One of the pitfalls of failing to completely eliminate Sentai was that Yamamoto and the Army's modifications to the established strategy were not sufficiently challenged. Destroying a dragon is not the same thing as destroying the entire second team. The Japanese still have enough capital to venture out in Guinea.

To a certain extent, the revised strategy is Asano's idea, and this kind of intensified military adventurism is easily appreciated by the military department. This is also Asano's linear idea after reflecting on history. Yamamoto had reservations about this hubris, but now he saw the possibility of abandoning Solomon and capturing all of New Guinea, while the Japanese Army had a greater appetite, and their eyes were on India and Australia.

In Japan, 200 divisions of new forces are being formed, and it will take a long time for these forces to be fully armed, but the base camps can't wait, and the army is now inclined to put their largest, deployed strategic grouping in the northeast, to join the bet, of course, thanks to the fierce Soviet counteroffensive in the spring of '42, which still has not recaptured Moscow, and it is currently judged that the Germans will launch an offensive on the Volga in June, aimed at eliminating the Soviet agricultural areas and industrial potential. Germany has even fired a new, so-called * weapon at Baku, and there seems to be no far-reaching target that is beyond the reach of such a weapon.

The Japanese Empire had entered a general war, and although industry was still weak and could not build enough trucks and tanks, there was still enough convoy of transport ships to transport the lightly armed army into the zone of control. Officers such as Mutaguchi believed that the Japanese Army, with its simple equipment, could take anywhere it wanted from the Allies. Once the Japanese Army broke through the mountains along the Indo-Burmese border and occupied Chittagong as a landing point for supplies, the situation in Burma would inevitably repeat itself, and the base camp estimated that the Allied forces would collapse at least another 1,500 kilometers. At that time, the meeting between Britain and Germany in the Middle East no longer seems to be just talk. Turkey was on the move, ready to join the Axis powers, and they had already received a gift from Hitler, about 60 Mozu fighters, and the subsequent equipment was still on the way.

South of Myitkyina, the three main divisions of the Japanese army finally met again, and before the 56th, 55th, and 18th divisions set out, they opened a large sparse net from east to west.

Admiral Iida needed a clean battle to capture Myitkyina and drive the Chinese army away, but he didn't want to encircle it. According to the ancient art of war, there is one of three missing, which is what Iida wants. He didn't want his tired and weakened army to fight another bloody battle here, and if the Chinese army fled into the Hukang Valley on its own, it was doomed to be wiped out by miasma and starvation. From the intelligence brought back by the spies, it appears that the Chinese are destroying heavy weapons and vehicles, and it is clear that they are preparing to do so.

Ma Qiang and Xu Chong moved closer to the Chinese army in the dark, having recently traversed the Japanese blockade so many times that they were already familiar with it. The Japanese usually occupied the valley and were loosely guarded, and with night vision devices, it was easy to pass through at night. Of course, Ma Qiang also noticed that all the valleys were devoid of trees, and the ground was washed away with only bare gravel, which indicated that once the rainy season came, flash floods would pass through here, and it was very risky to march or camp in the valley. Of course, the Japanese believe that there is still a window period based on the statistics of the rainy season in previous years.

They hid in the bushes and waited for a convoy of Japanese troops to pass by. At this moment, the carts coming and going were transporting supplies to the Japanese troops in front, and the soldiers who drove the carts were humming a little song and chewing biscuits. The car was piled with cartons of American C rations. In fact, the 55th Division in the middle has almost given up logistics, and they have relied on collecting Allied supplies all the way. Watching these full of big cars passing by on the road, it really made Ma Qiang want to scold his mother.

They followed the Japanese army in the valley, which saved some time. If there is a large UAV reconnaissance, you can roughly understand the entire deployment of the enemy, according to Ma Qiang's judgment, the enemy is not chasing many troops at present, and they are scattered, in the 80-kilometer-wide front from Banmao to Jesha, maybe only 10,000 people, this is of course only his estimate. If the expeditionary force immediately strikes back, instead of rushing to destroy the heavy weapons, it is completely possible to fight.

The two crossed the enemy's battle line and hid in the mountains to rest for a while, on the one hand to contact Qin Xiaosu behind, and on the other hand, Xu Chong had to go into the woods to find something.

After a while, Xu Chong came back from the jungle, and it seemed that he had already caught it.

"What did you get?" Ma Qiang asked.

"Well, the ringed red snake, less than 15 centimeters, the smallest venomous snake in the mountain here."

"Does it work?"

"It's useful, nerve agents, the lethality rate is very high, it doesn't hurt or swell after being bitten, but within 4 hours the whole body will be paralyzed, and there is no help."

"So sure?"

"Of course, the antidote serum was only made in 1965, and people in this era can't even figure out the classification of this snake."

"It's just too much. The first lieutenant couldn't even kill a person. Ma Qiang said disdainfully, he felt that killing Du Yuming was not something that could be solved with a bullet.

"Doesn't Du Yuming like to wear riding boots, just throw them in his boots," Xu Chong continued to explain, "I don't think the deputy captain can do it in other ways." He's good for intrigue and not for himself. ”

"Won't it be over with a shot in the back of the head?"

"That's you. The deputy captain is now a regimental seat, and he also points to mixing in the national army, and he can lead the team to revolt in the future. Besides, Myitkyina was heavily guarded, and it was difficult for us to go in with our equipment, so this was the only way to do it now. ”

The two looked into the distance at Myitkyina, where the national army was burning their armaments, and the snake had to be sent over in the night. This method was thought up by Xu Chong, and it looked a bit pediatric, but Lin Xiuxuan did not explain the specific strategy, and it seemed that they had to figure it out for themselves. Xu Chong believes that this is the best way, Myanmar is full of poisonous snakes, even in the headquarters, it is normal to get into a snake. Snakes usually like to burrow into warm places, and shoes are also an easy place to go. In fact, Lieutenant General Alexander had been bitten by a small snake that had gotten into his boots, but that time it was a non-venomous snake, and this time Xu Chong prepared a slightly different one.

They used the radio to call Chief Chu Ting, who was waiting near the front line under the pretext of patrolling. After getting the news, he immediately joined the two of them, and almost cried angrily because of the plan brought by the two. He originally thought that it should be a headshot from a few hundred meters away, but at present, Du Yuming did not come out of the headquarters all day, and sniping seemed to be only an alternative.

He put away the small bamboo tube where the snake was hidden, and hurried back to the headquarters. The perimeter of the headquarters seemed to be heavily guarded, but the guards were also familiar with each other and let them go.

I heard from afar that Du Yuming was arguing with Dai Anlan, who had just come back from the front, of course, because Du Yuming burned the equipment in advance, and he also called this kind of behavior a beautiful name: Breaking the kettle and sinking the boat. In fact, he did cut off any other possibility than escape by destroying supplies and artillery.

"Have you ever thought about those seriously wounded soldiers? We go north, what do they do? This is what Dai Anlan heard when Chu Tingchang entered the conference room, no one pointed out this matter in the past two days, only as soon as he came back from the front line, he mentioned the fate of the wounded soldiers.

"I'm also looking for a way out for everyone...... Necessary sacrifices are inevitable. ”

"Military seat, there are not many Japanese troops trailing, I just fought in Meng Gongbei yesterday, and there are only about 1,000 people. After putting the poison gas, it was retreated. ”

"So what? We're going to spend it with the enemy in Myitkyina? ”

"My opinion, to the southeast, open up Longling and the 74th Army to meet the troops."

"Isn't that the same and can't go back? The Huitong Bridge was blown up. ”

"But it is better to fight to the death with the motherland on your back, and soldiers will also use their lives, which is better than going north to a barren land."

It sounds like Dai Anlan also has his own plan, although it may not be feasible, but it is more positive than Du Yuming's.

Chu Tingchang remained silent, he noticed that Du Yuming was wearing a pair of sandals, he was usually casual during meetings, especially when the foreigners were not present, the riding boots should have been lost in the back barracks.

He quietly turned around and went to Du Yuming's tent, where there was only one soldier on duty at the door. Now that the troops have withdrawn all the way, the position of the headquarters sometimes changes three times a day, and the garrison is also tight on the outside and loose on the inside, and it is not easy for outsiders to blend in, but it is very lax inside. Under the pretext of looking for a map, he easily slipped in, and sure enough, the riding boots were next to the marching bed. He pretended to flip the map so that the outside could hear it, took out the bamboo tube from his bosom, and poured the small snake inside into it. Xu Chong said that this kind of little snake can't move at night when it's lazy at night, so just throw it in.

He completed his mission and took out a random map without arousing the slightest suspicion from the guards. In fact, he thought about Xu Chong's strategy carefully, it seemed clumsy but it was actually safer, much easier than poisoning the water or directly using a syringe to give Du Yuming a blow, the only question was whether it would be fatal? It always felt like the snake wasn't much bigger than an earthworm. If it doesn't work, you have to try to find out Du Yuming's whereabouts tomorrow, so that Ma Qiang can ambush and snipe in advance. But if you inquire about your whereabouts, it's easy to be traced when the time comes.

When he returned to the command room, he found that there was no suspicion, and Du Yuming was still there to explain various reasons, including his belief that there would be a way to investigate. Recently, his imaginary path has been changing, from western Yunnan to Kangzang. He didn't want to think about how could he go over the mountains to inspect the corners of those barren places and feed tens of thousands of troops.

"I have an idea," Chu Tingchang said with a raised voice.

"Speak."

"We still go back to Junbanmao, where the road is only 100 kilometers from Tamansi, and the road to India is open."

"Don't mention unrealistic solutions." Du Yuming waved his hand, signaling that Chief Chu didn't need to say any more, he was a little annoyed, Chu is usually well-behaved, why is he making a mistake at this time, and put forward this politically unfeasible plan again and again. He didn't know that Chu Tingchang was actually not telling him, but trying to test Dai Anlan by knocking on the side. Sure enough, he noticed that Dai Anlan looked down at the sand table for a while, measured the approximate distance with his palm, and then nodded slightly.

The meeting still broke up unhappily, Du Yuming resolutely blew up the equipment, and there seemed to be no turning back, and everyone walked out dejectedly, discussing the slim future outside.

"I don't know how Sun Liren's kid is doing now?"

"Yes, I heard that Commander Luo also went to the west. We're the only ones left here. ”

Chu left quietly, knowing roughly that once Du Yuming fell, most of the people here would support going to India, but Dai Anlan was also a more old-fashioned soldier, and he regarded the execution of orders as his duty, and he proposed a plan to kill Lashio, which was also a palliative but not a cure. I don't know if there will be variables.