Adjutant Shibuya Teruo came in to report that the sappers were ready to blow up the bridge over the River Kwai, the temple hesitated for a moment, and hurriedly called a halt, although he was anxious to destroy anything that might speed up the march of Chu Tingchang, but the bridge was still waiting to be kept, and the 4th Division was not only his capital to hold Thailand, but also his old troops, which was not easy to give up. Therefore, he knew that Chu Tingchang would definitely pay attention to the Kwai River Bridge, and he had to wait for the entire 4th Division to withdraw to Kanchanaburi, Thailand, before blasting. The buckle that Lin Xiuxuan left him was almost unsolvable.

However, the general of the temple quickly realized that this order was not rigorous enough, and the people below carried it out according to it, for fear that if they slackened, they would be exploited by Chu Tingchang. So he called back Shibuya, who was about to take the order, and told him to send the gendarmerie of the 33rd Army to strengthen the garrison of the bridge to prevent the enemy from crossing the bridge again in Japanese uniforms. He was frightened by Chu Tingchang's successive efforts to seize the bridge, and these bridge-grabbing operations also made the context of Chu Tingchang's entire Thai campaign very clear, that is, he wanted to take over the railway built by the Japanese Army in its entirety, and then drive the Southern Army into the sea.

After completing these explanations, the temple felt that his deployment was close to foolproof, and it seemed that there was no hole to exploit. But he still had some omissions, and after Shibuya returned, he ordered him to be deployed through the radio, because the password had just been changed, so Shibuya felt that the password was still very time-sensitive.

Of course, this timeliness does not have much significance for 419, even if Qin Xiaosu has not returned, the decipherment equipment of 419 still translates a large number of messages from the enemy, including the enemy's special instructions to strengthen the defense of the bridge on the River Kwai, and increase the backup of the detonation method. In addition, the message specifically states that a radio detonation team will be deployed on the hill as a final third layer of insurance. Obviously, there is some obsessive-compulsive disorder in the temple, and the order is meticulous to every link.

According to the plan, Xu Chong led the search battalion directly under the army, crossed the mountains and mountains, secretly advanced to the target, and prepared to accompany the task of seizing the bridge. In this operation, they also carried more than 100 Japanese military uniforms, and they really couldn't find more, otherwise they would have brought more.

The main force of Chu Tingchang's 200th Division advanced to the deep area of Thailand, creating pressure and chaos for the enemy, and he needed a period of chaos before he could finally seize the bridge.

Lin Xiuxuan, with his Thai intelligence team, mixed in with the refugees and advanced towards the bridge over the River Kwai with the aim of conducting a spot reconnaissance.

Ma Qiang and Qin Xiaosu took Chu Tingchang's special pass and went to Mawlamyine, preparing to join 419 at the mouth of the Irrawaddy River to obtain some equipment. Because it needs to pass through Tao Mingzhang's defense area, the equipment of 419 must be disguised as American-style equipment, Tao Mingzhang is a careful person after all, so he still has to be careful to hide from him. Chu Tingchang asked the headquarters to send telegrams to Tao Mingzhang in succession, demanding that the pass issued by the military department must be released immediately.

The last time Lin Xiuxuan went north, he took a train to cross the bridge over the River Kwai, but this time he went south, followed by the Thai rout and refugees on foot.

He mingled in the crowd and observed the retreating men, Japanese engineers, who were blowing up the railroad tracks in sections, and on some of the branch lines, a new type of railroad destruction car was put into use.

This locomotive, which can uproot the rails and break the sleepers with an iron plow, is obviously some fashionable new technology imported from Germany by the base camp. At this point, the Japanese finally understood Chu Tingchang's thoughts, and also figured out that this railway was a curse or a blessing for them. However, the Japanese army did not seem to have enough* to destroy the roadbed, and the railroad tracks were relatively easy to repair, so Chu Tingchang captured a large amount of equipment and materials left by the Japanese army in Chiang Mai.

Lin Xiuxuan couldn't help but have some preliminary judgments about the arduousness of this task, and the enemy would definitely not relax that bridge. The sabotage plan must be very thorough and rigorous, and then rely on cleverness, such as taking the bridge by wearing the uniform of the Japanese army, it will definitely not work, and there must be a careful plan and modern equipment. He planned to cross the bridge and disband his team and let them wait in Bangkok to do internal response, and he didn't need these people for the time being, maybe he could still play this card in the attack on Bangkok.

After two days of trekking with the refugees, the bridge was already a kilometer away, and in the distance I saw the dejected Japanese troops retreating from the east, which seemed to be the 4th Division. It doesn't seem to have any heavy couplings and heavy weapons, and the team is dragging and scattering, and obviously the morale is not good. The Japanese army seized the railway and did not let the refugees approach, so the refugees could only stop by the river and wait for the ferry, or wait for the water to drop or swim over, and you can see a large number of dead bodies floating on both sides of the bank, obviously many people have died in the process of swimming.

When Lin Xiuxuan was carefully observing the bridge, the Japanese troops at the bridgehead began to strafe the refugees who were too close to the embankment, killing three or four more people at one time. It seems that the Japanese army has been nervous to the extreme, to the extent that all the grass and trees are soldiers.

Ogura Heiji Shaosa, who was guarding the bridge, constantly sent scouts to the north to find out where the Chinese army had advanced, and now he was heavily responsible, and he did not dare to fully trust the intelligence of his superiors, although his superiors told him that the Chinese army seemed to be stopped 90 kilometers away for repairs, but how dare he be careless.

The co-prosperity of Greater East Asia, the Japanese-Thai goodwill, and the machine gun was set up directly at the bridgehead, and any non-Japanese personnel who approached were all shot. Not only that, but the military police transferred from the Southern Army set up checkpoints one or two kilometers outside the bridge, and the Japanese troops close to the bridge prevented Chinese soldiers from crossing the bridge in the ranks. And his headquarters, set up a hundred meters away from the west bank of the bridge, detonated the bridge's backup detonator, right on his desk, and someone checked the wires every hour to make sure they were not cut by saboteurs.

Lin Xiuxuan spent half a gold bar a kilometer away from the bridge before taking a local ferryboat to cross the river. He sat on the bow of the ship and carefully observed the enemy's disposition, and found that the Japanese cordon on the west bank was about 500 meters away from the bridgehead, and no one was allowed to approach within this range. Moreover, there are a large number of semi-permanent fortifications on the west bank, and even if some people sneak over the bridgehead or sneak over from somewhere upstream, it will be difficult to quickly solve those * wires under enemy fire. It's really a big thing.

At the same time, Qin Xiaosu took a truck driven by Ma Qiang to a beach near Bago, and then they began to contact 419, now for them, the biggest threat is not from the Japanese, but by Tao Mingzhang's coastal patrol team deployed in this area, I don't know why he is always worried that the Japanese may launch a landing operation, after his main force leaves, retake this port. In fact, within a radius of a thousand kilometers, there was not a single Japanese landing craft.

After nightfall, the boatswain's rubber boat docked and brought the most needed supplies for the operation. This includes anti-materiel weapons, reconnaissance equipment, and wetsuits. The reason why there is a diving suit is because Lin Xiuxuan feels that if land infiltration can't be done, maybe it can be infiltrated underwater, with his understanding of the older generation of Japanese generals, their imagination will not be able to think of water ghosts.

Qin Xiaosu obtained at the same time, as well as the Japanese army communications intercepted by 419 in the recent period, he was surprised to find that there were deployment requirements for the bridge over the River Kwai, although these instructions did not directly mention the details, but through the detailed instructions of every detail, you can still understand the enemy's entire garrison thinking. It seems that the redundancy of the enemy is very high, and in addition to the two different positions*, there is also a radio starter.

Radio detonation is still a certain danger because the frequency of initiation is not known for the time being. Adaptive jamming, on the other hand, cannot counter this method that the first signal may blow up the bridge, and the solution to deal with it may be full-band interference, or through some method in advance to solve this stronghold.

Ma Qiang and Qin Xiaosu packed their gear, left the beach, and headed in the direction of Thailand, where they were expected to join Xu Chong a day later. Along the way, the main thing encountered was Tao Mingzhang's troops, and Chief Chu Tingchang had already greeted him, so there would be no trouble.

When the truck marched to the front outpost, it was still stopped by Tao Mingzhang's troops, and Ma Qiang calmly showed a special pass directly issued by the military headquarters, thinking that it could easily pass. But the lieutenant who was guarding the card in front just didn't let him go. He returned to the duty room and, after making a phone call to his superiors, came out and asked them to wait on the side of the road. Ma Qiang was shocked, he didn't expect that Pavilion Chief Chu's pass would not work.

A few kilometers away, Tao Mingzhang was arriving quickly in a jeep. Ever since Commander Chu Ting forcibly asked him to let go of the 4th Division, he has been haunted.

Chu Tingchang was so anxious to seize Bagu that he could even give up a great opportunity to annihilate the enemy's living forces, which made him can't help but imagine the worst. Perhaps, the military commander has already been in the same boat as Zhou Youfu, and he is so desperate to control a port, perhaps to run his smuggling business. He has always watched Commander Chu's recent strange moves, including his direct recruitment of troops from overseas Chinese, and direct assistance from the United States, etc., all of which made him feel that Commander Chu was transforming, perhaps he had abandoned his ideals and wanted to be the king of local grass. He has always hated the warlord habits of the Chinese military circles, because once he mixes selfishness in the great cause of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it is equivalent to losing the bottom line of the soldiers, and in some theaters of war in China, there have even been cases of the Nationalist Army and the Japanese army giving and receiving from each other privately and colluding with each other, and he does not want to see such signs of the Fifth Army.

Therefore, when he received the order given to him by Chu Tingchang's headquarters to release a certain truck from the communications unit directly under him, his curiosity suddenly grew. He just wanted to see if Chu Tingchang was incorrigible, and he was going to carry out some ulterior deeds at the most critical moment of the war.

In the passenger seat, Qin Xiaosu was not in a hurry, he had already guessed that the bane was caused by Pavilion Chief Chu's special pass. He had studied several of Chu Tingchang's subordinates, Tao Mingzhang had recently gotten close to Xiong Xianghui, and Xiong Xianghui had planted a secret radio station in the 5th Army, using the encryption method of a certain book, which could not be deciphered.