Lieutenant Colonel Hink's desire to capture Sittwe as soon as possible to prevent the Japanese from destroying the port facilities was at odds with him, but he wanted to control the Chinese army on his behalf. It seems that every American who comes to Chu Tingchang's side, from the chief of staff of the theater to the commander of the airborne regiment, wants to teach him how to fight, but Chu Tingchang is still very good at dealing with these overconfident Americans. He had to endure humiliation in order to get more American supplies.

Chu's original intention was to take advantage of the confusion of the Japanese army to send a force to the east to open up the line of the Nu River in Songshan, so that the expeditionary force on the front line of Yunnan could cross the Nu River and enter Burma again. His game of chess was too big for a battalion-level officer like Zinke to understand, and he didn't want the Allies to understand it, which would easily arouse the fear of the British and cause him to get in the way. The ultimate goal of this plan was to take advantage of Britain's attention on the mainland and Africa in 1942 to add more Chinese power into Burma and expel British power. But the capture of Sittwe required the use of the British fleet, and now he was in a highly complicated situation, not only in military and political calculations, but also in deception of enemies and allies.

Zinker was no big or small in front of Chu Tingchang every day, saying that in the current situation, he should immediately attack Situan, and the Japanese were already panicked and could not miss the opportunity. Chu Tingchang said that the information was still insufficient and he could not make a decision. This is of course the truth, after 419 left with the drone, the biggest difficulty for him was intelligence. Sometimes insufficient information makes him more painful than no information, and when American and British planes obtain information, many times it is self-contradictory that interferes with judgment. The British plane had just said that it had seen the Japanese retreating on the road, and an hour later the American plane had seen the Japanese troops building up. In fact, what they see is only a corner rather than the whole picture, which is far less useful than the drones that stay in the air for a long time and carry various sensors.

Even on the surface, it was still insufficient, and he was worried that Kimura would recover from his momentary panic, and he had learned about Kimura's changeability in India. In fact, the Burmese Front can still use the plain communication network of Lower Burma to quickly mobilize two divisions, plus several brigades and local Burmese forces to defend. According to his calculations, the Japanese army could have amassed 40,000 Japanese troops and an equal number of Burmese troops. If the whole army rushes over and can't gnaw on the actual exchange, then they won't be able to eat and walk around.

Xu Chong listened to the Japanese radio station on the northern mountain of Sittwe, and the deciphering software left by Qin Xiaosu could crack some codes, which made Chu Tingchang still have some intelligence capabilities beyond the times, but compared with the beginning, it was really limited. From the analysis of the telegram obtained, Kimura himself was no longer in Sittwe, and could have gone to Mandalay, or he could be in Magway, and it was clear that he himself was very afraid of the Allied attack from the sea. He feared a two-sided attack, all the way from the mountains to the north and all the way from the sea.

According to the telegrams intercepted by Cong, he had asked the base camp to send a naval fleet to protect it, but it must have been yellow, because he ordered the sappers to blow up the port supply facilities at any time. The same is true from the intelligence of the US military, at present, the Japanese naval fleet is fighting near Australia, and the submarines lurking near Sumatra have not detected any Japanese fleet passing near Malacca.

However, there was no information on the command of the Japanese army in all aspects. It is uncertain that Kimura has made up his mind to retreat from the front, and it is impossible to obtain this information through radio monitoring alone.

Considering that Kimura himself had already fled Sittwe, it was necessary to conduct it over the phone if he wanted to command the operation here remotely without being monitored. Chief Chu hoped that Xu Chong would carry out a reconnaissance operation behind enemy lines, find the enemy's telephone lines, and eavesdrop on them to obtain important information about the enemy.

The biggest difficulty with this plan is that the situation is very urgent, and it is only possible to use airdrops to cross the enemy's defense line for about 150 kilometers, and evacuation is also a problem. The airdrop would have to inform the Americans, which would complicate the situation. He was very afraid of exposing his decision-making methods in front of Stilwell, which was bound to expose some intelligence warfare ideas that were ahead of his time. In addition, Xu Chong's current identity is a former Yunnan Army skirmish who was contained by the 200th Division, good at jungle warfare, has been in school for several years, and knows a little about reading. His sudden mastery of skydiving and radio skills was also a minor flaw. How can you take advantage of the American planes and the British submarines without letting them know too much?

The temptation to capture Sidwe was too great, and after weighing it, he came up with a not-so-foolproof solution, and then informed Stilwell of a detailed reconnaissance plan behind enemy lines. He knew Stilwell would approve his plan.

When Stilwell saw Pavilion Chief Chu's plan, he was really shocked again. He once regarded most of Chiang Kai-shek's direct officers as amateurs, and Chu Tingchang's appearance greatly changed his prejudices, but the enigmatic Chu Tingchang still surprised him every time. In this day and age, the military and spies are still strictly separated, and no one seriously wants to eavesdrop on it, because important telephone lines are in the rear, unlike listening to telegrams, requires sophisticated infiltration operations behind enemy lines.

But Chu Tingchang's plan was so complete, from the C47 aircraft airdrop, target search, to the evacuation assisted by British submarines, it was almost flawless. He immediately approved the action. Ordered a C47 transport-class plane to land on the temporary airfield of Chu Ting's headquarters, and randomly went to a US military (Chinese) intelligence officer who was proficient in Japanese and Chinese. There was also a team of U.S. paratroopers who were always inclined to fit the U.S. military into Chief Chu's plan.

The plane landed at the front in the afternoon, and Xu Chong and a dozen Chinese paratroopers wearing Japanese military uniforms rushed onto the plane and drove down the American soldiers who were about to participate in the battle, because Commander Chu "suddenly" remembered that the infiltration behind enemy lines required wearing Japanese military uniforms. The Americans are not suitable for such a task. He once again isolated the U.S. military to the greatest extent through this rogue method of temporarily changing the plan, and if it weren't for Xu Chong's inability to speak Japanese, he would have driven the intelligence officer away together.

In the middle of the night, the plane took off and flew to the predetermined airborne area southeast of Sittwe, where the defense area of the 2nd Mixed Brigade was located, and there were several hundred Japanese troops and several thousand Burmese bandits, but the Japanese should not have expected such a far-reaching place to be hostile. The British submarine had just departed from Chennai and was expected to arrive at the designated place in a few days to pick them up.

After the plane took off, in order to pass the lonely time on the plane, Xu Chong talked all the way to the long Svenwen, a US military intelligence officer with a pair of glasses, Howard Liu, wondering how he was obviously a Chinese, how Japanese could be better than Chinese. Howard, an honest child, told Xu Chong that he was actually of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent, that his mother was Japanese, and that his mother had concealed his true ethnicity in order to avoid going to a concentration camp. He also has a girlfriend who is also Japanese and is currently being held in a concentration camp. He also mentioned that he had always been in charge of Japanese intelligence analysis and had never participated in a battle, and he was worried that he would be caught and flayed alive by the Japanese, and Xu Chong assured him that he would be able to let him leave alive.

The plane flew over the light-controlled area occupied by the Japanese army, navigated the Qingdun River reflected in the moonlight, and reached the west side of the Arakan Mountains. The plane fled from the sea after making a turn.

Due to the choice of landing at a time of poor light, the personnel were scattered, and it took some time for Xu Chong to find everyone after coming down. Then hide the parachute. Howard wore the uniform of a Japanese lieutenant, and the rest of the men wore the uniform of a Japanese soldier, holding Japanese weapons and shovels, and pretending to be an engineering unit.

Xu Chong had been studying the Japanese army's methods of communication, and he knew that at the front line, telephone lines would usually be hastily hung from trees, but in the rear, important telephone lines would be hidden underground. But there are some patterns in the wiring, which are not difficult to find even without drones, and usually these telephone lines are always laid along the road, and when they get to the river, the cables will go along the bridge. As long as you connect a wire anywhere in the cable, you can eavesdrop, of course, there is no 419's cash equipment for parallel eavesdropping, you must use a more primitive direct connection method, but the principle is the same. The group wore the uniforms of the newly captured Japanese Road Maintenance Squadron, and there were few flaws, except that most of them did not speak Japanese.

After dawn, they found an improvised road repaired by the Japanese army in the jungle, and they dug together, but they did not find it. So he continued to look for the next channel, and at noon, only one cable was found, but after listening to it, it was found that it was a communication line of a nearby anti-aircraft artillery unit, which was of little value, so he buried it again.

Seeing that a lot of time was wasted, Xu Chong decided to take the risk of finding a bridge near Tingyao, no matter where the cable leads, it will inevitably go from here. But there must have been a heavy Japanese garrison near the bridge.

They spent several hours walking through the jungle to find the iron bridge where Ting Yao ambushed you. The bridge had been blown up by the British a few months earlier, but the Japanese had repaired it. Xu Chong observed with a telescope and found cables under the steel frame of the bridge. There were comings and goings of Japanese military vehicles on the bridge, and it was impossible to tell whether they were increasing or withdrawing troops.

They were preparing to dig on the side of the road 1.5 kilometers away from the bridgehead, and the Japanese vehicles on the road came and went, and it was impossible to move in secret. In the end, Xu Chong went out, took his people directly out of the forest, and dug up the ground with a shovel and pickaxe under the noses of the Japanese soldiers coming and going on the highway.

Xu Chong's subordinates are not veterans of fighting behind enemy lines, and Howard Liu is a nerd translator in the General Staff, who has never participated in actual combat, and everyone is scared, and everyone is buried in the ground and does not dare to raise their heads. Only Xu Chong was shirtless, standing on the side of the road with a shovel, and beckoning to the Japanese soldiers coming and going on the highway from time to time.

After digging the cable, Howard jumped into the pit, he cut the outer insulation of the cable, connected a wire to each wire inside, and then extended the wires so that he could use a telephone receiver to listen to it, but fortunately the job was not complicated, because the military line is very simple.

Keiji Suzuki sits in a Willis jeep and returns to Sittwe from Magway, looking worried because Kimura has lost patience with him. He saw sappers digging on the side of the road, wearing the uniform of a road support unit in his defense area.