zhou Youfu rushed back, nothing happened, he walked quickly to the temporary headquarters in a warehouse in the mining area, Chu Tingchang was studying the terrain, and Tao Mingzhang was reporting the number of stragglers in the shelter:

"At present, we have gathered here a total of 1,100 scattered soldiers from various units and more than 400 refugees. Most of the skirmishers had weapons, but ammunition was very scarce, and the caliber of British ammunition that Lao Zhou found was not suitable. ”

"The logistical problem is too troublesome, concentrate the ammunition in their hands and issue it all to the people of the new 38th Division and the 200th Division, and the rest of the troops will be replaced with British rifles, and the veterans should be able to adapt quickly."

"There are also 4 new 25-pounder mountain guns, I remember that there was an artillery platoon commander and a few soldiers who could shoot curved guns among the 200 Division stragglers who were contained in the morning, I will look for them."

"Well, the enemy is about to move, and we have to do everything we can, and we have to hold this place for at least a week, and we must be prepared for no assistance. By the way, what about the nearby enemy? ”

"There are traces of sabotage left by agents everywhere, and the camouflage is so careful that it is impossible to distinguish at all. There are several divisions here with people from all over the country, and the agents who have mixed in are also from the south to the north, so it is not easy to distinguish them. ”

"I have to think of a way, these people are the biggest hidden danger, just the dozens of tons of mining in the warehouse*, if someone points it, they can blow us all into the sky."

Zhou Youfu pushed the door in, "Boss, this group of spies who follow us is not from the south to the north, but from Taiwanese." ”

"How do you know?"

"Just packed 6 and found these photos."

Fu walked up to him and threw a bloodstained photo on the table, Chu Tingchang glanced at it and found that it seemed to be himself, this photo had never been released publicly, it was a photo of him and Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, and then someone cut it, it should be the closest to his current appearance, his photo was a little jerky a few months ago, and now it has completely changed. The source of the photo should have been obtained by the enemy's intelligence department after Chiang Kai-shek's villa was captured by the Japanese army a week ago, but I didn't expect it to be sent below so quickly. Of course, what surprised Chu Tingchang the most was that he had become the enemy's priority target, and it seemed that they had finally figured out the personnel of the synthetic battalion, and it must be the bottom of the leak.

"There are a few more, but it's not you," he said, throwing the rest of the photos on the table, with Liao Yaoxiang and Sun Liren, "They say on the back of their photos, shoot first, but boss, your treatment is different, the devil will be caught alive." ”

Chu Tingchang turned over the photo, and there was really such a word.

"Lao Zhou, how did you identify these Taiwanese?" Tao Mingzhang hurriedly asked.

"Stun them, ask them about the personnel of our 5th Army, and they still know a lot, but if you ask more, there must be a horse's foot, the leader told me that the commander of the gendarmerie battalion Li played cards * sixteen times, Li Jianru's hand was blown off, how did *?"

"It's too difficult, can you tell the accent?"

"Accent? What accent the boss has, what accent do they have. ”

"What about the clothes, are there any flaws?"

"There are no flaws in the clothes and shoes, I have checked the color of the military uniform and the line of the soles, it is ours, it must be the train or warehouse where the clothes are installed has been occupied by them."

"What then? There will definitely not be only such a team, there will be other people" Tao Mingzhang looked a little nervous.

"Battalion commander, why don't you send the British guns first?"

"No, how can the Japanese resist when they come, just rely on me and a few companies here are not enough."

"I have a way." Zhou Youfu said confidently, "Gather everyone together and let them line up to sing the sect of the Three People's Doctrine and our party, or recite the prime minister's testament, and those who recite the wrong ones will be shot." ”

"Can you be asked for the Prime Minister's posthumous training?" Tao Mingzhang asked suspiciously, in his opinion, Zhou Youfu may not be able to carry this kind of old man.

"I'm lacking in eyes, go carry that thing? However, it's not for them to really carry it, you put the machine gun rack in the front, leave a way out in the back, and then separate the troops, one-on-one to carry them on the back, and those who have a ghost in psychology must slip away. I was staring at the back. ”

"Lao Zhou, can you come up with such a strategy?"

"Do you really think that my old Zhou is in the rivers and lakes, and I can't compare to you student soldiers? Lao Tzu didn't rely on his brain to kill all sides at the poker table? Is it by going into the water? ”

"Well, I think he can do it, so I'll do it. Tao Mingzhang, you first go and tell the brothers in the other troops, and say that you will issue British guns, and collect their weapons first. ”

"Okay."

"Let those who have an establishment carry them in the order of company and platoon, I don't think they have any problems, and those who are not organized are most likely to hide the enemy, let them stay behind, and give them time to run. You guys go and arrange it. I was targeted by the enemy, so I didn't show up. Also, Zhou Youfu, you can find another class to strengthen the defense here, I always feel uneasy. ”

"Yes."

Outside the city of Lashio, Lin Xiuxuan was searching for the telephone line set up by the 74th Army, and if he could find it, he was going to use the foley equipment to pretend to be Du Yuming to fool the commander of the defenders, and let them retreat to Songshan one by one, so as not to give such a danger to the Japanese in vain. However, the Japanese spies had already cut off all the lines leading from here to Meimiao, and this plan was obviously not feasible. It seems that the two regiments here have fallen into a situation of fighting independently, completely separated from the rest of the battlefields in Burma, and no one can care about this place. Every time the national army loses a battle, it starts from these little defeats. First it was a poor command, then it was a separate battle, and finally the whole line collapsed.

In fact, the special team had already had a large number of blank order papers stamped with the big seal of the expeditionary force headquarters in advance, all of which were made by He Ming after scanning the samples provided by Chu Tingchang, but it was simple to write an order by himself, and it was not easy to send it in. Since there is no way, they can only evacuate here first, their jeep has traveled thousands of kilometers and finally damaged, but they have newly obtained a few war horses and the uniforms of the cavalry battalion of the 49th Division, which can be mixed in the chaos and go to Myitkyina.

After the Huitong Bridge was blown up, there was chaos on the mountain road to Myitkyina, there were troops who did not know that the bridge had been blown up and rushed here, there were those who knew that the situation was not good and ran in the opposite direction, and there were also those who simply sat down and did not leave because they could not understand the situation.

From time to time, small groups of Japanese troops passed through the road, causing an uproar among the Chinese soldiers and civilians on the road, but the Japanese army did not rarely attack the rout here, they just wanted to pass quickly, and their real target was Mujie in the north. Watanabe heard that there was a ferry in the slower part of the river, and that there were some boats that had not been burned, and wanted to see if he could take them.

Lin Xiuxuan and his party rode past the panicked infantry, they did not have to get out before the Japanese closed the encirclement, although they could easily break through the loose Japanese blockade from the night, but they could not afford to delay.

A sharp whistling sound sounded in the air, and a plane flashed over the hill, and two green Japanese fighters followed in hot pursuit.

"Look, Stimson Contact. It must have come to deliver the command. ”

Lin was sharp-eyed and found that it was a liaison machine. In the blink of an eye, I saw that the thin plane pulled up black smoke, and after a pilot parachuted, the plane crashed straight into the mountains and forests.

"Let's go, go over and have a look."

Lin Zema ran through the crowd in the direction of the plane crash. The plane was only emitting green smoke, but it didn't explode, maybe you can see what was on it, Lashio doesn't have an airport, so it's impossible to bring dignitaries, it must be an order.

Seeing the parachute drift to the other side from a distance, he thought again, maybe the order was on the pilot.

"Ma Qiang, you and Xu Chong go to save the pilot, I'll go to the plane to check, and we'll meet later."

"Yes."

The three of them dispersed, Lin Xiuxuan hurried to the place where the plane fell, and from a distance, the woods were knocked into a piece, and the fire on the plane was not serious.

He quickly rushed to the side of the downed plane, dismounted, and if there were Japanese troops nearby, most of them would come to check, but now he was the only one, and there was no way to arrange a guard.

He jumped on the broken wing. I saw that there were a large number of bullet holes in the skin of the plane, and an American lieutenant sitting in the back seat was shot in the head, and he was already out of breath. The glass cabin cover was stuck and couldn't be opened, he kicked it to pieces, reached in and took out a small leather round with a small parachute from the pilot's side, which must be what he was looking for, and took out the documents in the pilot's jacket pocket and took a look: Lieutenant Bastian, the liaison officer.

He jumped off the wing, quickly opened the leather bucket, and poured out the command to roll up.

It was a short order stamped with Luo Zhuoying's big seal, and the seal pattern was exactly the same as that provided by Chu Tingchang, and the order required the two regiments of the 74th Division stationed in Lashio, to immediately blow up the Lashio warehouse, retreat to the Nu River, wait for the 11th Army on the opposite bank, arrange ships to transport the troops to the north bank, and then refuse to defend the bank.

Lin Xiuxuan almost threw the order to the ground in anger, how far would someone who was dazed come up with a strategy? Let the troops who have fought vigorously blow up enough weapons and ammunition to last a year, and then retreat to the unsupported riverside, waiting for the troops on the other side of the river, who have no shadow at all, to prepare ships to rescue them?

At that time, the Japanese army only needs a brigade to chase after and occupy the commanding heights of the river, and then they can slaughter the army compressed on the river beach like a duck, and then the troops have only two choices, either to be killed, or to jump into the Nu River and be rushed.

But the real history is very close to this deduction.

Why didn't these high-ranking generals think about the possibility of leaving a part of the new army to hold Songshan? Why, as soon as the battle is frustrated, they begin to make such stupid plans to get home. It is much wiser to let the 74th Army kill Myitkyina, and all the troops are in a group, than such a plan.

"No, I have to change that. Gotta leave a way for the troops here. ”

He thought about walking forward, and there was a hidden order paper in his horse bag, both Du Yuming and Luo Zhuoying, and of course he had to imitate the font. As he approached the horses, he was still thinking about how he could steal the day and use the leather tube to send a false order of his own into the city. The sound of the plane crackling and burning also obscured part of his hearing.

He felt a figure in front of him flickering, subconsciously dodged, and the gunshots rang out immediately, he felt a heat on his shoulder, knew that he had been shot, and quickly dodged to the side. Perhaps because of distraction, he didn't notice that the Japanese troops who were camouflaged with branches had approached, but fortunately, there was another big tree on the side that couldn't be surrounded by two people to take shelter temporarily.

"He's here, I see him hiding on the left flank, Kishida, outflanking from the side." Someone shouted in Japanese, and the distance was just 30 meters away. There is no way that the enemy knows that Hayashi can understand Japanese.

The bullet that passed through the shoulder socket did not hit the bone and did not roll, which seems to be a blessing, but it is unknown whether it will be able to save the day. He heard the rustling of the grass on one side, and sure enough, someone had outflanked him. He raised his pistol and waited, and a figure sprang out sideways, moving in one go, obviously a veteran, but it was not easy to move laterally with a slender rifle loaded with bayonets on his shoulder in such a narrow bamboo forest. Lin raised his hand and shot down the outflanked Japanese soldiers.

"He's down, he's down."

He shouted in Japanese.

"Really?"

The Japanese troops guarding the front hurriedly ran over, Lin Xiuxuan flashed out from behind the big tree, and raised his hand to kill the Japanese soldier Cao with a stunned face.